Category — Ted Kennedy

Seems one of the liberal bloggers in MA just posted that the right wing wing drowns people and of course the military leads the way. Not true!

Here’s the leading user of the method!

Democrat National Convention Schedule

2008

7:00 p.m. Opening Ceremony, Burning of U.S. Flag by the UN Synchronized Flag Burning Team –Photo supplied

7:15 p.m. Pledge of Allegiance to the United Nations

7:16 p.m. John Kerry proposes a toast to Ted Kennedy.

7:30 - 8 p.m. Nonreligious prayer and worship: Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton

7:31 p.m.John Kerry proposes a toast to Ted Kennedy.

8:05 p.m. Ceremonial Tree Hugging in the “Garden of Sybaritic Pleasures”

8:15-8:30 p.m. Gay Wedding: Barney Frank, officiating; Reception follows in the Eastern Bathhouse
Barney Frank proposes a toast to the newly joined

8:45 p.m. Separation of the reception attendees and newly joined using 2X4 as prybars

8:46 p.m. Joe Biden proposes a toast to the newly separated

9:00 p.m. Keynote Speech: ‘The Proper Etiquette for Surrender’ delivered by Harry Reid

9:26 p.m. John Murtha proposes a toast to cut & run.

9:28 p.m. John Kerry toasts his Purple Hearts.

9:30 p.m. ACLU collection to benefit the Taliban’s Memorial to Fallen Freedom Fighters.

9:35 p.m. Giving you gas: the Pelosi/Reid five year plan for drilling everywhere but in the U.S.

9:36 p.m. John Kerry’s speech: We can still shorten this war by losing it.

9:45 p.m. The New Economy: The Military as a home occupation force using Obamanomics

9:46 p.m. Joe Biden proposes a toast to Truth.

9:50 p.m. Dan Rather receives ‘Truth in Broadcasting’ award presented by Michael Moore.

9:53 p.m.Michael Moore proposes a toast to truth and ethics.

10:00 p.m. Anointing of Barack Obama for President by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

10:20 p.m. Mookie Sadr proposes a toast to Barack Hussein Obama with sherbet.

11:05 p.m. Al Gore melts on the carpet to protest the convention’s carbon footprint, then leaves because his SUV is running.

11:06 p.m. The Vermont Progressive Party creates a memorial to Al Gore’s melted form.

11:07 p.m. Ted Kennedy proposes a toast to ice cubes.

11:15 p.m. ‘Our Troops are War Criminals’ presented by Dick Durbin with video

11:29 p.m. Ted Kennedy proposes a toast to John Kerry.

11:30 p.m. Acceptance of the halo by Obama and the paper roll to Messianic throne.

11:45 p.m. Departure of Obama via Carpet to Ivesco Field–Photo supplied

12:00 a.m. Ted Kennedy is toast.

12:05 a.m. Bill tells Ted to drive Hillary home.

Taliban Committee to elect Obama; M. Ahmadinejad Treas.

Massachusetts House Speaker Salvatore DiMasi (HT: Redstate):

The leader of the Massachusetts House says he will support giving Gov. Deval Patrick the power to appoint an interim successor to U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy if that becomes necessary.

The Democratic-controlled Legislature stripped Republican Gov. Mitt Romney of that authority in 2004 because of fears he would name a Republican to replace U.S. Sen. John Kerry if he had been elected president.

Instead, state law now requires a special election for the seat no sooner than 145 days and no later than 160 days after the vacancy occurs.

But House Speaker Salvatore DiMasi said yesterday if Kennedy should step aside or have to be replaced because of his brain tumor diagnosis, he’d be in favor of a gubernatorial appointment.

“That was a good political reason (then),” DiMasi said of taking the power away from Romney. “It’s a good political reason to change it back.”

I don’t know why they would bother with this. It isn’t like Republicans have any chance of picking up Kennedy’s seat.

Universal health care for the elite

I suspect Ted Kennedy will be going to either England, Canada or Cuba for his health care treatment. He’s touted them as the best of all programs. According to him our system is a disaster.

OK, blowhard, put your beliefs up and hop that G-5 to…I’ll bet fat boy, Mike Moore, can get you in to a fine hospital in Cuba.

Be a leader, show us the way!

Via Boston.com:

Doctors investigating the cause of a seizure that led to Kennedy’s hospitalization this weekend said that preliminary results from a brain biopsy indicated the cause of the seizure was a tumor in the top left portion of his brain.

The usual course of treatment for the tumor — a “malignant glioma” — includes combinations of various forms of radiation and chemotherapy, Dr. Lee Schwamm, vice chairman of the neurology department at Massahusetts General Hospital, and Dr. Larry Ronan, Kennedy’s primary care physician, said in a statement.

The doctors said decisions regarding the best course of treatment for the 76-year-old senator would be determined after further testing and analysis. [snip]

Malignant gliomas are a type of brain cancer diagnosed in about 9,000 Americans a year and are the most common type among adults. It’s a starting diagnosis: How well patients fare depends on what specific tumor type is discovered.

Average survival can range from less than a year for very advanced and aggressive types — such as glioblastomas — to about five years for different types that are slower-growing.

One expert, Dr. Joseph Madsen, a neurosurgeon at Children’s Hospital Boston, said the diagnosis was “very sad news.”

“High-grade glio-malignancies” such as Sen. Kennedy has “are unfortunately the most common kind of brain tumor in this age group, and they have a poor prognosis for long-term survival,” he said.

They can also be very debilitating during treatment, Madsen said, and Kennedy’s tumor is in an area where it may well eventually affect his speech.

My thoughts and prayers go out to the Kennedy family.

Via Boston.com

Senator Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts suffered symptoms of a stroke or seizure in Hyannis Port and was transported by helicopter this morning from Cape Cod Hospital to Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, according to a leading political source.

Family members have been summoned to Boston, the source said.

Unlike some moonbats on the left, I would never wish illness on my political adversaries. My thoughts go out to Senator Kennedy and his family.

One needs the awareness that the Constitution is silent on education. Since most schools at the time were church run with some private, the need for public education did not exist. Looking at what passes for education today, proves all those white men had smarts.
Catholic schools demand scholarship, ethics, parental involvement and student disipline, or else. The greatest lack in the Catholic schools is the lack of victimhood and the PC ethos.
Which is why they work.
Incidently, non-catholics are not required to take religious instruction.
Viewed this way, the demise of Parochial education is desired by the Left.

‘Crisis’ with loss of Catholic schools

[snip]
Since 1999, a total of 1,267 Catholic schools have closed and 374 have opened, according to the National Catholic Educational Association. The number of Catholic elementary and high schools fell from 8,719 in the 1989-1990 school year to 7,378 in the current year, according to NCEA data.

According to Fordham researchers, the NCEA data translates into about 300,000 students who have been displaced from Catholic schools, at a cost to taxpayers of about $20 billion as public schools absorb the students. In an interview last month with The Washington Times, Archbishop Donald W. Wuerl of Washington predicted that this trend would continue without government vouchers, saying the church faced continued challenges to “sustain all of these schools, particularly in the poorest, urban areas.”

As Catholic families increasingly moved to suburbs in the 1960s and ’70s, urban Catholic schools increasingly began educating poor, non-Catholic students, the report noted. There were solid academic results, it argued, citing evidence like Andrew Greeley’s 1982 findings, which showed achievement of minority students was higher in Catholic schools than in public schools. [snip](emphasis added)

The report authors also argued that private-school vouchers “are no panacea” — noting that programs in Milwaukee and the District have not really helped the Catholic urban schools there and the Archdiocese of Washington is turning seven of its schools into public charter schools. [snip]

Private school vouchers cannot be used at Catholic schools; that is forbidden by law thanks to the ACLU and the Donks.

