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Of Sandy, Ducks, and Climate Change
National Review Online, by Charles C. W. Cooke
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Posted By:Calvinesq, 11/2/2012 4:21:58 PM
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| The world can be a scary place and, for many, cartoon villains and cheap explanations serve to account for its rough edges. “We have so many people,” noticed Ronald Reagan, ”who can’t see a fat man standing beside a thin one without coming to the conclusion the fat man got that way by taking advantage of the thin one.” So it goes with the weather and the climate, in which realms those who scoff derisively at the religious and abhor theodicy as the preserve of rubes and reactionaries are extraordinarily quick to share their own unlettered theories as to how and why we are afflicted by tragedy.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Calvinesq, 11/2/2012 4:23:17 PM (No. 8983145)
I got a question: Can you possibly image how power would be restored if (assuming its even possible) the these regions relied on wind and solar power as primary sources of electricity?
Can you imagine the wrecks of windmills washing up on the coast or the vast destruction of acres upon acres of solar panel farms that would need to be nearby?
It wouldn't take days to restore power under this scenario, it would take months.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
nascarfan, 11/2/2012 4:36:10 PM (No. 8983170)
I am blessed enough to have several months worth of food, several options to heat my home and a backup generator. We Alaskans try to be prepared. We have our share of bad weather and average 6 month temps below freezing. God Bless those in the East.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
stablemoney, 11/2/2012 5:06:17 PM (No. 8983248)
The blue states can have climate change, socialism, whatever. All the rest of us ask to be left out of the liberal utopia and left alone.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
felton335, 11/2/2012 5:15:56 PM (No. 8983274)
I when through the "Loma Prieta" earthquake in 1989. I lost $60K in property damage and we had no power for many days. Too this day, I am a fanatic about keeping my cars full of gas and keeping 40 gallons of gas in the shed (I use it and replenish to keep it from going bad). I also keep a good supply of non-perishable food and water handy. I also have several ways to keep my house warm in the event of a winter crisis. It only took me one event to get with the program. And by the way: the climate is always changing and we have no control of it, only our selves in how re responde.
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Report: Menendez accuser says
she made up story
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Philadelphia Inquirer, by Jonathan Tamari
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Posted By: Calvinesq- 3/4/2013 7:50:31 PM
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WASHINGTON -- One of the two women who videotaped allegations that New Jersey Sen. Robert Menendez paid her for sex has said in an affidavit that she was paid to make the story up, according to a report Monday in the Washington Post. The woman also said she has never met nor seen the Democratic senator, the Post reported, citing court documents and two people briefed on her claim. Instead, in an affidavit she said she and a colleague were paid by a lawyer to make up the claims and read from a script, according to the Post.
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Sepsis: A stealthy, sudden killer
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Philadelphia Inquirer, by Bob Calandra
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Posted By: Calvinesq- 3/4/2013 3:10:05 PM
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Dying is effortless. That became clear to me as I lay on a gurney in an emergency department bay at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center. It was 10 p.m., almost five hours since my primary-care physician Michael Cirigliano (better known as Dr. Mike from Fox29) diagnosed me as septic, bundled me into his car, and rushed me to the hospital. After several hours of intravenous antibiotics and four liters of fluid, my blood pressure was crashing, a hallmark of sepsis, a potentially fatal condition caused by an exaggerated immune response to injury or infection.
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Apple Is Building Something
Bigger Than a TV
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CNBC, by Jason Stein
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Posted By: Calvinesq- 2/19/2013 10:24:31 PM
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Given the beating Apple has taken lately—with many questioning its future—it´s important to understand how much television means to Apple. The company´s TV plans are much bigger than just selling iTV sets. [snip] Apple is evolving into an ecosystem, a network that connects to and controls everything from your home to your car to your office. This has the potential to be as impactful as the iPhone and iPad. Today I use iOS apps to control my stereo system (the Sonos) and central air (the Nest).
