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mmonk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-17-11 07:16 PM
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Is the Super Bowl a proper venue to honor what would have been Ronald Reagan's 100th birthday?
How do you feel about it?
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Angry Dragon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-17-11 07:17 PM
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1. No good reason to combine the two
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sharesunited Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-17-11 07:19 PM
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2. Sure, why not? Or a rodeo.
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Unrepentant Fenian Donating Member (707 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-17-11 07:22 PM
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3. That idiot's birthday means NOTHING to me.
So no, leave it out of the Super Bowl.
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asjr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-17-11 07:23 PM
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4. The Super Bowl is for football. Enough said.
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mmonk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-17-11 07:37 PM
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11. I go to watch football and try to forget my cares but
since the wars, they have become such a nationalistic extravaganza, it's hard to do.
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DJ13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-17-11 07:24 PM
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5. With the Bozo the Clown show off the air, why not?
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Raine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-17-11 07:25 PM
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6. I have no use for or interest in either one. nt
:puke:
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annabanana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-17-11 07:27 PM
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7. In that it's an overblown spectacle that never rises to it's hype?
Perfect syncronicity to my way of thinking.
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Pyrzqxgl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-17-11 07:27 PM
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8. Seems to me that a lot of Democrats & others who don't give two hoots in hell about Ronnie watch the
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Pyrzqxgl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-17-11 07:30 PM
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9. I don't much care about the Super Bowl
or Reagan so it doesn't matter to me.
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TheCowsCameHome Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-17-11 07:33 PM
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10. I couldn't care less about either. n/t
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Terry in Austin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-17-11 07:42 PM
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12. I'm thinking more Demolition Derby -nt
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gratuitous Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-17-11 07:50 PM
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13. They crammed Nancy's deathgasm down our throats for a week
What was it, two or three memorial services, culminating in the sunset service on the west coast so Nancy could dramatically throw herself over Ronnie's coffin? We will be spared nothing, even a centennial for Bonzo's co-star, and endless poutrage over when Reagan's Alzheimer's began to manifest. All the good little acolytes of St. Ronnie will get a chance to defend their hero while we, our children, and their children get to continue paying off the debt he and his financial wizards ran up.
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Fumesucker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-17-11 07:53 PM
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14. Seems like a perfect storm of meaningless hype for the sake of hype..n/t
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flor-de-jasmim Donating Member (260 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-17-11 07:58 PM
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15. Someone has to "win one for the gipper"!
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mmonk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-17-11 08:00 PM
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16. And you can bet we'll get that phraseology.
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tinymontgomery Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-17-11 08:01 PM
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17. Don't watch football but hell no
it's a football game not a tribute to the president that started the down for of our country plus suck at acting.
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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-17-11 08:07 PM
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18. Fuck Ronald Reagan and no it isn't.
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niyad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-17-11 08:16 PM
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19. I have absolutely no use for football, but, in deference to my friends who do, HELL NO
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divine_truine Donating Member (149 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-17-11 08:17 PM
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20. He's not 100 years old...HE'S DEAD!
reagan: one of the worst presidents in u.s. history! big 'gubment,' massive spending, cockamamie ideas such as 'star wars' weapons systems (what a waste of the nation's treasure that would've been!), the list goes on and on. Both bushs plus clinton, THE WORST! no one (especially a disingenuous repuke) can ever claim to be fiscally conservative! unless they're pissing away the nation's treasure to start ILLEGAL WARS! I wish the rest of the media would stop allowing g.o.p. gasbags to parrot they are more conservative than the average american. It simply cannot pass the smell test...not now, not ever!
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LTR Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-17-11 08:26 PM
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21. Depends. What did they do for LBJ's 100th?
Oh yeah, that's right! Hey, LBJ only got the ball rolling on civil rights and Medicare, that's all. Reagan was a spokesmodel built into a deity.
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Radical Activist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-17-11 08:32 PM
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22. Wasn't it enough to turn the world series into a display of fascist militarism?
I'm getting really sick of this. It's obviously a coordinated effort across multiple sports and I'd like to know who is pushing these decisions.
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mmonk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-17-11 11:09 PM
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23. Me too.
I'm tired of going to go see a game of some sort and ending up being at a Nuremberg rally.
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Kievan Rus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-18-11 12:03 AM
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24. Reagan was the worst President ever -- and IMHO, one of the worst Americans ever
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cherokeeprogressive Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-18-11 12:05 AM
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25. I'm a football fan. I'm a fan of the NFL. I hardly hear a word other than the play-by-play during
the Superbowl.

I'd have to say I'm indifferent.
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MrMickeysMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-18-11 12:14 AM
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26. Let's see... That was One Half Time for the Gipper?
Boy, I'm dreaming up what I can watch else-while already!
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