Posted on 06/03/2016 9:22:34 PM PDT by BAW
No link as yet. TV stations have broken to news that Muhammad Ali had died.
The fact requires no acceptance.
Picky, picky, picky.
I remember him as an ungrateful pretentious concieted retard. A negative role model stirring up dissent for the american way and hatred for white people
Dancing in the ring the with angels now.
RIP Champ.
Great athlete in his day. Didn’t like his politics, but this isn’t the time for ruminations.
That’s it BUT BTW Cassius Clay/ M. Ali death is being used politically by the dhimmyrats .
And i prefer Cassius than Mohammad .... He will see the truth now ....maybe .
As for us we have to really look for truth and the good and ISLAM is NOT the truth and the good ....
M.ALI was misstaken by hatred .
God is the ONLY judge
All unrepentant Muslims are burning in hell, and Ali is no exception. While he deserves it, I must say that he was a pretty good boxer.
Rats are shamelessly trying to use the death of Cassius Clay/ Mohammed Ali ( they have their “nice muslim , black activist” ...Does it reminds someone ...in the White House )
Thomas William Bennett (April 7, 1947 – February 11, 1969) was a U.S. Army medic and the second conscientious objector to receive the Medal of Honor (Desmond Doss, a medic in World War II, was the first). Bennett was killed in action during the Vietnam War and posthumously received the Medal of Honor. Born in Morgantown, West Virginia, Thomas W. Bennett was sociable and deeply religious. He was raised Southern Baptist, but while a student at West Virginia University, he formed the Campus Ecumenical Council during his freshman year.
When he was placed on academic probation after the Fall 1967 semester, he considered his options should he lose his academic deferment. Deeply patriotic, but opposed to killing on religious grounds, he opted to enlist as a conscientious objector who was willing to serve. This classification is different from a conscientious objector who will not assist the military in any way. He was trained as a field medic.
Cpl. Thomas W. Bennett arrived in South Vietnam on January 1, 1969, and was assigned to Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 14th Infantry in the Central Highlands of Vietnam. The unit began a series of strenuous patrols in the dense, mountainous terrain. On February 9, 1969, the unit came under intense fire, and Cpl. Bennett risked gunfire to pull at least five wounded men to safety. That evening, his platoon sergeant recommended him for the Silver Star.
Over the coming days, Cpl. Bennett repeatedly put himself in harm’s way to tend to the wounded. On February 11, while attempting to reach a soldier wounded by sniper fire, Cpl. Bennett was gunned down. On April 7, 1970, his posthumous Medal of Honor was presented to his mother and stepfather by President Richard Nixon.
A dormitory tower at West Virginia University’s Evansdale Residential Complex is named in his honor.
A medical clinic at Fort Hood is named in his honor.
Well, this is a rhetorical usage of the term ( millisecond ) so as I said the first time, why not a nanosecond?
I only used the term "thoughtless" in the sense that I feel it to be "uninformed". Uninformed that is of the issues it raises concerning physical scale, and let's not forget the physical basis of mental processes, and of course life processes in general.
As a physicist "by training and inclination if not profession," as I sometimes say, such remarks as yours raise these thoughts in my mind like a cloud of dust, which perhaps I pursue in small whirlwinds for my own amusement, but also my own edification if I may believe so.
I might only add that the verse, 1 Corithinians 15:52, sung in Handel's Messiah alludes to a such an instant, but in a very different context, actually, and one which is largely ignored in the popular religious sentiment of today, which favors instead the ascent ( or not ) of each individual soul into heaven at death.
Just as far as his boxing abilities are concerned, he had incredible hand speed, reflexes, accuracy, and athletic ability in general. He also had an enormous heart and a granite chin (which might’ve contributed to his health problems later on).
On the downside, his defense was very shaky, at best — he relied on his reflexes and rather than on sound technique. That fact might’ve gotten him in big trouble against heavyweight greats like Jack Johnson, Joe Louis, Rocky Marciano, and even a prima Mike Tyson or Larry Holmes. Unfortunately, we’ll never know. A round-robin tourney that included the top dozen or so heavyweights of all time would be most entertaining.
I remember him as an ungrateful pretentious concieted retard. A negative role model stirring up dissent for the american way and hatred for white people
He mellowed a little in his later years as Parkinson's took its toll, but I hadn't any use for him either.
And "retard" is right - only a mentally deficient person would think that he's somehow protesting anti-black racism by changing his name from Cassius Clay (the name of a prominent abolitionist, Cassius M. Clay) to Muhammad Ali (Egyptian king and slaver).
Lincecum is up with the big team and should debut tomorrow against the A’s.
And he did well!
I couldn’t watch live on MLB (local blackout), but I’ll watch the replay.
It turned out that Timmy pitched on Saturday and he had a good game. The Angels sure can use the help.
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