RIP Notable Figures

Merkin · Post by **Merkin** » Wed Oct 13, 2021 9:55 pm

Why are they bringing up the meaningless All Star game? Yes Pete Rose was a total dick and did injure Fosse, but as a lead story it should be about: Former all-star and two time World Series champion...

UAEebs86 wrote: ↑Wed Oct 13, 2021 8:34 pm

EastCoastCat · Post by **EastCoastCat** » Thu Oct 14, 2021 1:34 am

UAEebs86 wrote: ↑Wed Oct 13, 2021 8:34 pm

I always thought that was cheap shot by Rose even though it was a legal play back then because it was just an All-Star game.

Assumed Rose had bet money on the game.

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Mon Oct 18, 2021 5:49 am

Colin Powell has died from Covid.

Alieberman · Post by **Alieberman** » Mon Oct 18, 2021 6:39 am

Holy crap

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Mon Oct 18, 2021 7:09 am

CatsbyAZ · Post by **CatsbyAZ** » Mon Oct 18, 2021 9:03 am

UAEebs86 wrote: ↑Mon Oct 18, 2021 7:09 am

A good example of why I limit my time on twitter. Colin Powell starting trending and, predictably, the forever-onliners wasted no in using the event of his passing to either A) rehash old Iraq War grievances or B) drumming in the fact of his vaccinations to "prove" vaccinations don't work. Anything that's a headline is immediately co-opted into talking points serving their chosen narrative. RIP Colin Powell, man of introspective leadership we'll miss.

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Mon Oct 18, 2021 10:18 am

I don’t mind talking about Iraq. Seems like he spent the rest of his life trying to make up for what was a horrific error in judgment. So as long as people acknowledge that, I’m good with them pointing out he unwittingly (or at least claimed it was not on purpose) lied us into that war.

84Cat · Post by **84Cat** » Mon Oct 18, 2021 9:02 pm

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Sat Oct 23, 2021 6:53 pm

One of the few good (ex) Republicans. RIP

Alieberman · Post by **Alieberman** » Sat Oct 23, 2021 7:03 pm

My Dad actually knew him pretty well.

RIP

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Mon Nov 08, 2021 12:27 pm

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Thu Nov 11, 2021 5:46 am

Merkin · Post by **Merkin** » Thu Nov 11, 2021 8:36 am

So the Nobel Committee was wrong?

Not questioning, just asking. I do recall the events, just not the details.

Reads more like the revelation Robert Byrd went through here.

From Apartheid to Majority Rule
In 1990 South Africa's President Frederik Willem de Klerk decided to release Nelson Mandela, leader of the liberation movement, who had been in prison since 1963. Following the release, the two politicians worked together to bring an end to the policy of racial segregation. It was for his participation in this peace process that de Klerk was awarded the Peace Prize in 1993.

When de Klerk took office as President in 1989, no one expected him to play a key part in the termination of apartheid. Both as a lawyer, as a parliamentarian, and as a member of the government he had stood out as a firm upholder of white privilege. But when he realized that the apartheid system was leading to both economic and political bankruptcy, he put himself at the head of a radical change of course. He continued the negotiations with Mandela and the ANC liberation movement, which had begun in secret. They agreed to prepare for a presidential election and to draw up a new constitution with equal voting rights for every population group in the country.

Longhorned · Post by **Longhorned** » Thu Nov 11, 2021 8:44 am

This is why the left or the CDC makes a mistake when they try to appeal to the right's sense of helping others. The message needs to be: Do it for yourself.

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Thu Nov 11, 2021 9:10 am

de Klerk was rabidly pro-Apartheid most of his political career. Anyone pretending that the first politically significant thing he did was releasing Mandela and sharing power with him is lying to you.

Even after Mandela’s release, de Klerk fought tooth and nail to not allow the complete undoing of White dominated structures and society. His legacy is complicated, at best.

Longhorned · Post by **Longhorned** » Thu Nov 11, 2021 9:36 am

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Fri Nov 12, 2021 6:04 pm

Merkin · Post by **Merkin** » Mon Nov 15, 2021 11:59 am

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Mon Nov 15, 2021 12:25 pm

Fuck. Just about my age.

