Did you happen to hear that in the midst of yet another very bad day for Miffed Romney, Egg Romney’s plane had to make an emergency landing? We are not saying they faked it or that it was suspicious at all, we’re just saying we saw Bob Roberts. We for one are very, very happy that Egg Romney is all right, and anybody musing otherwise in the comments will be murdered (from commenting). You know the Rules! Anyhoo, we note this because Miffed Romney was in Los Angeles, hoovering up a little more Koch money or something, when he had the kind of Deep Thought that should make grumpy loser Herman Cain shut up once and for all. Ladies and gentlemen, Miffed Romney is a Man of Ideas!
Romney’s wife, Ann, was in attendance, and the candidate spoke of the concern he had for her when her plane had to make an emergency landing Friday en route to Santa Monica because of an electrical malfunction.
“I appreciate the fact that she is on the ground, safe and sound. And I don’t think she knows just how worried some of us were,” Romney said. “When you have a fire in an aircraft, there’s no place to go, exactly, there’s no — and you can’t find any oxygen from outside the aircraft to get in the aircraft, because the windows don’t open. I don’t know why they don’t do that. It’s a real problem. So it’s very dangerous. And she was choking and rubbing her eyes. Fortunately, there was enough oxygen for the pilot and copilot to make a safe landing in Denver. But she’s safe and sound.”
We would like to note for just a second that oxygen feeds fire, and maybe if the window had opened Egg Romney’s plane would have asploded! Whatever, we are not a scientist. Maybe the plane wouldn’t have asploded, and all planes should come with windows that open. What on earth could go wrong?
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Yes, because the fresh air at 30,000 feet is so fresh!
Of course, there is that whole "pressurized" issue.
Send Mitt up in a plane with windows that open and let him do a bit of experimentation.
Be careful. This could result in a banhammer of Payne-Stewart-dandy proportions
You mean with votes, right?
I actually wasn't suggesting any harm. Don't go to high altitude. Just a little demo of why that idea is really bad.
Hey, we aren't suggesting that he won't be provided with those little yellow masks. Whether he complies to those socialist safety instructions is really up to him.
Send Mitt up with a plane with Nitrous Oxide. It'll be a gas!
I once saw one of those old Airplane movies starring Charlton Heston. One of the passengers tried to open the door and a pretty stewardess was sucked right out and I don't mean that in a good way. Now, I'm not sure if Airplane movies made by Hollywood liberals are scientifically accurate but I believe they are right about this one,
Except for the part about "being able to open the door given that pressure imbalance". Otherwise as accurate as a documentary.
That happened for real on a Hawaiian Airlines flight decades ago. The roof cracked open and the pretty stewardess was sucked right out and not in a good way. I think they lost a couple of unbelted customers, also, too. Let that be a lesson.
Didn't a passenger have to hold onto the other stewardess to keep her from getting sucked out?
At least that's what he said he was doing…
The pressure can be fixed by shoving a dog in the open window. They love sticking their tongues out! Oh, and the beautiful clouds they'll get to see!
With my luck, the jerk in front of me would leave his window open the entire time.
Then he'd try to flick a cig butt out but it would do that thing where it flies back in at the passenger behind him. What a jerk.
Pressurized Americans libel!
Maybe Mitt didn't spend enough time learning about AMERICAN LIFE and physics on this planet, and spent too much time learning how to bankrupt corporations and fire employees FOR PROFIT!
He's starting to remind me of Sarah Palin, who didn't even understand bankruptcy laws. She only knew how to read copy on the TV TeleprompTer! I'm starting to think that all the good Republicans have left town. They sure didn't show up for the primaries!
I thought they demonstrated how to open an airplane window at the end of "Goldfinger"?
You mean the part where Gert Frobe is depressurized right out that window, with votes.
Wasn't it Odd Job? Been a while since I saw that movie.
No, I believe Odd Job was electrocuted to death in Fort Knox.
More proof Maddow reads this blog.
I'm no princess, but I don't want to see clouds inside the plane. Keep the windows shut, please.
The Founding Fathers lurved clouds. Why do you hate America, Barb?
I'm just bitter that we can't smoke on planes anymore and have steak served to us with steak knives and big tumblers of alcohol served in real glassware. I'm also pissed that the TSA twat waffles get to scream at us while we are in line. You can't scream back or they will make your life a living hell.
"steak served to us with steak knives and big tumblers of alcohol served in real glassware"
What? Did this once happen? All I've known are shitty sandwiches for $10, and a can of bud for about $7 or $8. Oh and a free tiny shot glass of coke or water.
