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Obituary: Claude King, best remembered for his country hit "Wolverton Mountain," was old as the hills when he died. King was 90 and had just celebrated his 67th wedding anniversary last month:

King was one of the original members of the Louisiana Hayride, the Saturday night show where Elvis Presley got his start and Hank Williams Sr. frequently performed. The show transformed country and western music from 1948 to 1960 - the Hayride's heyday - with music genres including hillbilly, western swing, jazz, blues and gospel. Duane King recalls meeting Presley and Hank Williams Sr. backstage with his dad at the Hayride.

King's hit, "Wolverton Mountain," co-written with Merle Kilgore, was about an Arkansas mountain man, Clifton Clowers, who guarded his daughter from suitors.

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Bill Gates should have been ignored for having opinions on anything other than Microsoft products. Because he is fawned over by the media for being one of the richest people in the world, anything he says is taken as gospel truth, despite the fact he doesn't know what in the hell he is talking about.

Not only that, but this idolizing a know-nothing has caused him to create a lot of mischief.

I shouldn't even call it "mischief," because what he is doing to this country is catastrophic.