*****BREAKING NEWS***** Ted Turner Has Passed

[hlthe2b]

30. It is YOU who is lecturing me and everyone else here--without the facts of those posting here.

Your grandfather notwithstanding. So, I repeat. What the hell did YOU do beyond castigating anyone and everyone around you for no reason?

Start with this to widen your tiny aperture about the works of Ted Turner--no saint assuredly, but DID do a tremendous amount of good that will live beyond him:

Turner always had a philanthropic streak, but it began to move to the forefront in 1997, the year after he sold Turner Broadcasting to Time Warner. That’s when he pledged $1 billion to the United Nations. Making good on that pledge took a while longer than he had anticipated – he made his final payment to the UN in 2015 – thanks to the beating his fortune took after the 2001 merger with AOL.

When it was over, he was still a billionaire, but just barely.

Turner didn’t do anything in a small way, including reinventing himself. He was the second biggest landowner in North America, with 2 million acres spread over 28 properties, including 19 ranches in Nebraska, Colorado, Kansas, Montana, New Mexico and South Dakota, as well as in Argentina. The first of his Ted’s Montana Grill restaurants opened in 2002, and now there are more than 40 in 16 states. He managed to bring bison back from the brink of extinction; he had the world’s largest private bison herd, with approximately 51,000 head.

His five children – Rhett Turner, Laura Turner Seydel, Jennie Turner Garlington, Teddy Turner and Beau Turner – serve on the board of the Turner Foundation. His other foundations include his United Nations Foundation, Nuclear Threat Initiative, Captain Planet Foundation and the Turner Endangered Species Fund.

https://edition.cnn.com/2026/05/06/us/ted-turner-death