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Sanity -> Reagan's 100th birthday: 10 defining moments (2/6/2011 9:13:58 AM)
Happy Birthday, Ronaldus Magnus: quote: American's 40th president, Ronald Reagan, would have turned 100 on Sunday. He presided during the last legs of the cold war and argued for smaller government. As much of the US political world notes the centennial of his birth, here are 10 things that define Reagan, and through which, he helped define the world. http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2011/0205/Reagan-s-100th-birthday-10-defining-moments/President-of-the-Screen-Actors-Guild-1954-1962

Moonhead -> RE: Reagan's 100th birthday: 10 defining moments (2/6/2011 9:25:32 AM)
Can anybody play? Another ten of Reagan's finest moments: Handing the Republican party over to the religious right, to do with as they pleased Wasting billions on having military engineers try to execute a bunch of half baked ideas cooked up by three science fiction writers "Ketchup is a vegetable" His other half fucking Frank Sinatra behind his back Giving Saddam Insane all of those WMDs and turning a blind eye when he used them on the Kurds rather than the Iranians The Miracle of the monster deficit Blaming everything that went wrong in the country for eight years on Carter Tax cuts Paying more attention to his wife's astrologer than to his advisors Seriously upsetting Brooooooooce Springsteen by misusing one of his songs as propaganda for the sort of thing Brooooooce was taking the piss about

TheHeretic -> RE: Reagan's 100th birthday: 10 defining moments (2/6/2011 9:26:02 AM)
The context is different, of course, but I wonder if there isn't something here to bear in mind today, as we wait to see what happens in Egypt. “We cannot buy our security, our freedom from the threat of the bomb,” said Reagan, “by committing an immorality so great as saying to a billion human beings now enslaved behind the Iron Curtain, ‘Give up your dreams of freedom because to save our own skins, we're willing to make a deal with your slave masters.’ "

Sanity -> RE: Reagan's 100th birthday: 10 defining moments (2/6/2011 9:33:46 AM)
[image]http://michellemalkin.cachefly.net/michellemalkin.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/ZZ18ECF07F.jpg[/image] quote: [P]rogress is not foreordained. The key is freedom — freedom of thought, freedom of information, freedom of communication. The renowned scientist, scholar, and founding father of this university, Mikhail Lomonosov, knew that. “It is common knowledge,” he said, “that the achievements of science are considerable and rapid, particularly once the yoke of slavery is cast off and replaced by the freedom of philosophy.” You know, one of the first contacts between your country and mine took place between Russian and American explorers. The Americans were members of Cook’s last voyage on an expedition searching for an Arctic passage; on the island of Unalaska, they came upon the Russians, who took them in, and together with the native inhabitants, held a prayer service on the ice. Remarks and a Question-and-Answer Session With the Students and Faculty at Moscow State University http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1988/053188b.htm

Sanity -> RE: Reagan's 100th birthday: 10 defining moments (2/6/2011 9:37:52 AM)
Why not? Whats a birthday party without a clown. [sm=birthday.gif] quote: ORIGINAL: Moonhead Can anybody play?

Moonhead -> RE: Reagan's 100th birthday: 10 defining moments (2/6/2011 9:40:35 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: TheHeretic The context is different, of course, but I wonder if there isn't something here to bear in mind today, as we wait to see what happens in Egypt. “We cannot buy our security, our freedom from the threat of the bomb,” said Reagan, “by committing an immorality so great as saying to a billion human beings now enslaved behind the Iron Curtain, ‘Give up your dreams of freedom because to save our own skins, we're willing to make a deal with your slave masters.’ " So remind me which country's governments have been propping up Mubarak's regime for the last thirty years? Reagan's bitchng about the evil empire looks like a pretty rank display of hypocrisy when you look at the numbers of lunatics and psychopaths he spent his term in office supporting. (At least one of whom, it's since been decided, was ousted purely because of his fuckawful civil rights record.) And that's without even getting into the attempts to oust elected governments in central America...

pahunkboy -> RE: Reagan's 100th birthday: 10 defining moments (2/6/2011 9:43:30 AM)
That guy is over rated.

Sanity -> RE: Reagan's 100th birthday: 10 defining moments (2/6/2011 10:01:33 AM)
Not that you can honestly lay every deed of every dictatorial regime exclusively at Reagans feet as Obama even supported the current Egyptian regime until he saw which way the wind was blowing there, but regarding Reagans foreign policy, what alternatives were there? Reagan watched as Carter facilitated the fall of the relatively moderate Shah of Iran before the rise of the radical Ayatollahs there, which was legitimately believed to be a preview at the time of a potential chain reaction throughout the region. So today we have to ask ourselves, are the Iranian people better off under the current extremists than they were under the Shah? We were at (cold) war with the Soviet Union, which was an expansionist global bully actively seeking to enslave every nation it possibly could, and Reagan won that war despite fierce Democrat opposition to his lofty, almost unbelievably optimistic goal of winning it. Allies had to be cultivated and hard choices had to be made in regard to a few of our allies but the regimes they opposed (as history has proven) were certainly no friends of the masses.

