Doctor Raoul passes

Our buddy, Concrete Bob passed on the sad news that Doctor Raoul, known around TAH as simply Raoul when he was a regular here has passed. I don’t know how he found us, I think it was when I was locked in mortal combat with IVAW, but he came quite often everyday. We met a few times out in the real world – these pictures of him I took when we were at a protest for a Bill Ayers book signing right after the Inauguaration in 2009;

Raoul made blogging fun and was a great influence on me – he knew everything in the world and I wanted to be that smart. But a few years ago, the story goes, his employer threatened to fire him if he didn’t stop doing the political stuff and he dropped from sight and from the blog. He wrote us all a cryptic email saying he was dropping off the net. I think it was last year, someone told me about his employer threatening him.

Kristinn Taylor knew him better than I did and wrote about Raoul at Free Republic along with some photos and Gateway Pundit republished an excerpted version. Some of you may have been around long to remember how Raoul made fur fly when he put his head down. I’ve missed him since he dropped off the internet, but now knowing he won’t be back, it’s even sadder. Blue skies, old friend.

ADDED: For those of you missed his time here, this is an example of what he contributed here – on my “live blog” of IVAW’s “testimony” to Congress. Raoul is in the comment section with all of the background on the criminals I met that day.

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