Attack on the Blue Angels…again Update: Resolution dies in committee
Update: Vote was 2-1 to table the anti-Blue Angels resolution (hat tip – Gus).
KCBS reports:
The Blue Angels daredevil air show should perform in October on schedule after a proposed resolution to ban them was tabled by the committee Monday. Supervisor Chris Daly wants Congress to stop the Blue Angels’ Fleet Week flyovers and introduced the resolution, citing a fatal accident at an aerial display in South Carolina last year. A hearing Monday let Veterans for Peace and other anti-war groups face off with tourism and commerce supporters. Opponents of the Blue Angels voiced their concern over the trauma the show inflicts on war refugees, the waste of fuel, and noise pollution.
“The Blue Angels are totally unnecessary,” said a resolution supporter. “I believe they are sent here to terrorize this town because we are an anti-war city.”
“The Blue Angels, the sound of them, makes me smile,” said another man. “Keep them coming to San Francisco forever and ever.”
It’ll come up again, I’m sure.
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I last chronicled one moonbat politician’s war on the Blue Angels in San Francisco in June. Well, folks, he’s baaaack (hat tip: Bookworm):
The annual flyover of the U.S. Navy’s Blue Angels sinks millions into the local economy and draws a million spectators, but one supervisor wants to stop these fighter planes from ever soaring through the skies over San Francisco again.
The Blue Angels, a team of Navy fighter pilots, fly over San Francisco during Fleet Week, which this year is scheduled for Oct. 4 through Oct. 9. For four of the six days, the flashy blue planes soar through the skies at speeds reaching 700 miles per hour, and perform maneuvers such as vertical rolls.
Today, the Board of Supervisors Government Audit and Oversight Committee will vote on a nonbinding resolution introduced by Supervisor Chris Daly that would call on San Francisco’s congressional representatives, including Sens. Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein, to “use all resources at their disposal to bring a permanent halt to unnecessary flyovers by military aircraft.”
If sent out of committee, the full board will vote on it Tuesday.
Political observers in the Bay Area say the resolution is going nowhere.
We’ll see.
Meanwhile, far Left members of Global Exchange continue to collect signatures petitioning SF mayor Gavin Newsom to “Halt the Blue Angels.”
If you’re a Bay Area constituent, here’s the SF Board of Supervisors contact info page.
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With the exception of the late Bill Walsh (R.I.P. Sir), I cannot think of one positive thing San Fran Cisco has brought to this world. Some days I wish an Earthquake would separate them, and have them float towards Russia.
Then maybe they might appreciate the Blue Angels, and more importantly, the Red, White and Blue.
http://blacktygrrrr.wordpress.com/2007/06/30/until-san-francisco-gets-bombed-they-will-not-understand-anything/
Respectfully,
eric
Make that San Francisco.
I was thinking about the stock market when I capitalized the cisco.
eric
http://www.blacktygrrrr.wordpress.com
Michelle, my I recommend changing that link a little bit? If you use this URL it displays the first 25 signatures to the petition (instead of the second 25, which shows up with your link.)
I point this out because it seems a Mr. Phil Theehippie has signed the petition at number 809. I would hate to think people weren’t taking this petition seriously.
Are there ANY normal Americans in San Francisco anymore?…are all the people there happy that they are the laughingstock of anyone with a three digit IQ ?….what kind of people are these elected officials?…how can anyone not take a certain pride in watching the Blue Angels perform those death defying stunts…I will most likely never visit SF again…I just can’t see providing my tourist dollars to that city…I’ll visit San Diego instead…they love the Blue Angels
You are right but, we are talking Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein and SanFran the trifecta of anti- Americanism if I ever knew one.
Maybe Michelle could do a write up of what the city of San Francisco is doing to Michael Savage as well.
Oh dear, now Ward Churchill and Mickey Mouse have signed the petition.
This is terrible. What has happened to the democratic process?
Everything about SF disgusts me.
San Diego rocks!!
San Francisco doesn’t DESERVE the Blue Angels. Maybe if it were Russian MIGs instead…
Having grown up in the Bay Area, and making several moves over the past few years – when I go back I keep wondering, who are these people? Where did they come from? Spent several years in Los Angeles, and even they are not as weird as what inhabits that part of the world. I delayed going into the office one time to watch the fleet come in while sitting in bumper to bumper traffic on the Bay Bridge. Still get a lump in the throat thinking about how beautiful it was. If I were the Navy I’d cancel the whole week (with it’s mega$$$$)and move it to another port.
