Sir Creep 7,069 Posted February 7, 2019 10 minutes ago, Skinny kiltrunner said: Yeah, I wasn't here a couple of years ago, so I didn't get that lesson. I'm learning now. Fingers crossed though. Dewar had a couple write ups and died quickly after diagnosis and close to recent stories so I think the 20% chance someone threw out there is fair. Arnold Chan (name just came to me) was ‘cured’ of course and a year later it raged back and he dragged it out another 6 months, so less immediacy and easy for media to lose the impact of the story, where Dewar has a little of that going for him. SC Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Joey Russ 7,210 Posted February 8, 2019 On 06/02/2019 at 15:11, Ulitzer95 said: Former US Representative John Dingell, 92, gone into hospice care with prostate cancer. Yet said to be in "good spirits", awake, telling jokes etc. etc. Hmmm... John Dingell dead. 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,069 Posted February 8, 2019 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/john-dingell-death-age-longest-serving-member-congress-92-michigan-trump-a8768946.html Does Independent count again? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Joey Russ 7,210 Posted February 8, 2019 1 minute ago, Sir Creep said: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/john-dingell-death-age-longest-serving-member-congress-92-michigan-trump-a8768946.html Does Independent count again? No, but the guardian does count... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,069 Posted February 8, 2019 4 minutes ago, Joey Russ said: No, but the guardian does count... Lol I had daily mail I posted in DDP thread Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CoffinLodger 1,248 Posted February 8, 2019 He seemed like a good man , and a great public servant. May he rest in peace. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,939 Posted February 8, 2019 As you might remember, Brazil's right-wing populist president Jair Bolsonaro was almost killed by a knife attack before he took office. Now he had surgery to remove the colostomy bag - and now a week later, he's hospitalised with pneunomia: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6679923/Brazilian-president-Bolsonaro-pneumonia-hospital-says.html 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Old Crem 3,576 Posted February 10, 2019 https://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/article225147640.html Congressman Walter Jones dies. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
alt obits guy 3,365 Posted February 11, 2019 Michael Wilson, a former Canadian Finance Minister in the Brian Mulroney cabinet, Canadian ambassador to the United States and chancellor of the University of Toronto, has died. He was 81. https://www.ctvnews.ca/former-finance-minister-michael-wilson-dead-at-81-1.4290845 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CoffinLodger 1,248 Posted February 11, 2019 The former President of Afghanistan Sibghatullah Mojaddedi has died at 93 ,https://www.bbc.com/pashto/afghanistan-47205986 He was reported to have died 3 years ago but was then seen in public. I assume they've verified it this time .Sorry but I can't find an English obit yet update- found an English obit ! https://www.khaama.com/former-afghan-president-sibghatullah-mojaddedi-dies-03290/ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
drol 11,797 Posted February 12, 2019 BBC Article from 2001: Vietnamese former president Le Duc Anh in irreversible coma and near death, confirmed by his family. Starting to suspect he is actually biologically immortal... 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CoffinLodger 1,248 Posted February 14, 2019 It was confirmed tonight that 8 times Presidential candidate Lyndon Larouche has died at 96 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/13/obituaries/lyndon-larouche-dead.html 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Joey Russ 7,210 Posted February 14, 2019 Forrmer Alaska Lieutenant governor Jack Coghill dead at 93. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 20,918 Posted February 14, 2019 Roderick MacFarquhar, former Labour MP for Belper, 88: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2019/02/14/roderick-macfarquhar-mp-daily-telegraph-journalist-broadcaster/ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
drol 11,797 Posted February 14, 2019 Lega Nord founder and former Minister Umberto Bossi has been hospitalized in ICU following what sources describe as either a stroke or a fall. Or both. Currently stable and improving according to doctors. A controversial politician, he asked for Independence of the North in the 1990s and later for federalism, which would have been an excellent thing for a Country in which the South has dissipated billions of resources in the last 60 years. Southern mentality ruined Italy. Garibaldi was the greatest cunt to have ever lived; they would be happy with their Borbonic kingdom now instead of asking for money for those who don't want to work (that's what that Arab Di Maio is doing, the fucker). That said Bossi was a traitor: beside marrying a Sicilian he surrounded