Rock LEGEND Ozzy dies; age 76.

"After Forever" by Black Sabbath, from 1971's Master of Reality.

Patheos: Ozzy’s Faith Was Louder Than You Think.

And then there’s “After Forever,” where Ozzy asks, “Have you ever thought about your soul – can it be saved?” That’s not just a lyric—it’s a theological gut punch.

Lyrics: After Forever 

BeliefNet: Ozzy Osbourne; Christian.

While Ozzy’s public image often leaned into dark and gothic themes, his private beliefs told a different story. Despite his “Prince of Darkness” moniker, Ozzy consistently rejected accusations of Satanism or devil worship. He identified as a Christian and maintained a belief in God throughout his life.

“I believe in God, absolutely,” he once said. “I'm not a Satanist, never have been.”

Ozzy’s Christian beliefs often surprised fans. Songs like “After Forever,” written during his Black Sabbath days, include lyrics that question atheism and affirm belief in God. Though he admitted he didn’t attend church regularly or read the Bible extensively, he acknowledged that Christianity influenced his worldview and some of his music.

His faith was not loud or doctrinal but personal and sincere. He reportedly received a Bible from a well-known evangelist and kept it with him. He was also known to end his concerts with a heartfelt blessing, asking God to bless his audience.

“I’m not preaching, but I think there’s a higher power watching over us,” he shared in an interview. “I should be dead a hundred times over. There’s something more to life than we understand.”

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Ozzy remained quietly committed to his Christian faith, even as his on-stage persona projected something else entirely.

More on Ozzy news and music after the PageBreak ⏬ 

Monday's Friday Morning Music Video

"Locomotion", performed by Little Eva,1962. Set to a montage of clips from the film "Inland Empire" (in which the song is used) and other works of the late, great, David Lynch. 

Yes, at the very end of the video, that's Lynch. 🤣 

David Lynch; RIP.

Filmmaker, painter, artist, musician David Lynch has died; age 78...4 days short of his birthday.

David Lynch: Master of the surreal. An iconoclast. The definition of auteur.

Deadline Hollywood: David Lynch Dies: ‘Twin Peaks’, ‘Blue Velvet’, ‘Elephant Man’ & ‘Eraserhead’ Visionary Was 78. 

THR: David Lynch, Auteur Drawn to the Dark and the Dreamlike, Dies at 78. 

From Wiki:

Political and public views

Lynch has said that he is "not a political person" and that he knows little about politics. Describing his political philosophy in 2006, he said, "at that time [the 1990s], I thought of myself as a libertarian. I believed in next to zero government. And I still would lean toward no government and not so many rules, except for traffic lights and things like this. I really believe in traffic regulations." He continued: "I'm a Democrat now. And I've always been a Democrat, really. But I don't like the Democrats a lot, either, because I'm a smoker, and I think a lot of the Democrats have come up with these rules for non-smoking." He has said he voted for Ronald Reagan in the 1984 U.S. presidential election; in the 2000 U.S. presidential election he endorsed the Natural Law Party, which advocated Transcendental Meditation.

Lynch's filmography. 

There will never be another like him.

"Keep your eye on the donut and not on the hole."
- David Lynch 

RIP.

Jimmy Carter dead; age 100.

Breitbart: Jimmy Carter Dies at 100; Oldest President in U.S. History.

The Liberals grieving his death, real tears or fake, will be non-stop, massive, repeated ad nauseam, drooling series of Talking Points. 

Let's get some platitudes out of the way:

"The Carter Habitat for Humanity."

"Carter was a champion of civil rights..."

"His dedication to human rights."

"Tireless worker for clean air and water."

"The Carter Habitat for Humanity."

"Carter was a champion of civil rights..."

"The Carter Habitat for Humanity."

"The Carter Habitat for Humanity."

"a champion of civil rights..."

"The Carter Habitat for Humanity."

"The Carter Habitat for Humanity."

"The Carter Habitat for Humanity."

and...  

"a champion of civil rights..."

The Liberal deification of Carter will be deafening. Democrats will milk his death politically for all it's worth. Squeeze one final gasp from a corpse, as Liberals do. Never let a crisis or the death of a fellow club member go to waste. Exploit it for all it's worth.

