It Ain’t Fitting

Via the abrahamlincolnblog comes word of an Oregon Lincoln statue decapitation, now headless for the 5th time.

Ashland Oregon is the scene for this repeat crime, the latest of a string dating back to the 1950s.

Someday, Somehow, Somewhere

The problem with local governments naming any and all manner of things for Ronald Reagan is that, unlike the cursed federal government, they can’t print money. Someone, somewhere has to pay for the things.

The Gwinnett County Georgia Board of Commissioners is but the latest to discover these harsh facts. In response, they’ve thrown themselves before the magic of the marketplace: If you build it, they will pay.

They want three more miles of the Ronald Reagan Parkway and will be none too fussy who gives it to them – the road operator will have free reign to charge tolls.

Before They Were Stars

Fortunate son Michael Reagan feels dad is under-appreciated, so he’s off to Berlin to locate a proper setting to mark Ronald Reagan single handedly wrestling communism to the ground.

Michael is holding an event at the Cafe Einstein, despite the famed scientist’s notorious red ties.

It’s not like Ronald Reagan’s connection to Berlin has gone unnoticed – Berlin Wall chunks litter the Reagan landscape.
Washington’s Ronald Reagan Building

kk Dixon Illinois

Reagan Alma Mater Eureka College [one of two there]

Reagan Library Indoors

Reagan Library Outdoors

Reagan Ranch Center, Santa Barbara

Reagan On Wall Slab Aboard USS Ronald Reagan

The Red Phone Diaries

The Reagan Presidential Library has opened yet another theme-park like exhibit to complement it’s Air Force One display, taking groups of 5th and 6th graders back to the magical Reagan Era.

Students will get to play the President and his advisers in the Oval Office, officers in a military command center, and press briefers and the media in the White House Press Room.

Their mission: invade Grenada!

We are constantly told that Presidential Libraries grow more objective over time, as the death grip of the Ex, their family and their staff fades.

The Reagan Library is still very much the other way.

The Executive Director touts the new exhibit’s “unmatched creativity,” and they do take a bold approach to facts. Students will work at a simulated “Command Decision Center” from the USS Ronald Reagan, which while impressive brand loyalty is a total anachronism. The USS Reagan didn’t exist at the time of the invasion.

The Reagan Library’s description of the Grenada buildup leaves out the simultaneous Marine barracks disaster in Beirut, a story Grenada providentially removed from the headlines.

And not by accident. The Library’s John Lehane presents the Press Room mock-up as where “the White House related the scenario to the American public through the press,” which is sort of true. The press was forced to rely on Reagan Administration handouts because the Pentagon banned media from covering the invasion, overturning decades of cooperation.

Penny For Your Thoughts!

Paula Jones and Gennifer Flowers are reminding us of the classy times we can still have if Hillary Clinton clambers aboard the Ship of Hope.

The once spunky gals have launched a web site where you and all Americans can hear their still urgent thoughts on Bill Clinton’s genitalia, for the low, low price of $1.99.

It’s but the latest of their legendary money making schemes – the books [autographed copies still available for $60!], 900#s, dirty pictures and “celebrity” boxing matches.