66 Things to think about when watching the Reagan tributes

[Michael Costello]

The firing of the air traffic controllers, winnable nuclear war, recallable nuclear missiles, trees that cause pollution, Elliott Abrams lying to Congress, ketchup as a vegetable, colluding with Guatemalan thugs, pardons for F.B.I. lawbreakers, voodoo economics, budget deficits, toasts to Ferdinand Marcos, public housing cutbacks, redbaiting the nuclear freeze movement, James Watt.

Getting cozy with Argentine fascist generals, tax credits for segregated schools, disinformation campaigns, "homeless by choice," Manuel Noriega, falling wages, the HUD scandal, air raids on Libya, "constructive engagement" with apartheid South Africa, United States Information Agency blacklists of liberal speakers, attacks on OSHA and workplace safety, the invasion of Grenada, assassination manuals, Nancy's astrologer.

Drug tests, lie detector tests, Fawn Hall, female appointees (8 percent), mining harbors, the S&L scandal, 239 dead U.S. troops in Beirut, Al Haig "in control," silence on AIDS, food-stamp reductions, Debategate, White House shredding, Jonas Savimbi, tax cuts for the rich, "mistakes were made."

Michael Deaver's conviction for influence peddling, Lyn Nofziger's conviction for influence peddling, Caspar Weinberger's five-count indictment, Ed Meese ("You don't have many suspects who are innocent of a crime"), Donald Regan (women don't "understand throw-weights"), education cuts, massacres in El Salvador.

"The bombing begins in five minutes," $640 Pentagon toilet seats, African- American judicial appointees (1.9 percent), Reader's Digest, C.I.A.-sponsored car-bombing in Lebanon (more than eighty civilians killed), 200 officials accused of wrongdoing, William Casey, Iran/contra.

"Facts are stupid things," three-by-five cards, the MX missile, Bitburg, S.D.I., Robert Bork, naps, Teflon.

( inspired by David Corn http://www.thenation.com/edcut/index.mhtml?bid=7&pid=1051 )

[lil-petunia]

1. didn't he serve about 666 days, cause he was shot?

[buycitgo]

2. thank you......this is just the antidote to all the phony, pious

hagiogs who'll make Nixon's rehad after he croaked look like encomia reserved for Inri.

so sick of this garbage

fast forward twenty years hence.

all the BS being tossed out upon his death will have died down, and his true legacy will be revealed, for all to see, just like that of the worst of the presidents we've ever had

history will be the judge, assuming we still have historians that are able to write the truth.......assuming a new reich doesn't form at the end of this year, and we truly enter the era of post-Orwellian permawar

[dweller]

6. Ronald Wilson Reagan

all 6 letter names.

:tinfoilhat:

[crossroads]

3. I'll think about this image...

:eyes:

[HootieMcBoob]

4. The October Surprise

I didn't see that one...did I miss it?

May the man rest in peace. He was not may favorite president by a long shot...a very, very long shot but he's standing at the gates now and will be accounting for his life, I wish him the best.

[drdigi420]

14. he's not standing at any gates

if there WAS a heaven or hell, he'd be on his way to hell

he was a scummy bastard

anyone praising him is no different than the bimbo girls in school that broke out into tears over some kid that they wouldnt even talk to before he was killed in a car wreck

personally, i think its emotionally dishonest to pretend to give a shit about a war-mongering criminal such as reagan

[Straight Shooter]

5. McCarthyism enabler

That one really pisses me off!

[keithyboy]

11. The darkest time in our history besides slavery!

And many are proud about it. I wonder if they thought the communists were going to eat us?

[lostnfound]

7. kick for the only Reagan thread I found worthwhile nt

[DS1]

8. The bombing begins in five minutes

Can't we at least pretend we have a sense of humor?

[SaintLouisBlues]

9. Just Say No!

To Reagan Revisionism

[moondust]

10. Not gonna watch them.

None of them. Good post!

[mumon]

12. a few more notably connected:

The HUD scandals

The mass of LBO's leading to layoffs.

Michael Milkin (Repug)...

Getting cozy with the death squads in El Salvador...

[quaker bill]

13. Arming then abandoning the guys who became Al-Queda?

Transferring WMD technology to Saddam?

Mining of Nicaraguan harbors in violation of International Law?