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Former First Lady Nancy Reagan Dead At 94 (nbcnews.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Former first lady Nancy Reagan has died, according to a spokeswoman with the Reagan Library. She was 94. The cause of death was congestive heart failure, according to her rep Joanne Drake. "Mrs. Reagan will be buried at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California, next to her husband, Ronald Wilson Reagan, who died on June 5, 2004," Drake wrote in a statement. May she rest in peace.
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Unlike most Republicans I have no love for the Reagans. I hope the extra years added to her life were worth the expense to millions of Americans that her husband's politics can be directly traced to. She's a murderer as far as I'm concerned.
Don't use drugs, kids.
On average.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
To cannabis legalization!!
Because only the wealthy are allowed to enjoy themselves before they hear the piper.
Bong hits. ("Just say yes")
I don't respond to AC's.
Not at a library.
Undue happiness.
Its about fucking time. Wait, was that insensitive?
Try Facebook next time.
I don't read your sig. Why are you reading mine?
Other random people dead at ages other than 94!!!
No news articles about that.
Nancy Reagan had nowhere near the level of awesomeness that was Eleanor Roosevelt, but she did a few things.
After Ronald Reagan's term in office, she devoted most of her time to caring for her him. He was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 1994, until his death at the age of 93 in 2004. Nancy remained active within the Reagan Library and in politics, particularly in support of embryonic stem cell research, until her death in 2016.
She was also well-known for her "Just say no" campaign on drugs; for replacing the White House China with a full service order from Lenox for the first time since the Truman administration; and for renovating the White House when it was in a state of disrepair, largely with private donations.
https://soylentnews.org/ does not have this.
heart failure.
by TheSpoom (715771) Uncaring Linux user here. I have nothing to add to this but please continue. *munches popcorn*
Let me be the first/second/upmteenth one to say: news for nerds, stuff that matters? In what possible way this relates to anything that might even remotely interest anyone technically/computer inclined?
I guess she was a borg - otherwise why slashdot
"You learn something out of everything, and you come to realize more than ever that we're all here for a certain space of time, and, and then it's going to be over, and you better make this count."
RIP
I am sure she'd like it. It's such a wholesome family friendly song!
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
I just can't get the image of a town full of munchkins singing and dancing in the streets. must be the alignment of the planets or something.
of the Reagan administration, the one who pushed Chief of Staff Don Regan out the door (in Reagan's second term), and later made sure that Ollie North didn't get traction in his campaign for US Senate ("he lied to Congress, and he lied to my husband. That's what I think.").
So yeah, very influential.
And I really 95 KPH mean it! Many East German Trabant cars with two-stroke, two cylinder, lawn-mover-type engine could go just as fast, with communist mandated 55 MPG fuel consumption included with the purchase.
RONALD REAGAN AND THE CONCEPTUAL AUTO DISASTER. Numerous studies have been conducted upon patients in terminal paresis (GPI), placing Reagan in a series of simulated auto crashes, e.g. multiple pileups, head-on collisions, motorcade attacks (fantasies of Presidential assassinations remained a continuing preoccupation, subject showing a marked polymorphic fixation on windshields and rear trunk assemblies). Powerful erotic fantasies of an anal-sadistic surrounded the image of the Presidential contender.
Reagan
Subjects were required to construct the optimum auto disaster victim by placing a replica of Reaganâ(TM)s head on the unretouched photographs of crash fatalities.
In 82% of cases massive rear-end collisions were selected with a preference for expressed fecal matter and rectal hemorrhages. Further tests were conducted to define the optimum model-year. These indicate that a three year model lapse with child victims provide the maximum audience excitation (confirmed by manufacturersâ(TM) studies of the optimum auto disaster). It is hoped to construct a rectal modulous of Reagan and the auto disaster of maximized audience arousal.
Motion picture studies of Ronald Reagan reveal characteristic patterns of facial tones and musculature associated with homoerotic behavior. The continuing tension of buccal sphincters and the recessive tongue role tally with earlier studies of facial rigidity (cf., Adolf Hitler, Nixon). Slow-motion cine films of campaign speeches exercised a marked erotic effect upon an audience of spastic children. Even with mature adults the verbal material was found to have a minimal effect, as demonstrated by substitution of an edited tape giving diametrically opposed opinionsâ¦
INCIDENCE OF ORGASMS IN FANTASIES OF SEXUAL INTERCOURSE WITH RONALD REAGAN. Patients were provided with assembly kit photographs of sexual partners during intercourse. In each case Reaganâ(TM)s face was super imposed upon the original partner. Vaginal intercourse with âoeReaganâ proved uniformly disappointing, producing orgasm in 2% of subjects.
