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Octafish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-05-09 11:38 PM
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He should be on the back of the dime, all right.


Don't forget how this guy said he believed in "State's Rights"
when he opened his campaign for president in Philadelphia, Mississippi,
a city where 16 years earlier three civil rights activists were slain.

He also conflated food-stamps, vodka and welfare queens.
Anybody wonder who he meant?
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-05-09 11:41 PM
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1. And that was AFTER he sold out his union to HUAC.
Scum.
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Octafish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-05-09 11:49 PM
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4. Give the guy a break. The Mafia told him to.
Dark Victory: Ronald Reagan, MCA and the Mob, a masterpiece by Dan Moldea.
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-06-09 12:09 AM
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7. His whole career was one organized crime after another.



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Octafish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-06-09 12:20 AM
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11. Precisely Right.


The New York Times and The Washington Post buried the Truth.
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MADem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-05-09 11:43 PM
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2. Once upon a time, he was a rootin', tootin', FDR Democrat. NT
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Octafish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-05-09 11:53 PM
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5. Ironic. Gold will do that.
Change a man into something someone else wants. For example, a spokesman for warmongers.

Profits of War: The Fruits of the Permanent Military-Industrial Complex, outstanding reportage by William Hartung.
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Kievan Rus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-05-09 11:47 PM
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3. I forgot all about him
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Octafish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-06-09 12:08 AM
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6. Win one for the Gippet. Eh. Gipper!
Don't blame you. He seems to be in the news a lot these days.
He should be getting named as a major reason the nation
would've gone down the, eh, toilet already,
but it's clogged.



Visiting the graves of SS troops, among other things.
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-06-09 12:12 AM
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8. I'm supposed to be finding full time work, but I swear on my grandmother
if Congress really does allocate funds for this centennial, then I'm going to apply for some of that and sponsor a local "commemoration". There will not be another week of genuflecting to this anti-American scumbag with nothing pushing back.
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Octafish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-06-09 12:40 AM
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13. I'm there. There's no way that can go forward without the inconvenient truth.
For those new to the subject, Pruneface set this country back half a century.
If he could've, it would've gone back a century and a quarter.
He didn't do it alone.

Speak, Memory -- The October Surprise and the World It Made by Chris Floyd

The Truth about Reagan should be commemorated in the hearts of everyone.
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KittyWampus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-06-09 01:34 PM
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34. That is a brilliant idea. And I have a feeling you'd be able to come up with a proposal that would
pass.

Sorry for egging you on but DO IT DO IT DO IT
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-06-09 02:41 PM
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44. We could have them all over the county.
lol

:)
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pnorman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-06-09 12:15 AM
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9. On the face of a Three Dollar Bill would be more like it!
n/t

pnorman
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Octafish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-06-09 12:57 AM
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17. Red Ink Ronnie
Lessons in Reaganomics.



The cheapskate woodenhead would pocket a wooden nickle.
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pnorman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-06-09 01:22 AM
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21. That's a great site. THANKS!
n/t

pnorman
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jgraz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-06-09 01:39 PM
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36. Make that a Negative Three Dollar Bill
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Selatius Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-06-09 12:19 AM
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10. I can't believe this guy once was a staunch supporter of Franklin Roosevelt.
He did a complete 180 from supporting a president who would fit well with the Social Democrats found in Europe to wanting to essentially undo the entire New Deal. I guess the power of money cannot be underestimated.
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Octafish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-06-09 01:17 AM
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19. The guy did that with Iran and Iraq, too.
He started sending weapons to Iran almost as soon as he was sworn-in.
Then he made nice with Iraq, poison gas or no poison gas.



Another political show trial in Baghdad: Tariq Aziz charged with genocide by James Cogan.

Money for power. Power for money.
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hootinholler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-06-09 02:41 PM
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43. Yeah but that was just the payoff for the ayatolla holding on to the hostages
Until after the erection.
"Suspicions about a deal between the Reagan campaign and Iran over the hostages have circulated since the day of President Reagan's inaugural, when Iran agreed to release the 52 American hostages exactly five minutes after Mr. Reagan took the oath of office. Later, as it became known that arms started to flow to Iran via Israel only a few days after the inauguration, suspicions deepened that a secret arms-for-hostages deal had been concluded.


