Nancy Reagan speaks

[Soggy in NOLA]

I stood in line of thousands in the National Mall in the summer of 2004 after traveling 1200 miles in my TOYOTA to pay my respects to President Ronald Reagan.

You are a prick who has no respect for the dead.

You'll have to tell millions of engineers how great Reagan was.
Get ready to get your ass kicked.

What engineers? Domestic engineers like maids?

Or glorified drivers of trains?

Or graduates who never touched a screwdriver in their lives? Or the foreign engineers with their H1-B who came to me with my L1-B for advise on spelling, grammar and even tricks and stuff in our own trade because they did not want our employer to see what incompetents they were?

Or the college graduates with useless degrees who masquerade as engineers?

And what does this have to do with President Reagan?

Electrical and Mechanical Engineers whose careers were fucked into oblivion by Reagan.

They were probably no better than the useless air traffic controllers who got their asses handed to them.

History shows that Reagan was right.

you wish
5 Terrible Things Ronald Reagan Did As President
By Jesse Berney February 16, 2015


By Jesse Berney
February 16, 2015





Conservatives like to pretend that President’s Day is a holiday for the exclusive celebration of Ronald Reagan, their favorite president and a man they lionize as an earthbound saint crossed with the world’s manliest cowboy.

So it’s a good idea to remember Reagan’s real legacy: a bad president surrounded by bad people who did bad things. Here are five of the worst things Reagan did as president to remind you exactly the kind of leader he was.

5. Reagan Stole Money from the Social Security Trust Fund
Remember those Saturday Night Live sketches in 2000 where Al Gore promised to put Social Security in a lockbox? (If you’re too young to know what I’m talking about, Al Gore is the man who invented the Internet and came up with the global warming hoax.)

The reason Gore was so committed to protecting Social Security is that Ronald Reagan used the funds as his personal piggy bank. After his tax cuts devastated the federal treasury, ushering in the era of giant deficits we’re still mired in today, Reagan raised Social Security taxes, ostensibly to protect Social Security for future generations. Instead, he dumped that money into the general treasury fund to reduce the deficits he had created. Speaking of corruption…

4. Reagan Filled His Administration With Corrupt People


No administration was as corrupt as Ronald Reagan’s, not even Nixon’s. His attorney general resigned after he was involved with a company that received illegal no-bid contracts. His secretary of the interior, who thought his job was to sell off federal lands to defense contractors, was indicted on multiple counts of perjury.

Reagan’s vice president and successor, George Bush, pardoned six separate people for their roles in the Iran-Contra affair, including Reagan’s National Security adviser and his secretary of defense. Speaking of Iran-Contra…

3. Reagan Presided Over the Iran-Contra Affair


In 1985 and 1986, Ronald Reagan sold arms to Iran, locked in a horrific war with Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, for cash and the release of U.S. hostages. The sales to Iran violated sanctions against Iran.

But much of the money that came from the sales was diverted to fund the Contras, right-wing rebels fighting the left-wing Sandinista government of Nicaragua. That was in violation of laws against helping the Contras.

As noted above, George Bush had to pardon several Reagan aides in the wake of the scandal. Speaking of aides…

2. Reagan Refused to Mention AIDS, Then Cut Funding for Research


In the early 80s, a horrific new epidemic ravaged America’s gay population. Because so many of the victims of AIDS were gay, the right-wing viewed the disease as a kind of divine retribution for their sins.

Reagan didn’t mention AIDS in public until September 1985, after more than 10,000 people had died from the disease. In 1986, Reagan called for a report on AIDS but also proposed cutting federal funds for research and patient care as treatments were just starting to make it to market. Speaking of inhumanity towards his fellow man…

1. Reagan Opposed Sanctions on Apartheid Era-South Africa


When Congress looked likely to pass sanctions on South Africa to battle apartheid in 1985, Reagan vigorously opposed any action. In order to stop moderate Republicans from defecting, he issued a half-assed executive order imposing some sanctions.

The next year, when Congress realized Reagan’s sanctions didn’t have teeth, it overwhelmingly passed a bill imposing real sanctions on the racist regime. Reagan vetoed the bill. Happily there were enough votes to override his veto, and the sanctions became a key part of the eventual end of apartheid.

