Since I’m always so busy Monday night, I’ve decided to make Tuesday “Entertain Your Own Damn Selves Day” (though I do plan on having some more posts later today).
Today, the topic of discussion is how to properly keep Reagan’s memory alive and continue the fight for honor in his name. People may act like they all liked Reagan now, but remember they hated him even worse than Bush back in the day. While idiots now worry that Bush willmake allies angry at us, the muckadoos back in the 80’s were convinced Reagan was going to start a nuclear holocaust killing us all. His enemies and the enemies of America were and still are many, so it is up to us to fight.
First off, I have some new logos. Some people didn’t like anything over the flag, so here is a new simple banner for an American Ronin:
Note to International Readers: You don’t have to live in America be an American Ronin; you just have to fight for the true American principles of liberty and the destruction of evil.
Tom Hoyt also made some banners:
Banner 1
Banner 2
Banner 3
Banner 4
Banner 5
I’ll let him explain them. For 1-3:
6-5Ronin = Reagan died on 6/5, and 6-5 Ronin has a good ring to it in Japanese (not to mention the slightly frightening image of a 6′ 5″
ronin). On the right is the date, center is “ronin,” on the left the motto from the USS Reagan, “Peace Through Strength” and then “Reagan group,” though group in Japanese is used for anything from a kindergarten class to a warrior unit or mafia gang.
Banner 4:
Just has 6/5 in the background and ronin in the foreground; I should have picked a different color for the date
Banner 5:
Has 6 / 5 and ronin on it; I liked the juxtaposition of Japanese with Arabic numerals
As we settle on a banner, I hope to make a page specifying what to do to be one of Reagan’s Ronin. I had a first draft at a list already, but I need more ideas on how to actively fight for the principles of liberty in Reagan’s name. When I have all the requirements down for being an American Ronin, then I’ll make a page devoted exclusively to this.
First off, all should have a shrine to Master Ronin so that you may reflect on your duties daily. This shrine shall consist of a bowl of jellybeans (preferably Jelly Belly). It is permissible and encouraged to eat these jellybeans when reflect on your duties to freedom and the fight against evil, but the bowl should never go empty.
Also, one should be knowledgeable in the works of Master Reagan to defend him from slander. You can let no unkind words of Reagan go unchallenged.
Foremost, you must do something every day to fight for freedom and keep the American spirit alive.
Now, your assignment for today is to come up with some activities we can all do to keep Master Reagan’s legacy alive and fight those who wish to weaken our resolve. Also, what are a good list of books and articles so we can educate ourselves on Master Reagan? Please put these in the comment section and continue your day with honor.
UPDATE: Also, what would be a good slogan or battle cry (and no one say, “Spooooon!”)?
Sugoi!
I’ve read where there isn’t enough supporting rock left in Rushmore to add Reagan’s image. I therefore suggest carving his likeness into Half Dome in Yosemite. A fitting tribute that will also piss off the tree-hugging hippies.
What’s with the Chinese characters?
You’re dumb. You can’t be a ronin.
Send shoes to Sgt. Hook. See his blog or Balckfive.net for details.
Give us a secret mission. Rall or something.
No secrecy with Reagan’s Ronins. We are to be visible to cause change and strike fear in the hearts of our enemies. If it is deemed that action must be taken against Rall, we shall do it for all to see. I’d like to see his catoon removed from all major publications. How can we get that movement started?
For a battle cry, can’t we give a good ol’ rebel yell?
When a liberal pisses us off, we should always start our rebuttal with: “Now there you go again…” That will really frost them!!
Why don’t we use the characters for “40” to signify his presidency? Is it the idea of a 4’0″ Ronin not striking fear?
A battlecry memorializing “Peace through superior firepower!”, or ICBM’s, or 1980’s GI Joe… “Go Peacemaker!”
Or, we could just kick a commie in the balls prior to all engagements.
jelly belly man
hey buddy up there japanese characters not chinese grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Battle Cry: “The bombing starts in 15 minutes.”
Will we get cool membership cards?
RTO Trainer,
Maybe. Do ronin usually have membership cards, and what would they look like?
To be more like Mr. Reagan, all must move to the Mid-West and work humbly but effectively at various jobs. Breathing Mid-Western air (Chicago doesn’t count) will fill you with goodness as exemplified by Our Fortieth.
…even if Frank J has sold out to the Japanese…
…can’t we carve Reagan’s face on every hippie and leftie (as if there was any difference) we meet? Sort of like Zorro’s Z?
That would make them more pleasing to the eye, and considering we wouldn’t use stuff like disinfectant, non-rusty knives, or anestethics (those are for use on civilized people only) it’d be both a very painful process for them, and there’d be good chanches they wouldn’t survive it, either.
