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In light of other news today I would like to remind our younger and non-British members that Bill Rodgers is a British Politician and not a summary of the Clinton Presidency

Surfer, engineer, and musician Tom Morey, who invented the Boogie Board and brought about other innovations in surfboard design, died at 86 years: https://beachgrit.com/2021/10/free-thinking-inventor-of-the-boogie-board-and-surfing-hall-of-famer-tom-morey-dead-at-86-hello-i-am-a-spaceman-i-am-the-spirits-of-einstein-thomas-edison-alexander-graham-bell-and-bo/

Damn, what STD did Bill get hospitalized for?

Bill Clinton reportedly hospitalised with sepsis. Reportedly “recovering “ and “in good spirits”. Perhaps one to watch for 2022?

As you can see, people are chomping at the bit to get going on that.

Plus in 2000 Nigel Jones Mp was injured and his assistant Andrew Pennington was fatally wounded in an attack on his constituency surgery.

If you ask me you need to be wrong in the head* to cross the "wound/kill someone" divide in general, outside of certain conditions (ie self-defence for example). Amess not an MP I normally agree with often but that's frankly irrelevant right now. Hopefully he recovers though it sounds quite grim tbh. *And of course this isn't a "mental health = excuse" comment before anyone jumps in. Millions of us have mental health issues and manage to not go round trying to murder other people after all.

I wonder if the assailant has mental health issues rather than anything to do with terror? Amess is quite a moderate voice on the green benches. Very well liked cross party and a charismatic figure. A Brexiteer, but during the referendum campaign, his contribution was always about convincing those on the opposing side rather than antagonising. Big champion of animal rights and energy conservation as well. Met him on a number occasions when I worked in energy. Never heard a bad word against him, and there are few MPs I could say that for.

They really want to rack up the deletions...

Congrats @MariNisia 1921 Elizabeth Kelly/Ray Lawler 1922 Ruth Bidgood/John B Goodenough 1923 Gloria Whelan/ Henry Kissinger 1924 Priscilla Pointer/Sheldon Harnick 1925 Ysanne Churchman/Pete Murray 1926 Gudrun Ure/Leonard Fenton 1927 Leotyne Price/Kenneth Anger 1928 Denise Bryer/Jean Marie Le Pen  1929 Patricia Routledge/Clifford Rose  1930 Edna O'Brien/Bill Treacher

I think he was just the Honourable Old Person until the previous Earl died.

British Tory MP Sir David Amess stabbed at constituency meeting. An air ambulance was sent to the scene.

Christ. 3rd time this has happened in just over a decade (Stephen Timms and Jo Cox being the other two). May lead to the end of face to face constituent advice surgeries, which would be a tragedy as they're such a healthy and strong part of British democracy.

Barney Platts-Mills, British film-maker, has died 5th October, aged 76. (Today would have been his 77th birthday)

(I just noticed Biblio's confused reaction to my previous post. When checking in at work sometimes I rush so forget if it's a brand new round or an established round I already posted in )

Phil Leadbetter, Bluegrass musician, #170 on @gcreptile's list, dead: https://bluegrasstoday.com/phil-leadbetter-passes-everyones-uncle-phil/

Bearing in mind that that selection of badges is but a fraction of clubs he was associated with, I was curious to know how that subset was arrived at; turns out its the clubs & associations that supported the project to erect the gravestone (which also marks the graves of three other family members). Story in the Burnley Express.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-58923592 Justice is served: Kenyan serial child killer Masten Wanjala who killed fourteen boys between 2015 and 2021 beaten to death by an angry mob. He was 20.

Journalist Ally McLaws treatment was going well in September, after the cancer spread to his brain and he became wheelchair bound, but since then he had a reaction to chemo, caught a lung infection and is now in hospital with covid. Which is bit of a downturn. Picture from last month.

Linky no worky.... Here's Billboard.

Clifford Rose (92 in October 2021) is in poor health & his family have appealed for financial asistance to keep him in Denville Hall. He is probably best known for his chilling portrayal of the Nazi Kessler in Secret Army & the spin-off Kessler which featured his life in South America after WW2.

I stated some time ago that he wouldn’t get through a year: I’m still of that view. There’s something seriously wrong with him - mixing up words, never takes questions. I believe the aim is to get him through two years by any means necessary, then Harris succeeds him and could, in theory, run twice more.

Historian and civil rights activist Timuel Black died at 102 years: https://chicago.suntimes.com/2021/10/13/20827314/timuel-black-historian-civil-rights-activist-author-obituary

I’m sure someone turned up, although the attraction of seeing an obscure ’boy band’ some 30+ years after the event is lost on me, personally…..

Bryan Lee, the New Orleans-based blues guitarist and singer whose blindness earned him the nickname "Braille Blues Daddy", died at 77 years: https://www.wapl.com/2020/08/22/wisconsin-blues-legend-bryan-lee-dies/ He began releasing music in the late 70's and earned a large following in Louisiana in the 80's with his band The Jump Street Five.