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    Post  trombettista_vecchio Tue Mar 05, 2013 9:05 pm

    Hugo Chavez, beloved liberator of Venezuela, died of cancer today. He was only fifty-eight years old.

    I am not a hero worshiper by nature, but here is a man I looked upon as a hero. May the good people of Venezuela find piece and prosperity in the years to come.
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    Post  jt1135 Tue Mar 05, 2013 9:55 pm

    Good riddance to bad rubbish.
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    Post  jt1135 Tue Mar 05, 2013 10:35 pm

    Found an interesting article. Like the quote one of the commenters made. "Behind every great evil was a promise of Utopia. But we forget Utopia was built on the back of slaves chained in gold."

    http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/timstanley/100205533/hugo-chavez-dies-socialists-might-see-him-as-a-saint-but-this-charismatic-conman-was-no-angel/
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    Post  Mongrel Wed Mar 06, 2013 10:13 am

    Alas. Despite all the best medical care available for the treatment of such a malady. Of anywhere in the World. Cuba. Must have been God's Will. All righty then. Now the damn gas better go down below three bucks a gallon.
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    Post  trombettista_vecchio Wed Mar 06, 2013 6:15 pm

    Obviously, this place is a den of fascist cretins, just like Golf Review.

    I was just mourning a fallen hero, not initiating a political discussion, and rather than choosing between offering condolences and keeping your mouths shut, you had to contribute bullshit instead.

    Whoever it was that said, "If you want a friend, get a dog" was right on the money. FD just started more of the same, I guess.
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    Post  jt1135 Wed Mar 06, 2013 7:31 pm

    trombettista_vecchio wrote:Obviously, this place is a den of fascist cretins, just like Golf Review.

    I was just mourning a fallen hero, not initiating a political discussion, and rather than choosing between offering condolences and keeping your mouths shut, you had to contribute bullshit instead.

    Whoever it was that said, "If you want a friend, get a dog" was right on the money. FD just started more of the same, I guess.

    It was the term "fallen hero" that did it.
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    Post  Kiwigolfer Wed Mar 06, 2013 9:19 pm

    trombettista_vecchio wrote:Obviously, this place is a den of fascist cretins, just like Golf Review.

    I was just mourning a fallen hero, not initiating a political discussion, and rather than choosing between offering condolences and keeping your mouths shut, you had to contribute bullshit instead.

    Whoever it was that said, "If you want a friend, get a dog" was right on the money. FD just started more of the same, I guess.

    So 'facist cretins' basically means anybody that doesn't agree with your idealized view of the world?
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    Post  trombettista_vecchio Thu Mar 07, 2013 9:36 am

    Kiwigolfer wrote: So 'facist cretins' basically means anybody that doesn't agree with your idealized view of the world?

    I didn't let you chew on "fascist cretins" until you decided to quibble with "fallen hero."

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    Post  jt1135 Fri Mar 08, 2013 9:21 am

    Chavez is going to be buried in a glass case just like all the great heros of the world. Mao, Lenin, Ho Chi Minh, and the Kims, father and son from North Korea. HHMMM, what do all those notable leaders have in common? Personality cults, corruption and the deaths of countless people. Yep, a real hero alright.
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    Post  Mongrel Fri Mar 08, 2013 10:13 am

    Forgot to include Yessir Assahat. What they all have in common with the possible exception of Uncle Ho is that they looted their respective treasuries and bribed their ways to become very wealthy men. Perhaps some of them were ushered into Dirt-Napdom sooner than Nature would have provided. The Russians with their Polonium 210 protocol proved that no one is really immune.
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    Post  jetdriver Sat Apr 06, 2013 10:38 pm

    Chavez, hero?... perhaps in the janitorial profession...right next to the turd cleanser.
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    Post  trombettista_vecchio Sun Apr 07, 2013 8:05 am

    Probably another reason for my tirng of golf....

    fifty-plus years of proximity with wingnut crackers.

