Doomsday Plane

[Jonathan Lighter]

That's why it's the Secretary of Defense who was described as ordering the launch.

  J

Scot LaFaive <spiderrmonkey at HOTMAIL.COM> wrote:
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But being Bush, he must believe that any doomsday will necessarily be the
time of the Rapture, so he doesn't need a Doomsday Plane. As soon as it
begins, he will be teleported up to Heaven and snuggled in safety.

Scot LaFaive


>From: Jonathan Lighter
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>Date: Thu, 3 May 2007 08:30:23 -0700
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>Fox has aired a story about "the Doomsday Plane, as it's called," any of
>four aircraft to be used by the President and Cabinet in case of, well,
>Doomsday.
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>Thanks to the plane(s), according to Fox, "the Secretary of Defense can
>launch a nuclear attack from midair."
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>And unlike Air Force One, "the Doomsday Plane can withstand a nuclear
>attack."
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>Well, maybe just a tiny one....
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>TIME mag story here:
>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1578060,00.html
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>More pix & info here:
>http://www.piedmontcommunities.us/servlet/go_ProcServ/dbpage=page&GID=01336001151082232802523157&PG=01336001151082442707849122
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>JL
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