Moonbats seek to ban Blue Angels from San Fran
posted at 10:37 pm on June 7, 2007 by Bryan
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You’ll be shocked, shocked to find out who’s behind this: Veterans for Peace, Global Exchange and Code Pink. But don’t you dare question their patriotism. Questioning their sanity is fair game, though. Evidence of west coast anti-military crazy goes back a few years.
The annual aerial show by the U.S. Navy’s Blue Angels — a San Francisco tradition dating back to 1981 that pumps millions into the local economy — is running into opposition from three local peace advocacy groups that are calling for a permanent halt to the popular Fleet Week flyover.
CodePink, Global Exchange and Veterans for Peace, Chapter 69, are working with Supervisor Chris Daly on a Board of Supervisors resolution to address concerns over the Blue Angels.
Daly acknowledged he is considering a call to halt the flyovers because, he said, “they seem dangerous and unnecessary.” Daly said he plans on introducing the resolution as early as Tuesday, but is still drafting the language. A resolution is not legally binding, but states a board position.
The Code Pinkos don’t care about the economics, or the inspiration that kids might get from Fleet Week and the Blue Angels (well, they may care about the inspiration, but only to denounce it). They only care about themselves and their precious politics.
CodePink has launched an online petition, signed by more than 500 people to date, calling on leaders to end the flyovers for reasons of public safety, air pollution and fuel waste.
Cox said the resolution would establish that city leaders and the public are not in support of having the Blue Angels.
“We can then take the next steps we have to legally stop them,” he said.
Hm. San Fran has a population of about 751,682. Code Pink has 500 signatures on their online petition. They’re a national organization with connections to the Speaker herself–500 signatures is a pathetic result. But they think they represent the public of San Francisco. Given that city’s warped politics maybe they do, but they have a looong way to go to prove it.
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I’m fed up with San Fran. I wish we could chop it off the rest of the USA and let it float away. No big loss…
PoliticallyIncorrectSandy on June 7, 2007 at 10:47 PM
Had the honor(*spit*) of having the Presidio as my last post in the Army(79). Most beautiful posting outside of Hawaii.
Smack dab in the middle of ‘Indian Country’. That is what is was too…….hostile territory. Wearing your uniform around town wasn’t the smartest decision you could make. I have never been back, never will.
Limerick on June 7, 2007 at 10:49 PM
Upon further deliberation on the issue Daley is quoted as saying “We here in San Francisco have to give way to our priorities and Blue Angel week is in direct conflict with out anual Inflated Scrotum Parade!”
sonnyspats1 on June 7, 2007 at 10:50 PM
Mother Nature herself may take care of that eventually.
I love the MiraMar airshows here in San Diego every year. I never miss them if I can avoid it.
SilverStar830 on June 7, 2007 at 10:51 PM
I thought something like this came up last year and the Navy moved all the fleet-week activities to Diego.
Limerick on June 7, 2007 at 10:52 PM
Yea, maybe San Andreas will split wide open. Oh well, whatever…
MoleOnABull on June 7, 2007 at 10:56 PM
I think that the Federal government needs to withhold all funding from San Francisco. Their attitude might lighten up a bit when they have to be totally self-sufficient. If they want to secede from the Union, I have no problem letting them. We can slap a trade embargo on them and see how long thay last.
DAT60A3 on June 7, 2007 at 10:56 PM
San Fran needs to just slide into the ocean already, like Nostradamus predicted.
abinitioadinfinitum on June 7, 2007 at 10:56 PM
Tell me about it.
Seeing how the US Navy fly-overs are “dangerous” and the US Navy is a threat to SF during fleet week…
hmm….