    Although in this case, my instincts tell me to think Fulgencio Battista/Marco Rubio lover from Florida. Just a feeling.
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    Post  FamousDavis Mon Apr 08, 2013 1:08 am

    Hugo Chavez. They make great tequila.
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    Post  Mongrel Mon Apr 08, 2013 8:25 am

    But when I'm drinking, I prefer Maggie Thatcher Dry Gin. Two shots of Iron Lady's gonna kick yo butt, mate.
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    Post  Kiwigolfer Mon Apr 08, 2013 3:03 pm

    Mongrel wrote:But when I'm drinking, I prefer Maggie Thatcher Dry Gin. Two shots of Iron Lady's gonna kick yo butt, mate.

    I see the Iron Lady has passed away.

    Now there's a REAL fallen hero.
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    Post  Mongrel Mon Apr 08, 2013 3:34 pm

    Kiwigolfer wrote:
    Mongrel wrote:But when I'm drinking, I prefer Maggie Thatcher Dry Gin. Two shots of Iron Lady's gonna kick yo butt, mate.

    I see the Iron Lady has passed away.

    Now there's a REAL fallen hero.

    Amen to that brother. When she and Ronnie double-teamed the Commie Bastards, they were running away with their tales between their legs.
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    Post  jt1135 Mon Apr 08, 2013 3:47 pm

    One of the few women with balls.
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    Post  jmtbkr Mon Apr 08, 2013 5:07 pm

    Mongrel wrote:
    Kiwigolfer wrote:
    Mongrel wrote:But when I'm drinking, I prefer Maggie Thatcher Dry Gin. Two shots of Iron Lady's gonna kick yo butt, mate.

    I see the Iron Lady has passed away.

    Now there's a REAL fallen hero.

    Amen to that brother. When she and Ronnie double-teamed the Commie Bastards, they were running away with their tales between their legs.

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    Post  FamousDavis Mon Apr 08, 2013 8:46 pm

    I think Thatcher had Reagan's eye.
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    Post  trombettista_vecchio Tue Apr 09, 2013 1:54 pm

    Kiwigolfer wrote:
    Mongrel wrote:But when I'm drinking, I prefer Maggie Thatcher Dry Gin. Two shots of Iron Lady's gonna kick yo butt, mate.

    I see the Iron Lady has passed away.

    Now there's a REAL fallen hero.

    I seriously disliked both Reagan and Thatcher. People of different mindsets have different heroes, obviously.
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    Post  Mongrel Tue Apr 09, 2013 2:04 pm

    Any human elected by a vote of other humans does not qualify for hero status in my book no matter what the qualifications or accomplishments. Unless that human races into a burning building to save people or something like that.
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    Post  Kiwigolfer Tue Apr 09, 2013 3:39 pm

    trombettista_vecchio wrote:
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    Mongrel wrote:But when I'm drinking, I prefer Maggie Thatcher Dry Gin. Two shots of Iron Lady's gonna kick yo butt, mate.

    I see the Iron Lady has passed away.

    Now there's a REAL fallen hero.

    I seriously disliked both Reagan and Thatcher. People of different mindsets have different heroes, obviously.

    Well Thatcher smashed the Trade Unions in Britain that were previously holding the country to ransom and made the country productive again so it stands to reason that you would seriously dislike her.
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    Post  jmtbkr Tue Apr 09, 2013 4:48 pm

    Annette Funicello.

    Hero to some and girlfriend of most young boys, back in the day cheers
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    Post  jt1135 Wed Apr 10, 2013 7:20 am

    The way the word hero gets tossed around these days is absolutely ridiculous. I would say my folk's dog is a hero for not crapping on the floor for over a year.
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    Post  Mongrel Wed Apr 10, 2013 8:47 am

    jmtbkr wrote:Annette Funicello.

    Hero to some and girlfriend of most young boys, back in the day cheers

    M I C K E Y, M O U S E. RIP Annette. Did I ever want to f*ck your lights out when I was 10 years old. However, techically Annette would be a heroine instead of hero. As opposed to its homophone "heroin" which is nicely used when almost pure and white and dribbled down a filtered cigarette that, when smoked, leaves almost no telltales for others and produces an exquisite soothing buzz lasting quite awhile. As learned in Hong Kong circa 1970.

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