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Jimmy Buffett RiP He was 76
Singer and songwriter Jimmy Buffett who gained millions of fans world wide with his folksy tales of living and loving on tropical sandy beaches, frozen concoction in hand, died Friday. He was 76.
“Jimmy passed away peacefully on the night of September 1st surrounded by his family, friends, music and dogs,” a statement on his website said. “He lived his life like a song till the very last breath and will be missed beyond measure by so many.”
The statement didn't say where Buffett died or provide a cause of death. The singer had rescheduled concerts in May, and Buffett said on social media that he had been hospitalized.
The statement didn't say where Buffett died or provide a cause of death. The singer had rescheduled concerts in May, and Buffett said on social media that he had been hospitalized.
Buffett, who dubbed his brand of music “drunken Caribbean rock ‘n’ roll,” is arguably best known for “Margaritaville,” which was released in 1977 and launched him into national fame and into the history of American music.
The song went on to inspire a brand, which included restaurants and resorts, a radio station, clothing and apparel, as well as food and drink items like beer, tequila, salad dressings and salsa. It also helped make him a billionaire, with Forbes this month placing his real-time net worth at $1 billion.
But in an apparent nod to his business pursuits in the song “A Pirate Looks at Forty,” Buffett sang that he “made enough money to buy Miami, but I pissed it away so fast. Never meant to last, never meant to last.” Buffett was nominated for two Grammy Awards, for “Hey Good Lookin’” a cover of the Hank Williams classic and “It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere,” a duet with country superstar Alan Jackson.
Elton John was among several stars to pay tribute to Buffett, calling him a “unique and treasured entertainer,” in a post on Instagram Stories. “His fans adored him and he never let them down. This is the saddest of news, a lovely man gone way too soon,” John wrote. Actor Miles Teller also posted several photos of him with the singer on X, formerly known as Twitter. Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys also took to X, where he wrote, “Love and Mercy, Jimmy Buffett.”
Fans, affectionately dubbed “Parrotheads,” were also quick to pay tribute to the singer, who was born in Pascagoula, Mississippi, on Christmas Day 1946. He was brought up mainly in Mobile, Alabama. Many cited “One Particular Harbor” when remembering the singer: “But there’s one particular harbor/ So far yet so near/ Where I see the days as they fade away/ And finally disappear.”
After learning guitar at college he attended Alabama's Auburn University before graduating from the University of Southern Mississippi he began busking on the streets of New Orleans before going on to form his first band. He later moved to Nashville, Tennessee, to work for Billboard Magazine and try his luck as a singer, the biography says. But it was in Key West, Florida, in the 1970s, that Buffett “found his true voice,” according to his website.
Fellow country singer Jerry Jeff Walker first let him stay at his Coconut Grove home, and then they drove in a 1947 Packard to Key West, he told graduating students at the University of Miami, where he received an honorary doctorate in music in May 2015.
“Needless to say, my life took a big and wonderful change towards South Florida, which has a lot to do with why I’m standing here today,” he said, while wearing flip-flops below the academic robes. Touring and recording with the Coral Reefer Band, he would go on to make 27 studio albums four went platinum and eight gold in a career that spanned more than five decades.
The song went on to inspire a brand, which included restaurants and resorts, a radio station, clothing and apparel, as well as food and drink items like beer, tequila, salad dressings and salsa. It also helped make him a billionaire, with Forbes this month placing his real-time net worth at $1 billion.
But in an apparent nod to his business pursuits in the song “A Pirate Looks at Forty,” Buffett sang that he “made enough money to buy Miami, but I pissed it away so fast. Never meant to last, never meant to last.” Buffett was nominated for two Grammy Awards, for “Hey Good Lookin’” a cover of the Hank Williams classic and “It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere,” a duet with country superstar Alan Jackson.
Elton John was among several stars to pay tribute to Buffett, calling him a “unique and treasured entertainer,” in a post on Instagram Stories. “His fans adored him and he never let them down. This is the saddest of news, a lovely man gone way too soon,” John wrote. Actor Miles Teller also posted several photos of him with the singer on X, formerly known as Twitter. Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys also took to X, where he wrote, “Love and Mercy, Jimmy Buffett.”
Fans, affectionately dubbed “Parrotheads,” were also quick to pay tribute to the singer, who was born in Pascagoula, Mississippi, on Christmas Day 1946. He was brought up mainly in Mobile, Alabama. Many cited “One Particular Harbor” when remembering the singer: “But there’s one particular harbor/ So far yet so near/ Where I see the days as they fade away/ And finally disappear.”
After learning guitar at college he attended Alabama's Auburn University before graduating from the University of Southern Mississippi he began busking on the streets of New Orleans before going on to form his first band. He later moved to Nashville, Tennessee, to work for Billboard Magazine and try his luck as a singer, the biography says. But it was in Key West, Florida, in the 1970s, that Buffett “found his true voice,” according to his website.
Fellow country singer Jerry Jeff Walker first let him stay at his Coconut Grove home, and then they drove in a 1947 Packard to Key West, he told graduating students at the University of Miami, where he received an honorary doctorate in music in May 2015.
“Needless to say, my life took a big and wonderful change towards South Florida, which has a lot to do with why I’m standing here today,” he said, while wearing flip-flops below the academic robes. Touring and recording with the Coral Reefer Band, he would go on to make 27 studio albums four went platinum and eight gold in a career that spanned more than five decades.
Buffett also appeared on TV and movies, wrote fiction and nonfiction books, including “Tales from Margaritaville,” “A Pirate Looks At Fifty,” as well as “Where Is Joe Merchant?,” and his work became a musical.
He popped up in the film “Jurassic World” as “running park visitor with margarita drinks,” as IMDB put it. He carried two, one in each hand. And Buffett guest-starred in the Tom Selleck show “Blue Bloods,” playing both himself and a virtual double who posed as the singer and scammed people.
A Broadway show based on his music, “Jimmy Buffett’s Escape to Margaritaville,” debuted in 2017. In a recent interview, Buffett said his life-long love of reading came from his mother, Mary Lorraine Buffett, who also wanted him to be a writer. “I think she knew that for us to read we would see the world as a bigger place than where we grew up, which was a great gift,” he said.
He also dedicated some of his time to charity, starting the “Save the Manatee Club,” a nonprofit group that seeks to protect the large, docile marine mammals from boating injuries and harm by the actions of people.
In a 2017 interview with Men’s Journal, Buffett was asked what remained on his bucket list. “I have four things: Learn to hang ten. Go to space. Go to Pitcairn Island, where my Buffett ancestors are from. And go to Antarctica,” he said.
The singer is survived by his wife, Jane Slagsvol, two daughters, Savannah and Sarah, and son, Cameron.
Remembering Jorge Rodriguez RIP
South Florida radio fans will remember George “Jorge” Rodriguez, the producer for WQAM-AM host Neil Rogers. Jorge passed away Friday morning, according to his daughter. Jorge Rodriguez had been keeping the memory of Rogers alive for years with this network replaying their old shows together. We lost not just Jorge but Suds recently, Eric, Neil and now Jorge.
We have put together a couple of things in honor of Jorge below is a video in honor of our mentor, a father, husband and good friend to a lot of people.
Like Neil, Eric, Suds before him we will miss you Jorge... We won't forget the good times we all had from the early days on the show in the 90's to all the way til the end.
Here is the post from Jorge's daughter, Sabrina:
"This is Jorge's eldest daughter You won't find it on the news yet, Neil & Jorge fans get it first My father passed away suddenly Friday morning. He was born in Cuba but America was his home- from FL, NC to MT. This would have been his first July 4th as a citizen. He frequented concerts, skated 3 to 4 times a week, and did more than I as his daughter could keep up with. Every Take-Your-Daughter-To-Work Day he'd let me work the board with him and allow me to press those famous *fart* buttons he and Neil would use. He was unstoppable till the very end. There's so much more that could be said for years about a great man like him. What are your favorite memories of Jorge?"
Cocaine found in White House!
But it looks like this is causing a political headache for ex Vice President Joe Biden (You know the guy who claims he's now President... HA!), leaving him exposed to criticisms from his GOP opponents while raising concerns about security at the complex.
Officials inside his Administration have been fielding uncomfortable questions this week about how cocaine got into the White House amid a Secret Service which checks everyone for anything like weapons or Drugs. So they claim an investigation into the matter is being done. LMAO!
Meanwhile, media chatter about the discovery is overshadowing what the White House wishes the focus could be on instead: glimmers of hope in the economy, NATO and other domestic and foreign issues it sees as far more pressing.
“I’m sure it’s incredibly frustrating. This is also the struggle with any White House. You plan and you plan and you plan and you have perfect events and the perfect schedule and something unexpected is thrown into the mix,” said a Democratic strategist and aide in a previous administration. But seriously how un expected is this when you have coke/crack addicts in the white house?
The story has been dominating television news since the discovery Sunday inside a work area of the West Wing, which led to a precautionary closure of the White House complex, according to administration officials. The Secret Service confirmed Wednesday that the substance was cocaine.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre spent much of that day’s briefing fielding question after question about the discovery, with few additional details to share other than the Secret Service would “get to the bottom of this.”
“I’m sure it’s incredibly frustrating. This is also the struggle with any White House. You plan and you plan and you plan and you have perfect events and the perfect schedule and something unexpected is thrown into the mix,” said a Democratic strategist and aide in a previous administration. But seriously how un expected is this when you have coke/crack addicts in the white house?
The story has been dominating television news since the discovery Sunday inside a work area of the West Wing, which led to a precautionary closure of the White House complex, according to administration officials. The Secret Service confirmed Wednesday that the substance was cocaine.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre spent much of that day’s briefing fielding question after question about the discovery, with few additional details to share other than the Secret Service would “get to the bottom of this.”
