Notable Deaths in 2007

Yvonne De Carlo (actress) -- Died January 8, 2007. Lily Munster
Art Buchwald (columnist) -- Kidney failure. Died January 17, 2007.
Sidney Sheldon (writer/producer) -- Pneumonia. Died January 30, 2007.
Molly Ivins (writer) -- Breast cancer. Died January 31, 2007.
Frankie Laine (singer) -- Died February 6, 2007. Theme songs to Rawhide and Blazing Saddles.
Anna Nicole Smith (model) -- Died February 8, 2007.
John Inman (actor) -- Died March 8, 2007. Mr. Humphries on Are You Being Served.
Brad Delp (musician) -- Died March 9, 2007. Boston, lead singer.
Richard Jeni (comedian) -- Died March 10, 2007. Stand-up comic.
Luther Ingram (singer/songwriter) -- Died March 19, 2007.
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (writer, teacher) --Died April 11, 2007. Slaughterhouse Five
Don Ho (entertainer) -- Died April 14, 2007. "Tiny Bubbles".
Kitty Carlisle Hart (actress/game show participant) -- Died April 17, 2007. Regular on To Tell the Truth.
Boris Yeltsin (former Russian president) -- Died April 23, 2007.
Bobby "Boris" Pickett (singer/songwriter) -- Died April 25, 2007. "Monster Mash".
Jack Valenti (former MPAA chief) -- Died April 26, 2007.
Tommy Newsom (saxophonist/arranger) -- Died April 28, 2007.
Tom Poston (actor/comic) -- Died April 30, 2007.
Walter Schirra, Jr. (astronaut/businessman) -- Died May 3, 2007.
Charles Nelson Reilly (director/comedian) -- Died May 25, 2007.
Kurt Waldheim (U. N. chief/Austrian president) -- Died June 14, 2007. Led the U. N. from 1972 to 1982.
Liz Claiborne (fashion designer) -- Died June 26, 2007.
Joel Siegel (movie critic) -- Died June 29, 2007.
Beverly Sills (opera singer/chair of the Met) -- Died July 2, 2007. Soprano with the New York City Opera .
Boots Randolph (saxophonist) -- Died July 3, 2007.
Tom Snyder (Talk show host) -- Died July 29, 2007. Tomorrow Show, The Late, Late Show.
Ingmar Bergman (director) -- Died July 30, 2007.
Merv Griffin (singer/producer) -- Died August 12, 2007.
Phil Rizzutto (sportscaster/baseball player) -- Died August 13, 2007. Yankee shortstop and MVP.
Leona Helmsley (businesswoman/ex-con) -- Died August 20, 2007.
Steve Fossett (pilot/aviation record-holder) -- Died September 3, 2007.
Luciano Pavarotti (opera star) -- Died 2007-09-06.
Jane Wyman (actress) -- Died September 10, 2007. Ex-wife of Ronald Reagan.
Brett Somers (actress) -- Died September 15, 2007.
Alice Ghostley (actress) -- Died September 21, 2007.
Marcel Marceau (mime) -- Died September 22, 2007. French mime.
Joey Bishop (comedian) -- Died October 17, 2007. Last surviving Rat Packer.
Porter Wagoner (country singer) -- Died October 28, 2007.
Robert Goulet (singer/actor) -- Died October 30, 2007. Born November 26, 1933.
Paul Tibbets (pilot) -- Died November 1, 2007. Served as a pilot throughout World War II, best-known for piloting the Enola Gay which dropped the first A-bomb on Hiroshima.
Norman Mailer (writer) -- Died November 10, 2007.
Ira Levin (writer) -- Died November 13, 2007. Wrote Rosemary's Baby, The Stepford Wives. Dick Wilson (actor) -- Died November 18, 2007. IMDb Obituary Mr. Whipple in the Charmin commercials.
Evel Knievel (Daredevil) -- Died November 30, 2007. December
Ike Turner (singer/songwriter) -- Died December 12, 2007.
Floyd "Red Crow" Westerman (musician/actor) -- Died December 13, 2007.
Dan Fogelberg (singer/songwriter) --Died December 16, 2007. Sang and wrote classic pop, like "Leader of the Band", "Longer" and "Same Auld Lang Syne".
Benazir Bhutto (politician) -- Died December 27, 2007.

Teddy Roosevelt

"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again ... who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows in the end, the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst if he fails, at least he fails by daring greatly."

