From Delegate Ramadan:
HJ509 Establishing President Ronald Reagan Week – This bill designates the first week of February of 2016 and in each succeeding year, as Ronald Reagan Week in Virginia. Hail to the Gipper!!!
Give me a break! Ronald Reagan is not a Virginian. I am not even sure he knew Virginia was here. Hail to the Gipper? I want Bill Clinton Week if we have to have a Ronald Reagan Week.
Half of Virginia is named for Reagan. He wasn’t everyone’s fair hair child. In fact…..So far we have a middle school, an airport, and a part of the Prince William Parkway named for this guy. I am not really sure what he did for Virginia.
Let’s put things in perspective. I will continue to rant and rave until this absurd matter is settled.
It’s time for everyone to get all the stardust out of their eyes. H was just a man, not a deity. I wish people realized how stupid some look when they say his name with adoring eyes. Geez.
I’m a Reagan fan.
I hate this sort of thing.
So did he.
Reagan has a middle school? We should at least give Bill Clinton a massage parlor.
@Cato the Elder
or a head shop (if they still exist)
I wonder who we would see going in there???? 👿
The way things are going now with regard to a certain international scandal involving underage girls and naked masseuses, somebody may be ready to name a dog house for Willy.
[Stern look] I hope that remark wasn’t aimed at one of the sacred house cows.
Yup. That sacred house cow must be making Hillary’s campaign team rather pissed about now.
Stupid pol tricks. I’m with Cargo on this. I worked in the Reagan Administration. I voted for him with absolute joy. But Reagan would have recognized this as just stupid vote pandering. He was that kind of guy. Very genuine.
I voted for him once also. I didn’t think he was the end all, be all. I might have voted differently had the Democrats had better candidates.
I guess I just don’t see the starry eye glow so many people have. He gave good speeches. Some of his policies really sucked.
Probably what Reagan really had going for himself is WHEN he arrived on the political scene.
We have taken the birthdays away from Lincoln and Washington and combined them into 1 day – and no recognition for any other Presidents birth and this joker wants to dedicate a week to 1 President. Will there be Reagan Week Sales – are we going to diminish him down to a marketing ploy? What a silly idea.
Reagan was the one who signed a bill saying that federal buildings (or something like that) could not be named after someone until they were dead for some time.
http://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/GOP-mission-Name-3-000-things-after-Reagan-5475466.php
Agreed!! A weeks worth of sales! I think school ought to be off for a week also.
Remember his Secretary of the Agriculture, I think, declaring ketchup a vegetable? Or how about the dept. of interior secretary not knowing who the Beach Boys were. Jeez. We could have a week of oblivion.
Not a fan here. But…my biggest gripe is that he is not a Virginian and this would be a Virginia holiday. I don’t care much for Jefferson Davis and he is not a native Virginian. At least he lived here at some time in his life. I will even count the time when he lived at Fort Monroe as a prisoner as “time in state.”
I do love “Kings Row” and have watched it more than a dozen times. If you haven’t seen it, I recommend it – Reagan was very good in it.
My grandfather took Jimmy Stewart fishing when he was near Charlottesville making a movie. Let’s have a week holiday for him too.
@Moon-howler
For your grandfather or Jimmy Stewart? 🙂
Ha! For Jimmy Stewart. My grandfather was actually a native Virginian. That is very important to Virginians…being a native. My mother always felt cheated that her mother was in Delaware when she was born. However, no one was a greater Virginian than my mother. If she could have, she would have gone through the birth process again just to be born in Virginia. My brother and I were. One brother was born in Georgia and was named for a city close by, Tucker.
I was old enough when he was born to actually help name him and since my parents didn’t have anything picked out, I actually named him. I didn’t think ahead though and he used to put too many bars on the first letter of his name, once he got old enough to be a little devil.
Yeah – I’ve noticed that a lot of “real” Virginians have a
certain disdain for those whose parents had the nerve to
give birth to their kids “somewhere else”. 🙂
Seriously. We do. It’s some sort of aberration. I know also that I think of those of us who are native born as “real Virginians.” My thoughts shame me but I can’t help it. I did think of my mother as a real Virginian. I think if you have long enough roots here you get to be a real Virginian. Like if you can go back 5 or 6 greats.
