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Dropping Like Flies

vansmack
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Re: Dropping Like Flies July 01, 2019 at 11:05 PM UTC #
Tyler Skaggs, Major league baseball pitcher for the Angels. He was 27.
beetsnotbeats
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Re: Dropping Like Flies July 04, 2019 at 03:57 AM UTC #


Arte Johnson
beetsnotbeats
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Re: Dropping Like Flies July 06, 2019 at 10:43 PM UTC #
Joao Gilberto
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Re: Dropping Like Flies July 06, 2019 at 10:46 PM UTC #
Definitely one of my favorite musicians …few if any I have listened to more over past 20 years

Sad but I understand he was in ill health for a long time

We traveled up to see him at Carnegie Hall June 18, 2004…one of my most treasured concerts

Curiously enough almost if not every obit is using a picture from that very show.

https://www-m.cnn.com/2019/07/06/entertainment/joao-gilberto-dies/index.html?r=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F
kmdobrz
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Re: Dropping Like Flies July 09, 2019 at 02:28 PM UTC #
Ross Perot
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Re: Dropping Like Flies July 09, 2019 at 02:30 PM UTC #
I've had this irrational fear the last few days that Paul McCartney is not long for this world. It is an uncomfortable feeling.


Not that I'm glad its anyone else, but I'm glad its not Sir Paul.
Sidehatch
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Re: Dropping Like Flies July 09, 2019 at 03:46 PM UTC #
shemptiness wrote:
Ross Perot

“Texas born. Texas bred. When I die, I’ll be Texas dead. Ha!” (last line of his last interview)

Democrats should be very thankful for Perot, as I don't think Clinton would have been elected without him
although…there is “The Perot Myth”...so I've yet to dive deep into that to conclude that he wasn't a spoiler

Still will go down as the most impressive attempt of a 3rd party candidate …19% of the popular vote!
Maybe Weld can learn a lot from Perot's campaign
hutch
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Re: Dropping Like Flies July 09, 2019 at 03:49 PM UTC #
My first vote for US President
kmdobrz
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Re: Dropping Like Flies July 10, 2019 at 03:37 AM UTC #
RIP Rip Torn
Sidehatch
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Re: Dropping Like Flies July 10, 2019 at 04:55 PM UTC #
hutch wrote:
My first vote for US President

I've seen a few Dem's I know post how they voted for Ross…
I'm actually kind of surprised, but he was Trump…with out all the insults and baggage
and obviously level headed
but he was no liberal, so not sure what the appeal was

I do think he was way ahead of his time on  the enactment of electronic direct democracy.
and the 3rd party insurgency really looked like 3rd parties might have a role in future elections

but he sounds pretty conservative to me
hutch
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Re: Dropping Like Flies July 10, 2019 at 05:18 PM UTC #
Perot was not Trump at all…I need more free time to respond to all the idiocy on this board
Sidehatch
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Re: Dropping Like Flies July 10, 2019 at 05:28 PM UTC #
hutch wrote:
Perot was not Trump at all…I need more free time to respond to all the idiocy on this board

of course not
I meant more to the voter….outsider, no political experience, business leader, trying to dismantle the corrupt 2 party system

now we also know that Trump is no conservative, but the people who voted for him think he is
nkotb
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Re: Dropping Like Flies July 10, 2019 at 05:29 PM UTC #
How many womyn or people of color were on his staff?

hutch wrote:
My first vote for US President
jrpa
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Re: Dropping Like Flies July 10, 2019 at 06:56 PM UTC #
nkotb wrote:
How many womyn or people of color were on his staff?

hutch wrote:
My first vote for US President

It was a different time.
sweetcell
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Re: Dropping Like Flies July 10, 2019 at 07:14 PM UTC #
Julian, wrote:
nkotb wrote:
How many womyn or people of color were on his staff?

hutch wrote:
My first vote for US President

It was a different time.

that kind of relativism is a slippery slope.  we've sunk other people's lives for bad choices made a long time ago, don't see why perot gets a pass.  JUSTICE NOW.
hutch
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Re: Dropping Like Flies July 10, 2019 at 08:25 PM UTC #
What staff? It was pretty much Perot


hutch
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Re: Dropping Like Flies July 10, 2019 at 08:41 PM UTC #
As I recall the Draft Perot movement morphed into his ground game but paid staff was probably very few people. There was that bozo Rollins but I think he got shitcanned


Clinton was not an option. I could tell he was a sleaze and liar. I did not realize how much but I knew. Just the same vibe I got from John Edwards.

And since I really liked Perot’s message on the need to curb spending so I was happy to vote for him. Ultimately his message, for a time, won out when Republicans destroyed Clinton in 1994 and he was forced to play ball. To that I think we owe our last burst of prosperity

Sidehatch
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Re: Dropping Like Flies July 10, 2019 at 08:46 PM UTC #
Henry rollins worked in the Perot campaign!
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