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  1. Posted

    1 hour ago, Ulitzer95 said:

    Reportedly had thanksgiving dinner the day before with friends.

     

    Must’ve been sudden. RIP.

     

    Definitely doesn't seem like the timing was expected at all. Adding to that, he did an interview with the NYT just this past Sunday that's now been published. He was even asked about his health at one point:

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    He was having a little trouble getting around — using a cane, seeking assistance to get in and out of chairs, and in obvious pain when walking — which he attributed to an injury. Asked about the state of his health, he answered by knocking on a wood table and saying, “Outside of my sprained ankle, OK.”

     

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  2. Posted

    Had an inkling that he might be someone we'd lose suddenly/without much warning (or at least as suddenly as it can be when you get up to his age) but I still thought he might have had a couple of years left.
     

    Really saddened by this, an absolute titan and master of his craft. 

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  3. Posted

    There's not a lot to glean from this alone. Both Reagan and George W. Bush also went under for colon procedures during their presidencies and temporarily delegated power to their VPs during. 
     

    Granted, in Reagan's case it actually was for cancer, but for Bush it was for two routine colonoscopies. It's pretty standard. 

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    13 hours ago, alt obits guy said:

    Arthur Forrest, who worked in the television industry for 75 years, beginning with the long-defunct DuMont network, eventually going on to direct the Dick Cavett Show and later long associated with ABC (American network) reality series like That's Incredible and Who's Line is it Anyway, has died. He was 95.

     

    https://www.the-sun.com/news/3968300/arthur-forrest-dead-whose-line-is-it-anyway/?utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=sunustwitter&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1635641414-3

     

    How many people who worked for the DuMont Network are still around? I have to imagine he was one of the last.

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  5. Posted

    23 hours ago, ladyfiona said:

    Time to put Stephen Sondheim on the list? He is 92 next year.

    I've wondered about him myself. He seems to be in good health overall and probably (hopefully!) has a few years left, but if I had to guess, won't make it much past 94 or 95.

  7. Posted

    1 hour ago, Banana said:

     

    Something that's been getting on my nerves begrudgingly lately is announcing whether someone is or isn't vaccinated when they get COVID-19 and hospitalised. I could be entirely wrong here in my frustration, but if you're getting hospitalised your vaccination status really goes out the window if we're using that to determine their current health. Just comes off as some subtle "vaccines don't work" propaganda.

     

    I'm not necessarily getting mad at you, more so the general discourse.

     

    I get what you're saying. I haven't given much thought to it, but added it to my post as part of the information given in the article. Then again, I suppose that's how these kinds of habits in reporting spread and become part of the discourse.

  11. Posted

    On 15/09/2021 at 15:17, JustPassingThrough said:

     

    Update: Said "health issues" are apparently a breakthrough COVID case.

     

    Update to the update: Apparently now suffering health problems related to Grave's disease/thyroid condition, which not only has delayed the return of her show from September to October but she won't be well enough to return with it.

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    1 hour ago, Charles De Gaulle said:

    That's not going to happen. There's simply no reason to keep someone this old in prison after he has been there for 53 years. And he won't need to adjust to modern life since he's likeky going straight to a nursing anyway.

     

    I agree, there is no reason in the actual context of the situation, but that doesn't preclude more cynical, politically advantageous reasons.

     

    In any case, I think there's enough leeway with the timetable here that the Governor doesn't have to act before the recall (September 14) anyway, so he can kick the can down the road for now regardless of what he does.

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    It's worth noting that the Governor of California ultimately has to sign off for the parole to go through. Considering that he is facing a recall in two weeks and probably doesn't want to take a chance at anything that could garner negative headlines, I think there's a stronger than remote chance that he'll veto parole anyway.

  19. Posted

    9 hours ago, odeon said:

    No way biden would’ve defeated Mccain or even hillary

    Getting a bit off-topic here, but I think just about any Democrat could have won in 2008. The Bush administration was extremely unpopular and they and the Republicans became very closely associated with the recession. Certainly some Democrats would have won narrower victories than Obama did, but I can’t imagine many serious candidates would have straight-up lost. 
     

    i do agree though that I genuinely have no idea how Biden could have won the Democratic nomination that year though. 

  20. Posted

    The thing that makes Carter's presidency interesting to me is just how much a product of its time it was. Presidents like Biden, Nixon, or Reagan ran multiple times before winning. Obama, had he not won in '08, would probably have been a top-tier candidate for decades to come. 

     

    By contrast, the sequence of events that leads to Carter's presidency seems pretty intimately tied to him winning in the first post-Watergate election. The ideas he was running on and the image he presented were very much geared towards the moment. He was an obscure former governor from a state that was relatively unimportant at the time and somehow catapulted to the White House (where he was, arguably, in way over his head from minute one, but few politicians probably could have navigated that time very well). The Carter presidency seems like a historical oddity, like it shouldn't have even happened. The fact that '76 was so close and he was thrown out in a landslide four years later almost adds to this for me.

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  23. Posted

    I've always found Edwards a strangely fascinating character, in good ways and bad. Despite it being common knowledge he was a crook long before he went away for it, he seemed to keep succeeding because he was somehow still able to convey (whether accurately or inaccurately) that he was a highly dedicated and driven leader who did good things for his state (though the main reason he was able to get re-elected as governor in 1991 was because his opponent was David Duke).

     

    Edwards was also famous for all of his one-liners, though like with many people famous for that, I'm guessing the further back in time you go with them the less you can actually prove which ones he actually said. 

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  24. Posted

    I guess a bit like the Brokenshire news, U.S. Representative Jim Hagedorn has announced today that his kidney cancer has returned. He had been diagnosed with stage IV kidney cancer in 2019 and seemed to be doing better after having his kidney removed last year, but a new occurrence was found over the weekend:

     

  25. Posted · Edited by JustPassingThrough

    11 hours ago, gcreptile said:

    Pre-historic Senator of California, Dianne Feinstein, sells her estate at Lake Tahoe. Is the couple (she's married to lung cancer survivor billionaire investor Richard Blum) being forced to downsize?

    https://nypost.com/2021/06/25/dianne-feinstein-lists-41m-lake-tahoe-estate/?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=P6Twitter&utm_medium=SocialFlow

     

    There have been reports (all unsubstantiated so far, of course) that the White House might appoint Blum to some sinecure ambassadorship somewhere for the primary purpose of giving the increasingly senile Feinstein an easy, "dignified" way to retire from the Senate within the relatively near future.

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