Stuff like this always reminds of the mad scientist in ALIEN RESURRECTION when he cooed "You are a beautiful, beautiful butterfly" to the alien just before it snapped his head off.
They call darkness light, and bitter sweet.
Posted on 03/04/2005 7:55:19 AM PST by tjg
Another story details the impromptu cocktail party that gathered around Thompson’s corpse — still in the kitchen chair — to drink Chivas and toast him. ‘‘It was very loving,’’ Anita Thompson is quoted as saying. ‘‘It was not a panic, or ugly, or freaky.’’ Her husband’s death should be cheered, she says. ‘‘This is a triumph of his, not a desperate, tragic failure.’’ That is either unhinged grief speaking or overripe counterculture leftism. Either way, it is grotesque.
I guess if a guy wants to take his life it's the ultimate expression of choice. But how selfish and immature is it to do it in front of your family? Think of the mess it must have made. What kind of man leaves his wife and children to scrape his brains off the kitchen cabinets?
It's all about the low self-esteem with liberals. Me Me Me.
NY POST..PAGE 6
WAS Hunter S. Thompson's mysterious death really a suicide?
There are some serious irregularities surrounding the demise of the
gonzo author, who was found shot to death in the kitchen of his Woody
Creek, Colo., ranch on Feb. 20, and local cops seemed to have done a
lackluster job of investigating.
Police reports obtained by the Rocky Mountain News note that cops
arriving on the scene heard shots being fired, that Thompson's son,
Juan, was allowed to be alone with the body, and that there was
something odd about the gun Thompson supposedly used to kill himself.
Before his death, Thompson seemed in good spirits and was not known to
be depressed. And considering his long-winded style, the absence of a
note seems strange - he'd typed only the single word "counselor."
There were no eyewitnesses to the shooting, only an "earwitness" -
Thompson's wife, Anita, who was on the phone with him at the time and
who later drank scotch with the corpse. Her account of the incident is
inconsistent: She alternately has said that she heard a loud, muffled
noise and that she heard nothing but clicking.
The behavior of Juan, who was in the house at the time of the shooting,
also was unusual. Pitkin County Deputy Sheriff John Armstrong said that
when investigators arrived on the scene they heard shots, but Juan
assured them he had merely been firing off a salute to his dead dad.
Investigator Joseph DiSalvo also let Juan enter the kitchen alone and
drape a scarf over the body.
And in his report, Deputy Ron Ryan noted the semi-automatic Smith &
Wesson 645 found next to Thompson's body was in an unusual condition.
There was a spent shell casing, but although there were six bullets
left in the gun's clip, there was no bullet in the firing chamber, as
there should have been under normal circumstances.
DiSalvo said he did not check the gun, adding, "I think a bullet from
the magazine should have cycled into the chamber" unless there was a
"malfunction." A spent slug was found in the stove hood behind the
body.
Conspiracy theorists make much of the fact that Thompson had been
working on a far-fetched story about the World Trade Center attack at
the time of his death.
As Canada's Globe and Mail reported, Thompson had "stumbled across what
he felt was hard evidence showing the towers had been brought down not
by the airplanes that flew into them but by explosive charges set off
in their foundations."
"Her husband’s death should be cheered, she says."
Even liberals get it right sometimes.
"Being a lib is never having to grow up."
Sounds like the makings of a great FReeper tag line!!
You've got to be kidding me!
Roger Hedgecock read an article with an interview of Thompson's wife, saying she was on the phone with him when he offed himself.
We need a few more lefties to follow Thompson's example and Hari-Kerry their way out of our world. Many names come to mind but when it come to blowing their brains out, the prime candidates are either promoting their books or running for Congress or the Senate from New York or Massachusetts,
"...the towers had been brought down not by the airplanes that flew into them but by explosive charges set off in their foundations."
If this were the case, any video taken that fateful morning would have shown the crumbling of the towers beginning at their bases, not some seventy-odd floors up, where both aircraft crashed, burned and weakened the steel structures.
Stuff like this always reminds of the mad scientist in ALIEN RESURRECTION when he cooed "You are a beautiful, beautiful butterfly" to the alien just before it snapped his head off.
They call darkness light, and bitter sweet.
The lack of a chambered round makes sense.
That kind of semi-auto works by the resistance of the holder's hand: slide is pushed back, but the frame stays in place because the user is holding it there.
A common problem is "limp-wristing", where the holder does not grasp the frame firmly enough, allowing the slide to move the frame together, and thus the slide does not cycle fully relative to the frame - the current shell may be ejected, but the next round may not be chambered. I have run into this; one must learn to grip strongly.
In the scenario given, we have the ultimate case of "limp-wristing": not only is the frame being held at an extremely awkward and weak angle, but the user is dead a few milliseconds after pulling the trigger. Kinda hard to have a good solid grip and proper followthrough, vital to proper slide cycling, under this condition.
Magazine, it's a MAGAZINE, you dumb ass! Stupid freaking "journalist" witing about another stupid freaking "journalist".
That aside, why would anyone give a rat's ass about the drug-addled, booze-soaked nitwit anyway?
One less stinking lib to have to deal with or listen to.
Obviously, I don't claim to be a "journalist".
I can usually find and correct my mistakes.
I read years ago where some intellectual declared that "Suicide was the ultimate masturbation".
This description seems to fit these bunch of Libs to a tee...
"...the towers had been brought down not by the airplanes that flew into them but by explosive charges set off in their foundations."
This is something we here at FR saw, examined, and discounted the week of Sept 11. Thompson was really ahead of the curve.
Jacoby reports some details of Thompson's death that I was unaware of. What an ignominious way to go, and what fools they are who praise him for his act.
The Pope now bestows upon us his final and greatest gift of love as he shows us how to face with grace, dignity and faith our mortal end. A man who is truly of the Spirit.
Grace and dignity were character traits sorely lacked by HST. His writings indicate it is doubtful HST had faith in anything positive, and a man who loves his family would not kill himself in front of them. However, I'm sure the Pope prays for his soul, too, as he prays for all of us.
Grace...Dignity...Faith...Love.
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