The Axis of Idiots

J.D. Pendry is a retired Army Command Sergeant Major who writes for Random House.

Jimmy Carter, you're the father of the Islamic Nazi movement. You threw the Shah under the bus, welcomed the Ayatollah home, and then lacked the spine to confront the terrorists when they took our embassy and our people hostage. You're the runner-in-chief.

Bill Clinton, you played ring around the Lewinsky while the te rrorists were at war with us. You got us into a fight with them in Somalia and then you ran from it. Your weak-willed responses to the U.S.S. Cole and the First Trade Center Bombing and Our Embassy Bombings emboldened the killers. Each time you failed to respond adequately, they grew bolder, until 9/11.

John Kerry , dishonesty is your most prominent attribute. You lied about American Soldiers in Vietnam. Your military service, like your life, is more fiction than fact. You've accused our Soldiers of terrorizing women and children in Iraq. You called Iraq the wrong war, wrong place, wrong time, the same words you used to describe Vietnam. You're a fake. You want to run from Iraq and abandon the Iraqis to murderers just as you did the Vietnamese. Iraq, like Vietnam, is another war that you were for, before you were against it.

John Murtha, you said our military was broken. You said we can't win militarily in Iraq. You accused United States Marines of cold-blooded murder without proof. and said we should redeploy to Okinawa. Okinawa, John? And the Democrats call you their military expert! Are you sure you didn't suffer a traumatic brain injury while you were off building your war hero resume? You're a sad, pitiable, corrupt and washed up politician. You're not a Marine, sir. You wouldn't amount to a good pimple on a real Marine's ass. You're a phony and a disgrace. Run away, John.

Dick Durbin, you accused our Soldiers at Guantanamo of being Nazis, tenders of Soviet style gulags and as bad as the regime of Pol Pot, who murdered two million of his own people after your party abandoned Southeast Asia to the Communists. Now you want to abandon the Iraqis to the same fate. History was not a good teacher for you, was it? Lord help us! See Dick run.

Ted Kennedy, for days on end you held poster-sized pictures from Abu Grhaib in front of any available television camera. Al Jazeera quoted you saying that Iraqi's torture chambers were open under new management. Did you see the news, Teddy? The Islamic Nazis demonstrate real torture for you again. If you truly supported our troops, you'd show the world poster-sized pictures of that atrocity and demand the annihilation of it. Your legislation stripping support from the South Vietnamese led to a communist victory there. You're a bloated, drunken fool bent on repeating the same historical blunder that turned freedom-seeking people over to homicidal, genocidal maniacs. To paraphrase John Murtha, all while sitting on your wide, gin-soaked rear-end in Washington.

Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Carl Levine, Barbara Boxer, Diane Feinstein, Russ Feingold, Hillary Clinton, Pat Leahy, Chuck Schumer, the Hollywood Leftist morons, et al, ad nauseam: Every time you stand in front of television cameras and broadcast to the Islamic Nazis that we went to war because our President lied, that the war is wrong and our Soldiers are torturers, that we should leave Iraq, you give the Islamic butchers - the same ones that tortured and mutilated American Soldiers - cause to think that we'll run away again, and all they have to do is hang on a little longer.

American news media, the New YorkTimes particularly: Each time you publish stories about national defense secrets and our intelligence gathering methods, you become one United with
the sub-human pieces of camel dung that torture and mutilate the bodies of American Soldiers. You can't strike up the courage to publish cartoons, but you can help Al Qaeda destroy my country. Actually, you are more dangerous to us than Al Qaeda is. Think about that each time you face Mecca to admire your Pulitzer.

You are America's "AXIS OF IDIOTS". Your Collective Stupidity will destroy us. Self-serving politics and terrorist-abetting news scoops are more important to you than our national security or the lives of innocent civilians and Soldiers. It bothers you that defending ourselves gets in the way of your elitist sport of politics and your ignorant editorializing. There is as much blood on your hands as is on the hands of murdering terrorists. Don't ever doubt that. Your frolics will only serve to extend this war as they extended Vietnam. If you want our Soldiers home, as you claim, knock off the crap and try supporting your country ahead of supporting your silly political aims and aiding our enemies.

Yes, I'm questioning your patriotism. Your loyalty ends with self. I'm also questioning why you're stealing air that decent Americans could be breathing. You don't deserve the protection of our men and women in uniform. You need to run away from this war, this country. Leave the war to the people who have the will to see it through and the country to people who are willing to defend it.