Soros, I am old enough to tell you about how I used to wear cocktail onions tied to my belt when I flew.
The entire upper decks of 747s were reserved for First Class disco orgies. Haven't you seen the notorious '70s film, "Robert Guccione's Pan Am"?
Doesn't that still happen in first class?
Three words. International First / Business Class. Well, okay, four words.
Edit: and except for the smoking. (I forgot that, because I don't miss it).
It did indeed. Airlines offered real 3-course meals (often with a choice of entree) on ceramic plates with metal silverware and glass, uh, glassware. I also remember being able to take non-stop flights just about anyplace. I was a kid in Miami, Florida, at the time, and we often flew non-stop to New York and Hartford to visit relatives. Once we flew straight from Miami to L.A.
It all seems like a dream now.
Oh, yeah. I remember PanAm business class across the Atlantic.
Hell, I'd settle for the big tumblers of alcohol at this point. Flying sucks.
From the moment you step foot in the airport, you are in Federal Custody.
Fuck yes, I have Eastern Airlanes that my parents boosted to this day. I remember seeing the upper deck on a 747 when I was about 6 and thinking "yes, this is what awaits me when I grow up". Then the 80s came.
I want my future back!
My little girl [at age two and a half] had the answer to why airplane windows don't open.
On her first flight in her own seat, she explained to me the reason was, "to keep the bees out".
Now tell me, have you ever seen a bee in a plane? No, of course not. So my 2-year-old was absolutely right. She's gonna be a genius that kid, I tell ya.
She already is.
That is so stinking cute!
I thought the snakes kept the bees out.
That makes a lot more sense than what Romney said. LOL.
Omg, that's adorable.
Yes she was then, and is a wise-cracking 12-year-old now with a pin-sharp intellect more than a match for Romney and his ilk.
Moreover, she's trilingual French [with English and Spanish], since she lives with her mother in the south of France.
In fact, she's a show-off. Damn kids of today!
Lumpy Space Princess libel!
Egg should have ridden Rafalca to Santa Monica.
Horse fires are even scarier.
Just ask the prophet Elijah!
Or taken a private jet. Just imagine, she had to ride first class…oh the humanity!
Can't. Tell. If. Serious. (He can't be serious).
Keep him talking, either way.
Please oh please keep him talking.
He. Is. Serious.
Also, last December, he said in an interview with the right-wing rag that pretends to be a newspaper (the Washington Examiner), and I quote:
"I do believe in basic science. I believe in participating in space. I believe in analysis of new sources of energy. I believe in laboratories, looking at ways to conduct electricity with — with cold fusion, if we can come up with it. It was the University of Utah that solved that. We somehow can’t figure out how to duplicate it."
Scientificamous Geneious, he is.
Someone must have missed the days at the elementary school when the firefighters explained the Fire Triangle. Mitt should just Stop, Drop and Roll.
And the corollary – Duck and Cover.
I love the oldie but goodie, in case of a nuclear blast, let's all get down under our desks.
Terrorist attack: something, something duct tape.
In Mitt's school, the firefighters explained that structure fires were God's punishment, because birth control.
" Mitt should just Stop, Drop and Roll." … yep , right out the window .- at 30,000 feet
Science is for pussies.
Bill Nye libel!
Day one of the Romney administration: Executive order mandating open window option on passenger jets and military aircraft. No more gov't intrusion.
Right up there with screen doors on submarines, Mitt.
My snark tank, she is empty.
They have a spray now that makes screen doors on submarines safe. At least it worked on the rowboat on TV.
And there we have it, folks.
Yeah, and why don't they have screen doors on submarines too?
You owe Memzilla a Coke.
Great minds think alike!
I have a better idea. Let's require all airlines to distribute knock-out doses of Xanax and booze to all passengers upon boarding.
It's the only way to fly.
They could start serving it in the security line.
At the very least, we should have mandatory tranquilizing for all children on the plane.
I just administer those things to myself whenever I fly.
i wanna fly on that airline!
May I recommend *medicinal* pot brownies?
That pic of Egg and Miffed is the best one I've seen. So…real.
Miffed does look unusually animated, doesn't he?
I'll bet this has Bill Nye shaking in his loafers for fear of his jerb.
Mitt Romney's Amercia has no room for Science Guys, plus Mitt likes firing people, so yeah, Bill Nye should be worried.
Science; who can explain it?
Bill O'Reilly.
But of course!Sent from the Field, not in Garrison.
The Insane Clown Posse?
