Just bury the old bastard already

[RummyTheDummy]

Early in the week, I felt like he needed to get his just due. Now it's become a week-long ghoul fest. How many services are enough? Are they going to dig him up next week and take him on a world tour?

All of this proves one thing -- Repukes are a bunch of sick bastards. And they said the Wellstone Memorial was beyond the pale. This entire charade is an embarassment. And judging from the CNN poll somebody posted, the public is sick of it.

I apologize for the rant. But I've grown weary of being polite to my Repug friends and co-workers. Enough already. Bury the old fart and be done with it!

[ezee]

1. YESTERDAY WOULD HAVE BEEN TOO LATE! N/T

[Manix]

2. I'll second that!!

[spanone]

3. NO Shit, this looks like the O.J. funeral.

Is there no end to this?

[4MoreYearsOfHell]

4. How can you be sure that

he's still dead?

[jeff30997]

5. You don't need to apologize for the rant...

We're all as sick as you are.It's good to blow off some steam,damgambit!

[dwilson]

6. Too bad

it's not over yet. I heard they have one more service left when they get back to CA.! So I'm sure everything will be preempted yet again.

Is it safe to turn on the TV yet?

[DieboldMustDie]

7. Shoulda planted him on Tuesday...

this week long necro-fest is maddening. :crazy:

[cosmicdot]

8. kind of like his presidency - I didn't think it would ever end

... and, when it was finally over ... so were my thirty-something years ... no New Deals ... no New Frontiers ... no Great Societies ... no, it was the Me Generation and Prozac Nation ...

Some men see things as they are and say why. I dream things that never were and say why not. - Robert F. Kennedy

"The 1980s became the Me! Me! Me! generation of status seekers. During the 1980s, hostile takeovers, leveraged buyouts, and mega-mergers spawned a new breed of billionaire. Donald Trump, Leona Helmsley, and Ivan Boesky iconed the meteoric rise and fall of the rich and famous. If you've got it, flaunt it and You can have it all! were watchwords. Forbes' list of 400 richest people became more important than its 500 largest companies. Binge buying and credit became a way of life and 'Shop Til you Drop' was the watchword. Labels were everything, even (or especially) for our children."

http://kclibrary.nhmccd.edu/decade80.html







It is a revolutionary world we live in. Governments repress their people; and millions are trapped in poverty while the nation grows rich; and wealth is lavished on armaments.

For the fortunate among us, there is the temptation to follow the easy and familiar paths of personal ambition and financial success so grandly spread before those who enjoy the privilege of education. But that is not the road history has marked for us.

The future does not belong to those who are content with today, apathetic toward common problems and their fellow man alike. Rather it will belong to those who can blend vision, reason and courage in a personal commitment to the ideals and great enterprises of American society. -- Robert F. Kennedy

[scarletwoman]

11. Wonderful RFK quote. No wonder they killed him...

:cry:

The true Reagan "legacy" is that with his presidency, this country took a turn away from the path of the common good and enlightened ideals, and it's been on a downward spiral ever since.

The worst part is, I fear that we haven't yet hit bottom. I never imagined, in my youth back in the heady Peace and Love days of the 60's, that things could go so horribly WRONG in our country.

:-(

sw

[happynewyear]

14. right you are, I never imagined it would be like this either

however, after the three assassinations we were fairly warned of it and that cannot be denied sadly enough.

[scarletwoman]

17. "Fairly warned"... Too true.

Until Reagan got elected though, I guess I still thought there was a chance that good would prevail.

When Nixon went down over Watergate, it seemed like maybe the forces of light were going to triumph at last. Ford was just a matter of marking time, then we got a Democrat back in, and I thought that was evidence that the country was choosing to move forward in a good way.

It was with utter disbelief and dismay that I watched Reagan win in 1980 -- and even WORSE to see him re-elected! (As a Minnesotan, I am still proud that MY state was the single holdout while the other 49 went for RR)

And now, here we are... :-(

sw

[westsidexview]

9. lol

[Cleita]

10. I must admit the Rush Limbo deevorce threads have provided

a welcome distraction.

[zbdent]

12. Generalissimo Francisco Reagan

is still dead.

[dennis4868]

13. why did the murderer/criminal Reagan

deserve his just due?

[Say_What]

16. Rotten Ronnie's Legacy

RayGun's Recycled War Criminals

Donald Rumsfeld--December 20, 1983: President Reagan's special Middle East envoy, Donald Rumsfeld, meets with Aziz and Hussein in Baghdad. Much talk revolves around the Bechtel pipeline proposal. No mention is made of any discussion of weapons of mass destruction, despite Iraq having allegedly used them in recent weeks.

Elliott Abrams--NSC’s office of democracy, human rights and international operations--Abrams’ buddies in the Salvadoran military and paramilitary death squads killed more than 40,000 civilians between 1980 and 1989. The death toll in Nicaragua was 40,000 or
50,000--and in Guatemala, 200,000.

John Negroponte--As ambassador to Honduras from 1981 to 1985, Negroponte played a key role in US aid to the Contra death squads in Nicaragua and shoring up the brutal military dictatorship of General Gustavo Alvarez Martínez in Honduras. Between 1980 and 1994 U.S. military aid to Honduras jumped from $3.9 million to $77.4 million. Much of this went to ensure the Honduran army's loyalty in the battle against popular movements throughout Central America.

John Poindexter--After serving as Reagan's National Security Advisor, John Poindexter was charged and found guilty of conspiracy, obstruction of justice, and the destruction of evidence as he played a central role in the Iran-Contra affair. Costa Rica has officially declared Poindexter to be a drug trafficker, and has barred him from entering the country.

Otto Reich--In the '80s, Reich was head of the office for Public Diplomacy, which was censured by Congress for "prohibited covert propaganda activities" after influencing the media to favorably cover the Reagan administration's position. That office is now defunct. He also helped terrorist Orlando Bosch gain entry into the US after being imprisoned in Venezuela for bombing a Cuban airliner, killing its 73 passengers. Bosch spent time in a US prison for attacking a Polish merchant vessel bound for Cuba. Thirty countries have refused Bosch asylum because of his criminality.

http://www.projectcensored.org/publications/2003/11.html

[Say_What]

15. Where's Evita Peron's embalmer when you need him?

He coulda preserved Rotten Ronnie forever and then all they would need to do is keep the a$$hole on ice and drag him out every time the Repukes need to win an election.

This week would have made Hitler proud. The Nazis had big state funerals too--even for those they forced to commit suicide like Rommel. They gave him the option of killing himself and having a big state funeral, or else they'd kill his family. Hitler sent a very large wreath and Rommel's family lived to tell the story.