Apple just unveiled their iPad.  Apparently, the guys who named the thing were just as unoriginal as the designers who thought an iPod would look cool if it were 4x larger.

In case you haven’t already heard, the White House had the bright idea of flying an Air Force One lookalike over parts of NY and NJ in order to update the picture on file for the plane.  Unfortunately, they forgot to alert all the people living in these places that they were gonna do this.

I’m sure you can imagine what everybody was reminded of when looking up in the sky and seeing a huge plane, flying low and very, very close to some buildings.  Here’s the final product:

Come on, White House!  This little stunt ended up costing the taxpayers over $300,000.  $300k?!  Seriously?!  You guys wanna spend $300k in order to take some snapshots of the pretty plane?  And the horrible part? : THAT’S NOT EVEN NEW YORK IN THE BACK, IT’S NEW JERSEY!

I swear, we have fools running this country.  Here, I’ll offer my services for free:

Here’s Air Force One flying over Los Angeles.  Pretty!

Here’s Air Force One flying over the Golden Gate in SF.  Amazing!

Here’s Air Force One getting ready to land in the Mushroom Kingdom.  Didn’t even know that was possible!

And finally, here’s Obama saving the world and flying Air Force One into the alien spaceship from Independence Day.  Change you can believe in!

So there you are.  Take your pick, White House.  I gave you 4 pictures (that I made in about 10 minutes), and it cost you $0.  Feel free to pay me $300k if you feel like it, though.