They have been giving it their best shot.Sent from the Field, not in Garrison.
Neil Tyson?
That is one smart blah!Sent from the Field, not in Garrison.
at first i read 'bill nighy' and well, nothing. i just love that guy.
He is on fb you know.Sent from the Field, not in Garrison.
He is one of the good ones. Big fan.
Oh yes, he's one of my favorites.
He died. No, wait — that's Bill Nighy. I read it on Onionbook. I am destroyed.
Shit! What would I know, I'm so far out of the loop I can't even see the dust of the other runners.
What??? I've googled him and found nothing to that effect.
Or I mean Bill Nye didn't die. Or did he? Damn You Science! http://literallyunbelievable.org/post/30314326469…
Those windows are just the right size to be sucked out of.
And the clouds you'd fall through are so beautiful and the trees you'd fall on – just. the. right. height.
I would like to invite the entire Romney clan to take a ride in my new, convertible jet. Seat belts not availabe because they are stupid and for losers.
"
UnSafe at any speed", of course ;)Seat belts are just another one of those government intrusions on our lives. Job creators are afraid to create jobs because of regulations like this.
Seat belts take jobs away from brain surgeons and undertakers.
By the way, exactly how do the MBA class get away with claiming that business executives are somehow smarter than actual scientists?
It's all to do with derivatives, ds/dt is always v, (simple) , whereas d$/dt can mean anything to anybody (much more complicated).
Thanks for clearing that up.
Not that 99 percent of the MBAs actually have a clue what you just said, beyond it somehow equaling money when their pet nerds hit on a good one.
Because money, duh.
Sadly, with an assist from Paul Krugman. I wonder if he still believes that part of his seminal 1996 article, "A Country Is Not A Company", in light of events in the years since he wrote it.
Because MBA stands for "Magnificent Bullshit Artist".
Well, we always thought that maybe Mitt Romney wasn't that bright. Thanks for confirming it, Mitt. Fucking moron.
Just put Ann in a cage and strap it to the top of the plane. Plenty of air up there.
as if he hasn't done that as foreplay
There is an extra charge for defecating up there. These airlines, always squeezing the last little bit out of our wallets.
Perfect.
"I don’t think she knows just how worried some of us were,” Romney said.
There's 47% of us you could probably write off.
The real tragedy here was that at least 47% wished she wasn't on their flight to begin with.
Mittens believes that planes fly because of Angels. None of that internal combustion shit or wings or fluid dynamics.
George Carlin: "The gate attendant told me it was time to get on the plane. I said, hey lady, I am not getting ON the plane, I am getting IN the plane, thank you very much".
My favorite from My Name is Earl – ticket lady – "do you want a window seat or an aisle seat?" Randy – "I want a chair seat."
I wanna be like Randy when I grow up.
I love Randy.
I wish I could remember the name of the San Francisco comedian who said "They give me a seat cushion that can be 'Used for Flotation.' I want a seat cushion that will bounce in a cornfield."
And you can always strap Seamus to the roof of the aerogyro.
No snark, Johnny Zhivago was on a plane that had an engine fire on the run way once and had to be evacuated. Opening the windows was the last thing on my mind – it was sort of get to the door and off the fucking plane.
Apparently Willard has never seen any of the billion action movies from the 70s or 80s that takes place on a plane…. and inevitably, the door or a window pops open, and motherfuckers start getting sucked out of the plane. How out of touch is this man!!
Except that one from a few years ago, which made Romney a big fan of Samuel L. Jackson. In fact Mittens can't wait to experience his own aircraft crisis *just* so he can stamp around and shout "I'VE HAD IT WITH THE MOTHERFUCKIN BRAKES ON THIS MOTHERFUCKIN PLANE!"
Air Force One with Harrison Ford, also.
This is why I always leave my seatbelt on when seated. Always.
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=3347262#.UGCEv…
"Unharmed, Fogg got back on a plane the next day."
I would have atleast had to change my trousers.
And now I just hope I forget this before my next flight.
Leave your seatbelt on, honey.
Oh I will; but it sounds like this guy was also helped by being over 200 pounds, I'm a lot lighter than that and might still get sucked out by being too skinny.
Now this sucks. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHXevnoAciY
I'm looking forward to the Mythbusters episode with Mitt's gelmet aboard.
Romney lifts us up where we belooooong
Where the air is thin!
And the fire's don't burn!
Sorry I couldn't think of anything that rhymed well on short notice.
"Excuse me stewardess, I thought this was a non-smoking flight!" Thanks folks! I'll be here all week!
