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Kirk Douglas Issues Editorial on His 90th Birthday
yahoo News ^ | December 9, 2006 | Kirk Douglas

Posted on 12/11/2006 5:04:05 AM PST by Mel Gibson

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- My name is Kirk Douglas. You may know me. If you don't ... Google me. I was a movie star and I'm Michael Douglas' dad, Catherine Zeta-Jones' father-in-law, and the grandparents of their two children. Today I celebrate my 90th birthday.

I have a message to convey to America's young people. A 90th birthday is special. In my case, this birthday is not only special but miraculous. I survived World War II, a helicopter crash, a stroke, and two new knees.

It's a tradition that when a "birthday boy" stands over his cake he makes a silent wish for his life and then blows out the candles. I have followed that tradition for 89 years but on my 90th birthday, I have decided to rebel. Instead of making a silent wish for myself, I want to make a LOUD wish for THE WORLD.

Let's face it: THE WORLD IS IN A MESS and you are inheriting it. Generation Y, you are on the cusp. You are the group facing many problems: abject poverty, global warming, genocide, AIDS, and suicide bombers to name a few. These problems exist, and the world is silent. We have done very little to solve these problems. Now, we leave it to you. You have to fix it because the situation is intolerable

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Extended News
KEYWORDS: actor; ageing; kirkdouglas
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To: Mel Gibson
...the group facing many problems: abject poverty, global warming, genocide, AIDS, and suicide bombers ...

What group hasn't faced many problems?

Thinking back 70 years, there was the Hun and the Rising Sun ... a few hundred years there was Global Cooling ... before that the Black Death...

21 posted on 12/11/2006 5:21:00 AM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: BulletBobCo
My father-in-law is 76 with alzheimer's and doesn't remember us.

I'm sorry to hear about your father-in-law, that's got to be tough. My mother is starting to show signs of senility & is becoming forgetful. My family all got together at Thanksgiving & had a great visit, but it was sad to see how quickly she is failing.

22 posted on 12/11/2006 5:26:56 AM PST by alicewonders
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To: alicewonders
...doesn't he have other children, not just Michael?

Well, I can understand why he doesn't mention Eric.

23 posted on 12/11/2006 5:27:55 AM PST by PBRSTREETGANG
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To: IrishBrigade

He played that roll with like he was born for it.


24 posted on 12/11/2006 5:30:09 AM PST by labette (Give love to many and trust to few. Always paddle your own canoe.)
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To: Mel Gibson
Uh, nothing personal, Mel...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1751218/posts?page=5#5

25 posted on 12/11/2006 5:30:24 AM PST by snarks_when_bored
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To: labette

Oops! He played that roll like he was born for it.


26 posted on 12/11/2006 5:31:03 AM PST by labette (Give love to many and trust to few. Always paddle your own canoe.)
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To: labette

ROLE!


27 posted on 12/11/2006 5:31:43 AM PST by labette (Give love to many and trust to few. Always paddle your own canoe.)
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To: DuncanWaring
What group hasn't faced many problems?

Surviving disco was a true test of our generation's mettle.
28 posted on 12/11/2006 5:33:00 AM PST by Thrownatbirth (.....when the sidewalks are safe for the little guy.)
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To: Mel Gibson
You are the group facing many problems: abject poverty, global warming, genocide, AIDS, and suicide bombers to name a few. These problems exist, and the world is silent

The world is silent? This is a typical laundrys list that the left is screaming about every day on the tube.

The world is no worse than it was in Douglas' generation's time, The world always has a terrrible rash of problems. Genocide was many times worse under Hitler and Stalin.

Douglas was an entertaining actor, but he he took the lead in allowing the communist Hollywood 10 to be accepted in society again. He's always been a UN activist and his son has inherited the mantle.

29 posted on 12/11/2006 5:34:29 AM PST by what's up
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To: labette

You were definitely on a "roll" there.


30 posted on 12/11/2006 5:35:03 AM PST by PBRSTREETGANG
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To: PBRSTREETGANG

Coffee, Don't fail me now!


31 posted on 12/11/2006 5:36:11 AM PST by labette (Give love to many and trust to few. Always paddle your own canoe.)
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To: Mel Gibson

** FOR IDENTIFICATION PURPOSES ONLY **

32 posted on 12/11/2006 5:37:38 AM PST by Libloather (If morons could fly, RATS underground would be an airport...)
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To: Mel Gibson

"We have done very little to solve these problems."

It is his generation that created it and now he wants us to fix the mess he and his generation made.

Typical.


33 posted on 12/11/2006 5:44:10 AM PST by edcoil (Reality doesn't say much - doesn't need too)
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To: Williams
Paths Of Glory. Spartacus.

Two of the all-time greats, especially SPARTACUS with the battle scenes of the legions marching. And that was before digital techniques.

34 posted on 12/11/2006 5:47:05 AM PST by Rummyfan (Iraq: Give therapeutic violence a chance!)
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To: IrishBrigade

I agree, that was a great movie


35 posted on 12/11/2006 5:49:43 AM PST by Orlando
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To: Mel Gibson

I really doubt he made a wish at his first birthday celebration in 1917. If he did, it was probably for whirled peas.


36 posted on 12/11/2006 5:50:30 AM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: Mel Gibson
Let's face it: THE WORLD IS IN A MESS. . .

Which must be why he's contributed to the campaigns of Bill Clinton, Carol Moseley Braun, Mike Dukakis, Joe Biden, Christopher Dodd, Howard Metzenbaum. . . .

37 posted on 12/11/2006 5:52:40 AM PST by Mike Bates (Irish Alzheimer's victim: I only remember the grudges.)
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To: Libloather

Thanks. I was wondering who that person is.


38 posted on 12/11/2006 5:53:17 AM PST by Mike Bates (Irish Alzheimer's victim: I only remember the grudges.)
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To: pbmaltzman

Kirk Douglas has 5 sons, one is a special needs child, I believe. Parade magazine did a write up on him a while back. He mentions his famous son and daughter-in-law, because so many may not remember him, but they will know Catherine Zeta-Jones.


39 posted on 12/11/2006 5:55:06 AM PST by sportutegrl (This thread is useless without pix.)
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To: aligncare

it is the human condition for the world to be in a "mess"............

Such an unpopular thought for so many to even consider, but you are so correct!

Liberal fantasies about "peace" are just that-----fantasies!


40 posted on 12/11/2006 5:58:26 AM PST by Grateful One
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