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Ex-Prime Minister Baroness Thatcher dies
BBC ^ | 4/8/2013 | N/A

Posted on 04/08/2013 5:00:41 AM PDT by Incorrigible

Ex-Prime Minister Baroness Thatcher diesBreaking news Former Prime Minister Baroness Thatcher has died at 87 following a stroke, her spokesman has said.

Lord Bell said: "It is with great sadness that Mark and Carol Thatcher announced that their mother Baroness Thatcher died peacefully following a stroke this morning."

Baroness Thatcher was Conservative prime minister from 1979 to 1990.

She was the first woman to hold the post. Her family is expected to make a further statement later.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: baronessthatcher; ironlady; maggiethatcher; margaretthatcher; obit; obituary; rip; thatcher; thatcherdies; thatcherobit; unitedkingdom
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To: Ron C.

161 posted on 04/08/2013 6:14:34 PM PDT by drewh
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To: littleharbour


162 posted on 04/08/2013 6:21:14 PM PDT by drewh
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To: Albion Wilde

Please, fellow MDer, stop making me cry!


163 posted on 04/08/2013 6:25:13 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
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To: Incorrigible

God Bless her and may she Rest In Peace. Prayers up for her family and loved ones. Ah, when giants walked the Earth.


164 posted on 04/08/2013 7:13:25 PM PDT by NonValueAdded (If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, you've likely misread the situation.)
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To: Incorrigible
A woman with CLASS and CHARACTER and the obama supporters don't know how to handle that...

the liberal media makes me physically ill...I so look forward to the end of obamas term in office...three plus years to go...lets party when it arrives...

165 posted on 04/08/2013 7:23:08 PM PDT by haircutter (,,,)
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To: tomkat

Our flags should be at half mast. But don’t count on it happening due to the socialist we have in the White House now.


166 posted on 04/08/2013 7:37:34 PM PDT by NYFreeper
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To: Incorrigible

R.I.P, Baroness Thatcher.

She, Ronald Reagan and Pope Jean Paul II are reunited in Heaven for the world-changing work they did.

The news showed a clip of what I believe was Ronald Reagan’s funeral; she touched the casket respectfully (and may even have kissed it), then curtsied. It was quite touching.


167 posted on 04/08/2013 7:54:25 PM PDT by proud American in Canada (R.I.P., James Helmuth, my nephew who passed away at ten years old, from cancer, on March 23.)
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To: CincyRichieRich

“Sure hope nobody at Freep gave Hollywood a penny for the despicable movie.”

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I sure didn’t.


168 posted on 04/08/2013 7:55:43 PM PDT by proud American in Canada (R.I.P., James Helmuth, my nephew who passed away at ten years old, from cancer, on March 23.)
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To: RedMDer

“Well done Lady, well done and welcome home.”

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Now I’m crying. I wonder if we will see such monumental leaders as Madame Thatcher, President Reagan, Pope Jean Paul II, and, as a previous poster mentioned, Lech Walesa, in our lifetime. They are sorely needed.


169 posted on 04/08/2013 8:05:11 PM PDT by proud American in Canada (R.I.P., James Helmuth, my nephew who passed away at ten years old, from cancer, on March 23.)
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To: Girlene

IIRC correctly from President Reagan’s funeral, they each made video tapes to be played at their respective funerals; they both knew their faculties were failing and wanted to pay tribute while they still could.


170 posted on 04/08/2013 8:10:16 PM PDT by proud American in Canada (R.I.P., James Helmuth, my nephew who passed away at ten years old, from cancer, on March 23.)
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To: Vanders9

Yes, she was a chemist; I can’t remember what it is, but she contributed to the invention of a substance (?).


171 posted on 04/08/2013 8:13:52 PM PDT by proud American in Canada (R.I.P., James Helmuth, my nephew who passed away at ten years old, from cancer, on March 23.)
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To: proud American in Canada

I hope Reagan did make a tribute. I believe Nancy is will be attending her funeral.


172 posted on 04/08/2013 8:50:55 PM PDT by Girlene
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To: nutmeg

I join in prayer for all those dealing with Baroness Thatcher’s homegoing and thank God for her!


173 posted on 04/08/2013 8:54:10 PM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: Travis McGee

Along with Pope John Paul II.


174 posted on 04/08/2013 9:38:40 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Wurlitzer
To my dying breath, I will feel great joy I lived during the time of the Iron Lady and the Gipper.

It was an incredible experience. They changed our world for the better, and I was a witness, as was my oldest child, now an adult, for which I am very grateful. On the personal level, I got to see Ronnie and Nancy close up at a Washington gala to which I was a production associate and they were just incredibly elegant; I walked several miles and stood for hours to be at a huge, gigantic outdoor gathering for Pope John Paul II even though I'm not Roman Catholic; and only wish I had the opportunity to meet that other architect of the survival of the West, Baroness Thatcher. Even then, I didn't quite realize how profoundly historic it was until around the time Reagan died. Then my son and I stood in line in the hot summer for around 6 hours to get into the Capitol Rotunda and pay our respects to his remains lying in state there.

I'm off now to check the London online newspapers. For me, even the Jubilee is likely to be eclipsed by this.

175 posted on 04/08/2013 10:30:03 PM PDT by Albion Wilde ("Commies out of D.C.!" --Raoul Deming, 1955-2013)
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To: the OlLine Rebel
Please, fellow MDer, stop making me cry!

I added a few more photos here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3005583/posts?page=12#12

176 posted on 04/08/2013 10:31:45 PM PDT by Albion Wilde ("Commies out of D.C.!" --Raoul Deming, 1955-2013)
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To: Incorrigible

May the Iron Lady rest in peace.


177 posted on 04/08/2013 10:56:24 PM PDT by boatbums (God is ready to assume full responsibility for the life wholly yielded to Him.)
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To: paristexas
No British politician can do anything but support the NHS. That is the main evil of it. 1.4 million people are directly employed by the system. That's a huge electoral block, all of whom have a vested interest in maintaining it. Any attempt to remove, overhaul or even reform the system is met with ferocious resistance, not least because an ignorant public supports it totally. It is politically impossible to do anything else but support it, at least publically.

Thatcher hardly gave "unending support" anyway. She did introduce private medical care while she was in office (she herself was a member of such a system) and she did do away with some of the worst excesses of the Public Health system, but anything further will have to be left to her successors.

178 posted on 04/09/2013 12:25:50 AM PDT by Vanders9
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To: proud American in Canada
She was on the research team that developed aerated soft ice cream.

Totally pointless activity of course. Why on earth would you want to help pushing back the boundaries of Human Knowledge, save money, and increase the longevity of food when you could be doing really important things like "community organising"?

179 posted on 04/09/2013 12:29:56 AM PDT by Vanders9
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To: rlmorel
It is interesting to consider where England might be now if she hadn’t been PM back then.

About at the same level as Albania probably.

180 posted on 04/09/2013 12:33:14 AM PDT by Vanders9
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