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Rose Parade float honors Ronald Reagan
Whittier Daily News ^ | Dec. 22, 2010 | Frank C. Girardot

Posted on 12/27/2010 1:01:54 PM PST by La Enchiladita

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To: SevenofNine

Wasn’t that a great show on the Ranch? They replay it often on the tube. Oh, when does the PBS/KCET “divorce” become final? They are still raising $$$ for PBS, I am confused...


41 posted on 12/29/2010 12:59:53 PM PST by La Enchiladita (Are you kidding me??)
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To: ExTexasRedhead

This is my favorite Reagan video...updated for today’s conflicts.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoeuh-EGj7s


42 posted on 12/29/2010 1:14:26 PM PST by TheCause ("that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States")
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To: nutmeg
The best, period. There will never be another.

People talk about where they were when they heard the news about Pearl Harbor or JFK getting shot. I remember every detail of when I got the phone call that RR died.

Sad, still to this day.

Even sadder when you look at the piece of sh*t occupying 1600 Penn. Ave. today.

43 posted on 12/29/2010 1:29:09 PM PST by GOPsterinMA (RomneyCare is Mitt`s Chappaquiddick)
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To: GOPsterinMA

It was a Saturday in June....


44 posted on 12/29/2010 1:30:20 PM PST by La Enchiladita (Are you kidding me??)
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To: La Enchiladita
Oh yes. It was a gorgeous (weather-wise) day in Rockport, MA where I was. Then the call came in. Then major sadness set in.

One thing I'm grateful for, he died when a Republican was in office. The thought of any sh*tbag Rat presiding over any of his funeral/ceremony is unthinkable.

Personally, I would not have let any Rats attend any of the services, but that's me. They spit at and mocked him when he was here, then they want to pretend they respected him after he's dead? Go piss up a rope, Rats.

45 posted on 12/29/2010 1:40:28 PM PST by GOPsterinMA (RomneyCare is Mitt`s Chappaquiddick)
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To: JulieRNR21; All
Also...Ronald Reagan Stamp Commemorating 100th Anniversary of His Birth

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46 posted on 12/29/2010 1:40:42 PM PST by La Enchiladita (Are you kidding me??)
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To: GOPsterinMA

Not to mention, Oh, Zero! tried to imply some admiration for and similarity to the Great Gipper, when he is the polar opposite.


47 posted on 12/29/2010 1:45:38 PM PST by La Enchiladita (Are you kidding me??)
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To: La Enchiladita
Oh yes...the mentioning of the two of them in the same sentence is bile inducing.
48 posted on 12/29/2010 1:51:59 PM PST by GOPsterinMA (RomneyCare is Mitt`s Chappaquiddick)
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To: GOPsterinMA

Sorry.... I’m more sorry that it’s true than sorry I said it.


49 posted on 12/29/2010 1:57:03 PM PST by La Enchiladita (Are you kidding me??)
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To: La Enchiladita
Amen. It's downright disgusting to think this country went from RR to...WTH is this jack-ass’s real last name? Soetoro? Dunham? Obama? Clicking sounds? Other?

Maybe we could “quik-pik” his last name, like a lottery ticket.

50 posted on 12/29/2010 2:01:37 PM PST by GOPsterinMA (RomneyCare is Mitt`s Chappaquiddick)
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To: La Enchiladita; seekthetruth; Joe Brower; doug from upland

Beautiful stamp and link to a great website......Thanks

Just before we moved from CA to FL my late husband & I went to visit the Reagan Library. What a treasured memory!

We never did get to see the Reagan Ranch but I do support it through the Foundation. And they had many items & photos from the Ranch at the Library.

The Reagan Years were the Best of Times!


51 posted on 12/29/2010 8:26:55 PM PST by JulieRNR21 (Republicans need to remember that Americans voted a restraining order for Obama's agenda on 11/2)
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To: GOPsterinMA

I remember when the Challenger exploded. Princes Di died. 9/11 obviously. I wish they would have made more news about Reagan’s Death but it was not unexpected. The things that people remember are typically shocking events.


52 posted on 12/30/2010 8:32:23 AM PST by napscoordinator
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To: napscoordinator

Good point. Buon Anno!


