Requiem for a Ray Gun

[CO Liberal]

Just found this thru Google - Wayne

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Requiem for a Ray Gun

Selective memory disease sweeps the nation with Reagan eulogies

Okay, okay. I get it already. He was the Mother Teresa of the right. And now he's dead and it's time to canonize him, although I got to say, seeing big time Democrats do it makes me want to throw up in a bubble wrap envelope and overnight it to Kerry campaign Headquarters. My guess is our whole country has fallen victim to the same convenient "Can't Recall Disease" the 40th President made so popular near the end of his second term.

Yeah, yeah, I understand it must have been hard on his family seeing him deteriorate during the last ten years of his life, falling to the gauzy clutches of Alzheimer's, but where's this same sympathy for the thousands of disabled he was responsible for throwing out into the streets? What about the retirees with stolen pensions who couldn't afford teams of attendants wiping their butt at the end? Where's the compassion for the legions of agendaless gays he sentenced to early deaths with his policy of withholding federal dollars for AIDS research? And now they're talking about putting his face on everything from the ten dollar bill to Mt. Rushmore. Excuse me?

Feverish with the same giddy amnesiatic malady of revisionist history sweeping the nation, allow me to weigh in with my "Saint Ronnie Died For Our Sins Exoneration Collection."

Accusation: Once spoke of being on the bow of a ship in WWII. Was never on a ship during WWII, but he did play a part in a movie where he was on the bow of a ship.

Exoneration: Gave the country a belief and confidence in itself that transcends reality.

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[NMDemDist2]

1. not sure this belongs in the lounge

but is a great article, thanks!

requiem for a ray con

just to make it lounge material and threadjack all in one breath.

Ecoute les orgues
Elles jouent pour toi
Il est terrible cet air là
J'espère que tu aimes
C'est assez beau non
C'est le requiem pour un con

Je l'ai composé spécialement pour toi
A ta mémoire de scélérat
C'est un joli thème
Tu ne trouves pas
Semblable à toi même
Pauvre con

Voici les orgues
Qui remettent ça
Faut qu't'apprennes par coeur cet air là
Que tu n'aies pas même
Une hésitation
Sur le requiem pour un con

Quoi tu me regardes
Tu n'apprécies pas
Mais qu'est-ce qu'y a là dedans
Qui t'plaît pas
Pour moi c'est idem
Que ça t'plaise ou non
J'te l'rejoue quand même
Pauvre con

Ecoute les orgues
Elles jouent pour toi
Il est terrible cet air là
J'espère que tu aimes
C'est assez beau non
C'est le requiem pour un con

Je l'ai composé spécialement pour toi
A ta mémoire de scélérat
Sur ta figure blême
Aux murs des prisons
J'inscrirai moi-même : " Pauvre con "

[CO Liberal]

2. Things Get Buried on GD

I though it would be appreceiated here.

[bif]

3. Very good

Puts Ronnie in perspective.

[tjwash]

4. "Bow of a ship during WW2"

Just like the old "John Wayne was in the military" myth, that one always got to me as well. RR was in the military like shrub was in the military, without the going AWOL part.

He was classified for "limited service only", which permanently got him out of having to go overseas. His first assignment was at the San Francisco Port of Embarkation, Fort Mason, Cal., as Liaison Officer of the Port and Transportation Office.

He basically spent the whole war stateside, in the 1st Motion Picture Unit, and the Provisional Task Force Show Unit. The 1st Motion Picture Unit was where he was promoted to captain. Finally, he was assigned to the 18th AAF Base Unit at Culver City where he remained until the end of the war.

Promoted to captain for making movies. My uncle had to get shot out of the air twice in WWII and have enough shrapnel in his thigh to set off metal detectors in airports, before they would consider him for promotion...