Kim Jong Il dies!

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Wheylous Posted: Sun, Dec 18 2011 9:18 PM

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http://news.yahoo.com/north-korea-says-leader-kim-jong-il-died-030534452.html

Would you look at that!

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Michael J Green replied on Sun, Dec 18 2011 9:23 PM

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Good for him.

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jmorris84 replied on Sun, Dec 18 2011 9:25 PM

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I didn't know him, so don't care. Hopefully people over there are allowed to access the internet now and some of them stumble onto this web site.

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DanielMuff replied on Sun, Dec 18 2011 9:33 PM

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He died at age 69? I thought socialist healthcare was suppose to make people live to 150!

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Clayton replied on Sun, Dec 18 2011 9:38 PM

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Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had come to Shechem to make him king... and all Israel came and said to Rehoboam, “Your father [Solomon] made our yoke heavy. Now therefore lighten the hard service of your father and his heavy yoke on us, and we will serve you.” He said to them, “Come to me again in three days.” So the people went away.

Then King Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, who had stood before Solomon his father while he was yet alive, saying, “How do you advise me to answer this people?” And they said to him, “If you will be good to this people and please them and speak good words to them, then they will be your servants forever.” But he abandoned the counsel that the old men gave him, and took counsel with the young men who had grown up with him and stood before him. And he said to them, “What do you advise that we answer this people who have said to me, ‘Lighten the yoke that your father put on us’?” And the young men who had grown up with him said to him, “Thus shall you speak to the people who said to you, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, but you lighten it for us’; thus shall you say to them, ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s thighs. And now, whereas my father laid on you a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke. My father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with scorpions.’

So ... all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as the king said, “Come to me again the third day.” And the king answered them harshly; and forsaking the counsel of the old men, King Rehoboam spoke to them according to the counsel of the young men, saying, “My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to it. My father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with scorpions.”

(2nd Chronicles, chapter 10)

I wish I could say this is a happy day for the North Koreans... but the truth is it probably isn't.