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Posts Tagged ‘the eighties’

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George H.W. Bush Trash-Talked Reagan To The Soviets Like Constantly

Friday, October 30th, 2009

George H.W. Bush—an equal parts obscure and hated American president whose only historical significance is being half responsible for George W. Bush—didn’t care for Ronald Reagan! Mikhail Gorbachev told the Nation in a recent interview: “In 1987, after my first visit to the United States, Vice President Bush accompanied me to the airport, and told me: ‘Reagan is a conservative. An extreme conservative. All the blockheads and dummies are for him, and when he says that something is necessary, they trust him. But if some Democrat had proposed what Reagan did, with you, they might not have trusted him.” Is it too late to give George H.W. Bush’s stupid one term to Reagan, where it belongs? [Raw Story]


CUTE BOYS!

Hey Massachusetts: Was Original Ted Kennedy Ever A Cosmo Centerfold?

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009

Um… Cosmopolitan has WON whatever time of day allotted for sex! Let’s also throw in 1982, Cosmopolitan has also WON 1982, for this was the year when Scott Brown, the Republican running around in bad faith pretending he has a chance at winning Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat, was awarded the magazine’s prestigious “America’s Sexiest Man” centerfold, which is like the “Ted Kennedy seat” of gay pornography. Ahh, he is naked, so so naked! MORE »