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« Reply #1050 on: October 15, 2018, 07:42:25 pm »
Of course they did:
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NYT Uses Obituary to Smear ‘Ultraconservative’ Coors Leader as 'Racist, Sexist and Homophobic’
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October 15, 2018 3:21 PM EDT

Monday’s New York Times obituary by Robert McFadden for American beer pioneer William Coors (of the brewing company that carries his name) violated the usual tasteful norms for an obit, starting with the headline and the text box: “William Coors, Ultraconservative Leader Of Brewery Based in Colorado, Dies at 102.” The text box: “A chairman’s speeches were often labeled racist, sexist and homophobic.”

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    William K. Coors, who led one of America’s biggest beer makers for decades, but whose ultraconservative speeches and anti-union policies incurred boycotts and the wrath of organized labor, civil rights groups and minorities, died on Saturday at his home in Golden, Colo. He was 102.  ...

Along with his younger brother, Joseph, a Coors executive who supported Ronald Reagan’s rise to the presidency, William Coors, although not as overtly political, championed bootstrap success and free enterprise, and was widely admired by conservatives.

But he alienated unionists, blacks, Hispanics, women and gays with views and policies that critics called racist, sexist and homophobic, and members of those groups joined informal boycotts of Coors beer in increasing numbers in the 1970s.  ...
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« Reply #1051 on: October 15, 2018, 07:46:10 pm »
Of course they did:More at Newsbusters


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Re: Obituaries for 2018
« Reply #1052 on: October 15, 2018, 07:58:15 pm »
Summer 1971.  Had gone to great lengths to buy about 15 cases of Coors in Panguitch Utah, for our continuing journey.

Two nights later, camped at North Rim of the Grand Canyon, when we shared a campfire with guys from Massachuseetts.

We learned they too, would stock up on Coors while "out West," as they did not yet have Coors back home.

BTW fantastic trip, Zion, Bryce, North Rim GC, Oak Creek Canyon, Sedona AZ.

BTW2, Coors never a great beer.





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Re: Obituaries for 2018
« Reply #1053 on: October 15, 2018, 08:03:05 pm »
When I went to college in Oklahoma, Coors could be purchased there but not in my home state of Missouri. It was back when Paul Newman famously had it flown to his home in Connecticut.   So it was quite the exotic thing to get some Coors and take it home to dad.

Now that I actually know what beer is supposed to taste like, I wouldn't be caught dead buying Coors.
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« Reply #1054 on: October 15, 2018, 10:09:15 pm »
I just got a news flash on my iPhone that Paul Allen , co-founder of Microsoft died at 65. No details. 🚨
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« Reply #1055 on: October 15, 2018, 10:28:32 pm »
I just got a news flash on my iPhone that Paul Allen , co-founder of Microsoft died at 65. No details. 🚨

That seems to be true. Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.

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« Reply #1056 on: October 16, 2018, 12:09:41 am »
Paul Allen, multibillionaire who founded Microsoft with Bill Gates, dies at 65



Allen was an early partner of Bill Gates when they co-founded Microsoft in 1975. Illness forced Allen to scale back on his work in 1982 but refused to sell his shares in the company to Gates. As a result, when Gates took Microsoft to massive heights in the late 1980s and into the 1990s, Allen became extremely rich. Allen reinvested much of his money into Vulcan, an investment firm, which had a broad variety of holdings. Among Allen's interests included professional sports (the Seattle Seahawks and Portland Trail Blazers), filmmaking, various donations to the sciences, and other stereotypically rich interests such as yachting and fine art.

Allen died October 15 from complications of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. He left no next of kin.

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Re: Obituaries for 2018
« Reply #1057 on: October 16, 2018, 07:36:50 pm »
Dennis Hof, Nevada's most famous pimp, dies at 73


(Hof, at left in pink, with Heidi Fleiss and Ron Jeremy)

In 1992, Hof took advantage of the state of Nevada's loose laws on prostitution and took over operations of his first brothel, the Moonlite BunnyRanch, where he had been a longtime john. Hof's empire expanded to seven brothels across Nevada, many of which were located in the suburbs of the state capital of Carson City.

