[VOA News] Singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett, who popularized beach bum soft rock with the escapist Caribbean-flavored song Margaritaville and turned that celebration of loafing into an empire of restaurants, resorts and frozen concoctions, has died. He was 76.
"Jimmy passed away peacefully on the night of September 1st surrounded by his family, friends, music and dogs," a statement posted to Buffett's official website and social media pages said late Friday. "He lived his life like a song till the very last breath and will be missed beyond measure by so many."
The statement did not say where Buffett died or give a cause of death. Illness had forced him to reschedule concerts in May and Buffett acknowledged in social media posts that he had been hospitalized but provided no specifics.
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Damn - he done put the book on the shelf and sailed off to that beach house on the moon. He had just joined the Billionaires Club and then passes surrounded by family, friends and his dogs. A rarity in both life and death. Merci pour la magie!
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I'm unaware of him ever using his fame to bray about liberal causes. That makes him a good guy to my mind.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
09/02/2023 12:41 Comments ||
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Married to the same woman since 1977. Skin cancer got him
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Great show in ‘78 at the Fabulous Fox Theatre while recording his double live You Had to Be There in a full leg cast. Was never parrot head but loved his music
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Let me throw something out here. There have been many stories about half-empty cities and unused buildings / office spaces, etc. throughout China in recent years. That's classic misallocation of resources from commie planners that think they know better than the market does. Why is this hard-on for more power plants any different? Let them shoot their wad.
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Wouldn’t we help the trade deficit if we sold them some coal to go along with our strategic oil reserves?
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I think we could use the "Newcastle" saying there.
But, you know what? So what? The UK and the US and possibly Germany and France owe their industrial revolutions to coal. Besides, doesn't some entity consider China a "developing nation"?
Cobra helicopter pilot and Vietnam War vet Larry Taylor is to receive the Medal of Honor from President Biden following a daring rescue mission in June 1968
Biden will recognize Taylor at a ceremony next week, the White House announced on Friday
First lieutenant Taylor's heroic actions have earned him the highest military decoration in the US Armed Forces after he rescued four men who were trapped
The soldiers had become surrounded by enemy troops but Taylor came up with an improvised escape route that ultimately saved their lives
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The FBI specializes in being aware of violent people, encouraging losers to commit felonies and jailing or executing the aged and infirm unless they are president.
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[FoxNews] 'I volunteer to join the CCP, uphold the Party’s platform,' Gotion High-Tech employees wearing Red Army outfits chanted in a video.
A Chinese company developing a taxpayer-funded electric vehicle battery facility in Michigan published reports and video footage of its employees wearing what appears to be Red Army uniforms and pledging fealty to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
Gotion High-Tech — the Hefei, China-based parent company of Gotion Inc. — hosted multiple company trips in 2021 to CCP revolutionary memorials in Anhui Province, China, according to records first reported by the Daily Caller News Foundation. During the trips, Gotion High-Tech workers wore Red Army outfits and pledged to "fight for communism to the end of my life."
"I volunteer to join the CCP, uphold the Party’s platform, observe the provisions of the Party’s by-laws, carry out a member’s duties, carry out the Party’s decisions, strictly observe the Party’s discipline, be loyal to the Party, work hard, to fight for communism as long as I live, be ready at all times to sacrifice everything for the Party and people and never betray the Party," the employees chanted during a trip to China's Revolutionary Memorial Hall in July 2021, footage translated by the DCNF showed.
One month later, the company held a trip to Dabie Mountain to commemorate the CCP’s Long March, an historic march that led to the emergence of Chinese dictator Mao Zedong in early 1935.
In a statement, a Gotion representative said its parent company didn't fund the trips.
"Gotion High-Tech employees in China are involved with many clubs, including biking and hiking clubs, and one politically affiliated club," the official told Fox News Digital. "None of these clubs are financed by Gotion High-Tech, and some employees individually paid for field trips to historical sites in China out of their own pockets."
"Gotion Inc. is headquartered in Fremont, California, and is not supervised, directed, controlled or financed by any foreign government or foreign political party," they continued. "Gotion Inc. does observe all American holidays and wishes everyone a wonderful Labor Day holiday this weekend."
The revelation that Gotion's parent company hosted CCP trips for its employees and conducted party pledges comes as its Michigan project continues to face heightened scrutiny from locals, national security experts and Republican lawmakers.
Opponents of the project have noted the company's allegiance to the Chinese government and often pointed to Gotion High-Tech's corporate bylaws, which state that the company is required to "carry out Party activities in accordance with the Constitution of the Communist Party of China."
The company's 2022 ESG report states Gotion High-Tech "carried out thematic education activities such as the study of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, red theme education, and love for students," The Midwesterner reported.
And earlier this year a Michigan law firm quietly registered Gotion Inc. as a Chinese foreign principal, according to FARA filings reviewed by Fox News Digital.
"Subnational incursions are afoot," former U.S. Ambassador Joseph Cella, the co-founder of the Michigan-China Economic and Security Review Group, previously told Fox News Digital.
"China is on the hunt," he continued. "The Chinese Communist Party is on the hunt. They are looking for these open doors to kick in, in states. And they have carried great sway. You just need to look at Gotion or CATL — textbook examples of this influence operation."
In April, Cella and fellow former U.S. Ambassador Peter Hoekstra, who helped found the Michigan-China Economic and Security Review Group, asked the Department of Justice to open a federal investigation into potential violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act related to five-year hush agreements signed by state officials as part of the Gotion negotiations.
Democratic Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announced that Gotion would invest $2.4 billion to construct two 550,000 square-foot production plants along with other supporting facilities spanning 260 acres in northern Michigan. She applauded the proposal in her late 2022 announcement, saying it would shore up Michigan's status as the "global hub of mobility and electrification."
Then, earlier this year, the Michigan state Senate Appropriations Committee gave the final stamp of approval for granting Gotion $175 million in direct taxpayer funding to help build the facility. In a 10-9 vote, some Democrats joined every Republican on the panel in voting against the funding, while only Democrats, including the committee's chairwoman, voted in favor.
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[Regnum] A shooting at a wedding ended in the death of a young groom in Jordan. This was reported on August 31 by Emirates 24/7.
The tragedy occurred during a wedding celebration in the province of Ma'an in southern Jordan. Twenty-year-old Hamza Al-Fanatessa died at his own wedding from a stray bullet fired by one of the guests. He was seriously wounded in the chest and was hospitalized, but, despite the efforts of doctors, it was not possible to save the young man.
The Jordan Public Security Directorate (PSD) condemned the shooting in a statement and vowed to bring the perpetrator of the tragedy to justice.
“We will treat those who shoot guns at weddings as criminals. We have already begun to combat this dangerous practice and will continue to do so until it is stopped,” the PSD said in a statement.
It is noted that shooting during wedding celebrations has become a serious problem in Jordan, and the death of the groom caused a wave of outrage and calls to immediately stop the "reckless and dangerous practice" of shooting.
Earlier , IA Regnum reported that the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, spoke out against innovations at Chechen weddings - they are unacceptable, contrary to national customs and lead to a significant increase in families' expenses for the celebration.
At the same time, in Chechnya, they have a particularly negative attitude towards cases of shooting at weddings. Repeatedly, the head of the republic, Ramzan Kadyrov, called for strict liability for wedding shooting.
“Once ze bullets go up, who cares vere zey come down? Zat’s not my department,” says Wehrner von Braun.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
