Feburary 6 is now Ronald Reagan Day in California

[Weezer]

http://www2.nbc13.com/vtm/news/local/article/february_6th_2011_declared_ronald_reagan_day/167876/

CALIFORNIA- February 6th, 2011 will mark the late President Ronald Reagan’s 100th birthday and now it will be an official day to remember in California.
Former First Lady Nancy Reagan joined California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger in Simi Valley today for a ceremonial signing of a bill making February 6th “Ronald Reagan Day.“
The 89-year-old former first lady was balancing on a cane and the governor’s arm as she walked into the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.
She smiled as Schwarzenegger signed a pair of bills one marking the yearly celebration of Reagan’s birthday in California and the other establishing a commission to plan Reagan centennial events.
Schwarzenegger told the audience, “Ronald Reagan is my hero.“

Fucking great. Another bourgeois holiday I have to avoid celebrating. Of course it's only in my state.

[Sperm-Doll Setsuna]

Take a ride on the Ronald Raygun Tollway to the Ronald Raygun Library for the festivity on the Ronald Raygun day.

Didn't wacko-Arnold also dedicate a day to von Mises or something?

[Chimurenga.]

Yay. More addition to this assholes personality cult.

[Rusty Shackleford]

ah for fucks sake and i live in this goddamned state.

[NGNM85]

This campaign to canonize Ronald Reagan is bizarre. It's even stranger when you realize that in today's Republican party he would be torn to pieces by these people who claim to worship him, because he doesn't fit the current party line. However, there's a lot of cognitive dissonance going around.

[IllicitPopsicle]

Just blast Naked Raygun or any other (Anti) Reagan-themed punk band all day.

[MarxSchmarx]

http://www2.nbc13.com/vtm/news/local/article/february_6th_2011_declared_ronald_reagan_day/167876/

CALIFORNIA- February 6th, 2011 will mark the late President Ronald Reagan’s 100th birthday and now it will be an official day to remember in California.
Former First Lady Nancy Reagan joined California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger in Simi Valley today for a ceremonial signing of a bill making February 6th “Ronald Reagan Day.“
The 89-year-old former first lady was balancing on a cane and the governor’s arm as she walked into the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.
She smiled as Schwarzenegger signed a pair of bills one marking the yearly celebration of Reagan’s birthday in California and the other establishing a commission to plan Reagan centennial events.
Schwarzenegger told the audience, “Ronald Reagan is my hero.“

Fucking great. Another bourgeois holiday I have to avoid celebrating. Of course it's only in my state.

Are you sure this is really a holiday? Reading that article it seems like say declaring July 29th the International Pizza Day or some such. Also it seems a one time thing, which is rather strange for a real holiday.

[~Spectre]

Use their own Neocons against them:

"Not long ago, I was invited to be the specter at the feast during "Ronald Reagan Appreciation Week" at Wabash College in Indiana. One of my opponents was Dinesh D'Souza: He wasn't the only one who maintained that Reagan had been historically vindicated by the wreckage of the Soviet Union. Some of us on the left had also been very glad indeed to see the end of the Russian empire and the Cold War. But nothing could make me forget what the Reagan years had actually been like.

Ronald Reagan claimed that the Russian language had no word for "freedom." (The word is "svoboda"; it's quite well attested in Russian literature.) Ronald Reagan said that intercontinental ballistic missiles (not that there are any non-ballistic missiles—a corruption of language that isn't his fault) could be recalled once launched. Ronald Reagan said that he sought a "Star Wars" defense only in order to share the technology with the tyrants of the U.S.S.R. Ronald Reagan professed to be annoyed when people called it "Star Wars," even though he had ended his speech on the subject with the lame quip, "May the force be with you." Ronald Reagan used to alarm his Soviet counterparts by saying that surely they'd both unite against an invasion from Mars. Ronald Reagan used to alarm other constituencies by speaking freely about the "End Times" foreshadowed in the Bible. In the Oval Office, Ronald Reagan told Yitzhak Shamir and Simon Wiesenthal, on two separate occasions, that he himself had assisted personally at the liberation of the Nazi death camps.
There was more to Ronald Reagan than that. Reagan announced that apartheid South Africa had "stood beside us in every war we've ever fought," when the South African leadership had been on the other side in the most recent world war. Reagan allowed Alexander Haig to greenlight the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982, fired him when that went too far and led to mayhem in Beirut, then ran away from Lebanon altogether when the Marine barracks were bombed, and then unbelievably accused Tip O'Neill and the Democrats of "scuttling." Reagan sold heavy weapons to the Iranian mullahs and lied about it, saying that all the weapons he hadn't sold them (and hadn't traded for hostages in any case) would, all the same, have fit on a small truck. Reagan then diverted the profits of this criminal trade to an illegal war in Nicaragua and lied unceasingly about that, too. Reagan then modestly let his underlings maintain that he was too dense to understand the connection between the two impeachable crimes. He then switched without any apparent strain to a policy of backing Saddam Hussein against Iran. (If Margaret Thatcher's intelligence services had not bugged Oliver North in London and become infuriated because all European nations were boycotting Iran at Reagan's request, we might still not know about this.)

