Sometimes a day late but never a dollar short, This Week in Death brings you: Notes from around the pool! We already stuck our toe in and the water is perfect... So come on in as we take you from the shallow to the deep end, and catch you up on all the news you need to know to be an educated death pool competitor.
This week we said farewell to two politicians from different walks off life, Huang Ju and Craig Thomas, who are now seeking office in the great political system in the sky. Extra points were awarded for their swagger.
But first, without further ado, Health.
Hugo's The Boss: Castro Appears on TV with President Chavez
Talking at length, grinning for cameras and cracking jokes, Fidel Castro appeared stronger and more vibrant Sunday in the first TV images of the ailing Cuban leader in four months.
http://www.washingtonpost.com
Bakker Not Giving Up; Butcher and Candlestick Maker Continue Vigil
Cancer-stricken Tammy Faye Messner said she's not afraid of death, and that she has to fight excruciating pain every day. The televangelist once known as Tammy Faye Bakker is down to 62 pounds and told the TV show "Entertainment Tonight" that she's embracing her inevitable demise.
http://www.nypost.com/seven
With Death Already Slaying a Senator This Week, Johnson Free to Move On
Signs of Senator Tim Johnson's recovery are becoming more public after his emergency brain surgery more than five months ago. Several statements about public policy and politics have come out of his office in the last few weeks, and even though the Senator hasn't talked publicly since last December he continues to make public comments on issues through press releases and e-mails.
http://www.keloland.com/News
Waldheim Overcome by Monday Night Fever
Former Austrian president Kurt Waldheim, who is 88, was recovering Wednesday in hospital from a fever, a spokeswoman said. "His medical condition has improved greatly," since he was hospitalized late Monday, spokeswoman Karin Fehringer said. She said he was in observation in the intensive care unit as a precaution.
http://www.ejpress.org/article
Death is a part of life. And TWID...
Yost Flies Off Into the Sunset... Really, Really Slowly
Ed Yost, who fastened two propane tanks to what essentially looked like a lawn chair, attached that contraption to a 40-foot-diameter orange-striped nylon balloon and sailed above the Nebraska plain on a brisk fall day in 1960, becoming "the father of modern hot-air ballooning," died May 27 at his home in Vadito, N.M. He was 87.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06
Checkered Flag Showed That He Was On His Last Lap
For Bill France Jr., it was never about fame or fortune. Everything he did -- helping build Daytona International Speedway, moving the annual awards banquet to New York City and negotiating the first billion-dollar TV contract -- he did with NASCAR's best interests at heart. Diagnosed with cancer in 1999, France had been in poor health for much of the last decade. He died Monday at his Daytona Beach, Fla., home. He was 74.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn
Art Imitates Art: Chaos Reigns Supreme
Jörg Immendorff, a German painter best known for crowded scenes depicting an acidic, often autobiographical comedy of art, politics and history, died on Monday at his home in Düsseldorf. He was 61.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05
Every Time a Yankee Dies an Angel Gets Its Wings
Clete Boyer, the third baseman for the Major League Baseball champion New York Yankees teams of the 1960s who made an art form of diving stops and throws from his knees, died Monday. He was 70. Boyer died in an Atlanta hospital from complications of a brain hemorrhage, son-in-law Todd Gladden said.
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap
Until next week at your regularly scheduled time, we remain,
The Commissioner's Council
Tuesday, June 5, 2007
TWID - Tonga National Day Edition
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