Reagan’s Birthday
By Mitch Berg
It’s Reagan’s Birthday today:
I’ll be taking the kids out tonight, talking a little bit about what Reagan’s presidency meant to their future (all of it good), as well as the lies that their schools have told about the era, and what to tell to the teachers who will no doubt diss merrily away.
Oh, yeah – and jellybeans at work!
Happy Reagan’s Birthday, America!
And since I’m president for life of this blog, feel free NOT to leave snarky, disrespectful comments about President Reagan. They will not be deleted; they will be edited for my pleasure.
Just leave it. This is our thing, not yours. Pee on some other part of this blog.
February 6th, 2007 at 10:50 am
Mitch said,
“This is our thing, not yours.”
So is Bush and you’re free to have both of them. We certainly
don’t want ’emcouldn’t produce anyone fit to carry their suit-bag, as vapid and vitriol-sodden as our “movement” is.[Editor: You were warned, fairly]
February 6th, 2007 at 11:25 am
I love to quote Reagan… it annoys the moonbats.
“Double, no triple, our troubles and we’d still be better off than any other people on earth. It is time that we recognized that ours was, in truth, a noble cause.”
Or, one of his classics:
“Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.”
February 6th, 2007 at 12:10 pm
“…no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women…”
Sadly, Congress is unarmed.
February 6th, 2007 at 12:54 pm
Mitch said,
[Editor: You were warned, fairly]
That’s why I offered it
silly boyoh ye my intellectual superior in every possible way.February 6th, 2007 at 2:07 pm
I will always remember President Reagan’s birth year — 1911, same as my Grandma Johnson.
I thought both of them were indestructible and would live forever. Coincidentally, both passed away in 2004.
February 6th, 2007 at 2:22 pm
Badda gushed: “I love to quote Reagan”
Me too, Badda, me too.
“Trees cause more pollution than automobiles do.”
“All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk.”
“If you’ve seen one redwood, you’ve seen them all.”
“Facts are stupid things.”
February 6th, 2007 at 4:23 pm
BradC said: “I will always remember President Reagan’s birth year — 1911, same as my Grandma Johnson.”
If my Grandma had a johnson, she’d be my Grandpa.
February 6th, 2007 at 4:32 pm
Ladies and gentlemen, I’m deeply honored to be able to stand before you today and hand out the 2007 Lamest Joke award to AngryClown. It’s not often we present this award so early in the year, but we at the Lame Joke Academy honestly can’t imagine anybody coming anywhere near as lame as AngryClown’s Grandma Johnson joke. Not since John Kerry has such a rapier wit and natural sense of humor been so completely lacking. Congratulations, AngryClown, and we hope to see you again in 2008.
February 6th, 2007 at 4:35 pm
Yeah, Clown, gotta give this one to Yossarian. I mean, I’m normally your biggest fan (around these parts, anyway), but that was a blooper to short that ended up in a triple-play, ifyaknowwhatImean.
Hang in there, though!
February 6th, 2007 at 6:02 pm
If my Grandma had a johnson, she’d be my Grandpa.
Mangy Clown!
How nice of you to take time away from cleaning rat droppings behind your refrigerator to join in celebrating the birthday of President Reagan.
Who said you weren’t sentimental?
February 6th, 2007 at 7:36 pm
Could it be? The rapier wit and penetrating (pun intended) invective of the legendary Angryclown reduced to penis jokes?
This medium is indeed degrading. In the truest sense of the word.
February 6th, 2007 at 7:41 pm
The rapier wit and penetrating (pun intended) invective of the legendary angryclown reduced to penis jokes?
This medium is indeed degrading. In the truest sense of the word.
February 6th, 2007 at 8:28 pm
and in the spirit of the Reagan era $700.00 toilet seats, I bring you the Bush II era Penatagon…http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/05/18/MN251738.DTL
Only this time, it’s $1 Trillion missing!
The actually gained more money from the “peace dividend” that was entirely brought about by Reagan had repaid the entire cost of the Reagan “Deficit” by the mid-nineties!
Rock on Spirit of the Gipper!
February 6th, 2007 at 9:59 pm
Mitch said,
“I’ll be taking the kids out tonight, talking a little bit about what Reagan’s presidency meant to their future”
Don’t you think this is a little harsh and cruel? You could just take away their allowance and screen time like the rest of us parents. Jeez.You are indeed a better parent than nearly anyone I know.
February 7th, 2007 at 7:56 am
Opposed to the waste? Hell no!I have a pretty well stocked portfolio that includes defense contractors and oil companies.
Sure I loath George Bush and all but hey, Daddy needs his new Prius!
It’s kinda like conservatives who blab on and on about illegal immigrants and how they’re a threat to the country while they reap the benefits of cheap labor…
Were it not for Reagan, we might all be speaking Russian. Or, if we’d had another term of Carter, maybe even Farsi.
February 7th, 2007 at 7:56 am
“Reduced” to penis jokes, Kerm? “Reduced?”
I’m so very, very sad for you right now.
February 7th, 2007 at 8:10 am
“Reduced” to penis jokes, Kermit? “Reduced?”
I feel so very, very sad for you right now.
February 7th, 2007 at 11:13 am
Crap, Angryclown’s evil twin is on the loose again!
February 7th, 2007 at 11:14 am
Mitch said,
“Were it not for Reagan, we might all be speaking Russian.”
Oh Please. By 1981, we had already figured out that the entire cold war was a giant slush fund and the defense spending was pure profit for those people in on the scam.This is my favorite excerpt:
It doesn’t get any better than that.
February 7th, 2007 at 9:15 pm
Hey Mitch,
Who said,
“Everything the advocates of war said would happen hasn’t happened and all the things the critics said would happen have happened.”?