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In 'Bastards Of The Reagan Era' A Poet Says His Generation Was 'Just Lost'(NPR)
NPR ^ | 12/8/15 | Reginald Dwayne Betts & NPR

Posted on 12/08/2015 2:02:38 PM PST by Drango

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FU NPR.
1 posted on 12/08/2015 2:02:38 PM PST by Drango
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To: Drango

I was 16 in 1980, and managed not to carjack anyone. Damn you, President Reagan! (sarc)


2 posted on 12/08/2015 2:10:19 PM PST by Rinnwald
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To: Drango

I am crying so hard that the drought in California will soon be over.


3 posted on 12/08/2015 2:10:25 PM PST by muglywump (Seven days without laughter makes one weak.)
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To: Drango

Cut out the drama, kid.

Don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time.


4 posted on 12/08/2015 2:10:40 PM PST by Jack Hammer
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To: Drango

Somebody else is to blame. Gotcha.


5 posted on 12/08/2015 2:11:35 PM PST by VRW Conspirator (American Jobs for American Workers.)
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To: Drango

Must have missed the Bizarro World inauguration of President Ronald Reagan III in 1996.


6 posted on 12/08/2015 2:12:15 PM PST by Rinnwald
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To: Drango

And the gun I had was on safety, and I didn't even know how to operate the gun. And so I think that at least in my situation, I knew that I wasn't going to shoot him.

Awwww, poor widdle baby. Have a cookie.

7 posted on 12/08/2015 2:14:53 PM PST by Scirparius
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To: Drango

That, and why is this guy taking a slot at Yale that someone who kept his nose clean could have had? Yet another sign of the decline of the Ivies.


8 posted on 12/08/2015 2:14:54 PM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Drango

The guy must be around 35 years old and STILL doesn’t understand the concept of personal responsibility for his actions.

I wonder if Barry will make this genius poet laureate of the US?


9 posted on 12/08/2015 2:15:09 PM PST by House Atreides (Cruz or lose! Do TG & Boogieman have to be asses every day?)
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To: Drango

Fortunately, NPR is dying out.
Their hosts are getting very gray.
Diana Reams (the old radio show bag who sounds badly constipated / like she’s pushing out a crueller) is Finally retiring.
I only like their Radio Lab type programming.
Otherwise, they’re So Effing left, they’re useless.

NPR is graying, and public radio is worried about it - Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/ lifestyle/ sty... Proxy Highlight

Nov 22, 2015 ... The median NPR listener was 45 years old in 1995; now he or she is 54, ...


10 posted on 12/08/2015 2:15:33 PM PST by MarchonDC09122009 (When is our next march on DC? When have we had enough?)
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To: Drango

“I think about the life of people that’s close to me,”

Sophomoric writing from a brainwashed former thug.

and “is now a law student at Yale University”

That’s an attorney I wanna hire! /s


11 posted on 12/08/2015 2:17:04 PM PST by Macoozie ("Estoy votando por Ted 2016!" bumper stickers available)
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To: Drango

Sorry that little shit didn’t get shot dead in his car jacking episode.


12 posted on 12/08/2015 2:17:15 PM PST by Noumenon (Resistance. Restoration. Retribution.)
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To: MarchonDC09122009

“Diana Reams (the old radio show bag who sounds badly constipated / like she’s pushing out a crueller) is Finally retiring.”

Haha...........haha.......i almost ‘pushed out a crueller’ myself!


13 posted on 12/08/2015 2:18:57 PM PST by muglywump (Seven days without laughter makes one weak.)
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To: Jack Hammer
Sammy Davis, Jr.: "Baretta's Theme"
14 posted on 12/08/2015 2:19:17 PM PST by Publius ("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius now available at Amazon.)
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To: FreedomPoster

because he adds diversity ... all bow worship praise hail do the multiculture minuet


15 posted on 12/08/2015 2:22:17 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: Publius

Great show.


16 posted on 12/08/2015 2:23:29 PM PST by Jack Hammer
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To: Drango

I wonder who is paying this poor victims way through Yale?


17 posted on 12/08/2015 2:23:42 PM PST by cowboyway (Returning the federal government to its constitutional limits is a Lost Cause.)
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To: House Atreides

Yep, exactly right.

Using a gun with the safety on to commit a felony is about as stupid as it gets. You’re going to get the same time it would have cost you if you had been able to return fire.

Having had 19 years to consider this, this jackass still doesn’t get it.

He’ll make a great attorney though. He’s got a mind like a sponge. Unfortunately, it’s a liberal sponge and is only good for soaking up federal dollars.


18 posted on 12/08/2015 2:23:53 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Come on Obama, just fess up and put the Burka on. Be honest with everyone.)
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To: Rinnwald

>>I was 16 in 1980, and managed not to carjack anyone. Damn you, President Reagan! (sarc)

I grew up poor. Went to the “black” high school. Had an abusive father. I turned 18 in August of 1980, joined the Navy, voted for Reagan, and served my country during the whole Reagan presidency. I never even thought about carjacking people. I didn’t realize that I was supposed to turn out bad.


19 posted on 12/08/2015 2:24:18 PM PST by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyrannis)
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“And so when I think about the bastards of the Reagan era, when I think about what didn’t happen for us, I think we were essentially abandoned by society “


They should have taught you
in prison that you got nothin’ coming.


20 posted on 12/08/2015 2:24:27 PM PST by sparklite2 (Islam = all bathwater, no baby.)
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