I am not particularly afraid of flying….until I remind myself of all the horrible things that could happen.
If the TSA allowed Patriots to carry weapons on a plane you could at least shoot the windows out.
They really should rename them "Conceal and bury" laws
Rombots don't need oxygen.
the candidate spoke of the concern he had for her when her plane had to make an emergency landing…
Did I pay her life insurance premium this quarter…?
Let the Eagle Soar.
Open windows- It's in the Constitution, people. Stop being communists!
Well, sure, they can make those windows open, but then they probably have to put screens in, because, you know, geese. Makes about as much sense as them still telling us that we can't use electrical devices during take off.
And Venetian blinds, because the sun is pretty intense at 30,000 feet.
Egg? Air? Really?
That’s some out of the box thinking right there! Imagine how sweet that would be for people that fly with their dogs, they love sticking their heads out of the windows of moving vehicles.
Jack-off of all trades, master of none.
I hope, come November I won't have to hear from this assgaffe again.
Ole Newt keeps coming back from the dead.
[And that is Comment # 5,000.]
All windows open all the time save on air conditioning in government planes. Hmmm. mark that down for next budget meeting.
I missed the post where we started calling Ann "Egg". Someone want to enlighten me?
Me too.
When I hear someone nicknamed "Egg," all I can think of is the littlest brother in Irving's "Hotel New Hampshire", played by a wee Seth Greene. Which character it so happens met his fate on a malfunctioning plane.
That's exactly what I think of too.
Google Arrested Development egg.
Bland(Egg) Romney on Tumblr
I thought that all her old school chums call her Egg, but then again none of her old school chums would be caught dead reading Wonkette.
I've been trying to figure that out for days. I searched Wonkette for "Egg Romney" but even the first post that shows up doesn't clarify.
Mittz is now getting into Michele Bachmann territory of there's no scientific evidence that CO2 is harmful.
Mittens believes ALL KINDS OF THINGS. (cf., The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ)
Another thinggy that Rmoney is probably familiar with is "Lying for the Lord" – http://trappedbythemormons.wordpress.com/2012/05/…
God's cool with it as long as it helps the LSD church, your family or your business.
I guessing that on November 6th we'll find out that "Mitt Romney" is really one of Andy Kaufmann's elaborate false identity jokes.
GOP = Grand (tho) Obvious Parody
If Egg had only listened to that exciting pre-flight safety demonstration about the oxygen masks. Probably reading SkyMall and laughing at the brands the poors buy at airports.
Someone told me, that oxygen masks only deploy with low cabin pressure, and will not with smoke due to possibility of feeding flames with more oxygen. I guess the poors got the last laugh here….
You know based upon this statement I would have thought Mitt was home schooled in Louisiana. This doesn't speak well of Cranbrook, Stanford or Harvard. I guess it is possible to just buy a degree.
You didn't notice this when #43 was showing what value was to be found in his Yale and Harvard Business degrees?
Actually I did notice that a moron like W graduated from two prestigious universities and thought much less of both schools. I remember my old accounting professor, and Harvard man, who in discussing Harvard with him said that many of the privileged elites can get through if they sit in the back and don't make too much trouble. The would get the gentlemen's C. As W was a C student, I deduced he must have been granted a gentlemen's C on the way to the White-house.
Funny how the biggest beneficiaries of the affirmative action of legacy admissions are often the most vocal opponents of affirmative action, isn't it?
"Fires think that they are entitled to oxygen. I'll do something about that when I'm President" Lurch said.
Well, 78% of the atmosphere is just free-riding nitrogen that doesn't do anything for the job-creating oxygen. And we're never going to convince that nitrogen to support life by itself.
I love the nerdiness of this. Perfect.
Nitrogen is pissed because those noble gases won't let it in their country club.
Mittgon is an ultra-noble gas, because it interacts successfully with absolutely nothing, not even itself.
Nitrogen is getting together with its pal Glycerin and they are gonna take down down that whole, archaic system, man!
Serious win.
An hour later noodlesalad puts out a press release saying he is for "the 100% of atmospheric gasses".
I'll double-down on nitrogen tomorrow, per the advice of my gaseous pollsters
It's like you have a nitrogen fixation.
He's just getting back to his roots, man
Hope he has his 4 leaf clover.
I remember that Smilin' Jack was always waving at people out the window of his plane. In the comics. Back in the day. But Mittens must just making a funny. Quite a card, that guy.
If it was 100 percent O2, I wonder how fucked up Ann was. I wonder what kind of shit she said.
