Bless Me Now With Your Fierce Tears V

Dr Michael DeBakey: 1908-2008, thank you good Dr, you did good!

[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_DeBakey]http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

[url=http://www.cbc.ca/arts/tv/story/2008/07/22/estelle-getty-obit.html?ref=r... Girl Estelle Getty dies at 84.[/url]

[url=http://www.cbc.ca/arts/tv/story/2008/07/22/estelle-getty-obit.html?ref=r... Girl Estelle Getty dies at 84.[/url]

[url=http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/080725/world/obit_pausch]Professor whose 'last lecture' about terminal cancer became sensation dies [/url]

Solzhenitsyn dies today at age 89.

[url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/aug/03/alexander.solzhenitsyn]From the Guardian[/url]

Just finished reading August 1914. I'm going through Gulag Archipelago again. This year I read A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich and Cancer Ward.

An absolutely brilliant man whose voice will be sorely missed.

Solzhenitsyn dies today at age 89.

[url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/aug/03/alexander.solzhenitsyn]From the Guardian[/url]

Just finished reading August 1914. I'm going through Gulag Archipelago again. This year I read A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich and Cancer Ward.

An absolutely brilliant man whose voice will be sorely missed.

Certainly a complex man. I never did read Gulag, but I read The First Circle, Cancer Ward, and Ivan Denisovich.

One thing that struck me is that when he left the Soviet Union, and having spent so much time imprisoned, he holed up in a little place in Vermont surrounded by high wire fence and didn't leave. He never seemed to feel like he fit in anywhere.

Former Saskatchewan Roughrider receiver [url=http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/story/?id=244934]Leif Pettersen[/url] has died.

Former Saskatchewan Roughrider receiver [url=http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/story/?id=244934]Leif Pettersen[/url] has died.

[url=http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/article/475385]Actor, comedian Bernie Mac dead at 50[/url]

Mahmoud Darwish,[url=http://www.barghouti.com/poets/darwish/bitaqa.asp]poet[/url], has died today following [url=http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2008/08/200889171240520492.... heart operation[/url].

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Mahmoud Darwish,[url=http://www.barghouti.com/poets/darwish/bitaqa.asp]poet[/url], has died today following [url=http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2008/08/200889171240520492.... heart operation[/url].

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I'm very sorry to hear that. Great poet, and important voice of Palestine. [img]frown.gif" border="0[/img]

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Identity Card:

Put it on record.
.....I am an Arab.
And the number of my card is fifty thousand.
I have eight children
And the ninth is due after summer.
What's there to be angry about?

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Put it on record.
.....I am an Arab.
You stole my forefather's vineyards
.....and land I used to till,
.....I and all my children,
.....and you left us and all my grandchildren
.....nothing but these rocks.
.....Will your government be taking them too
As is being said?

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Mahmoud Darwish (1942-2008)

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Identity Card:

Put it on record.
.....I am an Arab.
And the number of my card is fifty thousand.
I have eight children
And the ninth is due after summer.
What's there to be angry about?

...

Put it on record.
.....I am an Arab.
You stole my forefather's vineyards
.....and land I used to till,
.....I and all my children,
.....and you left us and all my grandchildren
.....nothing but these rocks.
.....Will your government be taking them too
As is being said?

...

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Mahmoud Darwish (1942-2008)

Bernie Mac dead 50. I loved his comedy, and thank you for sharing it Bernie.

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Actor and comedian Bernie Mac has died in a Chicago-area hospital from complications due to pneumonia. He was 50.

The Emmy and Golden Globe-nominated performer had suffered from sarcoidosis, which is an inflammatory lung disease that produces tiny lumps of cells in the organs of afflicted persons.

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[url=http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20080809/bernie_mac_... had said the condition went into remission in 2005[/url]

[b]I Come From There[/b]

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I come from there and I have memories
Born as mortals are, I have a mother
And a house with many windows,
I have brothers, friends,
And a prison cell with a cold window.
Mine is the wave, snatched by sea-gulls,
I have my own view,
And an extra blade of grass.
Mine is the moon at the far edge of the words,
And the bounty of birds,
And the immortal olive tree.
I walked this land before the swords
Turned its living body into a laden table.

I come from there. I render the sky unto her mother
When the sky weeps for her mother.
And I weep to make myself known
To a returning cloud.
I learnt all the words worthy of the court of blood
So that I could break the rule.
I learnt all the words and broke them up
To make a single word: Homeland.....

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[i]Mahmoud Darwish[/i]

[b]I Come From There[/b]

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I come from there and I have memories
Born as mortals are, I have a mother
And a house with many windows,
I have brothers, friends,
And a prison cell with a cold window.
Mine is the wave, snatched by sea-gulls,
I have my own view,
And an extra blade of grass.
Mine is the moon at the far edge of the words,
And the bounty of birds,
And the immortal olive tree.
I walked this land before the swords
Turned its living body into a laden table.

I come from there. I render the sky unto her mother
When the sky weeps for her mother.
And I weep to make myself known
To a returning cloud.
I learnt all the words worthy of the court of blood
So that I could break the rule.
I learnt all the words and broke them up
To make a single word: Homeland.....

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[i]Mahmoud Darwish[/i]

[url=http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/080810/entertainment/obit_isaac_hayes... Hayes[/url]

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In the early 1970s, Hayes laid the groundwork for disco, for what became known as urban-contemporary music and for romantic crooners like Barry White. And he was rapping before there was rap.

His career hit another high in 1997 when he became the voice of Chef, the sensible school cook and devoted ladies man on the animated TV show "South Park."

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Many, many years ago I played Isaac Haye's "Theme from Shaft" over and over again.

Many, many years ago I played Isaac Haye's "Theme from Shaft" over and over again.

[url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/08/15/DDNT12BVRQ.D... Wexler[/url], who coined the phrase "rhythm and blues."

I haven't been able to find a great memorial, but since the actual thread about the [url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/13/three-aid-workers-killed_n_1186... workers recently killed in Afghanistan by Taliban fighters[/url] was derailed by folks wanking, I thought I'd post this here.