Former Vermont US Sen. Jeffords dies at 80

AP via Yahoo News ^ | 8/18/14 | DAVE GRAM

[Kartographer]

Former Vermont U.S. Sen. James Jeffords, who in 2001 tipped control of the Senate when he quit the Republican Party to become an independent, died Monday. He was 80.

[Kartographer]

Guess its best not to speak ill of the dead.

[1rudeboy]

You just did.

[ArtDodger]

Richly, with ridiculous display, the politicians corpse was laid away.
While all his acquaintances sneered and slanged, I wept
for I longed to see him hanged.

[Kartographer]

Who me???

[nothingnew]

Guess its best not to speak ill of the dead.

I agree, besides, everyone dies, sooner or later.

Some should be sooner rather than later, but I'm not the judge.

FMCDH(BITS)

[katana]

Bette Davis said it best (re: Joan Crawford)

[rednesss]

Good.

[Carriage Hill]

Now I remember who/what he was. Spit.

[b4its2late]

LOL.

[smoothsailing]

Jim don’t jump.

[who knows what evil?]

I’d wager you’ve changed your position on abortion now, haven’t you, Mr. Jeffords?

[RichInOC]

The good die young.

[MIchaelTArchangel]

Jumping Jim will likely be jumping over the flames.

(That is not to say he is in Hell. He could be in Purgatory.)

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

His new home is in Cocytus, according to Dante, but so petty his treason, he is buried just up to his ankles in ice.

[Blackyce]

But he was 80 when he died...uhh....umm, nevermind..

[DJ MacWoW]

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[Spartan79]

“I’ve never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure.” Attributed to Mark Twain (some say misattributed). Seems appropriate for the occasion.

[dmz]

Twain never said it. In fact, no one ever said it in precisely that form. Matt Blum at Wired has the fact-check: the quotation actually comes from Clarence Darrow, the lawyer of Scopes Trial fame. Here’s a fuller version of the quote, which appears in Darrow’s 1932 work The Story of My Life:

All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike some one they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.

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All of the above text came from this website, I merely copied and pasted.

[dmz]

http://www.thewire.com/national/2011/05/mark-twain-didnt-say-thing-about-obituaries/37279/

Helps if you include the link.