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Hah - just look at those boundaries!

Ah, House, Congress, Senate - you know what I meant. Anyhow, last I heard, the one Ryan runs, the seats are all gerrymandered to hell, so unlikely to shift much.

He's only in danger himself as long as the House will act against him. As long as the House is run by Mitch McConnell and co, that's not going to happen. The 2018 midterms don't look like changing that. So, he's in no danger whatsover, and can do anything he likes without any repercussion.

Yes, prostate cancer in 2015, but caught early. Both the type of cancer and stage were kept rather quiet due to him being the Lama, and all that, so was worth keeping an eye on.

He's writing about World War Three Under a quiet yewtree.

Just as a sort of mini-update, now claims to be cancer free after check up in May.

I genuinely went "eenie meanie" on Downie or Christie.

@Sir Creep - Rayya has the pancreatic cancer AND liver cancer. She's cancelling work. There's 5 months of the year left. Patience will reap its points.

Hey, it could happen thrice in a year. Though two of those were not typical Me picks and thus I deserve all I get...

He could go anytime in the next 20 years.

One of those names, @YoungWillz - in and about deadpools for years, but usually too many better or more famous picks to use instead.

Looking for an old thread, stumbled across Steve Fossett. Reminded me I always liked the tagline on his thread: (paraphrased) 700 take offs, 699 successful landings... Or something like that. Amusingly, 4 silly sods picked Fossett in the 2008 DDP, and swiftly got no points.

Ah, Kim Wilde... Interesting to see Maiden had a top ten hit other than Bring your daughter to the fucking slaughter. Of course, it'd have to be RttH.

The 40% will vote, the Republicans want power and power alone - he's safer than houses.

Imagine they got him all the way there, and then he voted against their bill for the hell of it.

Looked like death since he became famous, really.

In The Swarm too, iirc. "I never expected it'd be the bees! They've always been our friend!" Classic.

Character actor Bradford Dillman in failing health, possibly from Parkinsons, according to the celeb fanmail community. One of those "been in enough stuff" (Pickman's Model, for example) types who'd get a cert Guardian obit... if they were British.

Five years since John Atta Mills, then President of Ghana, died. Funnily, I think he's still being mentioned by contestant for the "every few months" Name a Current African leader type rounds on Pointless.

Dirceu, Socrates, Shengelia, Daraselia, Andriy Bal, Suslaparov, Sumner and I'm forgetting one or two names. Two thoughts 1. How the fuck are Scotland the only team in that World Cup group not to suffer a playing fatality? We're fucking Scots! 2. With that growing list of early demises, you could make a theme team up from that one World Cup group: 1982: Scotland, New Zealand, USSR, Brazil. Brazil being considered the best team to never win the Cup, that year, but they conceded a bunch of soft goals to Italy. Who was their keeper? Oh, right. RIP.

Of course, Gary Rossington, whom that song is written about, is still going iirc. Ronnie Van Zant and much of the rest of the band died a few weeks after recording it. The Reaper - it's got Grade A black humour.

The smell of death surrounds him.

Nat Fraser, that's his name. Apparently he's in the jail.

Aye, then they convicted him for those murders. Didn't it get used on that farmer with the wife who disappeared up in Aberdeen? He always seemed to be on trial. I forget. Can't mind if he's in jail or not either.

Drowning, eh? It's worse than that - he's dead, Jim.