F15Mech on June 7, 2007 at 10:57 PM
To hell with those morons . . . there are many other patirotic cities that would love to have tbe Blue Angels.
rplat on June 7, 2007 at 10:58 PM
Why wouldn’t they want the Blue Angels? They’re neat to watch. Stupid San Fransisco…
I’d love to kick them out of the Union, but they’d probably become a Chinese client state…
Bad Candy on June 7, 2007 at 11:02 PM
Sometime back, I read an editorial about splitting California in half like the Carolina’s. Would be interesting to see what schisms of politics would manifest. The north would have mostly the libturds and the south would have mostly the Latinos? Scary thought all around….
kevcad on June 7, 2007 at 11:03 PM
It seems especially good timing, seeing that one of the brave pilots, the newest one of the Blue Angels was just killed in a crash. What a way to honor a hero.
abinitioadinfinitum on June 7, 2007 at 11:04 PM
please bomb that fracking city, PLEASE!
Defector01 on June 7, 2007 at 11:05 PM
The Blue Angels did a flyby a good number of years ago at a local airshow, it was cool. I’m not gonna lie though, I was always more interested in the WWII planes, they had a Mustang and I’m thinking a B-24. Some bomber, I can’t remember because it was a hell of a while ago. I’d know today if I saw it again. They did flybys with the WWII fighters, which was hella cool.
Bad Candy on June 7, 2007 at 11:06 PM
Bryan’s point is that they only seem to have a small minority of
peoplewindbags supporting this nonsense. However, the people running the city seem to share the same sentiments as the squeaky wheel groups from the clown party. Their arguments are weak, pathetic, and so obviously self serving.San Diego would be better off with the BA’s.
Kini on June 7, 2007 at 11:14 PM
On the petition….yeah only 500…..but decades of electing this type of local government isn’t because of a small minority of windbags.
Limerick on June 7, 2007 at 11:22 PM
Ya, too bad they can’t just cut off all federal money to San Fran. What sucks is, that it is such a nice city. I loved day trips to San Francisco when I was stationed at Ft. Ord. I miss Ft. Ord, too…. oh well.
reaganaut on June 7, 2007 at 11:23 PM
Take the entire coast of California. Oh can can we do the same thing to the NE coast?
Tim Burton on June 7, 2007 at 11:26 PM
I thought the Navy already told ‘em go piss up a rope over the USS Iowa snubbing.
The Ugly American on June 7, 2007 at 11:27 PM
Basic!…….sand sand sand and then they gave you more sand……..:)
Limerick on June 7, 2007 at 11:28 PM
We got the top gun school in Nevada now instead or Mirmar. We could use the Blue Angels too at the Fallon Naval Air Station.
The feds should ban federal $ from San Fran.
Mojave Mark on June 7, 2007 at 11:34 PM
Yes the city is a liberal fortress but at the same time I wouldn’t be surprised if 500 is all the pinckos get.
Some loud commies may be stomping around but a lot of people in San Francisco love fleet week and the crowd along the Embarcadero is standing room only when Blue Angels are flying all around the bay and I have been lucky enough to be there to see them round Angel island and zoom under the bay bridge very close to the water…spectacular.
Harriers hovering in some very unexpected places is pretty cool too.
I have visited SFO many times, it’s a strange conglomeration of a great many different people, from double breasted blue suits to spiked out punks to flaming sources of rehab assignments but they are all part of the community that is the city by the bay.
Speakup on June 7, 2007 at 11:40 PM
What would Herb Caen have to say about this bunch of SF Bolsheviks masquerading as Stuporvisors?
normsrevenge on June 7, 2007 at 11:43 PM
That is how the story should have read.
The Angels show up every summer during the hydroplane races at Seattle’s SeaFair. They perform on Saturday and Sunday, as well as having practice sessions on Thursday and Friday. They are the only reason I attend the races: the Angels are awesome. There are some libs in Seattle that don’t like them, but they have never mounted an effort to stop them from performing.
Mallard T. Drake on June 7, 2007 at 11:47 PM
Come on, people, give the city a fair shake. Yes, it’s full of queers and libtards, and so be it. But the Pinkos have 500 stinking signatures, and the show brings out … what? … a million people?
In Chicago the air and water show brings out over 1.5 million people every year, and completely fills the lakefront from the museum campus at 18th Street all the way north to Montrose. It’s awesome.
Let not 500 ninnie commies from around the country cause disrespect to San Francisco’s silent patriots. As for Daly and the buttsniffing effetes, they won’t have any sway on this one, imho.