Axillary, buccal, navel, aural, and orbital modes produced proximal erections. The preferred mode of entry overwhelmingly proved to be the rectal. After a preliminary course in anatomy it was found that the caecum and transverse colon also provided excellent sites for excitation. In an extreme 12% of cases, the simulated anus of post-costolomy surgery generated spontaneous orgasm in 98% of penetrations. Multiple-track cine-films were constructed of âoeReaganâ in intercourse during (a) campaign speeches, (b) rear-end auto collisions with one and three year model changes, (c) with rear exhaust assembliesâ¦
SEXUAL FANTASIES IN CONNECTION WITH RONALD REAGAN. The genitalia of the Presidential contender exercised a continuing fascination. A series of imaginary genitalia were constructed using (a) the mouth parts of Jacqueline Kennedy, (b) a Cadillac, (c) the assembly kid prepuce of President Johnsonâ¦In 89% of cases, the constructed genitalia generated a high incidence of self-induced orgasm. Tests indicate the masturbatory nature of the Presidential contenderâ(TM)s posture. Dolls consisting of plastic models of Reaganâ(TM)s alternate genitalia were found to have a disturbing effect on deprived children.
REAGANâ(TM)S HAIRSTYLE. Studies were conducted on the marked fascination exercised by the Presidential contenderâ(TM)s hairstyle. 65% of male subjects made positive connections between the hairstyle and their own pubic hair. A series of optimum hairstyles were constructed.
THE CONCEPTUAL ROLE OF REAGAN. Fragments of Reaganâ(TM)s cinetized postures were used in the construction of model psychodramas in which the Reagan-figure played the role of husband, doctor, insurance salesman, marriage counselor, etc.
The failure of these roles to express any meaning reveals the nonfunctional character of Reagan. Reaganâ(TM)s success therefore indicates socie
Once again, Slashdot is behind the curve, I read this on TMZ 5 hours ago!
Then read "firehose". Or become a patron and see news items after they're vetted but before they hit the front page.
I see two complaints a lot:
- It's not news for nerds / stuff that matters.
- It's slow.
You can't have both fast and filtered. It takes time to sift the jems from the slush.
Further: faster processing means more errors, while better (though still "imperfect") filtering means later stories. And there's no way to get the filtering right for all readers: I'm constantly finding stories I consider "news for me (a nerd) and stuff that matters (to me, a nerd)" to attract a chorus of one, or (as in this case) both, complaints.
I like Slashdot's setting of the fast - filtered tweak knob. I can always skip stuff *I* don't consider interesting, and it has a HELL of a lot of stuff I *AM* interested in, presented in a timely enough manner to be useful (when the rest of the media ignores it completely or warps it out of recognition).
Bantam Dominique roosters crow a four-note song. Once you've heard it as "Happy BIRTHday" you can't NOT hear it that way
How do we get these gorblimey posts?
How can they tell?
You are welcome on my lawn.
Nancy Reagan was born the same year the flow chart was first described in the literature. You can read the paper here.
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The witch is dead!
Ding dong!
She was predeceased by her astrologer by more than a year. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik...
What exactly did Reagan do that previous administrations back to Truman's hadn't done?
Caused Americans to imprison more of its population than China.
Hmm. Maybe.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/48/U.S._incarceration_rates_1925_onwards.png
Reagan was president from 1981 to 1988. So, he started as President after the curve of prison rate started to rise, but before it has significantly diverged from baseline. The curve continued to get steeper after he left, with the steepest part right at the transistion from (George H.W.) Bush to Clinton
But nobody noticed.
Totof
Do not forget to mention that she was responsible for the use of astrology in the decision-making process at the highest level.
Shame she's passed as I was very interested in dating this woman.
What exactly did Reagan do that previous administrations back to Truman's hadn't done?
Americans don't care what their politicians do, only what they say. Reagan talked like a conservative, but governed like a liberal, running big deficits, negotiating with Gorbachev, continuing and expanding most social spending, etc. So conservatives loved him and liberals hated him. Bill Clinton did the opposite: he talked like a liberal, but governed as a conservative. He cut welfare, balanced the budget, pushed through free market reforms and free trade agreements, and sent bombers into the Balkans. So liberals loved him, and conservatives hated him.
Both Presidents (and in fact, all Presidents since) have been Corporatist. Left, Right, sure it matters on many issues, - but both were "open for business" - ie, sellling off or leasing public lands [Both], enacting corporate friendly legislation like the DMCA [Clinton] repealing Glass-Steagall [Clinton] tax rate reform (lowering the top marginal tax rate to 28%) [Reagan], Union-busting (PATCO) [Reagan], and expanding the military industrial complex [Reagan].
All of these helped businesses. Sometimes they helped the taxpayers, though most of that is crumbs compared to what the Corporations/Wealthy got.
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Reagan did not start out negotiating with the Soviets, he initially scared the crap of them and they were convinced that Reagan was going to start a war with a pre-emptive nuclear strike.
That was seriously frightening, since their response to what they perceived as preparations by us for war was to move to launch-on-warning status, which means that an error could have catastrophic consequences.
In terms of technology, this was all a consequence of the adoption of MIRV warheads in the 70s, in which a small number of missiles launched could take out most, or possibly all, of the missiles of the other side, giving the first side to launch an overwhelming advantage.
It apparently never occurred to Reagan that the Soviets might find our moves threatening. He was so fixed in the viewpoint that the Soviets were the ones with evil intent, that he was unable to consider that they might see us as the aggressors.
