[Chicago Daily Herald] Bobby Hull, the Chicago Blackhawks' all-time leading goal scorer, died Monday morning at the age of 84.
No immediate details on how Hull died are yet available.
The controversial Hull, who possessed a howitzer of a shot that allowed him to score 610 NHL goals, broke into the league in the 1957-58 season. He scored 30 or more goals for 13 consecutive seasons then left for the World Hockey Association in 1972 when the league agreed to pay him $1 million.
Hull teamed up with good friend Stan Mikita and helped lead the Hawks to a Stanley Cup title in 1961. Hull also became the first player to score more than 50 goals in a season on March 12, 1966 and finished with 54 goals.
"Bobby Hull will always be remembered as one of the greatest Blackhawks players of all time," Hawks owner Rocky Wirtz said in a statement. "He was a beloved member of the Blackhawks family.
"When I assumed leadership of the organization upon my father's passing in 2007, one of my first priorities was to meet with Bobby to convince him to come back as an ambassador of the team. His connection to our fans was special and irreplaceable."
Known as the Golden Jet, the blond-haired Hull was born January 3, 1939 in Pointe Anne, Ontario. He befriended Mikita in the late 1940s and the two stayed close until Mikita passed away in August 2018.
"I've known Bobby my whole life and I didn't know him as a hockey player," said Jane Mikita Gneiser, one of Stan's four children. "We knew him as dad's friend -- which is a different perspective than most people probably have. I mean, he was great. He was charismatic. He was charming and he was a loyal friend.
"You'd be really lucky to have that in your life if you could have a friend like that -- and Bobby and my dad were buddies."
Hull scored 604 goals for the Hawks and 6 when he returned to the NHL with Winnipeg and Hartford in 1979-80. Hull scored 303 with the Jets in the WHA from 1972-79.
Bobby's son, Brett, also played in the NHL. Both won the Hart Trophy as league MVP during their careers, becoming the first father-son duo to accomplish the feat.
Hull is still the Hawks franchise leader in regular-season and playoff goals. His 1,153 points rank second behind Mikita's 1,467.
After being all but ignored by the Hawks for more than two decades, Hull and Mikita were made Blackhawks ambassadors in 2010 by Wirtz and then-President John McDonough....
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Hull scored 303 with the [Winnipeg] Jets
Where he got the nickname "Golden Jet" - according to my Son-in-law, whose Mother grew up in Winnipeg.
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He was the Golden Jet before he jumped to the WHA for cash. They might have named the franchise after his nickname as a marketing ploy. I saw him in that league and he was still very good. By that time his golden mane had sort of degenerated into something akin to Friar Tuck with a mullet.
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Hull was the top of the heap...except maybe for Orr.
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I played as a kid in the Cleveland area but I lacked a key element in my game - talent. We had an NHL team for a year and a half.
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Another woke corporate cancer. Doesn't matter what the game in its pure form is.
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Jpal I loved the Flames, remember I went to the playoff game against the Canadians, which at that time was longest fight in NHL history. it must’ve been 20 minutes and with all the beer that was thrown from the stands they had to have another stoppage for the zamboni to come resurface
[NY Post] Clemson basketball guard Brevin Galloway added some painful details to what the university labeled an "abdominal issue" Thursday night.
Galloway doesn’t know why "my balls and my nut sack were exploded." All Galloway did was lift in the morning and take a nap. Then, just three hours later, he had undergone surgery to reduce his testicles back to their normal size.
"I don’t know what happened to my balls," Galloway said in a video posted to his Instagram. "I guess they were trying to be like basketballs.
"But we made it. Now, I’m going to be spoiled for the next 48 hours, and I will be back in a uniform shortly."
Stadium’s Jeff Goodman reported that Brad Brownell, the Tigers’ head coach, replied with a "no comment" when asked about Galloway’s post. Galloway tweeted the injury was the "worst pain I’ve ever experienced" and captioned in his Instagram Story that he would be out the next seven days.... [Due to the vaccine or too much tattoo ink?]
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My best guess is after weight lifting with a full bladder he developed bilateral epididymitis and subsequent swelling. His seems to be particularly bad, but generally 4 to 6 weeks after onset every time you passed a meat Cleaver you wonder which will hurt worse.
from the NSIDC - a US Govt sponsored org
Snowfall over Antarctica has been significantly above average over these last weeks, continuing a trend that began in November 2021. Several recent hydrological years (March 1 to February 28) for Antarctica have had up to 200 billion tons more snow than average, but the 2022 to 2023 year has reached nearly 300 billion tons as of January 10, 2023.