References: Dissident Voice, Los Angeles Times, PBS.org, Philadelphia Inquirer, About.com

 

[daws101]

How times have changed




Nancy Reagan, “The time for a woman to serve as our President has come – really, now is the time – and I think the idea of having a former First Lady as the leader of the free world is really quite a marvelous notion. I want Hillary to win. Even though I admire two of the current potential Republican nominees"






Nancy Reagan: “I Want Hillary to Win”

Sorry, "The time for a woman to serve as our President has come" is not a valid reason to vote for someone. Just as dumb as skin color or genitalia.

Really? if that were fact then why in our history has there only been one black , one catholic no women and no atheists?

Don't know, don't care.... has nothing to do with what I said.

it has everything to do with it .

Nah... wrongo. But hey, keep telling yourself that.

I could say the same to you the difference is .it would be true,

 

[FJO]

I stood in line of thousands in the National Mall in the summer of 2004 after traveling 1200 miles in my TOYOTA to pay my respects to President Ronald Reagan.

You are a prick who has no respect for the dead.

You'll have to tell millions of engineers how great Reagan was.
Get ready to get your ass kicked.

What engineers? Domestic engineers like maids?

Or glorified drivers of trains?

Or graduates who never touched a screwdriver in their lives? Or the foreign engineers with their H1-B who came to me with my L1-B for advise on spelling, grammar and even tricks and stuff in our own trade because they did not want our employer to see what incompetents they were?

Or the college graduates with useless degrees who masquerade as engineers?

And what does this have to do with President Reagan?

Electrical and Mechanical Engineers whose careers were fucked into oblivion by Reagan.

They were probably no better than the useless air traffic controllers who got their asses handed to them.

History shows that Reagan was right.

you wish
5 Terrible Things Ronald Reagan Did As President
By Jesse Berney February 16, 2015


By Jesse Berney
February 16, 2015





Conservatives like to pretend that President’s Day is a holiday for the exclusive celebration of Ronald Reagan, their favorite president and a man they lionize as an earthbound saint crossed with the world’s manliest cowboy.

So it’s a good idea to remember Reagan’s real legacy: a bad president surrounded by bad people who did bad things. Here are five of the worst things Reagan did as president to remind you exactly the kind of leader he was.

5. Reagan Stole Money from the Social Security Trust Fund
Remember those Saturday Night Live sketches in 2000 where Al Gore promised to put Social Security in a lockbox? (If you’re too young to know what I’m talking about, Al Gore is the man who invented the Internet and came up with the global warming hoax.)

The reason Gore was so committed to protecting Social Security is that Ronald Reagan used the funds as his personal piggy bank. After his tax cuts devastated the federal treasury, ushering in the era of giant deficits we’re still mired in today, Reagan raised Social Security taxes, ostensibly to protect Social Security for future generations. Instead, he dumped that money into the general treasury fund to reduce the deficits he had created. Speaking of corruption…

4. Reagan Filled His Administration With Corrupt People


No administration was as corrupt as Ronald Reagan’s, not even Nixon’s. His attorney general resigned after he was involved with a company that received illegal no-bid contracts. His secretary of the interior, who thought his job was to sell off federal lands to defense contractors, was indicted on multiple counts of perjury.

Reagan’s vice president and successor, George Bush, pardoned six separate people for their roles in the Iran-Contra affair, including Reagan’s National Security adviser and his secretary of defense. Speaking of Iran-Contra…

3. Reagan Presided Over the Iran-Contra Affair


In 1985 and 1986, Ronald Reagan sold arms to Iran, locked in a horrific war with Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, for cash and the release of U.S. hostages. The sales to Iran violated sanctions against Iran.

But much of the money that came from the sales was diverted to fund the Contras, right-wing rebels fighting the left-wing Sandinista government of Nicaragua. That was in violation of laws against helping the Contras.

As noted above, George Bush had to pardon several Reagan aides in the wake of the scandal. Speaking of aides…

2. Reagan Refused to Mention AIDS, Then Cut Funding for Research


In the early 80s, a horrific new epidemic ravaged America’s gay population. Because so many of the victims of AIDS were gay, the right-wing viewed the disease as a kind of divine retribution for their sins.