Jaibones on June 7, 2007 at 11:51 PM
Can’t we just let California become a state of Mexico & put the fence running north & south?
2 birds…
commonsensehoosier on June 7, 2007 at 11:52 PM
Ahhh the fine smell of money, developers had been after the million dollars a square foot Miramar area for decades and finally got it.
Speakup on June 7, 2007 at 11:53 PM
Heh. Let em keep that crap up. Next thing you know Fleet Week will be in San Diego where it belongs. Let the millions of dollars come to San Diego. San Francisco will eat itself eventually. Then they’ll be crying for a Giuliani as mayor. I give it 10-15 years.
Theworldisnotenough on June 7, 2007 at 11:56 PM
And all you California haters can take a long walk off a short plank.
Theworldisnotenough on June 7, 2007 at 11:57 PM
Many on the Left read the posts on this site looking for ammo to use against us and wishing for the destruction of San Fran to fall into the sea due to an earthquake or whatever isn’t the kind of ammo we should just be handing them. Yes, San Fran has some extreme liberal politics dominating the scene but they’re still Americans.
As for the efforts to stop the Blue Angels, if CodePink only has 500 signatures then that gives me some hope that maybe San Fran doesn’t “hate” the military as it so often seems they do at times with their actions and words.
Yakko77 on June 8, 2007 at 12:04 AM
This will happen with the Bay Area and Cali eventually irregardless if federal funding were cut, but cutting federal funding would surely expedite their demise. Many businesses have or are moving out of the state due to the cost of doing buniness there. Cali is not a “right to work state.” The Cali workforce have too many rights making the cost of doing business there much too high. Also, much of the workforce in Cali are of the “entitlement” mentality that think they should be paid just to show up for work (let alone actually doing any work) that is when they decide to show up for work, or they simply play the entitlement system and get disability pay for “stress” so they can sit on their A$$ES at home smoking their “medicinal” pot!
It will be interesting to see all the anarchy and demise of the state when Cali no longer has the tax base to fund all of its entitlement programs once all the businesses and productive workforce are driven out due to the high costs of doing business…if they continue on their current path that won’t be too long in coming, and as a Bay Area refugee living in AZ (a right to work state) I’m looking forward to Cali’s ultimate demise and the anarchy they will experience due to their own stupidity….and I say good riddance to the “People’s Republic of California”….HAHAHAHAHA!
Liberty or Death on June 8, 2007 at 12:15 AM
hmmmm…..
dead-duck on June 8, 2007 at 12:23 AM
If these morons think Fleet Week and the Blue Angels are unsafe, then maybe we should start underground testing of Nukes under S.F.. That should show them what is and is not safe.
Helloyawl on June 8, 2007 at 12:36 AM
Fine..Then NO military planes (or anything else for that matter) if God forbid the city ever come under attack.
Your on your own San Fran!
186k on June 8, 2007 at 12:36 AM
RightWinged seeks to ban San Fran from the United States… actually, Vermont should go along with them… but it happens to be where I live so I’m going to selfishly say we can come up with another solution for VT.
Quick threadjack… did anyone catch that professor on O’Reilly the other night, talking about a survey that says that 15% of Vermonters would like to succeed? I totally agree with O’Reilly’s position on that, let’s leave Vermont where it is and how about the loons make the short trip over the border to Quebec, CA… Most of us could be there within an hour or two… I’m house sitting for a cousin right now, and I could literally be at the border in probably 30 minutes. Let’s not take VT out of the US, let’s just get the idiots out of VT. Plus, I’m not even going to get in to how difficult it would be to change flags to 49 stars, etc. The scary thing is, Vermont plays no significant role in the country… the country could drop us and not miss a beat. The only issue would be that rich extreme liberals from Manhattan and CT wouldn’t have a place to go in the United States to continue to ruin, as they’ve done over the past few decades. It’s really strange to hear my grandfather tell me that this was a traditional conservative state when he moved the family hear 50+ years ago, when I realize what a laughing stock liberal haven we’ve become.
