Rising Hegemon
Your President Ladies and Gentlemen!
Pouty McShitfaced.
(AFP/Jim Watson)
Wednesday, February 22, 2006
Nobody puts Baby in the Corner, Nobody!
Your President Ladies and Gentlemen!
Pouty McShitfaced.
(AFP/Jim Watson)
It gets better and better
Get your clipboard, text books, let me lead you to the station, because we're off to the civil war.
But rest easy, Bush will threaten to veto any civil war legislation.
On Wednesday, a large explosion destroyed the golden dome of one of
Iraq's most famous Shiite religious shrines in Samarra, the U.S. military said, sending protesters pouring into the streets.
Police believed there were victims buried under the debris of the Askariya Shrine but had no immediate casualty figures. The attack on a major Shiite religious symbol raised fears of an escalation in sectarian violence.
Thousands of demonstrators gathered near the shrine, waving Iraqi flags, Shiite religious flags and copies of the Quran.
But rest easy, Bush will threaten to veto any civil war legislation.
Tuesday, February 21, 2006
Of Conspiracy Theories and Whatnot
Isn't it BIZARRE, and I mean truly off the charts bizarre, that the King would be threatening his first veto of the deal that gives the UAE control of 6 American ports? Hmmm. A suspicious person might think he's got friends with a stake in the deal. Nah.
Update:
And one other thing. Let's hope the administration doesn't see the handwriting virtually covering the walls and keeps trotting out the likes of Dan Bartlett to try and polish this stinker of a giant turd.
Update:
And one other thing. Let's hope the administration doesn't see the handwriting virtually covering the walls and keeps trotting out the likes of Dan Bartlett to try and polish this stinker of a giant turd.
Visual Syrup of Ipicac
That's right ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls of all ages, there is now a website for this:
THE SCOOTER LIBBY DEFENSE FUND TRUST!!!
Notice the parade of Neo-Con wankers on the Advisory Committe, including Ninja Mary Matalin!
THE SCOOTER LIBBY DEFENSE FUND TRUST!!!
Notice the parade of Neo-Con wankers on the Advisory Committe, including Ninja Mary Matalin!
Ja Accuse
I don't copyright my stuff, but attribution is nice.
I posted this on June 13, 2005 at 3:54 a.m., after originally putting a slightly different version (now totally fucked in formatting by blogger) ONE YEAR EARLIER!
This guy posted this on June 13, 2005 at 6:21 p.m. Slightly different, but not all that much.
Coincidence?
You tell me.
I know this is fairly self-serving and delayed by quite a bit. However, I spend at least 15 to 30 seconds coming up with this crap, if you are going to just lift it and put a slightly different bow on it, AT LEAST CREDIT YOUR SOURCE!
UPDATE: The author of the piece denies any bogarting or modification of my work (as you can see in comments), and I believe him, but it was coincidental and that's what set me off. So to all I apologize.
I posted this on June 13, 2005 at 3:54 a.m., after originally putting a slightly different version (now totally fucked in formatting by blogger) ONE YEAR EARLIER!
This guy posted this on June 13, 2005 at 6:21 p.m. Slightly different, but not all that much.
Coincidence?
You tell me.
I know this is fairly self-serving and delayed by quite a bit. However, I spend at least 15 to 30 seconds coming up with this crap, if you are going to just lift it and put a slightly different bow on it, AT LEAST CREDIT YOUR SOURCE!
UPDATE: The author of the piece denies any bogarting or modification of my work (as you can see in comments), and I believe him, but it was coincidental and that's what set me off. So to all I apologize.
The Gods are happy
Harry lives, Cheney gets ridiculed:
From Letterman.
Ready to Kill Again.
Top Ten Surprises In The Dick Cheney Interview
10. Admitted he's the guy who popped a cap in Suge Knight
9. Sentenced himself to a week at Gitmo
8. He's engaged to Katie Holmes
7. Revealed list of the next ten old guys he plans to shoot
6. Pinned Brit Hume to the wall with a ninja throwing star
5. Chalked the whole thing up to 'roid rage
4. Spent most of the time talking about who's going to win "American Idol"
3. His clumsy attempt to pin the entire thing on Michael Brown
2. Claims it was all part of the plan to make Bush look smarter
1. Stunning admission: "The gun was loaded and so was I"
From Letterman.
