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"She is once again with the man she loved," her stepson Michael Reagan wrote on Twitter
Now, that's pretty non specific. Will her gravestone be in the shape of Frank Sinatra's dick?
My grandma told me she was a home wrecking bitch
Jane Wyman had already bailed - Ronnie was a huge bore to be around.
Late in life, she and Nancy would sit around watching Matlock while Ron sat in the den, wondering where he was (I am not making this up). I think Jane was more than a little grateful that Nancy kept him off the streets.
Where the hell is DBoAF'ingD? Seems he would have the most profound, reflective eulogies to offer on this occasion.
Q: What would Ronald Reagan be doing if he were alive today?
Probably do something great. We have Reagan library not far from where we live, in Simi Valley. Can learn a lot about him there, not just what media let out.
Reagan was the greatest president of my lifetime. He certainly set the bar high with his list of accomplishments, really knew how to take a poor economic situation and turn it around into a winning game.
She has been holding onto all the supply side,voodoo,trickle down checks.
Nancy has passed away
If only there were a hell for her to rot in for all the death and destruction she created with her "war on drugs".
Nancy has passed away
If only there were a hell for her to rot in for all the death and destruction she created with her "war on drugs".
You are not being nice. The war on drugs was one of her plus points.
If only there were a hell for her to rot in for all the death and destruction she created with her "war on drugs".
Drugs have ruined many more lives and killed a lot more people than the "war on drugs". You'd understand that if you weren't a pothead Dan.
Drugs have ruined many more lives and killed a lot more people than the "war on drugs".
So has religion. Besides, the war on drugs has done nothing to save any of those victims. All it has done is made victims of many innocent people including children.
Furthermore, drug abuse is fundamentally a medical and social problem. Locking people up in cages is counter-productive.
You'd understand that if you weren't a pothead Dan.
I've never done an illegal drug in my life, including marijuana, and I wouldn't even if it were legal. So, are you man enough to apologize and admit your are wrong in your assumptions? I didn't think so.
Maybe if you weren't so fucked up by the pseudo-morality of religion and conservatism, you'd understand that a man can be against an injustice that does not personally affect him. I'm white, but I believe that black lives matter. I'm straight, but I believe in marriage equality. I'm a man, but I believe in equality under law for all persons regardless of gender. I believe in all these things because I'm a decent human being. That's something you'll never understand.
So has religion. Besides, the war on drugs has done nothing to save any of those victims. All it has done is made victims of many innocent people including children.
No Dan, it saved a lot of lives. Those people who did not take up drugs because of this, people who were taken off drugs because of this... those are saved lives. Drugs don't come without consequences, they ruin people. Addictions really ruin people, it controls them, it sucks their life and their choices away. It's plague upon human race.
I've never done an illegal drug in my life, including marijuana, and I wouldn't even if it were legal.
Well, that is why you don't know how it fucks people up. You've made a good choice not doing drugs. Because I've lost 2 of my great friends, drugs ruined their lives. One is still in prison, other one is dead. I'm telling you Dan, it fucks people up big time. They got most of their drugs legally through pharmacy as a gateway drug, later moved on to Heroin. It's not that cool innocent thing that people pretend it is. And I hope you one day will understand just how bad this shit is for humanity. And just to clarify, the one who is in prison isn't arrested because he did drugs, but because addiction caused him to spend all his money on drugs, lose his job, and start committing theft and other much worse crimes to afford drugs.
There are idiots that want to criticize drugs & users.
These are the same people that don't have a clue about how many different chemicals are in their bodies
that are not naturally occurring. They may not know that tests can be run to see just how fucked up they have allowed themselves to become.Of course their loved ones don't matter,either. And they have done nothing to stop chemical degradation of the environment?
They may not survive their pretzel logic value systems.
I've got to get back to researching the phrase.Critical thinking.
Gambling, Eating, Sex, Shopping, Other People, etc. why stop at drugs?
It doesn't affect people same way drugs do. Drugs take over and control persons life and ruin it. You can save your uninformed view for another day, comparing food to drugs is idiocy dude.
You could call addiction one of Nature's Last Laughs at the human race. Humans have managed to recognize drugs and exploit them to survive, proliferate, and overrun the planet.
