This Week: In Memoriam
By Nicole Belle Monday Dec 29, 2008 5:20am
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This Week with George Stephanopoulos marks the passings of entertainer Eartha Kitt, Nobel Prize-winning writer Harold Pinter, and director Robert Mulligan. In addition, the Pentagon has released the names of seven servicemembers killed in Iraq.
According to iCasualties, the total number of allied forces killed in Iraq is now 4,534, in Afghanistan 1,042. During this same week, Iraq Body Count confirmed the deaths of 81 Iraqi citizens.
In addition, EW pays tribute to some of the notable personalities who passed away this year. CBS gives a complete rundown.
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Catwoman's gone?
RIP Ms. Kitt!
Hope everyone had a great holiday weekend...
How was mine you ask?
pretty good, got a beer brewing kit for xmas...};)>
it's the gift that keeps on giving.
I started brewing in '74; it is no longer practical for me now.
A brew kit got me started, by the early '80s I was going completely from scratch - mashing the grains in a tun etc.
IMHO you can brew your own and have a better libation than most pro breweries.
Slainthe!
She once said she was neither black nor white, she was Eartha. And she was. Alas, this truly fine lady is no more.
And two more canucks are dead in Afghanistan.
On a slightly lighter note, there is more fresh snow here and my cats are tired of being housebound. Time to get out the catnip stash and the laser pen. A beer brewing kit sounds like a good idea right about now ... lucky you!
:)
Real home brewers may scoff at it...but I'm gonna try it...
I'll let ya all know how it turns out.
Yeah Ms. Kitt was truly awesome...I knew she was a sexy, beautiful woman, when I was watchin Batman re-runs before I even liked girls, lol!
the victims the MSM will never show you.
FOUR GIRLS from the same family among latest civilian casualties in Gaza.
300 dead in gaza...but Palestinian life isn't as valuable as Israeli life. I forgot.
That in this world...that Israel can act very Nazi-like towards the Palestinians (air strikes, targeted assassinations, tanks and bulldozers plowing 1000 year old olive groves for Jewish settlers)....and the (western) world turns a blind eye?
Yet when these hungry, oppressed Palestinians retaliate with the only means at their disposal, they are condemned as barbaric terrorists...
Mind you, I'm not condoning the murder of innocents...especially women and children.
But I can kinda see the Palestinians POV...if you're being systematically wiped off the face off the earth by Israel...you tend to see every Israeli as the enemy.
Since this offensive by Israel...I've not seen any "visit Israel" commercials anymore....
Guess they think it would be in bad taste perhaps.
I wouldn't go to Israel if you paid me.
..........but I would.
It would be compelling for me to see how regular Israelies are reacting to current events.
Well that's just me, and a free trip would be the only way that I could get there.
My luck, I'd be kidnapped or something...
Ain't goin to Mexico either.
The Book of the Dead that comes out at the end of each year always surprises me. There is always someone I know who died but I didn’t know about their passing and I somehow feel cheated for not knowing because I make an effort to keep informed. Still, these lists do more than show who is here and who is gone. One thing is the idea of celebrity is shown for what it is very clearly on these lists. A person who is the grandmother of a President elect is listed, a person accused of spreading Anthrax but never charged is listed, the last German to fight in WWI, a heart surgeon, teachers and a whole lot of former politicians that nobody outside their district is likely to remember. But the most singular thing to me is that with very few exceptions the people listed are all Americans. For some reason we only think of the Americans that have died and not the significant members of the world that are gone. We still haven’t gotten hold of the notion that we don’t live in a vacuum or that America is covered by an impenetrable shield that negates the influence of the world.
With a little effort we could find the people that have left the mortal stage all around the world that have left an impact on the whole of mankind and not just the few we identify as ours. In these lists it is always what has been omitted that is most curious to me more then what has been included.
But I'm going to miss Majel Barrett Roddenberry. I loved all her roles in Star Trek, including her reprise of the Enterprise computer in the new Star Trek film. RIP
/you can't go to the movies without seeing a National Guard commercial catered to impressionable teenagers glorifying war with rock music blazon and showing a buff soldier running around. Of course they don't mention you join the guard and your young impressionable ass gets shipped off to Iraq for extended tours until you are traumatized for life or come back with missing arms, legs or in a box. They don't show soldiers in wheelchairs in these glorification commercials. What kind of bass ackwards society to we live in where pushing war on impressionable young teenagers so a bunch of corrupt super rich politicians and corporatists can get even richer and that this sort of recruiting can go on in family theaters across this country? There is a lot of blood on a lot of hands to go around.
But seriously...they can't exactly advertise the truth...they never have...that's any military, not just ours.
Canadian soldiers died this week as well, in the continuing saga of the war on terror that didn't exist before created. Too bad such young people have to be killed. I'm sure the Mediatainment industry will cover it with the usual, "they died defending their citizens rights and democracy".
the 'clash of cultures' meme to excuse western colonialism's inevitable violent rejection by colonized peoples...
Damn! Add Freddie to the list......
Music, play on!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4noNAphDFA8
i wonder why that either icasualties or C&L are not
posting the actual casualties for our American troops
and not the total number of casualties to date.
i believe if this is how it's being listed that
icasualties is being extremely insensitive to the
value of the lives lost by out troops.
why are the brave who die for our country being
trivialized and not honored? this is shame of
whoever is at fault.
[Feel free to work whatever you feel is missing into a post on your own blog. In the meantime, don't come here, looking to heap your idea of shame on this site-Sitemonitor]
i believe if you read more carefully, i definitely
made the point that this is icasualties. my question
at the beginning was speculation. the shame was
directed squarely at icasualties. sorry you
feel i was blaming C&L. i should have written
a longer opinion so this was clear.
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