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POPSSmears of "sick and immoral" "pervert" Jennings: the worst of the worst "Jennings' praise of gay rights pioneer Hay had nothing to do with NAMBLA. In a 1997 speech often cited by conservatives attempting to smear Jennings as a supporter of NAMBLA, Jennings reportedly said, "One of the people that's always inspired me is Harry Hay, who started the first ongoing gay rights groups in America. In 1948, he tried to get people to join the Mattachine Society." Jennings' remarks include no mentions of NAMBLA. Upon Hay's death in October 2002, numerous obituaries noted that Hay was a pioneer of the American gay rights movement -- just as Jennings noted in his 1997 speech." It sickens me how people try to confuse pedophilia with homosexuality. And some of these folks are right here on Clipmarks. They should be ashamed of themselves, if they had any shame of course.
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POPSJames Robert Ward James Robert Ward: Developer James Robert Ward, 61, was charged with second-degree murder in the shooting death of Diane Elizabeth Ward, Orlando Business Journal broadcast ... James Robert Ward, robert ward, bob ward, arizona republic obituaries, isleworth shooting, isleworth.
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POPSPolite Obituaries? Not So Much for Jesse Helms Last Year The Washington Post stressed Helms “rode his divisiveness to victory.” The New York Times obituary threw punches, describing him as the senator “whose courtly manner and mossy drawl barely masked a hard-edged conservatism that opposed civil rights, gay rights, foreign aid and modern art.” The networks were no better. NBC’s Lester Holt blatantly copied the Times: “He staked out firm positions against everything from communism and foreign aid to civil rights and modern art.” let's recall how Helms was eulogized on the Ed Schultz radio show last year. Fill-in host Norman Goldman said this: "That race-baiting, racist, horrible Jesse Helms ad got him ahead of Harvey Gantt and got him reelected in 1990. Harvey Gantt would have made a much better senator and Jesse Helms shamelessly played the race card. He was a miserable rat. The world's a better place without him. I hope he's down there in hell roasting with Jerry Falwell."
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POPSThe Patient Grows Up In middle age, the only certainty is uncertainty. And we hope that whatever small wisdom we’ve gathered can offset the facts that we can no longer run as fast as we once did, that we squint a lot more, that we are vulnerable. On the plus side, though, as the poet Theodore Roethke wrote: “Those who are willing to be vulnerable move among mysteries. When I was young and ill, all I cared about was the result, about scalpels and scars. But in this waltz with prostate cancer, I’ve cared about the process, too. All along, I’ve wanted to know what this cancer could teach me, and I like to think that I’ve gripped it just as hard as it has gripped me. In embracing the cancer and its teachings, I’ve also embraced mysteries that I couldn’t have imagined more than a year ago. And that’s an absolute adventure, too."
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POPSVenetia Phair dies at 90; as a girl, she named Pluto Her grandfather was Falconer Madan, the retired librarian of the Bodleian Library at Oxford University. He relayed the suggestion to his friend Herbert Hall Turner, professor of astronomy at Oxford, who on that day was at a meeting of the Royal Astronomical Society, where possible names for the planet were being discussed. Turner then passed on the suggestion to Clyde W. Tombaugh, who made the discovery at the Lowell Observatory in Arizona. When the name was publicly announced May 1, 1930, Phair said her grandfather rewarded her with a five-pound note. (The same purchasing power today would be about 230 pounds, or $350.) "This was unheard of then. As a grandfather, he liked to have an excuse for generosity," she told the BBC in 2006.
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POPSMennonites in Mexico I'm a volunteer contributor to the Obituary Daily Times. One of the newspapers I index is the Winkler Times. I noticed there are a significant number of deaths with references to birth in Mexico. So, I did a little poking around. And, this is what I found.
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POPSMourning The Passing Of Two Soap Faves I ceased being a huge fan of OLTL a few years back, but I still tune in every couple of weeks to check in on the old-timers who've been on the show (off/on) since I was a child. So it's sad to hear that two of my favorite soap stars have passed away. On a trivia note, Phil Carey (Asa on OLTL) played a gay man on an episode of "All In The Family" back in the day, a far cry from the burly oil-man he played on OLTL.
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POPSObituaries of 2008 2009: looking at Lives that made headlines in death: from Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Yves Saint Laurent to Sydney Pollack. Singers, performers and DJs who shaped the soundtrack of their eras
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POPSHelen Suzman, 'Look, what's going on?' Helen Suzman, "was the first and only woman ever to grace our cells, "says Nelson Mandela in his biography, The Long Walk to Freedom. Mrs Suzman, speaks of her aunt's "funniness, and her bravery in speaking about apartheid & antiSemitism. She used humour, and the regime wasn't altogether used to that ploy." Mrs Suzman added that while her aunt was deeply fond of Mr Mandela, she had no hesitation in challenging him. "She was one of the few people who would ring Nelson Mandela up and say, 'Look, what's going on?' Those who may question whether she really achieved anything in the face of overwhelming state oppression should remember this: what in the end matters is that the moral conscience of a nation should be kept alive, even when almost extinct.
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POPSDead Famous: 18th Century Obituaries Sparked Modern Cult Of Celebrity The Gentleman’s Magazine in 1789 gave an account of the life of Isaac Tarrat, a man known to hire himself out to impersonate a doctor and tell fortunes in a fur cap, a large white beard and a worn damask night gown. Another subject, Peter Marsh of Dublin, was made famous by his convictions about his own death in 1740. After being hit by a mad horse which died soon after, Mr Marsh convinced himself that he would also go mad and die. The Gentleman’s Magazine reported that he duly died “of a conceit that he was mad”. Fascinating !!!
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POPSVoter Fraud in Texas What is unsaid in this article is what party did all these thousands of dead and ineligible voters cast their vote for? Any bets? Of course. The party of corruption. Democrats.
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POPSDeath has a MySpace I have known about this site for a while now, I have to say I was shocked at first. I did and still do think it was created to make money, not to respect the dead as they say. I was interested in how people commented about the video. Most of them expressed their feelings or lack there of, or maybe these days its cool to be crude.
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POPSGeneral William Odom "Among senior military people, he was probably the first to consider the war in Iraq a misbegotten adventure," Brzezinski said yesterday. "He believed that we're just stoking hostility to the United States in that region and developing an opposition that cannot be defeated by military means. He was very outspoken." Well before the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, Gen. Odom warned that military action in Iraq would be foolhardy and futile. He outlined his positions in The Washington Post's Outlook section Feb. 11, 2007, in the essay "Victory Is Not an Option." "The president's policy is based on illusions, not realities," he wrote. "There never has been any right way to invade and transform Iraq."
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