-Hoot
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nichomachus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-06-09 01:14 PM
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31. Basically, GE paid him very well to turn into a fascist
For him, though, it was just a role. His entire life was just a movie shoot as far as he was concerned.
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krispos42 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-06-09 12:23 AM
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12. We should put him on the $1,000 bill
:-)
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-06-09 12:45 AM
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14. I wonder how hard it would be to put out a limited edition of catsup
just for the anniversary. :evilgrin:
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krispos42 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-06-09 12:46 AM
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15. In the produce section?
:rofl:
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-06-09 12:49 AM
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16. LOL! You know what I'd love to do -- design an anniversary carnival.
If that means having a "farmers' market" booth that only sells catsup, so be it!

:rofl:
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arcadian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-06-09 01:24 AM
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22. What's the catsup reference?
I don't remember it. :-) Like Reagan at the Iran/Contra hearings, "I don't recall"
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-06-09 03:38 AM
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27. He considered catsup qualified as a vegetable in school lunches
while he was CA gov.
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HubertHeaver Donating Member (430 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-06-09 03:12 AM
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26. Not difficult at all. Draw up the label and contact Heinz.
Find out what the minimum order is and how much it will cost. It can't be too much, that's how they got the "W" ketchup in 2004.
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-06-09 03:40 AM
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28. I may have to.
:)
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Octafish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-06-09 01:53 AM
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25. He's earned it.


The Myths of Reaganomics

He sold out his country and made a buck in the process.
It's the Reagan GOP version of the American way.
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krispos42 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-06-09 04:06 AM
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29. Being on a bill no longer being printed or in circulation.
Sounds perfect to me!
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Me. Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-06-09 01:09 AM
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18. Will They Be Serving Ketchup
as a side dish at the inevitable luncheon or dinner?
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Octafish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-06-09 01:33 AM
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23. Whenever I roll in to the Drive-Thru window, I bring that up.
"It's a vegetable, ya know. Classified by Reagan to save money on the kids' school lunch program."

Usually they laugh to learn. Sometimes, the older workers know right away.



Another evil thing is, while the prick cut taxes on the rich and reduced spending on social programs,
he threw money at the war machine. It's become a tradition.
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Me. Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-06-09 12:23 PM
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30. An Ouch Moment...That T-Shirt
But then, the truth often is.
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Politicalboi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-06-09 01:40 PM
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37. Even funnier that a Tomato is really a fruit
Repukes stupid then, stupid now.
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anonymous171 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-06-09 01:18 AM
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20. His face should be the watermark on all food stamps and welfare checks.
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Octafish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-06-09 01:44 AM
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24. Excellent proposal.


"A trillion dollars would be a stack of $1,000 bills 67 miles high."

--President Reagan warning in February 1981 that the national debt, accumulated over the United States' 200 year history, is approaching $1 trillion.
Under Reagan, the national debt would nearly triple to $2.9 trillion.
In the process of misspending all that on Star Wars and $600 toilet seats,
he almost changed the soul of America.

REAGAN WEIGHS PLANS TO CUT FOOD STAMPS FUND EVEN MORE.
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jgraz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-06-09 01:38 PM
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35. C'mon, don't poor people suffer enough already?
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SalmonChantedEvening Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-06-09 01:20 PM
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32. Because he never saw one he wouldn't drop. n/t
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Vidar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-06-09 01:29 PM
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33. His face belongs on toilet paper.
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-06-09 02:04 PM
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39. There's another item for our Commemorative Carnival.
Alternately, we could paint his face inside of toilet bowls. That might be fun, too. I bet we could auction those off and give the money to charity.
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-06-09 02:02 PM
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38. kick
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Blue_In_AK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-06-09 02:09 PM
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40. "If you've seen one redwood you've seen them all."
"If it takes a bloodbath, let's get it over with."
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-06-09 02:26 PM
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41. "Facts are stupid things."
lol
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Octafish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-07-09 09:54 AM
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45. ''Government isn't the solution. Government is the problem.''
Odd quote, that, for an American, where the government is "We the People."
What's really telling about the state of democracy is that I never saw Pruneface called out on it.

As you noted, Blue_In_AK, tThe callous disregard for human life is telling. It is the mark of the sociopath.

"It's just too bad we can't have an epidemic of botulism."--In response to the Hearst family's free food giveaway to the poor as partial ransom for their daughter Patricia, Kidnapped by the SLA terrorist group, 1974

Here's a GOOGLE archive of a page filled with the wit and wisdom of the woodenhead:

http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache:3Dm-c8YtOaoJ:www.trivia-library.com/c/biography-of-us-president-ronald-reagan-part-13-quotes-and-quotations.htm+reagan+botulism+quote&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
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Tierra_y_Libertad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-06-09 02:28 PM
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42. He should be on both sides of a wooden nickle. He should have been behind bars.
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