--------- this is for the continent itself, not for the sea ice around the continent - thus the 300B ton of snow ends up being about 300B ton mass build up of ice since the ice doesn't melt much until it gets to the ocean
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That's good, I was worried about the crops down there.
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😇 Sorry, this can't be happening. A record Snow fall for the South Pole? We have it on good authority, seriously researched and verified scientific fact, that we are or soon will be under 15 feet of water from the all the Polar ICE that melted... 1980, 1990, 2000, 2010, 2015, 2020... ok soon.😇
Or have we been lied to by elected officials seeking $$ Billions while steering our lifestyles, creating new Taxes and mandating Environmental purchases again. Which they just happen to a vested interest in?
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If the government was being serious and truthful about "global warming" they would periodically release satellite photos of both polar ice caps with comparisons for previous years. The fact that they don't says it all.
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They penguins are getting screwed over. This is supposed to be their summer.
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Don't eat the yellow snow.
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A 5.9 magnitude earthquake in Iran’s northwestern city of Khoy on late Saturday killed three people and injured over 800, state media reported.https://t.co/CnXBgBcrxD
[Hot Air] The Sunday Mail lifted the lid—a bit—on how the COVID "emergency" prompted the government to expand domestic surveillance on politicians, journalists, and ordinary UK citizens—using their military psyops Brigade.
In effect, the program was a military operation targeting domestic dissidents, although from what we know the military component was using surveillance technology, while whatever active measures were taken to manipulate information were taken through other channels. Most of those measures remain shrouded in mystery.
A shadowy Army unit secretly spied on British citizens who criticised the Government’s Covid lockdown policies, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.
Military operatives in the UK’s ’information warfare’ brigade were part of a sinister operation that targeted politicians and high-profile journalists who raised doubts about the official pandemic response.
They compiled dossiers on public figures such as ex-Minister David Davis, who questioned the modelling behind alarming death toll predictions, as well as journalists such as Peter Hitchens and Toby Young. Their dissenting views were then reported back to No 10.
The tale is troubling—for obvious reasons—and made even more so by the revelation that there was little pretense about rooting out foreign cyber operations. It was straight up targeting domestic skeptics of government COVID policies. In the US, the intelligence community concocted take tales of foreign-directed cells to justify their efforts to monitor and censor Americans, accusing average Americans of being Russian bots. The blossoming "Hamilton 68″scandal is clearly part of this effort, in which a 3rd party cutout was used by the intelligence community to justify silencing dissent.
In the UK the excuse was Chinese cyber operations. However, the 77th Brigade (psyops) didn’t actually target Chinese-linked propaganda, but dissenting politicians and journalists. Anybody who questioned government policy was monitored, and the surveillance was forwarded to the Prime Minister’s office for further action.
The revelations come via a UK civil liberties watchdog called "Big Brother Watch." They used whistleblower accounts and government transparency laws to cobble together the information. Their key findings were:
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Military operatives in the UK’s ’information warfare’ brigade were part of a sinister operation that targeted politicians and high-profile journalists who raised doubts about the official pandemic response.
Write viral posts.
You mean like website trolls? Imagine that will you !
[Breitbart] House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX) said on this week’s broadcast of "Fox News Sunday" that the possibility of war between China and Taiwan is "very high."
Anchor Shannon Bream said, "I want to start with this reports of a top general who is making a comment about a potential war with China in 2025, get your reaction to this. NBC News is citing a memo to his officers with this quote, ’I hope I am wrong,’ he says to them. ’My gut tells me will fight in 2025.’ That’s being met with a lot of different reactions, some skepticism this is attributed to the opinion of one man. What do you make of that?"
McCaul said, "I hope he’s wrong as well. I think he’s right, though, unfortunately."
Bream said, "Wait, an actual war?"
McCaul said, "I think China is looking at you reunification of Taiwan, that’s how they called it. There are several ways to do that. The one is to influence the election will take place a year from today."
He added, "If they succeed in that effort like Hong Kong without a shot fired, but if they don’t win in that one, they are going to look at a military invasion in my judgment. We have to be prepared for this. It could happen. I think as long as Biden is an in-office projecting weakness as he did with Afghanistan that led to Putin invading Ukraine that the odds are very high we could see a conflict with China and Taiwan 10 the Indo-Pacific."
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Projecting weakness, my ass. He's a Chinese asset.
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My guess is Xi Jinping is afraid the Taiwanese would embarrass him.
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Did you hear about that guy over the weekend, someone of high rank in one of the services telling his men to 'put their houses in order' - something like that - because he had a gut feeling that hostilities will escalate with China before Biden's term ends.
[NYP] Dozens of migrants stood their ground outside the Watson Hotel in Hell’s Kitchen on Sunday night and refused to leave for a new shelter at the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal.