Ready to Kill Again.
"Heh heh"
"Professor, all that edumacation. I don't need no fancy machine to ferment, I just don't take a shower."
(AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
"Those aren't legos bonehead!"
"Five fucking years out of my life!"
(AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
Racist Right Martyr?
Holocaust Denier and far right activist, David Irving who has moved in many white supremacist circles in the United States, such as among the so-called American Renaissance movement, has suddenly been turned into a far right-wing cause celeb with his three year conviction in Austria for Holocaust denial.
Let's face fact folks, Irving is many things -- and few of them decent -- but he is no poster boy for free speech and free thought. The idea that Irving and his case could become a cause... sickens me to the core. This is an author who in subsquent editions of his most famous work, Hitler's War, that Hitler was not responsible for the campaigns of genocide that occured under the German regime prior to and during World War II.
We should not call Irving a martyr, we should call him what he is: A Liar. And that is at best. Of course, I am always amazed at the right-wing's inability to feret out any liars these days.
Why me worry? Why I am a right-wing darling because I believe in freedom of speech. Well, certain speech that is.
Backlash at jailing of historian who denied Holocaust
From Roger Boyes in Vienna
DAVID IRVING, the far-right British historian, sat stunned and open-mouthed yesterday when an Austrian court found him guilty of denying the Holocaust and sentenced him to three years in jail.
"I'm very shocked and I'm going to appeal," Irving, 67, said as he was bundled out of the Vienna courtroom by armed anti-riot police.
From the public gallery a British supporter shouted "Stay strong, David", before he too was led away.
But in Britain there was dismay at a verdict that could turn Irving into a right-wing martyr.
Irving had pleaded guilty to denying the Holocaust in two speeches in Austria in 1989. He was arrested when he re-entered the country, where it is a crime to deny the Holocaust, last November, and had been in custody since.
During his seven-hour trial yesterday Irving sought to convince the jury that he had changed his mind and now acknowledged the murder of six million Jews by the Nazis.
"I made a mistake when I said there were no gas chambers at Auschwitz," he told the court.
But the judge and jury were unswayed. One hundred and fifty-eight people have been convicted of Holocaust denial in Austria between 1999 and 2004, but only a handful other than Irving have been imprisoned.
Lord Janner, chairman of the Holocaust Educational Trust, was pleased by the conviction.
He said: "It sends a clear message to the world that we must not tolerate the denial of the mass murderers of the Holocaust. The Nazis tried to wipe out an entire people . . . We must learn the lessons of the past to build a decent society for the future."
The verdict came amid a furious debate in Europe over freedom of expression, with many defending the media's right to publish cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed. The Arabic television station al-Jazeera was there to broadcast the verdict to its Islamic audience.
In Britain Nick Griffin, the leader of the British National Party, was recently acquitted of making speeches inciting racial hatred.
Abu Hamza, the radical Islamic cleric, was last week sentenced to seven years in prison for inciting racial hatred and soliciting murder.
In Britain there was some alarm at the severity of the sentence.
Let's face fact folks, Irving is many things -- and few of them decent -- but he is no poster boy for free speech and free thought. The idea that Irving and his case could become a cause... sickens me to the core. This is an author who in subsquent editions of his most famous work, Hitler's War, that Hitler was not responsible for the campaigns of genocide that occured under the German regime prior to and during World War II.
We should not call Irving a martyr, we should call him what he is: A Liar. And that is at best. Of course, I am always amazed at the right-wing's inability to feret out any liars these days.
Why me worry? Why I am a right-wing darling because I believe in freedom of speech. Well, certain speech that is.
Backlash at jailing of historian who denied Holocaust
From Roger Boyes in Vienna
DAVID IRVING, the far-right British historian, sat stunned and open-mouthed yesterday when an Austrian court found him guilty of denying the Holocaust and sentenced him to three years in jail.
"I'm very shocked and I'm going to appeal," Irving, 67, said as he was bundled out of the Vienna courtroom by armed anti-riot police.