DesertSuperRat -> RE: Reagan's 100th birthday: 10 defining moments (2/6/2011 10:03:13 AM)
Reagan's defining moments? Well, supporting the Contras was one. They were nothing more than a re-branding of dictator Somoza's national guard, notorious for the atrocities they inflicted on the Nicaraguan people. How about training and equipping those death squads in El Salvador? And let's not forget the invasion of Grenada. And, of course, Star Wars. A lot of archaeologists in the Southwest got new vehicles out of that boondoggle. Giant, ground-based laser deflected upward to a "combat mirror"...oh well...I got a new CRX and a chance to do a top-speed motorcycle run on the Laser sites access road at the Missile Range. I liked Ronnie's story about the WW II bomber pilot who went down with the ship rather than abandon a badly wounded young crewman. But it didn't really happen...except in a movie. What else? Oh...trees create pollution. Definitely one of the all-time worst presidents. A war criminal, actually. One good thing, though: like Franco, he is still dead.

Sanity -> RE: Reagan's 100th birthday: 10 defining moments (2/6/2011 10:04:43 AM)
I believe that Star Wars was the straw that ultimately broke the Soviet Unions back.

DesertSuperRat -> RE: Reagan's 100th birthday: 10 defining moments (2/6/2011 10:11:07 AM)
You believe that? Well, you're in luck! The Easter Bunny will soon be hopping by to give you a basket of hollow chocolate candies. Enjoy.

Sanity -> RE: Reagan's 100th birthday: 10 defining moments (2/6/2011 10:17:23 AM)
His personal charm didnt hurt matters, nor did his public call to Mr. Gorbachev at Brandenburg Gate - to "tear down this wall" . quote: ORIGINAL: DesertSuperRat You believe that? Well, you're in luck! The Easter Bunny will soon be hopping by to give you a basket of hollow chocolate candies. Enjoy.

pahunkboy -> RE: Reagan's 100th birthday: 10 defining moments (2/6/2011 10:20:12 AM)
The 80s were a great decade. Ponder tho- that one can not live in the past. Time and place move on. I used to be all for reliving the 80s-- but that would deny me of living in 2011. I loath many things corporate- music comes to mind. So find your niche and be happy. A tall order if one is fixated and stuck in the 1980s.

DomKen -> RE: Reagan's 100th birthday: 10 defining moments (2/6/2011 10:24:44 AM)
10 things I'll always remember about Raygun Ronnie 1) Stealing debate prep. 2) Negotiating with our enemies for political gain 3) Invading a helpless island nation to divert attention from his failure 4) Trading arms for hostages 5) Wasting billions of dollars on SDI when every competent engineer and scientist said the technology wasn't even remotely capable. 6) Supporting fascists in Central America 7) Stopping alternative energy research 8) The "Welfare Queen" lie 9) "I don't recall" 10) 241 dead marines and sailors

Sanity -> RE: Reagan's 100th birthday: 10 defining moments (2/6/2011 10:30:38 AM)
President Reagans sense of humor was legendary, and heres a great example of why: quote: "Mr. President, in talking about the continuing recession tonight, you have blamed mistakes of the past and you've blamed the Congress. Does any of the blame belong to you?" asked ABC White House Correspondent Sam Donaldson. "Yes, because for many years I was a Democrat," replied Mr. Reagan. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/06/07/48hours/main621459.shtml Video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zh2DeQtVyJM

pahunkboy -> RE: Reagan's 100th birthday: 10 defining moments (2/6/2011 10:46:30 AM)
He also started this Czar madness. WTF! Russia has czars- not America.

TheHeretic -> RE: Reagan's 100th birthday: 10 defining moments (2/6/2011 10:48:51 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Sanity Why not? Whats a birthday party without a clown. [sm=birthday.gif] quote: ORIGINAL: Moonhead Can anybody play? Clown? He usually looks much more like a lost one going after the pinata, to me.

Sanity -> RE: Reagan's 100th birthday: 10 defining moments (2/6/2011 10:52:10 AM)
Something to make you go, hmmm... Fast Fix: Is Obama like Reagan? (VIDEO) Newsweek - Obama, The Unifier quote: Like Reagan, the 44th president has the potential to be a truly transformational figure.

Moonhead -> RE: Reagan's 100th birthday: 10 defining moments (2/6/2011 11:13:07 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Sanity Not that you can honestly lay every deed of every dictatorial regime exclusively at Reagans feet as Obama even supported the current Egyptian regime until he saw which way the wind was blowing there, but regarding Reagans foreign policy, what alternatives were there? Not what I said: I just pointed out that he had no problem with any evil regime that wasn't associated with the soviet union, so his bullshit about reducing international diplomacy to a question of goodies and baddies was stood on sand from the off. If you're going to start justifying stuff on the grounds of a regime being evil, then you've waived the right to pick and choose which evil regimes you go after, never mind providing evil regimes with chemical weapons to commit mass murder of their countrymen.

Moonhead -> RE: Reagan's 100th birthday: 10 defining moments (2/6/2011 11:14:50 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: DesertSuperRat Definitely one of the all-time worst presidents. A war criminal, actually. One good thing, though: like Franco, he is still dead. Give it time: if the Repukes can't find anybody halfway credible for the next presidential elections, they may well dig him up and stick some sort of Spielberg robot up his corpse's arse...

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