Cops had mobilized around the hotel around 10 p.m. as more than 50 migrants were standing outside with activists assisting with food, water and translations.
Single men were supposed to be brought to the new shelter over the weekend that would provide the same services they’ve been receiving, city officials said.
At one point, a city bus arrived and a small number of migrants jumped on, though the vast majority stayed put in front of the hotel on West 57th Street. Activists argued the migrants were being forced out of the hotel.
One Manhattan activist told The Post the men outside were staying at the hotel and were prepared to stay outside overnight. Some were moved to the new shelter earlier this weekend, but opted to return to the Manhattan site, she said.
[Bloomberg] Middle-aged tech centimillionaire Bryan Johnson and his team of 30 doctors say they have a plan to reboot his body.
Novak Djokovic, age 35, sometimes hangs out in a pressurized egg to enrich his blood with oxygen and gives pep talks to glasses of water, hoping to purify them with positive thinking before he drinks them. Tom Brady, 45, evangelizes supposedly age-defying supplements, hydration powders and pliability spheres. LeBron James, 38, is said to spend $1.5 million a year on his body to keep Father Time at bay. While most of their contemporaries have retired, all three of these elite athletes remain marvels of fitness. But in the field of modern health science, they’re amateurs compared to Bryan Johnson.
Johnson, 45, is an ultrawealthy software entrepreneur who has more than 30 doctors and health experts monitoring his every bodily function. The team, led by 29-year-old regenerative medicine physician Oliver Zolman, has committed to help reverse the aging process in every one of Johnson’s organs. Zolman and Johnson obsessively read the scientific literature on aging and longevity and use Johnson as a guinea pig for the most promising treatments, tracking the results every way they know how. Getting the program up and running required an investment of several million dollars, including the costs of a medical suite at Johnson’s home in Venice, California. This year, he’s on track to spend at least $2 million on his body. He wants to have the brain, heart, lungs, liver, kidneys, tendons, teeth, skin, hair, bladder, penis and rectum of an 18-year-old.
eg. Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Alphabet’s Larry Page, Oracle’s Larry Ellison and Palantir’s Peter Thiel are just a few of the super-rich who have taken a keen interest in the fast-emerging field of longevity, according to interviews, books and media reports.
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I’m fine with the super-rich offering themselves to humanity as an experimental pool to prove — or disprove — various hypotheses on aging. It’s like those with fourth stage cancer trying out experimental treatments that might or might not work, only without out the anguish, but with the same high probability of failure... and they are paying for it out of pocket.
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As much of it requires tissue from abortions, it's not a good thing.
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90% of what these people are doing is relatively inexpensive and available to anyone. Sauna and cold plunge? Local rec center. Exercise? Sure. Good sleep. NMN costs a couple hundred / year. Rapamycin maybe a grand or two. Hyperbaric chamber is about $6k. Stem cells are pricey - about $25k. But if you work one more year you more than pay for it.
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The live forever crowd is the "rather rule in Hell crowd."
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Enriching your blood with extra oxygen lead to early burnout of the body. Think about it, all those extra oxygen would cause your red blood cell to rust!
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Some people do not understand that Anne Rice books are fiction...
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In Antifragile, Nassim Taleb said if he wanted to kill someone, or at least make them die early, he'd give them their own personal physician. To justify his existence, and to satisfy the client, the physician would medical-ize every complaint, major or minor, and sooner or later make dangerous mistakes.
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I don’t know why he has a 20 year old rectum listed on his priority list and how many team members and the percentage of his $2M is dedicated to his anal rejuvenation. Aldi has bagged salads of different varieties for around $3 a pop. Get your colon checked once a decade and reallocate the funds towards some lasic.
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I don’t know why he has a 20 year old rectum listed on his priority list
He wants to be a hot date.
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Some people do not understand that Anne Rice books are fiction...
Anne Rice books are fiction. Ken Hite's Night's Black Agents seems to be reality. Vampire overlords and all.
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Or how about those blood transfusions from young blood
It works. Had a family friend in the 80+ years that required the occasional top up. He felt and acted much better for a few months until the RBCs died and and the growth factors used up. After a serious fall, the docs said he needed another transfusion to continue but he decided he had lived long enough, declined and passed soon after.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[NY Post] Clemson basketball guard Brevin Galloway added some painful details to what the university labeled an "abdominal issue" Thursday night.
[Hot Air] The Sunday Mail lifted the lid—a bit—on how the COVID "emergency" prompted the government to expand domestic surveillance on politicians, journalists, and ordinary UK citizens—using their military psyops Brigade.