53 posted on 12/30/2010 5:34:14 PM PST by GOPsterinMA (RomneyCare is Mitt`s Chappaquiddick)
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To: La Enchiladita

Jelly Belly got on the map BECAUSE of Reagan. While he was governor of California, he quit smoking and ate jelly beans to help overcome the cravings. Jelly Belly was a new and very small confectioner that supplied him then, and throughout his presidency. (They’re an OK outfit!)


54 posted on 12/30/2010 5:36:22 PM PST by GVnana (I'm a Mama Grizzly)
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To: La Enchiladita

This is so excellent.

I was really fortunate this year. I went on a road trip West and spent time with my uncle in California.

I got to go to the Reagan Library. It was really funny....the female docent there was talking to us and I mentioned that my dad had worked for the Reagan administration...and she got this conspiratorial tone and said, “What do you think of what’s going on now? We’re not supposed to talk about it....”

We had a GREAT conversation and she shared stories about Nancy coming to the museum and hosting other people....

I LOVED hearing that before his disease got the better of him... he would go into the scale model of the Oval Office and sit there like a mannekin....

What a hoot!

Love love love love love Reagan....


55 posted on 12/30/2010 6:21:07 PM PST by Winstons Julia (The liberal mantra: Never enough.)
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To: La Enchiladita
Anyway, I always get excited about the parade and think about going. Then I think of how cold and crowded, getting there early, waiting, etc., and I chicken out. The TV coverage is so wonderful and home is so cozy, LOL!!

"Cold" in southern California?! We always tune into the Rose Bowl parade on January 1st each each year and marvel at the sunshine, green grass and trees and mild weather in Pasadena! Of course winter temps here in Connecticut range from below zero to the low 40s (usually hovering in the 20s and 30s during the day). We are enjoying a heat wave of 40 degrees as I type this... ;-)

I'm just teasing ya, FRiend... best wishes to you for a happy, healthy and prosperous 2011! (And the same to our beloved Vin Scully!) Thanks for your great pings throughout the year, too.

56 posted on 12/31/2010 9:22:27 AM PST by nutmeg (The 111th Congress: Worst. Congress. Ever.)
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To: La Enchiladita

A President worth missing.


57 posted on 12/31/2010 5:13:02 PM PST by bmwcyle (It is Satan's fault)
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To: La Enchiladita; Liz; AT7Saluki; writer33
On now. Don't know if I missed it.


58 posted on 01/01/2011 8:35:25 AM PST by Libloather (Teapublican, PROUD birther, mobster, pro-lifer, anti-warmer, enemy of the state, extremist....)
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To: Libloather

When's Reagan going on Mt Rushmore?

59 posted on 01/01/2011 8:47:25 AM PST by Liz (There's a new definition of bipartisanship in Washington -- it's called "former member.")
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To: napscoordinator

I may not remember the exa ct minute when we found out Reagan had passed, but nothing will ever cause me to forget the miles. — literal miles, about 3 or 4 — of cars waiting to get off the freeway so they could park in the parking lot. And wait in a line for a bus that would take them to file in a long line through the Presidential Library in order to file past his coffin.

The lines were so long all day that I decided To go at midnight and head up there with my teenaged son. We also thought the freeway lines might be shorter coming from the north so we passed the ranch and went around and got in the freeway line the other way. If it was shorter it was not by much.. We sat on the freeway for about 4 1/2 hours. But when we reached to exit and would soon be I. The parking lot, knowing the lines and buses would take over an hour and we wee an hour from home, where my husband had to leave for work and I had babies sleeping at home, we had to give up the wait.

You always think angelinos are liberal weenies, but remember they were waiting more that 5 hours all night long, not to win the lottery, see a concert, or profit in any material way but to pay their respects to a leader they loved.

When we got right back onto the freeway to l.a. The stunning sight of the cars on the opposite side still waiting for 3-4 miles to get to the ranch, stopped like we had been in the slow lane, barely moving, and knowing they had been there all night, made tears come to my eyes.

I will never forget it.


60 posted on 01/01/2011 8:55:27 AM PST by Yaelle
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