Reagan didn’t mention AIDS in public until September 1985, after more than 10,000 people had died from the disease. In 1986, Reagan called for a report on AIDS but also proposed cutting federal funds for research and patient care as treatments were just starting to make it to market. Speaking of inhumanity towards his fellow man…

1. Reagan Opposed Sanctions on Apartheid Era-South Africa


When Congress looked likely to pass sanctions on South Africa to battle apartheid in 1985, Reagan vigorously opposed any action. In order to stop moderate Republicans from defecting, he issued a half-assed executive order imposing some sanctions.

The next year, when Congress realized Reagan’s sanctions didn’t have teeth, it overwhelmingly passed a bill imposing real sanctions on the racist regime. Reagan vetoed the bill. Happily there were enough votes to override his veto, and the sanctions became a key part of the eventual end of apartheid.

References: Dissident Voice, Los Angeles Times, PBS.org, Philadelphia Inquirer, About.com

5. Saturday Night Live is a source of truth. Right!....
4. Like Obama with scum like Holder, to name just one of many.
3. Iran was so scared of Reagan they released hostages the minute he assumed office. You know the hostages they kept for 444 days of the Carter administration.
2. No Democrat administration did more for AIDS victims as GWB's administration. In Reagan's days AIDS was considered as a self-inflicted malady, not deserving to spend any money or mention on it.
1.Seeing the pathetic state of South Africa now it was a wise decision. Too bad some bleeding heart asshole changed it.

 

[daws101]

You'll have to tell millions of engineers how great Reagan was.
Get ready to get your ass kicked.

What engineers? Domestic engineers like maids?

Or glorified drivers of trains?

Or graduates who never touched a screwdriver in their lives? Or the foreign engineers with their H1-B who came to me with my L1-B for advise on spelling, grammar and even tricks and stuff in our own trade because they did not want our employer to see what incompetents they were?

Or the college graduates with useless degrees who masquerade as engineers?

And what does this have to do with President Reagan?

Electrical and Mechanical Engineers whose careers were fucked into oblivion by Reagan.

They were probably no better than the useless air traffic controllers who got their asses handed to them.

History shows that Reagan was right.

you wish
5 Terrible Things Ronald Reagan Did As President
By Jesse Berney February 16, 2015


By Jesse Berney
February 16, 2015





Conservatives like to pretend that President’s Day is a holiday for the exclusive celebration of Ronald Reagan, their favorite president and a man they lionize as an earthbound saint crossed with the world’s manliest cowboy.

So it’s a good idea to remember Reagan’s real legacy: a bad president surrounded by bad people who did bad things. Here are five of the worst things Reagan did as president to remind you exactly the kind of leader he was.

5. Reagan Stole Money from the Social Security Trust Fund
Remember those Saturday Night Live sketches in 2000 where Al Gore promised to put Social Security in a lockbox? (If you’re too young to know what I’m talking about, Al Gore is the man who invented the Internet and came up with the global warming hoax.)

The reason Gore was so committed to protecting Social Security is that Ronald Reagan used the funds as his personal piggy bank. After his tax cuts devastated the federal treasury, ushering in the era of giant deficits we’re still mired in today, Reagan raised Social Security taxes, ostensibly to protect Social Security for future generations. Instead, he dumped that money into the general treasury fund to reduce the deficits he had created. Speaking of corruption…

4. Reagan Filled His Administration With Corrupt People


No administration was as corrupt as Ronald Reagan’s, not even Nixon’s. His attorney general resigned after he was involved with a company that received illegal no-bid contracts. His secretary of the interior, who thought his job was to sell off federal lands to defense contractors, was indicted on multiple counts of perjury.

Reagan’s vice president and successor, George Bush, pardoned six separate people for their roles in the Iran-Contra affair, including Reagan’s National Security adviser and his secretary of defense. Speaking of Iran-Contra…

3. Reagan Presided Over the Iran-Contra Affair


In 1985 and 1986, Ronald Reagan sold arms to Iran, locked in a horrific war with Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, for cash and the release of U.S. hostages. The sales to Iran violated sanctions against Iran.

But much of the money that came from the sales was diverted to fund the Contras, right-wing rebels fighting the left-wing Sandinista government of Nicaragua. That was in violation of laws against helping the Contras.

As noted above, George Bush had to pardon several Reagan aides in the wake of the scandal. Speaking of aides…

2. Reagan Refused to Mention AIDS, Then Cut Funding for Research


In the early 80s, a horrific new epidemic ravaged America’s gay population. Because so many of the victims of AIDS were gay, the right-wing viewed the disease as a kind of divine retribution for their sins.

