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Maybe we could replace them with the Black Hellions: a formation of drones flying with the "pilots" on a stage would be a more relevant display of our military prowess.
They could also visually track members of the audience and put them on a jumbotron while going through their manoeuvres.
They could also visually track members of the audience and put them on a jumbotron while going through their manoeuvres.
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Not to worry, one of our new drone carriers will launch a flyby instead.
Cheaper, faster, not as many scared dogs.
(not sure if you realized we have drone carriers in the fleet, but we do, nifty little things with drone racks and signals repeaters and a few local ops people, and some cool net things)
Cheaper, faster, not as many scared dogs.
(not sure if you realized we have drone carriers in the fleet, but we do, nifty little things with drone racks and signals repeaters and a few local ops people, and some cool net things)
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The assumption here is that anything "military" is bad. Which of course it is not. The Blue Angels are pretty benign folks.
If for some reason you are not entertained by the Blue Angels during Seafair, DON"T WATCH THEM. Duh...
Many people do the same thing during the "Gay Pride Parade." Just ignore them, they will eventually go away.
If for some reason you are not entertained by the Blue Angels during Seafair, DON"T WATCH THEM. Duh...
Many people do the same thing during the "Gay Pride Parade." Just ignore them, they will eventually go away.
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Until now I didn't believe in the power of Jesus. This could make be believe.
So you Christians out there; if you want to save this athiest cock sucking fag...tell them to drop the Blue Angles from Seafair and I'll join one of your churches. That's the ONLY way you can prove your God is real.
So you Christians out there; if you want to save this athiest cock sucking fag...tell them to drop the Blue Angles from Seafair and I'll join one of your churches. That's the ONLY way you can prove your God is real.
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7: The Gay Pride parade doesn't screech so loud dogs all over town have PTSD. (Get on it, queers!)
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Also, I am not anti-military. I am anti-Blue Angels for entertainment. Use the Blue Angels money to buy the troops proper combat protection.
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I'm not anti- but uneasy-about-military, as it seems mostly to be used as rich peoples plaything/security force. I am sad that the blue angels won't be at my wedding....
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I'd rather see my tax dollars fix the roof of a school than finance Militarism On Parade. It's time the death cultists learn what it's like to hold a bake sale to make ends meet.
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You feebs have 364 day from the day the Blue Angels leave to figure out how to be somewhere else when they come the following year. If you don't do that, that's on you. And if you don't or can't you should shut up, grit your teeth and tolerate it just like the rest of us dumbshits.
P.S. Your dogs suck you maladjusted, friendless, poop-touchers.
P.S. Your dogs suck you maladjusted, friendless, poop-touchers.
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Go all Tea Party on them: Where in the Constitution does it say that the federal government should provide air show entertainment?
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@7- I don't participate in Sea Fair at all, but the Blue Angels are an unafuckingvoidable tax-payer financed blight on the Seattle sound-scape. The pleasure they give the gawping hordes isn't worth the millions of dollars it takes to keep them around.
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Perhaps some enterprising writer of day-to-day information, a "maker of journals," if you will, could pick up a telephone and find out how much a Blue Angels show costs?
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@3 On stage? No, they'll just have a video feed of the pilots slouching around a cubicle farm in Bakersfield. Much cheaper then flying them up here for the show.
@17 Bread? More free stuff??!? You takers never quit!
@17 Bread? More free stuff??!? You takers never quit!
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We have two Dachshunds and a Pomerainian, plus a cat. (We used to have three Daschunds, but our dear Shadow was called home to Jesus on New Years Day) We live on North Beacon, right in the flight path. We, including the dogs, love the Blue Angels. In fact, I will take a moment to call my representatives about this.
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I would trade the blue angels and the 4th of july fireworks for one air to surface missle or bomb blowing up a derelict barge or ship on lake union.
What ever happened to that mig from the museum of flight that used to buzz downtown on the 4th of July shooting fireworks out the ass end? Last time I remember seeing it was '99. That was way cooler than the angels. But still, nothing like being on a boat by 90 when the angels go vert right above you and the afterburners rattle your eyeballs. It's one of the best vicarious highs available.
What ever happened to that mig from the museum of flight that used to buzz downtown on the 4th of July shooting fireworks out the ass end? Last time I remember seeing it was '99. That was way cooler than the angels. But still, nothing like being on a boat by 90 when the angels go vert right above you and the afterburners rattle your eyeballs. It's one of the best vicarious highs available.
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@7 The Pride parade doesn't rattle my windows, knock stuff off the wall, and make my dog shit water for a week.
I would love to be able to simple ignore the Blue Angels.
I would love to be able to simple ignore the Blue Angels.
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@7 - I would gladly go out of town to avoid the Blue Angels air show, but I've never been able to go out of town for an entire week while they practice their damn fly bys during working hours. It's like being under attack for days on end while they swoop around at the lowest possible level, sounding like they're about to bomb the shit out of my office. Meanwhile, they're discharging enormous amounts of air pollutants and using hundreds of gallons of jet fuel, which I hope no one thinks is furnished to the government at no charge. Air shows may have been interesting when it was a question of bi-planes running on kerosene and there were only a couple of crop dusters in an entire six-county area, but these days, with planes as thick in the air as they are -- not so much.
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@20- Some of us seem to like smearing our poop all over the walls of the stalls in park bathrooms too.
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@ 25 - Being at Ruby Chow park in Georgetown when they take off is pretty cool, too:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xllOkMpXa…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xllOkMpXa…
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Right on, @13. Speaking as a mere touron in your fair city, I always roll my eyes when I see that my obligatory Seattle conference has been scheduled during Blue Angels week.
If I wanted my fillings rattled that way, it's a lot cheaper to go up to Dayton or over to Annapolis where there's tons of equivalent--superior?--"entertainment".
If I wanted my fillings rattled that way, it's a lot cheaper to go up to Dayton or over to Annapolis where there's tons of equivalent--superior?--"entertainment".
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They don't bother me but then I grew up in Oak Harbor near NAS Whidbey Island. There was a Navy pilot two doors up from us who used to buzz his house.
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We like being a Boeing union town. We like the prosperity that comes with having a huge military presence in the area. But PLEASE, PLEASE, don't make us face up to the fact that the military is actually here. Because we're too fucking lame to celebrate once a year the achievements of the warriors that built and continue to sustain the economy here.
What a bunch of chickenshits. You'd think SLOG commenters were all Republican politicians.
What a bunch of chickenshits. You'd think SLOG commenters were all Republican politicians.
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Oh my god I fucking hate the blue angels. Such wasteful, noisy, and inconvenient non sense year after fucking year. I have to assume birds believe the world is coming to an end. Would be awesome if they really get dropped
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Ohhh, poor birdies...
Maybe they should replace the Blue Angels with a floating Pride parade. Would that be better for the birdies?
BTW #18 (Midwaypete), its in the "Support the General Welfare" clause of the Declaration of Independance. Same one they used to jam Obamacare down our throats (or run it up our ass)...
Maybe they should replace the Blue Angels with a floating Pride parade. Would that be better for the birdies?
BTW #18 (Midwaypete), its in the "Support the General Welfare" clause of the Declaration of Independance. Same one they used to jam Obamacare down our throats (or run it up our ass)...
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It's typical military thinking: cut $20 million on an airshow and ignore the trillions spent on bombing and killing overseas. Then again, maybe that logic can work for Seattle: if the Blue Angels offer to strafe Medina and Hunt's Point, maybe we pass the hat for them? Just suggesting...
If they're not up for some creative destruction here at home, where it counts, let the Naval-Aviators-in-F18-Strollers take a hike. The summers are short enough that suffering a few days' inconvenience does matter.
If they're not up for some creative destruction here at home, where it counts, let the Naval-Aviators-in-F18-Strollers take a hike. The summers are short enough that suffering a few days' inconvenience does matter.
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Ya know, I hate the million or so gallons of jet fuel The Blue Angels waste every year as much as the next guy, but just like I forget how horribly little baby calves are treated after that 1st succulent bite of Veal Parmigiana, so do I immediately forget how incredibly wasteful and useless The Blue Angels are as I can see the various pilots' rank insignias on their lapels as they buzz the building.
I truly hate how awesome they are...and I love it.
I truly hate how awesome they are...and I love it.
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I hate the frigging Angels! ! ! !
Seafair is just another bankster/shyster ploy, to drum up money for them --- all this other bullcrap is useless and needless icing on their cake.
Seafair was created by the same people behind the Space Needle, the Northgate Mall, the development of the University Tract, etc., and can survive nicely without the unmitigated noise of jets buzzing everyone and scaring the pets and birds out of their minds.
The banksters' "freedom isn't free" and all this other bullcrap is most idiotic.....
(And the name's "doom" not Suzie Sweetheart.)
Seafair is just another bankster/shyster ploy, to drum up money for them --- all this other bullcrap is useless and needless icing on their cake.
Seafair was created by the same people behind the Space Needle, the Northgate Mall, the development of the University Tract, etc., and can survive nicely without the unmitigated noise of jets buzzing everyone and scaring the pets and birds out of their minds.
The banksters' "freedom isn't free" and all this other bullcrap is most idiotic.....
(And the name's "doom" not Suzie Sweetheart.)
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We like being a Boeing union town
Not me, mofo, I despise their subsidiaries of death and destruction: Narus (Internet super-spy and Jeppeson (extreme rendition airlines)
Not me, mofo, I despise their subsidiaries of death and destruction: Narus (Internet super-spy and Jeppeson (extreme rendition airlines)
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