The East-West Tollway’s name officially was changed to the Ronald Reagan Memorial Tollway.
Bullshit! Bullshit bullshit bullshit bullshit fucking bullshit.
Wait, let me tell you how I really feel.
What a steaming load of low-grade assfault.
Laid on by a bunch of sycophantic political buttlickers.
Who are all ghost employees padding the payroll for their necrotic shirttail relatives.
The Trib is already calling for new nicknames, noting that the “Eisenhower” (It’s I-290, people) is usually called “The Ike” by people trying to sound cool.
Well, my name for it is “The Gypper.” And yes, I spell and pronounce it that way for a reason.
The other night, I watched C-SPAN’s wall to wall coverage of the Reagan internment ceremonies (which were, in fact, interminable). It took more than an hour for everyone to leave the area after the service concluded, because each person or couple felt compelled to walk to the foot of the coffin, stand in full view of the camera, do something personal to indicate their respect or liking or farewell gesture in the direction of the coffin and then walk off.
It was bizarre – everyone felt they had to do something to put their personal touch on it. Some gestures were of the normal variety of respect, such as bows from an Asian, possibly Japanese couple, and people crossing themselves (including Governor Ahnold). However, there were any number of little salutes, snappy little one-finger brow taps, hands over hards, thumbs ups, and so on. But it was odd how many non-Asian people bowed respectfully.
After a while, I decided the people who were bowing were showing the tastiest bits of their brains for Zombie Reagan to snack on later.
Yes, yes, yes, very shocking, but I was very, very, very tired of the endless drooling coverage of a not-that-great President who was most adept at taking credit for making world events happen that were already in motion when he communicated (greatly, as always) them to the rest of the nation.
You should read what Ron Reagan has to say about it – he made a very pointed remark at the “private” family service:
“Dad was … a deeply, unabashedly religious man. But he never made the fatal mistake of so many politicians wearing his faith on his sleeve to gain political advantage,”
He goes on to say… “these people are overly reaching, overly aggressive, overly secretive, and just plain corrupt. I don’t trust these people.”