Addiction is like a slow, infiltrating virus that affects members of the population variably, at different rates, and to different degrees, rather than a raging plague that kills addicts outright. Most addicts still manage to live to reproduce, while dragging everybody around them down in some manner on the road to the tombstone. Finding any abrupt end to addiction based on rapid, eliminating genetics is unlikely. The slow, Monte Carlo math of genetic interleaving adaptation may be the only real outcome. Genes just consider the ubiquitous presence of drugs part of the environment and adapt around them.
Drugs that prove deadly can have beneficial effects as well. Many medicines have thresholds, beneath which they are therapeutic and above which they are toxic.
Addicts are the victims of this ongoing double edged sword. However, like genetic recessive characteristics, since the benefits to the population overall are beneficial, the few that suffer the liabilities might just be the sacrificial lambs to the species advantage.
Drugs exploit the vulnerabilities of our biochemistry passively, in contradistinction to our desire to control them.
Most addicts still manage to live to reproduce, while dragging everybody around them down on the road to the tombstone.
The amazing thing is what a short time hard drugs in all their variations have been a central part of our society--one day it's XTC, the next poppers, then crack, et al. Unlike alcohol and tobacco, both of which had long histories of accepted use in social settings, for thousands of years in the case of alcohol dating back to what we call Biblical times, and the practically ubiquitous daily use of tobacco, hard drugs just kind of came out of nowhere--I was already out of college when drugs hit the ground running in the mid to late 60's and they've never stopped since then. Opium, heroin, even arsenic were available for the asking in the 19th century, but towards the end of the century their dangers were recognized and they were made controlled substances. In recent years I visited my former high school English teacher, then in his 90's and wheelchair bound but still sound of mind--he had all the yearbooks from 1951 through 1980 when he retired and it was fun to look through them; I found the first reference to drugs in the 1968 yearbook when someone referred to lighting up a joint--sounds just like today and that was 48 years ago. On a trip to LA in 1971 to attend my cousin's wedding, we'd see on every on and off ramp legions of shabby, strung out young people hitchhiking with their thumbs out, all probably from perfectly good homes but under the thrall of drugs and the counterculture which rejected straight society. Outside a restaurant a group of hippies were talking among themselves about a friend who had tested positive for hepatitis and they should get themselves tested. This was 45 years ago and it sounds perfectly modern. There's no telling how many of those transient young women in those groups fell prey to the predators who were stalking the California freeways in those years. Sexual sadist Randy Kraft, small of stature, would disable his often much stronger victims by offering them drugs laced with seditives--he is known to have murdered and sexually mutilated at least 64 young men, several of them in the military, whom he picked up between 1974 and 1983 on California and Oregon freeways then throw their bodies in plain sight onto the freeway while his car was still moving. He was finally apprehended after being stopped for a minor traffic offence in 1983 with the dead body of a marine sitting in the passenger's seat, he was trying to find a suitable place to dispose of him--he's been on death row since 1990. It would be impossible to calculate the financial and psychological damage to society and the families where drugs were the constant in some disaster be it a horrendous crime, wreck, or just the daily drag of putting up with an addicted person.
No Dan, it saved a lot of lives. Those people who did not take up drugs because of this, people who were taken off drugs because of this... those are saved lives.
Bullshit. Forbidden fruit is the sweetest and all the drug lord crime results from the war on drugs. Furthermore, all "those people" took up drugs, just ones arbitrarily on the other side of the legal line like alcohol and prescription drugs.
You really need to start putting facts before your political agendas.
I've never done an illegal drug in my life, including marijuana, and I wouldn't even if it were legal.
Well, that is why you don't know how it fucks people up.
So have you taken drugs. If so, by your own reasoning, you're fucked up and your opinion does not count. If not, then also by your own reasoning, you don't know anything and your opinion does not count.
And just to clarify, the one who is in prison isn't arrested because he did drugs, but because addiction caused him to spend all his money on drugs, lose his job, and start committing theft and other much worse crimes to afford drugs.
The same can be said of alcohol, prescription drugs, and religion. If you want to ban things that sometimes "lead to crime", then the very first thing that must be banned is religion. Remember 911? That's just one of billions of crimes committed by followers of the Abrahamic religions.
Gambling, Eating, Sex, Shopping, Other People, etc. why stop at drugs?