The San Francisco Board of Stupevisors is a pro-Gay entity that is taking issue with the military’s “discrimination” against gays.
They are led in this campaign, to the detriment of the City, by Stupevisor Tom Ammiano.
This is also House Speaker Pelosi’s home congressional district.
This is a city that is closing its schools because it has a radically declining population of children. It is a most kid unfriendly city. Says alot about the City leadership’s agenda.
Anti-family, anti-military, anti-border enforcement, anti-National security….
nuthin but that funny stuff seeems to matter…besides spending taxpayer dollars on Global HackScience Warming.
24KLady- I can watch the fleet come into port from my front porch, due dead east of the Golden Gate 6 miles here in Berkeley. It is beautiful, like you say.
The problem along with the spendthrift Board of Stupevisors is the inane over-hair gel’d mayor. He has not an ounce of economic sense.
Gavin Newsome, the Mayor of SFO, lost an NFL Franchise to the City of Santa Clara (49ers), and because he didn’t have the guts to lobby for a major sports stadium to replace Candlestick Park, he shot the City’s bid in the cradle to get the Olympics.
Ouch. Big beanos. If the fleet pulls out, his goose is cooked. It may be already. The City is in bad shape. Typical.
Actually this link is probably better because it shows the most recent comment immediately.
Keep ‘em clever, people; don’t give them ammunition.
Just something else San Fran and Al Queda have in common, neither want the Blue Angels flying overhead.
Shoot they come down to my parts once a year and everyone I know loves em.
They’re more than welcome IMO to fly here again anytime they want.
If San Fran don’t want em we’d be happy to have a double dose.
I wish the Angels could fly in “middle finger” formation
I wish I could have the Blue Angels fly over my house every day. Whenever I see those planes fly over head, I just feel safe. I love it when they have flyovers at sporting events I attend. I just feel safer.
This is a great country and I especially love our air firepower. It’s too bad that San Franciscans can’t be ‘proud to be American’. Every time I hear something like this makes me think Pelosi even more contemptable. I hope they don’t need assistance from the military the next time a big earthquake hits.
Let them develop their own military. I’m tired of using our good military to protect them too. It’s a big country. Who needs San Francisco?
Time for a radical right wing posting.
I agree that they should “Cease all unnecessary flights over San Francisco.” The should only conduct necessary flights.
In that vein, the Blue Angels ground crew should immediately put all the hard points back on the Hornets and then have the pilots conduct a necessary bombing run on City Hall.
I visited San Francisco several times in the 1980s, and it was one of my favorite cities. Haven’t been back there for more than 10 years now, but from everything I hear it’s better not to ruin my fond memories by seeing what’s become of the place.
What a tragedy.
How about we close down all the military facilities in the bay area … no shipyards … no naval bases … no air fields … no Presidio … that should put at least 200,000 people out of work … probably a lot more than that … then they can all thank their wonderful city commissioners as they stand in the welfare lines … these people are unappreciative idiots … and as someone else said … wait until they want the military, active and reserves, to show up next time they have an earthquake … Adios Baby …
Strafe the gay parade.
Maybe we need to get Congress to ban military protection of San Francisco — or even the entire Bay area.
And I say that as one who was born in San Francisco in a military hospital, in the days when that city still considered patriotism to be a virtue.
Par for the course. I don’t understand why my Navy continues to honor San Francisco with Fleet Week festivities. Their anti-military stance defies rational explanation. For those who are saying that the entire city doesn’t agree with these nuts, I would like to say the the voices in SUPPORT of the military in SF are being drowned out by the supposed minority who oppose our armed forces. That being the case, SF doesn’t deserve the benefits (economic and otherwise) of having our armed forces in their city for events such as Fleet Week.
I dunno…
I like their rice…
I grew up in the Bay Area and 100% agree the Navy just needs to junk this event there how. While there are many that still support it, they are far out numbered by the whackos now. Remember this is the city that banned having the USS Missouri there as a memorial and tourist attraction. They have also lost all military bases in the city due to the wonder CA congress people not fighting for it.