Reagan didn’t mention AIDS in public until September 1985, after more than 10,000 people had died from the disease. In 1986, Reagan called for a report on AIDS but also proposed cutting federal funds for research and patient care as treatments were just starting to make it to market. Speaking of inhumanity towards his fellow man…

1. Reagan Opposed Sanctions on Apartheid Era-South Africa


When Congress looked likely to pass sanctions on South Africa to battle apartheid in 1985, Reagan vigorously opposed any action. In order to stop moderate Republicans from defecting, he issued a half-assed executive order imposing some sanctions.

The next year, when Congress realized Reagan’s sanctions didn’t have teeth, it overwhelmingly passed a bill imposing real sanctions on the racist regime. Reagan vetoed the bill. Happily there were enough votes to override his veto, and the sanctions became a key part of the eventual end of apartheid.

References: Dissident Voice, Los Angeles Times, PBS.org, Philadelphia Inquirer, About.com

5. Saturday Night Live is a source of truth. Right!....
4. Like Obama with scum like Holder, to name just one of many.
3. Iran was so scared of Reagan they released hostages the minute he assumed office. You know the hostages they kept for 444 days of the Carter administration.
2. No Democrat administration did more for AIDS victims as GWB's administration. In Reagan's days AIDS was considered as a self-inflicted malady, not deserving to spend any money or mention on it.
1.Seeing the pathetic state of South Africa now it was a wise decision. Too bad some bleeding heart asshole changed it.

the award for the best rationalization in a thread goes to....

 

[DigitalDrifter]

I wouldn't trust anything from Ron jr, he hated his dad and everything he stood for.

 

[FJO]

What engineers? Domestic engineers like maids?

Or glorified drivers of trains?

Or graduates who never touched a screwdriver in their lives? Or the foreign engineers with their H1-B who came to me with my L1-B for advise on spelling, grammar and even tricks and stuff in our own trade because they did not want our employer to see what incompetents they were?

Or the college graduates with useless degrees who masquerade as engineers?

And what does this have to do with President Reagan?

Electrical and Mechanical Engineers whose careers were fucked into oblivion by Reagan.

They were probably no better than the useless air traffic controllers who got their asses handed to them.

History shows that Reagan was right.

you wish
5 Terrible Things Ronald Reagan Did As President
By Jesse Berney February 16, 2015


By Jesse Berney
February 16, 2015





Conservatives like to pretend that President’s Day is a holiday for the exclusive celebration of Ronald Reagan, their favorite president and a man they lionize as an earthbound saint crossed with the world’s manliest cowboy.

So it’s a good idea to remember Reagan’s real legacy: a bad president surrounded by bad people who did bad things. Here are five of the worst things Reagan did as president to remind you exactly the kind of leader he was.

5. Reagan Stole Money from the Social Security Trust Fund
Remember those Saturday Night Live sketches in 2000 where Al Gore promised to put Social Security in a lockbox? (If you’re too young to know what I’m talking about, Al Gore is the man who invented the Internet and came up with the global warming hoax.)

The reason Gore was so committed to protecting Social Security is that Ronald Reagan used the funds as his personal piggy bank. After his tax cuts devastated the federal treasury, ushering in the era of giant deficits we’re still mired in today, Reagan raised Social Security taxes, ostensibly to protect Social Security for future generations. Instead, he dumped that money into the general treasury fund to reduce the deficits he had created. Speaking of corruption…

4. Reagan Filled His Administration With Corrupt People


No administration was as corrupt as Ronald Reagan’s, not even Nixon’s. His attorney general resigned after he was involved with a company that received illegal no-bid contracts. His secretary of the interior, who thought his job was to sell off federal lands to defense contractors, was indicted on multiple counts of perjury.

Reagan’s vice president and successor, George Bush, pardoned six separate people for their roles in the Iran-Contra affair, including Reagan’s National Security adviser and his secretary of defense. Speaking of Iran-Contra…

3. Reagan Presided Over the Iran-Contra Affair


In 1985 and 1986, Ronald Reagan sold arms to Iran, locked in a horrific war with Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, for cash and the release of U.S. hostages. The sales to Iran violated sanctions against Iran.

But much of the money that came from the sales was diverted to fund the Contras, right-wing rebels fighting the left-wing Sandinista government of Nicaragua. That was in violation of laws against helping the Contras.