Pretty much what she always done. Mittens must keep her on a regular diet of 100 percent oxygen.
Look, nowhere in the Bible of Mormon can one find any exposition of these so-called "Laws of Thermodynamics."
No where in the Bible does it say Mormons can fly….
egg and miffed.
just fabulous.
Run with this R$omney, "why is electricity even allowed on planes? pressurized steam would be safer!! "
What about clean coal?
The windows don't open for the same reason skyscraper windows don't open. When the Job Creators® throw the help out the window, people on the ground get hurt.
this does not bode well for mittens in space.
She should charter a convertible from Aloha Airlines.
That one was scary. Or the Alaska one where the tail blew off. Ick.
Now, there's a reason to keep your seat belt on.
Mittens is the man! When he is president, all the airplanes will have windows that open and everyone will have magic underwear and a pet dinosaur.
I just … I mean, really, I can't … uh … this is just … um … the fuck?
Yes yes…I know I'm a broken record, but I defy anyone to convince me that the movie Idiotcracy was anything but prophecy.
Go away. 'Batin'.
OK, seriously, just about every thing Mitt says can be summed up thusly: "I like money."
Thank you! I have been thinking that myself for some time.
With these new, stricter commenting rules on Wonkette, is
"Mitt Romney might not be the best presidential candidate in history"
still legal? Wouldn't want Dr. Zoom to get grumpy and give me a long, hard, relentless spanking. Absolutely not.
Wait…. RMoney doesn't understand why airplane windows don't open? WOW! I would expect something like that from Palin. He's supposed to be the smart one?
When she finally realized she wouldn't be shooting wolves from Air Force One, she had a master sad.
Given the subset of the population we are talking about, he is.
Scary, huh?
of the two , he is the smart one …
Smarter than Palin? Yes, but that is a very low bar.
think of the awesome drivers tan you could get going coast to coast
Man, he's really going to need Newt before he starts designing the new space shuttle.
Surely he can't be serious.
He is serious, and his name isn't Shirley.
(Although his wife's nickname is Shrilly)
It's not as important for a financier to know how an engineering department works, as much as to know that it works… until it is sold off to China.
We're lucky that American airplane windows have glass.
Many countries can't afford windows with glass…
Maybe someone should design a system that in case of emergency little oxygen masks would fall from heaven so we could put them on before helping our neighbors with theirs.
Good idea, though I'd suggest that even when oxygen is flowing, the plastic bag attached to the mask not inflate.
(I have wondered why that is the case; perhaps simply to increase the confusion/terror factor, so important in an emergency. Well, ok, more likely because having little bags full of oxygen hanging around is not the best idea in a fire.)
It's more likely to do with pressure. You don't want to be forcing pure oxygen into people's lungs at high pressure, so if the masks are coming down for reasons other than depressurization (e.g., fire), the bag won't inflate because it will be at no more than cabin pressure.
I'm pretty sure the bag inflates when you exhale. From that point on, you're breathing a mixture of your last exhalation and fresh oxygen — not pure oxygen, and not the air in the cabin, which might be toxic.
Wait'll miffed finds out even the peasants in coach are entitled to those oxygen masks.
47% of the passengers should take responsibility for their own oxygen, and stop mooching off the job creators up in first class.
What emergency? She probably told the plane to stop.
They should at least allow 53% of the windows to open, for chrissakes. Those taxpayers – not the moochers – built those planes!!!
This is bad news for Seamus.
Maybe he's thinking of those open bi-planes from days gone by. Egg could walk on the wing. It worked for that girl in The Great Waldo Pepper…for a while, anyway.
Look, Fakakta, its Julie Haggerty!
Holy shit you scared me. I swear if JH had turned lady from Alaska show or Fat chick from SNL crazy on me I would have taken to my bed for a week! YAY!
I am glad now, that she and I never did hook up.
I would still have been so impressed. I so wanted Leslie Nielson. I was 8 of course, so he probably would have gotten in trouble, but what's age anyway? And I like movies about gladiators (I know that was Peter Graves I'm just being pedophile-y. It's okay if it's about my ownself being pedophiled at)
Is EVERYONE from that movie dead now just about?
Lorna Patterson – hotter than bus station chili.
Oh for flying out windows. Oh oops out loud. Oh for flying out loud.
I believe that technically this is a States Rights issue.
It's funny how the R platform hasn't discussed states' rights at all in this election.
I was standing on the R platform earlier this morning, and you're right … not a peep.
