Ronald Wilson Reagan, 40th President of the United States of America, 1981 to 1989.
Reagan played football for Eureka College in 1929.
Ronald W. Reagan became famous for his 1940 movie portrayal of Notre Dame football running back George Gipp, who died of pneumonia. The film also recreated the famous ‘win just one for the Gipper’ speech by Notre Dame’s football coach Knute Rockne. The nickname Gipper stuck with Reagan for the rest of his life.
31JAN1988, SUPER BOWL-22
For the second time the Washington DC Redskins win the Super Bowl (defeating the Denver Broncos 42 to 10) while Ronald Reagan was President of the United States. Video via Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, part-1:
Part-2, setting the records straight:
Part-3, making the pass:
Redskins’ quarterback Doug Williams, 03FEB1988.
President Reagan tosses one to Redskins’ wide receiver Ricky Sanders, 03FEB1988.
25JAN1987, SUPER BOWL-21
After beating the Denver Broncos 39 to 20, the New York Giants paid a visit to the White House, 13FEB1987. Video via Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, part-1:
Part-2:
Part 3, The Gipper finally gets his shirt:
Giants linebacker Harry Carson dumps popcorn on ‘The Gipper’.
13 February 1987.
20JAN1985, SUPER BOWL-19
How many rehearsals does the U.S. President need to make a Super Bowl (Miami versus San Francisco) coin toss?
Super Bowl champions Washington DC Redskins (27-17 victory over Miami Dolphins) meet with U.S. President Ronald Reagan, and First Lady Nancy Reagan, on Dulles International Airport, 31JAN1983.
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“This is a large and concerning number of negative health impacts.”-Aaron Siri, attorney leading the Freedom of Information lawsuit against the U.S. CDC
Ever since this Pandemic hyperbole started I’ve been periodically telling people about a U.S. government program supposedly meant to document and even compensate people/families who have had severe reactions, even deaths, after being vaccinated. The program is known as VAERS, and was started under the regime of George Bush Senior (George H. W. Bush) as a result of an Act of Congress under the Ronald Reagan regime, not to protect us individuals, but to protect the pharmaceutical companies from getting their asses sued off! The VAERS program is funded by a tax on every vaccine issued within the United States.
This involves mRNA vaccines from Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson.
Informed Consent Action Network had no problem collating the adverse reaction claims data; a little more than three quarters of a million people, 782-thousand-913 victims, so far!
In the United States, if you have had, or suspect you’ve had and adverse reaction to a vaccine it is up to you, not your healthcare provider, to report it. Contact the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS).
Lockheed’s fast transport C-141 was designed according to Cold War requirements in 1960, and first flew in 1963. It was the world’s first turbofan powered military transport aircraft: “The C-141 has a noble record of achievement in its support of the U.S. military. Participating in every military operation from Vietnam to Iraqi Freedom, StarLifter crews have also performed humanitarian relief flights to nearly 70 countries on six continents. Most recently, the StarLifter served those affected by hurricanes Katrina and Rita. The aircraft has served NASA, conducted Antarctic resupply flights for nearly three decades and has been a key asset for flight research serving science for two decades.”-Ross Reynolds, Lockheed Martin vice president of Air Mobility
USAF photo from July 1966, Military Air Transport Service (MATS) C-141A (short) on Tan Son Nhut Airbase, Viet Nam.
Quick silent film, by somebody with last name of Anderson, of iconic comedian Bob Hope arriving in Korea, via a C-141A, for one of his famous USO Christmas shows, 27DEC1970:
C-141As loaded with former prisoners of war (PoW), leaving Viet Nam for the United States, March 1973.
Silent U.S. Army film, by somebody with the last name of Fraser, showing soldiers with The Big Red One (1st Infantry Division) boarding C-141As outbound for wargame ReForGer (Return of Forces to Germany) in West Germany, October 1973 (with some film of USAF cargo ops tacked on at the end, obviously filmed during warmer months):
Silent U.S. Navy film, by Todd Thompson, showing the arrival of a C-141A on U.S. Naval Air Station Cubi Point, Philippines, to pick-up refugees from Viet Nam and fly them to the United States, 29APR1975:
It was quickly realized that the C-141A had enough power to transport far more than what could be crammed into its slim cargo hold. It was decided to stretch the fuselage by 23 feet, creating the YC-141B.
Comparison of C-141A to YC-141B. The ‘B’ version also got inflight refueling apparatus.
Photo via author’s collection.
From the Edwards Air Force Base (AFB) Photo Shop, YC-141B aerial refueling test over the Mojave Desert, California, Spring 1977.
The stretching of 270 C-141As took place from 1977 to 1982, first deliveries began in 1979.
Photo via author’s collection.