Carter entered the White House because of the whole Ford-Nixon-Pardon-Watergate scandal created by ))) people ((( who were determined to undermine and oust Nixon. Carter had the blessing from the Council of Foreign Relations, and in return, he brought the U.S. closer to Globalism and the NWO.

He was a weak leader on the world stage: His disastrous hostage crisis. The first president to usher what is now a common refrain from other NWO NGOs to Americans: "Make do with less." Three Mile Island happened during his Admin. Interest rates, inflation and prices skyrocketed. 

His foreign policies were disastrous. Carter depleted our Military. The Carter Center, claiming its goal is bringing truthful inspection and reporting on voting results and transparency and integrity to elections, did nothing it claimed. It was a Front giving validation to whoever leader was installed by ))) TPTB (((. 

His domestic policies devastated the U.S. mining and energy industries, among others, with harsh environmental oversight, regulations and penalties.

He gave away the Panama Canal.

Even rabbits didn't like or trust him 🤣: On This Day (April 20, 1979): Jimmy Carter Attacked by a Rabbit.

 

Carter is grateful to Biden. Carter is now the second-worst U.S. President of all-time.

God Bless Carter, may he RIP, he had a long life. But don't ask me to play along with the Left's Narrative canonizing the peanut farmer-failed president.

Joe Flaherty, Original ‘SCTV’ Castmember, Dies at 82.

I'm late on this. 

THR: Joe Flaherty, Original ‘SCTV’ Castmember, Dies at 82.

Joe Flaherty, the two-time Emmy-winning writer and Second City alumnus who sparkled as Guy Caballero, Count Floyd, Big Jim McBob and Sammy Maudlin as an original castmember on the landmark Canadian sketch comedy series SCTV, has died. He was 82.

His daughter, Gudrun Flaherty, told the Canadian Press he died Monday after a brief illness.

Anyone lucky enough to remember the original airings of SCTV, especially their 90-minute format, knows SCTV was everything SNL wasn't and could never be. 

Flaherty's knack for doing over-the-top, exaggerated comical impressions of well-known actors knows the laughter he brought. Case in point: His devastatingly hilarious impression of Charlton Heston in the SCTV parody of Towering Inferno, even though Heston wasn't in the cast of "TI".

Thanks for the number of innumerable laughs Joe. RIP.

Lou Conter, last survivor of the USS Arizona in Pearl Harbor, dies at 102.

WVXU: Lou Conter, last survivor of the USS Arizona in Pearl Harbor, dies at 102.

Lou Conter, the last known survivor of the attack on the USS Arizona in Pearl Harbor, has died at the age of 102.

Conter, who was a 20-year-old quartermaster at the time of the naval assault, was on the back decks of the battleship on Dec. 7, 1941, when Japanese forces decimated the U.S. Pacific fleet. The unprecedented attack killed 1,177 on the Arizona, with over 900 of those individuals never recovered.

As the bombs rained down on the naval base, one landed between two main guns at the front of the Arizona. The explosion ignited a huge store of TNT black powder that was used for the ship's battery guns.

"There went a million pounds of powder," Conter recalled in a 2018 interview with the American Veterans Center. "It blew up!"

The explosion was so intense that it split the ship in two, "and the bow came up about 30, 40 feet out of the water and fell straight back down," he remembered.

The strike was catastrophic and it only took about 10 minutes for the ship to sink, David Kilton, a spokesman for the Pearl Harbor National Memorial, told NPR.

Meanwhile, amid the chaos, Conter abandoned the ship and eventually made it to safety, only to be ordered onto a rescue boat to help pull bodies from the water. "Some of those were individuals in distress, trying to figure out how to swim around the huge quantities of oil that had leaked out and the flames that were on the water," Kilton said.

"Guys were coming out of the fire, and we were just grabbing them and laying them down," Conter later said. "They were real bad. You would pick them up by the bodies, and the skin would come off in your hands."
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After WWII, Conter went on to serve in the Korean War. Later, he became the Navy's first SERE officer — an acronym for survival, evasion, resistance and escape. For years, he helped establish the program, training Navy pilots and crew how to survive if they were shot down in the jungle and captured as prisoners of war.

