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Norton
Social climber
the Wastelands
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Feb 11, 2011 - 09:43pm PT
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'President Reagan fails to reconize his only
black Cabinet member, Housing Secretary
Samuel Pierce, at a White House reception
for big city mayors. "How are you, Mr. Mayor?"
he greets him. "I'm glad to meet you.
How are things in your city?"
6/12/1981
'I was in such a hurry, I wrote my last
name first.'
Reagan, after signing his
tax reform bill 'Reagan Ronald'
Believe
"It's difficult to believe that people are still starving in this
country because food isn't available.
Beirut
"He may be willing to surrender, but I am not."
Reagan attacking Tip O'Neill's advocacy of a pullout
of Beirut 2/2/1984
President Reagan announces plans to get the Marines
out of Beirut and onto offshore ships, describing the
retreat as "decisive new steps." His spokesman says
"We don't consider this as a withdrawal but more of
a redeployment." 2/7/1984
Bloodbath
If it takes a bloodbath, let's get it over with.
Ronald Reagan, April 7th, 1970
Governor of California & soon-to-be US President,
on his attitude towards student civil rights activists,
dissenters, & Vietnam War protestors
Braille
President Reagan tells a $2,500-per-ticket
GOP fundraiser in Cinncinnati about a letter from
a blind supporter. "He wrote in Braille,"
the President claims, "to tell me that if
cutting his pension would help get this
country back on its feet, he'd like to have me
cut his pension."
Reagan 11/30/1981
Bullsh#t
"We have never interfered in the internal government
of a country and have no intention of doing so,
never have had any thought of that kind."
Ronald Reagan, 1982
Communist
"How do you tell a Communist?
Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin.
And how do you tell an anti-Communist?
It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin."
Ronald Reagan
Source:http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Ronald.Reagan.Quote.717A
Curiosity
Why should we subsidize intellectual curiosity?
Ronald Wilson Reagan
Source:Omni, Mar 1988
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Norton
Social climber
the Wastelands
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Feb 11, 2011 - 09:44pm PT
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Bill Kristol has the intellect of a high school kid.
I would take him apart in any fact based debate.
Childs play, every damn one of them.
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Mimi
climber
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Feb 11, 2011 - 09:52pm PT
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fatty, I beg to differ. There were several people speaking up lately recollecting about Uncle Ron for his centennial. His sharp wit and decisive character belie an intellect not common in all politicians, i.e., BO.
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Norton
Social climber
the Wastelands
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Feb 11, 2011 - 09:56pm PT
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Kristol is elitist, anti middle class, and fundamentally dishonest in his ideology.
I would welcome a shot at him.
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Norton
Social climber
the Wastelands
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Feb 11, 2011 - 09:59pm PT
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"I don't believe a tree is a tree and if you've seen one you've seen them all."
--Governor Ronald Reagan, in the Sacramento Bee, September 14, 1966
"All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk."
--Ronald Reagan (Republican candidate for president), quoted in the Burlington (Vermont) Free Press, February 15, 1980. (In reality, the average nuclear reactor generates 30 tons of radioactive waste per year.)
"I have flown twice over Mount St. Helens. I'm not a scientist and I don't know the figures, but I have a suspicion that one little mountain out there, in these last several months, has probably released more sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere than has been released in the last ten years of automobile driving or things of that kind."
--Ronald Reagan, quoted in Time magazine, October 20, 1980. (According to scientists, Mount St. Helens emitted about 2,000 tons of sulfur dioxide per day at its peak activity, compared with 81,000 tons per day produced by cars.)
"Growing and decaying vegetation in this land are responsible for 93 percent of the oxides of nitrogen."
--Ronald Reagan, quoted in the Los Angeles Times, October 9, 1980. (According to Dr. Michael Oppenheimer of the Environmental Defense Fund, industrial sources are responsible for at least 65 percent and possibly as much as 90 percent of the oxides of nitrogen in the U.S.)
"Approximately 80 percent of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation. So let's not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough emission standards for man-made sources."
--Ronald Reagan, quoted in Sierra, September 10, 1980
"I've said it before and I'll say it again. The U.S. Geological Survey has told me that the proven potential for oil in Alaska alone is greater than the proven reserves in Saudi Arabia."
