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Fleet Week should be on the ballet in SF
sfgate.com ^ | 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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Yawn.........who cares what you don't like?
1 posted on 10/07/2011 10:35:17 AM PDT by GSWarrior
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I’d rather watch the Blue Angels than a ballet.


2 posted on 10/07/2011 10:37:26 AM PDT by cvq3842
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A Fleet Week ballet? Would that also be playing with the Pirates of Penzance?


3 posted on 10/07/2011 10:38:26 AM PDT by Noumenon (The only 'NO' a liberal understands is the one that arrives at muzzle velocity.)
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Ballet? I didn't know the Blue Angels could dance!

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

4 posted on 10/07/2011 10:39:27 AM PDT by RepRivFarm ("During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." -George Orwell)
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Hmm...Hill may not like the Blue Angels, but I suspect that he does enjoy loud, violating displays of power of another sort.

Hey, not that there’s anything *wrong* with that...


5 posted on 10/07/2011 10:40:13 AM PDT by DemforBush (Serpentine, Shel! Serpentine!)
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To: GSWarrior
We hear this every year from these cry babies.

Viewing tip: For the best view go to the roof of the Anchorage parking structure on Beach St. for a 360 degree view.

This year we are watching it from a friends boat should be AWESOME!!

6 posted on 10/07/2011 10:40:49 AM PDT by Michael.SF. (When you hear hooves, think horses, not zebras.)
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I told my buddies not to wear tutus on liberty, especially in San Francisco, but would they listen?


7 posted on 10/07/2011 10:40:49 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: RepRivFarm

Thanks - I haven’t laughed like that in a long time!


8 posted on 10/07/2011 10:42:28 AM PDT by cvq3842
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I’ve often thought The Blue Angels were like ballet in the sky.


9 posted on 10/07/2011 10:42:50 AM PDT by BykrBayb (Somewhere, my flower is there. ~ Þ)
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To: GSWarrior

I have strong feelings about the Folsom Street Fair. I do not like it.

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

Think Mr. Hill would support my right to put that in the Chronic? Somehow I doubt it.

Welcome to San Cramcrisco, Gomorrah by the Bay.

}:-)4


10 posted on 10/07/2011 10:43:19 AM PDT by Moose4 ("Oderint dum metuant" -- "Let them hate, as long as they fear." (Lucius Accius, c. 130 BC))
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Fleet Week should be on the ballet in SF

My first thought was that there was a typo......then I saw that it was SF, so prolly not.

11 posted on 10/07/2011 10:43:22 AM PDT by Roccus (Obama & Holder LLP, Procurers of fine arms to the most discerning drug lords (202) 456-1414)
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To: cvq3842
Swan Lake is landlocked, which makes it very hard to put a carrier battle group on it.
12 posted on 10/07/2011 10:43:31 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (Compare "Delay is preferable to error" - Thomas Jefferson // "Pass this bill now!" - Barack Obama)
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To: GSWarrior

The homo pacifist knows he looks worse when real men are around.


13 posted on 10/07/2011 10:43:38 AM PDT by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office)
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Rich Hill is a writer and teacher living in San Francisco, and has only contempt for men better than himself.
14 posted on 10/07/2011 10:44:35 AM PDT by Jacquerie
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To: GSWarrior

When my son was in the Navy, he never attended any ballets.


15 posted on 10/07/2011 10:44:49 AM PDT by dforest
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Oops....LOL....


16 posted on 10/07/2011 10:45:04 AM PDT by GSWarrior (To activate this tagline please contact the Admin Moderator.)
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>>> ... our society’s epidemic of violence and its many mediums of proliferation.

What in the heck does that have to do with Fleet Week or Blue Angels?

As this person richly demonstrated -

His students were raised ‘right’, only to have their teachers brainwashing their young minds during the institution .....


17 posted on 10/07/2011 10:46:41 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
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To: DemforBush

I was just going to ask who the pillow biting fluffer was that wrote this drek.


18 posted on 10/07/2011 10:46:56 AM PDT by jurroppi1
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One crank on the Boston Herald web-site complained “how would you like to wake up one morning and find an American Air Craft carrier anchored off your shore”. I replied that if you can see the Carrier it means they are either on Shore Leave or your country has suffered a devastating Natural Disaster and the Carrier has 2 Nuclear Reactors that can power a city. has a Hospital that can handle 5,000 patients, water desalinization units that provide unlimited drinking water and helicopters that can deliver food to hard to reach places. And besides if your country has been naughty, the carrier you don’t see might just be “turning into the wind”.


19 posted on 10/07/2011 10:46:56 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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maybe that guy should leave his pink ballet slippers at home?


20 posted on 10/07/2011 10:47:20 AM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
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