It doesn't affect people same way drugs do. Drugs take over and control persons life and ruin it.
And gambling, alcohol, and religion don't? You don't know shit if you believe that.
All it has done is made victims of many innocent people including children. Injured by a flash bang grenade a narc through in his room during a 'raid' to neutralize dangerous toddlers.
Gambling, Eating, Sex, Shopping, Other People, etc. why stop at drugs? Oh I thought the comment was about Nancy, my bad.
Gambling Addiction - Enlighten me how this does not ruin lives - I gotta hear this
What does this have to do with drugs? What are you trying hard to outdo Dan on dumb correlations that have no relevance to the subject? You and Dan should get together, like twins separated at birth.
And gambling, alcohol, and religion don't? You don't know shit if you believe that.
What does voices you hear in your head have to do with the topic?
Gambling Addiction - Enlighten me how this does not ruin lives - I gotta hear this
What does this have to do with drugs?
And gambling, alcohol, and religion don't? You don't know shit if you believe that.
What does voices you hear in your head have to do with the topic?
Are you really that stupid or just faking it. Gambling, alcohol, and religion have been responsible for billions of crimes. And you're arguing that the war on drugs is justified because crime caused by the outlawing of drugs exist? Crime would go down if drugs were decriminalized. Addicts would be able to get help if drugs were decriminalized. They would also be able to get jobs so they wouldn't resort to a life of crime. Not to mention all the innocent people killed or injured by the war on drugs either through gang violence or police violence.
Reality does not confirm your delusions.
Drugs have ruined many more lives and killed a lot more people than the "war on drugs". You'd understand that if you weren't a pothead Dan.
There is no war on drugs, as you cannot kill, arrest, or incarcerate a drug.
The War on Us cost me a family member. My cousin was a good kid, and if he lived in Colorado or California, he would still be alive today.
And just to clarify, the one who is in prison isn't arrested because he did drugs, but because addiction caused him to spend all his money on drugs, lose his job, and start committing theft and other much worse crimes to afford drugs.
You don't understand the concept of causation. The price of your friends heroin is what made the crime necessary. Legal mass produced heroin, while still very bad for you, would have saved him from the need to rob anyone.
It doesn't affect people same way drugs do. Drugs take over and control persons life and ruin it. You can save your uninformed view for another day, comparing food to drugs is idiocy dude.
What about the people that go blind, or lose a foot from diabetes? You think they were in control when they decided to keep downing Big Gulps and Super Sizing every meal?
A friend of mine had a divorce that was directly triggered by his gambling addiction.
What does this have to do with drugs? What are you trying hard to outdo Dan on dumb correlations that have no relevance to the subject? You and Dan should get together, like twins separated at birth.
Drugs don't come without consequences, they ruin people. Addictions really ruin people
I don't believe in dancing on someone's grave, and I hope Nancy Reagen is in a better place. But to be a puppet for such a disastrous human rights travesty will reign a certain amount of shit on you even in death...
You don't understand the concept of causation. The price of your friends heroin is what made the crime necessary. Legal mass produced heroin, while still very bad for you, would have saved him from the need to rob anyone.
I know very well how it works. Drugs will never be cheap even if legal. But it'll fuck people up just as much if not more. Because we all know that the more you allow and support something, the more you'll have of it. Guns are legal (you liberals bitch on that one all the time), they are everywhere. Drugs become legal = they'll be everywhere, along with millions more addictions and problems.
Drugs should and must be banned, drug dealers who sell to children should be shot on sight!
What about the people that go blind, or lose a foot from diabetes? You think they were in control when they decided to keep downing Big Gulps and Super Sizing every meal?
A friend of mine had a divorce that was directly triggered by his gambling addiction.
One thing at a time, can't solve every problem if you worry about everything.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/us-people-reagan-idUSKCN0W80S4
Nancy Reagan, the former actress who was fiercely protective of husband Ronald Reagan through a Hollywood career, eight years in the White House, an assassination attempt and her husband's Alzheimer's disease, died on Sunday at age 94.
The cause of death was congestive heart failure, said a spokeswoman for the Reagan presidential library. She died at her Los Angeles home.
"She is once again with the man she loved," her stepson Michael Reagan wrote on Twitter
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