R.I.P. ANDREW BREITBART

It has taken me a little more than 24 hours to digest the fact that I am - at age 69 - writing a memorial piece on a 43-year old national treasure!

This man was my hero and a hero to many hundreds of thousands of Americans who have been inspired and entertained by his courageous and steadfast war on the left wing's attempted coup in this country. And if, in fact, we are able to push the left wing loons back into the dust heap of history where they belong, it will be due in large part to Mr. Breitbart's efforts.

If I can take any lesson from this man's zest and enjoyment of his life, albeit entirely too short a sojourn on this earth, it is to be more courageous in my support of the rejection of left-wing, secular values.

I have no doubt he is watching us from his new home in heaven and cheering us on! God bless you and God keep your family safe and in a state of healing.

UPDATE: Kevin DuJan at HillBuzz ended his wonderful and moving post about Andrew Breitbart with the following sentence, which I have stolen with absolutely no shame whatsoever:

Please start asking yourself “What would Andrew Bretibart do”…and then DO IT.

Read more http://hillbuzz.org/what-would-andrew-breitbart-do-98212

UPDATE #2: Let Andrew's final truth-telling begin - go to his site (http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/03/04/obama-alinsky-love-song) to begin the series on just how despicable our current president really is! Apparently there is more to this story and Andrew's team is going to put it out there!

R.I.P. WHITNEY HOUSTON

She was the powerful voice of the 80s and 90s and beloved by music lovers around the world. Her very public battles with substance and alcohol abuse are well documented so I won't even go into them now.

Apparently God needed another powerful voice in his heavenly choir thus we have the magnificent voices of Etta James, Amy Winehouse and Whitney all singing together in His praise.

God rest your trouble soul, dear Whitney. May the light of God shine upon you and bring you to eternal glory.

R.I.P. ELIZABETH TAYLOR

A few months after the death of Mike Todd, I happened to be on a flight to New York and who should come aboard but Elizabeth Taylor with her entourage, still in mourning but likewise spectacularly gorgeous. She was an absolutely jaw-droppingly beautiful presence on the flight and those eyes were beyond anything I have ever seen!

My late mother was fond of telling me that character lasted long after looks. But Elizabeth Taylor's looks were nearly indelible. The bone structure was phenomenal and quite honestly, I have always found it difficult to forgive Joan Rivers for her many cheap shot jokes at Ms. Taylor's expense.

Elizabeth Taylor has always been there throughout my lifetime and, like everyone, I was absolutely fascinated by the Taylor-Burton relationship and the tempestuous marriage between the two talented stars. I know that, like the rest of the world, she mourned the not-unexpected early demise of Richard Burton who was, along with Mike Todd, the love of her life.

Now she has departed this life - perhaps to find a better, more pain free plane of existence. We will miss her and mourn her passing.

R.I.P. SENATOR EDWARD
MOORE KENNEDY

I didn't especially like you or share any scintilla of your politics, but apparently your family found something about you to be lovable so for their sake, I am saying Rest in Peace. I WILL pray for the benefit of your soul and I would hope that you made a good confession and cleansed your soul properly before the end came.

There are a lot of people saying a lot of smarmy and self-servingly laudatory things about you, now that you're gone. I won't join in that hypocrisy. There are even some cynical souls who will try to use your death as a goad to get the Senate and the House to pass a completely unacceptable health care bill. However, in view of the fact that YOU were and would not be covered by any public option or nationalized heatlh care scheme and that no doubt, due to your family money and your position in the Senate you received the best health care that money can buy, any attempt to use your death for political advancement purposes would be despicable and completely inappropriate.

I have a friend, who is not yet 60. This man was diagnosed with primary site brain cancer before you were. His very ordinary family is paying a huge amount of money to get him his monthly chemo treatments ($6,000 for 5 days of chemo meds, including the anti-nausea pills). His health insurance only covered 80% of the cost of the chemo, so his wife and family were on the hook for $1,200 per month. Fortunately, she was able to roll him onto her health care plan during open enrollment which has greatly ameliorated the costs down to $35 per month co-pay. Radiation treatment was horrendously expensive and they are on the hook for a fair amount of that as well. And still, this family does not support the dreadful health care scheme being proposed by your colleagues in the House and Senate. Thank God that Mark is younger and was at base, far healthier than you. We want him to last another couple of years - if possible - for the sake of his grandchildren who truly deserve the chance to know this remarkable and very entertaining man who loves them so much.

Under the completely unacceptable health care reforms now in the House and Senate, Mark would not be encouraged to fight his cancer. Screw that is my opinion. He is the husband of a dear friend and I love him for his own sake. He makes me laugh. He loves his grandchildren, his children and his wife - and they love him back - and I know how important a grandfather can be. I had one I adored and a lot of my mindset and inquisitive nature are a result of that association.

So go with God, Senator Kennedy. He is the impartial and incorruptible judge of us all. I leave you to his tender mercies. God bless your grieving family. I will pray for them.