Anyway, until next time folks… unless I see you at the upcoming “naked bike ride” through town, or we get together to hang up a 9/11 truth sign of I89, or I see ya EVERY DAY at the end of church street trying to feel important with Impeach Bush signs, or whatever wacky event you choose to go to!
RightWinged on June 8, 2007 at 12:38 AM
you are a brave man to put this on a SF thread :)
Limerick on June 8, 2007 at 12:44 AM
Could we please ask the state of California to secede?
(Are they close enough to qualify as “Pacific Rim”?)
RedCrow on June 8, 2007 at 12:57 AM
Well, the city is built on silt debris leftover from days of old and has an unstable ground base. It reminds me of the Monty Python Holy Grail scene, where the Swamp King says…:
“When I first came here, this was all swamp. Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built in all the same, just to show them. It sank into the swamp. So I built a second one. And that one sank into the swamp. So I built a third. That burned down, fell over, and then sank into the swamp. But the fourth one stayed up. And that’s what you’re going to get, Son, the strongest castle in all of San Francisco, we call it, Coit Tower.”
Unfortunately, the only son only had desires to hang out in the Castro district and sing, sing, SING.
Point is, when San Fran suffers another great peril like sliding off into the Pacific, who will come to their rescue?
Sir Lancelot?
Kini on June 8, 2007 at 12:58 AM
Haha, just wanting to pile on to how ridiculous people are here, and point out that we won’t be out San Franciscoed by San Francisco
the following link is NSFW, but there isn’t really much there, just further proving my point that despite being a tiny state of only 620k, our far left can go toe to toe with anyone’s. The ride is this Saturday so pack your clothe… I mean… take off your clothes, grab your bike, and come for a very uncomfortable ride with a bunch of ugly old hippie guys, and maybe one or two decent looking broads trying to prove they have a conscience and that they aren’t beholden to mommy and daddy’s checkbook (even though they are)
http://www.worldnakedbikerideburlington.com/
RightWinged on June 8, 2007 at 12:59 AM
Sadly the country is currently structured in a way that this would be devastating to our economy and would likely bring the country to it’s knees (I’ll avoid the obvious “of course, San Franciscans would like nothing more than more Americans ‘on their knees’” joke here). That’s what scares me about the movement for VT to succeed… the country really doesn’t need us for anything.
RightWinged on June 8, 2007 at 1:01 AM
It hurts (as a Texan) to say it but a whole bunch of Vermonters and a whole bunch of Texans met about 140 years ago worked out what States were necessary and which were not. You ain’t getting off the hook that easy. You whooped us and we are holding you too it.
Limerick on June 8, 2007 at 1:05 AM
The Navy has already decided to cancel Fleet Week in San Fran due to the stupidity and unpatriotic people from there. Good Riddance.
However, here in San Diego, we are stuck with the Thunderbirds for our Fleet Week Airshow at MCAS Miramar because the Blues are in Hawaii for an airshow that week.
ic1redeye on June 8, 2007 at 1:10 AM
I am thisclose to hoping some foreign power invades the US by capturing San Francisco to hear the citizens plead for military assistance only to be denied.
I’m also almost hoping for an “Escape From LA” moment, replacing SF for LA. In the movie, an earthquake separates Los Angeles from the US and the President declares it no longer part of the country.
hadsil on June 8, 2007 at 1:16 AM
That’s because the rest of the voting public are all in Muir woods, visiting Ewoks and smokin pot.
Kini on June 8, 2007 at 1:19 AM
Really? Never seen the thunderbirds so I’m going to want to check that out
as to San Fran-sick-o as Savage puts it, forget them, they want to say that to the navy, we here in SD will welcome them in with open arms
Defector01 on June 8, 2007 at 1:20 AM
Looks like there are some folk here not jumping to condemn San Francisco. As for the rest of you, did you not read Bryan’s report? There are 500 signatures on the petition. Do you know how many people actually watch Fleet Week? Orders of magnitude more. You have to get there early and park a good mile away from any good observation point (which are not wanting in hilly San Francisco). Sure, the histrionics always get the media to bite, but when has that ever not been the case? Most San Franciscans are happy to put up with the deafening jets to have Fleet Week in town. On a related note, the average age at the surprisingly large Memorial Day ceremony at Golden Gate National Cemetery was much lower (even with the WWII veterans) than the average age of the decrepit protesters outside the cemetery, of which there were fewer than 10.
