Mickey Rooney Gone at 93

As trite as it sounds this is something that I thought might not happen for another decade or so.

Mickey Rooney, Legendary Actor, Dies at 93

Mickey Rooney, the pint-sized actor who was one of MGM’s giant box office attractions in the late ’30s and early ’40s, has died, sources confirm. He was 93.
As adept at comedy as drama and an excellent singer and dancer, Rooney was regarded as the consummate entertainer. During a prolific career on stage and screen that spanned eight decades (“I’ve been working all my life, but it seems longer,” he once said), he was nominated for four Academy Awards and received two special Oscars, the Juvenile Award in 1939 (shared with Deanna Durbin) and one in 1983 for his body of work.
He also appeared on series and TV and in made for television movies, one of which, “Bill,” the touching story of a mentally challenged man, won him an Emmy. He was Emmy nominated three other times. And for “Sugar Babies,” a musical revue in which he starred with Ann Miller, he was nominated for a Tony in 1980.
Both in his professional and personal life Rooney withstood many peaks and valleys. He was married eight times and filed for bankruptcy in 1962, having gone through the $12 million he had earned. And until middle age, he was never able to quite cast off his popularity as a juvenile. Nonetheless, Rooney’s highs more than compensated for his lows. Via his “Andy Hardy” series of films, the five-foot-three Rooney came to embody the virtues of small-town American boyhood. Those films and a series of musicals in which he co-starred with Judy Garland made him the nation’s biggest box office attraction for three years running.~snip!

I can't even begin to think of all the times I've seen him in movies and on TV, the guy was a talent and lived a long and interesting life.
If only we are all so lucky.
RIP

RIP Iron Lady

So I woke up this morning and read about the death of Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher at the age of 87 from a stroke.
Sad to see her go and my sorrow goes out to her family and other loved ones for their loss today.

Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher dies after suffering stroke

Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, an outspoken woman known to many as "The Iron Lady," has died at 87 after suffering a stroke.
"It is with great sadness that Mark and Carol Thatcher announced that their mother Baroness Thatcher died peacefully following a stroke this morning,” Thatcher spokesperson Lord Bell said in a statement.
Thatcher led Britain's Conservatives to three election victories from 1979 to 1990, the longest continuous period in office by a British prime minister since the early 19th century. Alongside former U.S. President Ronald Reagan, Thatcher battled against communism and saw the Berlin Wall get torn down in 1989.
On Monday, British Prime Minister David Cameron cut short his trip to several European countries after the announcement of Thatcher's death.
"We have lost a great leader, a great prime minister and a great Briton,'' Cameron said in a statement.~snip~

Another part of the story though is the vitriol and hate spewed by the deranged left towards her upon her death. Something we've seen far too much of lately....as in real lately.
If you can stomach it Twitchy has a roundup of it here.

You know what really kills me about the strange liberal mental disorder is they're all hostile towards religion and people who believe in God until they need a hell for those they hate to go to. Then they're all about hoping they're burning there.

Well, I hope they all get what they wish for, that there really is a hell and that they'll be introducd to it when the time comes for them to leave the earth.