In this photo you can see the unpainted fuselage ‘plug’ used to extend the C-141As into C-141Bs, as well as the aerial refueling sections.
USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Robert C. Marshall, July 1980.
C-141A still in use, Norton AFB, California, July 1980.
USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Bob Fehringer, 31OCT1980.
Fans of the movie The Thing, yes there is a McMurdo Station, and C-141As went there, in 1980, as part of Operation Deep Freeze.
USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Rose Reynolds.
Sometime in the early to mid 1980s, a C-141B leaves Travis AFB, California.
Unknown photographer, 26OCT1983.
During the U.S. invasion of Grenada (aka Operation Urgent Fury) in October 1983, C-141s not only brought in ground troops, but took out U.S. citizens who were taking college courses on the island.
Photo by Robert C. Keffer, 25OCT1983.
Also in October 1983, the U.S. Marine Corps barracks in Beirut, Lebanon, was blown-up by a suicide bomber driving a truck full of explosives. C-141s also acted as flying hospitals, flying wounded Marines back to Rhein-Main Air Base, Germany.
Whatever happened to the N(for NASA)C-141A #12777 ‘The Gambler’, a test aircraft for experimental ECM equipment destined for the B-1B and B-2 bombers? (click here and find out the ugly truth)
In 1986, climate problems caused a hay shortage for farmers in the Southeastern U.S. C-141s were used to transport 170 tons of hay from the Mid-Western states, in just one day of Operation Haylift. This video shows President Ronald Reagan kicking-off the first day of Op Haylift, 24JUL1986:
USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Theodore J. Koniares, May/June 1987.
Oops, a C-141B ran off the runway on Marine Corp Air Station Iwakuni, Japan, sometime in Summer(?) 1987.
February 1991, Operation Desert Storm. U.S. military personnel pass by a Military Airlift Command (MAC) C-141B (C-5 Galaxy in the background) somewhere (“undisclosed location”) on the Arabian Peninsula. According to McChord Air Museum, Washington, during Operations Desert Shield-Desert Storm USAF C-141s were landing every 10 minutes, 24 hours a day, for 7 months in Saudi Arabia.
USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Theodore J. Koniares, 22JUN1994.
Two M113 Personnel Carriers are loaded into a C-141B, on Rhein-Main Air Base, Germany, for deployment to Uganda for United Nations ‘peacekeeping’ duty, 22JUN1994.
USAF photo by Technical Sergeant Val Gempis, 03AUG1994.
C-141B delivers humanitarian aid to Rwanda refugees in Zaire, August 1994.
In 1996, NC-141A #12776, based on Edwards AFB, became the ‘Electric Starlifter’ with fly-by-wire controls. In the 1990s, 63 C-141Bs were upgraded to C-141Cs with the latest in digital equipment.
NASA photo by Tom Tschida, 20DEC1997.
In December 1997 a C-141A was used by NASA to tow a QF-106 to high altitude before release, to test the feasibility of similar launching of future space vehicles. It was called Project Eclipse. C-141A #12775 is now at the Air Mobility Command Museum.
NC-141A #12779 with ‘universal radar nose’, wasting away on the Air Force Flight Test Center Museum’s South Base flightline, in California.
USAF photo by Technical Sergeant Lance Cheung, 22SEP2000.
Upgraded ‘glass cockpit’ of a C-141C, September 2000, during a ‘Project Trans-Am’ mission.
USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Ken Bergmann, 12OCT2001.
A Tennessee Air National Guard C-141 gets loaded with war gear on U.S. Naval Air Station Sigonella, in NATO Italy, for the start of the undeclared War on Terror (Operation Enduring Freedom), October 2001.
USAF photo by Master Sergeant Lance Cheung, 22SEP2005.
Hurricane Rita final hours of an air evacuation from the Southeast Texas Regional Airport, onboard a Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, Starlifter.
USAF photo by Master Sergeant Lance Cheung, 22SEP2005.
Video report by Airman First Class Kahdija Slaughter, January 2015. Preserving the Starlifter Gate Guard at Joint Base Charleston, South Carolina:
USAF photo by Technical Sergeant Bryan Hull, 06AUG2016.
Kelsey Schmidt, Miss Washington 2016, rechristens ‘gate guard’ Tacoma Starlifter, (#65-0277) on Heritage Hill, Joint Base Lewis-McChord (click here to see Sandra Marth, Miss Washington 1966, christen Tacoma Starlifter the first time). Tacoma Starlifter first arrived on Lewis-McChord in August 1966 and took part in 1973’s Operation Homecoming, bringing Prisoners of War (PoW) back home to the U.S. from Viet Nam. The last C-141 stationed on Lewis-McChord was retired in April 2002.
USAF photo by Airman First Class Zachary Martyn, 07APR2017.
