Let me add a little rant from Tom Toles, since it seems appropriate:

Okay, I'm calling it. On the same authority that the Wizard of Oz cited, the Universitatus Committeeatum e pluribus unum, I'm officially declaring the Reagan Era at a close. I think we can all agree on the name. Republicans never tire of naming any stationary object after Mr. Morning, and the rest of us can acknowledge that his shadow fell across the period that began with empty smiles and ended in genuine tears. The 60's were the 60's, and the 70's were the 70's. Decades with a clear character or lack of one. The 80's were decidedly the 80's. But the 90's were really just more 80's, and the 00's were still more 80's.

The proximate marker that caused me to bracket this period and make this declaration was this graph that appeared in The Post showing Americans' savings rates. It shows a pretty straight-line decline from the early Reagan years until the Great W Recession. Yes, I'm naming that, too. The savings rate has now started going back up. It's just one indicator, but representative enough to seal the deal.

What was the defining characteristic of the Reagan Era? MAKE BELIEVE. Deficits described as Discipline. Recklessness dressed up as Rectitude. Ideology substituting for Information. Optimism as a cover for Opportunism. It seemed too good to be true, and it was. What comes next? Don't ask me just now. I've done enough here for one day. --Tom Toles

Sorry, he crossed the line when he turned informer.  Labor Activist because he was a union member?  Hardly.. OTOH no one is static.  He spent the majority of his life with his tongue up the cheeks of the Repugnants.  Once he connected to Nancies family, well it was deep into darkness after that.

Dmtdust wrote:

Sorry, he crossed the line when he turned informer.  Labor Activist because he was a union member?  Hardly.. OTOH no one is static.  He spent the majority of his life with his tongue up the cheeks of the Repugnants.  Once he connected to Nancies family, well it was deep into darkness after that.

Do I need to remind you that he was not only an avid activist he was the union president?

Wikipedia wrote:

Reagan was first elected to the Board of Directors of the Screen Actors Guild in 1941, serving as an alternate. Following World War II, he resumed service and became 3rd Vice president in 1946. The adoption of conflict-of-interest bylaws in 1947 led the SAG president and six board members to resign; Reagan was nominated in a special election for the position of president and subsequently elected. He would subsequently be chosen by the membership to seven additional one-year terms, from 1947 to 1952 and in 1959.

You need to take a deep breathe and ack the fact that both parties serve the same masters; the aristocrats democrats are actually more firmly attached to the corporate tit than the repugnants.

Maybe it's time you voted with your feet?


(btw: turns out he was right about the communists)

(btw: turns out he was right about the communists)

BS.  I met people in Hollywood, later on that he helped black list.  Socialist? Yeah, Communist? SRSLY?  SAG is not like the UAW, or any union I have been a member of.  SAG came about because of the abuse of the studios. 

I am not attached to the Democrats either.  Their evil is just a bit lighter on the consumption level.

Emmeran wrote:

You need to take a deep breathe and ack the fact that both parties serve the same masters; the aristocrats democrats are actually more firmly attached to the corporate tit than the repugnants.

Yes, and it's a good thing for most of us. Corporations, when not governed by robber-barons, blindly religious bigots or just plain old sado/top assholes, recognize that continuing sales of their products depend entirely on the health and prosperity of the middle class. Repugnants and their Masters don't. No wonder that one of them has just compared preschool to Nazi indoctrination in a hate-fueled outpouring of bile: They never learned to play well with others or to share.

Emmeran wrote:

But one accidental click brought me to the cover of that issue...and I am now officially nauseous.
http://dam.kargo.com/access/show/id/Mob … 0/file.jpg

I didn't realize that the Canadian word "girly" was spelled s-u-p-e-r in the USA.

Getting back to RWR: