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Old 06-13-2008, 05:10 PM
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MSNBC is reporting that Tim Russert collapsed and died today while at his job.

I am so sorry to hear that. He was one of the good guys.
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Old 06-13-2008, 06:43 PM
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58 is too young to pass away. TR was one of the good guys and his news points will be sorely missed.
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Old 06-13-2008, 06:50 PM
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**it happens. Was ruminating and considering a parallel between this and 11/22/63. Well. We've lost another good man. Where do we go when there's no one to blame?

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Old 06-14-2008, 12:08 AM
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Death is the price of life. We should all be so fortunate to collaspe and die quickly. That's much better than becoming infirm in a nursing home with vegetables for brains or even worse, have a sharp mind but an incontinent body that is paralyzed.
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And its much better not to die at age 58, but have another 20 plus years. My Dad is pushing eighty and he's neither a vegetable or incontinent. John McCain's 12 years older than Russert and he's running for president!
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Old 06-14-2008, 12:23 AM
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**it happens. Was ruminating and considering a parallel between this and 11/22/63. Well. We've lost another good man. Where do we go when there's no one to blame?

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Parallel to 11/22/63 ? Well you've stumped me on this one, Ole.

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Old 06-14-2008, 12:27 AM
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JFK killed in Dallas.
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Old 06-15-2008, 12:11 AM
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Apparently, Sam doesn't see a parallel between the loss of a potentially good president and a tip-top newsman. I see only the lives of two apparently good leader-types cut from history prematurely. The loss of one is not more disastrous than the other. Sorry about that. John Kerry is not more valuable than Rush Limbaugh; John McCain is not more valuable than Barak Obama. Dubya is not more valuable than LBJ.

To assign a relative value to a life excapes me.

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