As a lifeguard Raygun saved over 70 lives...what a crock of sh*t.

[spanone]

This kind of crap is unbelievable. Heard this on CNN. I bet the Christian right is waiting for bush* to roll back the stone so RR can just float into heaven to take his righteous place next to the Saviour.

[CO Liberal]

1. Paul Harvey Started Spreading That Crap Earlier This Week...

...in his "Rest of the Story" diatribes.

I guess the folks at Snopes are gonna be busy disputing a lot of these things....

[LittleApple81]

2. Wel, potential witnesses are all dead by now so they can lie to their

hearts content.

[spanone]

3. Yea, why not make it 700? And they were all Christian Republicans....

[The Night Owl]

26. ... and they were all children.

No, babies. Yeah, that's the ticket.

Note to Murkans: Reagan also thought he fought in WWII.

[Quahog]

4. I suggest we develop a table

Two columns. On the left, lives Reagan saved. On the right, lives he snuffed out.

For the right-hand column, I suggest we begin with AIDS victims who died due to his obstinate refusal to acknowledge the magnatude of the epidemic. We could follow with Nicaraguan, Salvadoran and Guatemalan peasants who died at the hands of his death squads. Feel free to chime in here, folks.

I wonder which column would end up with more names in it? Gee, let's think....

[russian33]

5. well, according to Tom Brokaw...

..there's over 1 billion people liberated thanks to Reagan and his presidency...so there!

[Padraig18]

6. Could be true.

I live in IL, and I've heard this reported many times long before now. Bottom line is 'Who knows?'.

:shrug:

[spanone]

7. Tell me, who counts. I've grown up in a family of guards and none

kept a tally. This is more bullshit to deify the man.

[Padraig18]

9. Maybe, maybe not.

Again, who knows? I agree that it's very likely BS, however.

:shrug:

[Lars39]

8. Hmm. Six summers, 7 days a week at a river known for fast currents.

It's possible, just not verifiable. :shrug:

[Padraig18]

10. Bingo!

"It's possible, just not verifiable."

Exactly.

[spanone]

12. All things are possible. There you go!

[cosmicdot]

18. Reagan said we should 'trust but verify'

try letting some comments go by - letting others vent a bit - without having to apologize for Reagan at every turn - I'm having flashbacks to the primary threads ... remember those days?

:)

[Lars39]

20. hehe..

I stayed out of GD2004; I get queasy at the sight of blood. :)

[74dodgedart]

11. and then the movie ended..In the sequel he saved 100 lives..

Reagan: Proof that you can fool some of the people all of the time.

[mopaul]

13. ......................

[spanone]

14. leave it to mopaul to give the definitive answer.

Thanks mo

[KharmaTrain]

15. This Is Called Ragasming...It Should End Soon

Just like the ususal Repugnican orgy, it's the only time these slugs mate and it's like the Cicaddas...fast, loud and very messy.

Watching Grover Norquist this morning was beyond obnoxious. This POS bitched that JFK who was 46 and shot by a Right Wing extremist or several...and FDR who was 62 and worn out by 12 years of war and cleaning up 75 years of GOOP messes...were on coins within a year of their deaths, so should Raygun...who died at f'in 93!!! He pooh poohed the Mt. Rushmore thing (suprise) only cause it would take 25 years to do. Sheesh!

Now they're showing the "dignitaries" (white) going into the service. Kinda reminds one of watching the casting call for Judgement at Nuremburg.

Cheers!

[trogdor]

16. I ran the numbers on RR's lifeguard "record" once.

Keep in mind that a GOOD lifeguard rarely gets his feet wet. 70 lives saved would have meant going into the water to fish out some idiot who can't swim at least several times a week. How many times have YOU seen the lifeguard respond to an emergency while at the swimming hole?

[Octafish]

17. He was a DEMOCRAT then.

after he became a pug, Pruneface wouldn't lift a finger to help anyone except a rich man.

[The_Gopher]

19. but by *helping* the drowning swimmers, he was *encouraging* that behavior

if you help someone from drowning, how are they ever going to learn how to swim on their own? you just create a culture of poor swimming techniques. if someone doesn't learn how to do it on their own, then you'll always have to be helping them. and in the end, you end up doing more harm than good to the person that you saved.

goddam liberal lifeguards!

[kcwayne]

21. The mayor of the town where this took place had to be Republican

Anyone else who didn't have shit for brains would take action to stop this many occurrances from happening, if they indeed did.

[Chef]

22. Life Saving

I've seen pictures of him swimming in the Yanzee River. So it must be true.

[I thought so.]

23. Tell someone that cares.

Get a life and turn off TV. I have not watched any of it and I feel just fine.

[spanone]

24. Gotta life, but thanks anyway.

[JimT]

25. what's next?

"Visitors to his casket are being healed of all their ailments. Story at 10."

:evilgrin:

[bearfartinthewoods]

27. when I heard it, last weekend, it was 49

he's been a busy man this week.....

[maxpower]

28. I heard that

On NPR this morning, I almost drove off the road. Must be some bad swimmers in Dixon.

[I thought so.]

29. Whatever,

It must be really important now. Who the fuck cares? He's dead. Get a life. And if you are so dumb as to watch it,you get what you deserve.
Time to think of our future.