Swallowing the Reagan Kool-Aide…

The Reagan worship amongst Republicans never ceases to both amaze and illuminate just how many glasses of Kool-Aide the GOP’s world view has them swallowing… I too, find myself missing ol’ Ronny Reagan, but for different reasons. For several years, him, and ketchup, were my two favorite Republican vegetables…

Who held higher rank in the “Reagan Revolution” way back when shouldn’t be a plus for a human, it should be a pecking order for the gallows, yet the right gets away with gushing over this guy like he was the second coming… (Sit down, Huckabee…)

“How cruel to belittle Ronnie, he had Alzheimers!”…

Cruel indeed, the irony of alzheimer’s, as HE blissfully sailed into la-la land totally unaware of his reprehensible actions while WE have had to remember them…

Just Star Wars alone qualifies him for eternal shithead status.

His entire ponzi pyramid excuse for an financial plan “trickle down… on you economics” was conceived on the back of a cocktail napkin. As someone who has hastily scribbled many ideas himself on such an impromptu notation system in some smokey bar, let me be the first to blow the whistle when it comes to viability for the results… Every time, upon sobering up, it’s some nonsensical tired premise not fit for the light of the frennels. Had I been Reagan, my economic policy would have been some snide quip regarding people who wear driving gloves; sadly even that nonsense would have been an improvement on Laffler’s drivel ..

Not enough? How about the guy had his dotting wife’s psychic running the country, while Nancy, the mother hen herself, undoubtably plied him with 20 of western medicines’ best exploratory anti-anzheimers pills daily (in between ‘just say no’ rallies), while his cronnies gutted national resources, busted unions and overthrew socialist South & Central American governments with LA crack profits. (Ironicly laundering it in failed S&L’s and junk bonds Whoops!!! -enter taxpayer for bailout)..

And this is someone to posture behind?

His ability to sling scat, bamboozle and dupe, to be emulated?

A batty shill for imperialism and corporate gluttony who lost his marbles while his surrogate mommy (and all her little angels) ran the good ship boondoggle?

Anyone who thinks Regan qualifies as a “good president” is so out of touch with any reality pertinant to rational thinking folk, any further derision by me would pale in comparison to the comic radiance of quantifying Reagan as a goodun’…

This sadly includes many dems as well…. amazing…

Iraq, Redux…

     In 1992, I was in college, an aspiring political writer majoring in Journalism and Political Science.  I was writing left-leaning, incendiary columns for “the Gateway” college weekly, totally undaunted by my staunchly conservative surroundings in Omaha Nebraska. That same impulse to agitate even back then no doubt has me, today, on a comedy stage trying to fire off just one more anti-logging zinger in the decidedly pro-logger shantytown of Kelso/Longview Washington, while they’re still laughin’…

     In ’92 however, my flailings in the direction of empire were limited to this medium, in articles like this one regarding the first Gulf war…

http://archive.olivesoftware.com/Default/Scripting/ArticleWin.asp?From=Archive&Source=Page&Skin=Nebraska&BaseHref=GTW/1992/04/07&PageLabel=2&EntityId=Ar00200&ViewMode=HTML&GZ=T

 {For the record, “Jeff Hults” is/was me - Arlo has always been my middle name which I began using as a comedian in 1994, Jeff is still my first name, unused since except in it’s ever-functioning capacity as a stranger alarm, and the constantly misspelled “Hults” was already causing Marquis problems…(Thanks, Lou Holtz) - Enter, “Stone”. Not one misspelling in 17 years either; now there’s a real “mission accomplished”}

The next most jarring thing to me is how relevant the same information is today. Almost all of it!

IraqI & II? - Both jump-started by grossly exaggerated intelligence pacifying the commoners, themselves already three quarters of the way to ignorant thanks to a steady diet of TV and video games, both started by the same people, both for oil and money… - I only had an inkling back then; today, I could write a book about it… “Men Who Hate Peace, and the Stockbrokers Who Love Them…”

Sadly, the other noticeable constant is the amount of apathy put forth by our country regarding the very legitimacy of either war, but I’ve got a solution for that…

“WAKE UP YOU FUCKING SELF INDULGENT ASSHOLES!!!!! WHERE IS YOUR SCREAM OF PROTEST? HUH???

WHERE THE FUCK IS IT?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?

PERHAPS YOU’RE PREOCCUPIED WITH SOMETHING MORE IMPORTANT, LIKE CATCHING ANOTHER GLIMPSE OF BRITNEY’S BEAV…

WELL YOU BETTER WAKE UP, QUICK. THE BLOOD OF MILLIONS OF INNOCENT CIVILIANS IS SOLELY YOURS.  RADIOACTIVE BULLETS ARE POISONING INNOCENT PEOPLE, JUST LIKE YOU, AND HABITATS, JUST LIKE YOURS, FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS WHILE YOU DUTIFULLY PAY FOR IT WITH YOUR NEVER-ENDING TAXES AND COMPLICITY.

FUCK YOU.

MAY YOU ONE DAY INHALE THE SAME DEPLETED URANIUM NOW BEING DUMPED IN YOUR NAME WHILE YOU TAKE IN AMERICAN IDOL; MAY YOU DIE A DEATH AT THE HANDS OF THE US MILITARY EVERY BIT AS WRITHING, PAINFUL AND TORTURE-FILLED AS THE ONE YOUR SILENCE HAS PERMITTED HALFWAY AROUND THE WORLD…

There. That oughta’ fix things…

Since a 22 year-old, C+ student far more worried about getting laid and not getting mangled during football practice can figure it out, obviously lack of information isn’t the problem…

Must be a volume issue… (Not the quantity volume, but the audio kind) Our collective indifference MUST be due to a lack of volume…

Are ya’ feelin’ me?               Hello?                 Hello?                  … Is there anybody out there?

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