By the end of his 27-year career in the Navy, in 1967, he'd risen to the ranks of lieutenant commander. He then moved to California, became a real estate developer, and married his second wife, Valerie. They were together for 47 years.

Conter passed away on Monday at his home in Grass Valley, Calif., following congestive heart failure. 

Rest In Peace.

Deliverance actor Cowboy Coward dies. "Got a Real Purdy Mouth."

Daily Mail: Herbert Coward dead at 85: Deliverance actor - who played Toothless Man - killed in car crash.

Herbert Coward, best known for playing Toothless Man in the 1972 classic Deliverance, has died in a car crash aged 85.

Coward died alongside his partner Bertha Brooks, 78, his beloved pet chihuahua named Little Man and his squirrel named Cowgirl after his silver Nissan was hit by a truck driven by a 16-year-old on Wednesday afternoon.

Neither Coward nor Brooks was wearing a seatbelt and the teen driver was not speeding, ABC news reported. 
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Coward shot to fame following the release of Deliverance, in which he delivered some of the most iconic lines including 'He got a real pretty mouth, ain't he?'

Most of his lines were improvised, Coward later told News 13.
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He gained his toothless smile after being hit in the face with a pistol during a staged gunfight at the park. He earned his 'Cowboy' nickname for operating bulldozers that built Ghost Town, which opened in June 1961.
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He remained friend [sic] with [Burt] Reynolds throughout their lives, and saw the star just weeks before his death in 2018.

'Burt said he didn't have but three friends — real friends — and I was one of them because I never asked him for nothing,' he said.

If you can get your hands on the Deliverance Anniversary or Deluxe Edition DVD, (check with a library), watch the special feature interviews with the cast and director John Boorman. 

Reynolds: "I asked John (Boorman) why he's shooting this film in sequence since most movies never are. He said, because if one of you dies I can write it into the script."  🤣 That is wicked and dark. 🤣

It's a great movie. 

RIP.

Gaston Glock, the Man Behind the Gun, Dies; Age 94.

US News: Gaston Glock, the Man Behind the Gun, Dies Aged 94.

Gaston Glock, the reclusive engineer and tycoon who developed one of the world's best-selling handguns, died on Wednesday aged 94, Austrian news agency APA said.

The Austrian won loyal followings among police and military across the world with the weapons that bore his name. Forbes estimated his and his family's fortune at $1.1 billion in 2021.

His rise began in the 1980s when the Austrian military was looking for a new, innovative weapon.

Up until then, the Glock company had made military knives and consumer goods including curtain rods. But he assembled a team of firearms experts and came up with the Glock 17, a lightweight semi-automatic gun largely made of plastic.

The revolutionary design - with a frame made of a high-strength, nylon-based polymer and only the slide made of metal - beat several other companies' blueprints and secured his upstart outfit the contract.

Soon the easily assembled weapon became a global hit. "Get yourself a Glock and lose that nickel-plated sissy pistol," Tommy Lee Jones said in the 1998 movie "U.S. Marshals".

Hit the link for the full story.

Denny Laine, co-founder of The Moody Blues dies; age 79.

EW: Denny Laine, co-founder of The Moody Blues and Wings, dies at 79.

"Go Now" by The Moody Blues, released first as a single in 1964 and 1965's The Magnificent Moodies.

Shane MacGowan, The Pogues dies; age 65. (pneumonia).

NRP: Shane MacGowan, irascible frontman of The Pogues, has died at age 65.

His drinking and drugging would destroy his body, but MacGowan led the Pogues to international renown.
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"I'm just following the Irish way of life," MacGowan said in Crock of Gold. "Cram as much pleasure as you can in your life and rile against the pain that you have to suffer as a result and then wait for it to be taken away with beautiful pleasure."

Not PC: with a very nice write up on him and music videos.

Wiki:

Shane MacGowan

The Pogues

Kool & The Gang Drummer George Brown Dead at 74.

Breitbart: Brown, who had been battling stage-4 lung cancer, died at his house on Thursday night, a representative told TMZ.

“When asked to describe his music, Brown always replied, ‘The sound of happiness[.]”, the rep added.

"Celebration", from 1980's Celebrate!

"Too Hot", from 1979's Ladies' Night.

"Jungle Boogie" from 1974's Soul Train.

