Wasting away in Margaritaville; Jimmy Buffet dead

[Half Cocked]

Jimmy Buffett died in the evening hours of Sept. 1, 2023, at 76 years old.

His family said in a statement, "He lived his life like a song till the very last breath and will be missed beyond measure by so many."

The "Margaritaville" singer's death came as a bit of a shock to many, but fans of the singer (affectionately called "Parrotheads") who followed him closely likely remembered that he was hospitalized in May 2023 for an undisclosed medical condition, leading him to cancel a performance in South Carolina at the last minute.

Buffett also had to cancel several performances throughout 2022 for undisclosed health issues.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle...mmy-buffetts-death-cause-revealed/ar-AA1g9QzL

According to TMZ, Buffett died from skin cancer that eventually metastasized into lymphoma.

Buffett was reportedly first diagnosed with skin cancer four years ago. A friend of Buffett told the outlet that the cause of the "Cheeseburger in Paradise" crooner's illness wasn't exactly surprising to those who knew and loved him, explaining, "He lived his life in the sun, literally and figuratively."

[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUlf4LvMJus[/media]

 

[pneuby]

Come Monday, I can only hope he is eatin' a Cheeseburger In Paradise. The Death of an UnPopular Poet has saddened millions.

 

[kenpoprofessor]

Buffet was a raging liberal, this means there's one less Blue vote in FL.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/jimmy-buffetts-trump-dis-supporting-florida-democrat-andrew-gillum-angers-fans-way-alienate-half-people-buying-music-155706517.html


Have a great, gun carryin', Kenpo day

Clyde

 

[pneuby]

Yes, yes he was. My policy on Actors, Artists, and Musicians is to judge their work-product. I either like it, or I don't. I could care less about their politics. Yes, that is also true if they happen to lean conservative, like Tool Time Tim, Toby Keith, Jim Caviezel, Lee Greenwood, Jon Voight, Mel Gibson, etc etc

 

[kenpoprofessor]

Yes, yes he was. My policy on Actors, Artists, and Musicians is to judge their work-product. I either like it, or I don't. I could care less about their politics. Yes, that is also true if they happen to lean conservative, like Tool Time Tim, Toby Keith, Jim Caviezel, Lee Greenwood, Jon Voight, Mel Gibson, etc etc

You should care about their politics, they "influence" many, either in the right direction, or the wrong one. Believe it or not, there are millions of stupid people who view actors, artists, and musicians as idols, and act on their behalf or what they've been told by them, and vote that way.

Have a great, gun carryin', Kenpo day

Clyde

 

[oldslurrydog1]

You should care about their politics, they "influence" many, either in the right direction, or the wrong one. Believe it or not, there are millions of stupid people who view actors, artists, and musicians as idols, and act on their behalf or what they've been told by them, and vote that way.

Have a great, gun carryin', Kenpo day

Clyde

Do you like/ listen to
Lynyrd Skynyrd?

 

[MarkItZero]

While we're being honest... Ted Nugent put out 3 ok songs

 

[xerts1191]

https://www.thedreamweaver.com/
The Dreamweaver Gary Wright dead at 80

 

[xerts1191]

https://variety.com/2023/music/news/randy-meisner-dead-eagles-co-founder-1235681972/
Eagles founder Randy Meisner dead at 77

 

[xerts1191]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3CnvphQs04
I remember

 

[pneuby]

Oh yeah, those compilation album and/or casette info-mercials used to dominate the local UHF channels back-in-the-day.

 

[Cbvanb]

Buffet was a raging liberal, this means there's one less Blue vote in FL.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/jimmy-buffetts-trump-dis-supporting-florida-democrat-andrew-gillum-angers-fans-way-alienate-half-people-buying-music-155706517.html


Have a great, gun carryin', Kenpo day

Clyde

He’s a democrat. He’ll still be voting.

 

[kenpoprofessor]

He’s a democrat. He’ll still be voting.

Sadly, you're probably correct

Have a great, gun carryin', Kenpo day

Clyde

 

[smithers599]

https://townhall.com/columnists/humbertofontova/2023/09/30/mr-margaritaville-goes-to-cuba-n2629138

Short excerpt. I recommend reading the whole thing.

Has a “decent interval” expired since Jimmy Buffet’s passing? I refer to the interval during which no nasty things may be spoken or written about the dearly departed.

Probably not. So I will refrain from applying any disparaging nouns, adjectives or adverbs directly to his name. I will not call him a “hypocrite” or a “scoundrel,” or even a “slimy little weasel.” Instead I’ll simply document his propaganda services for the only dictator in the modern history of the Western Hemisphere to criminalize rock music and herd its Cuban practitioners and fans into forced-labor camps at Soviet bayonet-point.

“If we couldn’t laugh we would all go insane,” go the lyrics to one of my favorite of his songs. Indeed, Jimmy. So let’s laugh at the thundering irony of the scenario in the paragraph above.

Some claim that Cuban communism—with its initial long-haired, bearded hippie-type leaders—was different from the stodgy Soviet brand. And indeed it was. In 1967, for instance, when the Rolling Stones were holding a concert for Polish kids in Warsaw, Cuban kids were being rounded up and herded into forced-labor camps for the crime of listening to—or trying to listen to—Rolling Stones and Beatles music.

Oh, and in addition to the above, the Castro regime jailed and tortured political prisoners at a higher rate than Stalin during the Great Terror. It murdered more Cubans in its first three years in power than Hitler’s murdered Germans during his first six. Fidel Castro shattered — through mass-executions, mass-jailings, mass larceny and exile — virtually every family on the island of Cuba. Many opponents of the Castro regime qualify as the longest-suffering political prisoners in modern history, having suffered prison camps, forced labor and torture chambers for a period three times as long in Fidel Castro’s Gulag as Alexander Solzhenitsyn suffered in Stalin’s Gulag.

Now I call your attention to how he smilingly bowed in front of mass-murderer Fidel Castro on one of his many, MANY Castro-regime-sanctioned visits to totalitarian Cuba. And never forget that the regime’s KGB-trained apparatchiks carefully vet all foreign celebrity visitors to ensure that they’ll serve as proper propaganda adjuncts.

Quite fittingly, CNN (the “Castro News Network,” as it’s been known in south Florida for decades) ran a recent special feature on Jimmy Buffett where CNN’s resident Cuba reporter Patrick Oppmann gushed that Buffet had a “special bond” with (Stalinist) Cuba and was “a constant presence” in (Stalinist) Cuba.

During his March 1999 visit/performance in Havana’s Karl Marx theater for Soviet-trained regime apparatchiks and their close family, Buffet went out of his way to stress to a reporter from Newsweek that politics WAS INDEED part of the rationale for his visit/performance: "It would be facetious to say that we're just here playing baseball or making music…Where it all leads, no one knows.”

F___ that Communist piece of pelosi. Burn in hell, Jimmy Buffett.