BearForce2 said:

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I'm surprised the Democrats didn't kill Bernie.

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Democrats don't think like you RWNJs.

The depth of my love for this brother, can only be matched by the depth of my pain learning of his loss. A immensely talented man with the ability to give voice to the human condition portraying the lives of those whose humanity is seldom elevated until he sings their truth. pic.twitter.com/EvrESGSK8O

— Wendell Pierce (@WendellPierce) September 6, 2021

R.I.P. Norm



Norm Macdonald, Stand-Up Comedian and 'SNL' Star, Dead at 61 Rolling Stone


https://www.rollingstone.com/tv/tv-news/norm-macdonald-stand-up-and-saturday-night-live-star-dead-at-61-1226344/

Bob Dole was 36 when Norm Macdonald was born.

Norm played Bob Dole as an old man 25 years ago when Dole was in his early 70s.

Bob Dole outlived Norm.

“Norm @normmacdonald was a great talent, and I loved laughing with him on SNL. *Bob Dole* will miss Norm Macdonald.” pic.twitter.com/gPsdyJ5tS9

— Senator Bob Dole (@SenatorDole) September 14, 2021

RIP. He left his mark and was an original.

His last tweet was about Morikawa.

Morikawa shoots a 64 to get to -9. He was my pick for this week, but I laid off at last second due to injury concerns.

— Norm Macdonald (@normmacdonald) July 16, 2021

Along with everything else, Norm Macdonald was also Twitter’s greatest golf commentator. RIP.https://t.co/027XLfMED9

— Slate Culture (@SlateCulture) September 14, 2021

George Holliday, man who filmed Rodney King video that forever changed L.A., dies

61 years old
COVID-19

Steve Marble
Mon, September 20, 2021,

The video was less than nine minutes long, dark, grainy and badly out of focus. But it changed L.A. in ways that were unfathomable and dragged George Holliday into a life he never bargained for.

Shot with a bulky Sony Handycam, the video of the Rodney King beating in 1991 tore open a city already heaving with racial tension, an era when the Los Angeles Police Department was all but an occupying force in the city's Black neighborhoods, arriving with tanks, battering rams and brute force.

And when the four officers who beat King were acquitted the following year, the city exploded in protest and violence, thick smoke curling into the sky from Koreatown to South L.A. By the time it was over, more than 50 people had been killed and more than 2,300 were injured. The scars both to the city's urban core and to the psyches of its residents remained in plain view for decades.

For Holliday, it was like being hurled over a cliff. Reporters lurked outside his Lake View Terrace apartment, death threats arrived in the mail, and his efforts to receive just compensation for one of the most infamous videos of the time vaporized again and again.

Still hard at work as a plumber, Holliday died Sunday of complications of COVID-19, said Robert Wollenweber, a fellow plumber and close friend. Holliday was 61 and had been in a Simi Valley hospital since mid-August.




Holliday had just gone to bed when he heard the wail of sirens. He pulled on his trousers, grabbed his footlong video camera, stepped onto the balcony and hit the record button. From beginning to end, it was raw, bloody footage, with the officers beating, clubbing and shooting King, who was Black, with a Taser before finally tossing a sheet over his face, as if he were dead.

Holliday said he called the LAPD to ask what was going on and to tell them he'd videotaped the beating. But he said the dispatcher hung up on him. He tried again the next morning and then finally called KTLA-TV Channel 5 instead. The next day, the police came to the KTLA's studio and confiscated the tape. But by then, copies of the video were multiplying rapidly, an early-day viral sensation.

When the four officers were tried for assault and use of excessive force in 1992, Holliday's video was the prosecution's most damning piece of evidence. After seven days of deliberations, the largely white jury returned not-guilty verdicts.

The city, indeed the nation, was stunned.

"This jury's verdict will not blind us to what we saw on that videotape," said Tom Bradley, L.A.'s only Black mayor.

"Viewed from outside the trial, it was hard to understand how the verdict could possibly square with the video," President George H.W. Bush said. "Those civil rights leaders with whom I met were stunned. And so was I, and so was [First Lady] Barbara and so were my kids."

In ways that then couldn't be seen, Holliday's simple act of hoisting a video camera to his shoulder was probably one of the first flickers of the citizen journalist movement to come, in which everyday people would record and disseminate video snippets of unfolding events, from Eric Garner to George Floyd, both of whom died at the hands of police officers.

