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RE: RIP thread
October 18, 2021 at 9:40 am
I call dibs on the Volvos....


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RE: RIP thread
October 18, 2021 at 10:42 am
(October 18, 2021 at 8:44 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:
(October 18, 2021 at 8:36 am)Gwaithmir Wrote: Someone posted on another atheist forum that Colin Powell has just died.

Just saw that. COVID got him.

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I read on Vote Vets that the anti-vaxxers may try to use his death to support their stance on the vaccines. He had blood cancer and was therefore immunocompromised and not able to take the vaccines.
  
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RE: RIP thread
October 18, 2021 at 11:19 am
(October 18, 2021 at 9:40 am)onlinebiker Wrote: I call dibs on the Volvos....


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I call dibs on the vial of fake anthrax he showed to congress.

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October 18, 2021 at 12:13 pm
Colin Powell dead at the age of 84.
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RE: RIP thread
October 18, 2021 at 12:18 pm
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^^moved this from the ‘Noteworthy News’ thread.

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RE: RIP thread
October 18, 2021 at 2:06 pm
Ken Essex, one of the lesser members of the Beatles band or, more precisely, the principal viola who accompanied the Beatles' hit "Yesterday". He was 101 years young.

Even if you look at the Beatles performing the song "Yesterday" live you can hear him play although he is not on the stage



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RE: RIP thread
October 18, 2021 at 2:15 pm
(October 18, 2021 at 8:36 am)Gwaithmir Wrote: Someone posted on another atheist forum that Colin Powell has just died.

Good riddance to bad rubbish, honestly.
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RE: RIP thread
October 18, 2021 at 2:19 pm
(October 18, 2021 at 2:15 pm)Nomad Wrote:
(October 18, 2021 at 8:36 am)Gwaithmir Wrote: Someone posted on another atheist forum that Colin Powell has just died.

Good riddance to bad rubbish, honestly.

Wow, not my remembrance of the man.
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October 18, 2021 at 3:04 pm
(October 18, 2021 at 2:15 pm)Nomad Wrote:
(October 18, 2021 at 8:36 am)Gwaithmir Wrote: Someone posted on another atheist forum that Colin Powell has just died.

Good riddance to bad rubbish, honestly.

My take on him, is that he got suckered by Bush Jr and Cheney. . Is it lost on you that he went on to support both Biden and Obama? 

I'll be the first to say for decades, I have never been a fan of GOP economics, or right wing theocracy. But Powell never came across to me as a fascist or bully, like the former guy. Please keep in mind, he served under multiple presidents in his career and not all Republicans.

I was floored when he said he was going to support Biden. Now, you don't have to like Biden, but it said a lot to me he did, considering he was putting his foot down to Trump's authoritarian scapegoating bent.

Was Powell perfect? No, but name me one human who is. But the fact that he stood up to Trump, that means a lot to me.
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RE: RIP thread
October 18, 2021 at 3:13 pm
(October 18, 2021 at 3:04 pm)Brian37 Wrote:
(October 18, 2021 at 2:15 pm)Nomad Wrote: Good riddance to bad rubbish, honestly.

My take on him, is that he got suckered by Bush Jr and Cheney. . Is it lost on you that he went on to support both Biden and Obama? 

I'll be the first to say for decades, I have never been a fan of GOP economics, or right wing theocracy. But Powell never came across to me as a fascist or bully, like the former guy. Please keep in mind, he served under multiple presidents in his career and not all Republicans.

I was floored when he said he was going to support Biden. Now, you don't have to like Biden, but it said a lot to me he did, considering he was putting his foot down to Trump's authoritarian scapegoating bent.

Was Powell perfect? No, but name me one human who is. But the fact that he stood up to Trump, that means a lot to me.

Powell should have known better. 

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