True, Republicans are rare in San Francisco. When my (conservative) girlfriend first moved to the Bay Area, she couldn’t stand all the self-anointed “open-minded liberals” and their closed minds (although, to be fair, the most closed mind she found here was Danish, not American). But now she likes it: The Bay Area has perhaps the most libertarian population east of the Mississippi, and one of the most interesting cultures. It may not have diversity of political registration, but it’s certainly got more its share of interesting things and interesting people. And, for all the talk of economically challenged liberals, guess which region fueled the last and current economic booms? I’ll give you a hint – with apologies to Thompson, Alexander, Frist, and Reynolds: It’s not Tennessee.
calbear on June 8, 2007 at 1:23 AM
Well, I am in the SF bay area, as is the zombie we all know and love. It is not actually by choice but because of the custody situation I am in I will stay until my child is grown.Being a Conservative here is like being a missionary among savages, but having a sense of humor and laughing at them is always easy, they are wusses one and all.So I really appreciate that so many of you want me to fall into the ocean, I feel the love.There are more real Americans here than you think but most just lay low and get the job done.like good people anywhere.I have many of the trappings that y’all make fun of, Volvo, Macs,etc,but mine is the one with the “Kill a Coomie for your Mommie” stickers, and I love sitting at a streetside cafe with my laptop reading LGF and HotAir and getting an occasional gruff look from some pinhead.I smile and blow a kiss,drives em nuts.
bbz123 on June 8, 2007 at 1:48 AM
Next thing you know they’ll be trying to ban the whole military because it leaves too big a carbon footprint. These people are clueless.
CountryDoc on June 8, 2007 at 2:31 AM
We can always count on the good people over at South Park to keep it real:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smug_Alert%21
San Francisco, the city of Smugginess!
Wuptdo on June 8, 2007 at 2:49 AM
Sheeeeaaat!, They don’t even care about their pet issue
Patricia Foulkrod film producer and Code Pink activist has to say about it (lechery):
This be what happen when a Soros starts throwing his money around – phony shadow make believe groups that really just hate America.
I blame Bush.
Well, I really blame McCain.
Everyone hated it but Dumbass McCain made it pet pol potato.
Topsecretk9 on June 8, 2007 at 3:16 AM
This south park sf smug episode?
abinitioadinfinitum on June 8, 2007 at 3:16 AM
time to defund san fran..who is in on it?
Highrise on June 8, 2007 at 4:03 AM
Petitions are meaningless. I remember hearing the old crusty secretary for a trade association in Iowa say that to a convention. She worked with the legislature all the time and saw many a petition come and go. To prove her point, she started a petition that she walk down main street in Des Moines naked and got thousands of signatures.
The point is that the Code Pink dufuses can probably get 500 signatures on a petition from their friends and families. And if Code Pink wanted to stop something that was dangerous and unnecessary they would never have contributed $600,000 in cash and supplies to the terrorist haven of Fallujah. Let’s see a petition against Code Pink supporting terrorists and protesting the wounded at Walter Reed. They’re still doing that every Friday night, you know. A few weeks ago one of the Code Pink leaders went to Walter Reed and called our troops the terrorists.
Tantor on June 8, 2007 at 6:04 AM
It’s only been a 100 years or so since the Chilean Navy threatened the California coast…
And like many here, I say farewell San Fran.
Zorro on June 8, 2007 at 6:44 AM
Isn’t time for another really devastating earthquake to hit San Francisco, the kind that would make us think that it was God’s punishment of a sinful people?
Phil Byler on June 8, 2007 at 6:54 AM
“FUEL WASTE” ?
“FUEL WASTE” ?
That’s their “A” Game?
“FUEL WASTE” ?