By every possible measurement, Holliday's video ignited a revolution. It helped usher in an era when police behavior and public accountability were shaped and influenced by even the most casual smartphone users, who could rocket disturbing videos around the globe on Twitter, Instagram and other social media platforms.

Police departments also embraced some slowly, some with enthusiasm body cameras that would record patrol officers' interactions with everyone, from dangerous felons to routine traffic citations. The devices, meant to ensure that officers were meeting department standards, at times also helped police disprove false claims.

"The Rodney King video was the Jackie Robinson of police videos," the Rev. Al Sharpton said.

After the acquittal, Holliday watched the five days of violence in horror. Customers told him his video had caused the upheaval. He found a note tucked under a windshield wiper blade of his work truck: "Be careful when you start your car in the morning." He worried the police would target him.

"There was a sea of reporters every day," Holliday told The Times in 2006. He said his wife was too afraid to leave their apartment, and then finally did leave for good. A second marriage also fell apart. And his legal efforts to collect compensation for his video only resulted in mounting bills from lawyers. Raised in Argentina, he contemplated returning to his homeland.

Struggling to pay his bills, he put his old video camera by then no longer working on the auction block in 2020, with an opening bid of $225,000. It sold for an undisclosed sum.

"Look, I'm still a plumber, even after all this," he told the New York Times.

This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times.

Double Vaccinated Emmy Winner Dies of Covid-19 Two Weeks After Attending Award Ceremony with Unmasked Celebrities https://t.co/LVZyvAvOgJ via @gatewaypundit

— Catturd ™ (@catturd2) October 5, 2021

More death porn from BearFarce. Here he is whenever he learns a libtard or person of color or queer dies:

I would suggest that there is also, in part, motivation to try and suggest that vaccinations mean nothing, since this person was double vaccinated.

Devastating news. Ray Fosse has passed away. pic.twitter.com/AVdOWtvApv

— Casey Pratt (@CaseyPrattABC7) October 14, 2021

Ray was a client of my friend, Wayne Hooper (who was also Jim Plunkett's attorney). I saw Ray around our office and was introduced to him at a Cal baseball tournament at Silverado in the early 1980's. He was a gentleman and a good man.

~ 'Irish Sporting Green', like that

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/oct/13/paddy-moloney-obituary


https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/oct/12/paddy-moloney-leader-of-irish-band-the-chieftains-dies-aged-83



https://youtu.be/-I_NvmKrh

My favorite Chieftains collaboration:



*….even though Van the Man is a ginger pr@ick

Bye Mort!

Red Sox announcer Jerry Remy has passed.

concordtom said:

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Red Sox announcer Jerry Remy has passed.

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"Pepperoni pizzer". LOL. RIP.

August 2021


Today's news, age 62:

~ OK, who knew . . . , we lost Billy Joe Shaver

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-country/billy-joe-shaver-songwriter-dead-obituary-1082610/

So here's a weird thing that happened.

On Friday night, TCM debuted a new Dean Martin documentary, Dean Martin: King of Cool.

I started watching the doc early Saturday morning and finished watching it tonight.

‘Dean Martin: King of Cool’: Film Review | DOC NYC 2021 https://t.co/I2yIphYbHL

— The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) November 17, 2021

So one thing that struck me as odd as that the documentary contained a fresh interview (or an interview conducted for the documentary) with Florence Henderson, who died 5 years ago this week. (So this doc must've been a long time in the making).

There was one section where it noted that Dean's son, Desi Arnaz's son and some other guy had formed a teen rock group in the 1960s called Dino, Desi & Billy. And they actually had some hit songs.





Later in the doc, they discussed Dean's son was in the Air National Guard and that he died in 1987 when his fighter jet crashed.

So I decided to wikipedia Dean's son, then I wikipiedia'd Dino, Desi & Billy.




Then I decided to Wikipedia Billy because I know all about Desi Jr.'s history.*

And I looked at his death date and did a double take.

He died on Saturday, November 20, 2021.




Making the story more odd: He mom also died on Saturday.