What is funny is one of the big tourist attractions at Fishermans wharf is the USS Pampanito Submarine. Shh, don’t let the whackos know that though.
In the late nineties, I flew into SF to catch a plane to northern CA. As we were taking off I could see the whole city. Just above the skyline I saw a dark cloud covering SF.
Just about everyone would say it was smog, but it looked like something evil out of a movie. I will never forget the image.
And they should just pull everything out of SF. There must be some other harbor that would welcome them.
#20 you couldn’t be more right…move the military out of SFO, cut all ties, then after the next big one have their number changed…”hello…hello…where’s the Navy, with our help”? Stupid libs!
#23 your question makes me wonder also…are they turning their cheek and showing the Bush’s “new tone”?
Imagine if the Blue Angels carried live munitions over SF…wait, did I say that out loud? Whoopsies!
I’m with DesertLover. Cut ‘em off at the knees. If you don’t respect, like, or appreciate our military, we’ll put them to work protecting and helping people who DO.
DesertLover
Hey! Great to see another AZ person here
I wasnt in the Service but, my Father was for over 20 years. If I say how I feel about these losers Michelle would boot me off of here faster than you can say Rice-A-Roni.
ajmontana
Uh…what? People in service “losers”? Rice-A-Roni? I smell troll.
Sir Loin
Seem to be quite a few AZ residents on board lately …
ajmontana
my oh my … lol … San Francisco … home of “Candle Stick It Park”, the “Golden Gay Bridge”, and you know where you can “Pac-it-Bell Park” …
bear1909 … just kidding … lol
Sir Loin
I feel sure aj was referring to the wonderful commissioners as losers … not our military …
Seein’ as how the Duke City is an Air Force town we don’t get the Angels as often as we get the T-birds,but I’ll take either one,anytime.
I think the petition may have been taken down.
pb#23 has the way of it.
They do not deserve to have Fleet Week at all given their decidedly anti-military stance.
Remember the Iowa?
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-03-08-san-francisco-battleship_x.htm
Now be nice, folks. Not all of us here in SF are nutbags…just the majority. Those of us who have not lost touch with reality love and appreciate the Navy. We enjoy seeing the ships sail in every year and thrill to the roar of the jets as the echoes cascade off the skyscrapers.
Even those who elected Chris Daly consider him a goofball…they elected him just to see someone throw darts at every respected institution here in SF. The Blue Angels are just the latest in a long line of things Mr. Daly hates. Just think of him as a modern-day court jester…no brains, no headaches.
For someone I’ve not seen post here, you sure toss “troll” out pretty fast…
AJ was talking about the losers in San Fran, not the military, you dim wit.
You remind me of someone else here, but I can’t quite place my finger on it…
“bring a permanent halt to unnecessary flyovers by military aircraft.”
That’s very vague and is perhaps intended close the door to more than the Blue Angels. I wonder what a necessary flyover would be? Bombing an al-Qaeda ship in the bay?
Nope, petition’s up. Heh. Fidel is signing it.
I hope none of these people live near airports. LOL That would not be good for them.
Would this mean that the FAA would have to ban all flights going over San Fransisco? :-/
What is the difference in airplane noise?
(/sarcasm)
I wish there was a way to get rid of San Francisco without hurting Oakland. I am a Raider fan (No, I do not eat my young or have a criminal record), and when the Raiders play the 49ers this week in Oakland, the planes overhead before the game will be well received by the Raider Nation. If the 49ers were the home team, it would be Iraqi planes I guess.
This silver and black pirate supports the Blue Angels.
eric
http://www.blacktygrrrr.wordpress.com
Thanks for sticking up for me…..and DUH, sirloin… I wasn’t talking about our Military.
Re-reading I should have been more clear..sorry, I was a lil riled up.
Anyone wondering what the normalization of homosexuality does to a culture need only look at San Francisco. When the terrorists return, may they select this squalid heap of human filth as their target. SF is an American city occupied by the enemy. We have to destroy it in order to rebuild it.
But San Francisco truly DOES love the military!
But it’s true! Everyone knows that San Francisco is proudly the home base of STAR FLEET! How much more military than you be than that??
