I'm afraid if I post this I'll be banned forever from DU

[LynneSin]

I just found out my brother waited 5 hours in line to view the Reagan casket.

Please, please I beg of you - don't ban me. I swear I'm the liberal end of the family, very liberal end!!!

[WillParkinson]

1. LynneSin who?

Oh, yeah, HER.

On Edit:
I would have waited 5 hours, too. I wanted to be sure the bastard was really dead.

[sniffa]

2. was it to verify that he was actuaLLy dead?

that's acceptabLe. :P

[LynneSin]

6. He's a neo-conservative. Thinks Bush is a good Christian man

:eyes:

[Az]

3. He did piss on it when he got there right?

Right?!@!$!

[LynzM]

4. Wow.

Get out the hacksaw and start working on those family ties, LOL!

At least you weren't there keeping him company. Then we'd all have to mock and ridicule you forever. As it is, I think that mocking and ridicule until next Tuesday will suffice :evilgrin:

[truthspeaker]

5. Was it so he could spit on it?

If not, is he rich, racist, or gullible?

[LynneSin]

9. He got his Social Security checks until he was 21

I got cut off at 18. (We lost our father in 1981 and Reagan made the SS cuts after my brother graduated High School).

[wtmusic]

7. I hope it was worth it

Reviews were not good.

[Gothic Sponge]

8. And you call yourself a goddess?

Couldn't you use your powers to make him liberal?

[lovedems]

10. I have a brother like that.

He remembers where he was when Reagan was shot, like it was a JFK moment in history!

Brothers...:7

[LynneSin]

11. I remember where I was at when Reagan was shot

and I remember we were hoping it was a good hit

That is so freaking wrong of me, I know it!

[truthspeaker]

12. I was in a 5th grade classroom. I don't think I cheered out loud.

[lovedems]

13. LOL!

You shouldn't have got your hopes up! :)

[Philostopher]

16. My mother,

A lifelong Dem who survived the Great Depression and has an especial fondness for social programs that work, was mildly annoyed that her 'stories' got preempted for coverage, after the initial reporting and it became clear Reagan was likely to survive it.

Her attitude, after the first half-hour, was pretty much, 'well, he's obviously going to survive it, so let's get back to Guiding Light! Sheesh, how many times to we have to watch the Secret Service shove the empty suit into a limo?'

My brother, when they interrupted the soaps, said, "gee, wonder who shot Reagan?" He was completely speechless for about five minutes when it turned out somebody actually did shoot Reagan.

He, by the way, thinks all the Democratic candidates in the primary this year, with the exception of Kucinich, were too conservative, so you know where his sympathies lie.

Only my sister is on the edge in her political thought, and even she's a Dem. She's just a dem who flirts with an admiration for Zell Miller and Joe Lieberman.

[hlthe2b]

14. Wow.... I've got nutties in my family too, What do you two find to

talk about? Sort of hard to avoid a brother, but I'd have a hard time if he got too preachy...

[LynneSin]

15. We don't

He lives in another state and when we are under the same roof our mother has banned us from talking politics together (because we're usually both at her house).

He won't even play Risk with me anymore!!!

:cry:

[hlthe2b]

17. Is your Mom more in keeping with your brother's or your views?

If I might be nosey and ask? I hope for your sake, she's a lib/progressive.... Any other siblings?

[LynneSin]

18. she has no political inklings whatsoever

none!

[UTUSN]

19. At Least He Wasn't a Paid Extra? Consolation?

Frank RICH says there were extras. (Aren't extras paid?)


*******QUOTE*******

http://www.iht.com/articles/525562.html

.... As we now know, the former president's aides and family had devised some of the funeral settings years in advance through a secret plan they code-named Operation Serenade: the camera angles and sunset timing of the California service, the distribution of 50,000 small American flags to extras organized along the route. Such cinematic touches no doubt seemed clever when the Reaganauts first hatched them, but by the time of his death they were as dated as "Bedtime for Bonzo." ....



********UNQUOTE*******

[Brewman_Jax]

20. I'm shocked at this revelation!

So, when's the book coming out? :P

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

21. Maybe he wanted to make sure he was dead?

:shrug:

[LynneSin]

23. Not him

He was there to pay his last respects

[SoDesuKa]

22. My Daughter Thinks Bush is Picked On

It's different when your own children are anti-progressive. You feel responsible.

[Estel]

24. I have a brother like that, too...

but then he sobered up.

[Don_G]

25. My Brother Is Like That

It must be the anti-anxiety medications he has been on for the past 30 years.

[GOPisEvil]

26. FREEPER SCUM!!!!!!!!

Just kidding - every family has a black sheep. I'm sure each of you think the other is the black sheep.

At times like this I am glad I have no siblings and liberals for parents. :D

[Jeff in Cincinnati]

27. You can only pick your friends

but not your family. Your friends still love you.

But to tell the truth, for a chance to make one last unutterable comment on the dirty bastard, I'm not certain that I wouldn't have stood in line myself.