January 26, 2008: No Fly Zone (Philly)

TheMercenary · 01-26-2008, 10:44 AM

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Originally Posted by Undertoad

Fuck you, Anne E. Howanski! Make no laws abridging freedom of speech.

Someone look up that bitches email and lets send it all over the US having people email her about her comment.

xoxoxoBruce · 01-26-2008, 11:18 AM

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Originally Posted by TheMercenary

Someone look up that bitches email and lets send it all over the US having people email her about her comment.

She's just doing her job, not making but enforcing the rules. What else could she do with reporters in her face, express her personal feelings?

Sarasvati48 · 01-26-2008, 12:23 PM

On the New Jersey side. Planes used to come in so low, I could sit out on the front stoop and hear the landing gear operating. After years and years you don't even notice...Conversation would have to stop until the plane flew by. I kinda miss it!:p

Griff · 01-26-2008, 12:26 PM

She could say, "It's not visible from the street, I have no jurisdiction." Not that I believe she has the power to regulate political speech.

xoxoxoBruce · 01-26-2008, 12:39 PM

She's a politician covering her ass and trying not to piss off anyone. Stalling for time to see which way the wind blows, is their trademark.

Karenv · 01-26-2008, 01:02 PM

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

She's a politician covering her ass and trying not to piss off anyone. Stalling for time to see which way the wind blows, is their trademark.

She is a lowly bureaucrat, not a politician. That means it is her job on the line and the politicians are not shy about scapegoating if they don't like the press response.

Basically she pushed it off pending some future study that probably won't happen. The better thing to do is to get other neighbors with flat roofs to print the same, so the city can't control it.

xoxoxoBruce · 01-26-2008, 01:32 PM

Technically you're right, she is a bureaucrat, though Township Manager is hardly lowly.
Township Managers serve at the pleasure of the Township Council, and must be a bigger politician than they are... tread on as few toes as possible, practice fence sitting until their butt is numb, and never make a decision before checking with the township solicitor.

tulzscha · 01-26-2008, 11:42 PM

The most interesting detail to me about the whole hoopla is that no actual obscenity was ever present on the roof. The actual roof reads as it does in the accompanying article -- "F_ck", underscore and all.

See here for an undoctored photo.

So you wind up with news reporters breathlessly flapping about obscenities, uninformed government schmucks making stupid comments, and a whole barrel of monkeys -- all operating under the mistaken premise that there's an actual obscenity present.

Oh, and did you catch the sly dodge in the news article? How the article itself contains the actual text of the sign -- F_ck -- but the picture is doctored to protect our poor little eyes from the blasphemous f-word which doesn't exist? All to make it seem like it's worse than it really is?

News media, grar!

01-26-2008, 12:23 PM	#3
Sarasvati48 Mystical Miscreant Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 46	I grew up in the PHL flightpath... On the New Jersey side. Planes used to come in so low, I could sit out on the front stoop and hear the landing gear operating. After years and years you don't even notice...Conversation would have to stop until the plane flew by. I kinda miss it!:p

01-26-2008, 12:26 PM	#4
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	She could say, "It's not visible from the street, I have no jurisdiction." Not that I believe she has the power to regulate political speech. __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

01-26-2008, 12:39 PM	#5
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	She's a politician covering her ass and trying not to piss off anyone. Stalling for time to see which way the wind blows, is their trademark. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

01-26-2008, 01:32 PM	#7
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Technically you're right, she is a bureaucrat, though Township Manager is hardly lowly. Township Managers serve at the pleasure of the Township Council, and must be a bigger politician than they are... tread on as few toes as possible, practice fence sitting until their butt is numb, and never make a decision before checking with the township solicitor. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

01-26-2008, 11:42 PM	#8
tulzscha Cantankerous Incantonator Join Date: May 2004 Posts: 57	The most interesting detail to me about the whole hoopla is that no actual obscenity was ever present on the roof. The actual roof reads as it does in the accompanying article -- "F_ck", underscore and all. See here for an undoctored photo. So you wind up with news reporters breathlessly flapping about obscenities, uninformed government schmucks making stupid comments, and a whole barrel of monkeys -- all operating under the mistaken premise that there's an actual obscenity present. Oh, and did you catch the sly dodge in the news article? How the article itself contains the actual text of the sign -- F_ck -- but the picture is doctored to protect our poor little eyes from the blasphemous f-word which doesn't exist? All to make it seem like it's worse than it really is? News media, grar!

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