Reagan slowly transitioned to a defensive posture and then finally to a de-arming posture (The Dead Hand by David Hoffman touches on this and the Soviet militaries view of the west... it's a great read). Reagan is not a demi-god but he was a lot shrewder and capable than a lot of people want to give him credit for.
He had good and bad points.
Another former FLOTUS, of a former POTUS. Who cares?
The real question, is what do we call the FLOTUS is trump becomes the POTUS? She's not the "first" lady, if you know what I mean.
I suggest Presidential Consort, or Presidential Concubine.
PCOTUS, works.
Would Slasdot have commented if Bianca Hoogendijk had died this week? Or Hannelore Graser? They are respectively former dutch and german 'first ladies'. And I will not even start on Joachim Sauer (the current husband of Angela Merkel. But then most Americans will ask "Who is Angela Merkel".
As a nerd of long standing I like Slashdot. But I am often offended by the USA-centric attitude of the editors. Why not include an european or asian collaborator? I am available.
Paai
We can start doing drugs again.
Your grandmother didn't try to stop us from getting high.
Here is some more trivia for you, on Earth 151,600 people die each day, and more than twice that number are born.
because he rolled back decades of banking, Wall Street and Commodities trading reform, not because of what he said. He also supported horrifying acts of violence in South America, helped destroy Unions and oversaw the end of American Manufacturing. His Rhetoric also paved the way for the dismantling of what little safety net we had (which to be fair Clinton actually did, but actual liberals don't like him either).
As a rule, the American left hate people for what they did, not what they said. But then again the American left has gotten so small over the years that I don't blame you for not noticing us.
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The logic (or lack of it) implied by your question:
1) Some people have murdered other people
2) Some new guy murders someone
3) It's not to be considered, because others did it before him
I've fallen off your lawn, and I can't get up.
Said Nancy's skeleton
Just say No
Said the Rasta skeleton
Blow Nancy Blow
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Fuck the Reagans. They were human waste.
Reagan was a fascist piece of shit who was responsible for many of the more draconian
measures employed by the Federal government. I don't believe a thing like hell exists but
I'd like to believe it does and that Reagan is roasting there for eternity.
The woman loved her husband dearly and the man was shot by an assassin, with bullet fragments right next to his heart. She knew at the time that her husband was FAR closer to death than the public was told - and the entire government security apparatus had failed to keep him safe.
It's no wonder that she grasped for any and all straws for hopes that her husband could be kept safe. Ron, loving his wife as dearly as he did, would surely have tried to buy her a little peace by allowing her to influence his travel schedule when it would have no significant effect if he travelled on Tuesday instead of Wednesday.
Astrology is dumb, but mostly harmless and it probably provided this woman who was in extreme distress at the time with some sense of having bought a tiny bit more safety margin for her husband. Post about YOUR intellectual coolness right after some random stranger nearly succeeds in murdering your spouse/parent/child to prove your superiority to Nancy, else try thinking before you post in the future.
Perhaps it never matters to you liberals because every assassin of Presidents in US History has been a Democrat or an Independent.
Perhaps it does not matter to a secular person like you, who views all human beings as just animals - just automated meatbags with no spiritual side and nothing that lasts beyond physical death. Why do you even bother to worry about the poor or about your descendents? It makes no more sense than a chipmunk worrying about such things if you are just an animal - you should live fast, getting all the pleasure you can and reproducing as much as possible and then die-off to leave more resources for your offspring. Of course, as just an animal there's no reason for you to worry about your offspring or even to concern yourself with how many you have, so you're just left with seeking as much pleasure as possible and then dying and forgetting all the pleasure you had. Alas, your existence is utterly pointless.
The 55 MPH speed limit in the US was a Jimmy Carter (Democrat) thing. It was a plan by the typically feckless dimwit to deal with the energy shortages at the time that were caused by his idiotic energy and foreign policy actions. Jimmy Carter was a typical liberal moron who bought-into the delusions of John Holdren, who was then peddling tales of impending global shortages of energy, minerals, and food and who is now President Obama's Science Advisor.
Instead of growing a brain and trying to solve the problems the country suffered under, Jimmy put on a sweater and went on TV to tell Americans to drive slower, and turn down their thermostats. He had no apparent concern for elderly people who would die in their cold homes, or the time people lost driving long distances at slower speeds in much of the country. Jimmy and his supporters blamed American's problems on the American people who he said were suffering from "malaise" and he claimed the world had become so complex that no one person could handle the Presidency anymore. Jimmy and his moronic policies were what elected Reagan in a gigantic landslide that no young person alive to day has ever seen. When Ronald Reagan was re-elected in 1984, he won every state but the home state of his Democrat opponent Walter Mondale (Minnesota).
Her politics weren't my politics, but I believe that respect is due to her and her husband.
According to Kitty Kelly, Nancy was quite famous for using her mouth way before she started saying stupid things publicly with it (such as "Just Say NO").....
THIS, folks, THIS is the one and only reason why this story is even remotely interesting to nerds - specifically male nerds (who, I am given to understand, love Love LOVE to get a blowjob)....
Clinton is a square shooter. Clinton 2016!