I knew I’d forgotten something! Thank you, brother.
Something-something “but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.”
I clocked Dobbs as a horrid bigot back in the early 90s when he was still with CNN. I can muster zero sorrow he’s gone.
“I have never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure.”
A paraphrase of a quote from Clarence Darrow, usually misattributed to Mark Twain
I know. 
I was trying to be a little cute. Probably shouldn’t have.
I don’t think you can wish a person dead. Wishing doesn’t work that way.
I’m not sure that drinking alcohol while standing on a persons grave works that way either.
Nor does dropping a bottle cap on the grave stone and then pissing a full bladder stream over their grave.
( Well, don’t get caught anyways, right people…? )
William Calley, who led the My Lai massacre that shamed US military in Vietnam, has died
William Laws Calley Jr., who as an Army lieutenant led the U.S. soldiers who killed hundreds of Vietnamese civilians in the My Lai massacre, the most notorious war crime in modern American military history, has died. He was 80.
Calley had lived in obscurity in the decades since he was court-martialed and convicted in 1971, the only one of 25 men originally charged to be found guilty in the massacre that helped turn American opinion against the war in Vietnam.
On March 16, 1968, Calley led American soldiers of the Charlie Company on a mission to confront a crack outfit of Vietcong enemies. Instead, over several hours, the soldiers killed 504 unresisting civilians, mostly women, children and elderly men, in My Lai and a neighboring community.
Note he died April 28, but none of the news media reported it then.
Oh, seriously, did not realize he was still around - fuck that guy, and put a lot more coals on the fire.
What the eff is this nonsense?!?!?!?:
Calley was convicted in 1971 for the murders of 22 people during the rampage. He was sentenced to life in prison but served only three days because President Richard Nixon ordered his sentence reduced. He served three years of house arrest.
Calley, the only person convicted in the massacre,
As the court martial came to an end, Defense Secretary Melvin Laird privately urged Nixon not to extend any pardon to Calley. Military leaders, Laird explained, believed that making him a scapegoat or hero would poison the view of American policy and the public view of soldiers. Nixon rejected the argument, telling advisors that demanding accountability for the massacre reflected the “obsolete idea that war is a game with rules.” The day after the verdict, Nixon ordered Calley released from the post stockade and placed under house arrest in the Fort Benning bachelor officer quarters. Appeals would eventually reduce his punishment to time served.
Damn, when it came time for Nixon to Nixon, that SOB sure knew how to Nixon.
Calley can now have an interesting conversation in the afterlife with General Yamashita. One who committed atrocities and was scapegoated then released by those who ordered them, and another who was hanged for atrocities he neither ordered nor knew about; but was held responsible for nonetheless.
Sick fuck.
(Warning: she’s a sick fuck…)
Rot in hell, arsehole.
I mean, this is an obituary thread, but placeholder I guess.
I’m hoping she’ll receive a custodial sentence and get what she deserves from
the other inmates.
I wonder if she used to work here:
Looks like she wasn’t the only one. FUCK! I lose more faith in humanity everyday.
Feel free to expand on this idea over in the What’s the rest of your plan? thread.
Hello, my friends, it’s been a little while since we got together. I remember this fuckwad, glad she lived long enough to see her efforts (largely) fail.
Then, in early 1977, Dade County, Fla. — which includes Miami, where Ms. Bryant lived — gave its final approval to an ordinance prohibiting discrimination against homosexuals. A group of opponents, led by Ms. Bryant, turned up to protest. “The ordinance condones immorality and discriminates against my children’s rights to grow up in a healthy, decent community,” she said.
She founded Save Our Children, an anti-gay organization that gave rise to the modern-day religious right’s strategy of tying homosexuality to perceived threats against children. Her public image (many called her a “Christian celebrity”) was changed forever.
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“I was a sacrificial lamb,” Ms. Bryant said in a syndicated newspaper article in 1988. “I didn’t even know it. And I couldn’t get out of it once I’d begun.”
Please. It would have been easy to redeem yourself, and in a Christian way.
I mentioned it in another thread - Bryant died December 16, 2024 but the family held off announcing it to the public until today, January 9, 2025.
I am guessing they were scared of protests at the funeral. Or some type of celebration of her passing. Very odd either way.