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Re: Ad astra: another passing.
alternaut #23300 09/02/12 08:21 PM
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Sun Myung Moon, a messiah to some but a charlatan to many (myself included).


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Re: Ad astra: another passing.
jchuzi #23301 09/02/12 08:57 PM
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....but a charlatan to many...

Not much doubt about that.


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donikatz #23312 09/05/12 01:48 AM
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Bill Moggridge, industrial designer who designed the first laptop, the Grid Compass, in 1979.


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donikatz #23414 09/18/12 10:50 PM
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Chairman emeritus of the World Wildlife Fund and main champion and former Administrator of the EPA Russell Train (92) died yesterday at his farm in Bozman, MD.


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donikatz #23535 09/26/12 02:47 PM
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Singer and TV show host "Mr. Christmas" Andy 'Moon River' Williams (84) died of bladder cancer at his home in Branson, MO.


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donikatz #23870 10/21/12 04:29 PM
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Former Senator and Democratic Presidential candidate George McGovern (90), whose campaign was the target of the 1972 Watergate break-in, died earlier today at a hospice in Sioux Falls, SD.


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Jay-bird #24253 11/24/12 03:43 PM
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I didn't shoot him! shocked wink


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alternaut #24255 11/24/12 04:46 PM
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I didn't shoot him! shocked wink

Tell it to the Judge!


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donikatz #24298 11/26/12 09:39 PM
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strange, we had quite a spate of droppers recently, and now appear to have fallen into a lull in the action


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Virtual1 #24301 11/26/12 10:26 PM
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strange, we had quite a spate of droppers recently, and now appear to have fallen into a lull in the action

After many years as a hospital chaplain my wife has learned there is a definite tendency for dying people to live to some significant event such as Thanksgiving, Christmas, birthdays, and anniversaries before giving up the ghost. Sometimes they don't make it to the desired date but still and all it results in a clustering of natural deaths around major holidays.


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joemikeb #24305 11/26/12 11:14 PM
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While I wholeheartedly agree with the holiday theory, that should produce many more clusters than we actually see, depending on the national and cultural backgrounds of both posters and decedents. The 'lull' here most certainly is a lack of effort on our behalf... wink


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alternaut #24344 11/29/12 08:18 PM
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XKCD has a good panel showing occurrence of dates in historical documents, it'd be interesting to see such a thing that quantifies the amount of people that die on a given day of the 365.

https://xkcd.com/1140/


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donikatz #24371 12/05/12 04:31 PM
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Jazz pianist Dave Brubeck (one day shy of 92) died today of heart failure in Norwalk, CT.

(Dave Brubeck, piano; Paul Desmond, saxophone; Joe Morello, drums, and Eugene Wright, bass)

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Re: Ad astra: another passing.
donikatz #24432 12/14/12 08:07 PM
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Yet another massacre by a gunman, this time at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, CT. Current death toll 28, including at least 20 children. As if this weren't bad enough, such horrors will keep on happening regularly as the inevitable price of the (current interpretation of the) Second Amendment.


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Re: Ad astra: another passing.
alternaut #24433 12/14/12 08:33 PM
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And the NRA will never understand why I consider their endorsement to be the kiss of death for any candidate (figuratively speaking, of course).


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alternaut #24434 12/15/12 03:07 AM
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It's an interesting day when the best news coverage I have seen on the massacre comes from news parody site The Onion (note: harsh language):

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alternaut #24438 12/15/12 07:51 AM
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It's just too too horrifying, too incomprehensible. Children..... the epitome of innocence, who never did anything to anybody.


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ryck #24439 12/15/12 01:36 PM
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It's just too too horrifying, too incomprehensible. Children….. the epitome of innocence, who never did anything to anybody.

It is impossible to assign rational motives to a person with a disturbed and totally irrational mind. In the killer's distorted thinking those children may have been seen as the cause of his own anger and self hate.


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joemikeb #24452 12/18/12 12:26 AM
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