Posted on 10/15/2018 3:18:58 PM PDT by outofsalt
Allen, longtime CEO of Microsoft, also ranked among the world's wealthiest individuals. As of Monday afternoon, he ranked 21st on Forbes' list of billionaires with an estimated net worth of $20.3 billion.
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Proving you can have all the damn money in the world and still turn up dead before the average Joe checks out.
I wish more people knew that while they were still alive.
Condolences to family and friends of Paul Allen. R.I.P., sir.
love
Actually, he beat this same type of cancer nine years ago, and it was public. In this area, folks knew he was sick, didn’t know why, but did know he had scaled back his schedule.
Nobody in the news was reporting it, maybe out of respect.
And there you have it.
You can’t take it with you.
Here is what you CAN take:
The Gospel in Six Words:
Created (God created you)
Loved (God loves you)
Sinned (You are separated from God by sin, your own or inherited. The penalty for sin is death.)
Bought (God sent His son to pay the penalty (death) for your sin.)
Believed (You must believe that He has done this for you, both mind and heart. Romans 10:9-10. Accept the gift of life that your Creator is offering to you.)
Saved (If you believe, accepting Gods gift of forgiveness and eternal life in true faith, you will be saved.)
Do not put off the gift that God is offering to you.
If you do not choose life, what is the alternative?
There will be no second chance.
Blessings to you and your loved ones,
Dan :-)
He also owns the Portland Trailblazers and was building the gigantic Stratolauch jet in Mojave, CA.
You can’t take it with you.
What does it matter if you gain the whole world but lose your soul?
Same here, saw it parked up by the Dalles.
My question is who is inheriting what? How will they spend their billions? Sure hope it’s not a wacko lib that will flush his money down liberal dh*tholes.
But he sure wanted all of us to have it. MSFT, Gates and him are bad guys, they fund the swamp. I'll shed no tears.
and i'll bet you remember having only one beer
Ruth doesn’t even LOOK alive any more, frankly
i think she should retire while she still can
He might not have been able to take it with him, but he apparently had some fun with it before he was gone. Unlike some, who live in their offices until they’re too old to enjoy their money.
Depends upon how dedicated she is to Democrat causes.
So far, looks like it’s a lifelong commitment......
He was a gun-grabber. Most recently he donated $1MM to the latest gun-grabbing initiative in Washington state (I-1639)
Did he try to get Seattle and/or King County taxpayers to foot the bill for his funeral? He seemed to be good in that way in a lot of his projects.
For any ‘Columbo’ fans out there, here’s a fun P. Allen fact:
The filming location for the episode “Identity Crisis” (with Patrick McGoohan as a spy) was a beautiful mountaintop estate called The Enchanted Hill at the end of Angelo Drive in the Hollywood Hills, built in the early 1920s by Fred Thomson, a well known cowboy actor. It was later bought by Paul Allen in the late 1990s and Mr Allen promptly razed it to the ground in the early 2000s. Never built anything on it, last I checked. Too bad; a beautiful estate.
Oh man, you went there.
Huge financial opponent of The Bill Of Rights (#2).
I read elsewhere highly likely it’s his sister - and that yes, that is exactly what she would do unless he tightly controls the destiny of his money from the grave...
Pretty sure he never married.
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