Wouldn’t a branding iron be faster?
A battle cry to strike fear into the hearts of liberals? Remember the movie “Zulu”
We get a bunch of trash can lids and bang them in unison and chant…
all: clangclang* “Reagan”
all: clangclang* “Reagan”
all: clangclang* “Reagan”
lone leader: “Conserrrrrrrrrrrvvaaaaaaaaaaative”
all: “world leader”
lone leader: “Conserrrrrrrrrrrvvaaaaaaaaaaative”
all: “kick a$$”
lone leader: “Conserrrrrrrrrrrvvaaaaaaaaaaative”
all: “We will rule the world!” clang “We will rule the world!” clang
(repeat until the libs wet their pants)
Chinese/Japenese/Mongolian-ese it all looks the same if you can’t speak it. How about a little English-ese for us ‘too dumb to be Ronin-ese’ please?
Ned, I wouldn’t say you’re dumb…illiterate perhaps but not dumb. But just in case you are, I will try and do this using simple words…
Look at the article. Below the picture of the flag are five links. Under the links, Frank tells you what each image displayed when you click on the link means. If you understand English, then look at the image, look at what Frank says the characters mean, look back at the image, look back at what Frank says. Ta-daaaaa! You just learned what the C/J/M-ese means!
Simple, nicht wahr?
The best battlecry, I think, would be the word for the one thing Reagan-sama stood for before all others: “FREEDOM!” Another battlecry, depending on the situation, could be “For the Gipper!”
The best motto would probably be “Peace through Strength” or “Trust, but Verify.” I mean, Reagan-sama did say it best.
Phoenix
Thank you, Former Hostage. Sorry folks. Please have some patience for us old farts!
Carry on.
Probably “Peace Through Strength” would be the best motto… or “Peace Through Beating the Crap Out of Our Enemy”. Anyone know the Latin for that?
I suggest we carry banners into battle with “Trust But Verify” and “Peace through strength” on them. I have “Trust but verify” ready should you need it.
I meant to say I have the banners ready in Japanese, should you need them. I will go do penance for my stupidity.
For a book to educate people:
Ronald Reagan: How an Ordinary Man Became an Extraordinary Leader by Dinesh D’Souza
Shockwave,
I have a signed copy of that book.
Frank,
I have a flag with a signed card that was presented to my by President Reagan. The day before the funeral I pulled it out and showed it to my son (he’s 9). He thought it was so awsome that he asked if he could take it to school to show everyone. I warned him that he had to take care of it and leave a deposit. He told me everyone thought it was really cool.
Does anyone know how to say “Peace through Strength” in Latin? Now THAT would look so cool on a banner!
I can figure it out when I get home and pull out my Latin dictionary.
Otium via Magnus?
Reagan!- Right!
Ronin! – Fight!
Pax via Magno is ‘Peace by means of Strength/Might’ in Latin.
Confidete sed Arguete is ‘Trust, but Make Certain’ in Latin.
I knew that minor in Classics would come in handy one day.
Phoenix
Oh, additionally, could you ask Tom-san to make banner-style banners for those of us who would like to use them on messageboards? They need to be wider than they are tall (for instance, my board has a limit of 500 pixels wide by 250 tall for images)? If he isn’t sure how to do that, he could just write out the kanjii/katana in Roman style (left to right) and send it to me and I could make banners like that.
Phoenix
Frank, you might want to ask Darth Misha if his Latin program can do that translating for you. Neither Babelfish nor Google’s translating section gives English to Latin translations. 🙁
Hm… let me see how rusty I am…
The first banner says (from top down and right to left)
rokugatsuitsuka
ronin
“chikaradeheiwa” reegankumi
But I’m not sure “chikara” is the right kind of strength to use. I think “iryoku” 威力 might be a better way of saying it. Hell, I could be completely off base for all I know.
The best way to honor regan?
Make all the middle east a glass parking lot, the president give executive order to NUKE anyone who says otherwise (aka. france)
A battle cry;أقتل الإرهبيين! أقتل الليبراليين! Aaach… couldn’t find the way to pronounce that in arabic, but if someone could, it stands for:
Kill the terrorists! Kill the liberals
um, Pax via stompeni tu, uh, gooberatum?
Sorry. meant to put RepLover in name box… dang computer, and also wanted to add: Every year, on Regan’s birthday, we nuke the radioactive mush that used to be paris
I think in the Jelly Belly bowl we should have no red ones to remind us how much Reagan hated commies. Either that or always make sure the red are coupled with white and blue. I heard that one of those colors was not offered until Reagan himself requested it so he could give gifts of red, white, and blue ones. Can’t remember which color and don’t know if it’s true, but sounds cool.
