Nofziger - dead; Weinberger - dead

[LionInWinter]

Who's the next old Rethug to buy the dirt farm? You know these things happen in threes.

[rusty_parts2001]

1. Nancy ?

[KyndCulture]

2. poppy?

[barbaraann]

3. Andy Card?

n/t

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[FSogol]

7. Have to agree with you.

Welcome to DU.

[barbaraann]

8. Their lives were ugly.

Let me revise that--their lives were hideous.

[im10ashus]

9. Welcome to DU!

Enjoy your stay. :hi:

[The Stranger]

16. Who's Next!?

:woohoo:

[marylanddem]

17. Oh really?

And how much innocent blood has been shed thanks to your Republican heroes?

[CottonBear]

19. It's really hard to mourn warmongers who attack & kill innocent civilians.

Good riddance to him. Caspar avoided jail only because of the presidential pardon.

[hfojvt]

33. "How I love to watch the morn

with golden sun that shines
up above to nicely warm
these frosty toes of mine
the wind doth taste of bittersweet
like Jasper wine and sugar
I bet it's blown through others' feet,
like those of ...


.... Caspar Weinberger."


If you remember Bloom County, Opus sorta had a thing for Cap Weinberger. Mostly making fun of his name, as in the above.

In "One Last Little Peek" Berkeley Breathed writes


"Shortly after my first effort at serious poetry hit the page in 1983, I received the following note on the official stationery of the US Secretary of Defense:

Dear Mr. Breathed,

Many a morn I've longed to see
A comic strip be kind to me.
On 30 March, before my eyes
A penguin watched a warm sunrise.
In this land of so much bounty,
Could I have that great Bloom County?

Sincerely,
Caspar Weinberger

I sent it to him. Remember Caspar's letter when you are trying to get something from someone who is not inclined to give it to you. All you need to know is here."


That's mostly how I remember him.

[Gabi Hayes]

44. nice story, but

Hitler loved his doggy

[hyphenate]

24. I wouldn't say ugly

because if you have ever read what passes for posts at FR, you would know that what is being said here is a matter of resignation, of sarcasm, of cynicism. You need to put things into perspective, and to be around for awhile before you can catch the sometimes nuanced posts of members.

Yes, we are bitter, and yes, we have a lot of issues to deal with that are with us because of the right wingnuts, but constant and unfailing evil is a tenet of the right, and less on the left.

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[hyphenate]

48. ta ta for now!

It was great having you around for a little while.

[AllieB]

45. Joking about Ted Kennedy and Chappaquiddick is ugly too

[CottonBear]

5. Did Schultz die yet? n/t

[Fovea]

15. I think he's got a decade left on his contract

and even ol' patch has to deal with contracts.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

10. cheney?

[CottonBear]

23. Old Crashcart is almost to mean to die, at least anytime soon. n/t

[rfranklin]

11. Good riddance...

Weinberger was one of Poppy's henchmen.

[KyndCulture]

14. he can pull up a chair

in hell right next to reagan as far as I'm concerned.. harsh or not... he was a bush pardoned pig.

[skip fox]

12. Heck, maybe there IS a god . . .?

:)

[karlrschneider]

13. I wouldn't mourn:

Bolton
Kissinger
Armitage
Pearle
Wolfowitz
etc.

[mandyky]

18. Gerald Ford has been ill

Another GOP president, another 2 weeks of wall to wall funeral stuff...

[CottonBear]

21. I wouldn't put Ford in the same class as Caspar and Lyn who are criminals.

Ford is a mostly decent man and an old-fashioned Eisenhower type conservative.
He did pardon Nixon though. :(

[BonnieJW]

27. I agree

Ford was a decent president. No one died and the constitution was kept as written. I wouldn't mind seeing Dickie take a dirt nap.

[Frank Cannon]

28. Ford may have pardoned Nixon, but he wasn't a criminal...

and an arrogant, braggard criminal at that--not like the Reagan/Bush mafia who commit their crimes in broad daylight and dare anyone to defy them.

I used to be mad at Gerald Ford for pardoning Nixon, but I would take Nixon any day over the evil, demented Chimp. I can't believe I would ever say that, but there it is.

[CottonBear]

31. I'd choose Nixon over Bush or Reagan any day. Did I just say that? n/t

[Left Is Write]

32. I understand completely.

[LionInWinter]

22. Ford sounds about right to me.

He's been in and out of the hospital the past couple of months.

[hyphenate]

26. I actually liked Ford

while that's not a huge thing to do, I thought he was in the wrong place at the wrong time and tried to deal with what was before him in as best a manner as he could.

[CottonBear]

29. I agree. I lived throught that time.

What was his speech? "Our long national nightmare is behind us."

Well, it was until 19 freaking 80 when Reagan and the Bush/PNAC gang pulled an October Surprise and got a jump start on Iran-Contra and put Ronnie into office.

[Midnight Rambler]

20. Libby or Abramoff

Afraid of what they might say, or may have already said.

[ThatsMyBarack]

25. And I thought only the *good* people were dying nowadays!

Should I be doing the happy dance right now??

[Bozita]

30. I'd love to see Pat Robertson's take on this

[ChairmanAgnostic]

35. usually Pat's take is 30% off the top, before expenses, then he preys.

[Gormy Cuss]

34. Rumsfeld might be worried. n/t

[smirkymonkey]

36. Niedermeyer....

DEAD.

Oh, wait. Never mind.

[hatrack]

37. Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?

:toast:

[smirkymonkey]

41. "It isn't over until WE decide it is!"

:toast:

[Gabi Hayes]

40. haaaaaah...he owns a restaurant in Milwaukee

my brother was there one night and freaked when he saw him

he circulated among the patrons; very personable.

[smirkymonkey]

42. He was such a republican in that movie!

:)

[lpbk2713]

38. I'd say Simpson

But I saw him on the tube recently and he still looked just as mean and cranky as ever.

[LaPera]

39. I thought these fascist old fucks would never die, All the Iran-Contra

evil fucks are finally biting the dust, But pappy Bush, George Shultz and a few others are still kicking...

Makes me wonder how long these Iran-Contra evil fucks still in power now will be around, Rumsfeld, Cheney, Abrams, Poindexter, Negroponte, etc..will be around...

I pray every day they'll die very soon!!!

[oasis]

43. "The good die young" (eom)

[Initech]

47. Falwell? Robertson?

[Ilsa]

49. I think it's Cheney.

He's been looking like Rumsferatu hasn't been giving him any fresh blood lately.