From the public gallery a British supporter shouted "Stay strong, David", before he too was led away.
But in Britain there was dismay at a verdict that could turn Irving into a right-wing martyr.
Irving had pleaded guilty to denying the Holocaust in two speeches in Austria in 1989. He was arrested when he re-entered the country, where it is a crime to deny the Holocaust, last November, and had been in custody since.
During his seven-hour trial yesterday Irving sought to convince the jury that he had changed his mind and now acknowledged the murder of six million Jews by the Nazis.
"I made a mistake when I said there were no gas chambers at Auschwitz," he told the court.
But the judge and jury were unswayed. One hundred and fifty-eight people have been convicted of Holocaust denial in Austria between 1999 and 2004, but only a handful other than Irving have been imprisoned.
Lord Janner, chairman of the Holocaust Educational Trust, was pleased by the conviction.
He said: "It sends a clear message to the world that we must not tolerate the denial of the mass murderers of the Holocaust. The Nazis tried to wipe out an entire people . . . We must learn the lessons of the past to build a decent society for the future."
The verdict came amid a furious debate in Europe over freedom of expression, with many defending the media's right to publish cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed. The Arabic television station al-Jazeera was there to broadcast the verdict to its Islamic audience.
In Britain Nick Griffin, the leader of the British National Party, was recently acquitted of making speeches inciting racial hatred.
Abu Hamza, the radical Islamic cleric, was last week sentenced to seven years in prison for inciting racial hatred and soliciting murder.
In Britain there was some alarm at the severity of the sentence.
For those of you who have "The Sims"
Would not the "Santorums" be the perfect family to, well, simulate?
Is there a "bestiality" mod?
Santorum and his wife have six kids, and a fetus in a jar.
Is there a "bestiality" mod?
Santorum and his wife have six kids, and a fetus in a jar.
The most revealing statement of all
I don't care how many times people mistake a colostomy bag for a penis, it is quite apparent to me that Cheney is a small Dick all around, there is no more telling statement about it than this from a longer Newsweek article:
70 pheasants (not a small or plentiful bird in any way) in a day! There's only one way to do that, and that's by shooting them when they are raised in a pen and out in the open and they sit there waiting for you to gun 'em down. You might as well be using a machine gun. And, of course, he won't put his gun down. The gun is the extension of his manhood. There is a palpable self-loathing underneath a thin veneer of gigantic ego in that sort of behavior. And his friends all have it too.
Though he's a first class dickweed, I have to say I like the bitter Trent Lott much more than the non-bitter one:
No word on whether Lott was told to go fuck himself.
Cheney's hunting friends, who describe him as a crack shot (the veep has downed as many as 70 pheasants in a single day) as well as a by-the-book and safety-conscious hunter, don't believe he will permanently lay his gun down.
70 pheasants (not a small or plentiful bird in any way) in a day! There's only one way to do that, and that's by shooting them when they are raised in a pen and out in the open and they sit there waiting for you to gun 'em down. You might as well be using a machine gun. And, of course, he won't put his gun down. The gun is the extension of his manhood. There is a palpable self-loathing underneath a thin veneer of gigantic ego in that sort of behavior. And his friends all have it too.
Though he's a first class dickweed, I have to say I like the bitter Trent Lott much more than the non-bitter one:
Cheney is accustomed to being feared and even loathed; still, to be an object of ridicule cannot be easy. Last week Sen. Trent Lott of Mississippi, the former majority leader who was pushed out by the White House in 2002, told The Washington Post that he had greeted the vice president, who had gone to Capitol Hill to meet with some lawmakers, as the "Shooter-in-Chief." Cheney, Lott reported, did not seem amused.
No word on whether Lott was told to go fuck himself.
Mindlessly?
Dickie Cohen, his douchebaggeryry knows no bounds:
I know he's had others point out to him the fallacy of this argument. That the Bush Administration used selective "high level" leaking to feed a willing Miller into selling the public on their little war -- the exact opposite of what Cohen whines about today. But further, Cohen, doesn't see that the selective leaking was then done either deliberately or recklessly to the point that a NOC was outed for pure political purposes.
