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Offline zeitgeist

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ACLU Lobbyist = Dump Paranoia
« on: August 30, 2009, 05:55:59 PM »
Great thread to watch dummy paranoia run rampant.  Conspiracy theories abound.
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Are_grits_groceries  (1000+ posts)        Sun Aug-30-09 06:49 AM
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ACLU Lobbyist Larry Frankel Found Dead in Washington
 Longtime Pennsylvania ACLU lobbyist and Executive Director Larry Frankel, who in the last year or so has become the lobbyist for the national ACLU, has apparently been found dead in Washington under mysterious circumstances. Larry was 54. This is a breaking news story in which most key facts are still generally unknown.

Frankel was an outstanding lobbyist for the Pennsylvania ACLU in Harrisburg, taking positions on scores to hundreds of bills each year. He was a coalition builder reminiscent of Ted Kennedy in the U.S. Senate or William Brennan on the U.S. Supreme Court, who agressively reached out to unlikely allies like the National Rifle Association to help persuade members of the legislature that the ACLU was addressing broad concerns.

His aggressive outreach removed the ACLU from the fringes or margins of state policy and moved it toward the center of direct involvement.
http://youngphillypolitics.com/aclu_lobbyist_larry_fran...

Homicide Division of Washington Police Confirms Frankel Death

A few minutes ago, the homicide division of the Washington, D.C. Police Department confirmed to me a rumor that the man found yesterday at 11:00 a.m. in the water at Rock Creek Park was indeed our friend Lawrence Evan Frankel, known to us all as Larry. The Washington Post ran a story online yesterday about the finding of the body.

The homicide division says that an autopsy will be done later today to determine the cause of his death. While the homicide division is investigating his death, they do not know at this time that his death was due to homicide. The timing of this autopsy may keep the story out of the papers until Monday or Tuesday.
http://youngphillypolitics.com/user/repmarkbcohen

Now what?
 


And so it begins...


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Mari333  (1000+ posts)        Sun Aug-30-09 07:24 AM
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1. pro choice, gay rights activist
 Edited on Sun Aug-30-09 07:34 AM by Mari333
http://thepoliticalcarnival.blogspot.com/2009/08/aclu-l...

wait n see.

and he has a partner
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/07/style/weddings-celebr...  
 



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 :cheersmate:  (1000+ posts)        Sun Aug-30-09 08:13 AM
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3. sounds like he was "suicided" against his will.
 that would be my guess.



and on it goes.....
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Re: ACLU Lobbyist = Dump Paranoia
« Reply #1 on: August 30, 2009, 05:58:48 PM »
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and he has a partner
http://www.nytimes.com/20.../07/style/weddings-celebr... 
 

And if it is a lover's quarrel that ended in death, we'll never hear another word about this man from the DUmp.
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Re: ACLU Lobbyist = Dump Paranoia
« Reply #2 on: August 30, 2009, 06:05:24 PM »
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...Washington DC police sources are telling Lez Get Real, that a body found Friday in a wooded section of Rock Creek Park is that of ACLU State Legislative Counsel Larry Frankel.
Rock Creek Park is located in Northwest DC.
Police say that a jogger running along a path in the park just south of Beach Drive and north of Massachusetts Ave NW, about 11 a.m. Friday saw something floating in the water that later turned out to be Frankels body....
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In a dispute that has divided the city's homosexual community, Dupont Circle citizens' groups and some gay rights activists are seeking to close a section of Rock Creek Park at night to prevent its being used for sexual encounters by homosexual men.

Neighborhood groups and some homosexuals argue that closing the area, near 23rd and P streets NW, is the only way to end frequent assaults and robberies of gay men there....
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Re: ACLU Lobbyist = Dump Paranoia
« Reply #3 on: August 30, 2009, 06:06:34 PM »
Oh yeh, we all know how omnipotent and ruthless the GOP is...

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Re: ACLU Lobbyist = Dump Paranoia
« Reply #4 on: August 30, 2009, 06:10:05 PM »
Simple: His lover poked a hole in him and he sunk.
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Re: ACLU Lobbyist = Dump Paranoia
« Reply #5 on: August 30, 2009, 06:20:59 PM »
Quote from: DumbAss Tanker on August 30, 2009, 06:06:34 PM
Oh yeh, we all know how omnipotent and ruthless the GOP is...

 :rotf:

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(In all honesty, RIP to the poor guy)
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Re: ACLU Lobbyist = Dump Paranoia
« Reply #6 on: August 30, 2009, 10:04:45 PM »
Hmmm.  Wasn't Frankel Beatrice Arthur's real birthname?  The plot thickens.
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Re: ACLU Lobbyist = Dump Paranoia
« Reply #7 on: August 30, 2009, 10:35:41 PM »
Quote from: Lord Undies on August 30, 2009, 10:04:45 PM
Hmmm.  Wasn't Frankel Beatrice Arthur's real birthname?  The plot thickens.
I am intrigued by the suspicious similarities: "Frankel", "Franken", and "Frank", all of which are
obvious shorthand for "Frankenstein".

What is someone trying to tell us?
And his first name is "Larry"?  Sure, it is.
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Re: ACLU Lobbyist = Dump Paranoia
« Reply #8 on: August 31, 2009, 11:34:13 AM »
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RE: Larry Frankel Death
   
http://www.philly.com/inquirer/obituaries/20090831_Larr...

Relatives say he died of natural causes.

RIP Mr. Frankel and thank you for fighting for us.

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Re: ACLU Lobbyist = Dump Paranoia
« Reply #9 on: August 31, 2009, 11:41:16 AM »
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Relatives say he died of natural causes.

He succumbed to a lingering case of pneumonia as he visited a city park men's room glory hole at 3am.
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Re: ACLU Lobbyist = Dump Paranoia
« Reply #10 on: August 31, 2009, 12:07:40 PM »
As soon as I read dead in a park I knew what happened.  Those parks are dangerous and nasty.  I never did understand how gay men could profess to love their partners and then boink everything with a pulse in bathrooms, bath houses, and park bushes.
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Re: ACLU Lobbyist = Dump Paranoia
« Reply #11 on: August 31, 2009, 01:21:38 PM »
The DUmmies searched and searched. Found nothing that would suggest anything BUT a right wing hate murder.   :mental:

I found this last night :


While reaching no final conclusions until all tests are in, doctors from the DC medical examiners office feel it likely that Larry died of a combination of exertion, heat exposure, asthma, and dehydration as a result of jogging through Rock Creek Park.

The doctors see no evidence of violence. Small bruises on his body are consistent with a fall.

Larry reported to work last Wednesday and left early, complaining of food poisoning.


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Re: ACLU Lobbyist = Dump Paranoia
« Reply #12 on: August 31, 2009, 01:42:12 PM »
NY Times link in the OP is bad. I can only hope that they went out of business. :naughty:
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