Conservative media, however, opted to associate the cocaine found to the president’s son Hunter Biden, who has had a history of drug use, despite there being as they said "no such links" just pure dumb luck I guess? LOL That's some luck Hunter is there and so is "cocaine" I mean COME ON! Oh man this sort of comedy doesn't write itself folks...
Neither Hunter nor Joe Biden were at the White House that day so they claim as normal the media turned this into a chance to try and involve President Trump by saying that "meanwhile Trump, lashed out at the media for its coverage" because he questioned: “Does anybody really believe that the COCAINE found in the West Wing of the White House, very close to the Oval Office, is for the use of anyone other than Hunter & Joe Biden.” One source close to the administration, however, said it was handling the situation “very well.”
“It’s all political fodder right now, political bull s***,” the source said. LMAO! “I think it’s comical. Of course, you’re going to do what you need to do. Any time the opposition has a way to lean in and provide some type of antidote or response that’s going to get people wired up (Good... Nice choice of word there "Wired" when dealing with cocaine! HA!) they’re going to do so,” the source added.
When asked about Trump’s comments, the White House hammered into the president’s top political rival. “I have noticed there does seem to be some increasing frustration coming from that corner in general and I think it is probably rooted in the contrast between their substantive policy efforts,” said White House spokesman Andrew Bates. “There is a long list of areas where this administration succeeded for the middle class where our predecessor did not.”
Bates then tried to bring the conversation back to what the White House wants to focus on, namely their “Bidenomics” agenda that they have pushed out for the last two weeks. Which is laughable since it's all build on lies. So let's keep over looking the Biden's drug use and keep with more lies? OK!
The questions came as the president was headed to South Carolina for a speech on the economy and his investments in clean energy. On Wednesday, the president met with Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson at the White House in a show of support for Sweden joining NATO by the deadline of the summit next week.
The White House has stressed that they are taking the investigation seriously but that it is in the hands of the Secret Service. The White House did not respond to a request for comment about whether dealing with the discovery of cocaine is distracting from other topics. “I respect there’s interest in this,” Bates told reporters Thursday.
Jean-Pierre repeatedly noted Wednesday that the drugs were found in a highly traveled area of the White House and that the president and his family including Hunter Biden were at Camp David at the time.
But even by Thursday, drawing such a conclusion kept the chatter going. Trump’s former White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany broke with her former boss, saying there is “no way” the cocaine belonged to the younger Biden considering he wasn’t at the White House.
“There is no way, it is inconceivable to think cocaine could sit for a 72-hour period [at The White House], so I would rule him out at this point,” she said Thursday on Fox. Which she is wrong if he left it behind 3 days before and let's say he hid it somewhere to not have it on him but forgot to go get it as he left which is often the case with Hunter and leaving things he forgets about when high. LIKE A LAPTOP! I mean has she learned NOTHING from Hunter? She's proving to be some what Naïve in this matter. As coke/crackheads have lapses in memory and often forget where they stash something in emergency.
But wait there is more! Check out this video from FOX!
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) responded to the incident by writing a letter to the Secret Service, demanding details on whether anyone has access to the White House complex without passing through security and if the Secret Service has encountered illegal drugs in the past five years. House Republicans have already launched probes into Hunter Biden and whether he got preferential treatment during the investigation into his failure to pay taxes, and the GOP are likely to keep hammering away at the incident when they return to Washington next week.
Amid the public focus on the cocaine situation, Biden allies argue that the White House is doing the right thing by letting the Secret Service handle it. Because they done a great job so far by letting it get past them to start with right? Lol “Every president has faced a host of embarrassing events for which they’ve had no control. This just happens to be one such event,” said former Rep. Chris Carney (D-Pa.).
Carney, a senior policy adviser at Nossaman LLP, added that it’s the best move for the White House “to let the Secret Service do an unfettered investigation, make a report, and take any measures deemed necessary.”
Conservative media has used Hunter Biden’s frequent appearances at high-profile events at the White House as well as his traveling with the president as part of the argument for why the cocaine may have belonged to him. Biden allies say that connection was inevitable no matter the circumstances.
“I’m not sure there’s anything anybody could say who would prevent the conservative social media world from being whipped into this frenzy. No facts matter to them so what does one say,” said the Democratic strategist and aide in a previous administration. “Regardless of what the investigation shows at the end of the day, there are those who come from that world who will say something is being covered up.”
The White House has dodged questions over how transparent they would be about any conclusions to the investigation or if the culprit could ever be determined, exposing Biden to further GOP attacks as he heads into 2024. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), who is trailing Trump in the Republican presidential primary, took a jab at Biden over the situation, but left his son Hunter Biden out of his remarks. “I’ve long believed, I think a lot of us have believed that the Biden administration’s been blowing it on a lot of fronts,” the presidential hopeful said. “But I guess it’s a little bit more literal than even I had thought.”
Now let's take a look back two years back when TRUMP suggested that Biden's performance was enhanced, and asked for him to get drug tested before the debates... Wonder how much of the drug use of Biden Trump knows but watch these videos below.
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