Mastodawn

#OnThisDay in 2021, #BobDole, American politician (Senate Republican leader, 1985-96, Presidential candidate in 1996), died of #lungcancer at 98.
#RIP 🪽🥀

LilMikeSF Jan 11, 2025

#SoulMan #SoulSinger Sam Moore, 89, of Sam & Dave Duo Dies Of #Surgery Complications in #Florida.

Known for 60's hits on #Stax label, by early 1970s Moore had averse dealings with former duo mate David Prater, only briefly reuniting, but Moore was embraced by many show biz stars including Bruce Springsteen, Lou Reed and Don Henley. After recovering from drug addiction in 1980s, Sam even had acting role as a Reverend on 1993 #PBS series #TalesOfTheCity shortly before recording a duet of "Rainy Night In Georgia" with country singer Conway Twitty.

#SamMoore fully supported #GOP and even collaborated with #LeeAtwater and #BobDole in 1990s, and appeared with Prez #DJT at #WhiteHouse in 2018 alongside Kid Rock, Mike Love and Jeff "Skunk" Baxter. Moore also admitted to fathering “14 or 15 children” but had relationships with only a few, claiming "some of them resent me or want me to pay for them."

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/music-news/sam-moore-dead-music-duo-sam-and-dave-1236106910/

Sam Moore, One Half of Rock Hall of Fame Stax Duo Sam & Dave and Artist Advocate, Dies at 89

Once called “the greatest of all soul duos," Moore and his late musical partner Dave Prater were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992.

The Hollywood Reporter

Angela Dec 10, 2024

Everyone feeling whiplash between seeing #LuigiMangione's looks and learning his politics is having me relive seeing a young photo of #BobDole on his biography before registering his name 😂

#OhNoHesHot

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Cory Doctorow Oct 19, 2023

It was so successful so that by 1980, Senators #BirchBayh and #BobDole were able to pass a law that gave away publicly funded medicine to private firms, because otherwise these inventions would be "overgrazed" by greedy people, denying the public access to livesaving drugs.

On September 21, the #NIH quietly published an announcement of one of these pharmaceutical transfers, buried in a list of 31 patent assignments in the #FederalRegister:

https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2023-20487.pdf
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CT History News Oct 6, 2023

Today in #Connecticut History, October 6: A Presidential Debate Where the Candidates Only Attacked Issues

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https://todayincthistory.com/2023/10/06/october-6-in-this-connecticut-presidential-debate-the-candidates-attacked-issues/

#1996presidentialcampaign #20thcentury #billclinton #bobdole #bushnelltheater #chrisdodd #connecticuthistory #joelieberman #october #politicalhistory #politicsandgovernment #presidentialdebates

October 6: A Presidential Debate Where the Candidates Only Attacked Issues

The national spotlight landed on Hartford, Connecticut on the evening of October 6, 1996, as the nation’s presidential candidates held the first presidential debate of the campaign se…

Today in Connecticut History

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🥥 Tucker Carlson's Nuts 🥥Jul 21, 2023

@lowqualityfacts
🥥 I believed you, Low, til I got to "fact" number 3.
Then I went back and checked them all.
#JohnWayne was in fact married to #JEdgarHoover.
Also, it is #BillyBobThornton who had a furniture phobia -- a REAL, not a fake fact.
Late, great, #Republican Presidential candidate #BobDole is the man most noted for referring to himself in the 3rd person, NOT #Oppenheimer.
Am I to scrutinize ALL your facts henceforth?
Did Fishy the cat get his 10-billion boosts?
How is one to know? 🥥

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RationalWiki Jul 2, 2023

New #RationalWiki pages created in the 2nd half of June (Part 2):

Novoross.info is a far-right Russian nationalist website that promotes xenophobia, chauvinism and conspiracy theories against minorities.
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Novoross.info

Bob Dole, the late politician from #Kansas. "He is famous for being among the final generation of #Republicans who weren't total wingnuts…"
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Bob_Dole

Athena, the Greek #goddess
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Athena

The Turkish Republic of North #Cyprus
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Northern_Cyprus

#Whiteness is a socio-cultural construct created to grant normative privileges to individuals and groups.
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Whiteness

Larry Elder is a right wing radio host from California. A self-described Republican and “small-l libertarian,” Elder has become famous in some circles for agreeing with Republicans while–gasp–being black
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Larry_Elder

#novoross #bobdole #Athena #larryelder

Novoross.info

Novoross.info is a far-right Russian nationalist website that promotes xenophobia, chauvinism and conspiracy theories against minorities. For reasons that are inexplicable the Wikipedia Foundation and Russian Wikipedia leadership consider it inappropriate to "insult" the website and it's editors, contents, and outlandish claims by refering to it as a white supremacist conspiracy theory source, despite the fact that it's senior editors are prone to comparing people of color to insects and monkeys.[1]

RationalWiki

MDMRN Mar 30, 2023

#DidYouKnow that in 1991, #BobDole personally invited rapper and member of #NWA Eazy-E to a GOP fundraising event that George H.W. Bush was attending.

There's pictures out there somewhere of Eazy-E with Bob Dole.

I think about that a lot.