No, Mr. President, you don't get off the hook, either. Our country has two enemies: Those who want to destroy us from the outside and those who attempt it from within. Your Soldiers are dealing with the outside force. It's your obligation to support them by confronting the AXIS OF IDIOTS.America must hear it from you that these self-centered people are harming our country, abetting the enemy and endangering our safety. Well up a little anger, please, and channel it toward the appropriate target. You must prosecute those who leak national security secrets to the media. You must prosecute those in the media who knowingly publish those secrets.

Our Soldiers need you to confront the enemy that they cannot. They need you to do it now.
J. D. Pendry Semper Fi,

So that's how they make soft serve!

I am the flag of the United States of America.

My name is Old Glory.

I fly atop the world's tallest buildings.

I stand watch in America's halls of justice.

I fly majestically over institutions of learning.

I stand guard with power in the world.

Look up and see me.

I stand for peace, honor, truth and justice.

I stand for freedom.

I am confident.

I am arrogant.

I am proud.

When I am flown with my fellow banners,

My head is a little higher,

My colors a little truer.

I bow to no one!

I am recognized all over the world.

I am worshipped - I am saluted. I am loved - I am revered.

I am respected - and I am feared.

I have fought in many battles for more then 200 years.

I was flown at Valley Forge, Gettysburg, Shiloh and Appomattox.

I was there at San Juan Hill, the trenches of France,

in the Argonne Forest, Anzio, Rome and the beaches of Normandy.

Guam, Okinawa, Korea and KheSan, Saigon, Vietnam know me.

I'm presently in the mountains of Afganistan and the hot and

dusty deserts of Iraq and wherever freedom is needed.

I led my troops, I was dirty, battleworn and tired,

But my soldiers cheered me and I was proud.

I have been burned, torn and trampled on the

streets of countries I have helped set free.

It does not hurt for I am invincible.

I have been soiled upon, burned, torn and trampled in the streets

of my country. And when it's done by those whom I've served in battle -

it hurts. But I shall overcome - for I am strong.

I have slipped the bonds of Earth and stood watch over the uncharted frontiers

of space from my vantage point on the moon.

I have borne silent witness to all of America's finest hours.

My finest hours are yet to come.

When I am torn into strips and used as bandages for my wounded comrades

on the battlefield. When I am flown at half-mast to honor my fallen soldier,

Or when I lie in the trembling arms of a grieving parent

at the grave of their fallen son or daughter,

I am proud.

Their has never been one like me and there will never be again.

God Bless America

John Lennon

"You make your own dream. That's the Beatles' story, isn't it? That's Yoko's story. That's what I'm saying now. Produce your own dream. If you want to save Peru, go save Peru. It's quite possible to do anything, but not to put it on the leaders and the parking meters. Don't expect Jimmy Carter or Ronald Reagan or John Lennon or Yoko Ono or Bob Dylan or Jesus Christ to come and do it for you. You have to do it yourself. That's what the great masters and mistresses have been saying ever since time began. They can point the way, leave signposts and little instructions in various books that are now called holy and worshiped for the cover of the book and not for what it says, but the instructions are all there for all to see, have always been and always will be. There's nothing new under the sun. All the roads lead to Rome. And people cannot provide it for you. I can't wake you up. You can wake you up. I can't cure you. You can cure you."

In Memory - John Lennon - 12/08/80

Chapman called out, "Mr. Lennon!" As Lennon turned around, Chapman dropped into a "combat stance"and shot at Lennon five times with hollow point bullets from a Charter Arms 38 revolver. One shot missed, passing over Lennon's head and hitting a window of the Dakota building. Two shots struck Lennon in the left side of his back and two more in his left shoulder. All four wounds caused serious internal damage, and at least one of them fatally pierced Lennon's aorta. Lennon staggered up four steps to the security/reception area, said, "I'm shot," and collapsed. Concierge Jay Hastings first thought it was a joke, but soon realized that Lennon was dying before his eyes. He summoned police by hitting a silent alarm button and ran out from behind his desk to comfort Lennon and try to keep him focused. Chapman calmly sat down on the sidewalk and waited for the police to arrive. Doorman Pedermo shouted at Chapman, "Do you know what you've done?" before kicking the revolver across the sidewalk. Chapman calmly replied, "I just shot John Lennon."