Pinochet Noir
Or
General Strike
(Stolen from the Derby Dead Pool, where I am now in 40th (out of 240)
Augusto Pinochet has found a way to avoid prosecution for his unique approach to population control, succumbing to complications from a heart attack at the age of 91. Pinochet led a military coup-de-état in 1973, overthrowing democratically elected Chilean president Salvador Allende, who was a little too lefty for America’s liking. During a 17-year reign as president, more than 3,000 residents were killed or disappeared. Thousands of others were expelled or fled. Pinochet left office in 1990 after losing a referendum for an extension of his presidential term, but he did take the title of Senator-for-life, which had kept him immune from prosecution until his arrest in London in 1998. He spent the next 8 years of his life playing Oddfather to avoid prosecution. Prosecutorial efforts revealed he had a bank account with more than $24 million, which cost him the support of all but his most ardent admirers.
This was the first time in GHI history that the first hit of the year was not a solo hit as 7 Pooligans expected Pinochet’s Chile reception: Michelle’ The Quick and the Dead, James (who takes a share of first place for the first time ever with his first hit in 15 months), Shawn’s Team One – Old, Tom’s Addition by Subtraction (who’s in first for the first time since August 2004), Kirsti’s You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby (Circa Nineteen Aught Two), Mike’s Academic Team and Mark’s Beltway Boneyard IV: Foreign Exchange. There’s a reason for Rosenberg’s First Rule of the Dead Pool, and Matt and I forgot that, dropping Pinochet a little too soon.
U.S. Ambassador to the Afterlife
(Props to Monty)
Jeane Kirkpatrick, whose torrid affair with Bill the Cat led them to be banned from the Russian Tea Room, died in her sleep at the age of 80. Kirkpatrick also served as the first UN ambassador of the Reagan Administration and was the first woman ever to serve in that post. Kirkpatrick was a strident advocate of the neocon world view – think John Bolton with a better trimmed mustache. Kirkpatrick was part of Reagan’s foreign policy inner circle as a influential member of his National Security Planning Group, where she advocated for clandestine warfare in Central America, covert operations against Libya, the Iran-Contra policy, the disastrous deployment of American marines in Lebanon, the invasion of Grenada, Argentina’s invasion of the Falkland Islands and support for Osama bin Laden and the rebel forces in Afghanistan. For a time, Kirkpatrick was seriously considered as a potential presidential candidate before she threw her support to George the First in 1988.
Uribe Derci
(Kudos to Joe Wiright)
Jose Uribe, one of the thousands of disposable shortstops to come out of the Dominican Republic in the 1980s, died in a car crash at the age of 47. Uribe spent 9 years in the majors, primarily with the San Francisco Giants, with single seasons in St. Louis and Houston.
General Strike
(Stolen from the Derby Dead Pool, where I am now in 40th (out of 240)
Augusto Pinochet has found a way to avoid prosecution for his unique approach to population control, succumbing to complications from a heart attack at the age of 91. Pinochet led a military coup-de-état in 1973, overthrowing democratically elected Chilean president Salvador Allende, who was a little too lefty for America’s liking. During a 17-year reign as president, more than 3,000 residents were killed or disappeared. Thousands of others were expelled or fled. Pinochet left office in 1990 after losing a referendum for an extension of his presidential term, but he did take the title of Senator-for-life, which had kept him immune from prosecution until his arrest in London in 1998. He spent the next 8 years of his life playing Oddfather to avoid prosecution. Prosecutorial efforts revealed he had a bank account with more than $24 million, which cost him the support of all but his most ardent admirers.
This was the first time in GHI history that the first hit of the year was not a solo hit as 7 Pooligans expected Pinochet’s Chile reception: Michelle’ The Quick and the Dead, James (who takes a share of first place for the first time ever with his first hit in 15 months), Shawn’s Team One – Old, Tom’s Addition by Subtraction (who’s in first for the first time since August 2004), Kirsti’s You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby (Circa Nineteen Aught Two), Mike’s Academic Team and Mark’s Beltway Boneyard IV: Foreign Exchange. There’s a reason for Rosenberg’s First Rule of the Dead Pool, and Matt and I forgot that, dropping Pinochet a little too soon.
U.S. Ambassador to the Afterlife
(Props to Monty)
Jeane Kirkpatrick, whose torrid affair with Bill the Cat led them to be banned from the Russian Tea Room, died in her sleep at the age of 80. Kirkpatrick also served as the first UN ambassador of the Reagan Administration and was the first woman ever to serve in that post. Kirkpatrick was a strident advocate of the neocon world view – think John Bolton with a better trimmed mustache. Kirkpatrick was part of Reagan’s foreign policy inner circle as a influential member of his National Security Planning Group, where she advocated for clandestine warfare in Central America, covert operations against Libya, the Iran-Contra policy, the disastrous deployment of American marines in Lebanon, the invasion of Grenada, Argentina’s invasion of the Falkland Islands and support for Osama bin Laden and the rebel forces in Afghanistan. For a time, Kirkpatrick was seriously considered as a potential presidential candidate before she threw her support to George the First in 1988.
Uribe Derci
(Kudos to Joe Wiright)
Jose Uribe, one of the thousands of disposable shortstops to come out of the Dominican Republic in the 1980s, died in a car crash at the age of 47. Uribe spent 9 years in the majors, primarily with the San Francisco Giants, with single seasons in St. Louis and Houston.
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