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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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To: Netizen

I am wondering it will look prettier if the Air Force guys (or other branches) doing the ballet instead.


41 posted on 10/07/2011 11:16:56 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
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To: GSWarrior
Rich, quite acting like a little beatch.
Seeing and hearing an american jet screaming over at 600mph send chills down my spine and makes me proud to be an American.
42 posted on 10/07/2011 11:17:30 AM PDT by ßuddaßudd (7 days - 7 ways a Guero y Guay Lao << >> with a floating, shifting, ever changing)
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To: GSWarrior

In addition to the bear driving the little car? (Because we can’t lose that)


43 posted on 10/07/2011 11:24:25 AM PDT by Oztrich Boy (New gets old. Steampunk is always cool)
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To: GSWarrior

Just another fag lib talking about how fighter jets causes him to lose his vagina.


44 posted on 10/07/2011 11:26:02 AM PDT by max americana (FUBO NATION 2012 FK BARAK)
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To: Oztrich Boy

45 posted on 10/07/2011 11:26:43 AM PDT by Oztrich Boy (New gets old. Steampunk is always cool)
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To: Roccus

‘ballet’.

And this ‘author’ claims to be a TEACHER.


46 posted on 10/07/2011 11:27:49 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post)
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To: magslinger

ping


47 posted on 10/07/2011 11:38:39 AM PDT by Vroomfondel
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To: UCANSEE2

Uh...that was my screw-up. We can blame it on the author, tho.


48 posted on 10/07/2011 11:39:18 AM PDT by GSWarrior (To activate this tagline please contact the Admin Moderator.)
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To: GSWarrior
I was sitting in a seminar on the Holocaust at the University of San Francisco, completely mesmerized by the personal testimony of William Lowenberg, a Holocaust survivor now recently deceased. As he closed his incredible presentation, reminding us of how important it is to investigate and teach about the past, the Blue Angels flew over Lone Mountain, interrupting with their own thunderous narrative. I wondered what associations such sounds from the sky had in Lowenberg's mind. I could not fathom the gravity."

I expect that Mr. Lowenberg would associate those sounds with the American and allied troops that liberated the concentration camps at the end of WW2.
(Apparently Mr. Hill does not teach history.)

49 posted on 10/07/2011 11:55:10 AM PDT by norton
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To: Billthedrill

I told my buddies not to wear tutus on liberty, especially in San Francisco, but would they listen?


Those stationed in SF now have a new version of the old cracker jack uniform- made of spandex.


50 posted on 10/07/2011 12:06:44 PM PDT by maine yankee (I got my Governor at 'Marden's')
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To: GSWarrior
Our freedoms and prosperity were earned by the blood of many Americans. I bet this moron forgot to teach the students that fact as well. This anti-military moron needs to be fired for teaching the crap they believe in.
Teachers should teach facts, not ideologies that are not part of our history. Since we ended up with the socialist (American bastard child form Kenya) in the white house the socialist and communist half-minded morons think they can push their foreign propaganda in our schools. There is a huge change coming when adults again run this country.
51 posted on 10/07/2011 12:14:32 PM PDT by oldenuff2no (Rangers lead the way...... Delta, the original European home land security)
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To: Vroomfondel; SC Swamp Fox; Fred Hayek; NY Attitude; P3_Acoustic; investigateworld; lowbuck; ...
SONOBUOY PING!

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52 posted on 10/07/2011 12:37:01 PM PDT by magslinger (To properly protect your family you need a Bible, a twelve gauge and a pig.)
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To: GSWarrior
[Article, whining] I find it to be a loud, violating display of military power that goes against what I stand for.

Well, then, just pack your Gucci bags and get your little Jessie ass out of our country, then. Go someplace where the cheese-eating surrender monkeys and the ragheaded goat-rapists share your puling, scumbagginous detestation of the country that's given you every freedom you could imagine.

Go on, punk. Get out of Dodge. Go polish chrome-plated doorknobs for some bangled-and-befeathered Asiatic rump-riding pooh-bah and his limpwristed spawnthings. Just leave.

53 posted on 10/07/2011 2:35:48 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus (Concealed carry is a pro-life position.)
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To: KarlInOhio

“Swan Lake is landlocked, which makes it very hard to put a carrier battle group on it.”

Luckily, you can bomb the poop out of it.


54 posted on 10/07/2011 3:23:24 PM PDT by Tublecane
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To: GSWarrior
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.

Dear teacher, your indocrination class is boring, military planes making lots of noise aren't. Kids know this instintively.

Live with it, poofter.

55 posted on 10/07/2011 3:39:33 PM PDT by hattend (If I wanted you dead, you'd be dead. - Cameron Connor)
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To: OnlyTurkeysHaveLeftWings

No, silly person, science is now man made global warming.


56 posted on 10/07/2011 7:33:19 PM PDT by Fred Hayek (FUBO, the No Talent Pop Star pResident.)
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