I agree, its totally disgusting. I can’t help myself. I even remind my husband that he is just a guest in my ancestoral state. I am a horrible person.
Actually, I think it secretly depends on your ancestors being in the Civil War. You don’t have to count greats if you have Civil War roots. Yea, its disgusting. I agree.Its like a congenital illness.
The Beach Boys?!!!!! Hah! Well, I will personally remember that time when a certain Sec.State, lauded by his minions for being able to speak French, showed that he didn’t even know that the French do not cotton much to hugging. Man, did you all see the awkward reaction of Pres. Hollande to that? (Sort of like putting your hand on the Queen’s back for a press photo as if she was your best bud from the local beer parlor. That was a good one too. So was the famous “reset button” written in inaccurate Russian.) Tomato ketchup indeed! Hummmphh!
Over to you.
That is the difference in esoteric knowledge and every day common knowledge that everyone knows. Beach Boys. We all know that ketchup isn’t a vegetable. We all tried telling our mothers that and all our mothers told us we were wrong.
You left out barfing on the Japanese.
What? Heinz ketchup isn’t a vegetable!
Wonder what Kerry thinks about that.
That hug was embarrassing. Furthermore having some guy
sing that song “YOU’VE GOT A FRIEND….
Deep bellygrowling moan from here.
If your kids were born in Virginia but you were not, is there some process for becoming a Virginian — like chain immigration or something?
You can marry a Virginian or ask to be adopted.
http://archives.blogs.timesdispatch.com/2014/01/07/being-a-native-virginian-means-guy-friddell-1985/
VERY cool.
Did you know that he retired as a Brigadier General of the Air Force? Reagan promoted him to Major General on the Retired list.
“As a staff officer, Stewart was assigned to the 453rd “for the duration” and thus not subject to a quota of missions of a combat tour. He nevertheless assigned himself as a combat crewman on the group’s missions until his promotion to lieutenant colonel on June 3…..”
THIS is what a hero does.
@Wolve
I consider myself a Virginian.
21 years in Louisiana.
28 years in Virginia.
Married to a Virginian.
I did not realize that about Jimmy Stewart.
the 28 years in Va and marrying a Virginian helps. It at least makes you adopted or honorary. What hurts your cause is the references back to “the old country.”
Mr. Howler is rightly shamed by his pre-Virginia life.
@Moon-howler
Soooo…if my ancestors were here in 1685…does THAT make me a “real” Virginian?
See below. almost but not quite. I lose a little cred over the 1.5 years in NJ and 3 years in Georgia. The Georgia time is more forgiveable though, in the eyes of some.
My uncle was a Tech Sargeant in the Army Air Force in England during WWII. He was part of the ground crew for the unit that Stewart flew in. He and another NCO, a guy named Walter Matthau, used to finagle ways to attend the pre-mission briefings when Jimmy Stewart was commanding a raid. They thought he gave the best presentations on the base. And yes, it was THAT Walter Matthau.
Very neat!!! Do you have pictures?
I have some pictures from that time of ground operations serving the 453rd (I hope I’m remembering that right) Bombardment Group. Matthau (he spelled his name somewhat differently then – my uncle’s diaries have addenda than he put in after the war recording the names of some of his comrades) and Stewart may be in them coincidentally, but they are not identifiable.
Give Clinton a Message Parlor … give Reagan a Palm-Reading booth. Or, alternately, a nice quiet “Napping Room”.
Give GWB a “Pretzel Choke Rescue” station, and give Obama a memorial library “sponsored by Soylindra”.
Ah yes, the honor of the “true virginians.” Now here’s a thought. With all the other giveaways listed by your friend during the SOTU, I am shocked- shocked – that that he did not instruct all true virginians to begin saving their quarters to pay for reparations. Reparations, if not for proven slavery directly then for the impacts of segregation that I am sure all living true virginians over 50 also benefited from. I would not laugh, it is already a wide spread progressive conversation and sooner or later – I guesstimate 12 months – it will happen. As a visitor of some 40 years, I will not be asked and should not be asked to pay for this and being Irish will not be asked to pay northern repararations either.
Reparations discussion has been around a long time. Yawn. Nothing to see here. It won’t happen.