That Dickie-boy is the difference between violating national security and whistle-blowing.
When an anonymous bureaucrat lets you know that he or she believes the government is violating the law, that's whistleblowing. When Dick Cheney does it to buttress war mongering that's not whistleblowing, although it certainly is another kind of blowing.
The government has a right to its secrets. But the government does not have a right to use its secrets to construct a false case for war. That, though, is precisely what the Bush administration did. And now the administration is pursuing a policy of chasing down leaks by chasing down the reporters who get those leaks. The most famous of these cases involved Judith Miller of the New York Times -- and leftist critics of the war mindlessly cheered on the special prosecutor, thinking (if that's the right word) that his investigation would somehow bring down the administration. All it did was bring down Miller.
I know he's had others point out to him the fallacy of this argument. That the Bush Administration used selective "high level" leaking to feed a willing Miller into selling the public on their little war -- the exact opposite of what Cohen whines about today. But further, Cohen, doesn't see that the selective leaking was then done either deliberately or recklessly to the point that a NOC was outed for pure political purposes.
That Dickie-boy is the difference between violating national security and whistle-blowing.
When an anonymous bureaucrat lets you know that he or she believes the government is violating the law, that's whistleblowing. When Dick Cheney does it to buttress war mongering that's not whistleblowing, although it certainly is another kind of blowing.
Priorities
While she has virtually disappeared as the cartoon riots flared in the area that is supposed to be her specialty, Karen Hughes emerges to defend business interests:
The problem for the Bush Administration, of course, is that this failure to pay attention hurts them not just from progressives, who, along with many conservatives are stunned at awarding a contract to a company from a state that supports Al Qaeda under the table; it also runs into many of their supporters outright anti-arabism. There are a lot of folks out there who are as bigoted as Ann Coulter, even if they are not as well hung as she is.
In a discussion with reporters, Under Secretary of State Karen Hughes said she did not believe the gathering objections represented a general Islamophobia among American lawmakers, as a Dubai newspaper's opinion article alleged Monday.
"I would hope that is not the case," Hughes said. "I hope the people of the United Arab Emirates and the government will understand that in a democracy, there is a process of debate."
The problem for the Bush Administration, of course, is that this failure to pay attention hurts them not just from progressives, who, along with many conservatives are stunned at awarding a contract to a company from a state that supports Al Qaeda under the table; it also runs into many of their supporters outright anti-arabism. There are a lot of folks out there who are as bigoted as Ann Coulter, even if they are not as well hung as she is.
Lottery
Crooks & Liars has video of O'Reilly going out of his way to encourage a FoxNews employee be fired for punditry that was critical of...
...Bill O'Reilly.
It's come to this, for no purpose other than vanity, O'Reilly pulls the kind of cheap stunts talk radio pulls for rating stunts.
But the point is, there's no reason for O'Reilly to engage in this, especially publicly, but for his own vanity. It isn't for ratings. Though all cable news ratings are miniscule, sadly, O'Reilly's ratings are boffo for cable news, the best of any show (sad, but true). It certainly isn't for the quality of the discourse. I imagine a portion of that audience are people just there for the potential trainwreck. If O'Reilly was going to go off against someone,you think it would be someone a little more prominant than Neil Gabler. Gabler is one of the panelists on the channels "FoxNews Watch". It cannot be one of Fox's highest rated shows - though it is probably their best show.
But Gabler ridiculed O'Reilly's "War on Christmas" a couple of months ago, ridiculed it in a rather understated way. And how does O'Reilly react, he publicly asks he be fired and calls him a "rabid dog". Projection.
...Bill O'Reilly.
It's come to this, for no purpose other than vanity, O'Reilly pulls the kind of cheap stunts talk radio pulls for rating stunts.
But the point is, there's no reason for O'Reilly to engage in this, especially publicly, but for his own vanity. It isn't for ratings. Though all cable news ratings are miniscule, sadly, O'Reilly's ratings are boffo for cable news, the best of any show (sad, but true). It certainly isn't for the quality of the discourse. I imagine a portion of that audience are people just there for the potential trainwreck. If O'Reilly was going to go off against someone,you think it would be someone a little more prominant than Neil Gabler. Gabler is one of the panelists on the channels "FoxNews Watch". It cannot be one of Fox's highest rated shows - though it is probably their best show.
