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Title: U.S. Senator, Actor Fred Thompson Passes Away
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URL Source: http://www.newschannel5.com/news/lo ... ctor-fred-thompson-passes-away
Published: Nov 1, 2015
Author: NewsChannel 5
Post Date: 2015-11-01 19:48:24 by Hondo68
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. - The family of Fred Thompson, a well-known U.S. Senator, actor, and attorney, has confirmed the politician has passed away. According to reports, Thompson died after a recurrence of lymphoma at the age of 73. He was known for his acting roles, including playing himself in 1985’s Marie. Other memorable roles included his part in 1987's No Way Out starring Kevin Costner and the part of New York District Attorney Arthur Branch on the television series Law & Order from 2002 to 2007. Thompson, 6-foot-6 with a booming voice and folksy demeanor, appeared in at least 20 motion pictures. Additional credits included In the Line of Fire, The Hunt for Red October, and Cape Fear. By the early 1990s, Thompson said he had become bored with his ten year stint in Hollywood and wanted to go into public service. That's when he headed back to Nashville and launched his Senate campaign. Thompson ran to fill the remaining two years of Al Gore’s U.S. Senate term in Tennessee in 1994. His key prop was a red pickup truck that he used to crisscross the state throughout the campaign. In the end, Thompson captured 60 percent of the vote against then-Democratic Representative Jim Cooper. Thompson was re-elected in 1996 to a full six-year term. Once regarded as a rising star in the Senate, he retired from the seat when his term expired in January 2003, saying he didn't "have the heart" for another term. He announced a bid for president in 2007 but dropped out in 2008 after faring poorly. In 2002, Thompson chose not to run for re-election and took the role of His family released the following statement: “It is with a heavy heart and a deep sense of grief that we share the passing of our brother, husband, father, and grandfather who died peacefully in Nashville surrounded by his family. Fred once said that the experiences he had growing up in small-town Tennessee formed the prism through which he viewed the world and shaped the way he dealt with life. Fred stood on principle and common sense, and had a deep love for and connection with the people across Tennessee whom he had the privilege to serve in the United States Senate. He enjoyed a hearty laugh, a strong handshake, a good cigar, and a healthy dose of humility. Fred was the same man on the floor of the Senate, the movie studio, or the town square of Lawrenceburg, his home. Fred believed that the greatness of our nation was defined by the hard work, faith, and honesty of its people. He had an enduring belief in the exceptionalism of our country, and that America could provide the opportunity for any boy or girl, in any corner of our country, to succeed in life. Our nation has lost a servant, Tennessee has lost a son, and our family has lost its rock. In the days ahead, we ask for prayers of comfort, assurance, and peace.” The son of a car salesman, Thompson was born in Sheffield, Ala., and grew up in Lawrenceburg, Tenn., where he was a star athlete. He was 17 when he married Sarah Lindsey. The couple, who divorced in 1985, lived in public housing for a year as newlyweds. Thompson graduated from Memphis State University in 1964 and earned his law degree from Vanderbilt University in 1967. To pay for school, he worked at a bicycle plant, post office and motel. Thompson went on to become a lawyer in Nashville. In 1969, he became an assistant U.S. attorney, then volunteered in 1972 to work on the re-election campaign of former Republican Sen. Howard Baker. A year later, Baker selected Thompson to be chief minority counsel on the committee investigating the Watergate scandal. Afterward, Thompson returned to Tennessee and represented Marie Ragghianti, the head of the Tennessee Parole Board who was fired in 1977 after exposing a pardon-selling scheme. Ragghianti won reinstatement and her case was made into a 1985 movie titled "Marie," based on the 1983 book "Marie: A True Story," by Peter Maas. The producers asked Thompson to play himself, and the role launched his acting career. Thompson once called the Senate a "remarkable place" but, like Hollywood, said there was "frustration connected with it." Poster Comment: Many said that McCain would by dead soon after the 2008 election. Too bad that didn't happen instead of this. RIP Fred.
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#1. To: hondo68 (#0)
RIP Fred
Si vis pacem, para bellum Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don't Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
Pretty good movie. RIP Fred. In a Cop Culture, the Bill of Rights Doesn’t Amount to Much Good actor,lousy for-rent politician.
Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
I really wanted him to win in 2008. But his campaign quickly fizzled after a fast start as it seems his heart really wasn't in it.
Obama has played at being a president while enjoying the perks … golf, insanely expensive vacations at tax-payer expense. He has ignored the responsibilities of the job; no plans, no budgets, no alternatives … just finger pointing; making him a complete failure as a president
Yes rest in peace. Prayers for the mourning family.
