OT - Necrology 2018. (Great Loses This Year)

Fred19Flintstone

We've lost a lot of good ones this year so far.  Here's a few.






David Ogden Stiers


Keith Jackson

Spaightlabs

JasonHairston
Mac Miller
 Just in the last 4 days...

You remember a guy named JohnMcCain by any chance?

lousubcap

John McCain...

Edit:  In the main, given where we are calendar-wise, this has been a collection of heavy losses.

YEMTrey

Fred19Flintstone

I lost respect for McCain.  He campaigned on getting rid of Obamacare, but when he had the chance to cast the deciding vote to kill it, he voted against doing so.  Why?  To jab Trump in the eye and hand him a defeat.  So, it's Country and principles be damned, for the sake of demonstrating his personal hatred of Trump.  That's petty and being small in my book.  Nothing heroic or great about that.

DMW

Fred19Flintstone said:

I lost respect for McCain.  He campaigned on getting rid of Obamacare, but when he had the chance to cast the deciding vote to kill it, he voted against doing so.  Why?  To jab Trump in the eye and hand him a defeat.  So, it's Country and principles be damned, for the sake of demonstrating his personal hatred of Trump.  That's petty and being small in my book.  Nothing heroic about that.

Perhaps it was because the repeal was as half-baked and rushed as the original implementation? If that is what caused you to lose your respect for John McCain, well then.

lousubcap

@Fred19Flintstone so that makes McCain's death "not a great loss"??  I was totally unaware of the criteria. 

I won't roll into the whole health care and other issues here. 

DMW

JohnInCarolina

Amazing how one vote can undo all of the respect earned from five and a half years in a POW camp.  

JohnInCarolina

Fred19Flintstone

If you like him, well that's your business.  As for me, when he campaigns on an issue, his position is repeated many, many times for the voters to hear.  When he has his chance to follow through, he throws his position aside just to piss off Trump.  It's a character flaw in my opinion.  It has nothing to do with being a POW.  How about you to like/dislike whom you please.  Please extend the same courtesy to me. 
YMMV 

By the way, this list was just a few folks that passed.  It's not an all-inclusive list.  Don't get all butt hurt if somebody isn't mentioned.  Add 'em and move on.

DMW

Fred19Flintstone said:

If you like him, well that's your business.  As for me, when he campaigns on an issue, his position is repeated many, many times for the voters to hear.  When he has his chance to follow through, he throws his position aside just to piss off Trump.  It's a character flaw in my opinion.  It has nothing to do with being a POW.  How about you to like/dislike whom you please.  Please extend the same courtesy to me. 
YMMV 

Bone spurs...

JohnInCarolina

JohnInCarolina

JohnInCarolina

JohnInCarolina

DoubleEgger

DoubleEgger

JohnInCarolina

DMW

@DoubleEgger - both of those dudes made me laugh.

JohnInCarolina

JohnInCarolina

DoubleEgger

JohnInCarolina

DoubleEgger

HeavyG

Fred19Flintstone said:

I lost respect for McCain.  He campaigned on getting rid of Obamacare, but when he had the chance to cast the deciding vote to kill it, he voted against doing so.  Why?  To jab Trump in the eye and hand him a defeat.  So, it's Country and principles be damned, for the sake of demonstrating his personal hatred of Trump.  That's petty and being small in my book.  Nothing heroic or great about that.

McCain (not unlike most politicians to be fair) was well known to be a rampant flip-flopper but that one flip flop on the ACA is what caused you to lose respect for him?

StillH2OEgger

Fred19Flintstone said:

If you like him, well that's your business.  As for me, when he campaigns on an issue, his position is repeated many, many times for the voters to hear.  When he has his chance to follow through, he throws his position aside just to piss off Trump.  It's a character flaw in my opinion.  It has nothing to do with being a POW.  How about you to like/dislike whom you please.  Please extend the same courtesy to me. 
YMMV 

By the way, this list was just a few folks that passed.  It's not an all-inclusive list.  Don't get all butt hurt if somebody isn't mentioned.  Add 'em and move on.

For consistency sake, I'm anxiously awaiting the rant on Trump releasing his taxes to help assuage concerns he's doing nothing more than lining the pockets of he and his family with every decision he makes. I believe he promised that a time or two during the campaign, as long as we're going to insist on holding elected officials accountable. Maybe, just maybe, McCain had a change of heart about taking away health insurance from millions. What exactly is Trump afraid of?

nolaegghead

Fred19Flintstone said:

I lost respect for McCain.  He campaigned on getting rid of Obamacare, but when he had the chance to cast the deciding vote to kill it, he voted against doing so.  Why?  To jab Trump in the eye and hand him a defeat.  So, it's Country and principles be damned, for the sake of demonstrating his personal hatred of Trump.  That's petty and being small in my book.  Nothing heroic or great about that.

Maybe McCain, realizing that other Americans, less fortunate than him, and who can only dream about the level of health care he was receiving, had an epiphany that transcended political lines and honed in on the empathy of one human towards masses with similar health crises, and realized that being a patriotic American was coming together as a nation/family/tribe to help those less fortunate with something, far from perfect, but better than abject poverty and bankruptcy as a solution to life terminating health issues.

F*ck you, Fred. 

--McCain.

--McNOLA

YukonRon

Neil Simon - playwright
Stephen Hawking - physicist
Barbara Bush - Matriarch 
Linda Brown - as a little girl became the center of the storm for school desegregation (More courage than anyone)
Tom Wolfe - Author (Bonfire of the Humanities, The Right Stuff)
Dwight Clark - American Football Player
Ed King - co writer of the song Sweet Home Alabama
Kofi Anaan - Secretary General of the UN 1997-2006 (Nobel Prize Winner)
Adrian Cronauer - US airman whose radio show inspired "Good Morning, Vietnam"
Eunice Gayson - First Bond Girl
John Young - Astronaut 
Deloris O'Riordan - Lead singer, Cranberries
Dennis Edwards - Lead singer, Temptations
Margot Kidder - Actress
Vince Paul - Musician
And so many others.....including, but not limited too:
John McCain - Navy officer, POW, Senator, American Hero.
To the OP: Did you really mean what you wrote about senator John McCain, or were you just having fun trolling the liberals on this thread? 

Yno

More than fifty million people die every year. They are all great to someone. We just lost a good friend, so I can't get butt hurt over people I never met and what other people I never met think of them.

Fred19Flintstone

YukonRon said:

To the OP: Did you really mean what you wrote about senator John McCain, or were you just having fun trolling the liberals on this thread? 

I got a little bit of mileage on that, eh?  Including a "F*ck you, Fred" outta da hippie.  It's delicious to tweak the libtards on this BBQ forum who insist on making everything political.  For example, this thread started as a little review of notable people who passed this year.  I said "here's a few" at the top.  I left some off so some folks can suggest them and have a good contribution.  People here took it as insulting if somebody was left off and used it as pretense to be pissy which turned into political and pissy.