But Gabler ridiculed O'Reilly's "War on Christmas" a couple of months ago, ridiculed it in a rather understated way. And how does O'Reilly react, he publicly asks he be fired and calls him a "rabid dog". Projection.
Monday, February 20, 2006
Conundrum
Here's something to be conflicted about. On the one hand, I believe in free speech, even when it's repugnant. On the other hand some folks are so repugnant it's hard to be sad about them being punished by a state.
Such a person is historian David Irving, who has gone about making ever more deranged comments about the Holocaust, to the point he was found to be a Holocaust Denier in a relatively famous trial in the United Kingdom in 2000.
Today, Irving was sentenced to three years in prison in Austria.
As a person with a great interest in history, I have been following, with increasing dismay and disgust, Irving's almost delight in tormenting jewish survivors of the Holocaust, implying they had made up their version of events. Few if any tragedies have ever been as thoroughly documented as the German systemic slaughter of groups not fitting into their idea of humanity: gays, communists, democrats, gypsies, slavs, and most of all and most viciously, evilly, and deliberately Jews. Yet, Irving, a somewhat respected historian went off the deep end and began denying "the final solution" grasping on any nutty theory he came across and did so for years, creating a cottage industry and aiding and abetting such hateful and malicious assertions.
Now, once his mendacity has finally threatened to take away his freedom, he repents. Would Irving have done so, were it otherwise? I sincerely doubt it.
Yet the inprisonment is still troubling, and ultimately I don't know where I come down -- even if it is eased by the fact it was not done in this country where the First Amendment would have prevented prosecution. But, not surprisingly, the situation is different in Austria, where the crimes were committed, and ultimately started by the worst Austrian (and person) of all time.
What do you think?
Such a person is historian David Irving, who has gone about making ever more deranged comments about the Holocaust, to the point he was found to be a Holocaust Denier in a relatively famous trial in the United Kingdom in 2000.
Today, Irving was sentenced to three years in prison in Austria.
Irving, 67, has been in custody since his November arrest on charges stemming from two speeches he gave in Austria in 1989 in which he was accused of denying the Nazis' extermination of 6 million Jews. He has contended that most of those who died at concentration camps such as Auschwitz succumbed to diseases such as typhus rather than execution.
The court convicted Irving after his guilty plea under the 1992 law, which applies to "whoever denies, grossly plays down, approves or tries to excuse the National Socialist genocide or other National Socialist crimes against humanity in a print publication, in broadcast or other media."
Irving's trial came amid new — and fierce — debate over freedom of expression in Europe, where the printing and reprinting of unflattering caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad has triggered deadly protests worldwide.
Kresbach said last month the controversial Third Reich historian was getting up to 300 pieces of fan mail a week from supporters around the world and was writing his memoirs in detention under the working title "Irving's War."
Irving was arrested Nov. 11 in the southern Austrian province of Styria on a warrant issued in 1989. He was charged under a federal law that makes it a crime to publicly diminish, deny or justify the Holocaust.
Irving had tried to win his provisional release on $24,000 bail, but a Vienna court refused, saying it considered him a flight risk.
Within two weeks of his arrest, he asserted through his lawyer that he had come to acknowledge the existence of Nazi-era gas chambers. Before the trial began, Irving told reporters he now acknowledges that the Nazis systematically slaughtered Jews during World War II.
As a person with a great interest in history, I have been following, with increasing dismay and disgust, Irving's almost delight in tormenting jewish survivors of the Holocaust, implying they had made up their version of events. Few if any tragedies have ever been as thoroughly documented as the German systemic slaughter of groups not fitting into their idea of humanity: gays, communists, democrats, gypsies, slavs, and most of all and most viciously, evilly, and deliberately Jews. Yet, Irving, a somewhat respected historian went off the deep end and began denying "the final solution" grasping on any nutty theory he came across and did so for years, creating a cottage industry and aiding and abetting such hateful and malicious assertions.
