Who's Alive, Who's Dead

[Storebought]

Dedicated to Walter Mitty

I found a website that lists all current extant and deceased politicians. Grim Fun For the Whole Family

I keep track of these things, but even I was surprised to learn that former Sen. Howard Metzenbaum (D-OH) and former Rep Bob Michel (R-Ill) are still alive

[True Democrat]

According to this, Boris Yeltsin is still alive.

[Platypus]

Lady Bird Johnston is still alive too...she's 'only' 93.

[ag]

According to this, Boris Yeltsin is still alive.

And he is in great health - much better than back in 1999. No stress, little drink, good care. He is only 75 - just had a big birthday bash this month.

[True Democrat]

According to this, Boris Yeltsin is still alive.

And he is in great health - much better than back in 1999. No stress, little drink, good care. He is only 75 - just had a big birthday bash this month.

Wait, I thought he died.  Could I be thinking of someone else?

[ag]

According to this, Boris Yeltsin is still alive.

And he is in great health - much better than back in 1999. No stress, little drink, good care. He is only 75 - just had a big birthday bash this month.

Wait, I thought he died.  Could I be thinking of someone else?

Not unless he died in the last week (god forbid!) and I somehow missed it. No Soviet/Russian leader has died since Chernenko in 1985 (Gorbachev is actually a month younger than Yeltsin, and will turn 75 next month).  You must have confused the country as well.

[Beet]

According to this, Boris Yeltsin is still alive.

And he is in great health - much better than back in 1999. No stress, little drink, good care. He is only 75 - just had a big birthday bash this month.

Wait, I thought he died.  Could I be thinking of someone else?

Not unless he died in the last week (god forbid!) and I somehow missed it. No Soviet/Russian leader has died since Chernenko in 1985 (Gorbachev is actually a month younger than Yeltsin, and will turn 75 next month).  You must have confused the country as well.

Boris Yeltsin passed away shortly after his poor health cost him the 1996 presidential election to Gennady Zyuganov, ag. I hardly think it's appropriate to be making fun of his memory through these bizzare fantasies.

[??????????]

According to this, Boris Yeltsin is still alive.

And he is in great health - much better than back in 1999. No stress, little drink, good care. He is only 75 - just had a big birthday bash this month.

Wait, I thought he died.  Could I be thinking of someone else?

Not unless he died in the last week (god forbid!) and I somehow missed it. No Soviet/Russian leader has died since Chernenko in 1985 (Gorbachev is actually a month younger than Yeltsin, and will turn 75 next month).  You must have confused the country as well.

Boris Yeltsin passed away shortly after his poor health cost him the 1996 presidential election to Gennady Zyuganov, ag. I hardly think it's appropriate to be making fun of his memory through these bizzare fantasies.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Yeltsin

[ag]

If somebody put that on Wiki, that's a tasteless joke. He was president until Dec. 31, 1999, when he retired, leaving way for his PM, Putin, to take over. He still lives in his country house (though rarely making public statements anymore), he just publically celebrated his 75th birthday, it was all over the Russian media. Here is an example in English: http://www.sptimesrussia.com/index.php?action_id=2&story_id=16696 . I read a couple of Russian newspapers/news sites nearly daily, there is no way I'd miss that. In fact, I'd, probably, get tons of e-mails from friends even before I read the papers when that does happen (though, as a Russian politician said back in the 1990s: "all those who are fidgeting too much about Yeltsin's health should stop fidgeting; Boris Nikolaevich might still get a cold at their funeral").

[DanielX]

Happy Birthday Robert Bork!

<throws confetti>

[bgwah]

Albert Rosellini, Governor of Washington from 1957 to 1965, is still alive.

He is 96.

[Gabu]

I like how they have listed that Hillary Clinton is still alive.

I think we kind of knew that...

[J. J.]

Earl Butz.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Butz

[afleitch]

Sargent Shriver is still alive and kicking at 90...

[J. J.]

Sargent Shriver is still alive and kicking at 90...

Butz is 96.

