It seems money can buy most anything, Richard.

them I say good riddance.

life. It was just time for him to go. What's sad is the way he lived his life.

many people miserable for absolutely no reason. Fortunately assholes eventually die, sadly, so do good people. The former spend their lives in a truly hateful manner trying to instill so much hatred in so many people. Always, a WTF to me ... as well as, why anyone listens to them ... often more concerning than the individuals themselves, are those that follow them and embrace their ideologies of sociopathic hatred.

And guess what Mr. Billionaire Evil Man...you could NOT take it with you.

No fake pretense here

Even the most vile person is worthy of a modicum of respect.
I will note that now he knows what lies on the other side of death's door and, as I believe, has to answer for his life.

All of his money and influence bought him not one more second. In the end we're all worm food.

to keep the maggots away.

I generally do not grave dance because even the most vile, disgusting people can have family and friends who love them - I guess it is them to whom I show respect

He never earned it.

And pointing out that a person was a vicious, nasty, exclusionary asshole whose beliefs and policies did more to fuck over the least of our brethren over the last several decades isn't speaking ill of him, either.

It's simply speaking accurately about him.

If he were worried about his legacy, he would have done more to burnish it--not play the greedy gus to his last breath on earth.

Instead of rejoicing the death of a bad person it is mourning the loss to us all had he contributed to improve lives rather than to limit people

He can't hurt us any more!!!!!

By no means do I intend to whitewash his actions. Death does not suddenly make an awful life good

decades."

This applies to so many people who should not be mourned by anyone, save perhaps close family (at most).

and he was a bad man who did a lot of damage to this country.

Taking a dump on his grave is too good for the man who lies there.

The more in hell, the merrier.

he was just like many conservatives, malignant and dishonest.

Just think, he sponsored many shows on PBS. I don't remember what they were, but that does not mean anything in comparison to his work to destroy the New Deal, the Commons and America.

My condolences to his family who are clueless, no doubt about what this man's actions did.

He's still a piece of human fecal matter (shit, for you Republican lurkers).

I was livid!

Of course, the attitude there amongst the middle and upper classes was "We'd never do anything so barbaric as that! They are living in the past, what animals, they have no couth or sophistication!" The poorer types hewed more closely to the fundamentalist attitude; yep, she shamed the fam and that was that. A bit rough, but "Oh well."

Mind you, there was the death penalty in Iran even back then. They did have the rare public execution, and by public, I mean you could just walk up and watch the events unfold. I came upon one once and turned on my heel and left before I saw anything. Back then, they actually used a gallows, it was rarer, so thus, a much bigger deal, and they'd build the gallows and have a ceremony--now, they hang so many people so often that they use a crane instead, and they drive the crane from village to village, so everyone in town doesn't have to travel to see the "offender" get theirs.

When I was in Iran, there were no hangings for crimes of "sins of the flesh"--murder, though, that might get you the noose. There were political prisoners too (I think there are more nowadays, though). Now, they'll hang kids for being gay and they'll hang young teen girls for being the victims of sexual abuse.

Of course, if some jerk thought the family name had been dishonored, that could be problematic for the troublemaker in the equation, but that was a private matter, pretty much. A lot of problems can be solved with money, too. Also, Iran (a few other countries, too with shia populations) has these weird muta "temporary marriages" (a way to get around prostitution, basically) and money and one of those agreements could serve to make a lot of problems go away. No muta in Sunni Islam, though...a muta might have saved that poor Princess Misha's life. She'd probably have needed to emigrate eventually, but I'll bet she wouldn't have minded. I heard that the actual story was that this was a family/honor event, not a state sanctioned one, but I don't know for sure. I've fired up the film and I've started watching it--I'd heard about it but never seen it before now.

and the same prize as a pauper is waiting for you at the end.

Ronald Reagan.

enjoy your day in Hell.

What I want to know is who inherits the plunder and where do they stand.

... his family donated his plunder to progressive Democratic candidates?

Who knows?

What a rush that would be.

because a trash can only has two handles

What an ignominious legacy that man created for himself.

It's moments like this when I wish I believed in Hell.

My Irish-Canadian ass feels the necessity to inform you of that fact. I feel sad that Democrats are now engaging in the same type of grave-dancing that Republicans have been disgustingly displaying for decades.

Now, I guess, you can "alert" on me if you wish. I just felt that it was important to be honest with you. Good night.

I am not a "score keeper" or grudge holder..

I didn't see any "grave dancing" in your OP. You stated a few blunt truths, and you stuck to the facts at hand.

Perhaps the alerter should realize that the thread starter isn't responsible for the responses to his or her post.

I guess it helps for newcomers to read the TOS, or something.

Anyway, I don't think you were out of line at all. JMO. Apparently a jury is of the same view because this thread is still churning along.

I'm sure the crowd that checks in come morning, who missed their "DU experience" owing to the holiday, will be interested to read the news you've so thoughtfully posted.

You do realize that getting a thread hidden has consequences? It's not something to be done lightly just because you don't happen to care for the way the discussion is going.

You might want to review the TOS. That was a very bad decision on your part to alert on this thread. I'm glad your effort to shut this informative thread down didn't succeed.

It would be nice if Chuck and Dave Koch joined their millionaire pal in hell...

His heirs and his institutions don't die - unfortunately.