Barbara Bush dies at 92 – IOTW Report

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  2. Grandmotherly?

    Not hardly. I did advance work for her and set up an interview without notifying her communications director.
    Barbara ate my ass out.

    Grandma never did that.

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  5. I lost my mother in November and it was one of the most painful things I’ve ever encountered. Can’t stand the family, but my heart always goes out to someone who has lost their mother.

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  6. Is anyone tracking the horrid things the Left are saying about Barbara Bush’s passing? I haven’t looked-but you just know that they can’t be gracious and kind during a time like this.

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  8. The mother in the family that preys together gets to meet the final Judge after experiencing the darkness of Hell on her way into Eternity. Now its Papa’s turn. All Bush family members have earned the same Eternal judgment for the lives they have lived. And it won’t be inside of the Pearly Gates.

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  9. Scripture tells us to pray for the dead, therefore:

    Eternal rest grant unto her, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon her. May the souls of the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen.

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  12. They come in threes….Art Bell, R Lee Ermey, Harry Anderson…now Barbara Bush….two more to go….

    I got John McCain and an extra in ‘Every which way but loose’…

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  14. @Plain Jane: May I ask why we should pray for the dead. It seems odd to me to pray for someone who is no longer on this earth – spirit wise. What happens to their soul is not up to any of us. /just curious

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  15. She lived to 92.
    She was the wife and mother of the most powerful men on the planet.
    Presidents, Senator, Governor, US Soldiers.
    She owes nobody a goddamn thing.
    From what I read, she had Kentucky Bourbon, neat, just last night.

    We should all be so lucky.
    RIP sweetheart. 🙂

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  16. Wow. The meanspiritedness on this thread is disappointing.

    Lighten up gang.

    She was never president and never enacted any
    policy. Husband and son did, granted. But she didn’t.
    That her passion was for literacy, that’s admirable in my mind.

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  17. Compared to what followed her into the White House, Barbara Bush was a great First Lady. And, if it wasn’t for that crazy little bastard, H. Ross Perot, Hillary Rodham Clinton would have never gotten the opportunity to become the President Elect of New York City and California. God speed, Barbara Bush.

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  23. Happy life. Happy Wife. Good woman. George H.W did good by her. She was a fine first lady. Never stuck her nose into the politics nor tried to make it something of her own.

    And she was a fine looking woman in her prime.

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  28. @Lead Salad: I didn’t think Scripture tells us to pray for the dead. When you’re dead you are dead. The dead knows not anything. I think Scripture says that.

    Ecclesiastes 9:5

    Death Comes to Good and Bad

    …4For whoever is joined with all the living, there is hope; surely a live dog is better than a dead lion. 5For the living know they will die; but the dead do not know anything, nor have they any longer a reward, for their memory is forgotten. 6Indeed their love, their hate and their zeal have already perished, and they will no longer have a share in all that is done under the sun.…

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  29. My mom is 92, she’ll be 93 in June. After my dad died 2 months ago her dementia has got worse and we put her into a care facility for memory loss and dementia last Friday. She may not like it but it’s the best place for her. My brother and I were at the point of burn out taking care of her 24/7 up until now and I’m glad they can take care of her better than we could, we did everything we possibly could, now it’s time for the memory care facility to take over. We expect her to be gone soon but we just don’t know since she’s still active and doesn’t think she needs to be taken care of, we have to remind her she can’t do it any longer and it really ticks her off because she’s still fiercely independent.

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  35. @ Goldenfoxx

    Am following the example of Paul praying for his dead friend Onesiphorus in 2 Timothy 1:16-18 and from thebustedhalo.com:

    The earliest Scriptural reference to prayers for the dead comes in the second book of Maccabees. The books of Maccabees were among the latest written books found in the Old Testament. They recount the struggle of the Jewish people for freedom against the Seleucid Empire, around 100-200 years before the birth of Christ. They are written from an Orthodox Jewish point of view. The second book of Maccabees tells how Judas Maccabee, the Jewish leader, led his troops into battle in 163 B.C. When the battle ended he directed that the bodies of those Jews who had died be buried. As soldiers prepared their slain comrades for burial, they discovered that each was wearing an amulet taken as booty from a pagan Temple. This violated the law of Deuteronomy and so Judas and his soldiers prayed that God would forgive the sin these men had committed (II Maccabees 12:39-45).

    This is the first indication in the Bible of a belief that prayers offered by the living can help free the dead from any sin that would separate them from God in the life to come. It is echoed in the New Testament when Paul offers a prayer for a man named Onesiphorus who had died: “May the Lord grant him to find mercy from the Lord on that day”(II Timothy 1:18). The cavelike tombs under the city of Rome, which we call catacombs, bear evidence that members of the Roman Christian community gathered there to pray for their fellow followers of Christ who lay buried there. By the fourth century prayers for the dead are mentioned in Christian literature as though they were already a longstanding custom.