Airman conduct weekly inspections of ‘gate guards’, like The Garden State Starlifter, on Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey.
Video report by Staff Sergeant John Ayre, April 2015, 50th anniversary of Golden Bear:
USAF photo by Technical Sergeant Liliana Moreno, 30MAR2018.
‘War on Terror’ veteran Brandon Jones and his service dog, Apache, pose in front of Golden Bear on Travis Air Force Base, California.
Video report by Kenneth Wright, October 2018. History of the C-141 from the viewpoint of the personnel of the 349th Air Mobility Wing (formerly Military Airlift Wing), U.S. Air Force Reserve on Travis AFB, California:
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The New York Times has published detailed research that proves the evil corporate elitist 1% have been ripping off what was once the most wealthy Middle Class in the world, the U.S. Middle Class. And it all started with the Reagan regime in 1981!
One of the tricks Ronald Reagan used to steal money from the Middle Class was to convince everybody that gambling your retirement income on the world’s largest slot machines, the stock markets, was a good idea. During the 1980s millions of workers shifted their retirement money into what’s known as 401K, and they still do it today!
The research by New York Times Upshot shows that the crash of the U.S. Middle Class begins in the 1980s (by the way, the federal tax collector Internal Revenue Service has been saying this for years now). So don’t blame 9/11 or even the 2007/08 “recession”. In fact you could blame the “recession” on the decades of financial rape of the Middle Class, and the rapists are still getting away with it!
There’s something else that the Reagan regime began, they began a destructive relationship by cozying up to the mortal enemy of the United States: The British empire.
I’ve already explained in past postings that the British empire is the one controlling unAmerican Corporate America, through FDI, and this Foreign Direct Investment by the true “evil empire” can be traced back to the Reagan regime. The new New York Times Upshot research indicates that the crash of the U.S. Middle Class coincides with the skyrocketing Middle Class in the United Kingdom. Yes, despite all those subjects of the Queen of England constantly whining about their economic condition, the numbers show the Middle Class of the United Kingdom is now the world’s richest Middle Class!
The coinciding crash of U.S. Middle Class, and skyrocketing U.K. Middle Class indicates a shift in wealth, away from the U.S. and into the empire, accomplished by takeovers of U.S. companies. The British empire is actually a type of corporation known as a “commonwealth”.
I’ve even written about how the British empire has taken over school textbook publishers in the U.S., which could explain the shift from the use of U.S. grammar to Queen’s English grammar. In fact, in one of my Job Losses articles I wrote how New Jersey govna Christie gave a British empire company a massive tax deal to move their textbook publishing operation to his state, only to have the company close its doors and move to New York after they took the tax deal money! The British empire has also taken over many U.S. news media outlets.
New York Times Upshot looked at Median Middle Class after tax income, and even threw in those who were getting things like Social Security, and of course they adjusted for inflation. In 1981 the U.S. Middle Class led the world, but since then has grown only by 19.1%. Who leads the world in the growth of their Middle Class? The United Kingdom (aka Britain, the capitol of the British empire) with 83.3% growth! In fact Norway, Sweden and Canada all beat out the United States, and it’s interesting that they are all indirect or direct members of the British Commonwealth!
But wait, it gets worse! If you look at data just from 2000 to present, the U.S. Middle Class is losing its ass! The United Kingdom’s Median Middle Class grew by 19.7%, as did the empire’s realm known as Canada. Ireland, who recently made it public that they are officially re-joined the empire (heresy!) grew at 16.2%. Since 2000 the U.S. Median Middle Class is stagnating at 0.3%!!!
The very detailed and complex to read New York Times Upshot report points out that this is a snapshot of the demise of the U.S. Middle Class. They admit that overall income growth in the U.S. is doing just as good as the British empire, but it’s all going to the 1% (who’ve made evil backroom alliances with the British empire, Bilderberg anyone?).
Hey all you ‘mericans, I’ve written this before: Stop blaming China for your economic demise!
Then another horse came out, a fiery red one. Its rider was given power to take peace from the earth and to make men slay each other.
The Mexican attorney general released an official death toll for the first nine months of 2011. It’s 11% higher than the same time in 2010. 2010’s death toll was 70% higher than 2009! So far the official death toll in the so called Mexican war on drugs is 45,515! That’s not a war on drugs, that’s an all out civil war!
In May, 2011, I wrote that what was going on in Mexico was actually a civil war between the pro-U.S. government, and ultra right wing nationalist. One reason is that the majority of people getting killed are not drug dealers or police, but migrant workers from Central American countries, as well as a few tourists from the United States!
In a 1998 book (called The Next War), co-authored by former U.S. Secretary of Defense under Ronald Reagan, Caspar Weinberger listed which countries the United States was going to go to war with (so far he’s been right, one being Iraq, the other [most likely] being Iran), and that includes Mexico!
