[slowry]

There are a couple photos at above link -- scroll down to see jet.

[martin_fierro]

P.C. run amok.

[Psycho_Bunny]

If these stupid, whiney, mealy-mouthed pissants don't want it, I'll take it.

[dead]

David Olstad, a volunteer who assists on technical support issues at the school, said, "I'd just as soon see a .357 Magnum blown up and put on a pedestal. I mean, there's no difference to me. It's glorifying violence."

Why not just put up a swastika, David?

That’s what a lack of firearms and airpower would have bought you, you fey twit.

[B-Chan]

From 1985 to 1986 I was stationed aboard USS ENTERPRISE, which was homeported at Alameda at the time. It's a shame to watch these ingrates tear at everything that doesn't fit in with their milktoast, kum-bah-yah view of the world. Without the money the men and women of that Naval Station provided over the years (in the form of purchasing power, sales tax revenues, and the many businesses that served the base) their town wouldn't have half the stuff it has today.

Pathetic.

[theDentist]

"Students have been coming up to me asking when is it going to come back, not to not bring it back," he said...

First thing I'd ask was "What are their names? How many? When did they tell you?"

I bet he'd have stumbled and said he forgot their names or that they wanted to remain anonymous.

[Drew68]

This kind of crap has been happening for some time now.

I was a Columbine "Rebel" back in the 1980s. Our mascot was a revolutionary minuteman with a rifle. One of the graduating classes during the 1970s constructed a 10' high metal statue of a rifle-bearing colonialist with a three-pointed hat and erected it in front of the school. It stood there for years before disappearing sometime in the 1990s (before Columbine became infamous).

I have no doubt it was removed for PC reasons and it certainly will never return. Several ninnies even urged Columbine to drop its "Rebel" mascot altogether for something more peaceful.

[Saundra Duffy]

Glad I don't live in Alameda anymore. The City Council needs a good freeping, though - not to mention those teachers at Encinal High. By the way, I graduated from Alameda High School, the better one! (Never you mind the year.) For victory & freedom!!!

[Saundra Duffy]

Ping

[zarf]

When I read crap like this, I just want to go out and beat the crap out of a very small person

[slowry]

I want to give credit to where I found the link -- here

[Skooz]

"I would think there is a better symbol for the school, something that might reflect education and intelligence," she said.

How about the "Bread Slices?" But, wait. Slice=knife=VIOLENCE!

[drjimmy]

"The parents of our Vietnamese and Cambodian and Afghan kids especially ... have been affected by the tragedies of war, and I think we shouldn't say that that's insignificant or somehow not important."
Perhaps she shouldn't presume to speak for those Vietnamese, Cambodian, and Afghan parents. How dis-empowering of her.

[TommyDale]

At least the mascot wasn't named for an ethnic group. Eventually, all mascots will be outlawed completely, as PC dictates. The banana slug mascot at UC Santa Cruz should be next, as they are prone to fizz when doused with salt.

[G Larry]

Jets should avoid flak!!!

(sheesh! i thought somebody would have said that by now)

Best way to avoid flak is to bomb the source!

[joesnuffy]

Yes what a travesty instead of inspiring every kid with the greatness and strength of America who is able and willing to go cross oceans to save and free people from grave oppression
The money could be used to shore up the gay-straight student union and alliance
of some other note worthy social plague

[vikingchick]

"I would see it as sort of a leftover from a previous era," Zialcita said.

Yeah, let's get rid of everything that refers to a previous era. For the love of Mike.....

[Luke]

Back in 1961, before I shipped out for WESTPAC, I drove the NAS Alameda school bus that served this and other local schools. Back then... those families were honorable patrotic Americans. All those families transferred or moved long ago. Today, the whole damn state is not worth a fart.

Give that plane to someone who deserves it.

[GOP_1900AD]

As is true throughout the Bay Area, a sad conclave of the long outnumbered (that was, up until about 30 years ago) and the more recently arrived, both of anti American, anti tradition characteristics, have now made themselved heard even in our staunchest, most pro military enclave. Sign me up for the counterrevolution today. I'll be the one with the rope.

[judgeandjury]

Janet Gibson, a school board member and Alameda resident since 1973, said she's long considered the jet an inappropriate emblem for Encinal. "I would think there is a better symbol for the school, something that might reflect education and intelligence," she said.

Hmm, how about the Encinal High School Books!