Now, once his mendacity has finally threatened to take away his freedom, he repents. Would Irving have done so, were it otherwise? I sincerely doubt it.
Yet the inprisonment is still troubling, and ultimately I don't know where I come down -- even if it is eased by the fact it was not done in this country where the First Amendment would have prevented prosecution. But, not surprisingly, the situation is different in Austria, where the crimes were committed, and ultimately started by the worst Austrian (and person) of all time.
What do you think?
Rather pathetic
A recent survey (allegedly) of historians found these to be the top-10 mistakes of Presidents:
1. James Buchanan sitting on his hands while Southern States Seceeded;
2. Andrew Johnson's decision to sympathize with Southern Whites over Freed Blacks
3. Lyndon Johnson for the ramping up of the Vietnam War;
4. Woodrow Wilson's refusal to compromise on the Treaty of Versailles after World War I.
5. Richard Nixon's involvement in the Watergate cover-up.
6. James Madison's failure to keep the United States out of the War of 1812 with Britain.
7. Thomas Jefferson's Embargo Act of 1807, a self-imposed prohibition on trade with Europe during the Napoleonic Wars.
8. John F. Kennedy allowing the Bay of Pigs Invasion that led to the Cuban Missile Crisis.
9. Ronald Reagan and the Iran-Contra Affair, the effort to sell arms to Iran and use the money to finance an armed anti-communist group in Nicaragua.
10. Clinton's tryst with Monica.
Now some of these are certainly worthy, but I have to say many of them seem unworthy. Nos. 1 through 5 are certainly deserving.
But missing are not only the Chimperor Disgustus's Iraq War but:
(a) John Adams signing of the Alien & Sedition Act.
(b) Calvin Coolidge's insane monetary policy that caused a Depression upon History's sad sack, Herbert Hoover.
(c) William Henry Harrison's 3 hour, uncovered, inaugural address/self-delivered obituary.
(d) Franklin Pierce's drunken buggy ride and Southern Sucking up.
(e) U.S. Grant's decision to appoint scumbags to financial offices.
(f) Warren Harding's appointment of officials much like Grant causing Teapot Dome.
(g) Zachary Taylor's over indulgence on creamed cucumbers.
(h) James K. Polk's love for freshly grilled british babies.
1. James Buchanan sitting on his hands while Southern States Seceeded;
2. Andrew Johnson's decision to sympathize with Southern Whites over Freed Blacks
3. Lyndon Johnson for the ramping up of the Vietnam War;
4. Woodrow Wilson's refusal to compromise on the Treaty of Versailles after World War I.
5. Richard Nixon's involvement in the Watergate cover-up.
6. James Madison's failure to keep the United States out of the War of 1812 with Britain.
7. Thomas Jefferson's Embargo Act of 1807, a self-imposed prohibition on trade with Europe during the Napoleonic Wars.
8. John F. Kennedy allowing the Bay of Pigs Invasion that led to the Cuban Missile Crisis.
9. Ronald Reagan and the Iran-Contra Affair, the effort to sell arms to Iran and use the money to finance an armed anti-communist group in Nicaragua.
10. Clinton's tryst with Monica.
Now some of these are certainly worthy, but I have to say many of them seem unworthy. Nos. 1 through 5 are certainly deserving.
But missing are not only the Chimperor Disgustus's Iraq War but:
(a) John Adams signing of the Alien & Sedition Act.
(b) Calvin Coolidge's insane monetary policy that caused a Depression upon History's sad sack, Herbert Hoover.
(c) William Henry Harrison's 3 hour, uncovered, inaugural address/self-delivered obituary.
(d) Franklin Pierce's drunken buggy ride and Southern Sucking up.
(e) U.S. Grant's decision to appoint scumbags to financial offices.
(f) Warren Harding's appointment of officials much like Grant causing Teapot Dome.
(g) Zachary Taylor's over indulgence on creamed cucumbers.
(h) James K. Polk's love for freshly grilled british babies.
"John Bull Jr., delicious!"
Music Loses Another
Man, I can't believe this! I feel so bad for this family. Read this last night and just couldn't believe it. So, so sad. And just because the musicians are Canadian is no good reason why the American press should be so silent on this.