As noted above, George Bush had to pardon several Reagan aides in the wake of the scandal. Speaking of aides…

2. Reagan Refused to Mention AIDS, Then Cut Funding for Research


In the early 80s, a horrific new epidemic ravaged America’s gay population. Because so many of the victims of AIDS were gay, the right-wing viewed the disease as a kind of divine retribution for their sins.

Reagan didn’t mention AIDS in public until September 1985, after more than 10,000 people had died from the disease. In 1986, Reagan called for a report on AIDS but also proposed cutting federal funds for research and patient care as treatments were just starting to make it to market. Speaking of inhumanity towards his fellow man…

1. Reagan Opposed Sanctions on Apartheid Era-South Africa


When Congress looked likely to pass sanctions on South Africa to battle apartheid in 1985, Reagan vigorously opposed any action. In order to stop moderate Republicans from defecting, he issued a half-assed executive order imposing some sanctions.

The next year, when Congress realized Reagan’s sanctions didn’t have teeth, it overwhelmingly passed a bill imposing real sanctions on the racist regime. Reagan vetoed the bill. Happily there were enough votes to override his veto, and the sanctions became a key part of the eventual end of apartheid.

References: Dissident Voice, Los Angeles Times, PBS.org, Philadelphia Inquirer, About.com

5. Saturday Night Live is a source of truth. Right!....
4. Like Obama with scum like Holder, to name just one of many.
3. Iran was so scared of Reagan they released hostages the minute he assumed office. You know the hostages they kept for 444 days of the Carter administration.
2. No Democrat administration did more for AIDS victims as GWB's administration. In Reagan's days AIDS was considered as a self-inflicted malady, not deserving to spend any money or mention on it.
1.Seeing the pathetic state of South Africa now it was a wise decision. Too bad some bleeding heart asshole changed it.

the award for the best rationalization in a thread goes to....

And the prize for being the biggest asshole goes to....

 

[daws101]

Electrical and Mechanical Engineers whose careers were fucked into oblivion by Reagan.

They were probably no better than the useless air traffic controllers who got their asses handed to them.

History shows that Reagan was right.

you wish
5 Terrible Things Ronald Reagan Did As President
By Jesse Berney February 16, 2015


By Jesse Berney
February 16, 2015





Conservatives like to pretend that President’s Day is a holiday for the exclusive celebration of Ronald Reagan, their favorite president and a man they lionize as an earthbound saint crossed with the world’s manliest cowboy.

So it’s a good idea to remember Reagan’s real legacy: a bad president surrounded by bad people who did bad things. Here are five of the worst things Reagan did as president to remind you exactly the kind of leader he was.

5. Reagan Stole Money from the Social Security Trust Fund
Remember those Saturday Night Live sketches in 2000 where Al Gore promised to put Social Security in a lockbox? (If you’re too young to know what I’m talking about, Al Gore is the man who invented the Internet and came up with the global warming hoax.)

The reason Gore was so committed to protecting Social Security is that Ronald Reagan used the funds as his personal piggy bank. After his tax cuts devastated the federal treasury, ushering in the era of giant deficits we’re still mired in today, Reagan raised Social Security taxes, ostensibly to protect Social Security for future generations. Instead, he dumped that money into the general treasury fund to reduce the deficits he had created. Speaking of corruption…

4. Reagan Filled His Administration With Corrupt People


No administration was as corrupt as Ronald Reagan’s, not even Nixon’s. His attorney general resigned after he was involved with a company that received illegal no-bid contracts. His secretary of the interior, who thought his job was to sell off federal lands to defense contractors, was indicted on multiple counts of perjury.

Reagan’s vice president and successor, George Bush, pardoned six separate people for their roles in the Iran-Contra affair, including Reagan’s National Security adviser and his secretary of defense. Speaking of Iran-Contra…

3. Reagan Presided Over the Iran-Contra Affair


In 1985 and 1986, Ronald Reagan sold arms to Iran, locked in a horrific war with Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, for cash and the release of U.S. hostages. The sales to Iran violated sanctions against Iran.

But much of the money that came from the sales was diverted to fund the Contras, right-wing rebels fighting the left-wing Sandinista government of Nicaragua. That was in violation of laws against helping the Contras.

