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Daily Kos: Reagan Revolution Home To Roost -- In Charts
Leap Day will mark the start of "The Year of the Frog"
I choose to take this as a good sign.
Meanwhile in politics:
Photographic proof! Calvin Coolidge actually a sleeper agent for the Red Menace!
One of the things I'm amused at is the Republicans attacking Obama as someone who glosses over complicated issues with optimistic generalities-- while at the same time the Republicans kowtow to the idol of Saint Reagan.
I choose to take this as a good sign.
Meanwhile in politics:
Photographic proof! Calvin Coolidge actually a sleeper agent for the Red Menace!
One of the things I'm amused at is the Republicans attacking Obama as someone who glosses over complicated issues with optimistic generalities-- while at the same time the Republicans kowtow to the idol of Saint Reagan.
Twenty Years Ago Today
Oct. 19th, 2007 11:33 pm
20 years ago was the "Black Monday" stock market crash of 1987.
I happened to be in Washington, D.C. visiting an aunt. Taking the subway downtown the next morning, I saw men in expensive suits buying bottles of liquor on their way to work. Possibly that was their usual routine, but I doubted it.
I went to the bank and withdrew cash. I was surprised there was no substantial line. I thought bank runs were supposed to be the usual procedure in such circumstances.
I was a bit frustrated to be away from New Orleans on vacation when this happened, as for some time I'd had a contingency radio show planned to do in case of stock market crash, with tunes from the '29 crash. "Damn, I'm missing my chance."
And President Reagan's words of reassurance were almost the same as Herbert Hoover's. I thought, Don't they keep an index card in a drawer in the desk at the Oval Office, marked "In case of stock market crash, DON'T SAY THIS:"...
Were a few friends of mine and I the only ones who remembered history? A few days later my friends and I talked it over. One said that the Republicans bring a boom, then a bust. I cracked wise "Y'know why people aren't jumping out of windows on Wall Street this time? In modern skyscrapers you can't open the windows." A friend noted some recent murders in the news, which to him showed that investors were a hair smarter this time, since instead of killing themselves, they were killing their brokers.
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Unlike '29, things bounced back fairly quickly then. Now the $ is below the Euro and falling rapidly -- anyone got "Whip Inflation Now" buttons left over from the Ford administration? I'm sure they'll work just as well now as they did then.
Here in Lou'ziana, we're voting on a pile of stuff tomorrow. We'll see if Eddie Haskell becomes our next governor in the first round, or if he'll have to go to a run off with either John Goodman, Matlock, or Mr. Spock with Stephen Colbert's face. (Eddie Haskell is running under the name "Bobby Jindal" as the Republican Whiz Kid. Is there anywhere outside of the Republican Party in Louisiana and maybe Mississippi where someone who has sycophantically supported everything the Bush adminstration has bungled and advocated teaching Creationism is talked about as supposedly being "very smart"?)
Yay, Onion!
Jun. 30th, 2004 11:47 amOne of the better issues of The Onion in a while.
Reagan Pyramid:
"Slave manpower was doubled this week in an effort to ensure that erection of the gigantic Reagan Pyramid remains on schedule to be completed in time for the 40th president's mummification and ascension into the Afterworld [...] Buried with Reagan will be his finest treasures, including 2,500 MX intercontinental ballistic missiles, 15 stealth bombers, a golden chalice of jelly beans, and his most prized servant, former president George Bush Sr."
Opinion: I Should Not Be Allowed to Say
the Following Things about America
"As Americans, we have a right to question our government and its actions. However, while there is a time to criticize, there is also a time to follow in complacent silence. And that time is now. [...] Once the blood of young men starts to spill, it is our duty as citizens not to challenge those responsible for spilling that blood. We must remove the boxing gloves and put on the kid gloves. That is why, in this moment of crisis, I should not be allowed to say the following things about America: "
Read all about it
Reagan Pyramid:
"Slave manpower was doubled this week in an effort to ensure that erection of the gigantic Reagan Pyramid remains on schedule to be completed in time for the 40th president's mummification and ascension into the Afterworld [...] Buried with Reagan will be his finest treasures, including 2,500 MX intercontinental ballistic missiles, 15 stealth bombers, a golden chalice of jelly beans, and his most prized servant, former president George Bush Sr."
Opinion: I Should Not Be Allowed to Say
the Following Things about America
"As Americans, we have a right to question our government and its actions. However, while there is a time to criticize, there is also a time to follow in complacent silence. And that time is now. [...] Once the blood of young men starts to spill, it is our duty as citizens not to challenge those responsible for spilling that blood. We must remove the boxing gloves and put on the kid gloves. That is why, in this moment of crisis, I should not be allowed to say the following things about America: "
Read all about it
As the official orgy of worship of the newly Deified Caesar reaches its climax, I mark the day with what I hope will be my last post on Ronald Reagan. Here are links to the best of the articles about him I've seen recently.
Eulogy For Ronald Reagan: I go all the way back with Ronzo. on Hugh's Ominous Blog (via the ever froggeriphic![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
hyla_regilla)
Death of a Salesman by Tom Carson snarky but perceptive Menckenesque obit in Village Voice (viaronebofh)
Ronald Reagan in Truth and Fiction by Alexander Cockburn, on CounterPunch (viatestcase)
I Remember Ronnie byvyoma
And finally, to quotehephaestos:
"Get him in the ground already. It's summer, and we're running out of ice."
Eulogy For Ronald Reagan: I go all the way back with Ronzo. on Hugh's Ominous Blog (via the ever froggeriphic
hyla_regilla)Death of a Salesman by Tom Carson snarky but perceptive Menckenesque obit in Village Voice (via
ronebofh) Ronald Reagan in Truth and Fiction by Alexander Cockburn, on CounterPunch (via
testcase)I Remember Ronnie by
vyomaAnd finally, to quote
hephaestos:"Get him in the ground already. It's summer, and we're running out of ice."
In Memoriam
Jun. 6th, 2004 06:54 am"My fellow Americans, I'm pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes." - 1984
"If there has to be a bloodbath, then let's get it over with." - 1969
"Trees cause more pollution than automobiles do." - 1981
"Libya has now gone Communist, and that's a sign that the day of Armageddon isn't far off." - 1971
"I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself." - 1985
Yes yes, I know, I am going strait to Hell if anything in the above fails to show proper respect and unlimited affection for the greatest, most intelligent, and most holy leader ever.
Sorry, but I've had more than my fill already of the genuflection-fest before the idol of Saint Ronnie, and I expect to have to endure more of it this evening.
[Evil Froggy waunders off mumbling to himself] Deficit Just Say No October Surprise Record Treason Nicaragua World Court Salvador Guatemala Terrorism Info still supressed
"If there has to be a bloodbath, then let's get it over with." - 1969
"Trees cause more pollution than automobiles do." - 1981
"Libya has now gone Communist, and that's a sign that the day of Armageddon isn't far off." - 1971
"I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself." - 1985
Yes yes, I know, I am going strait to Hell if anything in the above fails to show proper respect and unlimited affection for the greatest, most intelligent, and most holy leader ever.
Sorry, but I've had more than my fill already of the genuflection-fest before the idol of Saint Ronnie, and I expect to have to endure more of it this evening.
[Evil Froggy waunders off mumbling to himself] Deficit Just Say No October Surprise Record Treason Nicaragua World Court Salvador Guatemala Terrorism Info still supressed
