Good points throughout, but you're an old man yelling at a cloud.
I hate my neighbor's backyard fountain which sounds like a dude taking an endless leak into a deep deep toilet, and it runs 24/7/365. I don't get to do anything about that either.
A refresher course in militaristic nationalism, brought to you at your own expense by the Ministry of Fear and Permanent War. Go Team, keep building on that seventy-year losing streak!
Ah bite the big weiner, whiner! We have loved the Blue Angels flying over our houses for years and years! Love the noise and the pride I feel when I see them!
Actually, the harassment started last evening, when one of the BA's decided to "buzz" Ballard at maybe 1,000 feet; both my neighbor and I happened to see it fly over, in all its window-rattling glory. All I could do was turn to him and comment, "coming in a little low and hot isn't he?" He sort of half grinned and nodded his head.
Thing is, if I hadn't actually SEEN it was a BA, I would have sat there waiting for the inevitable distant "boom!" of a jetliner crashing into a building downtown.
I hope your service animal chokes from eating a peanut fragment from your ass. Fuck you, a couple a minutes out of the year there is some big noise. Why do you even pretend to give a fuck? I am a decorated veteran but no big blue angles fan, but come on. These guys make it do what it do. You pretend to advocate for expression. Well these guys, they express. It some he-man BS fer sure. You herald so many less exceptional performances everyday, you are hypocritical on this. Please stop your shallow tired voice. Oh, such a tribulation. The BA? Total Badass shit. You pretend to back badass shit. Well this is some badass shit. Yes this is the industrial military complex, but they bang. They come, they give exceptional by any definition. If nothing else acknowledge the exceptional. I find it a bit repetitive but they are doing things you would do in a second, if you could.
How Vietnam era of you. So are we back to blaming the military-- the one percent of us who serve and get maimed and killed-- are we blaming them for the decisions of their civilian leadership?
does the stranger even have editors anymore? this article was nearly impossible to read. also, "wah waaaaaah a spectacle that isn't the kind of spectacle WE enjoy; waaaaaah."
The piece's author mocks the role of the F/A-18 without understanding a few things. 1) if you absolutely, positively, need to drop ordnance on a variety of targets (eg. Islamic State) and don't have available airbase or airspace in adjacent territory, you have to use an aircraft carrier or an amphibious assault ship (such as USS Boxer - it's the big gray ship at Seafair with a "5" on the side of it). 2) If you're using a ship, you need a purpose-made aircraft for that ship (ie F/A-18 for aircraft carriers) and your current choices for any missions involving dropping ordnance are manned. 3) Small drones are currently being operated from ships, but the Navy hasn't fielded ones yet that can carry the type and quantity of ordnance needed to support the kinetic mission. They are coming, and you'll not have much opportunity to see or hear one demonstrated. 4) Enjoy precision, audacious, and loud, manned flight while you can - it may not be around after the F/A-18 and F-35 complete their lifecycles.
Thanks again, Seattle for waving the impotent blue dick of the capitalist war machine in everyone's face. I am glad there are some citizens here who like that kind of thing.
Bring it on, I say. I love the Blue Angels.
I hate my neighbor's backyard fountain which sounds like a dude taking an endless leak into a deep deep toilet, and it runs 24/7/365. I don't get to do anything about that either.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2kz2h4…
Battlestar Galactica S00E01
"Don't ask me, I just fly the drones."
Thing is, if I hadn't actually SEEN it was a BA, I would have sat there waiting for the inevitable distant "boom!" of a jetliner crashing into a building downtown.