And Nancy’s little MUST HAVE HUGE BIRD to fly her wrinkled ass to and fro runs on a hamster wheel, I’m guessing…
seejanemom on June 8, 2007 at 8:08 AM
This only gives me one more reason never to set foot in that poor excuse of a city. I would personally rejoice in the Blue Angels doing there shows, regardless of what these idiots have to say. I say let ‘em do a very high speed pass over any group that wants to protest. What will be lost on these poor senseless morons is that they will not realize they just experienced freedom, provided by U.S. Naval Aviation!!
Sorry, I know some very fine people live there but I can’t bring myself to ever go there. It’s just not worth trying to keep down the bile.
JohnnyD on June 8, 2007 at 8:22 AM
Not so. The once great FighterTown, Naval Air Station at Miramar, has been Marine Corps Air Station Miramar since 1998. Since the Naval Fighter Weapons School (Top Gun) is just that, a NAVAL command, it moved to the most space-available NAS in the region, at Fallon. Miramar won’t fall into commercial hands anytime soon.
The Miramar Air Show is typically the most outstanding show west of the Mississippi each year, but after literally a decade of working the flightline during “show weekend”, it got a bit old. I go about every third year now. When you get to the point of being nearly able to quote the Blue Angels’ show script…
There’s still a few folks here in San Diego who appreciate a patriotic “waste of gas” now and then. Most of the military facilities in the Bay area have been BRAC’d, so most military folks have moved on to less hostile pastures.
Freelancer on June 8, 2007 at 8:56 AM
My kingdom for an earthquake!
drjohn on June 8, 2007 at 9:18 AM
500 people out of 750,000 and we need an earthquake or denial of federal funds… Now THAT’S intolerance!
Bradky on June 8, 2007 at 9:22 AM
Look what stellar “progressive” statesmen, er, stateswomen the San Francisco Bay Area has lately raised for America: Dianne Feinstein, Nancy Pelosi, Barbara Boxer. There’s a trifecta of hardcore left-wing Copperhead Democrat contr-patriots for you.
Then there’s San Francisco’s Mayor, Gavin Newsome. Remember his throwing out of California’s marriage laws last year, in order to issue marriage licenses and perform civil ceremonies for thousands of gays and lesbians??? It took the Calif. Supreme Court and the Governor to shut down that bit of unlawful, unconstitutional social engineering.
The point? OK, there’s currently only around 500 sigs on that petition. However, the fact remains that the San Francisco Bay Area is arguably the most solidly left-wing urban area in America. If there’s a moderate “silent majority” (akin to the much talked-about and equally elusive “moderate Muslims”), by their silence and inaction, they don’t count. Unfortunately, the vocal and active extremes do.
DavePa on June 8, 2007 at 9:36 AM
I’m shocked shocked at these people in SF and all their banning of things. Banning creates an intellectual chasm between the banner and the banned–it sets up a traditional us and them paradigm that has been the basis of every war that ever been fought in the sad an violent history of hupersonity. I would proposed a boycott of SF, but that too has a core of violence, as its essence is really a suppressed desire to see the other person starve to death. Instead, I propose a “Surround SF With Love” day, in which we all try to elevate that city to a higher level of consciousness, by visualizing San Francisco becoming a ban-free zone. Not that we’re advocating banning banning–that would make us no better than those whose behavior we deplore–we prefer to state it in the positive, as the simple falling away of all banning. Join us, won’t you–brother, sisters, and all you others?
smellthecoffee on June 8, 2007 at 9:41 AM
My humble apology.
Speakup on June 8, 2007 at 9:58 AM
I saw the Blue Angels recently in Corpus Christi. It was fantastic. Only crazy moonbats would want to ban them from their city. it is one of the most patriotic things I’ve seen – but then again, SF isn’t exactly a patriotic city…
pullingmyhairout on June 8, 2007 at 10:01 AM
yeah, but if history is any indication, it’s the will of the small minority that trumps the will of the majority. The Angels will probably be banned.
pullingmyhairout on June 8, 2007 at 10:03 AM
Come on now. Intolerance is intolerance. I don’t think they will be banned. We’ll both see I guess.
Bradky on June 8, 2007 at 10:25 AM
I had the honor of flying with the Blue Angels 3 years ago and it was the single most awsome experience of my life. The dedicated professionals on the Blue Angels team are clearly the best of the best.
