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  • one shot
    Senior Member
    • Jul 2021
    • 534

    #1

    Colin Powell

    Has passed away the world will miss him .
  • Allen
    Moderator
    • Sep 2009
    • 10626

    #2
    Only the democrats. He was a turncoat, a traitor to his political party who put him where he was.

    I feel the pasing of Betty Lynn (Thelma Lou) of the old Andy Griffith Show will be missed much more. I think only Ellie ( Elinor Donahue ) and Opie remain alive from the regular cast.
    Last edited by Allen; 10-18-2021, 07:42.

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    • Roadkingtrax
      Senior Member
      • Feb 2010
      • 7835

      #3
      Originally posted by Allen
      Only the democrats. He was a turncoat, a traitor to his political party who put him where he was.

      I feel the pasing of Betty Lynn (Thelma Lou) of the old Andy Griffith Show will be missed much more. I think only Ellie ( Elinor Donahue ) and Opie remain alive from the regular cast.
      Bless your little heart.
      "The first gun that was fired at Fort Sumter sounded the death-knell of slavery. They who fired it were the greatest practical abolitionists this nation has produced." ~BG D. Ullman

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      • dogtag
        Senior Member
        • Sep 2009
        • 14985

        #4
        I missed Miss Moneypenny when she died, I won't miss Powell.

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        • Merc
          Senior Member
          • Feb 2016
          • 1690

          #5
          I won’t miss him. It is interesting that he was fully vaccinated.

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          • lyman
            Administrator - OFC
            • Aug 2009
            • 11295

            #6
            Originally posted by Merc
            I won’t miss him. It is interesting that he was fully vaccinated.
            he was fighting Parkinson's and some type of Leukemia (undergoing treatments) when he got the cooties

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            • bruce
              Senior Member
              • Sep 2009
              • 3759

              #7
              Don't know much about him. Understand that when a left leaning liberal dies, the press immediately canonizes him. Am sure his family loved him. He was already in a mess with the Parkinson's and Leukemia so not surprising that he was not able to weather the ChiCombug. Sincerely. bruce.
              " Unlike most conservatives, libs have no problem exploiting dead children and dancing on their graves."

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              • jon_norstog
                Senior Member
                • Sep 2009
                • 3900

                #8
                General Powell was like a lot of us. He did some good, he did some harm. He did two tours in Vietnam. He did his own wrenching on his Volvo 122 S.

                RIP

                jn

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                • barretcreek
                  Senior Member
                  • Sep 2013
                  • 6065

                  #9
                  While the press is respecting his family's declaration of 'covid complications', I think after an interval there could be a discussion of covid accelerating the toll of serious illnesses.

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                  • Johnny P
                    Senior Member
                    • Aug 2009
                    • 6268

                    #10
                    Originally posted by Merc
                    I won’t miss him. It is interesting that he was fully vaccinated.
                    The vaccination does not totally prevent the covid, but over 90% of those that die from the covid have not had the vaccine.

                    As mentioned he had two other deadly complications, and may have just had covid when he died.

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                    • dryheat
                      Senior Member
                      • Sep 2009
                      • 10587

                      #11
                      Originally posted by Johnny P
                      The vaccination does not totally prevent the covid, but over 90% of those that die from the covid have not had the vaccine.

                      As mentioned he had two other deadly complications, and may have just had covid when he died.
                      Americans have to argue about everything. I mean EVERYTHING. Colin(kind of an unlucky name like Crapo)Powell was someone I liked to listen to. Couldn't tell you a thing he said, but I remember that I liked his presentation. He was an old man. He had numerous afflictions. He got Covid and he died. End of story. Sort of. Covid is new. It is running amuck. That's what's different about it. We have all had the flu. We haven't had Covid-19. If your old and you die you can find someone(not you) to blame your death on the Vaccine. End of story. Actually, I hear the plague is playing it's self out some. With no help from naysayers who are mostly people who want to use someone else's death(whether old or not) to cement their argument.
                      If I should die before I wake...great,a little more sleep.

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                      • Merc
                        Senior Member
                        • Feb 2016
                        • 1690

                        #12
                        Originally posted by Johnny P
                        The vaccination does not totally prevent the covid, but over 90% of those that die from the covid have not had the vaccine.

                        As mentioned he had two other deadly complications, and may have just had covid when he died.
                        Totally agree.

                        The vaccine won?t prevent infection. 99% of the time, it will prevent serious illness and death by ramping up the immune system. We will all be exposed to COVID at some point in time. Many vaccinated people will become infected by the virus, and develop some minor symptoms that last for a short time and might isolate for a while until the symptoms are gone. Others will be asymptomatic so they are unaware of their infection and continue to circulate in public and spread the virus. That is the real danger to the anti-vaccine crowd.

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                        • Mark in Ottawa
                          Senior Member
                          • Sep 2009
                          • 1744

                          #13
                          Speaking as a non-American I can say that he was highly respected. My view, and perhaps that of others, is that he was someone who put his loyalty and his efforts to the betterment of his country, rather than to the betterment of a particular political party or an ideology. That leads to progress based on compromise (noting that no Party or ideology is perfect) rather than to confrontation and gridlock.

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                          • dogtag
                            Senior Member
                            • Sep 2009
                            • 14985

                            #14
                            You believe Fauci ? Most who died were suffering from some disease. Covid merely finished them off.

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                            • Allen
                              Moderator
                              • Sep 2009
                              • 10626

                              #15
                              Originally posted by Mark in Ottawa
                              Speaking as a non-American I can say that he was highly respected. My view, and perhaps that of others, is that he was someone who put his loyalty and his efforts to the betterment of his country, rather than to the betterment of a particular political party or an ideology. That leads to progress based on compromise (noting that no Party or ideology is perfect) rather than to confrontation and gridlock.
                              Thanks for the kind words for a neighbor American, however, he supported obama and biden and look what the 2 of them have done to the betterment of his/our country. He was also anti-Trump who was pro-military. What military leader (from this country) could possibly be loyal to his country but support biden?

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