“…an American expeditionary force invades Mexico to topple a corrupt and recalcitrant drug-running regime…”-Amazon book review
Weinberger’s scenarios are based on actual Department of Defense war scenarios. In the case of Mexico, the scenario says that nationalist drug lords take over Mexico and begin nationalizing the oil industry (which the U.S. oil companies had worked so hard to take over). Under the pretext of stopping masses of refugees flowing into the U.S., and to restore democracy, the United States invades Mexico. The invasion is launched from Texas.
By the way, Weinberger also says we are going to attack Russia, Korea and Japan. The 1998 book also talks about cyber warfare and Arab uprisings (what is now called The Arab Spring in the West). Mmmm, are our leaders using this book as a guide?
“The Postal Service still seems to hold the misguided belief that accounting gimmicks and an increased reliance on taxpayer support will give it flexibility to push back insolvency for a few more years.”-Darrel Issa, Republican Representative from California
California Republican Darrel Issa has just revealed himself to be a liar or an idiot!
First off: Postal officials have been straight forward with their financial mess. And most of that mess has been caused by Congress!!! Read my September posting of the PBS interview with the Postmaster General, and the president of the National Association of Letter Carriers union.
Darrel Issa is a California Republican, yet he doesn’t know that two other California Republicans pushed for the USPS to become self supporting? Yeah, those guys were Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan!!!
In 1970, under Nixon the Postal Reorganization Act was passed and signed into law. This act ceased tax payer funding for the USPS (prior to the Reorganization Act it was known as the Postal Department), and forced it to become self supporting (although it does not have to make a profit).
In 1982, under Reagan, another act was passed and signed that added U.S. postage stamps to the “postal products” that the USPS could support itself with (until then the Government took all the money from sales of stamps).
Perhaps Darrel Issa is talking about the “Postal Service Fund”? This is a fund set up by Congress, paid for with taxes, to cover the postage free mailing for all legally blind persons, and for mail in election ballots sent from U.S. citizens living overseas, and, for providing address information to state and local child support enforcement agencies. It does not cover any other operations of the USPS!
Perhaps Darrel Issa wants to end the free mailings for blind people, for absentee election ballots, and for providing addresses to state and local child support agencies?
Whatever the reason, this is a clear case of politicians, and the media, of being incompetent, or intentionally misleading the general public.
A recent story in the Idaho State Journal showed that a random shooting, that took place at the end of September, may be linked to the state of Idaho ending health care coverage for people with certain mental disorders.
On September 27th, a man was shot outside a Pocatello, Idaho, coffee shop. He nearly died after losing 40% of his blood. The shooter was a man who had not been on his mental health meds because the state cut off the funding. The article showed there are other instances of violent behavior since the cuts took place. One man, in court after assaulting his own house and car, was “suggested” by the local judge to get control of his mental problem (findarticles.com). Hello? Isn’t that part of a ‘mental’ health problem? They can’t control it without outside help, and many of them are not in a position pay for it.
This year Idaho lawmakers claim they saved taxpayers $9 million by cutting the mental health budget. They also said, earlier in the year, that only people with private insurance would be dropped from state assistance. Yet, I’ve read several recent articles that say, in actuality people without any insurance have been cut. To give you an example of how insensitive lawmakers are; according to an article in the Idaho Statesman, State Representative Ken Andrus, a Republican from Lava Hot Springs, Idaho, said he considers the Pocatello shooting, by a man dropped from state help, to be an isolated case (www.idahostatesman.com).
Several mental health care professionals, here in Eastern Idaho, are warning that this is just the beginning of bad things to come. The family of the shooting victim are outraged.
This reminds me of the Federal cuts for mental health care, pushed by President Ronald Reagan in the 1980s. Instead of saving money, it cost more money in the long run, because of increased incarcerations, and lawsuits, due to resulting violent crime by people who were pushed onto the streets, and, went off their meds. The difference between then and now is that then the government was trying to save money. Now, there is no money. The results will be the same.
Comparison of C-141A to YC-141B. The ‘B’ version also got inflight refueling apparatus.
In this photo you can see the unpainted fuselage ‘plug’ used to extend the C-141As into C-141Bs, as well as the aerial refueling sections.
NASA (National Aeronautics Space Administration) modified a C-141A into an airborne space observation vehicle in 1975. 
In 1996, NC-141A #12776, based on Edwards AFB, became the ‘Electric Starlifter’ with fly-by-wire controls. In the 1990s, 63 C-141Bs were upgraded to C-141Cs with the latest in digital equipment.
NC-141A #12779 with ‘universal radar nose’, wasting away on the Air Force Flight Test Center Museum’s South Base flightline, in California.
