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Thread #2. Richie still needs your prayers. Link to original (Huge) thread.

Prayer Warriors have seen this but we need everyone to offer prayers for Richie. Picture a few months old but the only one I have available. First a little history .... The last week of November, Richie received several vaccines which included the flu vaccine. On December 2nd, he was hospitalized with paralysis of his arms and legs. He was put on a respirator and the outlook was bleak. I posted a note on FB asking for prayers from family and friends. Richie is the grandson of a cousin who is more like a little brother than a cousin.

On this day in 1959, rising American rock stars Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson are killed when their chartered Beechcraft Bonanza plane crashes in Iowa a few minutes after takeoff from Mason City on a flight headed for Moorehead, Minnesota. Investigators blamed the crash on bad weather and pilot error. Holly and his band, the Crickets, had just scored a No. 1 hit with "That'll Be the Day." After mechanical difficulties with the tour bus, Holly had chartered a plane for his band to fly between stops on the Winter Dance Party Tour. However, Richardson,...

The conservative pro-business group Americans for Job Security has a commercial set to run during the Republican presidential debate tonight that labels “greedy union bosses” as job killers. It stars a huge inflatable rodent: Richie the Rat. The commercial identifies Richie, who appears outside the National Labor Relations Board office, as the “one brave leader that is standing up to union bosses.” “The recovery is slipping away. The housing market is still sinking, and the jobs aren’t coming back,” the ad’s narrator says. “Washington is making it worse. Greedy union bosses are calling the shots. They want their payback.”

Lohan To Do Hard Time BEVERLY HILLS, Calif - Lindsay Lohan reached a plea deal Thursday on misdemeanor drunken driving and cocaine charges that calls for her to spend one day in jail, serve 10 days of community service and complete a drug treatment program. Upon hearing her sentence the troubled star fell to her knees, screaming hysterically "OH MY GOD NO NO NO NOOOOOOO! Onlookers say guards then drug Lohan from the courtroom as she screamed for her mother. Michael Vick To Plead Guilty RICHMOND, Va - Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick will not admit to killing dogs or...

U.S. singer Lionel Richie sings in front of the ruined home of Libyan leader Muammar Gadaffi in Tripoli, Libya April 14, 2006. With Muammar Gaddafi's home as a backdrop, U.S. singer Lionel Richie jived and rocked for an adoring Libyan audience on Saturday in a concert to mark the 20th anniversary of a U.S. raid on the North African country. REUTERS/Ahmed Jadallah

April 15, 2006 -- The American pop star Lionel Richie and the Spanish opera singer Jose Carreras have performed in a concert in Tripoli to mark the 20th anniversary of the U.S. bombing raid on Libya. About 40 people, including an adopted daughter of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, were killed in the raids on Tripoli and Benghazi in the early hours of April 15, 2006. Then-U.S. President Ronald Reagan said the air strikes were launched in retaliation for Libyan complicity in the bombing of a West Berlin discotheque that killed an American soldier.

Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie worked the crowd more than they worked at Dell DiamondBy John DeFore SPECIAL TO THE AMERICAN-STATESMAN Tuesday, April 6, 2004 ROUND ROCK -- It was a beautiful evening for baseball Saturday, as the Round Rock Express met the New Orleans Zephyrs at the Dell Diamond. The sky was clear; the rising moon was full; the smell of hot caramel hung in the air. And a filthy-rich party girl in pink stockings was helping with batting practice -- or would be, if she could figure out which hand to stick in the glove she was given....

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Richie Farmer's celebrity as a former University of Kentucky basketball player, and whether he is relying on it to be elected commissioner of agriculture, arose as an issue Monday night in a televised forum with his opponent, Alice Baesler. "This election is not a basketball game," said Baesler, who has a Kentucky basketball connection of her own - husband Scotty was a captain of the Wildcats - but also years of experience running a cattle and tobacco farm in Fayette County. "We need to take it off the basketball court and into the plowed field," Baesler told...

Performer 'a sissy' for hedge on debate By John Simerman CONTRA COSTA TIMES Arnold Schwarzenegger continued to hold out Monday as the only major candidate who has not committed to the first gubernatorial recall forum, prompting sharp attacks from all sides in a race growing more vitriolic by the day. The actor's absence from the forum roster drew fighting words. "He's a sissy is what I'm saying," said Richie Ross, a political strategist for Democratic Lt. Cruz Bustamante. "He's a scaredy-cat." John Feliz, campaign director for one of the other Republican candidates, concurred. "They're afraid of Tom McClintock," he said.