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Ex-Prime Minister Baroness Thatcher dies
BBC ^ | 4/8/2013 | N/A

Posted on 04/08/2013 5:00:41 AM PDT by Incorrigible

Ex-Prime Minister Baroness Thatcher diesBreaking news Former Prime Minister Baroness Thatcher has died at 87 following a stroke, her spokesman has said.

Lord Bell said: "It is with great sadness that Mark and Carol Thatcher announced that their mother Baroness Thatcher died peacefully following a stroke this morning."

Baroness Thatcher was Conservative prime minister from 1979 to 1990.

She was the first woman to hold the post. Her family is expected to make a further statement later.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: baronessthatcher; ironlady; maggiethatcher; margaretthatcher; obit; obituary; rip; thatcher; thatcherdies; thatcherobit; unitedkingdom
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To: Incorrigible

This is an excellent review of comments from notable figures from around the world from The Telegraph in England.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/margaret-thatcher/9978844/Margaret-Thatcher-dies-live.html

For some reason, Argentinians and labor leaders were not particularly effusive.


141 posted on 04/08/2013 3:07:35 PM PDT by A'elian' nation (Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred. Jacques Barzun)
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To: Incorrigible

I am ‘stuned’ that Margaret Thatcher’s death is not the lead story on the news networks. It is ten minutes into Fox News and not one mention of her passing yet.

INCONCEIVABLE !


142 posted on 04/08/2013 3:09:55 PM PDT by A'elian' nation (Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred. Jacques Barzun)
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To: Incorrigible

RIP. A great & historic figure.


143 posted on 04/08/2013 3:12:50 PM PDT by LongWayHome
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To: Incorrigible

May God rest her soul.

For those who have not seen it before, her last performance in the House of Commons. I wish we had somebody on our side today that could do half the job she did at demolishing the opposition.

Part 1: http://youtu.be/_6CJWiaaEOU

Part 2: http://youtu.be/5KlY-z_esuk

Part 3: http://youtu.be/6c3IXYoRrlE

Part 4: http://youtu.be/vVrYWk4dr5U


144 posted on 04/08/2013 3:24:24 PM PDT by markomalley (Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good -- Leo XIII)
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To: sinsofsolarempirefan

This is an explanation of the poll ( equal ) tax.

http://mises.org/econsense/ch62.asp

It was an attempt to do away with property taxes by instituting a poll ( equal or flat ) tax on everyone. The problem was that the local councils kept raising the “equal” tax to the point that people hit the streets to protest rising taxes. A sad irony in the eventual downfall of Baroness Thatcher.


145 posted on 04/08/2013 3:40:11 PM PDT by A'elian' nation
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To: Incorrigible

bump

RIP


146 posted on 04/08/2013 3:51:25 PM PDT by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: Incorrigible

RIP, Iron Lday. The last good PM formerly Great Britain will ever have.


147 posted on 04/08/2013 4:24:39 PM PDT by ReformationFan
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To: AuH2ORepublican; fieldmarshaldj; GOPsterinMA; sickoflibs; BillyBoy; Perdogg; NFHale; ...

That’s a great idea.

And we should put it in the Falklands to PO those damn Argentines who are celebrating today cause they are still mad at her over the war that they started.

Or maybe put in the West end of London to PO those ghouls who continued to perform a song in a musical that celebrates her death.


148 posted on 04/08/2013 4:40:02 PM PDT by Impy (All in favor of Harry Reid meeting Mr. Mayhem?)
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To: Incorrigible

This is so sad.

what a great woman


149 posted on 04/08/2013 4:40:15 PM PDT by Democrat_media (Mary Landrieu voted for the UN to take away our 2nd amendment rights)
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To: Incorrigible
Godspeed Baroness Thatcher!


150 posted on 04/08/2013 4:43:56 PM PDT by drewh
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To: SeekAndFind
I hate it when we lose the really great ones.


151 posted on 04/08/2013 4:50:17 PM PDT by drewh
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To: Incorrigible


152 posted on 04/08/2013 4:50:47 PM PDT by Albion Wilde ("Commies out of D.C.!" --Raoul Deming, 1955-2013)
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To: Albion Wilde

Hillsdale College

153 posted on 04/08/2013 4:54:36 PM PDT by Albion Wilde ("Commies out of D.C.!" --Raoul Deming, 1955-2013)
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To: Albion Wilde

During the Reagan/Thatcher years, I wondered whether it was our high water mark, and....well.... yeah.


154 posted on 04/08/2013 4:56:16 PM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas
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155 posted on 04/08/2013 4:59:09 PM PDT by drewh
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To: dforest
I agree. The Iron Lady was brilliant.

RIP

156 posted on 04/08/2013 5:06:20 PM PDT by Dante3
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To: Albion Wilde

157 posted on 04/08/2013 5:22:35 PM PDT by drewh
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To: drewh

There is a mosaic on NRO of Thatcher, Reagan, Pope John Paul II and William F. Buckley, the giants in the defeat of totalitarianism. Today we have Cameron, Obama, an untested Pope and a gaggle of wet noodles in charge of National Review. How far the West has fallen.


158 posted on 04/08/2013 5:49:09 PM PDT by littleharbour ("All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree. ~ James Madison)
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To: Wurlitzer
To my dying breath, I will feel great joy I lived during the time of the Iron Lady and the Gipper.

My thoughts, exactly. Sometimes I'm so glad that I am the age I am. I was in my 30's during the 80's. Thankfully, old enough and mature enough to appreciate what was happening around me. Rest in peace Mrs. Thatcher. Rest in peace.

159 posted on 04/08/2013 5:52:49 PM PDT by Dartman (Mubarak and Gaddafi are going to look like choirboys when this is over)
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160 posted on 04/08/2013 6:02:13 PM PDT by Ron C.
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