"30,000 feet is just the right height"
To be fair, Mitt is a robot and is therefore unaffected by drastic changes in air pressure that impact us mere humans.
Here Mitt…have a listen.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qikRcAiCtKM
Wow, this is the quintessential Mitt Romney pointlessly foot-shooty comment. First, he believes he has to make a peculiar, stilted statement to demonstrate that he thinks it would be very bad, indeed if his wife died in a plane crash; then, he prattles on, unasked, with his lack of knowledge of aircraft and fire safety. He must be filled with self-loathing, to keep whacking his own nuts like this!
Mitt strikes me as the kind of guy who tell the new hires (in Chinese, natch). "If you have any questions, just come on by. My window's always open."
With Mitt the Mormon it's nonsense in and nonsense out.
does he really think that she is gonna fall for the old " I was worried about you " routine , for the umpteenth time ?
This fucking dumbass motherfucker is a fucking millionaire for life, while I am sitting here with a fucking chart working out how much is gonna be my half of fucking nothing.
Hey WAIT A MINUTE – you got a chart? I didn't get no fancy chart. I got (1) a busted up already signed agreement and (2) a whole new starting over, you know (but I still got that court date, heehaw). And do not trump me here reminding me what YOU got, I know, I know. So, just cling to your chart and make it into something.
You two have so much in common. It is uncanny!
Come on now, you're a music guy – it's called Timing, baby, it's all about the, um coincidence of perfect timing.
Its the uncanniness that surpasseth all understanding.
Hey, all of that sounds real freaking familiar. What say we all get stinkin' drunk on November 19 (the day my divorce is final)?
December 6th baby, cheers!
Cheers, hon! And it wasn't 'till I saw pics from Atlanta that I realized you actually look like your gravitar. (wolf whistle)
I'm on!
"Tuesday's Gone" by Skynyrd is on the soundtrack. Any other recommendations?
Yeah, but you have a cool gravitar.
A memorable scar with a story like this behind it is way cooler than a tattoo could ever be. I like my gravatar!
I once told a woman to roll down the window when she complained to me about the cabin being too warm. She was not amused.
Did you really? Oh, that's good!!!
I hope you then put your Stetson over your face, leaned back and commenced to snoring like a sawblade.
He didn't mention GOD in there anywhere.
Or The Troops.
Or Freedom.
Or Real 'Merika.
Or Jobs.
His campaign is so far off the rails it does not even remember what rails look like.
He does not seem to want this very badly anymore.
It's true that there is little air at 30,000 feet but it's being rammed into you at 500 mph so you still ought to get plenty! Those little oxygen masks are for commoners.
Gov. Romney, there's a Mr. Bernoulli on line 2, he'd like a word.
So the plane explodes big deal just send the passengers to the Emergency Room problem solved.
You can't send them to the ER, silly. An ambulance has to pick them up and take them, otherwise they won't get free treatment.
Hasn't he seen "Alien: Resurrection"?
Nah, he's still pissed because he found out LV 426 is supposed to be his planet in the afterlife.
I wish I hadn't.
The last time a commercial airliner window or door intentionally opened mid-flight, D.B. Cooper jumped out.
I don't know why planes don't carry a mongoose. For the snakes.
Whaaaaat…? Did he just go full Romney?
Robots don't need oxygen, my friend.
Mitt continues to reinforce my hypothesis that there is a phenomenon called the "Dumbing of America."
I thought we learned that lesson enough from 2000 to 2008.
Well, aviation skills also comparable to McCain's! Too bad Mitt Romney is a draft dodger:
http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/09/07/how-mitt-d…
The guy who doesn't know why airplane windows don't open wants possession of the nuclear launch codes.
What could go wrong?!
To be fair to Mitt, I bet having opening windows on jet airliners (Big Old Jet Airliners!) would work to be just as good for airline safety as exporting all of our manufacturing to China has worked out for the American economy.
Dammit, now that song is in my head. Thanks Prommie!
"I might get rich you know I might get mm busted. . . ."
Ah yes, Pink Hotel with the Light On. Such a good song.
they don't come much more sick than you
I could go on if you want me to
it's just so wrong so very nice I told you
once and you killed me twice
I saw you one time at the back of the
club chewing on glass and a ticket stub
I heard they kicked the boy till he bled
then stood and said oh my god till she said. . .
Ho.
Or a plane where the entire top peels off in case of emergency. Because of the lack of breathable air at 30,000 feet, an oxygen bag will first drop down from the overhead and you put it on. Wait.