"Seek ye the Lord while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near"---Isaiah 55:6
RIP Mr. Thompson. Actually, I don't think he was a bad politician, since his career was closer to what I think the Founders envisioned. He came from a different profession (in his case, acting); he served a term (in his case, slightly over a term); and then left office. He did run for POTUS, but that was in the year that McClown was the establishment candidate. Had he been successful in attaining the nomination, who knows? He couldn't have done worse than Juan did against a Marxist community agitator. "Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD . . . " ~Psalm 33:12a
He was seventy-three. The people croaking off are younger than I am. That means my time is coming.
Everybody's time is coming. The back of our birth certificates could be used as death certificates to save paper and effort to look them up. There has been three times in the last week or so that people have sent me emails of headstones where the dead guy was born in the same month and on the same day is me,and not a single one of those people know what day my birthday is. The photos were all one photo out of a dozen or so other photos lumped together because of interesting scenery. Still,3 in one week by 3 people who don't even know one another and who all live in different states????? Someone please key the Twilight Zone music. Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
From dust we came and to dust we return. We all have our temporal expiration date. But what happens next? "Seek ye the Lord while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near"---Isaiah 55:6
We all have our temporal expiration date. But what happens next? We're reborn in a new body and live a life earned by wisdom and karma accumulated in the present life. If you are an Obama, Clinton, or Bush , you'll come back as a congenitally deformed chimpanzee.
Nah, I think you have it backwards If you're a snake, a skunk or a rat, you die and come back as an Obama, Clinton or Bush :-) "Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD . . . " ~Psalm 33:12a
And he was only 66 when he ran for prez briefly back in 2007. Seems to me that you could make a case that over-60 candidates are a bad bet. Even Reagan started going senile while still in office. A good argument for young candidates like Cruz and Rubio to make against Hitlery who will turn 69 in 2016. She already had a six-month absence as SoS for a "neurological condition" from a fall. Supposedly.
Strange coincidences are more common than we ever realize. Perhaps you're just being a little more observant of these things than you were when you were 20 when you might have only glanced at a gravestone without reading it. Were these the graves of famous people? Is this the time of year for your birthday? Many things could explain a confluence of such unrelated photos without playing the Twilight Zone theme.
Same here. I liked that he didn't mince words and said what was on his mind.
Those coke bottle "prism" eyeglasses she was wearing were related to that too. Wonder if that "neurological condition" started with her falling off of a bar stool? Who will be president if she drops dead shortly after her inauguration, Chuck Shulmer? If she dies between the election and inauguration, the electoral college might select the loser Marco Rubio as VP. A close inspection of Hillary Clinton's glasses worn during her Wednesday testimony on Benghazi shows an adhesive Fresnel prism, which is usually used to 'bring things into focus' for those with double vision or muscle weakness in the eye. A Clinton spokesperson confirmed that the new specs are related to her head trauma. A close-up of the left lens of Hillary Clinton's glasses revealed tiny vertical lines identified by experts as a Fresnel prism used to treat double vision. Informative. You've been following this. : )
If you are an Obama, Clinton, or Bush , you'll come back as a congenitally deformed chimpanzee. Ok LOL at the last paragraph above. Where is your evidence for this Karma and reborn (reincarnated?) body and life? Who or what judges a person's actions or inactions and decides the fate of butter fly or deformed chimpanzee? "Seek ye the Lord while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near"---Isaiah 55:6
The organic forces of evolutionary improvement and justice. In reply to your next question: Die and you'll find out.
In reply to your next question: Die and you'll find out. So you believe in a "force" of some sort linked to organic evolution? This force has an attribute of justice? One only has to roll the dice with this pantheistic eminence and hope for the best. What is your hope with this force which has no name and has not revealed itself? What do you wish "it" to do for you when you assume room temperature? "Seek ye the Lord while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near"---Isaiah 55:6
I think I saw a front page headline on a supermarket tabloid that she is secretly being treated for cancer. Doesn't mean it's right,doesn't mean it is wrong. Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
You have to be kidding. When I was 20 I was wandering around in VN,Laos,and Cambodia,carrYing a CAR15. It would have scared me to death back then. Were these the graves of famous people? Is this the time of year for your birthday? Nope,and Nope. They were all just one photo out of a half-dozen or more in one of those "look at this beautiful scenery!" email chain letters that people forward to each other. The tombstones just happened to be in a frame. Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
Oh, well, that does it then. You're definitely a goner. : )
Yup. I have said it before and I will say it again,your birth certificate is also your death certificate. Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
How do you explain this analytically?
