There’s Something About Joans
AstroTurf and Internet sock puppets are valued tools in the hope chest of propaganda, but one Reagan Library fan has fallen back on a steady method appropriate for America’s Sunset President
– the letter to the editor from a deeply concerned citizen.
Joan Marie Patsky is a realtor who donates to the Library, but she doesn’t let this connection cloud her vision one bit.
The Reagan Library’s new Discovery Center features students reenacting of the Grenada invasion, and even as fizzy event as that is presented in a spectacularly hoked up version.
Joan is so thrilled by the place she’s written various papers at least three letters to the editor praising the new vision quest.
She states the kool-aided uncontradictable:
“Creative education recently took a giant leap forward at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library’s grand opening of the Air Force One Discovery Center in Simi Valley“
She furthers the Reagan Library’s mission 
to insert Nancy Reagan into as many contexts as possible, while confusing the real plane for a fake one:
“There is also a replica of the historic Boeing 707 Air Force One aircraft that carried the president and Mrs. Reagan on important missions that shaped global history.”
But sometimes she gets that it’s a real plane in service of the make believe:
“the powerful presence of the Presidential Air Force One Boeing 707 that is a historical symbol of the Reagan policy of a strong national defense and proactive involvement in global diplomacy.”
And sometimes the vapors overcome her and she makes no sense at all:
“Let education be the destination and experience the human dignity values of American democracy!”
Boyhood Home Revealed! 
Excitement reins at Ferry Farm, scene of George Washington cannoting to tell a lie 
and other legends. An archaeological dig has revealed the foundations of what is thought to be his childhood home.
The Ferry Farm drawing bares a remarkable resemblance to the house built near Washington’s birthplace in the early 20th Century. 
That house was built on a site misidentified by Washington’s adopted son, George Washington Custis.
Telltale Ferry Farm remnants include a masonic pipe and a type of gem often traded from India to West Africa, and presumably brought to Virginia through some path coming out of the slave trade.
You can go back to near the birth of the Father of Our Country, but you can’t escape Original Sin!
These Are Those Pants 
Reagan-naming Americans like these proud Hoosiers won’t let the flooding of the often troubled Reagan Parkway stand in the way of their ribbon cutting.
The off road ceremony was reminiscent of Reagan’s Second Inaugural, with it’s death cheating avoidance of a William Henry Harrison situation by moving indoors. 
The official rationale for the iron wave of Reagan-named people, places and things is his place in the beating heart of the American public.
But those perennial scolds at FAIR remind us of some actual facts about the gaseous vapors of public opinion. Despite strenuous efforts to assert his enduring love affair with the American people, Ronald Reagan’s approval in office scored lower than most post World War Presidents. Lower than Roosevelt, Eisenhower, Kennedy, and sad old Lyndon Johnson.
Even just before his 1980 clobbering, poor Jimmy Carter was found to be personally more “likable” than Reagan in a comparable period.
Dreams From My Fathers 
Barack Obama continues his stroll with greatness, now planning to hype the Reagan and JFK comparisons to dizzy new heights by taking his act to Berlin.
Other pols have gotten some of that Platz Pizazz too. 
The Wall may be gone, but lives in voters of a certain age’s mental film archives. Combined with the incessant cable news dribble and drone about “iconic imagery,” he should have a good day.
And the expected Obama lovefest from Germany’s most left-wing city may resonate with those Americans who cringe at the image George W. Bush has projected abroad recently.
There’s a lot to overcome, even on the ground in Berlin. 
The justly hated new American embassy is convenient to the Brandenburg Gate, so over time all the world can come to appreciate this really nice college dorm building.
Bring Us Together 
Hearts aflutter at the Nixon papers in the US Archives Maryland facility – yes, they are still hanging on there until the Yorba Lindists build enough space in their “library” to hold actual documents.
Apparent National Archives intern Eneuman blogs about College Park creeps… until she meets a boy.
“I did meet a cute guy on the bus. Unfortunately he’s going back to wherever he came from-either Santa Barbara Cali or somewhere in Ohio. He was a researcher at the Nixon library and I met him on the bus. Had a discussion about the research, etc. He was soo my type (burly hiker hippie dude..kind of?)”
Still Pulling The Babes! 
