*****BREAKING NEWS***** Ted Turner Has Passed
Per CNN
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in Montana, New Mexico and elsewhere. I saw an interview that gave me some faith that the son is going to honor wishes to make these massive lands wildlife refuges.
Ted. You were a good guy. I'm sorry you didn't live long enough to see your CNN accomplishment turn around back to what you intended, but hopefully sometime before it dies under RW ownership...
Be at peace, Ted.
his efforts in the rest of the country where he has property deeded to wildlife refuges or similar endeavors. I already indicated my own qualms about Vermejo Park and that I agreed largely with your views on that. But if you were to judged on one action you took in your lifetime while ignoring decades of good actions I'm sure you have undertaken, I would decry that too if in a position to know and to do so. I should think you would want others to do so for you as I would likewise hope you could do for others. 
*Given Vermejo Park Ranch stretches over two counties of New Mexico and two in Southern Colorado you could conceivably live in New Mexico, but given your comments on Ludlow Massacre, I'm assuming it is Colorado.
that to his efforts across the entire country. You have an ally in me (and others here) that you refuse to even see. No, on Columbus Day, I will NOT be silent as I have not been for decades--nor about the Ludlow Massacre 40 plus years ago when I worked with my Mother in an ultimately successful effort to get that land recognized as a National Landmark--something you are conspicuously silent on YOUR efforts to do anything remotely similar. All you seem to want to do is create strawman arguments on DU--against your natural allies. Smite your own face to do so to others... what a strategy... Do you really want to extend your resentment to all of us? 
A life well lived.
One of the good guys.
Fonda recalled how she cried when Turner told her about his childhood on their second date. They were driving around his 60,000-acre ranch in Montana, and he was passing the time, talking as he drove. Tears ran down her face.
“He literally couldn’t understand why I was crying when he told me stories about what his father did to him,” she said. “Children can’t blame their parents. ‘It’s always my fault; it’s being done for my own good. I must not be good enough.’”
“Given his childhood,” Fonda said, “he should’ve become a dictator. He should’ve become a not nice person. The miracle is that he became what he is. A man who will go to heaven, and there’ll be a lot of animals up there welcoming him, animals that have been brought back from the edge of extinction because of Ted. He’s turned out to be a good guy. And he says he’s not religious. But he, the whole time I was with him, every speech – and he likes to give speeches – he always ends his speech with ‘God bless.’ And he’ll get into heaven. He’s a miracle.”
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/05/06/us/ted-turner-death
RIP Ted.
will continue his father’s legacy on caring for his land holdings. I have a bison skull from his Montana ranch. He was one of the good ones. Cross gently Ted.
for not only the bison, but for having made, however briefly, the Atlanta Braves "America's Team" by putting their games on TBS, the "superstation". I hate what the courts did by taking those superstations away!
RIP Ted.
Pisses me off that we’ve got to dick around with the MLB app (thank dog T-Mobile offers it free—until playoffs) to watch the Cubbies. (Grew up in Iowa but stuck in fkg Florida for years now, and I am NOT swapping my team for Tampa Bay! 
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I had written him to thank him for his vocal support for women's reproductive rights. 
It's sad that the latter part of his life was taken by dementia.
Ted Turner, RIP.