As noted above, George Bush had to pardon several Reagan aides in the wake of the scandal. Speaking of aides…

2. Reagan Refused to Mention AIDS, Then Cut Funding for Research


In the early 80s, a horrific new epidemic ravaged America’s gay population. Because so many of the victims of AIDS were gay, the right-wing viewed the disease as a kind of divine retribution for their sins.

Reagan didn’t mention AIDS in public until September 1985, after more than 10,000 people had died from the disease. In 1986, Reagan called for a report on AIDS but also proposed cutting federal funds for research and patient care as treatments were just starting to make it to market. Speaking of inhumanity towards his fellow man…

1. Reagan Opposed Sanctions on Apartheid Era-South Africa


When Congress looked likely to pass sanctions on South Africa to battle apartheid in 1985, Reagan vigorously opposed any action. In order to stop moderate Republicans from defecting, he issued a half-assed executive order imposing some sanctions.

The next year, when Congress realized Reagan’s sanctions didn’t have teeth, it overwhelmingly passed a bill imposing real sanctions on the racist regime. Reagan vetoed the bill. Happily there were enough votes to override his veto, and the sanctions became a key part of the eventual end of apartheid.

References: Dissident Voice, Los Angeles Times, PBS.org, Philadelphia Inquirer, About.com

5. Saturday Night Live is a source of truth. Right!....
4. Like Obama with scum like Holder, to name just one of many.
3. Iran was so scared of Reagan they released hostages the minute he assumed office. You know the hostages they kept for 444 days of the Carter administration.
2. No Democrat administration did more for AIDS victims as GWB's administration. In Reagan's days AIDS was considered as a self-inflicted malady, not deserving to spend any money or mention on it.
1.Seeing the pathetic state of South Africa now it was a wise decision. Too bad some bleeding heart asshole changed it.

the award for the best rationalization in a thread goes to....

And the prize for being the biggest asshole goes to....

I'd like to thank the academy for this great honor!

 

[FJO]

They were probably no better than the useless air traffic controllers who got their asses handed to them.

History shows that Reagan was right.

you wish
5 Terrible Things Ronald Reagan Did As President
By Jesse Berney February 16, 2015


By Jesse Berney
February 16, 2015





Conservatives like to pretend that President’s Day is a holiday for the exclusive celebration of Ronald Reagan, their favorite president and a man they lionize as an earthbound saint crossed with the world’s manliest cowboy.

So it’s a good idea to remember Reagan’s real legacy: a bad president surrounded by bad people who did bad things. Here are five of the worst things Reagan did as president to remind you exactly the kind of leader he was.

5. Reagan Stole Money from the Social Security Trust Fund
Remember those Saturday Night Live sketches in 2000 where Al Gore promised to put Social Security in a lockbox? (If you’re too young to know what I’m talking about, Al Gore is the man who invented the Internet and came up with the global warming hoax.)

The reason Gore was so committed to protecting Social Security is that Ronald Reagan used the funds as his personal piggy bank. After his tax cuts devastated the federal treasury, ushering in the era of giant deficits we’re still mired in today, Reagan raised Social Security taxes, ostensibly to protect Social Security for future generations. Instead, he dumped that money into the general treasury fund to reduce the deficits he had created. Speaking of corruption…

4. Reagan Filled His Administration With Corrupt People


No administration was as corrupt as Ronald Reagan’s, not even Nixon’s. His attorney general resigned after he was involved with a company that received illegal no-bid contracts. His secretary of the interior, who thought his job was to sell off federal lands to defense contractors, was indicted on multiple counts of perjury.

Reagan’s vice president and successor, George Bush, pardoned six separate people for their roles in the Iran-Contra affair, including Reagan’s National Security adviser and his secretary of defense. Speaking of Iran-Contra…

3. Reagan Presided Over the Iran-Contra Affair


In 1985 and 1986, Ronald Reagan sold arms to Iran, locked in a horrific war with Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, for cash and the release of U.S. hostages. The sales to Iran violated sanctions against Iran.

But much of the money that came from the sales was diverted to fund the Contras, right-wing rebels fighting the left-wing Sandinista government of Nicaragua. That was in violation of laws against helping the Contras.

As noted above, George Bush had to pardon several Reagan aides in the wake of the scandal. Speaking of aides…

2. Reagan Refused to Mention AIDS, Then Cut Funding for Research


In the early 80s, a horrific new epidemic ravaged America’s gay population. Because so many of the victims of AIDS were gay, the right-wing viewed the disease as a kind of divine retribution for their sins.

