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Post by vierra on Jun 8, 2004 14:17:56 GMT -5
Unless you're a hermit, you probably know former President Ronald Reagan passed away a few days ago -- Sunday, I believe. His Presidential Library is located in Simi Valley, where his casket was available for viewing yesterday.
If you ever want to visit Simi Valley, it's easy. Just take Amtrak. There's a Simi Valley station and the entire city is very accessible.
You could drive there, too, but what's more comfortable than a train ride?
I never had the chance to vote for him or against him. I was too young to vote. I probably would have voted against him because his extreme views always bothered me.
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Post by Gorf on Jun 8, 2004 14:52:13 GMT -5
I voted for him during the 1980 election season.
It turned out to be one of the more traumatic decisions of my life (at least after supposedly reaching adulthood.)
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Post by Deleted on Jun 8, 2004 14:57:49 GMT -5
Out of respect for the recently deceased, I am avoiding this topic.
Simi Valley. Livingston, I presume. The Big Eck. Athena. The JC setter going to USC, Navena whatshername.
A VB hotbed.
What's a hotbed, anyhow?
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Post by vierra on Jun 8, 2004 15:00:42 GMT -5
If you've never taken a train ride, you should do so -- at least once in your life before you get to the Pearly Gates. It's very relaxing even though it takes forever to get from here to there. Just read a book!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 8, 2004 15:18:09 GMT -5
Or you can take a train ride TO the Pearly Gates.
Considering all that's going on in the world, not too funny, I guess.
I went through the Alps on a train. At night. Bummer.
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Post by Ron Mexico on Jun 8, 2004 15:18:30 GMT -5
I like monkeys.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 8, 2004 16:17:14 GMT -5
The feeling is mutual. How's the boil? |
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Post by vierra on Jun 8, 2004 17:04:06 GMT -5
When I last took the train, which was this past March, a fellow traveler read "Travels with Charlie," a travel book by John Steinbeck. I never read it. I took it all the way to San Diego and back. Wonderful trip. I would highly recommend it. What is life but the adventures you live?
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Post by BonJoeV on Jun 8, 2004 18:01:51 GMT -5
Ronald Reagan was a great President. GWB should study at the Reagan Presidential Library. Maybe he could learn something, eh?
Btw, isn't that 501 posts in less than 32 days?
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Post by vierra on Jun 9, 2004 18:32:28 GMT -5
The line was incredibly looong. I can understand people wanting to pay their respects but gee, it was a CLOSED casket. You can still pay your respects from a distance. It should be a personal thing, not a gawk-a-thon.
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Post by vierra on Jun 9, 2004 18:34:31 GMT -5
I've never gotten off the Chatsworth station. That will be my next destination when I head down that way.
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Post by Lwood on Jun 9, 2004 21:48:14 GMT -5
Hey (R)! I'm digging the picture of Venus. Very nice.
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Post by Gorf on Jun 10, 2004 7:35:47 GMT -5
Hey (R)! I'm digging the picture of Venus. Very nice. Where's the half shell though? |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 10, 2004 9:07:32 GMT -5
 Botticelli says "ciao." |
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Post by benwhipdrofn on Jun 12, 2004 23:13:01 GMT -5
I was in high school when he was President and I just remember the general sense was you were very proud to be an American. I liked his alot and still do. He believed in what he did and didn't mess around with it. If you didn't agree, that was up to you, but there were alot of very good men, democrat and republican who thought he was a great president. You can pick apart any president, but he was one who you would enjoy listening to and that after he was done, you felt that world was a better place because of him.
just my opinion and what I remembered from back then.
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