"Seek ye the Lord while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near"---Isaiah 55:6
I don't. It's just one of those strange things that occasionally happens. Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
Noted psychologist Dr, Toni Grant remarked that some people are born old. I am prepared to argue that it is an unconscious propensity to carry on the skills and interests developed in previous lives. In some cases it may result in an unexplained gift.
So a hunch from a noted psychologist. No forensic data, no observation examined scientifically. That's not even close to faith. "Seek ye the Lord while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near"---Isaiah 55:6
That's not even close to faith. ...according to you.
I'm a bit shocked that such a stickler as you for concrete evidence gives a passing nod at the intangible nature of reincarnation. It seems you stake your full confidence in an after life with no sound evidence. From your posting history, I have been accused of believing in fairy tales of a Supreme Sovereign Deity. Yet He has revealed Himself and left evidence for me to examine. In your case there is no evidence of an impersonal soul exchanger which at whim makes one a butter fly and another a rabid monkey. "Seek ye the Lord while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near"---Isaiah 55:6
If there isn't such an impersonal soul exchanger there damned well should be and I hereby hope that he changes 90% of our politicians into rabid monkeys in the next life as just punishment for the disgrace they thrust upon us.
#2. To: hondo68 (#0)
Other memorable roles included his part in 1987's No Way Out starring Kevin Costner
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends.
Paul Craig Roberts
#3. To: hondo68 (#0)
#4. To: hondo68 (#0)
#5. To: hondo68 (#0)
#6. To: sneakypete (#3)
Good actor,lousy for-rent politician.
#7. To: hondo68 (#0)
#8. To: rlk (#7)
He was seventy-three. The people croaking off are younger than I am. That means my time is coming.
#9. To: sneakypete (#8)
#10. To: rlk (#7)
#11. To: redleghunter (#10)
(Edited)
From dust we came and to dust we return.
#12. To: rlk (#11)
If you are an Obama, Clinton, or Bush , you'll come back as a congenitally deformed chimpanzee.
#13. To: hondo68 (#0)
According to reports, Thompson died after a recurrence of lymphoma at the age of 73.
#14. To: sneakypete (#8)
Still,3 in one week by 3 people who don't even know one another and who all live in different states?????
#15. To: no gnu taxes (#4)
"I really wanted him to win in 2008. But his campaign quickly fizzled after a fast start as it seems his heart really wasn't in it."
#16. To: TooConservative, if Hillary croaks, Chuck Schulmer, Marco Rubio VP (#13)
(Edited)
Hitlery who will turn 69 in 2016. She already had a six-month absence as SoS for a "neurological condition" from a fall.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/hillary-double-mrs-clinton-specs-hint-impairment-article-1.1247375 
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
#17. To: hondo68 (#16)
#18. To: Fred Mertz, sneakypete (#9)
Someone please key the Twilight Zone music.
#19. To: rlk (#11)
We're reborn in a new body and live a life earned by wisdom and karma accumulated in the present life.
#20. To: redleghunter (#19)
(Edited)
Who or what judges a person's actions or inactions and decides the fate of butter fly or deformed chimpanzee?
#21. To: rlk (#20)
The organic forces of evolutionary improvement and justice.
#22. To: TooConservative (#13)
A good argument for young candidates like Cruz and Rubio to make against Hitlery who will turn 69 in 2016. She already had a six-month absence as SoS for a "neurological condition" from a fall. Supposedly.
#23. To: TooConservative (#14)
Strange coincidences are more common than we ever realize. Perhaps you're just being a little more observant of these things than you were when you were 20 when you might have only glanced at a gravestone without reading it.
#24. To: sneakypete, redleghunter (#23)
Nope,and Nope. They were all just one photo out of a half-dozen or more in one of those "look at this beautiful scenery!" email chain letters that people forward to each other. The tombstones just happened to be in a frame.
#25. To: TooConservative (#24)
Oh, well, that does it then. You're definitely a goner. : )
#26. To: sneakypete (#23)
#27. To: redleghunter (#26)
(Edited)
How do you explain this analytically?
#28. To: redleghunter (#19)
(Edited)
Where is your evidence for this Karma and reborn (reincarnated?) body and life?
#29. To: rlk (#28)
Noted psychologist Dr, Toni Grant remarked that some people are born old. I am prepared to argue that it is an unconscious propensity to carry on the skills and interests developed in previous lives. In some cases it may result in an unexplained gift.
#30. To: redleghunter (#29)
So a hunch from a noted psychologist. No forensic data, no observation examined scientifically.
#31. To: rlk (#30)
#32. To: redleghunter (#31)
In your case there is no evidence of an impersonal soul exchanger which at whim makes one a butter fly and another a rabid monkey.
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