Maitnaining an unusually high profile for such a discreet business, Hof was a gregarious and sometimes eccentric man, appearing as himself in the HBO reality series Cathouse, which documented his business. Toward the end of his life, Hof, who had variously been registered as a Republican and a Libertarian, entered politics. At the time of his death he was the GOP nominee for a seat in the Nevada State Assembly.

Hof died without warning in his sleep.

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Re: Obituaries for 2018
« Reply #1058 on: October 16, 2018, 08:43:48 pm »
Hof was being investigated for Sex Trafficking.   :shrug:
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Re: Obituaries for 2018
« Reply #1059 on: October 16, 2018, 09:40:05 pm »
Hof was being investigated for Sex Trafficking.   :shrug:
Yeah, being in that business usually draws suspicion of that, whether he did so or not.
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« Reply #1060 on: October 16, 2018, 09:45:15 pm »
Yeah, being in that business usually draws suspicion of that, whether he did so or not.

If he's in "that business" he did it.  Not possible that he didn't.
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Re: Obituaries for 2018
« Reply #1061 on: October 16, 2018, 10:40:48 pm »
If he's in "that business" he did it.  Not possible that he didn't.

The question is "Is it legal in his county in Nevada?"  I spoke with a friend recently who worked for Hos, and he said it's likely Hos had some workers who weren't properly licensed in Nye, which would be why he was being investigated.

He's also a Republican who was running for State Representative, so there's that.
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« Reply #1062 on: October 16, 2018, 10:52:50 pm »
The question is "Is it legal in his county in Nevada?"  I spoke with a friend recently who worked for Hos, and he said it's likely Hos had some workers who weren't properly licensed in Nye, which would be why he was being investigated.

He's also a Republican who was running for State Representative, so there's that.

Well, this is not the place to get into this debate, but among the workers, no matter where they "work" are a number of women who have been victims of trafficking, kidnapping and abuse.  The average little girl doesn't grow up and say, "I want to sell my body and be disgraced and be owned by a pimp, just for money."  There has been abuse.  There has been molestation.  There has been something to make these women grow up to consider that they are worth no more than this and of no real value to men.

Licensed or not, some of Hof's "workers" are or have been sex slaves.

He was guilty, and for all we know, may be being punished already for his vile sins.
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Re: Obituaries for 2018
« Reply #1063 on: October 16, 2018, 11:09:56 pm »
Well, this is not the place to get into this debate, but among the workers, no matter where they "work" are a number of women who have been victims of trafficking, kidnapping and abuse.  The average little girl doesn't grow up and say, "I want to sell my body and be disgraced and be owned by a pimp, just for money."  There has been abuse.  There has been molestation.  There has been something to make these women grow up to consider that they are worth no more than this and of no real value to men.

Licensed or not, some of Hof's "workers" are or have been sex slaves.

He was guilty, and for all we know, may be being punished already for his vile sins.

That's the distinction between "Is it legal?" and "Is it moral?"  No doubt in my mere human mind it's immoral as Hell (literally.)  I was just addressing the first part.  My friend, who is a socialist lefty, worked for a bordello as a chauffeur and was registered as a "sex worker," even though he certainly was not a prostitute.

(He is an old friend of 40 years, and we knew from the start we were onn different paths.)
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« Reply #1064 on: October 18, 2018, 06:07:50 pm »
'Dirty' Dick Slater passes away at 67 (professional wrestler)

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« Reply #1065 on: October 20, 2018, 02:45:50 pm »
R.I.P. Danny Leiner, Director of ‘Harold & Kumar’ and ‘Dude, Where’s My Car?

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Leiner got his start with the well-received short films My Birthday Cake and Time Expired, which led him to make his feature debut with the 1996 comedy Layin‘ Low starring Jeremy Piven and Edie Falco. Four years later, he was tapped to direct the Ashton Kutcher-Seann William Scott comedy Dude, Where’s My Car?, where he also worked with a young Jennifer Garner. The film grossed $73 million worldwide on a $13 million budget, proving to be a modest hit for 20th Century Fox, though a much-rumored sequel failed to materialize.

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« Reply #1066 on: October 20, 2018, 08:45:07 pm »
Leiner was 57 -- way too young.  May he rest in peace.

