Rest in Peace

Adelante · **Posted:** Fri Jul 08, 2011 10:16 pm

Betty Ford, gone at 93, bless her great heart.

DaveMuckey · **Posted:** Fri Jul 08, 2011 10:31 pm

As First Ladies go, she was tops. RIP

ducktape · **Posted:** Fri Jul 08, 2011 10:32 pm

What a great lady, truly.

Adelante · **Posted:** Fri Jul 08, 2011 10:50 pm

New York Times obit

Estiveo · **Posted:** Sat Jul 09, 2011 12:02 am

The lady left the world a much better place than she found it. Good for her.

TollandRCR · **Posted:** Sat Jul 09, 2011 7:34 am

She gave hope and courage to others: first, to women diagnosed with breast cancer; second, to men and women with addictions to drugs and alcohol.

Paul Lentz · **Posted:** Sat Jul 09, 2011 7:41 am

Godspeed, Mrs. Ford. You made a difference in this world.

Plutodog · **Posted:** Sat Jul 09, 2011 2:03 pm

*sigh* Time marches on. :cry:

Sterngard Friegen · **Posted:** Sat Jul 09, 2011 3:47 pm

It does. And the key is, you need to march along with it.

kate520 · **Posted:** Sat Jul 09, 2011 3:58 pm

She was a dancer. I didn't know that. The picture up top, though, speaks volumes. RIP, classy lady. Your work here is done.

Plutodog · **Posted:** Sat Jul 09, 2011 4:49 pm

Sterngard Friegen wrote:

It does. And the key is, you need to march along with it.

Once I tried kicking and screaming and time dragged me right along in that undignified position. :oops:

Hasn't let me back up since to prove I can march. :((

So I'm still kicking and screaming. But it's not my fault!

Reality Check · **Posted:** Sat Jul 09, 2011 4:53 pm

Betty Ford is probably one of a handful of First Ladys who will outrank their husband's place in history.

Sterngard Friegen · **Posted:** Sat Jul 09, 2011 5:51 pm

Reality Check wrote:

Betty Ford is probably one of a handful of First Lady's who will outrank their husband's place in history.

Laura Bush is another, in terms of being a decent human being.

Whatever4 · **Posted:** Mon Jul 11, 2011 12:13 am

She was one great role model, from an era when Republicans were decent people.

GreatGrey · **Posted:** Mon Jul 11, 2011 12:23 am

Sterngard Friegen wrote:

Reality Check wrote:

Betty Ford is probably one of a handful of First Lady's who will outrank their husband's place in history.

Laura Bush is another, in terms of being a decent human being.

Except for thar crappy driving thing...

esseff44 · **Posted:** Sat Jul 23, 2011 1:29 pm

Amy Winehouse was found dead in her London home.

DaveMuckey · **Posted:** Sat Jul 23, 2011 1:52 pm

esseff44 wrote:

Amy Winehouse was found dead in her London home.

With all due respect, how could they tell?

kate520 · **Posted:** Sat Jul 23, 2011 1:57 pm

With all due respect...
:lol:

ZekeB · **Posted:** Sat Jul 23, 2011 2:06 pm

kate520 wrote:

With all due respect...
:lol:

Hey! No worse than the opening of O'rly's motion to reconsider the motion. :lol:

Maru · **Posted:** Sat Jul 23, 2011 2:37 pm

I liked her music but cannot say I am surprised.

Lucien Freud died this week as well. I liked some of his work but could do without all the close-up naked splotchy fat people.

DaveMuckey · **Posted:** Sat Jul 23, 2011 4:10 pm

Maru wrote:

I liked her music but cannot say I am surprised.

Lucien Freud died this week as well. I liked some of his work but could do without all the close-up naked splotchy fat people.

Careful there before I post a shot of me in my genuine Brasilian Banana Hammock.

Adelante · **Posted:** Sat Jul 23, 2011 4:28 pm

RIP, Shali

CNN

Quote:

(CNN) -- Retired Army Gen. John Shalikashvili, a former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has died of complications from a stroke, his executive assistant, Rachel McLain, told CNN Saturday. He was 75.

Shalikashvili passed away Saturday at Madigan Army Medical Center in Tacoma, Washington, McLain said. He is survived by his wife, Joan, and their son, Brant.

Born in Poland in 1936, Shalikashvili became the first foreign-born chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in 1993. He held the post until his retirement in 1997, serving under former President Bill Clinton.

Prior to that, Shalikashvili was NATO's 10th supreme allied commander in Europe.

realist · **Joined:** Fri Jan 23, 2009 1:33 pm **Posts:** 23548

DaveMuckey wrote:

Maru wrote:

I liked her music but cannot say I am surprised.

Lucien Freud died this week as well. I liked some of his work but could do without all the close-up naked splotchy fat people.

Careful there before I post a shot of me in my genuine Brasilian Banana Hammock.

realist · **Joined:** Fri Jan 23, 2009 1:33 pm **Posts:** 23548

Politics News Alert: Retired Army Gen. John Shalikashvili, former chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff, dies
July 23, 2011 5:13:02 PM
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Retired Army Gen. John Shalikashvili, a former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during the 1990s, has died at 75, The Washington Post has confirmed. He succeeded Colin Powell as chairman under President Bill Clinton, serving from 1993 to 1997.

http://link.email.washingtonpost.com/r/ ... 6LQTU/ZH/h

For more information, visit PostPolitics.com.

A Legal Lohengrin · **Joined:** Tue Oct 26, 2010 9:56 pm **Posts:** 9353

It's too bad. She had a lot of talent. Unfortunately, you could see this coming a mile away.

You could really use a picture of her early in her career and before she died as something even scarier than a Faces of Meth poster. She was young and pretty not too long ago, and even a bit voluptuous. It didn't take her at all long to look like Keith Richards in drag.

RIP.

Note, she joins Jim and Jimi and Janis and (Robert) Johnson in the Forever 27 Club.

Falsehoods unchallenged only fester and grow.

Rest in Peace

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