Fleet Week should be on the ballet in SF

sfgate.com ^ | 10/7/11 | Rich Hill

[GSWarrior]

I have strong feelings about the Blue Angels' annual visit. I do not like it.

I find it to be a loud, violating display of military power that goes against what I stand for.

During last year's Fleet Week, my students charged to our classroom's rattling windows at the first omniscient roar. With mouths gaping and eyes wide, they gazed out in hopes of seeing "The Angels" shoot overhead. We happened to be talking in class about our society's epidemic of violence and its many mediums of proliferation.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Would the fleet fit in Swan Lake?

[FourPeas]

Oh great, it’s the latest revision of The Village People.

[GSWarrior]

Note to self: always cut and paste.

[massgopguy]

But it’s a glorious thing to be the Pirate King.

[Netizen]

Who woulda thunk that the elimination of "don't ask don't tell" policies woulda hit the Navy this quickly?

LOL

priceless

[mad puppy]

Now that’s funny right there. I don’t care where you’re from.

[Netizen]

HAHA

Is this thread going to turn into one of those classics?

[GSWarrior]

I hope not.

[Malone LaVeigh]

I know who I'd rather watch ...

[smokingfrog]

[GSWarrior]

For the record, I have never been to a ballet in my life!

[Donkey Odious]

“my students charged to our classroom’s rattling windows at the first omniscient roar.”

That, sir, is the sound of FREEDOM!!!

[Netizen]

LMAO

[rottndog]

"If the F/A-18 is not the emblem of war and violence, then what is?"

Um...actually the F/A-18, like all other implements of war, are emblems of PEACE....Peace won through military strength and the willingness and wisdom to use it when necessary.

[ltc8k6]

United Airshow One Heavy does a low pass for SF Fleet Week 2010.

http://cdn-www.airliners.net/aviation-photos/photos/4/6/0/1817064.jpg

[Netizen]

[denydenydeny]

We happened to be talking in class about our society's epidemic of violence and its many mediums of proliferation.

Abolish the military and you'll learn far more about the "proliferation of violence" than you ever wanted to, sweetheart.

[RichInOC]

I get not being a raving fan of the military in San Francisco. I don’t like it, but I understand there’s a constituency that thinks like that. But if you can’t at least enjoy the esthetics of attack-fighter planes flying low, fast and in formation around one of the best natural amphitheaters for air shows in the world, right next door to your city (a city, incidentally, that’s also one of the best in the world for movie car chase scenes) check your pulse, because your soul is dead.

(That said, I’d be shocked if somebody hasn’t done a dance adaptation of “On The Town”. Happy?)

[irishjuggler]

Funniest misspelled headline of the week!

[OnlyTurkeysHaveLeftWings]

Seriously. Kids love airplanes. Teach them science.