Reagan didn’t mention AIDS in public until September 1985, after more than 10,000 people had died from the disease. In 1986, Reagan called for a report on AIDS but also proposed cutting federal funds for research and patient care as treatments were just starting to make it to market. Speaking of inhumanity towards his fellow man…

1. Reagan Opposed Sanctions on Apartheid Era-South Africa


When Congress looked likely to pass sanctions on South Africa to battle apartheid in 1985, Reagan vigorously opposed any action. In order to stop moderate Republicans from defecting, he issued a half-assed executive order imposing some sanctions.

The next year, when Congress realized Reagan’s sanctions didn’t have teeth, it overwhelmingly passed a bill imposing real sanctions on the racist regime. Reagan vetoed the bill. Happily there were enough votes to override his veto, and the sanctions became a key part of the eventual end of apartheid.

References: Dissident Voice, Los Angeles Times, PBS.org, Philadelphia Inquirer, About.com

5. Saturday Night Live is a source of truth. Right!....
4. Like Obama with scum like Holder, to name just one of many.
3. Iran was so scared of Reagan they released hostages the minute he assumed office. You know the hostages they kept for 444 days of the Carter administration.
2. No Democrat administration did more for AIDS victims as GWB's administration. In Reagan's days AIDS was considered as a self-inflicted malady, not deserving to spend any money or mention on it.
1.Seeing the pathetic state of South Africa now it was a wise decision. Too bad some bleeding heart asshole changed it.

the award for the best rationalization in a thread goes to....

And the prize for being the biggest asshole goes to....

I'd like to thank the academy for this great honor!

Nobody said that the honor goes to you. Guess who it goes to. Can't go for it again.

But you rate for honorable mention.

 

[daws101]

you wish
5 Terrible Things Ronald Reagan Did As President
By Jesse Berney February 16, 2015


By Jesse Berney
February 16, 2015





Conservatives like to pretend that President’s Day is a holiday for the exclusive celebration of Ronald Reagan, their favorite president and a man they lionize as an earthbound saint crossed with the world’s manliest cowboy.

So it’s a good idea to remember Reagan’s real legacy: a bad president surrounded by bad people who did bad things. Here are five of the worst things Reagan did as president to remind you exactly the kind of leader he was.

5. Reagan Stole Money from the Social Security Trust Fund
Remember those Saturday Night Live sketches in 2000 where Al Gore promised to put Social Security in a lockbox? (If you’re too young to know what I’m talking about, Al Gore is the man who invented the Internet and came up with the global warming hoax.)

The reason Gore was so committed to protecting Social Security is that Ronald Reagan used the funds as his personal piggy bank. After his tax cuts devastated the federal treasury, ushering in the era of giant deficits we’re still mired in today, Reagan raised Social Security taxes, ostensibly to protect Social Security for future generations. Instead, he dumped that money into the general treasury fund to reduce the deficits he had created. Speaking of corruption…

4. Reagan Filled His Administration With Corrupt People


No administration was as corrupt as Ronald Reagan’s, not even Nixon’s. His attorney general resigned after he was involved with a company that received illegal no-bid contracts. His secretary of the interior, who thought his job was to sell off federal lands to defense contractors, was indicted on multiple counts of perjury.

Reagan’s vice president and successor, George Bush, pardoned six separate people for their roles in the Iran-Contra affair, including Reagan’s National Security adviser and his secretary of defense. Speaking of Iran-Contra…

3. Reagan Presided Over the Iran-Contra Affair


In 1985 and 1986, Ronald Reagan sold arms to Iran, locked in a horrific war with Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, for cash and the release of U.S. hostages. The sales to Iran violated sanctions against Iran.

But much of the money that came from the sales was diverted to fund the Contras, right-wing rebels fighting the left-wing Sandinista government of Nicaragua. That was in violation of laws against helping the Contras.

As noted above, George Bush had to pardon several Reagan aides in the wake of the scandal. Speaking of aides…

2. Reagan Refused to Mention AIDS, Then Cut Funding for Research


In the early 80s, a horrific new epidemic ravaged America’s gay population. Because so many of the victims of AIDS were gay, the right-wing viewed the disease as a kind of divine retribution for their sins.

