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In article <CzzIqy.KEA@cuug.ab.ca> banksc@cuug.ab.ca (Banks) writes:
>Chris Woodward (PSY) (woodward@luna.ec.usf.edu.) wrote:
>: In article <Pine.OSF.3.91a.941121133309.20655K-100000@christa.unh.edu> "The Black \"Ken-ight\"" <wkl@christa.unh.edu> writes:
>: >
>
>: >There is a Just God.  That you don't believe in Him shows.
>
>: Shows what?
>
>: >     I bet that Reagan and John Paul II will never retract their 
>: >positions, and even on their deathbeds will not recant their positions, 
>: >even if they were offered the opportunity to retroactively allow the 
>: >research -- even if they were guaranteed that they would be cured from 
>: >their selling out their beliefs.
>	Why should they retract thier positions? 
>
>: I bet Reagan can barely *remember* his beliefs, let alone retract
>: them.  As for John Paul II, at least he comes by his honestly.
>	
>	
>: >     Of course, the price would just be their souls, ......
>
>Ronald Reagen is one of USA's greatest presidents -EVER-, he is great 
>because he stood up for his beliefs. Before and after the election unlike 
>Prez Bubba who is the original BAIT-&-SWITCH president. 

"Ronald Reagen"?  Who he?  Watch thy spelling, lest thou be taken 
for a fool...

>
>
>: What's the going price for a soul these days?  Majority leadership
>: in Congress?
>If so then Ted Kennedy will rot in hell for a couple a billion years.

Probably, unless he's forgiven for his sins...

>: >     We call that integrity, faith, and loyalty to principle.  It's 
>: >admirable and honorable.  Regrettably, they are going to be made 
>: >martyrs.  But we won't betray their cause just because they are lost to us.
>
>: Or obstinance, stubbornness, and refusal to open one's mind...

>You couldn't beat Reagan while he was in office, so you're kicking a good 
>man when he's down. Reagan deserves better than that, if you can't give 
>him the respect he has EARNED and deserves, then shut up. In short you're 
>a heartless bastard.

Ronald Reagan hasn't earned my respect one bit.  During his administration,
he failed to get spending cuts to balance out the tax cuts everyone was
eager to put through.  He and Congress conspired to fund ridiculous proj-
ects like Star Wars (that the CIA now says never fooled the Soviets, whose
economy was collapsing on its own without them matching us weapon for
weapon) while scrimping on spare parts and maintenence for the military
equipment we already _have_ (a disgraceful practice that continues to 
this good day).  He let his staff run amok (Bill Casey and Iran/Contra)
and his administration holds the record for most officials indicted and
convicted of felonies, I believe.

He followed the proud Nixon tradition of making a mockery of government
from the inside, which in a constitutional republic/democracy amounts
to civic blasphemy.

Good man?  Probably, though you can't tell it by his family.  Great
President?  ROFL.
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[ Chris Woodard, M.A.                                         ]
[ Anheuser-Busch Chair of Computational Theology              ]
[ University of Ediacara                                      ]
[ "Open-mindedness is not synonymous with blind gullibility." ]