That’s sobering.

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Mon Nov 22, 2021 3:20 pm

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Mon Nov 22, 2021 6:28 pm

Had one of the greatest Mustache/Slider combos I’ve ever seen.

RIP

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Tue Nov 23, 2021 1:19 pm

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Wed Nov 24, 2021 9:06 am

ASUHATER! · Post by **ASUHATER!** » Wed Nov 24, 2021 9:44 am

Not sure that's verified. Oldest verified living person was 118 in Japan

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Wed Nov 24, 2021 9:46 am

It's on the internet so it's true.

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Mon Nov 29, 2021 8:25 am

97cats · Post by **97cats** » Mon Nov 29, 2021 11:40 am

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Mon Nov 29, 2021 12:48 pm

I wonder how many courses he played that he also could not be a member at.

97cats · Post by **97cats** » Mon Nov 29, 2021 12:57 pm

too many to mention and some additional ones that he never knew felt that way but acted silently as such under the guise of backwards traditions which is even more gutless.

at least Augusta knew and still knows who they were and who they are as repugnant as that may be.

97cats · Post by **97cats** » Mon Nov 29, 2021 10:00 pm

RIP, Virgil - devastated

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Tue Nov 30, 2021 10:17 am

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Tue Nov 30, 2021 10:47 am

97cats wrote: ↑Mon Nov 29, 2021 10:00 pm RIP, Virgil - devastated

Such an incredible talent. Gone way way too soon.

97cats · Post by **97cats** » Tue Nov 30, 2021 11:19 am

Chicat wrote: ↑Tue Nov 30, 2021 10:47 am
Such an incredible talent. Gone way way too soon.

one of my real life living heros now gone - i am still so shocked and very sad.

Merkin · Post by **Merkin** » Sun Dec 05, 2021 10:15 am

Back when Republicans voted for war veterans, and not draft dodgers.

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Sun Dec 05, 2021 10:38 am

From his Wikipedia page:

Dole attended the University of Arizona from 1948 to 1949

Merkin · Post by **Merkin** » Sun Dec 05, 2021 11:03 am

Didn't know that, and if I did I certainly forgot.

Hard enough going to college in the first place, and even harder for someone who had to learn to write with his left hand.

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Mon Dec 06, 2021 2:22 pm

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Thu Dec 09, 2021 10:15 pm

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Fri Dec 10, 2021 5:34 am

Wow, that is shocking.

His family thinks it was a seizure.

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Fri Dec 10, 2021 7:28 am

He's basically the reason conservatives think Tim Tebow was a great QB.

Because of this one play:

84Cat · Post by **84Cat** » Fri Dec 10, 2021 9:44 am

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Sun Dec 12, 2021 8:15 am

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Sun Dec 12, 2021 8:21 am

I hate when people automatically offer a personal anecdote when hearing of a recent death, but…

I went to a party at her house in New Orleans when I was right out of college. Her son creeped me out worse than any of her characters ever did.

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Sun Dec 12, 2021 11:39 am

Chicat wrote: ↑Sun Dec 12, 2021 8:21 am I hate when people automatically offer a personal anecdote when hearing of a recent death, but…

I went to a party at her house in New Orleans when I was right out of college. Her son creeped me out worse than any of her characters ever did.

This guy?

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Sun Dec 12, 2021 11:47 am

That’s him.

Within ten minutes of meeting him I thought he was going to drug, rape, and kill me.

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Sun Dec 26, 2021 12:41 am

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Sun Dec 26, 2021 10:58 am

A man who so often spoke truth to power.

“We had the land, and they had the Bible. Then they said, ‘Let us pray,’ and we closed our eyes. When we opened them again, they had the land and we had the Bible.”

Rest In Power

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Mon Dec 27, 2021 8:04 pm

84Cat · Post by **84Cat** » Tue Dec 28, 2021 3:18 pm

EastCoastCat · Post by **EastCoastCat** » Tue Dec 28, 2021 5:17 pm

RIP John Madden.

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