February 06, 2010

Happy Birthday Mr. President



I do not believe that I am capable of articulating how much I miss Pres. Reagan or how much he means to my life.  I firmly believe that without him and Mrs. Thatcher, there would have been nuclear war and the Soviet Union would never have collapsed in the manner it did. 

Happy Birthday, Mr. President.  I know the Moron Horde misses you terribly. 

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1 So ummmm, what's the procedure for this?

Posted by: Veeshir at February 06, 2010 05:52 PM (Y3ISy)

2 Duh, double posting is part of the AoSHQ lifestyle.

Posted by: alexthechick at February 06, 2010 06:01 PM (TtXKB)

3 True, and at least it's Ronnie Raygun and not just some big-tittied Japanese girl. 

Posted by: Veeshir at February 06, 2010 06:58 PM (22QX2)

4 During his time in office, he was known as "Pepre Reagan" in our house. :-)

Posted by: Scoop11 at February 06, 2010 07:13 PM (AEmfc)

5 I do not believe that I am capable of articulating how much I miss Pres. Reagan or how much he means to my life.

Ditto.

Posted by: Andy at February 06, 2010 08:29 PM (f1o8E)

6 An 18 year old voter was born in 1992.  s/he has (1) never lived contemporaneously with the Soviet Union, (2) ditto for Reagan's presidency.  The Cold War is an offhanded joke in the first Austin Powers movie... which was released when these chillin'z were in kindergarten.

Posted by: JoeCollins at February 06, 2010 11:03 PM (jtJig)

7 I don't remember Reagan's presidency, I was a little kid.

Posted by: doubleplusundead at February 06, 2010 11:24 PM (N/KIT)

8 I was in 1st Grade when he beat Carter, and he essentially was the President up to the time I started High School. I grew up in a Republican household, so I always just assumed he was great. It took me studying him after he left office, studying his works and writings, living through the fall of Communism and the economic boom, as well as seeing some of the foolishness of his successors to realize how great he was.

Maybe it was and is a by product of how old I was at the time, but he always seemed comforting to me when I saw him on TV (and my dad did love to watch the news and imbued in me a desire to be aware of all of the shit going on beyond what Optimus Prime had shoved up Megatron's ass of what the A Team blew up that week). He struck me as a reassuring, tough but lovable, grandfather type.

Posted by: eddiebear at February 07, 2010 12:15 AM (XjQLq)

9 yeah, I was pretty young too (born 1979), but I was interested in politics early and my parents had a subscription to Newsweek.  I remember reading political cartoons about the Soviet war in Afghanistan, Reagan being on TV after the Challenger disaster, and the 1988 Presidential election.  Super-nerd alert: I programmed the VCR to record GHWB's inauguration in 1989.

For Christmas 1991, one of my gifts was some edu-tainment board game that referenced the Soviet Union.  It was obsolete the moment I opened it up.

So I can't say I have deep, well-formed memories of Reagan's presidency.  Virtually nobody under the age of 30 would.  (Guess who voted for Barry...  The under 30's.)

Posted by: JoeCollins at February 07, 2010 12:36 AM (jtJig)

10 (Guess who voted for Barry...  The under 30's.)

Hey! Not all of us did. Let's see... *looks for five minutes to find exit polling* 32% of people 18-24 and, dear God, 31% of people 25-29 voted for McLame.

It's also interesting to look at the education breakdown. People who went to some college/community college/college graduates were statistically split between McCain and Obama. People who have a high school education or less and people who went to postgraduate school broke hard for Obama. Never let the liberals say they are for the middle class.

I was just a year and a half old when Reagan left office and I have to say I am incredibly glad that I was born under a great president. Obviously I wasn't old enough to appreciate him while he was in office, or even during his lifetime, but I sure do appreciate him now. Every time I hear or read one of his speeches and compare it to the words of the current occupant of the White House, it just depresses me.

PS. I totally have a picture of Reagan hanging on my wall.

Posted by: Jeff M at February 07, 2010 01:25 AM (8P3+x)

11 I used to date this girl, circa 1986, and I'm still pissed off at her.
My favorite poster was one of a manly body, all Ahnuld-looking, holding a belt-fed machine gun like an M-60, with a jungle in the background.
It had Ronnie's head and the caption was "Ronbo".

She threw that one and the bicycle race poster from Queen away.

Bitch.

Posted by: Veeshir at February 07, 2010 12:59 PM (C7b1Y)

12 Microsoft Outlook Microsoft office suite is a component of Windows comes with Outlook express its functions were expanded.download Outlook many functions, you can use it to send and receive email, manage contact information, diary, scheduling, allocation of tasks.

Posted by: outlook 2010 at May 13, 2011 10:38 PM (juWhO)

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