Reagan didn’t mention AIDS in public until September 1985, after more than 10,000 people had died from the disease. In 1986, Reagan called for a report on AIDS but also proposed cutting federal funds for research and patient care as treatments were just starting to make it to market. Speaking of inhumanity towards his fellow man…

1. Reagan Opposed Sanctions on Apartheid Era-South Africa


When Congress looked likely to pass sanctions on South Africa to battle apartheid in 1985, Reagan vigorously opposed any action. In order to stop moderate Republicans from defecting, he issued a half-assed executive order imposing some sanctions.

The next year, when Congress realized Reagan’s sanctions didn’t have teeth, it overwhelmingly passed a bill imposing real sanctions on the racist regime. Reagan vetoed the bill. Happily there were enough votes to override his veto, and the sanctions became a key part of the eventual end of apartheid.

References: Dissident Voice, Los Angeles Times, PBS.org, Philadelphia Inquirer, About.com

5. Saturday Night Live is a source of truth. Right!....
4. Like Obama with scum like Holder, to name just one of many.
3. Iran was so scared of Reagan they released hostages the minute he assumed office. You know the hostages they kept for 444 days of the Carter administration.
2. No Democrat administration did more for AIDS victims as GWB's administration. In Reagan's days AIDS was considered as a self-inflicted malady, not deserving to spend any money or mention on it.
1.Seeing the pathetic state of South Africa now it was a wise decision. Too bad some bleeding heart asshole changed it.

the award for the best rationalization in a thread goes to....

And the prize for being the biggest asshole goes to....

I'd like to thank the academy for this great honor!

Nobody said that the honor goes to you. Guess who it goes to. Can't go for it again.

But you rate for honorable mention.

 

[Indeependent]

Her astrologer...not to mention being paid a few million for introducing Japanese cars to America; subsidized by the government of Japan.

I stood in line of thousands in the National Mall in the summer of 2004 after traveling 1200 miles in my TOYOTA to pay my respects to President Ronald Reagan.

You are a prick who has no respect for the dead.

You'll have to tell millions of engineers how great Reagan was.
Get ready to get your ass kicked.

What engineers? Domestic engineers like maids?

Or glorified drivers of trains?

Or graduates who never touched a screwdriver in their lives? Or the foreign engineers with their H1-B who came to me with my L1-B for advise on spelling, grammar and even tricks and stuff in our own trade because they did not want our employer to see what incompetents they were?

Or the college graduates with useless degrees who masquerade as engineers?

And what does this have to do with President Reagan?

Electrical and Mechanical Engineers whose careers were fucked into oblivion by Reagan.

They were probably no better than the useless air traffic controllers who got their asses handed to them.

History shows that Reagan was right.

What history?
The Cocaine Bubble prior to Oct 17, 1987?
You see, no intellectually honest person can get past that Supply Side Crash.
The economy sucked until the DOT COM Bubble, which mainly crashed because people were too paranoid to put their Credit Cards online and the Housing Bubble was a mirage.

 

[American_Jihad]

Hey moot, what ever make you happy, I'M happy that you libtarts are like moth to flame...

that's also false
I came to watch the train wreck you call posting .....

See, ya just can't control yo-self, rolmao...
See you later moron, beautiful weather going for a cruze see ya around 11 pm...

also false! you are mistaking my interest in the absurd with your imaginary charisma.
yo self?

...

I win.

I was just checking to see if your account was linked to your email so I could mess with you like I do to a few other libtarts around here. But it's cool with me you win, here is yo prize...

 

[daws101]

that's also false
I came to watch the train wreck you call posting .....

See, ya just can't control yo-self, rolmao...
See you later moron, beautiful weather going for a cruze see ya around 11 pm...

also false! you are mistaking my interest in the absurd with your imaginary charisma.
yo self?

...

I win.

I was just checking to see if your account was linked to your email so I could mess with you like I do to a few other libtarts around here. But it's cool with me you win, here is yo prize...

You just fucked yourself.

 

[Moonglow]

See, ya just can't control yo-self, rolmao...
See you later moron, beautiful weather going for a cruze see ya around 11 pm...

also false! you are mistaking my interest in the absurd with your imaginary charisma.
yo self?

...

I win.

I was just checking to see if your account was linked to your email so I could mess with you like I do to a few other libtarts around here. But it's cool with me you win, here is yo prize...

You just fucked yourself.

It's well worn out....