Print ads you probably havent seen
 

The Washington Post sometimes has advertisements that make you go WTF? until you realize they are only intended for members of Congress to read. Since the assumption is that congressmen read the newspaper, you put ads in the paper to get their attention.

Today there were a few more ads than usual, probably because of all the budget cuts being proposed right now.

First off is an ad from GE and Rolls Royce, trying to get funding back for a new fighter jet engine they are making. They lost a beauty contest with UTC and its subsidiary Pratt Whitney, to make the engines for the new US jet fighter. Lots of pork barrel politics involved in this one, because even though the Pentagon doesn't want two engines made for this jet, it means jobs in the districts of some on Capitol Hill.

The fine print at the bottom there says basically that if the US government buys two different engines from two different companies, there will be competition and overall costs will be lower. I don't buy it.

Next up is something opposing the EPA and greenhouse gas regulations. I didn't see who paid for it, but I imagine it's the coal companies.

Now I'm not sure what this is. Lockheed Martin paid for the ad, and it's something about some grid technology.

And finally, here's an ad from UTC and Pratt Whitney. It's basically naming all the Congressmen who killed the competition's jet engine program and thanking them. I think it's trying to show that there is a lot of support behind the decision by listing all the names. I mean, just look at them all.

OK.

That first one looks like a cross section of a vagina, uterus and fallopian tubes.


but I'm not a Freudian.

The Economist was full of ads promoting Boeing's crappier tanker. Apparently advertising, where it makes no obvious sense, works. The inferior tanker won.

Or was someone here shopping for an air refueling tanker?

:yesnod:

Interesting stuff.

And yet your slip is still showing. :-)