obituaries

Madeleine Albright, first female US secretary of state, dies She was very passionate about democracy, having spent her childhood in a place where there was none. She had to flee from both Nazis and Communists. People with such backgrounds often have a greater love and fervor for democracy...

https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2021/1222/1268223-poet-thomas-kinsella/

Bob Dole, giant of the Senate and 1996 Republican presidential nominee, dies They say we should not speak poorly of the recently deceased, so the best I can say is that he wasn't as big of an ******* as so many Republicrud are today.

In 2015, Luke Rudkowski "discovered" Rudy Dent, a former FDNY member who was called to duty in the afternoon of 9/11, who was, if I remember correctly, at the West St/Hudson staging area when Building 7 collapsed. Back then, he "remembered" explosions and supported all he had learned from 9/11...

Rolling Stone Haven't heard about/from him in quite a while but who [that is old enough] can forget those pitches.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/william-regnery-dead-white-nationalist-millionaire-financier-richard-spencer_n_60f0f53ae4b01f118957ee93

Donald Rumsfeld, former secretary of defense, dies at 88

And he died doing it. https://www.google.com/amp/s/slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/06/daredevil-alex-harvill-dies-record-motorcycle-jump.amp This the way you wanna go, dying while doing something physically daredevilish that you just love to do when you might have experienced the same...

From the Sun's obituary before they modified it slightly And Via Jim Felton https://twitter.com/JimMFelton/status/1391477838772060167?s=20 Yes there was something else that happened between 1973 and 1990. He strangled and drowned his wife and got off on the grounds of diminished...

Walter 'Fritz' Mondale, former vice president under Jimmy Carter, dead at 93

Don't know where else to put this, and may the Mods feel free to relocate... The Worlds biggest ripoff artist is dead at 82, and somehow, the world is a little better today. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/14/bernie-madoff-dies-mastermind-of-the-nations-biggest-investment-fraud-was-82.html

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, dies aged 99 Well, there's goes the UK TV schedule for the next few days...

This will probably be little more than a footnote, as I don't imagine many here have heard of Ralph Stair. His death has been reported by Allan Weiner, the owner/operator of the WBCQ shortwave radio station, who to be sure is one of the few people who would be in a position to know. Shortwave...

A long long life indeed, productive as both publisher and poet. Jumping keyboard! The title was supposed to be RIP Lawrence Ferlinghetti! e.t.a. thanks, mods!

Love him or hate him, he was a driving force in talk radio for decades. https://www.foxnews.com/media/rush-limbaugh-dead-talk-radio-conservative-icon Mods, feel free to relocate this thread if this isn't the place for it, but given his influence on conservative/republican thought, I...

Sheldon Adelson, 87, is dead. He was a huge funder of Trump and the GOP. He's a big part of the reason we're where we are right now. Well, good riddance to the ******* bastard, too bad it didn't happen ten years ago, we might not be in this mess now.

Very sad news. Here is the BBC page. https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-55297558 Fans of movies taken from his novels will always think of Sir Alec Guiness as George Smiley and more recently Gary Oldman. However Smiley was also played in earlier films by Rupert Davies (The Spy who...

James Randi, The Amazing Randi, who made this forum possible has died after a long and productive life. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Randi

MSNBC and CNN are reporting that Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died at home with her family. No doubt that Trump and McConnell will try to rush through another right-wing extremist.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/30/former-gop-presidential-candidate-herman-cain-dies-after-battle-with-coronavirus.html

For the first time in many, many years I cried tonight when I heard that Peter Green (Greenbaum) has died. A troubled man I had the very great privilege to meet back in the day and the only man ever to give B.B. King (another great I've met and who holds my No 1 spot) the sweats. It's early...

I don't know what to say beyond all that can be said about him and his work through the decades listed in his obituary. He led the march in Selma and has long been fighting for civil rights. After this hectic year of the Uprisings and the current efforts to amplify the Black Lives Matter...

Mythbuster and Mythtern Grant Imahara has died at the age of 49. Present reports were that he suffered from a fatal brain aneurysm. Other than Mythbusters Grant was part of the Lucusfilm's Industrial Light and Magic Studio, working on films including the Star Wars prequels, The Matrix Reloaded...

https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/celebrities/2020/07/12/benjamin-keough-dies-lisa-marie-presley-elvis-grandson/5425381002/ Only 27 years old. It is not been made clear if he had been depressed before in his life, or had been living with it for many years. It seems like many people...

It's a wrap.

Breatharian claimant Prahlad Jani has died. I guess the lack of food and water finally caught up with him.

I note with sadness the passing of Mr Vasquez, also known as Yosemitebear62, most famous for the viral Double Rainbow YouTube video. OQSNhk5ICTI Though feeling the effects of a heart attack, he delayed calling for help because he “looked forward to reincarnating.” Rest In Peace.

Sad news which I only discovered today, DPRJones, probably best known in the 9/11 community for his video titled '9/11 was an insect job', passed away in January. For those who may not have known his channel, he dealt with a whole host of bunk, mainly around religion. He also did a few 9/11...

Thinking about Johnny Thompson today, the Great Tomsoni, on the anniversary of his death, and sharing a photo of the Tomsoni button given out at his memorial service. There doesn't seem to be much going on here within the Conjuror's Corner, but knowing those who practice the magical arts, it's...

Freeman Dyson has died at the incredible age of 96. https://www.mainepublic.org/post/renowned-mathematician-and-physicist-freeman-dyson-has-died-age-96?fbclid=IwAR3u5EKZnyy38FM2jkqmywZ0f6qagy0cDeA4nkY8yVnYMGRkTC0VfTY2_VM :blackcat: