I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
man, we need him in the Senate!
be well Ed!
Best wishes for my senator.
Hi, all.
So sorry to hear about Sen. Kennedy. Best wishes for his recovery.
a well-informed, prominent Democratic source in that state
That seems cryptic ...
Hope that he's doing well. If stroke is caught early, really amazing recovery is possible.
Best wishes for a speedy & full recovery
A stroke is a very serious thing, but can be recovered from.
Take care Senator.
awwww crap
Don't listen to the pricks.
The wingnuts will be cheering at this news. They thrive on other people's misery.
http://ccoaler.blogspot.com/2008...ed-
kennedy.html
sad
Interestingly, Timmeh has Ted Sorenson discussing his time with Jack Kennedy right now.
shoot, here's to Ted's speedy recovery.
true plantsman, but Kennedy is 76 and not a health nut. Hopefully, it was a minor one.
man, I hope he gets better soon. Teddy is a fighting Dem, and we need more fighting Dems in the Senate.
rove said obama: were not aliens. Means what? we behave likem, but we know our rights?
That seems cryptic ...
Sinfonian
the BBC has the news as well. Don't trust CNN, but i do trust the BBC!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world...cas/
7406527.stm
best vibes to the Senator from MA
Incidentally, I missed the WOTD post, but you already know, I'm sure, that Glenn Reynolds is a Hall of Famer and ranks second only to Fred Hiatt in number of awards.
And I'm most certainly not a 'he'.
Buckeye
Maybe you should double-check?
Willendorf Venus | 05.17.08 - 12:17 pm |
Bite me.
(Checks shirt)
They're still there!
(As if my bra bill and femine hygiene products bill weren't dead giveaways).
from below - the 911 call came from the Kenneday compound at 8:19 - I'm taking his survival this long as a good sign.
I was a a fundraiser for him at my firm several years ago - he told a great story about meeting a baker covered in flour and sugar in his first campaign - he said "my opponent says I haven't worked a day in my life - the baker shook my hand heartily and said - "you haven't missed a thing!"
trying to be hopeful. I had my stoke at 50, and was surely not a heath nut.
JP, do you know anything about the piagio (sp?) 3 wheeled scooter.
Are they ever going to release it into the US?
man, I hope he gets better soon. Teddy is a fighting Dem, and we need more fighting Dems in the Senate.
Well . . .
he told a great story about meeting a baker covered in flour and sugar in his first campaign - he said "my opponent says I haven't worked a day in my life - the baker shook my hand heartily and said - "you haven't missed a thing!"
Jill | 05.17.08 - 12:21 pm | #
Truer words ...
Best wishes to Sen. Kennedy for a speedy recovery.
Hang tough Teddy
The pre-primary reporting period closes at midnight on the 21st.
I saw him speak about a year ago. He even took time to pose for pictures with people even though we aren't in his state.
a well-informed, prominent Democratic source in that state
That seems cryptic ...
Sinfonian, anniversarying | Homepage | 05.17.08 - 12:17 pm |
It only includes how many in the state?
The wingnuts will be cheering at this news. They thrive on other people's misery.
Lime Rickey
Well, they have such shitty nothing lives....
one of my early memories was the RFK campaign, and how despondent my folks were when he was assasinated. I can remember more than one person saying at the time "we only have Teddy now."
Mass General is a brilliant hospital, if one must be in one.
did you see Robert F Jr on Letterman last night? He was pretty good. The Kennedy genes are wery strong!
News bimbo on MSNBC actually asked Pat Buchanan if Kennedy's illness will screw Obama's chances in November.
I'm speechless in the face of such stupidity...
All that fighting, especially when you have to compensate for the cowardice of others, has to take its toll.
Godspeed, Senator.
Uhoh.
true plantsman, but Kennedy is 76 and not a health nut. Hopefully, it was a minor one.
trifecta
He's tough!
Good thoughts out to Senator Kennedy.
Alex Witless is profoundly stupid.
Get well soon, Senator. You're needed more than ever.
Cape Cod Hospital ain't chopped liver, either, but Mass General is tops, no doubt.
Anyone want to go to one of the wingnut sites and see how they're covering this?
I'm not brave enough. Besides, I have my own issues with schadenfreude (although you'll note I never make light of health problems or real tragedies of Republicans).
News bimbo on MSNBC actually asked Pat Buchanan if Kennedy's illness will screw Obama's chances in November.
I'm speechless in the face of such stupidity...
steve hüssein simels
Grasping at straws.
Sailing, sailing...under the ocean blue....
I wonder if Ted Kennedy ever thinks of Mary Jo Kpechne.
trying to be hopeful. I had my stoke at 50, and was surely not a heath nut.
plantsman, less blue
Being a health nut is no guarantee against a health crisis.
Best wishes going out from here.
Repeating here what I said at LG&M regarding the Reynolds wanker post:
I'd hereby like to petition to remove Mr. Reynolds from wanker of the day.
Only so it can be awarded instead to NPR, where on All Right Wing Memes Considered yesterday they asked if the decision might help McCain.
They had on exactly one outsider to discuss it. She was from Concerned Women for America.
Nuff said? Reynolds is an asshole whom few people think is neutral. NPR, on the other hand...
News bimbo on MSNBC actually asked Pat Buchanan if Kennedy's illness will screw Obama's chances in November.
They are grasping at straws.
Mass General is a brilliant hospital, if one must be in one.
plantsman, less blue
Yes. He's in good hands, there. And, Cape Cod hospital is in Hyannis so that's a good thing too.
I hope we hear some good news, soon.
venus wilendorf - brilliant comment.
News bimbo on MSNBC actually asked Pat Buchanan if Kennedy's illness will screw Obama's chances in November.
I'm speechless in the face of such stupidity...
steve hüssein simels
Pat will now go light some candles and pray that Ted doesn't make it.
I'm speechless in the face of such stupidity...Sad to say, I'm getting used to it. It still makes me sick to my stomach, but it's no longer surprising.
Hecate, I'm sure you have candles and incense aflame. What colors would i use for candles?
pud | 05.17.08 - 12:25 pm
Get a real job.
Anyone want to go to one of the wingnut sites and see how they're covering this?
I'm not brave enough. Besides, I have my own issues with schadenfreude (although you'll note I never make light of health problems or real tragedies of Republicans).
Sinfonian, anniversarying
------------------------
The comments over at LGF are actually being respectful.
News bimbo on MSNBC actually asked Pat Buchanan if Kennedy's illness will screw Obama's chances in November.
It's good news for Guiliani.
Media Roundup for the Week:
Obama showed greater media savy & toughness then I've ever seen him display, as he responded to Bush's appeasement speech in Jerusalem. Linking McCain to Bush & ridiculing it was terrific. Hopefully, this is the GE Obama.
I've greatly admired Hillary's campaign style through the primaries & its the way you need to campaign to win in the GE. You don't back down against the media narrative or the RW slime machine. She gets it. Watching McCauliffe go on the counter offensive on Chris Matthews - I'm sure you're having a tingle going up your leg - is the epitomy of the Hillary campaign.
THE PROBLEM IS THAT THESE TACTICS ARE BEING USED AGAINST A FELLOW DEMOCRAT IN THE PRIMARIES (Its possible one can't turn a campaign style on & off but it has definitely been to the detriment of Obama).
I'm speechless in the face of such stupidity...
steve hüssein simels
monsieur Simels, have you seen this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h...com/node?
page=1
she'll be dead by the end of this year, i say
No need to go to rat wang sites, the Schadenfruede trolls are here!
I wonder if pud ever thinks?
It sort of looks as if he may have been sticken sometime during the night. I hope not. If a stroke victim gets the right drugs immediately afterwards it rights the damage pretty effectively.
They had on exactly one outsider to discuss it. She was from Concerned Women for America.
You mean CWA didn't send their MALE spokesperson?????
Lewis Black had a good time with that once.
"Concerned WOMEN for America" and they have a DUDE as their spokesperson??????"
Your concern for Mary Jo is noted pud.
I guess the FOI requests won't result in release of the details of the accident and I'm not around to tell everyone it was all my fault.
So as they say in the song "Tell Laura I love her".
And here's Lori Klausutis, Joey S's aide with a word for him...
Concern Trolls of America crack me up.
Girls gotta look her best. Looks like I may have a cold date soon. Get it? Cold?
Ha ha! I kill me......of course, he already did that.
Anyone want to go to one of the wingnut sites and see how they're covering this?
I NEVER go to any of their sites.
I can't stand that much stoopid and mean at one sitting.
pud | 05.17.08 - 12:25 pm
Get a real job.
83 Visitors Online
better yet: ENLIST YOU COWARD!
Sinfonian, I just headed to frei republik. Alot of comments deleted by moderators already, and alot of talk about how Kennedy had a stroke to help Obama in the general election.
Seriously.
I wonder if Bush's no fly list still includes Sen. Kennedy?
It sort of looks as if he may have been sticken sometime during the night. I hope not
he was probably snorting a line of coke off a hooker's ass while simultaneously jerking off his chofeur.
Then the Ghost of Mary Joe Kopechne appeared and said "remem ber me?"
The stresss was too much for his heart, so he had a stroke.
I wonder if pud ever thinks?
NTodd, Poseur
How can he knows what he thinks until he reads what he says?
Kinda like that boob Chris Matthews took apart over appeasement. Blathering about the talking points BEFORE understanding the meaning or the history...
"The comments over at LGF are actually being respectful."
.......as opposed to the assfucks who come here.
(I mean no disrespect to ass fucks.)
Stroke is really serious, especially for someone of his age and not-great-health. Stroke rehab is tough, too. Best wishes to him and his family.
Anyone else having trouble loading this page? It seems to take an unusually long time lately... New ad causing problems, perhaps?
I wonder if Georgie Bush ever thinks about all of the dead Americans, and all of the dead Iraqis he has killed.
pud, seriously, be careful crossing the street.
The stresss was too much for his heart, so he had a stroke.
You really don't know what a stroke is, do you?
Comment by Mary Jo Kopechne blocked
Shows how PATHETIC the Repukes are -- have to dredge up shit from almost 40 years ago!
Comment by pud blocked.
SPEAKING of stoopid and mean......
A minister at a Dallas-area megachurch was charged with online solicitation of a minor after police said Friday he was caught in an Internet sex sting.
Undercover officers posing as a 13-year-old girl communicated with 52-year-old Joe Barron of Plano for about two weeks. The online conversations were sexual in nature, police said.
Barron is a minister at Prestonwood Baptist Church, one of the largest churches in the country with 26,000 members and 40 ministers.
pud | 05.17.08 - 12:29 pm
Ah still haven't gotten laid yet, eh?
Best wishes for a speedy recovery for the nation's best senator. Ted is where the Democratic Party used to be & hopefully to where it'll return.
I think of Mary Jo Kopechne once in a while. I had two OUIs for which I was arrested, and hundreds of others that passed unnoticed by the constabulary. It was pure blind luck that I didn't kill myself, somebody I love, or someone loved by someone else. I'd guess Ted Kennedy thinks of her sometimes, too. Her death should not be a political issue. It should be a human one, as, for instance, Laura Bush's auto accident resulting in death is acknowledged by the right to be.
And Ted's hugely knowledgeable voice and legislative skill would be hard indeed to replace as a Democrat takes the White House and, at long last, tries to address the distortions, inadequacies, stupidities, injustices and expense of what passes for the American health care system. As a human being, and as a selfish person with an agenda, both, I wish him speedy recovery.
she'll be dead by the end of this year, i say
plum p
I thought it was strangely endearing, though they both could use a good scrubbing.
and alot of talk about how Kennedy had a stroke to help Obama in the general election.
I'm speechless.
she'll be dead by the end of this year, i say
plum p,
*
wow, I kept expecting her to pull an Ozzie and eat the head off of one of those babies.
I don't think people die from smoking crack like they do from heroin. Just sayin.
New ad causing problems, perhaps?
lisa
yesterday, i saw an ad on the front page from Scientology. This blog is doomed!
Barron is a minister at Prestonwood Baptist Church, one of the largest churches in the country with 26,000 members and 40 ministers.
trifecta
He was just doing research!
I wonder if pud ever thinks?
NTodd, Poseur
Has to listen to Rush or watch Faux News first.
You know, like all the wingnuts.
As I have asked several times, what IS it with people like us that people like pud find SO threatening?
I mean, why do those assholes COME here....do they really imagine that THEY can "convert" us??????
Or didn't they get any love from Mommy so this is the way they get attention?
pud, seriously, be careful crossing the street.
Snow (D-SC) | Homepage | 05.17.08 - 12:30 pm | #
threatening violence are we?
By the way, I am commemorating an anniversary today.
And I'm happy to be with all of you.
Just sayin'.
alot of talk about how Kennedy had a stroke to help Obama in the general election.
Damn. Now THAT's dedication to a cause.
he was probably snorting a line of coke
Gordoin
Your friends are serving their country bravely, why the fuck aren't you, yellow coward?
Yes wingnuts - 40 years ago Kennedy was in an accident that killed a woman. 5 years ago Bush launched a war that has killed tens of thousands.
"A well informed, prominent Democratic source"?
They can't tell you who the fuck called them to let them know Teddy was in the hospital?
WTF, News Media?
As a human being, and as a selfish person with an agenda, both, I wish him speedy recovery.
ProfWombat
Well said, sir!
"I'm Chris Hansen from Dateline NBC and you're now part of a story on Internet Predators who try to meet kids to have sex with we're doing."
pud | 05.17.08 - 12:33 pm |
Do something about it or shut the fuck up.
thanks ellroon
I think of Mary Jo Kopechne once in a while. I had two OUIs for which I was arrested, and hundreds of others that passed unnoticed by the constabulary. It was pure blind luck that I didn't kill myself, somebody I love, or someone loved by someone else. I'd guess Ted Kennedy thinks of her sometimes, too. Her death should not be a political issue.
Ted's not a saint....who is?
But he's done a helluva more for this country than Bush ever has.
Or didn't they get any love from Mommy so this is the way they get attention?
Terry C - Anti-War Elitist
*
they are on the RNC payroll?
on t'aime Sinfo!
happy second
we're so happy you're with us!!!
Gordon "pud" and his boyfriend Geoffrey don't seem to have learned any lessons these last few years. but it's their cowardice that really stands out.
I wonder if Georgie Bush ever thinks about all of the dead Americans, and all of the dead Iraqis he has killed.
left field, Hussein-American | 05.17.08 - 12:30 pm | #
A googlesearch on something once led me to a fifth-rate wingnut blogger's site. His latest two posts were these: One, a drawn-out little piece of fiction that has Ted dreaming he's in the fatal car, where in the end the devil takes the wheel and drowns him and sends him to hell. Sending him to hell, of course, for an accidental death.
The other post: gleeful repeating some joke about Teheran getting nuked.
The pathetic wingnuts in a nutshell. Fuck every last one of them.
Ted's not a saint....who is?
But he's done a helluva more for this country than Bush ever has.
Terry C - Anti-War Elitist | Homepage | 05.17.08 - 12:34 pm | #
he's not a saint. he's a murdererd.
But he's done a helluva more for this country than Bush ever has.
Terry C - Anti-War Elitist | Homepage | 05.17.08 - 12:34 pm | #
Depends on which country
/Prince Bandar
Don't forget both Bush and Cheney had arrests for DUIs.
Or didn't they get any love from Mommy so this is the way they get attention?
Terry C - Anti-War Elitist
*
they are on the RNC payroll?
Nancy Willing
If they are, it proves that the RNC doesn't give its employees intelligence or aptitude tests.
threatening violence are we?
Paranoid are we? That was no threat, punk. I just feel someone as stupid as you should be extra careful crossing the street. Fuck, coward, I would just walk straight up to you. You're too much of a wimp to do anything.
he's not a saint. he's a murdererd.
pud
and Cheney/Bush aren't???
What's a 'murdererd'?
If I saw pud crossing the street, I'd hit the accelerator.
pud guts wash right off with a hose.
What is the male equivalent of "bimbo"? Male cable news hosts says things just as stupid, but we don't have that handy word for them...
Hhhmmmm. Maybe I'm just a bit hyperaware of the sexism in our society right about now....
An interesting word, bimbo, in that it ends in the usually male indicative vowel, but applies mostly (or only?) to females. From Wiki:
Bimbo is a term that emerged in popular English language usage in the early 20th Century to describe an often attractive, yet unintelligent woman. The usage of this term began in the United States as early as 1919. The 1929 silent film, Desert Nights, describes a cheap female crook as a bimbo. This word derives from the Italian bimbo, a word of masculine gender that means (male) baby or very young (male) child (its feminine equivalent is bimba). The 50’s song “Bimbo”, about a toddler, was one of the early hits for the popular American singer Jim Reeves. Its first usage in English was for stupid men; it now is understood to mean a woman unless modified as male bimbo, himbo, or mimbo. Some still prefer the explicitly female variant bimbette, which has also entered The American Heritage Dictionary. Others use bimbette for a younger bimbo, because the suffix "-ette" signifies a smaller version as in French or Spanish "-ito/-ita" suffix.
Somehow, "himbo" just doesn't do it for me.
Your friends are serving their country bravely
mrs. ibrahim al-jafaari, you are mistaken, that ass-wipe doesn't have any friends.
he's not a saint. he's a murdererd.
pud | 05.17.08 - 12:35 pm | #
Stop talking about George W Bush like that.
What's a 'murdererd'?
NTodd, Poseur
His secret wishes are showing through.
If Kennedy is a "murderer" Bush is one one hundred thousand times over. But I'm sure that logic is lost one you.
himbo.
Troy?
anyone in Boston right now? Are local tv stations reporting it live?
Why does Mary Joe get all of the attention?
Speaking of freudian slips, Huckabee has apologized about his joke about Obama running for cover.
Paranoid are we? That was no threat, punk. I just feel someone as stupid as you should be extra careful crossing the street. Fuck, coward, I would just walk straight up to you. You're too much of a wimp to do anything.
Snow (D-SC) | Homepage | 05.17.08 - 12:36 pm | #
Oh yes you're the guy who "served his country."
I keep telling you that the Salvation Army isn't a branch of the military.
Male cable news hosts says things just as stupid, but we don't have that handy word for them...
I call them "himbos".
Hi Plum P - the local news station has a guy waiting for word at Mass General - no word yet from the docs or the family
Why does Mary Joe get all of the attention?
Laura Bush's Dead Boyfriend
IOIYAR.
Didn't you get the memo?
pud's so dumb he thinks looking both ways when you cross the street means up and down.
FReeper sez Kennedy "led a disgraceful life":
The man has led a disgraceful life, championed using other people's money to pay for abortion while claiming he's a good Catholic; he caused a woman to die way before her time while doing nothing to save her, yet in doing so he was a living example to Liberals everywhere who found this sort of self-indulgent and negligent behavior cool. May he get well quickly and continue to live a life that reminds us all just how reckless Liberalism is in one's personal life's and in government policies.
You should burn in hell for your intemperate remarks.
ellroon: well, yes, I was being circumspect, but I surely meant folk to recall that Bush and Cheney have, er, histories.
For that matter, most drinkers do. The majority of people who drink 'socially' drive impaired from time to time, and all drinkers know it.
TerryC: Kennedy as a legislator is one of the most productive and decent politicians we've had. And he's famous for being able to work with Republicans. I'm not sure the failure of his presidential aspirations was, on balance, a loss; he's been superb in the Senate over decades.
Hhhmmmm. Maybe I'm just a bit hyperaware of the sexism in our society right about now....
An interesting word, bimbo, in that it ends in the usually male indicative vowel, but applies mostly (or only?) to females. From Wiki:
Last year when I was in Mexico, I bought a soccer team jersey for Club America. I couldn't resist.
The primary sponsor, whose logo is prominently displayed across the front of the jersey? BIMBO. It's a mega-bakery, like Hostess in the U.S.
merci Jill!
NPR = Nazi Propaganda Radio.
Chimpy's goons took over NPR years ago and wrecked it.
They also tried to take over PBS and got Bill Moyers fired. Good thing he is back.
Bill Moyers is the conscience of America.
pud | 05.17.08 - 12:38 pm
So what if he's threatening violence? What the fuck are you going to do about it?
Let me answer that for you. Nothing. That's what you'll do.
when was the last year the senate didn't have a Kenney in it?
Speaking of freudian slips, Huckabee has apologized about his joke about Obama running for cover.
ellroon bitterful
Fuckabee needs to apologize for having that waitress fired from her job.
Bastard!
I keep telling you that the Salvation Army isn't a branch of the military.
Tell it to one of your service avoiding coward buddies, wimp.
Also, tell me the mission of the USS Saipan.
Bimbo Bakeries make Oroweat Breads.
Wasn't there a character in the Betty Boop cartoons known as "Bimbo"?
I think I shall use The Google and see.
Bill Moyers is the conscience of America.
HULK
i was watching his show last night and i thought the same thing.
1961.
when was the last year the senate didn't have a Kenney in it?
plum p,better democrats please
1956? Isn't that when JFK was elected?
Ted first was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1962, IIRC.
Media Whore Sheets.
Teh Clintons did it! teh Clintons did it.
pud deserves to be driven off a bridge and drowned.
Laura Bush's Dead Boyfriend: you'd owe me a Coke, if you weren't dead.
And the point isn't that it's OK, or to be glib about people's deaths. They're human tragedies. They shouldn't be political issues. The bankruptcy of turning them into political issues is revealed by the right's glibness over Kopechne and silence over Laura's fatality, and the left's blithe dismissal of Kopechne and gleeful remembrance of Laura's fatality. Neither stance, I would submit, does credit to its holder.
Ted was elected to JFK's seat in 1962 I think '56 is correct.
sheets......
Also, tell me the mission of the USS Saipan.
they didn't cover that in the community college in Maine Gordon attended.
I keep telling you that the Salvation Army isn't a branch of the military.
Pud spitting on vets again.
Yes wingnuts - 40 years ago Kennedy was in an accident that killed a woman. 5 years ago Bush launched a war that has killed tens of thousands.
Jill
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Okay, I do have to be honest enough to admit that Kopechne's death amounted to more than an accident. He walked away and didn't report for 10 hours. Her body was found floating in the back seat of the overturned car. In other words she didn't drown, she suffocated in an airpocket that was in all likelood large enough to last her long enough for him to go to a nearby house and call for help.
I don't know if I would call her death murder, but it wasn't just an accidental death either. I'm a democrat, but I do think that justice was denied Mary Jo Kopechne.
There is a bizarro Tom Fitton Judicial Watch guy trying to say how corrupt are Obama and Clinton. Fooiking GOPerhead.
on C-SPAN, that is.
Veritus, you're a lying sack of shit.
You're obviously NOT a Democrat if you're bringing up a horrible accident from 39 years ago to smear Kennedy as he is in the hospital with a possible life-threatening stroke.
Go fuck yourself, Veritus.
You're a lying sack of shit and even your nickname is a lie.
'Truth' in Latin is 'Veritas', not 'Veritus'. I don't know if 'Veritus' has a meaning.
I'm a democrat, but I do think that justice was denied Mary Jo Kopechne.
Dear Penthouse Forum...
I don't know if 'Veritus' has a meaning.
In Middle Latin it means "lying assed piece of rat shit."
I'm a democrat, but I do think that justice was denied Mary Jo Kopechne.
Veritus | 05.17.08 - 12:45 pm | #
Fuck you.
Seriously -- there are only two people who know what happened at Chappaquiddick.
One of them's dead, and the other one isn't you.
So please -- go fuck yourself.
"You're obviously NOT a Democrat if you're bringing up a horrible accident from 39 years ago to smear Kennedy as he is in the hospital with a possible life-threatening stroke." - Hulk
I didn't bring it up. And you need to reexamine your black and white view of the world.
"'Truth' in Latin is 'Veritas', not 'Veritus'. I don't know if 'Veritus' has a meaning."
ProfWombat
Yep. Its a mispelling. But I got used to it before I realized it so I just stuck with it.
Too much...er, ah....licka.
Hmm maybe people don't care about Laura Bush's acciednt vs Ted's because
1.)she's not an elected official
and
2.) no crime was involved (drunk driving) that resulted in death (ie felony murder) and leaving the scene of an accident!
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