Author Topic: 30 years ago today the BFEE attempted a coup (Read 1362 times)

SSG Snuggle Bunny · « **on:** March 30, 2011, 02:21:02 PM »

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LeftinOH (1000+ posts) Wed Mar-30-11 09:52 AM
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Poll question: Reagan's near-assassination, 30 years ago today: What was it really?

Poll result (78 votes)
Just a mentally ill person with a gun (37 votes, 47%)
An early attempt at the White House by the Bush family (28 votes, 36%)
A little of both? (13 votes, 17%)

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no_hypocrisy (1000+ posts) Wed Mar-30-11 09:55 AM
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1. A coup d'etat using a mentally imbalanced patsy to do the job for the conspirators.

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no_hypocrisy (1000+ posts) Wed Mar-30-11 12:39 PM
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13. And IMO, it was the same modus operandi for John Lennon.

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peace13 (1000+ posts) Wed Mar-30-11 10:20 AM
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3. Call it a funny coincidence that the shooter's family members were friends with the *'s. n/t

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RufusTFirefly (1000+ posts) Wed Mar-30-11 10:21 AM
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4. Most of what we "know" about Reagan is a distortion
Why should this incident be any different?

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RevStPatrick (90 posts) Wed Mar-30-11 10:45 AM
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5. I've always felt that John Lennon's murder was connected.
It was the pilot project to test the new generation of lone crazy killers. It also served to throw the left into a tizzy, so people wouldn't be so upset when Reagan was killed.

Leave it to the furry to set the deluded fools straight:

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Archae (1000+ posts) Wed Mar-30-11 11:13 AM
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8. I got news for the "Bush conspiracy" people.
Shit happens.

A guy decides in his delusion that an actress he's obsessed with will love him after he kills the President.

Another guy gets on a Long Island train and starts shooting people.

Another guy drives a truck into a cafeteria and started killing people.

Another kills lots of people at a California McDonalds.

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Forkboy (1000+ posts) Wed Mar-30-11 01:00 PM
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15. A missed opportunity.

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WinkyDink (1000+ posts) Wed Mar-30-11 03:09 PM
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17. Is there really any doubt about Choice #2? Means, motive, & opportunity, people.

Is there any doubt about your sanity or rather, lack thereof?

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QUERY: If the BFEE can attempt a coup against Ronaldo the Great (PBUH) why haven't they offed Obama yet?

Unless Obama is in league with them...

BlueStateSaint · « **Reply #1 on:** March 30, 2011, 02:32:04 PM »

Quote from: SGT Snuggle Bunny on March 30, 2011, 02:21:02 PM

Unless Obama is in league with them...

I've seen the Obamessiah's term referred to as "Bush's third term" in a few places.

Ralph Wiggum · « **Reply #2 on:** March 30, 2011, 02:41:09 PM »

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An early attempt at the White House by the Bush family

Anyone who responds with that answer needs to be in a rubber room.

ScubaGuy · « **Reply #3 on:** March 30, 2011, 02:57:23 PM »

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RevStPatrick (90 posts) Wed Mar-30-11 10:45 AM
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5. I've always felt that John Lennon's murder was connected.
It was the pilot project to test the new generation of lone crazy killers. It also served to throw the left into a tizzy, so people wouldn't be so upset when Reagan was killed.

I never though of it that way. Up until that day there were never any lone crazy killers!

bijou · « **Reply #4 on:** March 30, 2011, 02:58:11 PM »

Quote from: Ralph Wiggum on March 30, 2011, 02:41:09 PM

Anyone who responds with that answer needs to be in a rubber room.

Including the people who answered 'a little of both' that would be a majority of posters.

ScubaGuy · « **Reply #5 on:** March 30, 2011, 03:04:07 PM »

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Forkboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-30-11 01:00 PM
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15. A missed opportunity.

:yoiks:

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The Magistrate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-30-11 03:13 PM
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19. My Thought Exactly, My Friend

If the booger had invested in a .38 instead, and loaded wad-cutters, our country would be in much better shape today.

The magistrate gets my vote for a retroactive abortion.

thundley4 · « **Reply #6 on:** March 30, 2011, 03:19:14 PM »

PCIntern has his own bouncy thread about the assassination attempt.

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PCIntern (1000+ posts) Wed Mar-30-11 03:43 PM
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Interesting story re: Reagan's near-assassination (at least I think it is - opinions vary):

Edited on Wed Mar-30-11 04:03 PM by PCIntern
On that afternoon, I was teaching a large pre-clinical class at one of the large dental schools here in PA, and the course director came down, and gave me the 'come-hither' crooked finger. I stepped outside of the laboratory wherein students were drilling fake Ivorine teeth, and he said to me, "The President has just been shot outside of a hotel in Washington. You tell the students - I don't want to do it." And he turned around and left.

I was just out of dental school myself, but had been teaching even as a student so I picked up the mic and announced, "Everyone just stop what you're doing for a minute." The room got real quiet..."I was just informed by Dr. 'So and So' that President Reagan has been shot at a Washington hotel. That's all he knew, and all I know for now, but we'll see what we can do about getting a radio on the P.A. here so go back to work and we'll do what we can."

The student sitting directly to my right, the son and grandson of a well-known pair of local dentists said, "Is he dead yet?"

I got back on the mic, and said, "OK, stop again." And I turned to him and said, "I heard that, Dave, and I want to enlighten you about something and since you were so vocal, we'll just let the rest of the class (165 students) hear this: This is NOT how we are supposed to change powers in this country - that we lived through this with President Kennedy and it did not go well. Government by assassination is about the worst thing that can happen in a so-called free country and no matter who it is, it is almost indescribably inappropriate for any individual to hope for something like this to happen."

I was followed by thunderous applause and believe you me, most of the students in that room in those days were Democrats or even further Left. (Things have changed, of course).

In retrospect, there is so much hate-talk these days that I don't know if I would still do the same thing...I'm so inured to it that I would probably just shake my head and continue.

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bijou · « **Reply #7 on:** March 30, 2011, 03:22:30 PM »

Quote from: thundley4 on March 30, 2011, 03:19:14 PM

PCIntern has his own bouncy thread about the assassination attempt.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x775162

Wow, retrospective bouncy. That's a great new spin on things.

DumbAss Tanker · « **Reply #8 on:** March 30, 2011, 03:33:43 PM »

Just their pathetic attempt to smokescreen LBJ's successful assassination of his arch-rival 49 years ago.

GOBUCKS · « **Reply #9 on:** March 30, 2011, 04:04:12 PM »

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RevStPatrick (90 posts) Wed Mar-30-11 10:45 AM
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5. I've always felt that John Lennon's murder was connected.
It was the pilot project to test the new generation of lone crazy killers. It also served to throw the left into a tizzy, so people wouldn't be so upset when Reagan was killed.

Spooky parallels. The nut who shot Reagan was trying to impress Jodie Foster. The nut who shot Lennon was trying to impress Julia Stiles. And there were reports linking Stiles to the ambush in Dealey Plaza. And Bush 41 was in Dallas, possibly to meet with Julia Stiles? Hmm.

Wineslob · « **Reply #10 on:** March 30, 2011, 04:10:56 PM »

How many full moons a month do these nuts think there are?

DumbAss Tanker · « **Reply #11 on:** March 30, 2011, 04:17:04 PM »

Quote from: Wineslob on March 30, 2011, 04:10:56 PM

How many full moons a month do these nuts think there are?

All of them...

Kimberly · « **Reply #12 on:** March 30, 2011, 08:01:52 PM »

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I was followed by thunderous applause and believe you me, most of the students in that room in those days were Democrats or even further Left. (Things have changed, of course).

Wow, thunderous applause.

I think that sets a new level in egotistical boasting in bouncies.

true_blood · « **Reply #13 on:** March 30, 2011, 08:03:53 PM »

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RevStPatrick (90 posts) Wed Mar-30-11 10:45 AM
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5. I've always felt that John Lennon's murder was connected.
It was the pilot project to test the new generation of lone crazy killers. It also served to throw the left into a tizzy, so people wouldn't be so upset when Reagan was killed.

You're an idiot Patrick.

Freeper · « **Reply #14 on:** March 30, 2011, 08:24:11 PM »

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RufusTFirefly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-30-11 10:21 AM
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4. Most of what we "know" about Reagan is a distortion

Why should this incident be any different?

That is very true, most of what you "know" about President Reagan is a distortion created by your fellow lefties.

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The Magistrate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-30-11 03:13 PM
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19. My Thought Exactly, My Friend

If the booger had invested in a .38 instead, and loaded wad-cutters, our country would be in much better shape today.

Hey Einstein, do you realize that Bush would have been President if that happened? I know you think that Carter would have been put back in office, however the Constitution says otherwise.

Rebel · « **Reply #15 on:** March 31, 2011, 08:16:24 AM »

Why would a dentist create an account named "PCIntern", on a 10 year old site if he was a dentist when Reagan was shot 30 years ago?

franksolich · « **Reply #16 on:** March 31, 2011, 08:17:42 AM »

Quote from: Rebel on March 31, 2011, 08:16:24 AM

Why would a dentist create an account named "PCIntern", on a 10 year old site if he was a dentist when Reagan was shot 30 years ago?

Perhaps because the "dentist" is actually a 60-year-old office cleaning woman, or the receptionist in a dental office, who plays with the computer during coffee breaks?

dutch508 · « **Reply #17 on:** March 31, 2011, 02:11:02 PM »

Quote from: GOBUCKS on March 30, 2011, 04:04:12 PM

Spooky parallels. The nut who shot Reagan was trying to impress Jodie Foster. The nut who shot Lennon was trying to impress Julia Stiles. And there were reports linking Stiles to the ambush in Dealey Plaza. And Bush 41 was in Dallas, possibly to meet with Julia Stiles? Hmm.

Julia Stiles?