McCain dead

[oldguy]

As said today by a caller on Rush, the left media loves a dead Republican.

 

[Big Green]

Quickly muted by Trump having the flag at the Whitehouse, raised back to full staff. (tit-for-tat, even in death...don’t mess with Trump!)

It was at half staff for the appropriate amount of time for a senator per the US Flag Code. So there's that.

 

[RoadRunner]

I have zero respect for

As said today by a caller on Rush, the left media loves a dead Republican.

Republican? I refer to him as a republicon.

 

[seeker_two]

It was at half staff for the appropriate amount of time for a senator per the US Flag Code. So there's that.

I wonder if Vietnam did the same.....

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[HKShooter65]

It was at half staff for the appropriate amount of time for a senator per the US Flag Code. So there's that.

Perhaps, though I have huge respect for the American Legion.

Their "Shame on you, Mr. Trump" got his attention.
Trump clearly heeded to the A.L.'s influence amongst our veterans.

 

[HKShooter65]

It was at half staff for the appropriate amount of time for a senator per the US Flag Code. So there's that.

http://www.usflag.org/uscode36.html


You are correct.

This congressman's death has been politicized more than any in recent memory, so, I must agree the extension was optional and is a presidential concession to aforementioned politicization.

Mr. Trump reads the political whims quite adeptly.

HKS


Oh, and here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Vexillological_Association

Vexillological
There's a word for your next Scrabble party

 

[busykngt]

AZ gov won’t announce replacement until after the funeral services - so, about a week away. But it looks like he’ll try to keep it on terms that Trump will approve of.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/08/27/doug-ducey-john-mccain-seat-voters-798875

 

[Ole Cowboy]

2 of my friends, Commander Charlie Stackhouse [ http://www.pownetwork.org/bios/s/s111.htm ] and General Robbie Risner, [ http://www.pownetwork.org/bios/r/r039.htm ], RIP Sir, both POW's in Vietnam.

I asked both (separately ) as we (only the 2 of us) were having lunch. Sir, lots of talk about McCain's activities as a POW, tween you and me, can you shed some light, fact from fiction?

"Don, NO Comment"

 

[diesel1959]

2 of my friends, Commander Charlie Stackhouse [ http://www.pownetwork.org/bios/s/s111.htm ] and General Robbie Risner, [ http://www.pownetwork.org/bios/r/r039.htm ], RIP Sir, both POW's in Vietnam.

I asked both (separately ) as we (only the 2 of us) were having lunch. Sir, lots of talk about McCain's activities as a POW, tween you and me, can you shed some light, fact from fiction?

"Don, NO Comment"

So, do you trust Bud Day?

 

[Ole Cowboy]

So, do you trust Bud Day?

I do not know him.

Remember, this was a private conversation between the 2 of us, these are NOT their public answers!!!!! Publicly none of them will say anything negative about another and I am fine with that...

 

[Coiled]

I said it then.

Does it really matter? It has great meaning.

Remove Mark Twain, insert Dawico and of course you're very much alive; would you not correct people?

 

[cherok2e]

When I think of "Songbird" (the codename the NVA called him) I can't help but be reminded of Cicero who said - "A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague."

I know too many Vietnam vets and heard too many of their stories in my life to have ever seen him as anything but a lying traitor. The worlds a far better place without his ilk, crying shame he couldn't have taken John Kerry with him.......

It is difficult to come up with a reason for the efforts to cover, by classifying all his military records except for commendations and medals, the events of his service. There had to be more than family honor. The true story of the USS Forestall was not the beginning of his renegade treason. The composed cover story uses enough of the truth, to mask him being responsible, but antics afterward, getting shot down over Hanoi, because he couldn't pass up one more hotdog action. He disobeyed altitude restrictions and caught a Sam missile that ultimately resulted in flight information being used for the death of other pilots.
People are so confused by the narrative of his past they even called his Grandfather a General who signed the treaty on the USS Missouri.
His political career was only a continuation.

 

[cherok2e]

Cindy McCain might be appointed to serve out his term 'till 2020??

Cindy McCain, 64, the late senator’s wife. She is a philanthropist and business leader and could represent her husband’s legacy while pursuing her own priorities in Washington, such as her advocacy against human trafficking.

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-poli...ccain-replacement-arizona-governor-doug-ducey

bob

Do research on her charity 'Smiles'.

 

[cherok2e]

I don't like to speak bad of those who have died. I lost my mother and fiance to cancer and I can't think of a harsher way for someone to die.

My sentiments mirror yours as far as his political career.

Did anyone ever see signs of brain surgery when they found the glioblastoma? Why did he die so quickly after announcing he was stopping the cancer drugs, and why not all medication?
Death does not come a couple days after you stop meds.

 

[benenglish]

Death does not come a couple days after you stop meds.

Think of it the other way around - if you know death is coming in a couple of days, you might as well stop the meds.

 

[TheMailMan]

Did anyone ever see signs of brain surgery when they found the glioblastoma? Why did he die so quickly after announcing he was stopping the cancer drugs, and why not all medication?
Death does not come a couple days after you stop meds.

When you're stage 4 and it's spread though your body you certainly can die that quickly.

My mother was diagnosed with stage 4 uterine cancer, she went into treatment, spent 30 days in the hospital. Got tired of being in there. Quit treatment and left. My dad picked her up at the hospital, they went to Costco, and then home. He took stuff into the house while she followed him. He went back outside and she was laying in the grass unresponsive.

Total time off treatment....five hours.

A few years later my dad was diagnosed with stage 4 prostate cancer. It had spread to his spine, lungs and liver. He went into treatment, 45 days later he quit treatment and died three hours later.


It's pretty obvious you've never had much experience with cancer.

Many people with that type of cancer, discovered at stage 4 never have surgery. The cancer has metastasized so far through their body it's meaningless.

 

[SloppyShooter]

Think of it the other way around - if you know death is coming in a couple of days, you might as well stop the meds.

EXACTLY!!!! The quasi hero to the end.

 

[SloppyShooter]

When you're stage 4 and it's spread though your body you certainly can die that quickly.

My mother was diagnosed with stage 4 uterine cancer, she went into treatment, spent 30 days in the hospital. Got tired of being in there. Quit treatment and left. My dad picked her up at the hospital, they went to Costco, and then home. He took stuff into the house while she followed him. He went back outside and she was laying in the grass unresponsive.

Total time off treatment....five hours.

A few years later my dad was diagnosed with stage 4 prostate cancer. It had spread to his spine, lungs and liver. He went into treatment, 45 days later he quit treatment and died three hours later.


It's pretty obvious you've never had much experience with cancer.

Many people with that type of cancer, discovered at stage 4 never have surgery. The cancer has metastasized so far through their body it's meaningless.

Sorry to hear about your mother, but to assume another person's expertise or experience with Cancer based on your one experience is not nice, nor really pertinent.

Cancer is not an ignition problem on a car. Putting aside the multitude of variables in different Cancers, there is the variation in individuals ability to survive ANY situation .
But, generally speaking , anyone who dies in such a short time after stopping treatment , was going to die very shortly anyway .

 

[Byrd666]

Yes. And I'm sure he and his campaign manager saw it as a way to still get votes.

 

[vmax]

Just checking..is he still dead ?

I haven't seen a news alert in a few hours