How cute is that last picture?

I am listening to the funeral on the radio at work. I am big old crying mess. I lost it when Bush Sr choked up. And when they said that he only gets lonely when Nancy leaves the room.

for the love of... move on.

I love the one in the middle! Reminds me of a similar poster
http://www.funet.fi/pub/culture/russian/html_pages/images/ty1.jpg
from the good old days.

Ivan,

I was in a Russian restaurant in Brooklyn a few days ago and they had that posted. I meant to take a photo of it for the Commissar but forgot.

Yeah, I'm sure they miss him in Beverly Hills and Greenwich and Palm Beach and the Nazi cemetery in Bitburg, where he laid a wreath to honor Waffen SS soldiers buried there. They died in the middle of a war to exterminate the Jews and Russia, so of course Reagan will be missed.

Straws, Grasping, Michael. Make a sentence out of that.

Grasping at straws, Karol ignored the point of my comment.

So let me ask you directly: do you approve of decorating the war graves of the SS?

Michael, I never heard of that story but obviously the answer is no. But, even if true, that story will not make a .00000000000000001% dent in his legacy which was far reaching and amazing. The proof is that the best you can come up with is some obscure story that doesn't matter one iota.

Jews were miffed at Reagan about the NAZI cemetary visit. He tried to make up for it by adding a visit to a concentration camp to his itinerary.

I heard about that story. I forget the details, but Reagan was supposed to honor Allied soldiers who died fighting in WWII. Instead, he was accidentally taken to a Nazi cemetery.

Was it a big mistake? Yes. Was it Reagan's mistake? No.
Anybody who thinks Reagan really meant to honor the Nazis is a mental midget.

did you know that one time in the late seventies upon receiving his chinese food order he tipped the delivery boy only $4 - which worked out to slightly less than 15% of his bill?

what a fuckin prick - i hope history never forgets that.

Peter, it was NOT a mistake. It happened in May 1985. I was working in Washington then (as now) and I remember the protests in this country and Israel for days in advance of the Bitburg cemetery visit. Elie Wiesel gave an impassioned speech days before the event. He practically begged Reagan not to visit the cemetery, but Reagan had made a political commitment to the West German chancellor to go to the cemetery as part of the "reconciliation" effort to return Germany to the company of free nations. It was a gesture to mark the 40th anniversary of the end of World War II, and go he did. He knew precisely what he was doing. The visit was planned (and announced) weeks in advance. There was a tremendous uproar, which anyone over 35 remembers vividly.

I will never forget ex-President Reagons visit to the Bitburg cemetary on the 5th of May 1985. I was there and inside the cemetary to witness the event and have photographs of this historical occassion. Those is no doubt that this action led to stronger ties between Germany and eventually lead to the fall of the Berlin wall. Respect was cordially shown to soldiers of the opposition who lost their lives(note: all soldiers are under military orders from upper chiefs). I just wished President Reagon had managed to survive one more day to have had the chance himself to finally see the gesture was recipricated by the current German Chancellor Schroeder taking 19 years to pay respects to his opposition, all who perished helped to make the world as it is today. Without President Reagon this would not have been possible. As a military child the fall of the Berlin wall caused the high school I graduated to close and I personally went to my school and saved all of my high school trophies which will eventually be housed in the USDESEA Museum based at Wichita. Reagons gesture at Bitburg as deeply effected my life and many lives.