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Woman, 80, knocked off
scooter fighting assailant in
Gloucester City robbery
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Philadelphia Inquirer, by Emily Babay
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Posted By: Calvinesq- 2/19/2013 5:26:06 PM
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An 80-year-old woman was knocked off her scooter when she tried to fight off a man robbing her of her purse in Gloucester City. Police allege that 22-year-old John E. Reed approached the woman from behind while she was riding her electric scooter on the 500 block of Cumberland Street at about 11:15 a.m. Sunday. Reed grabbed the woman´s purse and tried to flee, but the woman wouldn´t let go, according to Gloucester City police. He then pushed the woman, knocking her off the scooter, and ran away with the purse.
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Congressman says deleted tweets were
to his recently discovered daughter
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NBC News, by Luke Russert and Frank Thorp
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Posted By: Calvinesq- 2/14/2013 11:49:53 PM
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Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tenn., tells NBC News that the 24-year-old woman he tweeted at during the State of the Union address was not a romantic interest, but in fact his daughter. After “The Hill” reported that Cohen -- who is not married -- deleted tweets saying “ilu,” short for “I love you,” to Victoria Brink, Cohen claimed that nothing was inappropriate and that the woman was a daughter of an old family friend. That old family friend turned out to be an old girlfriend of Cohen’s and Victoria Brink´s mother. Cohen claimed the reason for tweeting Brink
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GOP to Menendez:
Happy Valentine´s Day
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Philadelphia Inquirer, by Jonathan Tamari
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Posted By: Calvinesq- 2/14/2013 11:10:08 PM
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WASHINGTON -- How do you express your love in Washington? With a sly Valentine’s Day card that doubles as a biting partisan attack. The Republican National Committee is featuring Valentine’s Day e-cards on its Web site, including one that makes a not-so-subtle reference to the most salacious allegations involving New Jersey Sen. Robert Menendez. The card features a smiling Menendez alongside the words “Can I interest you in a romantic get-a-way?”
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College grads taking more
unpaid internships, jobs
out of chosen field
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Philadelphia Inquirer, by Lauren Mennen
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Posted By: Calvinesq- 2/3/2013 7:30:05 AM
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Recent college graduates and even those who have been out of school for several years now are finding an increasingly harder time getting a job in this economy. The amount of young adults – from ages 18 to 29 – who are unemployed rose over 1.5 percent in January to 13.1 percent, according to statistics released Friday. The overall unemployment rate had a smaller increase - rising 0.1 percent to 7.9 percent - according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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Had your winter Phil?
Check Groundhog Day forecast
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Associated Press, by Staff
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Posted By: Calvinesq- 2/2/2013 7:59:21 AM
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PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa. - It's Groundhog Day and Punxsutawney (puhnk-suh-TAW'-nee) Phil has made his prediction. He says expect an early spring.With thousands watching on Gobbler's Knob in west-central Pennsylvania, the furry rodent emerged from his lair Saturday but didn't see his shadow.Legend has it that if the groundhog sees his shadow on Feb. 2, winter will last six more weeks. But if he doesn't see his shadow, spring will come early.
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Abducted girl, 5, found overnight
in playground was ‘targeted’
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Philadelphia Inquirer, by Frank Kummer*
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Posted By: Calvinesq- 1/15/2013 12:13:47 PM
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A 5-year-old girl abducted from a West Philadelphia elementary Monday was found early this morning barely dressed and crying in an Upper Darby playground, say police. Upper Darby Police Superintendent Michael Chitwood said that Nailla Robinson, taken by an unidentified woman in a black Muslim-style face covering from the Bryant Elementary School just across the border in Philadelphia, was found about 4:40 a.m. today. Authorities say they believe the child was targeted, but did not know the woman who abducted her.
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Pat Toomey appointed to
Senate Finance Committee
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Associated Press, by Staff
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Posted By: Calvinesq- 1/3/2013 2:03:31 PM
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HARRISBURG, Pa. - U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey has been assigned to the Senate committee that oversees taxation, trade and certain health programs. The Pennsylvania Republican said Thursday that the action makes him one of only two freshman senators on the Senate Finance Committee. He´s giving up his seat on the Commerce Committee, but will remain on three other committees.