KelliD on June 8, 2007 at 10:36 AM
Dissing the finest fighter pilots in the world would be a fatal mistake anywhere else but America.
Two words: Strafing run.
Buck Turgidson on June 8, 2007 at 10:51 AM
I know a lot of liberals in SF watch that annual show with awe. They love it.
I’ve seen it there twice, and it’s amazing.
This whole “banning” concept is ridiculous. I love SF for a lot of reasons, but it’s getting harder to defend when crap like this keeps happening.
Malpaso on June 8, 2007 at 10:53 AM
KelliD, I am so envious you got that chance. What I wouldn’t give…but alas, I don’t have the connections. I’ve seen both demo teams, most recently the T-Birds at Andrews in May, and I’m kinda partial to the Angels. I wholeheartedly agree…. They. Are. The. Best.
JohnnyD on June 8, 2007 at 10:59 AM
Being an Air Force brat, and having a brother who’s an F-15 pilot I’m partial to the T-Birds too. I didn’t inform the Angels of my AF background until I was back on the ground. :-)
KelliD on June 8, 2007 at 11:10 AM
HAHAHA! I’m sure they didn’t mind a bit.
JohnnyD on June 8, 2007 at 11:26 AM
Well the pilot did look at me funny when I asked him if in an amram situation did he prefer to take it up the wall or employ something or another (I did use a technical term here) tactics. A plant question from Big Bro.
One of the many things that impressed me about the Blue Angel pilots is what increadable physical shape they are in. My flight was the pilots 4th of the day. Back on the ground he was as fresh as a daisey while I had to go home and take a 3 hour nap.
These guys are truely awsome. Code Pink, et al…not at all.
KelliD on June 8, 2007 at 11:40 AM
Speakup on June 7, 2007 at 11:40 PM
You have some good points. Not everybody in San Francisco hates America, our military, conservatives, and the Constitution, especially the 2nd Amendment. Just enough to elect a board of supervisors that do.
HOWEVER, if the board of supervisors actually do have the (gum)balls to ban the flyover, they way they banned the USS Iowa floating museum, JrROTC, and military recruitment, here is how I would like to see the Navy respond….
PR Release from the future…
—
Washington, DC, June 1, 2008 (via TraitorNet)
The Department of the Navy released the following communiqué from Assistant Undersecretary of the Navy for raining and Morale, Lucian V. Patriot:
“The Department of the Navy, speaking for the Department of Defense, accepts with pleasure the application of the City of
San Francisco, California, to be the new site of its live-fire training and exercise facility. Since the closing of the Visquenes facility in Puerto Rico, the Navy has been searching for a replacement site for live-fire exercises of Navy and Marine assets,
prior to deployment on active duty.
We are pleased to announce that San Francisco, with it’s passage of a prohibition of flyovers by the US Navy Blue and other measures to “opt out” of participating in the national defense, along with its Bay neighbor, Berkeley, has been selected to permanently host the new San Francisco Bay Area Military Training Facility.
While plans are still in a formative stage, it is expected that the new facility will extend to several sites in the Bay Area.
Part of this facility, “The San Francisco Nest of Traitors Live-Fire Training and Exercise Area,” will host intensive urban warfare training, using live ammunition, for segments of America’s military including most units of the United States Marines, Air Force, Army, and of course the US Navy. Projected activities will include finely tuned Tomahawk Missile and
army/naval bombardment artillery strikes on buildings such as City Hall, the Transamerica building, and the Embarcadero, which will also be used for amphibious landing training.
Other activities, including live bayonet exercises and massed riflery fire, will be conducted across the Bay in Berkeley at the new “Berkeley Nest of Traitors Live-Fire Training and Exercise Area at USC Berkeley,” on the campus quad for both Marine and Army infantry units, and the use of the Berkeley City administrative center for air-to-ground practice for both Navy, Marine Air, and Air Force squadrons. Other city and university facilities in the Bay Area will be utilized for exercises and will feature use of Marine and Army armored vehicles and rotary winged aircraft.