"Get Down On It", from 1981's Something Special. 

Kool & The Gang (Wiki).

Don't pretend that in 1980 you didn't get out on the dance floor with your girlfriend when "Celebration" was played, because you know you did. Hopefully your unbuttoned shirt wasn't showing excessive amounts of chest hair and gold chains. White Shoes, too? Oh Noooooooooooooooooooooooo! 🤣

Tuesday's Friday Morning Music Video

"Love Is Alive" by Gary Wright, from 1975's The Dream Weaver.

LINK to live performance, same song. Check it out, it's a fun video and a crowd to watch. The audio is low quality though.

RIP Gary Wright. 

Daily Mail: Gary Wright, singer-songwriter known for hit Dream Weaver and playing with George Harrison, dies at 80 after Parkinson's and dementia struggle.

Ozzy Osbourne, Mick Jagger, more stars mourn Jeff Beck: 'An absolute god of guitar'.

MSN: Ozzy Osbourne, Mick Jagger, more stars mourn Jeff Beck: 'An absolute god of guitar'.

Jeff Beck, the legendary guitarist from English rock band The Yardbirds and the Jeff Beck Group, died at 78 on Tuesday "after suddenly contracting bacterial meningitis." The news was announced Wednesday on Beck's verified Twitter account.

"I can’t express how saddened I am to hear of (Jeff Beck's) passing," singer/songwriter Ozzy Osbourne tweeted.
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Jimmy Page called Beck a "six stringed Warrior" who had the ability to "channel music from the ethereal."
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Dave Davies of The Kinks said he was "heartbroken" to hear the news of Beck's passing.

"I’m shocked and bewildered. Deepest sympathy to his wife friends close ones," Davies wrote on Twitter. "He was a good friend and a great guitar player."

"No one played guitar like Jeff," Gene Simmons of Kiss tweeted.
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English singer-songwriter Paul Young affectionately called Beck "the guitarists guitarist" in a tweet.
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Rod Stewart [Tweeted]  Beck is "the greatest. Jeff Beck was on another planet."

Henry Silva, 95 has died. One of the great movie villains.

Henry Silva, 1926-2022

THR: Henry Silva, Bad Guy in ‘The Manchurian Candidate’ and Many Other Movies, Dies at 95.

Henry Silva, the rugged New York actor who portrayed heavies and heroes of various ethnicities in a career highlighted by turns in A Hatful of Rain, The Manchurian Candidate and Johnny Cool, has died. He was 95.
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Silva also played the Draconian commander “Killer” Kane in Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979), just one in a lineup of his bad guys seen in The Tall T (1957), The Bravados (1958), Il Boss (1973), Sharky’s Machine (1981), Above the Law (1988), Dick Tracy (1990) and Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999).

“Henry Silva is one of those guys you most likely will recognize even if you don’t know his name,” onetime Crimespree magazine writer Dave Wahlman wrote in 2016. “His face is something straight out of central casting if you were looking for a villain. It alternates between the insipid glee of potential mayhem and looking emotionless and dead as a stone.”

Golf's Tom Weiskopf, dead at 79.

Bleacher Report (Archived): Tom Weiskopf Dies at Age 79: Golf Course Architect Won The Open Championship in 1973.

Former Open Championship winner, golf architect and broadcaster Tom Weiskopf died on Saturday of pancreatic cancer. He was 79.

"The PGA Tour is saddened at the passing of Tom Weiskopf, a towering figure in the game of golf not only during his playing career but through his accomplished work in the broadcast booth and golf course design business," PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan said in a statement. "Tom is leaving behind a lasting legacy in golf. The beautiful swing he showcased during his 16 career PGA Tour victories is still being emulated today, while his golf courses remain as testaments to his love for the game. Our hearts and deepest sympathies are with his wife, Laurie, two children, Heidi and Eric, and the entire Weiskopf family during this time."

He had a long and great career. RIP.

Paul Sorvino dead at 83. David Warner dead at 80.

Variety: Paul Sorvino, ‘Goodfellas’ Actor, Dies at 83.

Jeffery in Alabama @ Irish's: British actor David Warner has passed at 80.

Both of these actors had astounding careers. Both of them were so good at their job it never dawned on you they were acting.

Both have left a legacy of performances and films to be admired.