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World War II
survivor of a dark day
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Philadelphia Inquirer, by Edward Colimore
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Posted By: Calvinesq- 12/21/2012 2:56:24 PM
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They had no idea what lay in store for them that fateful afternoon. Near the town of Malmedy, in Belgium, Ted Paluch and about 100 other U.S. soldiers had been overwhelmed by German forces during the Battle of the Bulge and compelled to surrender. They dropped their carbines and were herded to a field, where they expected to be taken away in trucks. What happened next turned that day into one of the darkest of World War II. The events are as vivid to Paluch now as when he lived through them nearly seven decades ago.
Headline resplit by staff.
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11 dead-wrong prophecies of doom
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Philadelphia Inquirer, by Peter Mucha
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Posted By: Calvinesq- 12/21/2012 11:59:15 AM
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Once again, the Earth has survived. Unless typing at this terminal is Heaven - and it´s clearly far from Hell - no rapture or disaster happened overnight, contrary to movie-inspiring misreadings of Mayan calendars. Add that to the list of dead-wrong prophecies about the end of the world. Here are 10 previous apocalyptic flops:
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The Golf World Is Outraged That
Tiger Woods Didn´t Get Disqualified
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Business Insider, by Tony Manfred
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Posted By: SoCalGal- 4/13/2013 1:56:27 PM
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Pro golfers, golf writers, and TV commentators are up in arms that Tiger Woods was only given a 2-stroke penalty for his illegal drop on the 15th hole yesterday. Tiger said last night that he dropped his ball two yards behind his previous spot, clearly violating the rule that you must drop "as nearly as possible" to your original spot. Golf people are not happy about it. They say that the new rule is B.S. (or it´s at least being misinterpreted), and Tiger should DQ himself to save the integrity of the game.
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From Dehumanizing Word
Games to Gosnell
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National Review Online, by Andrew C. McCarthy
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/13/2013 6:07:01 AM
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In Philadelphia, at a human abattoir on Lancaster Avenue, is where it ends, not where it starts. It starts with the perversion of language. It starts when the icons of a dissipated culture reduce a baby to a “fetus.” From there, Yeats’s blood-dimmed tide rolls rapidly in. Before long, a baby is not a person but a punishment, as President Barack Obama framed the matter in his familiar off-the-cuff iciness. Of course, to describe newborn children in their boundless possibilities and wonder would be to acknowledge, foremost, their humanity. That is why, instead, abortion enthusiasts must grope for words
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Obamacare Architect: Affordable
Care Act ´Beyond Comprehension´
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Breitbart´s Big Government, by Wynton Hall
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 4/12/2013 9:51:16 PM
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Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV), one of the architects of the Affordable Care Act, said on Tuesday that the healthcare law, set to go into full effect in less than eight months, is “probably the most complex piece of legislation ever passed by the United States Congress” and “is just beyond comprehension.” Rockefeller said he is concerned that early missteps with implementing the healthcare overhaul may cascade into confusion and chaos. The law, said Rockefeller, is “so complicated and if it isn’t done right the first time, it will just simply get worse.” Rockefeller’s consternation echoes comments made earlier this
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Philly Abortion Clinic
Workers Saw Few Options
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Associated Press, by Maryclaire Dale
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/12/2013 7:28:32 PM
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They say they were just doing what the boss trained them to do. But eight former employees of a run-down West Philadelphia abortion clinic now face prison time for the work they did for Dr. Kermit Gosnell. Three have pleaded guilty to third-degree murder. And Gosnell, 72, is on trial in the deaths of a patient and seven babies allegedly born alive. In testimony at the capital murder trial this past month, an unlicensed doctor and untrained aides described long, chaotic days at the clinic. They said they performed grueling, often gruesome work for little more than minimum wage,
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The Decline of Obama
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Weekly Standard, by Fred Barnes
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/13/2013 5:13:17 AM
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With President Obama, there’s always a catch. In the 2014 budget he announced last week, Obama proposed a more accurate way of calculating the inflation rate for annual cost-of-living increases in Social Security. It’s a technical change in pursuit of honesty and good government. And if adopted, it would cause benefits to grow more slowly, though almost imperceptibly so. Republican leaders in Congress ought to be delighted since they had “championed”—Obama’s word—the idea in the first place. Then came the catch. The president’s price for adopting this gentle reform was hundreds of billions in new tax increases.