    The practice of praying for the dead is rooted first in Christian belief in the everlasting life promised in Jesus’ teachings and foreshadowed by his disciple’s experience that God had raised him from the dead. After death, even though separated from our earthly body, we yet continue a personal existence. It is as living persons that God invites us into a relationship whose life transcends death.

    Praying for the dead has further origins in our belief in the communion of saints. Members of this community who are living often assist each other in faith by prayers and other forms of spiritual support. Christians who have died continue to be members of the communion of saints. We believe that we can assist them by our prayers, and they can assist us by theirs.

    Our prayers for the dead begin at the moment of death. Often family members will gather in prayer around
    the bedside of the person who has died. The Order of Christian Funerals includes a Vigil Service for the deceased, which can be held in the home, in the church, or in a funeral home chapel, the funeral Mass and the Rite of Committal (which generally takes place at the burial site). The prayers express hope that God will free the person who has died from any burden of sin and prepare a place for him or her in heaven.

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  36. She seemed like a classy lady to me. She stayed in the background and didn’t try to be a celebrity.

    She was once asked if Jeb was running for president and responded: “we’ve had enough Bushes” in the White House.

    Smart lady.

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  41. Mrs. Bush had a full good life, not many people are fortunate enough to live. Despite the fact her support of progressive ideologies that are more harmful than good, condolences to the Bush family.

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  42. Honestly I’m more effected by Hambone and Geoff story here than Barb Bush. I’ve already lost both my parents. I’d like to tell you it gets easier. And I guess for the most part it does. Except for 1:00 am in the mornings. Hang in there.

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  43. Primary reason to pray for our dead brothers.

    God says He is “I AM.” Not I was or I will be, so He is telling us His power and love is not constrained by time nor death. Therefore who am I to put restraints on His mercy.

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  44. Alzheimers is pure evil. It took my mother in October last year, 7 yrs after her diagnosis. It takes a terrible toll on caregivers like my sister who died six months later from a heart attack. They were best friends as well as mother and daughter. I miss them both so much.

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  46. So sorry 99th, Hambone & Geoff. My dad died unexpectedly 62 years ago, when I was 10, and my mom died 24 years ago. Tears often still well up in my eyes when I think of them.

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  48. Brad, my mom passed in 2010. It was very hard for me. For Geoff and Hambone, my heart of that time when my my mom passed is understood, and my heart goes out to them with actually a physical tear of remembrance for my own and theirs.
    It’s hard to lose a mom.

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  49. @ Goldenfoxx,

    Not trying to coerce anyone to pray for anyone. Just explaining why I do, and why RCs believe in praying for and with all in the Communion of Saints. Somewhere in history praying for the dead fell out of vogue even though the early Christians and the Jews prayed for the dead.

    Eventually the prayer for the dead was turned into the “non prayer” prayer, “May he rest in peace.” Then that prayer was turned an alert or headline alerting of death of someone: RIP

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  53. Thank you, Plain Jane. God has indeed comforted me. I pray he does the same for you, Hambone and Geoff and others on this thread that have suffered a loss of a loved one.

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  54. My condolences to her family, only God knows who gets in to heaven and who doesn’t. (I’ll refrain from saying anything unsavoury about her wretched husband or offspring.)

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  56. Got to say, I hope DJT is smart enough, and I’m sure he is, not to attend the funeral. Send the VP. These people never change and in the long run are our enemy.
    99th, stay strong.

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  57. PJ, it’s okay, I’m not Catholic and that’s probably why I never heard of praying for the dead. I know there’s a certain religion who baptizes for the dead. That’s why they are big into genealogy.

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  58. Thanks, Bad_Brad. You too. Agreed, Trump shouldn’t go to the funeral, but he’s an honorable person and if the Bush crime family allow him to attend, he and Melania will probably be there.

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  59. @ Goldenfoxx

    There actually is scriptural referrence for baptism for the dead. 1 Cor 15:29-30. I unfortunately have near zero insight to it’s meaning though.

    The only thing I can come close to is asking Jesus for baptism for someone dead… like for a miscarried infant.

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  61. I never had a sister, just 3 younger brothers. My folks were going to name her Willy Lee an old family name. Good thing for her, can you imagine going thru life as a girl named Willy Lee. Hi I’m Jeff these are my brothers Scott, Eric and Rex and my sister Willy Lee.

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  62. May God comfort her family, friends and loved ones.

    I don’t pray for the dead because that’s not the way the Holy Spirit instructs me, as I read and study the Bible.
    We have free will. We have our whole life, even up to our last breath, to make a decision about the only way to heaven, Jesus Christ. If we have Jesus Christ as our savior, when we die, He’ll take us home with Him. If a person rejected Christ and didn’t want a relationship with God, why would God force that person to live eternally with Him?

    The time to pray for each other is when we’re alive. God is always in control. We pray not to change His mind, but to comfort us into accepting His will.

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