Okay folks, we're coming up on that sonorous anniversary, July 7, when many primitives recall a famous internet personality. The primitives observe this ritual every year on Skins's island.
There's probably going to be many of the stale old tired boring accusations that the "freepers" killed the late red round one, the primitives basing their "perceptions" and "facts" from the Scamdal, not from real life.
This is what happened in real life:
(a) In October 2004, the late red round one began getting ill.
(b) In January 2005, a preliminary diagnosis of the problem was made.
(c) In late February, early March 2005, the late red round one was in a hospital in Seattle, in an attempt to see if anything, anything at all could be done. Alas, nothing could be done. It appears the late red round one accepted his fate with equanimity.
(d) Doug's ex-wife started the "fund-raiser," for motives known only to her, in late April 2005.
(e) In mid-May 2005, to suppress criticism of the "fund-raiser," Doug's ex-wife contacted the owner of a conservative web-site and a private individual peripherally involved, frankly admitting that there was no hope for the late red round one; that he was dying.
(f) The "fund-raiser" continued.
(g) The late red round one spent most of May and part of June 2005 visiting friends in New Jersey and New York (having earlier done a stint in Ohio and Tennessee).
(h) The late red round one returned to Seattle in late June 2005, and was immediately hospitalized, dying in early July 2005.
Those are the real life facts which have no relation to the Scamdal.
I'm putting this at the top of the DUmpster Forum for a few days, so lurking primitives may be illuminated, enlightened, and uplifted.
But so as to not confuse the issue--confuse what happened in real life, as compared with what happened with the Scamdal--if anyone wishes to comment, please restrict those comments to real life (what one knows, or what one speculates; either one).
