Thursday Whatever

 It was a Penny for your thoughts at this year's Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show.

As a one-time owner/guardian of two Lhasa Apsos, I was glad to see one finally make the finals of the event:

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Obit:  Longtime Indiana congressman Lee Hamilton, 94, has died.

Snip:

Hamilton, 94, was a recepient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom and a longtime scholar on representative democracy at Indiana University after his retirement from Congress, where he served during the presidential terms of Lyndon B. Johnson through Bill Clinton. He died Feb. 3 at his home in Bloomington, his daughter told the New York Times.

Gov. Mike Braun ordered flags across Indiana to be flown at half staff at all state facilities to honor his passing, until sunset on the day of his internment. Braun's office said that information would be shared with the public and called on "all Hoosiers to help honor Hamilton by lowering flags to half-staff at their homes and businesses."

 

Some Wednesday Reads

 The Heritage Foundation continues its assholery when it comes to higher education. These clowns want to limit women's access to them, denigrate fields like teaching, in order to shore up the outdated notion of marriage.  It will fail.

That outfit is full of crackpots, dimwits, and outright fascists.

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Some Tuesday Obits, Hospitalizations, and Recent Murders in the News

Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky is the hospital sidelined with flu-like symptoms.

Not good at his age.

At my school, there are numerous students absent from the most recent flu outbreak.

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True crime:  Former First Lady Jill Biden was smart to get away from that loser some fifty years ago.

Snip:

William Stevenson, 77, was taken into custody Monday and is facing a charge of first-degree murder in the death of Linda Stevenson, according to a grand jury indictment filed in Delaware.

New Castle County police did not provide details on the death, but an initial release had noted that officers responded to a domestic dispute Dec. 28 at a residence in the Wilmington area.

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 Obit:  Three Dog Night co-founder and  lead vocalist Chuck Negron, 83, died yesterday.  He died from heart failure and COPD complications.

His group had a slew of hits in the late 1960s and early 1970s.  That group was everywhere to be heard.

Snip:

After decades of estrangement between him and Hutton, the two reconciled last year. Hutton and Michael Allsup are the lone surviving members.

Born Charles Negron II on June 8, 1942, he grew up in the Bronx singing in doo wop groups from an early age. His parents divorced when he was 2. He was recruited by UCLA to play basketball, which brought him to Los Angeles, where he began working in the music industry.

Sunday on the Obituary Page

 A couple of entertainment obits to note:

Actor and author Demond Wilson, best remembered for being Lamont Sanford in the 1970s hit sitcom Sanford and Son, died at the age of 79.  He died from cancer complications according to his son.  Wilson secured the Sanford role following an appearance on the hit series All in the Family.  Following some years of battling substance abuse, he became an ordained minister.

Snip:

Grady Demond Wilson was born on Oct. 13, 1946, in Valdosta, Georgia. He grew up in Harlem, appeared on Broadway at age 4 with William Marshall and Ossie Davis in a revival of the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Green Pastures and danced at the Apollo Theater at 12.

He studied acting at the American Community Theater and at Hunter College but was drafted and then wounded in Vietnam while serving in the 4th Infantry Division of the U.S. Army. When his 13-month tour ended in 1968, he appeared in several off-Broadway plays.

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Actress Catherine O'Hara, 71, has died after a brief illness.

She was known for films like the Home Alone films and something called Schitts Creek. 

People:

O’Hara was born in Toronto in 1954. She was the second youngest of seven children; her father worked for the Canadian Pacific Railway, and her mother was a real estate agent. Her first acting gig was portraying the Virgin Mary in a Nativity play. After graduating from high school, she got a job as a waitress at the Second City Theater in Toronto.

Some Friday Reads

 Journalist Don Lemon found himself arrested over doing nothing wrong whatsoever.

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Some Reads for Thursday

Getting rid of Trump through the 25th Amendment is virtually impossible to achieve for these reasons.

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More Heritage Foundation 1950s bullshit is being proposed in Ohio.

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Some Reads for Wednesday

 In light of the murders in Minneapolis, there will be another "No Kings" protest scheduled for March 28 nationwide.  If there is one locally, I will be there, complete with pictures and possibly video.

Like many people, I expect the turnout will be even bigger than the previous "No Kings" rallies.

Snip:

A third round of “No Kings” protests is coming this spring, with organizers saying they are planning their largest demonstrations yet across the United States to oppose what they describe as authoritarianism under President Donald Trump.

Previous rallies have drawn millions of people, and organizers said they expect even greater numbers on March 28 in the wake of Trump's immigration crackdown in Minneapolis, where violent clashes have led to the death of two people.

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I seriously doubt I am on any kind of list, but even if I were, I don't give a shit at this point in my life.

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