LOL! Yes, a bizarre picture/caption. When planes refuel, they fly level, not in a dive position....
L > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Brad > McCormick, Ed.D. > Sent: Saturday, January 25, 2003 6:47 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [Futurework] Whiteout > > > The photo at the top of today's NYT front page is a classic, although > probably not intentionally. > > It nominally shows an F-16 pulling away from a midair > refueling over the Iraq northern nofly zone. > > What it *looks like* (at least to me -- each person must > judge all things for themselves unless they believe in some > Revealed Truth, of course...) is a pilot kind of "spzced out" > as his plane is merging into sun-snow glare white out. Bye bye! > Or, as the words from a Laurie Anderson song go: > > This is your captain.... > We are going down. > We are all going down, together. > > Ah! But there is a decal on the side of the fuselage "REESCUE" -- > but who can get to it to use it? Certainly not the > pilot himself, nor the crew of the tanker (unless they are > like G-d in Michelangelo's famous image from the Sistine > Chapel ceiling, or like Harrison Ford in [the movie...] > Air Force One.... > > But then again, maybe it's not the northern Iraq > nofly zone, but Davos, below.... [How can we be sure our > pilots won't do something crazy like the one who flew into > a Colorado mountain on purpose a few years ago?] > > \brad mccormick > > -- > Let your light so shine before men, > that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16) > > Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21) > > <![%THINK;[SGML+APL]]> Brad McCormick, Ed.D. / [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Visit my website ==> http://www.users.cloud9.net/~bradmcc/ > > _______________________________________________ > Futurework mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework > _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