James Greenidge
Queens NY
Damn shame when an entire city bites the hand that helps protect it!
I think bear1909 has it right. This is first a “gay” issue against our military. Next it is the “anti-war” issue and third it is a communist agenda.
A good article written by Lt. Gen. Pacepa, a Romanian and former KGB agent, now here in the USA. He reveals that the communist’s goal after WWII was to attack our President and the USA so that USSR would be free to enslave other countries without opposition militarily.
jamesgreenridge-
SF maybe home of STARFLEET-but thats in a very distant future, and all the great Federation Captains would have disowned sf if they would have seen how this place sunk so low. (sorry my inner star trek geek is showing)
Of course a good strafing by a klingon bird of prey (or a chinanesse equaliviant) would get someones attention.
When it comes to California, I think Tool said it best:
Learn to swim, I’ll see you down in Arizona bay.
I log on and find this…. issue …. again on the radar…. how sad.
I’ve visited San Francisco several times, and my wife and I even traveled cross-country to get married there.
From a tourist / visitor standpoint – I love San Francisco. It’s one of the most beautiful cities we have in our great country.
It is an absolute shame that short-sighted, pandering blowhards like these politicians and the citizenry that elects them happen to live there.
I had a career-Navy relative who worked with the Blue Angels for a time during his stint and it was one of the proudests episodes in his life, just being associated with them.
At some more recent point in my 43 years, I became more deeply emotional about our Country’s history and our military service men and women. I find myself welled-up with emotion whenever I see a proud Military display on the ground or in the air. Fly-overs, wherever they are, bring a sense of pride.
I truly feel sorry for those who want these displays banned for they obviously do not feel that same swell of Patriotism as I do when I see them.
And it’s a feeling that is incredible.
Back when Castle AFB was still active in the 80s I was going through instructor upgrade in the KC-135A and we used to fly our daily training missions on the air refueling track that started shortly after takeoff with our mated B-52. We would swing right over the top of Hearst Castle and fly up the California coast to Point Reyes. I really miss the view we had flying along the coast and flying by San Francisco from the air. Another air refueling track started right over San Francisco bay and headed straight out into the Pacific towards Hawaii, which was the normal track for working with the C-5A out of Travis AFB. I wonder what they would think if they knew Bombers routinely flew within a few miles of their workers paradise on a daily basis. The Peoples Republic of San Francisco too bad it has gone so anti-American I really used to enjoy visiting, but it is off this family’s vacation list until the citizen’s grow up and figure out how to act like adults.
3Steps thanks, it was the USS Iowa not the USS Missouri they rejected to have there.
How anyone can’t support this is beyond me.
http://fleetweek.us/fleetweek
Gunslingerpatriot, a Klingon could still be bribed financially or politically into not straifing the city. Listen to your innergeek, you know it true that either the Jem Hadar or the Borg would do the task without any hesitation of liberal sentimentalities.
ajmontana
Same here, should’ve re-read it myself. Apologies.
swj719AWG
Thanks man. You remind of someone as well. *cough*
My family emigrated from Italy and made SF their home. Needless to say NONE of them live here anymore and NONE of them will visit. They are angry about what happened to their home. I can’t blame them.
This city has become so pitiful. JROTC , the Presidio, WWII/Korean War-era USS Iowa’ floating museum, Proposition N, Military Free Zone, Sanctuary City and now they want to take our Blue Angels away – WHEN WILL IT STOP!
Every year I watch the blue angels from my office building. I feel so lucky to have one of the best views in the city. I watch in amazement as they grace the sky on their practice runs, over the Bay Bridge, silhouetting the Golden Gate, scooping and spinning over Alcatraz, and then behind Coit Tower. The sound as they scream through the sky overhead above the buildings is so breath taking…I’ve never felt so American, I’ve never felt so proud.
For that one day, San Francisco feels like home again.
What?!?! How does homosexuality figure into a city not liking the Blue Angels???
Did anyone ever figure out why the Yale choir got assaulted in San Francisco. Did the thugs think dressing up nice and singing was “too gay”?
DarkKnight,
Maybe the wind from the Jet Engines might blow up their Bloomers.
Maybe they got beat up for not being gay?
