Posted on 01/31/2006 7:12:22 PM PST by NormsRevenge
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - Stew Albert, a co-founder of the Youth International Party, whose members were more commonly known as Yippies, died Monday of liver cancer. He was 66.
Albert was clubbed by police during the 1968 anti-war Democratic National Convention riot and was named as an unindicted coconspirator at the Chicago 7 trial.
The Yippies in 1968 advanced a pig as candidate for president and in 1970 invaded Disneyland for a day. In 1970, Albert ran for sheriff of Alameda County, Calif., but lost.
Albert moved to Portland in 1984 and continued to carry an idealistic torch for the 1960s. "I came here to bring the holy spirit of the '60s to this younger generation," he said in 2000.
His 2005 memoir was titled "Who the Hell is Stew Albert?" because of a question Howard Stern posed on his radio show. "It's less a case of local boy makes good, more a case of local boy makes trouble," Albert said.
Albert was born Dec. 4, 1939, in Brooklyn, N.Y., an only child. He graduated from Pace University and in 1964 began organizing against the Vietnam War.
In 1988, he attended a 20-year reunion in Chicago of 1968 protesters.
"I imagine Americans secretly miss the passion of my generation," he wrote of that experience.
In 1996, Mayor Richard M. Daley, son of former Mayor Richard J. Daley, invited him to Chicago with his pal Tom Hayden, a former roommate, for a day of reconciliation.
Albert was co-author with his wife of "The Sixties Papers" anthology. He ran the Yippie Reading Room online and continued to blog until the day before his death.
He is survived by his wife, Judy Gumbo Albert, and daughter, Jessica Pearl Albert. A funeral service is scheduled Wednesday.
Hey Dick, you're the one that wrote the original post. If you didn't care, and if his death was, as you stated, just like any other you see in an obituary, why did you even start the process of looking like an idiot.
Better to keep your mouth shut and seem a fool than open it and prove you are.
Next subject, Dick.
My original post, was to point out that the media made a big deal about this clown dying but the fact that good men and women who quietly went about their lives being productive members of society are give short shrift by AP.
They live their lives, raise their kids, pay their taxes, go to church,temple or whatever and die. We all do it. This guy was no more important than any of them and far less important than most.
As far as who the fool is in this conversation......
So, you end your pitiful diatribe with a graphic of a most loving Down's Syndrome child.
You are to be pitied, by the grace of God that is not my picture, although the child shown runs with the heart of a lion.
Now, this is about the AP? Buy a clue DICK, e-mail the AP.
If I were moderator, you would be banned. You are not humorous, intellectualy special, or representative of a decent, kind and courageous America.
God forbid you ever are diagnosed with liver cancer, I doubt you post with the same bravado.
Oh, if you're going to make an argument, do it in the first person instead of relying on third party sources and offensive pictures.
That is all, DICK.
well, I did. I (Dick Vomer)didn't say..."Dick Vomer says that you don't know squat about liver cancer or research."
I said... (in the first person) "You don't know squat about liver cancer or research." That's the first person the one before is in the third person.
Another example is me (Dick Vomer) saying "Dick Vomer thinks Hilltop is a sanctimonious poseur." Instead of me stating in the first person, "Hilltop is a sanctimonious poseur."
You know, "poseur"... right
po·seur (pō-zœr', pō'zər) n.
One who affects a particular attribute, attitude, or identity to impress or influence others.
[French, from poser, to pose, from Old French
As far as posting with bravado with liver cancer..... who knows? Maybe I would, maybe I wouldn't... but I wouldn't think that AP would run a story about me unless I stated it was "Bush's fault".... or blame the "American Christian extremists" ..... or some other nonsense.
... Now as far as "buying a clue".... that's a mixed metaphor.... I'll by a "vowel" from Vanna...like "I'll buy a vowel now." ...
OR I can "choose" a clue, for example "Alex, I'll choose "Idiots" for $200. Then the card would flip around and say, "Hilltop".... you get it now.
ball in your court....
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