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« Reply #1067 on: October 21, 2018, 04:16:38 pm »
Dick Modzelewski, Key Lineman in a Vaunted Giants Defense, Dies at 87

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Dick Modzelewski, the Giants’ tackle who played on the line that transformed defensive players into glamorous pro football figures during the team’s glory years of the late 1950s and early ’60s, died on Friday at his home in Eastlake, Ohio. He was 87.

His death was confirmed by his daughter Laurie Hardesty.

Modzelewski, the winner of the 1952 Outland Trophy as college football’s best interior lineman, playing for the University of Maryland, was obtained by the Giants in a trade before the 1956 season. Soon, chants of “Dee-fense” rang out at Yankee Stadium as Modzelewski at left tackle, Jim Katcavage at left end, Andy Robustelli at right end — all in their first season as Giants — and Rosey Grier at right tackle formed the first N.F.L. defensive line to be celebrated as a unit.

The Giants routed the Chicago Bears, 47-7, to win the 1956 N.F.L. championship and captured five more Eastern Conference titles in the next seven years with that defensive line virtually intact.

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« Reply #1068 on: October 22, 2018, 02:17:04 am »
Charles Wang, Chinese-American billionaire, dies at 74

Wang was born in China in 1944 and fled to the United States with his family eight years later to escape Communism. He earned a college degree in mathematics and physics but proved himself an even better salesman, serving as a co-founder of Computer Associates. Despite the risky move of using a credit card to finance the company, CA became a major success.

In 2000, after leaving the company he founded, Wang purchased the New York Islanders hockey team, a move that Wang later admitted was a huge mistake. Despite this, he fought extensively to keep the team on Long Island throughout his ownership but was unable to secure a new arena to replace the woefully outdated Nassau Coliseum. He sold the team in 2016.

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« Reply #1069 on: October 22, 2018, 04:22:38 pm »
Joachim Ronneberg: Norwegian who thwarted Nazi nuclear plan dies

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Joachim Ronneberg, the Norwegian resistance fighter who sabotaged Nazi Germany's nuclear weapons ambitions during World War Two, has died aged 99.

In 1943, he led a top-secret raid on a heavily-guarded plant in Norway's southern region of Telemark.

The operation was immortalised in the 1965 Hollywood film Heroes of Telemark, starring Kirk Douglas.

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« Reply #1070 on: October 22, 2018, 08:37:42 pm »
Joachim Ronneberg: Norwegian who thwarted Nazi nuclear plan dies

WOW, I hadn't realized he was still alive!

Yes, a true hero.  RIP.
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« Reply #1071 on: October 22, 2018, 08:58:23 pm »
WOW, I hadn't realized he was still alive!

Yes, a true hero.  RIP.

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« Reply #1072 on: October 24, 2018, 09:23:48 pm »
James Karen, Actor in 'Poltergeist' and So Much More, Dies at 94

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The incredibly prolific Karen, who also was noteworthy in such films as The China Syndrome (1979) and The Return of the Living Dead (1985) and on the finale of NBC’s Little House on the Prairie — he’s the dastardly reason the town of Walnut Grove was blown up — died Tuesday at his Los Angeles home, his wife, Alba, said.

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« Reply #1073 on: October 24, 2018, 10:04:53 pm »
James Karen, Actor in 'Poltergeist' and So Much More, Dies at 94

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Another one of those, "you may not recognize his name but you'll know him when you see his picture" folks.

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I can hear his voice, too.  RIP

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« Reply #1074 on: October 25, 2018, 01:43:32 am »
Dorcas Reilly, inventor of green bean casserole, dies at 92

In 1955, Reilly, then 29 years old, was working in the home economics department at the Campbell Soup Company and was tasked with developing recipes for Campbell's products. She noted that the company's cream of mushroom soup was becoming a popular binder in casseroles and decided to add green beans for a base, since most households had frozen or canned green beans in their pantry or freezer. Adding various other ingredients (including fried onions, which today are almost exclusively used for the dish), her casserole initially didn't test well within the company, but through persistence and tweaking, it ultimately became a staple of Thanksgiving dinner.

Reilly left Campbell's in 1961 to focus on being a stay-at-home mom. With her children grown, she returned to Campbell's 20 years later for another seven-year run with the company.

Reilly died October 15 from complications of Alzheimer's disease.

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