Well I’m probably not going to score any points with this one, but I live in SF and I personally don’t care much for the Blue Angels, although it has nothing to do with the military. They’re just too noisy for my taste. But what’s even more noisy and annoying is that arrogant, self-serving gasbag Chris Daly. He has made a career sniffing out divisive issues like this in order to garner national attention. The best solution in cases like this is to just ignore him. Please. You’re only egging him on.
While Daly probably has support within his district on this issue, he completely disregards the fact that this doesn’t just involve SF, it’s the entire bay area. As someone above pointed out, you can see the Blue Angels from many vantage points within the greater bay area, and if the Blue Angels are your bag, there is probably no more beautiful a place in the country to watch them. I’ll buy earplugs. Everyone is happy.
The military demonstration teams are a symbol of national strength, skill and pride. That is why the leftist tools hate them so much. They would rather have a May Day parade Soviet style, with a bunch of unwashed stoned hippie types instead.
All of our military’s teams are great fun to see, if you aren’t an anti-freedom neo-communist.
The Blue Angels
Air Force Thunderbirds
Many of you may not know this, but the U.S. Army has a parachute demonstration team that G.H.W. Bush jumped with on his birthday a couple of years ago, and Brit Hume jumped also. That was pretty cool, and more of a reason for SF libs to hate it:)
Golden Knights
Throughout the Cold War, these demonstration teams, and their Soviet and Warsaw Pact counterparts, had their own PR war on behalf of their sponsors. Our guys represented us in a fantastic way for decades, and they helped us win. The Russians have seen the spectacular public relations and recruiting success of our teams, and they got in the game in 1991.
Russian Knights Areobatic Team
This stuff is so much fun to see, and it fills me with a fierce pride in my country when I see a B-2 Spirit flyover at an NFL game, or any demonstration of the professional excellence of all our military aviators. Anyone remember the helicopter heroics by our U.S. Coast Guard when a disaster struck our Gulf Coast region? They rescued 30,000 people!
San Francisco has been a Navy town for decades, and I don’t think these morons are going to be able to change that, at least not yet. Too many Americans are too proud of what we have in our military to let them be slandered like this. Backlash in 3…2…1…
San Francisco has been a jewel in America’s crown in history. They have come up with more innovative ideas than any other city. Golden Gate was financed locally, the Bay Bridge is an amazing piece of architecture, their street cars were state of the art and necessary when they first made them.
I’ve visited a few times and had a great time. I was a ‘dead head’ in college so I appreciated even the Haight-Asbury region of the city.
That is the shame of it all though. It IS a beautiful part of the country. It would be a great place to live. But the ‘tolerance police’ are intolerant to anything they disagree with. The people there now are nothing about peace and love. Now they are about ‘dissent for dissent’s sake’. It is a shame because I know there are a lot of awesome Americans in San Francisco. They just get shouted down by the ‘tolerance police’.
I’ve seen the Blue Angels in San Francisco. The crowd watching them is huge, of course who knows how many of them actually live in SF. I would have to agree with what’s been said – there’s not a better place to watch them fly.
bear1909 – Had to leave last night for a HOA meeting…why do those always turn into verbal assualts? Yuk. Anyhoo, missed reading all of the responses until today. Some great comments.
Just wanted to say, I’m so envious of your view of the bay. Has to be spectacular viewing at night.
allie (#57)
I agree-between the Jem Hadar and the Borg it would be a tough call, BUT must say the Borg are the perfect assimulating machine-The Hadar would just kill you and be done with it.
These are the same people that took ROTC out of their high schools and do everything they can to hinder/restrict recruiting on the university campuses.
The next time they have a disaster and plead for help from the government, I hope the military tells them to call a hippie.
And the Navy should move fleet week to a city that would appreciate the dollars. Such as Kansas City or Omaha . . .er, maybe San Diego.
So the most skilled pilots on earth, flying some of the most sophisticated equipment on earth – which has NO weapons/ammo of any sort – terrorizes you?
Apparently we could take over SanFran with 5 guys with butter knives…
-Wikipedia
Good. I look forward to the rise of the Santa Clara 49ers. Feinswine just took careful aim at her foot, switched to full-auto, and let rip.
-jamesgreenridge
I doubt that would happen even when we have one. That’s one of those “alternate realities”.