In walks the dog...
The joke from yesterday is fixed now. Check it out–it really does have a
punch line. Thanks to everyone that pointed out that the link was broken–without
you, the joke would have been on me!
Others words
In our country’s rush to pay its respects and publically mourn, it is also
important to remember and analyze our history fairly, and to maintain a balance
to the PC statements of the mainstream media. If you have missed these columnists’
words, I urge you to follow the links and read their columns.
David Corn, The Nation, 66 (Unflattering) Things About Ronald Reagan:
"The firing of the air traffic controllers, winnable nuclear war, recallable
nuclear missiles, trees that cause pollution, Elliott Abrams lying to Congress,
ketchup as a vegetable, colluding with Guatemalan thugs, pardons for F.B.I.
lawbreakers, voodoo economics, budget deficits, toasts to Ferdinand Marcos,
public housing cutbacks, redbaiting the nuclear freeze movement, James Watt."
(list
of 52 more...)
Tom Carson, Village Voice, Death of a Salesman:
"Ronald Reagan is the man who destroyed America's sense of reality—a
paltry target, all in all, given our predilections. It only took an actor:
the real successor to John Wilkes Booth. In our bones, we had always been
this sort of bullshit-craving country anyhow...."
"....But it was Reagan, whose most profound Freudian slip was the immortal
"Facts are stupid things," who beguiled us into living in the theme
park full-time...."(more...)
William Rivers Pitt for Truthout:
"The truth is straightforward: Virtually every significant problem facing
the American people today can be traced back to the policies and people that
came from the Reagan administration. It is a laundry list of ills, woes and
disasters that has all of us, once again, staring apocalypse in the eye....."
"....His famous question, "Are you better off now than you were four years
ago?" is easy to answer. We are not better off than we were four years
ago, or eight years ago, or twelve, or twenty. We are a badly damaged state,
ruled today by a man who subsists off Reagan's most corrosive final gift to
us all: It is the image that matters, and be damned to the truth."(more...)
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