Post #284,715
5/15/07 1:58:13 PM
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God calls J. Falwell home
[link|http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Jerry-Falwell.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin|You do the jokes.] The Rev. Jerry Falwell, who founded the Moral Majority and built the religious right into a political force, died Tuesday shortly after being found unconscious in his office at Liberty University, a school executive said. He was 73.
Ron Godwin, the university's executive vice president, said Falwell, 73, was found unresponsive around 10:45 a.m. and taken to Lynchburg General Hospital. "CPR efforts were unsuccessful," he said.
Godwin said he was not sure what caused the collapse, but he said Falwell "has a history of heart challenges."
"I had breakfast with him, and he was fine at breakfast," Godwin said. "He went to his office, I went to mine, and they found him unresponsive." The quotient of human goodness in the world just rose a little tick. cordially, Die Welt ist alles, was der Fall ist.
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Post #284,716
5/15/07 2:19:11 PM
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I shall pray for him since he protected me from Tinky Winky.
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Post #284,717
5/15/07 3:28:20 PM
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Goodbye, Fare^H^Hlwell, , Auf wiedersehen, good ni^Wriddance
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Post #284,720
5/15/07 3:54:28 PM
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If there was a God, he would not call Jerry home.
The call would have come from elsewhere altogether. :)
Alex
When fascism comes to America, it'll be wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross. -- Sinclair Lewis
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Post #284,723
5/15/07 5:47:45 PM
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I received a mind-meld from Cthulhu, just this AM!
I was mystified at the ref. (he be so obtuse, at times - rather hates to be misquoted, lest someone start a &^$&^$ religion about him, n'stuff) -- til I heard your report. Said:
Mmmmmmm - CRUNCHY !!
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Post #284,752
5/16/07 12:37:08 AM
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Yay!
Two out of three people wonder where the other one is.
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Post #284,755
5/16/07 1:55:25 AM
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Well according to you .sig...
Now one set of three knows where the other is.
HA!
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Post #284,788
5/16/07 5:29:24 PM
5/16/07 8:56:01 PM
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Po celebrates Jerry's stay in hell.
[link|http://enjoyyourstay.ytmnd.com/|http://enjoyyourstay.ytmnd.com/]
I am reminded of a joke. One should only say good of the dead.
Jerry Falwell is dead?
Good.
Matthew Greet
Choose Life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television, choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol, and dental insurance. Choose fixed interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisurewear and matching luggage. Choose DIY and wondering who the fuck you are on a Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pishing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked up brats you spawned to replace yourself. Choose your future. Choose life... But why would I want to do a thing like that? I chose not to choose life. I chose somethin' else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you've got heroin?
- Mark Renton, Trainspotting.
Edited by warmachine
May 16, 2007, 08:56:01 PM EDT
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Post #284,803
5/16/07 9:13:19 PM
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I think I need a shot of Campari.
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Post #284,865
5/17/07 3:11:13 PM
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the following group also joins in belated lamentations
[link|http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,273313,00.html|http://www.foxnews.c...33,273313,00.html] "Falwell warmly praised Christ-rejecting Jews, pedophile-condoning Catholics, money-grubbing compromisers, practicing fags like Mel White, and backsliders like Billy Graham and Robert Schuler, etc.," the site reads. thanx, bill Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free american and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 51 years. meep
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Post #284,867
5/17/07 3:27:22 PM
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Re: "corpulent false prophet Jerry Falwell"
"A stopped clock is right twice a day!" :)
Alex
When fascism comes to America, it'll be wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross. -- Sinclair Lewis
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Post #284,868
5/17/07 3:29:56 PM
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and iffen billy graham is a backslider, Im really screwed
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Post #284,870
5/17/07 4:04:51 PM
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Unless it is a 24 hour one.
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Post #285,165
5/22/07 4:05:53 PM
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Even Larry Flynt liked the guy
My mother always told me that no matter how repugnant you find a person, when you meet them face to face you will always find something about them to like. The more I got to know Falwell, the more I began to see that his public portrayals were caricatures of himself. There was a dichotomy between the real Falwell and the one he showed the public.
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I'll never admire him for his views or his opinions. To this day, I'm not sure if his television embrace was meant to mend fences, to show himself to the public as a generous and forgiving preacher or merely to make me uneasy, but the ultimate result was one I never expected and was just as shocking a turn to me as was winning that famous Supreme Court case: We became friends.
[link|http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-op-flynt20may20,0,2297247.story?coll=la-opinion-rightrail|LA Times Sunday opinion column] lincoln
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