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Ted Turner, billionaire founder of CNN, battling brain disease
FOX News ^ | 09/30/2018 | By Stephen Sorace

Posted on 10/01/2018 8:54:12 AM PDT by Red Badger

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To: Palio di Siena

He was actually quite prescient to conceive of the whole idea of 24-hour cable news. Everyone in the industry laughed when he first proposed it.


41 posted on 10/01/2018 9:14:50 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: shelterguy

I am so sorry. Offering prayers for your son and you.


42 posted on 10/01/2018 9:14:58 AM PDT by miserare ( Indict Hillary!)
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To: Red Badger

Though we get angry, and indeed I do, let’s please lift his soul up in prayer. Father, allow us to look past his actions and reflect upon our own sins during the days we walk upon this earth. Our anger at his earthly pride and failings ought not to stop us from wanting to save him from the placement of Hell. We should want him to accept the Blood of Jesus to cover his sins so that he is saved and may speak out to others who are lost. Allow please, Father in Heaven, for the man to come to realize that without Jesus Christ as his Redeemer he will forever be in darkness. We all have failed to earn the Grace of the Blood of Jesus. May we remember this and ask for the Grace of the Blood of Jesus to be upon this man so he may come to know Jesus before his death. Amen.


43 posted on 10/01/2018 9:15:39 AM PDT by Notthereyet (Notthereyet)
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To: bigbob
Speak for yourself. 👹🍿🍻. Srsly, yeah. Seeing someone go through a debilitating brain issue is NOT an easy thing to do.
44 posted on 10/01/2018 9:17:23 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: Red Badger

“It’s a mild case of what people have as Alzheimer’s. It’s similar to that. But not nearly as bad. Alzheimer’s is fatal,”

Don’t count on it Ted. LBD affects everyone differently. Took my father in about one year at age 86.


45 posted on 10/01/2018 9:18:02 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Red Badger

Lewy body dementia is fatal. My father in law died of it in June of 2017.


46 posted on 10/01/2018 9:18:23 AM PDT by kalee
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To: Red Badger

Prayers for him.


47 posted on 10/01/2018 9:19:04 AM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Osage Orange

I’ve worked in Health Care......We do not ask what Party patients affiliate with...
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In the past year I have met hundreds of doctors and nurses. I don’t have a clue what the political leanings are of any of them.


48 posted on 10/01/2018 9:19:16 AM PDT by shelterguy
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To: bigbob
Maybe we should use this as an opportunity to show that we are better than the gutter-trash Democrats.

Just one reason we always lose. We're too nice. I don't wish him death, but I look forward to the day he faces judgement.

49 posted on 10/01/2018 9:20:16 AM PDT by dware (Americans prefer peaceful slavery over dangerous freedom)
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To: Red Badger

Pffft. I thought he was brain damaged when he married that commie, Charlie pass-around.


50 posted on 10/01/2018 9:20:42 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper
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To: shelterguy
Do you typically wish death upon people with whom you disagree?

If the name is Soros, then yes, I do.

51 posted on 10/01/2018 9:21:07 AM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: ASOC

He is unmarried and has five children, so I assume the children will inherit the companies which own all his holdings. They may be active in running his companies already. He raises bison and cattle on some of his ranches for the Ted’s Montana Grill restaurant chain.

Good luck to him.


52 posted on 10/01/2018 9:22:51 AM PDT by Cecily
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To: Buckeye McFrog

That’s right, it was Ted Turner’s idea.

Was a brilliant idea but I wish they’d improve upon it and present the news live and up to date that way.

I don’t wish anyone any disease. I think it is awful how we go through life with so many different turns, loves, making headway as we move into adulthood with logic and money and all to reach the conclusion of our lives with some awful disease, accident, whatever, leaving behind loved ones crying.

Life at the end. It really is a mystery what it is all about.

My heart goes out to Ted Turner to have to suffer this disease as to all of us who have to die at all.


53 posted on 10/01/2018 9:25:08 AM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: Red Badger

His brain disease was communism. Eff him.


54 posted on 10/01/2018 9:26:55 AM PDT by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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To: shelterguy
And that is as it should be....

I feel for you FRiend....

If I could ever help...let me know.

55 posted on 10/01/2018 9:27:23 AM PDT by Osage Orange (Whiskey Tango Foxtrot)
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To: Red Badger

A. I think Turner was big on the “Colorization” of old black and white movie classics. I recall it was very controversial at the time. The technique has likely improved since the 1980’s. It was strange watching old Cowboy Movies now colorized, and all the Cowboys wearing snow white shirts, the
skies all the same bright, harsh ultramarine blue. All the womenfolk wore the same candy apple red lipstick.

B. I think DJ Casey Kasem also had Lewy Body disease.
Robin William got it early.


56 posted on 10/01/2018 9:27:23 AM PDT by lee martell (AT)
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To: Beowulf9

Pray for his soul because according to his ex-employee Stuart Varney Ted is a militant atheist.


57 posted on 10/01/2018 9:27:42 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: shelterguy

“Do you typically wish death upon people with whom you disagree?”

Well, yes...we “disagreed” with Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan, not to put too fine a point on it. Now it’s the modern democratic party we “disagree” with. I personally do not wish good health and fortune on those literally trying to destroy me, my family, our culture and country. I am not attributing the latter to Mr. Turner...I don’t know enough about him.


58 posted on 10/01/2018 9:27:46 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

You are so right. I interviewed for a job with Ted when I was recently out of college. His company wasn’t much more than a bill board company with some TV holdings. He was very impressive in person and as a young college grad I was overwhelmed that he spent over three hours with me. I ultimately turned him down because I didn’t want to leave Texas for Atlanta.


59 posted on 10/01/2018 9:27:58 AM PDT by BubbaBobTX ("The problem with socialism is you eventually run out of other peoples money." Margaret Thatcher)
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To: treetopsandroofs

Is that Lewy’s body????


60 posted on 10/01/2018 9:28:05 AM PDT by Osage Orange (Whiskey Tango Foxtrot)
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