RIP Gentlemen.

Former NFL player Charles Johnson, 50, dies of "unknown causes."

The Liberty Daily: Another Former NFL Player Just Died and of Course the Cause of Death Was Ignored by Corporate Media.

Up until recent months we could expect either a detailed report on a deceased celebrity’s health issues or a direct cause of sudden death, whether it was an accident, drug overdose, suicide, or any other reason they met an early demise.

Former NFL player Charles Johnson died this week at the age of 50. After allowing nearly 24-hours for corporate media journalists to do their jobs and determine the cause of death, we’ve officially struck out. Nothing. Not a word. Not a mention in any of dozens of articles I’ve combed through this morning.
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It seems like the new normal in journalism is to echo the sentiment that someone young and famous died and that’s all there is to it.

NY Post: Former NFL receiver Charles Johnson dead at 50.

“Great guy, tremendous personality, had been working as an assistant AD at a high school in North Carolina,” [tweeted Reuben Frank, who covers the Eagles for NBC Sports Philadelphia.]

Lib hatred, always at the boiling point just under their skin. The "Decency" from Occupy Democrats on the death of Ivana Trump.

From: Defiant L's

What did Ivana do to you, Occupy Democrats? What onerous laws and regulations did she or her children force on you? Show us on the Therapy Doll, OD, where the former-Mrs. Trump, Ivanka, Donald, Jr. and Eric hurt, touched, and inflicted pain on you.

NY Post: Ivana Trump, ex-wife of former President Trump, dead at 73.

Ivana Trump, the Czech American ex-wife of former President Donald Trump and mother of Ivanka, Eric and Don Jr., died Thursday. She was 73.

"Basic Human Decency." Like (NY Daily News): Hillary Clinton and Eric Holder, for example?

Eric Holder[...] says “when they go low, we kick them.”
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[...] Hillary Clinton joined in. “You cannot be civil with a political party that wants to destroy what you stand for,” she said.

We do want to destroy what people like Holder and Clinton stand for. What they stand for is the antithesis of what life under our Constitution and Founding Fathers gave us. That's why Libs rage and hate. It's always about money, control or both.

L.Q. Jones, veteran actor and director died, age 94.

The Wrap: L.Q. Jones, Veteran Character Actor in Sam Peckinpah Films, Dies at 94.

L.Q. Jones, a veteran character actor best known for starring in Sam Peckinpah films and whose career spanned seven decades has died, the actor’s grandson Erté deGarces confirmed to Variety. Jones died in his Hollywood Hills home on Saturday surrounded by family. He was 94.
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Jones directed, produced and wrote the script for the black comedy science fiction film “A Boy and His Dog (1975).”

If you've never seen "A Boy and His Dog", it's a must watch. One of the best endings of any movie, ever.

Larry Storch and Gregory Itzin, RIP.

US News: Larry Storch, Zany Cpl. Agarn on TV's 'F Troop,' Dies at 99.

Larry Storch, the rubber-faced comic whose long career in theater, movies and television was capped by his “F Troop” role as zany Cpl. Agarn in the 1960s spoof of Western frontier TV shows, died Friday. Storch was 99.

Perhaps a bit less know or familiar, Gregory Itzin:

 

NY Daily News: Emmy-nominated ‘24’ alum Gregory Itzin, who played President Logan, dies at 74.

Gregory Itzin, a familiar face known for his twice-Emmy-nominated role as President Charles Logan on “24,” died Friday. He was 74.

The actor — who also had recurring roles in “Big Love,” “The Mentalist,” “Covert Affairs,” and “Mob City” — died as a result of complications during an emergency surgery, Variety reported.

Itzin is remembered by fans of the television series "24" as President Charles Logan.

Itzin has acknowledged a physical resemblance between himself and President Richard Nixon: "I have the hairline, and my posture’s mediocre." 

While the Logan character wasn't specifically modeled after President Richard Nixon, the similar resemblance between the two couldn't help but draw comparisons.

From the NY Daily News story:

“I’m aware of the physical resemblance to Richard Nixon,” Itzin said in an interview during his time on the show. “There’s nothing I can do about that.”

But Itzin, who was on the Fox series from 2005-2010, said he did not base his performance on Nixon.