Separate exercises will be conducted in defense against bio-chemical warfare using live agents in these urban
environments. Techniques on urban war fighting in that environment, as well as practice in the offensive use of these weapons, will be taught within the Facility, which in effect, includes the entire San Francisco Bay Area but which will center on the City of San Francisco.
The Cities of San Francisco and Berkeley and university campus at Berkeley, long reservoirs of hatred against the United States military, and ardent supporters of countries and political philosophies hostile to the United States, will also serve a useful morale purpose, giving personal validation to military personnel as they train for insertion to areas of similar anti-US hostility such as Iraq.
Dates to begin operation and the schedule of individual training exercises will be announced shortly.”
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Frankly, give the fact that Code Pink went to Jordan and gave Al Qaeda $600,000 in cash while my son was in Iraq during the Fallujah operation, I’d rather see the whole lot’s execution for treason on pay-per-view.
Giving the enemy aid and comfort is the definition of treason in the Constitution, and if the supervisors knuckle under to them and their fellow travelers, then to hell with the entire city.
georgej on June 8, 2007 at 12:00 PM
Jaibones on June 7, 2007 at 11:51 PM
The Blues appeared at Rockford last weekend at their Air Show. Rockford is closer to me than North Avenue beach and there *aren’t* 1.5 million people fighting for parking! (grin)
georgej on June 8, 2007 at 12:04 PM
“…three local peace advocacy groups that are calling for a permanent halt to the popular Fleet Week flyover.”
Here’s a fun fact….
The City of San Francisco can’t do squat about it. They can’t ban it or prevent it from happening. The air space is controlled by the FAA, who when I last checked, doesn’t report to the board of supervisors.
What are they going to do if the Navy and the FAA tells them to go jump, fly barrage balloons and try to crash the jets?
georgej on June 8, 2007 at 12:17 PM
It is time to secede the South from the nutjobs.
Tim Burton on June 8, 2007 at 12:20 PM
Tim Burton on June 8, 2007 at 12:20 PM wrote:
“It is time to secede the South from the nutjobs.”
Er, you guys tried that once. It don’t work out. (grin)
georgej on June 8, 2007 at 12:23 PM
Oh, Lord, don’t go there! We need a thread on that subject like we need a hole in the head.
smellthecoffee on June 8, 2007 at 12:37 PM
The Thunderbirds were the first demo team I ever had the pleasure of seeing when I was a kid.
My grandpa was a retired Air Force Lt. Col so the Thunderbirds have always had a special place in my heart. Plus, the first time I saw them (I was probably 8 or 9), my brother was sooooo in to the air force that we waited around and talked to the pilots/got their autographs and I developed my first men-in-uniform crush.
After that first time I went, the base always had the Blue Angels performing instead. They were (of course) also extremely impressive.
I can’t really say that I prefer one over the other. I’d be thrilled to go to an air show that had either.
JadeNYU on June 8, 2007 at 1:06 PM
The Blue Angels, the Thunderbirds….
I love watching them both.
When my son was 10, he and I were walking across Lincoln Park, heading towards the pedestrian overpass over Lake Shore Drive, at the Chicago Air and Water Show, when from over the city, behind us, just clearing the high rises, a USAF F15 overflew us. We had less than a second to hear the engines and turn before it overflew us. It then cut in the afterburners and zoom-climed straight up and out of sight. It was his first airshow.
The “sound of freedom” never ceases to make me choke up….
georgej on June 8, 2007 at 1:53 PM
Bad Candy,
My mother and her sister made the B-24s at Willow Run in Michigan.
Cutting off federal funds to San Francisco, or any sanctuary cities… heh, heh
freebird on June 8, 2007 at 2:21 PM
If the Pinckos gave money to AQ then they should be up on serious charges.
Cutting off Fed. money to sanctuary cities is something I absolutely agree with.
What I’m saying is that San Francisco is a very different city as a community on the ground than as they are portrayed or as they portray themselves.
Were I the King, the city would be a different place but I’m not and the bay really is made up of a very wide range of people, they may be very different from each other but they all have that sense of community connection, It’s something even a visitor like myself can see and feel.
Speakup on June 8, 2007 at 3:56 PM
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