Ronald Reagan dies at 93

[videoholic]

COnsidering my wife has been running an alzheimer\'s facility for 7 years now and is very well read on the subject.

Sure they are a wreck at first.  When they are in and out of it, but when it comes down to the later years they are so regressed and so out of it that they really don\'t know any better.

I\'m pretty sure this is the case.  I\'ll ask her later today and see.

[videoholic]

Spoke with the wifey.

She said exaclty what I said.

It\'s hard on them in the very early ages because they know they have it.  It\'s frustrating that they don\'t remember things and they are conscious of it.

Once they get full blown into alzheimers they don\'t even know they have it and everything is fine and dandy.  

It\'s just extremely hard on the family.

[clips]

i wasn\'t really into politics that much if at all back then..i was like in the 5th or 6th grade when he was pres...only thing i remember from his era was star wars..and that taxes went up after carter was out of office..but he was responsible for getting the hostages out of iran(heard he gave them weapons..i could be wrong tho..)...i really wasn\'t big on him...for what it\'s worth r.i.p...

Originally posted by clips
i wasn\'t really into politics that much if at all back then..i was like in the 5th or 6th grade when he was pres...only thing i remember from his era was star wars..and that taxes went up after carter was out of office..but he was responsible for getting the hostages out of iran(heard he gave them weapons..i could be wrong tho..)...i really wasn\'t big on him...for what it\'s worth r.i.p...

Taxes went up!?!?! What alternate universe were you living in?  Reagan was known as "the big tax cutter".  He was always cutting taxes and spending on defense - why do you think our deficit grew?  He bankrupted the USSR with his spending on defense.

I watched my Grandpa die and he had late stage alzheimers with cancer. He did not recognize anyone. The only thing he knew or could sense was that was going on was his dying. He would sleep with his eyes open. He was constantly freaked out. It was a horrible thing to see.

Originally posted by videoholic
Spoke with the wifey.

She said exaclty what I said.

It\'s hard on them in the very early ages because they know they have it.  It\'s frustrating that they don\'t remember things and they are conscious of it.

Once they get full blown into alzheimers they don\'t even know they have it and everything is fine and dandy.  

It\'s just extremely hard on the family.

I watched the funeral services,the one in DC and CA. They were both very touching and very moving. Reagan was not afraid to do what needed to be done. When Libya was threatening the USA, Reagan dropped a bomb in Kadafy\'s backyard.  Only when it became public knowledge did he go on TV and say that 36 hours ago, we dropped a bomb on Libya. He didnt apologize for it, he didnt say he was sorry. He said it needed to be done to save the US from  a threat. Reagan didnt go on TV a month before hand and say "In 36 hours the US will launch a weapon at Libya and strike at the very heart of its Leader". That is what they do now. They go on TV and tell where and when and what time the USA is going to start its invasion/bombing. I know that this is done to perpare the US. But do they  honestly think that Osama cant  get CNN/Fox/MSNBC ?  All he has to do is put up a satellite dish out  there in the desert in one of his caves. Once Reagan bombed Libya you never heard anything threatening out of them again. Perhaps it is time to follow his lead and just bomb first and then tell the Nation afterwards.
But this is just my opinion.

[Paul2]

such a sad day for him.  Its been cloudy since Ronald Reagan died.  Rest in Peace.  Hopefully they find a cure or treatment for alzheimers.

[videoholic]

Originally posted by Capcom
I watched my Grandpa die and he had late stage alzheimers with cancer. He did not recognize anyone. The only thing he knew or could sense was that was going on was his dying. He would sleep with his eyes open. He was constantly freaked out. It was a horrible thing to see.

Yeah, but that\'s not just Alzheimer\'s.  ANy old fella with a disease who feels poor knows it\'s coming soon.


Sorry about your grampy though..  That sucks losing family members.




Can I say one thing good about the funeral being over?  We can stop hearing 1400 journalists talk about how cool they were because they were in the presidential press corp with Reagan and how many stories they have.  Oye.  Let\'s get the news back to the way it was.  Aren\'t we still looking for Bin Ladin?