--Ronald Reagan, quoted in the Detroit Free Press, March 23, 1980. (According to the USGS, the Saudi reserves of 165.5 billion barrels are 17 times the proven reserves--9.2 billion barrels--in Alaska.)
"Why should we subsidize intellectual curiosity?"
--Ronald Reagan, campaign speech, 1980
"Trains are not any more energy efficient than the average automobile, with both getting about 48 passenger miles to the gallon."
--Ronald Reagan, quoted in the Chicago Tribune, May 10, 1980. (The U.S. Department of Transportation calculates that a 14-car train traveling at 80 miles per hour gets 400 passenger miles to the gallon. A 1980 auto carrying an average of 2.2 people gets 42.6 passenger miles to the gallon.)
"It's silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home by Christmas."
--Ronald Reagan (candidate for Governor of California), interviewed in the Fresno Bee, October 10, 1965
"I have a feeling that we are doing better in the war than the people have been told."
--Ronald Reagan, in the Los Angeles Times, October 16, 1967
"...the moral equal of our Founding Fathers."
--President Reagan, describing the Nicaraguan contras, March 1, 1985
"Fascism was really the basis for the New Deal."
--Ronald Reagan, quoted in Time, May 17, 1976
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Fritz
Trad climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Feb 11, 2011 - 10:00pm PT
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Fattrad: As a "liberal, treehugger, Pagan."
I need to say!
You are a lot of fun!
Thank you for your good-natured humor!
You right-wing dog!
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Norton
Social climber
the Wastelands
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Feb 11, 2011 - 10:05pm PT
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Norton
Social climber
the Wastelands
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Feb 11, 2011 - 10:07pm PT
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Norton
Social climber
the Wastelands
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Feb 11, 2011 - 10:13pm PT
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Good nature, Jeff?
Really?
All you do is insult.
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couchmaster
climber
pdx
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Feb 11, 2011 - 11:17pm PT
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So I won, and LEB LOST all LEB hates me she won't even ask me about cactus anymore, since she knows she is too stupid to talk like she knows anything at all You guys are just trying to incite me over this, of course But I have the last laugh, she is gone, and I was instrumental in getting rid of her and I am a Genius by your accounting
Well, LEB does own you F, but right now she'd be welcome if she'd show up and school you on the use of periods and capitalization in sentence structure.
Glanton: LOLLLLLLL!
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Mimi
climber
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Feb 11, 2011 - 11:46pm PT
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Craig Fry-daddy, the Norwegian sheepbugger, I won't give you the benefit of the frivolous title, Dr.
The fact that you don't have a clue about William F. Buckley, Jr. is telling.
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Mimi
climber
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Feb 11, 2011 - 11:52pm PT
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How about Goldwater, AC?
You are such a pathetic loser as far as intellectuals go. Any intellectual in your bracket is a nasty clown.
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Wade Icey
Trad climber
www.alohashirtrescue.com
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Feb 11, 2011 - 11:55pm PT
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We are not amused,
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Mimi
climber
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Feb 12, 2011 - 01:07am PT
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You are both self-actualized sheepbuggers. Officially. Class-A morons, too.
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Feb 12, 2011 - 01:23am PT
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Mimi, to interact with losers is a waste of time.
The whole American conservative/liberal debate is a perfect example of the dumbing-down of a once-great country. Don't be a part of it.
Love
D
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Mimi
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Feb 12, 2011 - 01:46am PT
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Since you put it that way...why aren't we grilling and imbibing at this very moment?! It's Friday night afterall! I rarely get on here anymore and you remind me why I shouldn't. Thanks a lot.
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damo62
Social climber
Brisbane
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Feb 12, 2011 - 01:52am PT
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Wade, is that a coffin or a commode?
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Feb 12, 2011 - 11:59am PT
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for a liberal, you're kind of a dork...
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Feb 12, 2011 - 12:06pm PT
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That about covers it
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Feb 12, 2011 - 12:18pm PT
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Only a dork would ask that question.
at least Crowly gets it.
Dude, i'm pretty much on the same page with you politically, and I even have a degree in Science (Geo/Paleontology). But watching you interact with people online is painful! Tune down the hyperbole, stay rational like a scientist should. You don't see Ed flying off like that.
Only because you asked.
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