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Fleet Week should be on the ballet in SF
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| 10/7/11
| Rich Hill
Posted on 10/07/2011 10:35:15 AM PDT by 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.
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TOPICS: Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: ballet; blueangels; fleetweek; navair
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To: GSWarrior
Would the fleet fit in Swan Lake?
To: GSWarrior
Oh great, it’s the latest revision of The Village People.
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posted on
10/07/2011 10:48:45 AM PDT
by
FourPeas
("Maladjusted and wigging out is no way to go through life, son." -hg)
To: GSWarrior
Note to self: always cut and paste.
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posted on
10/07/2011 10:49:22 AM PDT
by
GSWarrior
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To: Noumenon
But it’s a glorious thing to be the Pirate King.
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posted on
10/07/2011 10:49:36 AM PDT
by
massgopguy
(I owe everything to George Bailey)
To: RepRivFarm
Who woulda thunk that the elimination of "don't ask don't tell" policies woulda hit the Navy this quickly? LOL
priceless
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posted on
10/07/2011 10:49:36 AM PDT
by
Netizen
(Path to citizenship = Scamnesty. If you give it away, more will come. Who's pilfering your wallet?)
To: RepRivFarm
Now that’s funny right there. I don’t care where you’re from.
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posted on
10/07/2011 10:49:46 AM PDT
by
mad puppy
(Obama Care is a 'Giffen Good'.)
To: Billthedrill
HAHA
Is this thread going to turn into one of those classics?
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posted on
10/07/2011 10:51:42 AM PDT
by
Netizen
(Path to citizenship = Scamnesty. If you give it away, more will come. Who's pilfering your wallet?)
To: Netizen
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posted on
10/07/2011 10:53:10 AM PDT
by
GSWarrior
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To: GSWarrior
I know who I'd rather watch ...
To: GSWarrior
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posted on
10/07/2011 10:54:14 AM PDT
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open ( <o> ---)
To: GSWarrior
For the record, I have never been to a ballet in my life!
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posted on
10/07/2011 10:54:14 AM PDT
by
GSWarrior
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To: GSWarrior
“my students charged to our classroom’s rattling windows at the first omniscient roar.”
That, sir, is the sound of FREEDOM!!!
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posted on
10/07/2011 10:54:32 AM PDT
by
Donkey Odious
(I can explain it to you. I can't understand it for you.)
To: Malone LaVeigh
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posted on
10/07/2011 10:56:28 AM PDT
by
Netizen
(Path to citizenship = Scamnesty. If you give it away, more will come. Who's pilfering your wallet?)
To: GSWarrior
"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.
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posted on
10/07/2011 10:57:33 AM PDT
by
rottndog
(Be Prepared for what's coming AFTER America....)
To: GSWarrior
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posted on
10/07/2011 10:59:44 AM PDT
by
ltc8k6
To: Malone LaVeigh
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posted on
10/07/2011 11:00:02 AM PDT
by
Netizen
(Path to citizenship = Scamnesty. If you give it away, more will come. Who's pilfering your wallet?)
To: GSWarrior
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.
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posted on
10/07/2011 11:03:32 AM PDT
by
denydenydeny
(The moment you step into a world of facts, you step into a world of limits. --Chesterton)
To: GSWarrior
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?)
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posted on
10/07/2011 11:07:36 AM PDT
by
RichInOC
(TBA 2012.)
To: GSWarrior
Funniest misspelled headline of the week!
To: RichInOC
Seriously. Kids love airplanes. Teach them science.
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