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1,500 Page Immigration Bill to Drop
One Day Before Only Hearing?
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Breitbart Big Government, by Matthew Boyle
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/13/2013 4:29:08 PM
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According to an ABC News report, senators from the bipartisan “Gang of Eight” pushing immigration reform are expected to drop their bill, estimated at around 1,500 pages, on Tuesday, mere hours before the only scheduled Senate hearing on the topic. “A bipartisan group of senators plans to introduce its long-awaited immigration bill on Tuesday, Senate sources confirmed to ABC News,” Jim Avila and Jordan Fabian wrote on Friday. “Four Democrats and four Republicans, known as the ´Gang of Eight,´ wrapped up months of hard-fought negotiations this week and will put forth a bill that includes a pathway
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Senate plan would make clogging
left lane a ticketable offense
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Tampa Tribune, by Bill Cotterell
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Posted By: Hazymac- 4/13/2013 11:04:13 AM
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TALLAHASSEE - Picture this: You´re in the left lane of the interstate, driving a little below the speed limit, when some guy zips up behind you and swerves past you on the right. Then you notice the blue lights flashing. You´re savoring the satisfaction of seeing a trooper actually nab an aggressive driver — until you realize it´s you he´s pulling over. This could happen, if not very often, under a major transportation package expected to be taken up in the Senate Appropriations Committee next week. Introduced by Sen. Jeff Brandes, a St. Petersburg Republican, the bill is a 173-page
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Boehner: I Don´t Need
GOP to Pass Gun Law...
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Breitbart´s Big Government, by Ben Shapiro
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 4/12/2013 11:51:37 AM
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On Thursday, in the midst of ongoing national debate over prospective gun control and comprehensive immigration legislation, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) said that he didn’t need the approval of a majority of his own party to move forward with legislation. Referring to the so-called Hastert Rule, named after former House Speaker Denny Hastert (R-IL), which dictated that House leadership not bring up any bill for a vote without the support of a majority of the majority party, Boehner said, “Listen: It was never a rule to begin with.” Then, realizing the gravity of admitting
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Thatcher thought Britain
was worth fighting for
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Orange County Register (Ca), by Mark Steyn
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/12/2013 5:58:55 PM
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A few hours after Margaret Thatcher´s death on Monday, the snarling deadbeats of the British underclass were gleefully rampaging through the streets of Brixton in South London, scaling the marquee of the local fleapit and hanging a banner announcing, "THE B@&$! IS DEAD." Amazingly, they managed to spell all four words correctly. By Friday, "Ding Dong! The Witch Is Dead," from "The Wizard of Oz," was the No. 1 download at Amazon UK. Mrs. Thatcher would have enjoyed all this. Her former speechwriter John O´Sullivan recalls how, some years after leaving office, she
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Why Aren’t More People
Repelled by the Left?
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Power Line, by John Hinderaker
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/14/2013 6:12:20 AM
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Here is something I don’t understand: liberals are often revealed as vile, vulgar hatemongers–not all of them, of course, but far too many–yet they never seem to pay a penalty at the polls. Why is that? Margaret Thatcher’s death has been the latest occasion for the Left to show its true stripes. All across the U.K., there have been demonstrations–vulgar at best, and violent at worst. In Bristol, lefties celebrating a Thatcher “death street party” started fires, destroyed property and battled police: This evening in Trafalgar Square, liberals have turned out for a long-planned celebration of Thatcher’s death:
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Jonathan Winters, groundbreaking
comic who influenced
generations, dead at 87
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Associated Press, by Staff
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/12/2013 1:16:37 PM
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LOS ANGELES — Jonathan Winters, the cherub-faced comedian whose breakneck improvisations and misfit characters inspired the likes of Robin Williams and Jim Carrey, has died. He was 87. The Ohio native died Thursday evening at his Montecito, Calif., home of natural causes, said Joe Petro III, a longtime family friend. Petro said Winters died of natural causes and was surrounded by family and friends. Winters was a pioneer of improvisational standup comedy, with an exceptional gift for mimicry, a grab bag of eccentric personalities and a bottomless reservoir of creative energy.
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