oh my god (Reagan viewing)

[leftyandproud]

I think I just saw some lady give the finger towards the Reagan casket as she walked by...anyone else catch it?

[Fenris]

1. GOD IN HEAVEN I hope someone got that on film!

HA!

[commander bunnypants]

2. that is just bad

Mind you, I didnt agree with anything about RR. But Alzhiemers for 10 years.

RIP Ronald Regan

DDQM

[Lindacooks]

7. The Alzheimer's was his own fault.

"Ironically, as President, Mr. Reagan consigned funds for long-term care of the frail elderly to the bottom of his priorities list, and funds for Alzheimer's research were kept so small as to be ineffectual. Yet taxpayers will pay for most, if not all, the costs of Mr. Reagan's care, which will primarily be custodial."

http://ohp.fullerton.edu/Epistolarian/eplhtm/EP9412.htm

[commander bunnypants]

13. ?????????????????

I agree with you in part. But Alzheimers is a chronic condition of the elderly. It is not his own fault. BTW- I work in the welfare state and I am still dealing with his cuts

DDQM

[Lindacooks]

20. Yes, it is his fault

We could have had a cure if he hadn't cut funding. What's hard to understand about that?

And BTW, I hate him for more than that. He cut funding into cancer research when my 25 year old husband was undergoing chemo.

[hlthe2b]

26. His policies were despiccable, yet I don't blame those inflicted with

illness. That is, after all, what the RW has been doing for twenty years now with those suffering from AIDS....

Did he suffer the aftermath of his short-sided policies that might have resulted in earlier breakthroughs in Alzheimer care and prevention-- most likely. Sadly we all will suffer from that as well as his detested attitude towards AIDs research and prevention. But, arguably it is Nancy and family that is bearing the brunt of those policies. We can only hope will counter some of the damage, by strongly speaking out on the need for stem cell research and through her advocacy for the remainder of her life...

[commander bunnypants]

30. yep

Nancy is quite the advocate for Stem Cell research.

DDQM

[Zomby Woof]

38. wtf?

I don't wish Alzheimer's on anyone, but how does that absolve him of being one of the shittiest motherfuckers to ever squat in the Oval Office?

His bad presidency is what we judge him for, which is COMPLETELY SEPARATE FROM THE DISEASE. One has NOTHING TO DO WITH THE OTHER.

Get that in your head, people! :nuke:

Makes me fucking sick that the newspapers are right in step with the whitewashing and sainthood. :puke: :hurts:

[sus]

3. Was he a viking? because they just set his casket on fire.

that's not very friendly....

[Fenris]

5. Sus, I just laughed out loud

And I so very rarely literally LAUGH OUT LOUD.

:thumbsup:

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

22. The picture you posted

made ME laugh out loud!

[qanda]

4. If so, that is totally disrespectful

I have agreed totally with people voicing their dislike of Reagan and his policies, but the line has to be drawn somewhere. I mean, why even go that far out of your way to be that disrespectful of the dead. I truly hope that didn't happen.

[VelmaD]

6. It's no more unseemly...

than the people who never met Reagan who are gonna go to weep and throw themselves on the coffin of a complete stranger. Or the people who are going to have a peek out of morbid curiosity.

[qanda]

9. You'll get no argument from me there

Maybe people are just sick all the way around.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

10. Remember the week after Princess Di's death?

I worked in HMV and people were buying shitloads of that bloody Elton John single. One woman came up to me with a dozen singles and said 'I was on holiday in China, I had to get back as soon as I can. It's like losing a family member, it's just terrible'. I said 'Clearly no-one in your family has ever died'. It was my last day on that job, strangely enough.

[VelmaD]

12. It's behavior like that...

that makes me think it's about time for us to go as a species.

[Fenris]

15. "Goodbye English Rose, though blah blah blah.."

After I heard that song for the second time, I began to wish that Elton John had been in that Mercedes instead of Diana.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

23. He wrote the song for Marilyn Monroe ferchrissake!

Is he gonna ressurect it for everyone famous that dies? Thank god Reagan wasn't blonde.

Goodbye Nancy's Ron
Though I never knew you at all
You probably would've hated me
What with me being gay
But I made lots of cash
through your revised taxation structures
but then those air traffic controllers
did you have to fire them all?

And it seems to me you lived your life
like a man out of his depth
Never knowing what old Ollie North was doing
Yeah it seems to me that you probably should
not have signed the FTA
But you sang with Brian Mulroney at that summit.

[Fenris]

24. Man, you should sell that to him.

It's better than most of what he writes.


"Oh, Danny Boy! The pipes, the pipes are calling you!!!!"

[Screaming Lord Byron]

25. Good God! Did they go to the same hairdresser?

And the chin. I can never get over the chin.

[Fenris]

28. For a moment I thought it was John Kerry!

Old Brian had quite a banana-shaped face, didn't he?

[Screaming Lord Byron]

29. He always looked to me like he had just walked out of a cartoon.

Either that or he been tortured with the chin-rack.

[Fenris]

32. It's like someone was wearing his face like a mask.

A very scary mask.

BTW, how loved is Brian in his own country?

[Screaming Lord Byron]

34. He holds the dubious honour of most hated Canadian PM ever.

Popular hatred for Mulroney reduced the PC party from 169 seats and 43% of the vote to 2 seats and 16% of the vote in the 1993 election. He's renowned as a total joke.

[Fenris]

36. I suspected the love for him ran deep.

Elect a PM named Brian Mulroney. That's rich! Brian for Christ's sake!

[Fenris]

33. I thought your comment was so witty I posted twice!

[sus]

31. that is brilliant. prepare to be worshiped.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

35. Thank you. I'm rather proud of that myself.

[richmwill]

37. Haha- that was hysterically genius (n/t)

[hlthe2b]

19. I don't get the whole thing anyway... While I"m very glad they are having

a closed coffin (those open-coffin memorials are so bizarre to me), what is the point in going to see a flag draped coffin... Perhaps they think they are providing support to Nancy and family...?

At any rate, it seems to me that those of us who detested Reagan's policies and Presidency have had ten years of his total absence (and for all intents and purpose, death). That the woman felt compelled to go to the memorial at all, much less to give the finger to Reagan on camera amazes me... It just seems that that seething anger that she expresses (as well as many here) would have been re-focused by now. My anger is focused in the here and now on the Bush* cabal, the BFEE-enabling congress, and all who have so cynically exploited religion to justify the wanton destruction of this country's ideals and standing in the world.

[stopbush]

8. Why not? Reagan went out of his way to enact policies that got

people killed. He ignored problems that were killing tens of thousands (AIDS). He got the poverty level up to 35%. How's that for "disrespecting" people?

Fuck him. I flip BOTH birds at his sorry ass.

[Lestat]

11. I would've flipped the Asshole off.

[LastKnight]

14. its rare that i say this, but turn off the TV...

dont watch that junk... seriously...

-LK

[sus]

16. ohmygod. they are throwing ladyfingers towards the casket. IT'S CHAOS!!!

God Bless America and Little Debbie, too.

[Fenris]

17. I hope someone throws a jar of jellybeans at his casket.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

18. Perhaps she's one of the mentally-ill people

who lives on the street thanks to that asshole and his "reaganomics".

[peekaloo]

21. Is PBS filming this....for the "Presidential Antiques Road Show"?

[sus]

27. holy crap. Merv Griffin is singing, "come on baby light my fire."

what does it all MEAN???