Love & Mercy Billy Hinsche pic.twitter.com/dyuYOwFutp

— Brian Wilson (@BrianWilsonLive) November 21, 2021

I am in total shock right now. RIP Billy Hinsche, Dino, Desi, and Billy. He was a friend of mine, and we had just spoken a few months ago. Condolences to his family 💔 pic.twitter.com/rOa7r8nOo6

— Stephen Bishop (@BishSongs) November 21, 2021

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*I may have brought up Desi Jr.'s history in this thread before (he's still alive), but if I haven't here goes:

Last year's Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz's great-granddaughter died at age 31 of cancer.

I found that odd. If she died in 2020 and she was in 31, that means she was born in the 1980s.

But Lucy and Desi famously didn't become parents until during the run of I Love Lucy, which premiered 70 years ago last month in 1951. (Actually, their first child was born 2 months before the show's premiere.)

That means that one of their kids who were born in 50s became grandparents in the 80s. That's like somebody born in the 90s becoming grandparents in the 2020s.

So, here's what happened: Desi Arnaz Jr. was born in 1953. He became a dad to a girl in 1968 at age 15. The girl became a mom at age 21 in 1989.

Good post!
What a coincidence about the death dates on wiki!!
I, too, saw tan article (yesterday) about the Dean documentary on TCM but missed hitting the record button in time.
I once worked with a lady who was a grandmother at 31. She was a mom from Oakland at 13 and her daughter was a mom at 18. She was super nice, did a good job, and was very well connected to her daughter and grandson, who was two when I met her. She unapologetically explained to me how she was already a grandmother when I asked how that could be possible.

concordtom said:

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Good post!
What a coincidence about the death dates on wiki!!
I, too, saw tan article (yesterday) about the Dean documentary on TCM but missed hitting the record button in time.
I once worked with a lady who was a grandmother at 31. She was a mom from Oakland at 13 and her daughter was a mom at 18. She was super nice, did a good job, and was very well connected to her daughter and grandson, who was two when I met her. She unapologetically explained to me how she was already a grandmother when I asked how that could be possible.

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My wife's grandmother became a grandmother in her late 30s. Nice woman. Died a few years ago. Made it to over 100.

"Lee Elder, who became the first Black golfer to play in The Masters in 1975, died Sunday at the age of 87, the PGA Tour announced today.

"The game of golf lost a hero in Lee Elder," Jack Nicklaus tweeted.
The big picture: Elder was 40 when he played in his first Masters, with many of his prime years already stolen from him by the scourge of racism, AP notes."
Axios

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"Lee Elder, who became the first Black golfer to play in The Masters in 1975, died Sunday at the age of 87, the PGA Tour announced today.

"The game of golf lost a hero in Lee Elder," Jack Nicklaus tweeted.
The big picture: Elder was 40 when he played in his first Masters, with many of his prime years already stolen from him by the scourge of racism, AP notes."
Axios

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I took many golf lessons from Lucius Bateman from age 11 to age 16 (1965-1970). He originally taught at a driving range by the Oakland Airport called Airway Fairways, and then at a driving range in the back of Duggan's Sporting Goods by Bayfair Shopping Center in San Leandro. He was a great man.

Remembering Lucius Bateman - African American Golfer's Digest


http://africanamericangolfersdigest.com/lucius-bateman/

New York Times Accidentally Publishes Ghislaine Maxwell Obituary Ahead Of Schedule https://t.co/gByxk9OgVA

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) November 30, 2021

Who woulda thunk these 2 would die in the same year?


Or these 2?

Michael Nesmith has passed.

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/monkees-michael-nesmith-dead-1270079/

dimitrig said:

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BearForce2 said:

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New York Times Accidentally Publishes Ghislaine Maxwell Obituary Ahead Of Schedule https://t.co/gByxk9OgVA

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) November 30, 2021

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Hopefully Trump's is next.

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I'm hoping he'll be a "test" pilot for this new machine in Switzerland.

In the works for years, a suicide machine will soon be tested in Switzerland (yahoo.com)

R.I.P. Michael Nesmith

I always loved this song:

In his farewell letter, Bob Dole jokes about “still being able to vote in Chicago” after he dies

pic.twitter.com/XG2LoKsAuQ

— Jewish Deplorable (@TrumpJew2) December 10, 2021

It's funny because it's true.

4 Time Indy 500 Winner Al Unser died this past Thursday at age 82 at his home in New Mexico.

He had been battling cancer for 17 years.

His final victory at age 47 made him the oldest Indy 500 Winner in history.

Bump (fixit after garbage posts flushed obits to page three)