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I'm pretty sure I just got a sonic colonic.
/i like jets
Did you see that?! He totally just spun and went upsidown and wuz all WOOOOOOOOOOOSH!
Or fall on your children.
Do this while making out with my girl and playin' "Take My Breath Away".
America! We're #1!
@7:
If I WANTED to live next door to an Air Force base, I'd move back to Cheyenne. But I don't want to live next door to one, which is one reason I live here instead.
Don't get me wrong, I love aerobatics, but I'd be just as happy seeing, say, the Breitling AeroSuperBatics Team, instead of these multi-million dollar, fuel-guzzling death machines.
Or conversely some balls-to-the-wall Boeing pilot barrel-rolling a 787...
If you think I'm going to stop, taint happenin'.
But I'm glad it makes people feel "patriotic." I love America, but let's not pretend this isn't about might making right and ignoring the suffering of those with less privilege.
How about sky-writing? Or a huge one day free clinic showing our medical superiority? Free food for everyone demonstrating the strength of America's farming? There are so many way to illustrate our virtues that don't involve loud noises, re-invoking trauma, and machines that were primarily made to kill.
anyways, i'm excited they are here. its like an air show you don't have to get stuck in traffic to get to.
Second, @Baconcat you are on a ROLL!
Yeah, love that shit.
Anyway, here's to ugly displays of patriotism in America's least patriotic city!
The basic acquisition price of a single F/A-18 A Hornet is approximately $21 million. Great way to spend money in the middle of a friggin recession, when budgets are being cut for everything we might need more than a handful of war machines flying over our homes for an entire weekend.
I know you're dumber than rocks, but you know that most, say Vietnamese, refugees who fled to this country supported the US effort there, right? THis is why you never see a communist Vietnamese flag hanging in a Seattle pho restaurant, the only place you can afford to eat out in dipshit.
Come on, just seeing Seattle hippies and 'Peace now' sissies wet themselves and run and hide under their beds with their neurotic tails between their legs for 3 days is worth it.
You're not men, you're shi-tzus with bladder problems.
Go Angels!
Full disclosure, I grew up here and to me the Blue Angels are the sound of summer.
Blue Angels ftw!
@54 - I'll take 5) grew up here and am largely indifferent. I've never made a point of seeing them, but on the few occasions I have seen the show, I enjoyed it.
I must be a freak.....doh!
No, it's an air show you get stuck in traffic for whether you're going to it or not.
And @52:
I don't recall Air Force One dropping bombs on innocent civilians much, do you?
America
America, Fuck Yeah!
Comin' again to save the motherfuckin' day, Yeah
America, Fuck Yeah!
Freedom is the only way, Yeah
Terrorists, you're game is through
''cause now you have ta answer to
America, Fuck yeah!
So lick my butt and suck on my balls
America, Fuck Yeah!
Whatcha' gonna do when we come for you now
It's the dream that we all share
It's the hope for tomorrow
(Fuck Yeah!)
McDonald's (Fuck Yeah!)
Wal-Mart (Fuck Yeah!)
The Gap (Fuck Yeah!)
Baseball (Fuck Yeah!)
The NFL (Fuck Yeah!)
Rock N' Roll (Fuck Yeah!)
The Internet (Fuck Yeah!)
Slavery (Fuck Yeah!)
(etc., etc....)
The F/A-18s never saw combat until 1986, in case anyone's speculating on exactly who's might be PTSD'ing today.
I'm glad it's nostalgic for some people, but please move it somewhere where we can choose whether or not to experience it. I don't think that's too much to ask.
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Boeing was working on a fuel cell plane. Maybe they could fly that around a bit.
I-90 is shut down for portions of the day for 4 days. It also goes to show that when you shut down a freeway the whole world doesn't fall apart after all. It really puts the viaduct issues i perspective.
Only planes from socialist countries need to use actual jet fuel (I'm looking at you, Red Arrows.)
-- http://www.seafair.com/history/
Complaining about the Blue Angels is fucking lame.
There seem to be two complaints, noise and the eeevvvil military. I find it a little silly that all the slog folks who go on about urban living and how it involves things you might not like such as club/street noise, graffiti/tagging, etc etc but that you should suck it up and quit whining, complain about this. The Blue Angles are here for a couple days a year and it's loud. Boo hoo. These are probably the same people that complain about fireworks noise on the 4th. Living in the city also means dealing with frequent traffic jams from pro sports events that I have no interest in, but I don't get all worked up about it.
But it's evil military propaganda! O noez! So? They are up front that the Blue Angels are a recruitment tool, it isn't a secret. Let people make up their own minds. This seems to be a product of a reflexive anti-military stance which is idealistic and naive. We may not like certain things the military does, but they are following orders from elected (well sometimes...2000) civilians. The military itself is not inherently evil and serves some very important functions. As such, they need recruitment just like any other organization. Am I going to sign up because I saw some cool stunts? No, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't be able to do the stunts.
In short, STFU crybabies. At least try to appreciate the amazing combination of technology and human skill that goes into it. Nobody is making you watch it, but they are hugely popular and aren't going away.
Summer doesn't officially start in Seattle until this Slog post reaches 100 comments.
However, I am pissed that certain roads/bridges are closed because of Federal Aviation concerns for safety of people and the pilots. Excuse me. Those planes were just flying right over heavily populated downtown/pioneer square/capitol hill etc areas with businesses, homes and sometimes packed public parks and the aviation people are concerned about plane crashes on bridges.
Frak the FAA for fraking with the commuting public.
I didn't get a good picture of the FA-18s, but here is their support plane with some racks in the foreground:
http://amnt.vox.com/library/photo/6a00cd…
And to everyone comparing the blue angels to normal city and bar noise, I'd like to say it's both quantitatively and qualitatively different. It's both louder (decibel-level) and in sharp bursts. At the end of the day, it's a simple question: is tradition and the enjoyment of the majority more important then sensitivity for the needs of a minority? That's a question you have to answer for yourself, but don't minimize the impact it has on others so you can feel better about your position.
Dismissing people's experience just adds insult to injury.
Besides, You've lived in this city for decades. If you hate the Blue Angels so much, why don't you plan a nice little trip each year? Go pay your respects at the grave of JD and Alice Ross at the Skagit hydroelectric project, or perhaps visit beautiful Kelso. We live in a vacation wonderland, after all....