The Japs borrowed Chinese characters for their writing systems and modified it.
Frank, there are at least 56 million Nips in the US wearing knit hats and pretending to understand Blink 182 lyrics and there are also at least 500 million GI/Jap mongrel half-breeds like me that can understand Japanese. Get one of us to do your banners right.* Those look great if you don’t read Japanese…but they impress on kanji alone…which isn’t impressive if you can read kanji. Get a Nipper to write your banners!*
*The banners are fine; me and my people NEED WORK! Support your local half-breeeeeeeeeeed!
Membership cards would be plain slips of rice paper with the kanji characters. You could see the english only by revealing hte invisible ink markings.
NUKE THE MOON!!!!!!
…or was that too obvious?
I don’t have a HUGE problem w/ the jap theme(other than they hammer our great nation in the import/export dept.)but what’s wrong w/ including some Native American content?There were warriors here in North America that would have made a samurai crap in his armor.Remember arrows/cannibalism/organized cavalry attacks?
I was alive & aware in the Reagan years,I don’t remember him extolling the values of Asia,I remember him being a proud American.
I’m not saying dump the samurai theme,just realize who attacked Pearl Harbor & who attacks us daily w/ every ship full of cars that docks in CA.
And the Chinese & Arabic,that’s even worse.I don’t mean to dog the person who made the banners(they look damned good),just think about the heritage,rather than trying to make some phrase sound cool in some language,think about the heritage first;the Constitution was in English.
Call me a d##>head,but if you’re going to be patriotic,BE PATRIOTIC !!!
Thanks to the people who liked the banners.
Small correction on the meanings. 1 has the correct description, but 2 and 3 have “Reagan-sama’s” on the right, “Ronin” center, and the date left.
Anyway, I was just playing around with the idea. If you want a specific banner size or other mottoes, etc., let me know. I’ll work on one 500×250.
Yaminohasha – Iryoku being “power” as in “the power of the blast,” you could be right, but chikara is simply “strength,” and I picked it instead. I’ll have to defer to those with more education / native speakers on which is better.
HJaPOI – Sorry for stepping on your territory! But there are at least 5 (count ’em!) foreign dudes here in Japan pretending to understand Boom lyrics. We also need the work!
Former Hostage – You rock!
Colt Springfield – Thanks for the compliments on the banners. An American Indian theme on this would be great, too. Any ideas? On the Japanese, there happen to be Japanese troops on the ground in Iraq right now supporting us, and their government has forked out billions of dollars to help out over there (again). Yeah, they are economic competitors (who isn’t?), but selling Hondas to Americans who obviously want to buy Hondas? Oh, the horror!
Anyway, what language I express my love for my country in has nothing at all to do with the quality of my patriotism. This conversation would have to be a lot deeper for you to determine that.
Hey, I’m for mixing any kick ass warrior culture into the mix. Less just not make it a hodge-podge.
Twalsh-
It was the Blue (blueberry) Jelly Belly that wasn’t available until Reagan suggested it. I remember this from a field trip to the Jelly Belly factory in the eighth grade (1999). Speaking of which, I’m going to head to the supermarket to see about getting some red, white, and blue Jelly Bellys in honor of the Gipper. My suggestion would be “Win one for the Gipper”. I know, not very original, but that’s what the Republicans need to do for us.
Tom Hoyt-I just started looking for native American ideas,so I haven’t gotten far.I did find a site that has quotes from Geronimo that are even today, quite poignant.
http://www.indians.org/welker/geronimo.htm
Hey Frank, why not get old Professor Miyake over at http://www.amritas.com to help out?
Not only is he an anti-idiot, he’s also a very cunning linguist and he would be a better person to ask than even a native Jap.
What is “Japanese” is universally known by all Japanese and is universally different among all Japanese. You can take someone from Osaka (where I spent a lot of time) and ask them a question about how you say something in Japanese and someone from Tokyo, if you don’t tell them what the Osaka guy told you, will tell you something different. Just like being American, we all tend to think in huge, generic concepts until someone actually asks us “what the US is all about.” Then our natural prejudices and opinions take over. Foreigners in Japan often have pissing contests where they try to one-up other gaikokujin by showing how much MORE Japanese they are; skinny girlfriend..CHECK. Says he likes natto…CHECK. Speaks Japanese with the appropriate accent of the region he lives in…CHECK. Smarmy correction of any mistake you make about Japan…CHECK. Well, he just knows about Japan based on his experiences and areas and just like a native, he might be totally wrong on something but be culturally correct.
Doc Miyake is an actual linguist that studies word roots and usage so he could give you the REAL deal on the words. After all, if you were using Tagalog, you could ask a Filipino about it or you could ask a Filipino linguist and get it right the first time.