himself of Southern people (Belsito and Rosy Mauro to cite two) who ruined the party stealing funds. He himself a tax evader and his sons, decerebrated idiots who went to take graduation in Albania, to just pay for it. Bossi destroyed Lega Nord, Salvini resuscitated it. But he is not a hero, he is a traitor too. Lega Nord from the origins has been completely disowned, now he searches votes from the South and the party is just called Lega. He is betraying those tax evaders who run industries in the North and he knows it. Now the enemy for him are the immigrants, once they were the Southerners. But they have not gone away, nor they have civilized. Mafia everywhere, Turin and Milan completely Southern cities due to mass immigration. Northern Italy is dying, in 20 years it won't exist anymore. And no one cares. *end of rant* Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Mad Hatter 1,092 Posted February 14, 2019 1 hour ago, drol said: Lega Nord founder and former Minister Umberto Bossi has been hospitalized in ICU following what sources describe as either a stroke or a fall. Or both. Currently stable and improving according to doctors. A controversial politician, he asked for Independence of the North in the 1990s and later for federalism, which would have been an excellent thing for a Country in which the South has dissipated billions of resources in the last 60 years. Southern mentality ruined Italy. Garibaldi was the greatest cunt to have ever lived; they would be happy with their Borbonic kingdom now instead of asking for money for those who don't want to work (that's what that Arab Di Maio is doing, the fucker). That said Bossi was a traitor: beside marrying a Sicilian he surrounded himself of Southern people (Belsito and Rosy Mauro to cite two) who ruined the party stealing funds. He himself a tax evader and his sons, decerebrated idiots who went to take graduation in Albania, to just pay for it. Bossi destroyed Lega Nord, Salvini resuscitated it. But he is not a hero, he is a traitor too. Lega Nord from the origins has been completely disowned, now he searches votes from the South and the party is just called Lega. He is betraying those tax evaders who run industries in the North and he knows it. Now the enemy for him are the immigrants, once they were the Southerners. But they have not gone away, nor they have civilized. Mafia everywhere, Turin and Milan completely Southern cities due to mass immigration. Northern Italy is dying, in 20 years it won't exist anymore. And no one cares. *end of rant* South Italy is the best Italy. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
drol 11,797 Posted February 14, 2019 34 minutes ago, The Mad Hatter said: South Italy is the best Italy. It's real Italy actually. That's why there should be two countries. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
charon 4,943 Posted February 14, 2019 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/14/obituaries/raymond-k-price-jr-dead.html Raymond Price jr, speechwriter for Nixon, dead at 88. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Old Crem 3,576 Posted February 15, 2019 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2019/02/15/lady-falkender-harold-wilsons-controversial-secretary-powerful/ Lady Falkender dies at 86. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CoffinLodger 1,248 Posted February 16, 2019 2 hours ago, The Old Crem said: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2019/02/15/lady-falkender-harold-wilsons-controversial-secretary-powerful/ Lady Falkender dies at 86. Quite a significant death that. She was considered to be the power behind the throne during Wilsons tenure as PM wasn't she . 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jeremy Corbyn 89 Posted February 16, 2019 RIP Lady Falkender, an amazing woman of great integrity. Sending my condolences to the family. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
charon 4,943 Posted February 17, 2019 Patrick Caddell the political pollster, finds a 100% majority on having a stroke isn't good. He was 68. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/16/obituaries/patrick-caddell-dead.html 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Old Crem 3,576 Posted February 17, 2019 Paul Flynn has died. Not yet reported with a QO. Sad News - RIP. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Thatcher 2,339 Posted February 17, 2019 Paul Flynn has died and there will therefore be a by-election in Newport West, almost certainly timed with the local elections in May. Perhaps more after the four resignations tomorrow morning from the Labour backbenchers. Edit: The Sun, BBC obituary. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,397 Posted February 17, 2019 13 minutes ago, Thatcher said: Paul Flynn has died and there will therefore be a by-election in Newport West, almost certainly timed with the local elections in May. Perhaps more after the four resignations tomorrow morning from the Labour backbenchers. Edit: The Sun obituary. From all accounts, one of the better guys in Parliament, and a very good community MP. A shame. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
