Obituaries for 2018

[GtHawk]

Nokie Edwards  Guitarist For The Ventures

We have been advised this morning that Nokie Edwards passed away today after several months battling an infection after hip surgery this past December. The Ventures family feels this loss very deeply: Nokie has been part of the Ventures’ history for almost 6 decades and helped to shape the early Ventures’ sound and the success of their career.

http://www.northwestmusicscene.net/northwest-legend-nokie-edwards-passes-away-at-82/

[Applewood]

Rest in peace, Mr. Edwards. 

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[EasyAce]

RIP Mr. Edwards . . . here's one you actually played guitar on (he joined the Ventures in 1962, well after their first hits
"Walk, Don't Run" and "Perfidia," and switched to lead guitar when their original bassist took a hike . . . )

The Ventures, "Hawaii Five-O"

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[EasyAce]

Rest in peace, Mr. Edwards. 

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I almost hate to say it, but those dopey little steps the two guitarists and the bassist take on that lip synch job make them look like
they're trying to hold it in until they can get to the nearest men's room.

[WingNot]

I almost hate to say it, but those dopey little steps the two guitarists and the bassist take on that lip synch job make them look like
they're trying to hold it in until they can get to the nearest men's room.

They had that wireless stuff back then? 

[EasyAce]

They had that wireless stuff back then?

Uh, no. ;)

[Applewood]

@EasyAce

Thank you for correcting me. I didn't realize Mr. Edwards was not a member back then.    Oops.

[EasyAce]

@EasyAce

Thank you for correcting me. I didn't realize Mr. Edwards was not a member back then.    Oops.

@Applewood
I only learned of it earlier today. He wasn't the only guy to join a group as a bass player and then become their lead guitarist. A gentleman
named Dick Taylor was the original bassist for what became the Rolling Stones, until he left to finish college, during which time he switched
to guitar and formed a new group in which he was the lead guitarist . . .

The Pretty Things, "Rosalyn"

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[jmyrlefuller]

Physicist Stephen Hawking dies at 76

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http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-43396008?ns_mchannel=social&ns_campaign=bbc_breaking&ns_source=twitter&ns_linkname=news_central

[edpc]

I guess his questions were either answered or faded into oblivion.

[jmyrlefuller]

Child star Donna Butterworth dies at 62

Butterworth, who had moved with her family to Hawaii at a very young age, had a very brief career in the mid-1960s, appearing in two major films, the Elvis Presley film Paradise, Hawaiian Style and Jerry Lewis's The Family Jewels. She disappeared from public life in 1967, never married, never had children, and spent the rest of her life in Hawaii.

Obituary from MSN

Wikipedia

[Free Vulcan]

The world of science nerds and geeks owe Mr. Hawking a great debt of gratitude.

[mountaineer]

An amusing article from Daily Caller, "Obama Commemorates ANOTHER Death With Photo Of Himself," by Saagar Enjeti.
 After Hawkings' death, Obama did what he always does: tweeted a photo of himself as some sort of expression of just how saddened he is by the latest death.  He also did it after the deaths of Ali, Rosa Parks, Arnold Palmer and Nelson Mandela. 
Read the article here

[Suppressed]

An amusing article from Daily Caller, "Obama Commemorates ANOTHER Death With Photo Of Himself," by Saagar Enjeti.
 After Hawkings' death, Obama did what he always does: tweeted a photo of himself as some sort of expression of just how saddened he is by the latest death.  He also did it after the deaths of Ali, Rosa Parks, Arnold Palmer and Nelson Mandela. 
Read the article here

Narcissists sicken me.

[jmyrlefuller]

Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-NY) dies at 88



Slaughter served in politics from 1982 until her death, from 1987 onward as a member of Congress representing the city of Rochester, New York. At the time of her death, she was the oldest active member of the House of Representatives. During the 2000s (decade), Slaughter's electoral district was custom-gerrymandered to run along the Lake Ontario shoreline and connect the city of Buffalo at one end to her house in the Rochester suburb of Fairport at the other.

Her current district, created by a nonpartisan judicial panel in 2012, follows county lines and has been competitive. Slaughter narrowly fended off her Republican opponent in 2014.

Obituary from the Washington Post

Wikipedia

[verga]

Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-NY) dies at 88

Slaughter served in politics from 1982 until her death, from 1987 onward as a member of Congress representing the city of Rochester, New York. At the time of her death, she was the oldest active member of the House of Representatives. During the 2000s (decade), Slaughter's electoral district was custom-gerrymandered to run along the Lake Ontario shoreline and connect the city of Buffalo at one end to her house in the Rochester suburb of Fairport at the other.

Her current district, created by a nonpartisan judicial panel in 2012, follows county lines and has been competitive. Slaughter narrowly fended off her Republican opponent in 2014.

Obituary from the Washington Post

Wikipedia

It is not polite to speak ill of the dead, so I will say nothing.

[Applewood]

It is not polite to speak ill of the dead, so I will say nothing.

Good policy to have.  Serves no purpose to bring up politics with its discord and resentments.  The congresswoman is in God's hands now.  I'd rather He do the judging. 

May God grant comfort to her loved ones.

[GtHawk]

It is not polite to speak ill of the dead, so I will say nothing.

How about, she sure made the best out of her deal and made him wait a long time to collect.

[mountaineer]

Stephen Hawking Wrote a Popular Book About Physics and Spent the Rest of His Life Crusading for Awful Causes, by Noah Pollak at Free Beacon.

[Sanguine]

Stephen Hawking Wrote a Popular Book About Physics and Spent the Rest of His Life Crusading for Awful Causes, by Noah Pollak at Free Beacon.

Right he is!

[Free Vulcan]

Sadly, geniuses often stumble badly when let out of their academic test tube into the real world of applied science. It's a different kind of thinking that they aren't really wired for.

[WingNot]

Stephen Hawking Wrote a Popular Book About Physics and Spent the Rest of His Life Crusading for Awful Causes, by Noah Pollak at Free Beacon.

I am not a physicist and am unable to understand the actual merits of Hawking's contributions to the field. But no amount of scientific greatness can excuse his political crusading—far left, viciously anti-Israel, and contemptuous of the culture and values that sustain western societies.

Pretty much sums it all up for me.

[jmyrlefuller]

Stephen Hawking Wrote a Popular Book About Physics and Spent the Rest of His Life Crusading for Awful Causes, by Noah Pollak at Free Beacon.

Not to mention that many of his theories about physics (which he specialized in in large part because he was too intellectually lazy to verify his facts) are now considered to be wrong.

Hawking was a quack who gained sympathy because of his condition. I would not at all be surprised if the words attributed to him during the last few years of his life were never actually his to begin with. By one account he was down to one word a minute by 2005.

[mountaineer]

Hawking was a quack who gained sympathy because of his condition.

You have expressed what I always suspected.

[RoosGirl]

From Hawkings wikipedia write-up:

Hawking estimated that he studied about 1,000 hours during his three years at Oxford. These unimpressive study habits made sitting his finals a challenge, and he decided to answer only theoretical physics questions rather than those requiring factual knowledge.