One could go on. I only saw him once up close, which happened to be when he got a question he didn't like. Was it true that his staff in the 1980 debates had stolen President Carter's briefing book? (They had.) The famously genial grin turned into a rictus of senile fury: I was looking at a cruel and stupid lizard. His reply was that maybe his staff had, and maybe they hadn't, but what about the leak of the Pentagon Papers? Thus, a secret theft of presidential documents was equated with the public disclosure of needful information. This was a man never short of a cheap jibe or the sort of falsehood that would, however laughable, buy him some time.

The fox, as has been pointed out by more than one philosopher, knows many small things, whereas the hedgehog knows one big thing. Ronald Reagan was neither a fox nor a hedgehog. He was as dumb as a stump. He could have had anyone in the world to dinner, any night of the week, but took most of his meals on a White House TV tray. He had no friends, only cronies. His children didn't like him all that much. He met his second wife—the one that you remember—because she needed to get off a Hollywood blacklist and he was the man to see. Year in and year out in Washington, I could not believe that such a man had even been a poor governor of California in a bad year, let alone that such a smart country would put up with such an obvious phony and loon."

[Adi Shankara]

Let's celebrate...by putting these up in every visible corner of America:

http://i31.tinypic.com/2823y9h.jpg

[Comrade Wolfie's Very Nearly Banned Adventures]

Reagan was a hero of the working class.

[IllicitPopsicle]

Reagan was a hero of the working class.

Reagan was GOD

[RedScare]

Reagan was GOD
Reagan died for our sins.

[leftace53]

Well everyday is Marx day.

[The Red Next Door]

Oh God, Next they are going to have a jerry farwell day.

[Robocommie]

More like Ronald McDonald Day, amirite

[Red Commissar]

http://a.imageshack.us/img4/8240/whatwouldreagando.jpg

It is inevitable considering the fact that California is his state. The wingnuts will argue that the state needs to honor one of their state's most prized assets or what ever.

This fetish for Reagan some people have has confused me. Honestly, it really wouldn't surprise me if some of these nuts try to have Reagan declared president for life. I mean the path to success for many "conservatives" nowadays is to try and convince the voters that they are exactly like Reagan.

I remember a event some winguts in Minnesota (Taxpayer's League) had tried to rename a state highway; the Olson Memorial Highway. They had structured their argument in that Olson was a socialist, and was undeserving of having things named after him on account of being socialist and socialism being a failed ideology. They suggested rather Reagan, the second coming of Christ. Thankfully the people responded negatively against this attempt to rename the highway.

An old selection from a (liberal) blogger about the event

http://lloydletta.blogspot.com/2004/09/taxpayer-league-dishonoring-memory-of.html

Though in regards to this, states declare a lot of holidays. A lot of times they won't be apparent beyond being listed in a state calendar.

[Adi Shankara]

http://a.imageshack.us/img4/8240/whatwouldreagando.jpg

It is inevitable considering the fact that California is his state. The wingnuts will argue that the state needs to honor one of their state's most prized assets or what ever.

This fetish for Reagan some people have has confused me. Honestly, it really wouldn't surprise me if some of these nuts try to have Reagan declared president for life.

People in California don't even like Reagan that much, trust me; it's a small minority who live in Orange, San Bernadino, San Diego, and Fresno counties that propogate this legendary myth of a man who was probably one of our shittiest governors when you look at the historical record.

[Stephen Colbert]

Its ironic that Reagan is the poster boy for free market activity and minimized government when Reagan drastically expanded the government(not to mention fucking mauling organized labor) and used military excursions to greatly enhance the coffers of the bourgeoisie. Of course, when government works for the masses and not the elite minority and becomes BIG™, its evil, because Rush Limbaugh tells you it is.

Vive La Reagan!

[Jazzhands]

Oh God, Next they are going to have a jerry farwell day.

they carved Teddy into a goddamn mountain and he wasn't even dead yet.

[Red Commissar]

People in California don't even like Reagan that much, trust me; it's a small minority who live in Orange, San Bernadino, San Diego, and Fresno counties that propogate this legendary myth of a man who was probably one of our shittiest governors when you look at the historical record.

No doubt. I'd argue he was a shitty president too, even by American standards, but there seems to be some idiotic conception of the man being the best thing to happen to 'murica.

[Rusty Shackleford]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzQA-0kIZHU


i wouldnt doubt reagan is also popular in placer county. this place is home to orangevale(fascists live there) and granite bay.