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Yeah, when Reagan wasn't busy making and distributing crack in the inner cities, he was busy infecting innocent gays while they slept alone, by themselves, in their beds at home. He got around pretty well for an old guy!

You couldn't pay me to watch "Angels in America". Not enough money in the world! The only thing worse than it on TV would be to actually sit through the play - which was much longer - I think I heard 8 hours! What a bunch of crap!

But you can search long and hard, and in vain, to find one critical or negative review. The gay SS in Hollywood would slam anyone that dare speak out and call this drek for what it is.

Has anyone thought about writing a play about how Clinton did nothing while bin Laden was killing Americans and plotting 9/11 - and also while CEOs were getting away with fraud on an unprecedented level? And tie it all to the fact that Clinton just didn't care about anything and was the typical baby-boomer and only cared about himself and power, the rest was just for show. "Asleep at the Wheel" is what I will call it - unless anyone comes up with a better name.

Come on my fellow freepers, (keeping it clean!) come up with the name for the Broadway play chronicling the eight years this country had the Rodham/Clintons running the show. Methinks it a far more deserving topic than how Ronald Reagan gave all the gays the AIDS.

The demonification of Ronald Reagan is very closely linked with the emptiness of the Gay Agenda. All they care about is themselves and promoting (not protecting, since no
one is attacking them) their precious "life style". In Angels in America, as in nearly all stories involving gays (with the notable exception of the gay brother in the Fisher
family in Six Feet Under), their whole universe revolves around their own stinking sexuality. No other issue matters. Nothing about America matters, other than whether
or not its religiously respectful of the "life-style".

Science doesn't matter, except how it impacts on AIDS. Politics doesn't matter, except how it impacts on "gay rights". International politics don't exist, because then the whole subject of how horribly gays are treated in Islamic dictatorships would have to be addressed. And since that would involve actually thinking about issues and
weighing moral principles, that issue is just completely dropped. There are no Islamic dictatorships in the universe of self-absorbtion that the gays live in. Just
as there are no other diseases but AIDS, and no other crimes but homophobia.

So where does Ronald Reagan fit in this self-obssessed universe? The answer is obvious. You can't talk about ending the Cold War, because that subject says nothing
about homophobia and AIDS and therefore doesn't exist. Likewise with re-building American capitalism. The only subjects that matter in the universe --- gay rights and
AIDS --- are the only yardstick for measuring any human being on earth. And by that yardstick --- according to their own internal spin machine --- Reagan failed.

I lived through the 80s and I followed these issues with some interest, including the issue of AIDS. I remember the early days, when no one knew what the cause of the immune-system breakdown was. It was interesting to read the science in the New York Times and Scientific American as the doctors and researches went after this big epidemiological mystery and following the gradual solution of the puzzle in the news, as the virus was finally discovered and a blood test was developed.

I remember other aspects of the story too. I remember that Reagan was criticized for moving too slowly and that when William F Buckley defended Reagan by saying that
Reagan's slowness to react didn't translate into many deaths, since the early years had fewer deaths anyway, he was displaying a bit of innumeracy that showed his
confusion about how these expanding numbers work.

And I do think that Reagan acted somewhat slowly on the issue. But let's consider everything that was going on at the time, shall we? Let's consider that Reagan was
busy bringing down the Soviet Union and may have been a tad preoccupied. And lets also consider what the gays themselves were doing. All through this epidemic, and into the late 80s, the reporters in Gay communities publicly admitted that these people --- large numbers of these people --- were having sex with up to 1000 different partners a year! These guys --- who didn't give a rats patoot about the Soviet Union and the 50 million people it killed and the fact that Reagan was bringing that Evil Empire to an end --- were busy butt-humping each other at the rate of 1000 partners (strangers) a year.

This incredible statistic is totally forgotten today. You won't see it in the movie The Reagans (which is all about the Gay Agenda and nothing about the Soviet Union) and you want see it in Angels in America, which shows a gay couple in a monogamous relationship, which, if you believe the gay reporters who were writing in the 80s, was about as common then as a Conservative in Hollywood is today.

Let's get this straight: the gays were going to bath-houses all through the epidemic, not using condoms, not listening to the news, not reading the New York Times or Scientific American, not ceasing for a second their relentless butt-pounding hard work at spreading this VIRUS through the HUMAN COMMUNITITY... and yet, it's all REAGAN'S FAULT.

As Larry Elders would say... incredible.