No? OK, so the doors pop open automatically at a 30,000 foot long slide unrolls so that passengers can slip safely back to earth. No? You non-engineers just don't understand. We'll fix the details in Congress.
Egg should not have to go through the air without Rafalca between her thighs.
30,000 foot long slide unrolls so that passengers can slip safely back to earth
That sounds fun actually.
I now see Romney's futre: a boutique leveraged buyout firm specializing in the airline industry. I mean this is just the type of forward thinking the major airlines need:
1) Buy major airline for pennies on dollar
2) Load them up with debt
3) Leave them with brilliant gems like that
4) ?????
5) PROFIT!!!!
Oh wait, step 4 isn't ????? it's actually "Bailout before shit hits the fan, taking millions with you!!!"
Mitt shouldn't be so cheap when it comes to hiring planes for his wife.
it was no accident – he wanted the sympathy vote
In addition to opening the windows for some fresh air can we have the roof made into a convertible so I can get a suntan while flying?
Mitt loves his wife so much, he forgot his understanding of basic science when he heard she was in danger!
(An excellent quality for a leader to have which wil lead to plenty of informed decisions in crisis situations, I'm sure.)
skience is hard, moneys isn't so much
"The first question goes to Governor Romney: Governor, if Ann Romney were sucked out of the window of a burning airplane, would you favor safety regulations for the airline industry?"
"Well let me say first, the American people should be clear that I would find it very disconcerting to misplace Ann in this way…"
I'm sure he's misplaced her before , on occasion
The original LA Times article is weird; this incredibly stupid comment is just buried in the middle of a rather mundane article about Romney's fundraiser without comment, and the rest of the article is basically a puff piece for Mitt. Kudos to whoever dug it up
If you listen to the video, he was obviously being sarcastic. I hate Mitt as much as the next pinke liberal, but my god… Fox News rarely takes quotes out of context this badly.
What video would that be? The quote seems to have plenty of context.
Oddly enough, I can't find the audio, but I heard it on the radio this morning. It sounded like he was more worried about smoke having no place to go — no windows — thereby increasing the possibility of asphyxiation or smoke inhalation, hence all the worrying about "oxygen."
I mean, come on. His wife had to do an emergency landing because of a cockpit fire. That would rattle anyone.
Well, in his defense, all of the aeroplane windows open on Planet Kolob.
If the window had opened it might have hoovered up one Egg Romney, just sayin.
the facial botox wouldn't compress enough to suck her head out
Pesky science-y details! Mitt sez: MAKE IT SO.
Okay. Say the windows ARE open at 30,000 feet. If you're flying at 600 mph – wouldn't Egg Romney's hair look a bit wind-blown?
Surely Mitt can't be serious.
Nearly half of this great country is going to vote for this man to be their president.
it's all fine with ann to have a slave open a window for her at 30,000 feet . her magic underpants double as a parachute …
Well, I've watited long enough: nobody explained to him that it was because of the Over/Under, Roger….?
I think Romney is under Dunn. Or just Oveur.
I think if they just had those little triangular fly-windows it would be fine. They used to suck the cigarette smoke out of the car, anyway.
Ever have a moment you can't believe what you're reading? This article about Mitt wanting airplane windows to open in flight is one of them. Can't help but wonder if this idiot gets into the White House he will mandate that the FAA require windows that open.
Dog on roof: check
Open airplane window: chec…woosh
I couldn't believe Wonkette hadn't jumped on this story, so emailed exclusive tip to Rebecca, now feel stupid, because here it is. Wonkette never disappoints.
In the original transcript, he was actually going to something about having Seamus ride on top of the airplane.
And yay, from a quick google search it looks like the mainstream media is starting to pick up on this story, while itwas only being carried by a few liberal blogs (and original LA Times story with the quote buried) a couple hours ago.
"… the windows don’t open. I don’t know why they don’t do that. It’s a real problem."
He was kidding, right? Please tell me this is a joke and he did not really mean this. I refuse to believe a guy running for president could be this ignorant. Vice president, yes (Hi, Sarah!), but not president.
Why isn't this getting the play that Handsome Ol' Joe got when he made that whole "I wouldn't let anyone I care about get on a plane" statement?
To solve the problem, Mitt has custom-ordered a private jet with a sun roof … as well as a cargo carrier for Seamus.
Somebody check BO's pockets for the wireclippers.
And thus does Mitt Romney display a profound ignorance of:
Rhudementary fire science ("fires like oxygen").
How Earth's atmosphere works.
That airplanes are pressurized.
That airplanes travel very fast.