[Storebought]

Guess who I found out is still alive:



That's right: Jim Clark, the sheriff of Dallas County, Alabama, during the 1965 Selma march. He is now a resident of the Elba nursing home:



His fascinating () story is found here. The highlights:

It was 1965 -- and it was a brutal, bloody time. Thousands arrested and five dead, including a minister and a housewife who came to Selma to help.

In the middle of it all was Clark, who today at 83 is hardly apologetic for his role in the resistance to civil rights for blacks.

"Basically, I'd do the same thing today if I had to do it all over again," Clark said this week in a rare interview. "I did what I thought was right to uphold the law."

He spoke on the eve of Selma's annual Bridge Crossing Jubilee, which celebrates the successful march to Montgomery 41 years ago this month.

Clark is a shadow of the brash, strutting lawman given to wearing a glistening silver helmet and sidearm similar to those worn by flamboyant World War II hero George Patton.

He lives in a nursing home in his hometown of Elba, slouched in an easy chair reading John Grisham novels or watching television. Heart bypass surgery and strokes have left him needing a motorized wheelchair to get about.

What hasn't changed is Clark's belief that he did "the right thing" during the civil rights movement.

His disdain for the movement's leaders -- the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., John Lewis and Hosea Williams -- is evident. He calls King a "liar" and says "he made sure he was nowhere around if there was a chance he might get hurt."

[WMS]

Huh, Eugene McCarthy bit it.
Jean-Claude Duvailer is still alive...somewhere...
I can't believe I missed Raisa Gorbachev's death.
They don't even know what month King Fahd was born in. Given just how many wives his father had and how many children there were, I guess he fell through the cracks...
Saddam Hussein - alive...for now. I bet the Kurds and Shi'a have something to say about that.

[they don't love you like i love you]

I didn't know Lloyd Bentsen was still alive.

One guy who's still alive I've know for quite awhile which surprises almost everyone who hears it is Vo Nguyen Giap, the supreme commander of the North Vietnamese Armed Forces and the most brilliant military commander since WWII. He says the US is doomed in Iraq BTW.

P.W. Botha's still alive? Oh well, he won't last much longer and will rot in hell soon enough.

[patrick1]

I didn't know Lloyd Bentsen was still alive.

One guy who's still alive I've know for quite awhile which surprises almost everyone who hears it is Vo Nguyen Giap, the supreme commander of the North Vietnamese Armed Forces and the most brilliant military commander since WWII. He says the US is doomed in Iraq BTW.

P.W. Botha's still alive? Oh well, he won't last much longer and will rot in hell soon enough.

How was Giap brilliant in anything other than greater numbers?

[dazzleman]

If somebody put that on Wiki, that's a tasteless joke. He was president until Dec. 31, 1999, when he retired, leaving way for his PM, Putin, to take over. He still lives in his country house (though rarely making public statements anymore), he just publically celebrated his 75th birthday, it was all over the Russian media. Here is an example in English: http://www.sptimesrussia.com/index.php?action_id=2&story_id=16696 . I read a couple of Russian newspapers/news sites nearly daily, there is no way I'd miss that. In fact, I'd, probably, get tons of e-mails from friends even before I read the papers when that does happen (though, as a Russian politician said back in the 1990s: "all those who are fidgeting too much about Yeltsin's health should stop fidgeting; Boris Nikolaevich might still get a cold at their funeral").

Nah, it was thefactor who was making a 'tasteless' joke....  The wiki actually has the correct information.

[they don't love you like i love you]

I didn't know Lloyd Bentsen was still alive.

One guy who's still alive I've know for quite awhile which surprises almost everyone who hears it is Vo Nguyen Giap, the supreme commander of the North Vietnamese Armed Forces and the most brilliant military commander since WWII. He says the US is doomed in Iraq BTW.

P.W. Botha's still alive? Oh well, he won't last much longer and will rot in hell soon enough.

How was Giap brilliant in anything other than greater numbers?

Dien Bien Phu

[PBrunsel]

Dien Bien Phu

That is a good point. But, however, if the French had accepted our tactical nukes then the Communists would have been preaching Marx in the Lake of Fire.