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| shineoftheever |
Posted - 06/07/2004 : 12:19:51
nobody has brought up the passing of Ronald Reagan.
Discuss
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| Mroocore |
Posted - 06/08/2004 : 07:04:51
quote:
Originally posted by Homers_pet_monkey
By the way Mroocore, I know you were no doubt dying to get all that out, but nobody actually said they were honouring him.
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i was not suggesting that anyone was honoring RR, but trying to show that i am divide on my feelings.
i understand that my not be seen through the bulk of my post, but i was young when he was in office and he reminded me of my grandfather. larger than life, tough, funny and it seemed to me that people looked up to him.
it was not untill many years later that i began to question my original feelings about RR, still in my opinion we have not had a better president in my lifetime. which does not say much for the last 20ish years of America's leaders.
maybe i should have started my last post w/ something like:
I AM HAVING TROUBLE HONORING RR, but if you choose to. remember what got us into all of this...
as opposed to:
HONOR HIM IF YOU WISH, but know what got us into all of this...
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| shineoftheever |
Posted - 06/07/2004 : 15:00:05
I was going to take RR in next year's Dead Pool.
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| Homers_pet_monkey |
Posted - 06/07/2004 : 14:39:18
Erm that post was supposed to come after Apl4eris' post. Mroocore beat me to it. It's OK though now, I just read her post wrong is all.
By the way Mroocore, I know you were no doubt dying to get all that out, but nobody actually said they were honouring him.
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| Erebus |
Posted - 06/07/2004 : 14:26:45
quote:
Originally posted by Homers_pet_monkey
I don't understand.
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| Homers_pet_monkey |
Posted - 06/07/2004 : 14:17:33
I don't understand.
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| Mroocore |
Posted - 06/07/2004 : 14:17:05
HONOR HIM IF YOU WISH, but know what got us into all of this...
may his spirit rest in peace now, and may the "Spirit" of this great nation take heed. Ronald Reagan is going to be tributed with being the great optimist who took America forward. for whom? for what?
Reagan, for those who forget, was the President who gave "aid and comfort" to many repressive regimes throughout the world -- especially Saddam Hussein. during the early and mid 1980s, Hussein was gassing the Iranians and his Kurdish citizens, while Donald Rumsfeld (remember him?) was Reagan's special envoy to Iraq. did he tell Saddam to "cease and desist"? or did he travel there to offer more military and economic aid? you connect the dots. and where did Saddam get most of his biological weaponry? through "Uncle Ronnie's" free market US companies, that's where. many Iraqi democratic activists were either jailed or executed by the Hussein regime, and Reagan did absolutely nothing!
we all know about the Iran-Contra debacle, where our President failed to "remember" what Oliver North and company were up to. as far as El Salvador, who can forget (Reagan supporters can) the nuns and priests who were murdered, along with any others who spoke out, by the death squads -- many of them trained at Ft. Benning's infamous "School of the Americas" aka the "School of the Assassins."
on the home front, it was under President Reagan that the Savings and Loan industry was deregulated, allowing for all the corruption and scamming that followed -- debts that generations of Americans will have to pay off! Reagan opened the door to the "Me 80s", which stories like "Wall Street" are based upon -- "Greed is Good" and all that. military spending increased under Reagan, and social programs died, leaving millions of poor Americans with little hope. yet, Ronald Reagan is trumpeted as the great cheerleader for America.
a great man, called by some the Son of God, once said: "We are our brother's keeper" ... "As you do to the lowest , you do to me".....
remember this too when they come to honor Ronald Reagan.
i did not even touch the fact that in his first year the deficit went from 70 billion to over 150 billion. VP Dick has recently been quoted something to the effect of, 'Reagan taught us that we do not need to worry about deficits.' don't worry Ronnie we will pick up the tab.
thanks Ronnie, you will be missed.
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| apl4eris |
Posted - 06/07/2004 : 13:21:58
What's the weather in Cambodia like?
Personally, I'm surprised no one in the media has mentioned Iran-Contra. You'll know if I stop posting they
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| Homers_pet_monkey |
Posted - 06/07/2004 : 12:51:50
Yeah, he was in his 70's when he was President right? That's pretty old for a President aint it?
Anyone seen any of his films?
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| shineoftheever |
Posted - 06/07/2004 : 12:44:11
sorry. 
When you say "good innings" you mean long life right? He was 93 or so.
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| Homers_pet_monkey |
Posted - 06/07/2004 : 12:27:47
Must try harder.
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| shineoftheever |
Posted - 06/07/2004 : 12:24:04
I don't know, I never saw his belly-button. 
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| Homers_pet_monkey |
Posted - 06/07/2004 : 12:22:44
He had a good innings didn't he?
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