That if you don't understand how something works you should just shut up, or at least ask someone to look it up for you first.
Don't forget the weirdness about all the bad stuff sinking down into the bottom of a muffin.
Can Dennis Miller still be considered a comedian? B/c he's not really funny.
He's not even unintentionally funny.
Well, there goes the widower vote.
In the article a Romney spokesman says that the campaign is doing great because it is raising a lot of money. I thought the idea was to turn the money into votes, but that just shows that I am not an experienced political operative.
"And why don't they make the whole plane out of the black box?"
I hope that Romney has better ideas for fixing schools, the economy, the military, foreign policy, et al. than he does for fixing airplanes. But I doubt it.
Hmmm, that picture looks familiar…
53687 Views? Jeez, did no one do any work done today?
This dude seriously belongs on Celebrity Jeopardy.
Pilot here, and wow, this comment is so ignorant it's almost as if it came from someone who knows nothing about science. That was sarcastic, he's an idiot. Commercial airlines pressurize to 8,000 feet. Any altitude about that- especially the routine 35,000 feet that airlines cruise at creates a mast pressure differential. If the window were to open, that's known as "rapid decompression", and will not only suck the air clean out of everyone's lungs causing people to pass out almost instantly, but hypoxia at that altitude will kill very quickly. We also have to remember that because the temperatures are around -60, the rapid decompression past the dewpoint will cause the water to to leave the air and instantly form ice, freezing everything in the airplane. But he has a good point- the fire would probably go out. *sigh*. It's amazing someone this uneducated could be president. At no point aside from a small single engine airplane that flies at a few thousand feet would having windows that open be a good idea.
That sounds very sciencey.
Egg is starting a whole, new fashion trend! The "wind-blown" look for 'gals on the go'. Look "busy" even when you're not!
Just a thought, let us combine Newt's moon colony with a new GOP Headquarters and put Mitt in charge of life support.
I smell a rat – even Mitt isn't this clueless. So, what's his game? Is he already working to lower expectations for the debates, so that he can suddenly appear informed and wow everyone?
Romney lost his debate with Ted Kennedy because expectations for him were inflated prior to that event. Don't be fooled Wonketters – Mitt is not this dumb.
Look – this is TOO EASY! Everyone loves to laugh at Mitt (that includes me), but we are being suckered. Shit – I feel like Cassandra.
Somebody ask him if he knows how magnets work.
So I'm wondering – were there none of those oxygen mask thingies that fall out of the ceiling in her aero plane? You know the thing that won't feed the fire so it will explode your plane?
One would be foolish to wish harm on the Mrs. Romney. Because sympathy votes. (And also because that would be terrible. There are very few people whose death I wish for. You know who you are.)
That certainly gave the Romneys something to talk about the next morning when they sat down at their ironing board for breakfast. YOU PEOPLE shouldn't be poking fun of the mentally challenged.
As far as I know, Romney's jet does have a roll-down window. He uses it to hose down the dog in mid-air.
I didn't know that "Romney" was a Polish name.*
*don't hurt me, please.
We aren't a scientist here either but exactly whose brilliant idea was it to nominate Jessica Simpson as the next president of the United States? I mean, this level of stupid really doesn't lend itself to secrecy.
Too bad he couldn't ask Payne Stewart.
Oh, I get it! There's "Egg" on his face!!!! Ew. I don't really feel well at all.
She is very good looking STILL and funny as all get out –
I thought you might like to hear a song …
There is only one riverrrr there is only one seeeeeaaa.
Does that mean she gets you harder than chinese algebra?
Remember, force = pressure x area.
Skinnier person = less force. Also, if you fill less of the window frame, the cabin will depressurize quicker, reducing the amount of time you have to withstand the force.
well hers is a tonic and mine is a gin
they don't come much more slick
than you
Killing me!
so, in other words, Chris Christie would get sucked out of a plane like a Hoover on steroids?
Oh thank you, I do appreciate that, what with being a soon to be divorcee and such especially! I will do jealousy shots in your honor on the 19th, without a doubt!
PepperPat , I really do miss that. I used to order kosher food just because I could, lol.
I suspect he'd bung the hole up pretty good and be stuck there 'til landing.
Solidarity glasses will be raised in Austin on December 6. BTW, if you ever get back here, give me a holler, a'ight?
Yes it does. Blew me away about five years go we are flying in business/first class cross country and they serve us a lovely dinner with metal utensils. Just blew me away flying out of Boston to Seattle non stop. And yet I can't take along my shampoo in anything bigger than a crappy once bottle. Go figure.
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