Billy Cowsill, lead singer of The Cowsills, dies on the eve of his brother's memorial
Sunday, February 19th, 2006
CALGARY (CP) - William (Billy) Cowsill, 58, lead singer of the 1960s family band The Cowsills, has died at his home in Calgary after a lengthy illness.
News of his death Friday night was confirmed by family members who had gathered in Rhode Island for a memorial service for Barry Cowsill, a brother who was also in the band, who drowned in the wake of Hurricane Katrina in September.
Billy Cowsill had moved to Canada 35 years ago and continued his music career with Blue Northern and later The Blue Shadows. But it was the Cowsills that led to his greatest success as lead singer with such hits as "Hair" and "Indian Lake."
The band was also the inspiration for the tv series The Partridge Family. The Cowsills also had their own television special, performed a headline act in Las Vegas and did milk commercials.
Family members gathered Saturday at the memorial service for Barry Cowsill say Billy had been ill for several years with emphysema, osteoporosis, Cushing syndrome and other ailments. But they did not have details on his cause of death.
Paul Cowsill, another brother in the band, told the Providence Journal that Billy had a history of problems with drugs and alcohol that "caught up with him."
"He'd be the first one to tell you he's paying the fiddler," he said.
The Cowsill family included parents Bud and Barbara, a daughter Susan and brothers William, Robert, Richard, Barry, Paul, and John.
Billy is survived by two sons, Travis and Del.
NEWPORT, R.I. The lead singer of the 1960s family band The Cowsills has died _ and his family learned it just after a memorial service for his brother.According to family members, William Cowsill died Friday in Canada. He had been suffering from emphysema, osteoporosis and other ailments. He was 58 years old.Cowsill was the frontman for the band bearing his family's name. The Newport group was discovered by an N-B-C producer in 1965. Soon after, they recorded three number-one hits including "Hair," "The Rain, The Park and Other Things" and "Indian Lake."News of his death came just after a memorial ceremony honoring William Cowsill's younger brother, Barry. Barry Cowsill drowned after Hurricane Katrina flooded New Orleans.
Billy Cowsill, lead singer of The Cowsills, dies on the eve of his brother's memorial
Sunday, February 19th, 2006
CALGARY (CP) - William (Billy) Cowsill, 58, lead singer of the 1960s family band The Cowsills, has died at his home in Calgary after a lengthy illness.
News of his death Friday night was confirmed by family members who had gathered in Rhode Island for a memorial service for Barry Cowsill, a brother who was also in the band, who drowned in the wake of Hurricane Katrina in September.
Billy Cowsill had moved to Canada 35 years ago and continued his music career with Blue Northern and later The Blue Shadows. But it was the Cowsills that led to his greatest success as lead singer with such hits as "Hair" and "Indian Lake."
The band was also the inspiration for the tv series The Partridge Family. The Cowsills also had their own television special, performed a headline act in Las Vegas and did milk commercials.
Family members gathered Saturday at the memorial service for Barry Cowsill say Billy had been ill for several years with emphysema, osteoporosis, Cushing syndrome and other ailments. But they did not have details on his cause of death.
Paul Cowsill, another brother in the band, told the Providence Journal that Billy had a history of problems with drugs and alcohol that "caught up with him."
"He'd be the first one to tell you he's paying the fiddler," he said.
The Cowsill family included parents Bud and Barbara, a daughter Susan and brothers William, Robert, Richard, Barry, Paul, and John.
Billy is survived by two sons, Travis and Del.
NEWPORT, R.I. The lead singer of the 1960s family band The Cowsills has died _ and his family learned it just after a memorial service for his brother.According to family members, William Cowsill died Friday in Canada. He had been suffering from emphysema, osteoporosis and other ailments. He was 58 years old.Cowsill was the frontman for the band bearing his family's name. The Newport group was discovered by an N-B-C producer in 1965. Soon after, they recorded three number-one hits including "Hair," "The Rain, The Park and Other Things" and "Indian Lake."News of his death came just after a memorial ceremony honoring William Cowsill's younger brother, Barry. Barry Cowsill drowned after Hurricane Katrina flooded New Orleans.
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