She lived long enough to see the day that her son was no longer the worst President in living memory, if not ever.
Barbara Bush, wife of former President, mother of another, and also to another man that ran for POTUS passed yesterday... https://www.cbsnews.com/news/barbara-bush-former-first-lady-george-hw-bush-dead-at-92-tuesday/ In any other era, her legacy (in the form of said men) would be mostly vilified. Now we can say, "We miss those Bushes"...
This just popped up on my phone's newsfeed, from Newsweek: "Former Trump Advisor Roger Stone calls Barbara Bush 'Nasty Drunk,' 'Vindictive' after Former First Lady's Death" Stay classy, Republicans, stay classy.
Babs letting Jr. have it till the end: Former president George W. Bush on Wednesday recalled that his mother was strong, lucid and funny when he saw her in the hospital about a week ago, during what he characterized as a “wonderful visit.” The former president shared the story about Barbara Bush the day after her death at age 92, during an interview Wednesday morning on the Fox Business Network. “She and I were needling each other,” Bush said, “and the doctor came in, and she turned to the doctor and said, ‘You want to know why George W. is the way he is?' And the doctor looked somewhat surprised, and she said, ‘Because I drank and smoked when I was pregnant with him.’ ”
Avicii dead at 28. (One of the more famous DJ’s’artists in electronica.) Had previous health issues due to pancreatitis ( drinking) but so far cause undisclosed.
Tom Wolfe has died. He had The Right Stuff. https://www.salon.com/2018/05/15/tom-wolfes-literary-legacy-unmistakable-style-unshakable-soul/
Two things jumped out at me with this one. I didn't realize she was only 56. Probably because in the late 70s/early 80s women could have such an outsized impact on basketball at an early age as the sport was just hitting maturity. I saw the USA women play back in 87 at the Pan Am Games. She was an elder vet of the USA women's team by 87-88, so it's easy to forget she was only 25-26 then. The second thing, not that it really matters, is that it strikes me as odd that someone who made a road trip and public appearance to Knoxville this weekend could die of heart failure on the following Wednesday. The process of dying of heart failure is not swift. People who die of heart failure aren't doing much of anything in the weeks prior to death.
I don't think that is true of what might be called "Marfans' failures" is it? That is a catastrophic failure of the connective tissue between stria in the heart muscle IIRC (and am describing/expressing it correctly.) And she would seem from a distance to have been be a prime candidate for Marfans" ?
Yes, it's definitely not true of Marfan. I should have thought of that considering there was a girl two years behind me growing up who literally dropped dead in the middle of 6th grade English class from a blown aorta. It could be something connective/autoimmune related that could lead to an acute episode, which includes Marfan.
Sorry, Aretha. Death has taken your Guitar Murphy. https://deadline.com/2018/06/matt-g...uitarist-and-noted-sideman-was-88-1202411826/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=4&v=gFzRbaOjrS0
There are lots of them. Just read this one about the relationship between Joe Elliott of Def Leppard & Bowie's guitarist Mick Ronson https://www.salon.com/2018/06/15/de...-about-how-they-made-mick-ronsons-last-album/
Krapslammer is dead. Good ridance. He might have become part of the "sane conservatives" late in his life, but his bile was all over politics for way too long. https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/charles-krauthammer-dead-obituary_us_5b1ab5eae4b0adfb8268c766 Hope a long line of "conservative pundits" accompany him very soon and they rot in hell for giving us the orange clown.
An Iraq War hawk, right? Yeah not a fan. (Wiki) In October 2002, he presented what he believed were the primary arguments for and against the war, writing, "Hawks favor war on the grounds that Saddam Hussein is reckless, tyrannical, and instinctively aggressive, and that if he comes into possession of nuclear weapons in addition to the weapons of mass destruction he already has, he is likely to use them or share them with terrorists. The threat of mass death on a scale never before seen residing in the hands of an unstable madman is intolerable—and must be preempted. Doves oppose war on the grounds that the risks exceed the gains. War with Iraq could be very costly, possibly degenerating into urban warfare." And his radical Zionism led to comments like this: On the eve of the invasion, Krauthammer wrote, "Reformation and reconstruction of an alien culture are a daunting task. Risky and, yes, arrogant." In February 2003, Krauthammer cautioned that "it may yet fail. But we cannot afford not to try. There is not a single, remotely plausible, alternative strategy for attacking the monster behind 9/11. It's not Osama bin Laden; it is the cauldron of political oppression, religious intolerance, and social ruin in the Arab-Islamic world—oppression transmuted and deflected by regimes with no legitimacy into virulent, murderous anti-Americanism."
I don't think he ever became "sane" but unlike the current crop of Trumpservatives, you never had doubt that he could think.