As part of the study, Fordham also commissioned a survey of 800 adults. The majority of adults surveyed chose Catholic schools as the best to offer a disciplined learning environment and instill moral values, and public schools as the best to work with economically disadvantaged students. [snip] (emphasis added)

Raise your hand if you really care about political endorsements.  Politicians still fight for them.  The media still chatters about them.  But aren’t they the ghosts of a bygone era?  Before the Internet, databases, and almost instant access to information, an endorsement from a respected figure carried some heft.  Today, I just don’t see the value.  Nor do I know many people waiting breathlessly for their marching orders from George Clooney or Rush Limbaugh.

All of this brings us to the big political endorsement of the day—the Kennedy clan’s endorsement of Barack Obama.  Yes, Ted put the whiskey bottle down long enough to endorse Mr. Obama.  And don’t forget Caroline Kennedy (What has she done that’s noteworthy?) harkening back some 4 decades to Camelot by comparing Barack to JFK.  After all, they’re young, photogenic, and both used drugs although Barack used for recreational and not medicinal purposes.  With all those “wonderfully” similar qualifications, why not make Barack president?

But like I said before, I don’t think endorsements carry the weight they once did.  And I could care less what Ted Kennedy, a drunk with no character at all, has to say about anything.

McCain won the South Carolina Primary, but I could care less because he won’t get my vote. Ordinarily, I would vote for and support the Republican candidate as the lesser of 2 evils. However, John McCain’s beliefs run so counter to my own, that voting for him isn’t much different than a vote for Hillary Clinton. Consider these little gems when you’re picking a Republican candidate:

• McCain is for amnesty.
• McCain is against tax cuts.
• McCain is BFFs with Ted Kennedy.
• McCain is against freedom of speech.
• McCain is anti-2^nd Amendment.

McCain would actually be worse than Hillary because he’d drag Congressional Republicans with him in supporting these disastrous policies. Just say no to John McCain.

Another idle, witless, Kennedy larvae speaks his mind. “Hugo’s Tool”.

Disenfranchised? Uncle Keg didn’t waste any money on dictionaries for this trust-fund simpleton.

Massachusetts’ senior senator is going to drop some pearls of wisdom on us as part of a multimillion dollar biography deal.  So, in an effort to help Ted keep pace with his busy drinking schedule, New England Republican is running a book naming contest.  Post your suggestions in the comment thread and the best suggestions will be listed in a new posting.

What you get for nothing

Elevate an anal-retentive megalomaniac lamebrain like Gore to moral fount, discourage or prohibit nuke plants, refineries or refinery-expansion, outlaw domestic oil exploration, rely on wind farms unless they contaminate the view for a bloated, dissolute, leftist swine like Ted Kennedy,  sue to stop the the laws of combustion for wood, garbage, waste oil; slap the idiotic, pharisaical ”No Blood for Oil” sticker on your Volvo while the despots of the world control the oil supply, and just, simply, act like the Dimwit Gene has loosed itself from regressive to dominant in your young….well, this is what you get! 

The Panic News is irregularly published at inopportune times.

Norway’s Moose Population in Trouble for Belching

The poor old Scandinavian moose is now being blamed for climate change, with researchers in Norway claiming that a grown moose can produce 2,100 kilos of methane a year — equivalent to the CO2 output resulting from a 13,000 kilometer car journey. [snip]

Maybe I’ll start driving a moose; sounds like they get good mileage.

Antarctic ice thawing faster than predicted

NY ALESUND, Norway (Reuters) - A thaw of Antarctic ice is outpacing predictions by the U.N. climate panel and could in the worst case drive up world sea levels by 2 meters (6 ft) by 2100, a leading expert said on Wednesday. [snip]

It’s those moose, plus all of the dairy cows and every broccoli eating veg head which contribute to the methane. Lets round up all of the vegans and move them to Papua where they are placed on the menu.

Latest China Scare: Dirty Chopsticks

Beijing Factory Recycled Used Chopsticks, Sold Up to 100,000 Pairs a Day

BEIJING (Reuters) - A Beijing factory recycled used chopsticks and sold up to 100,000 pairs a day without any form of disinfection, a newspaper said on Wednesday, the latest in a string of Chinese food and product safety scares. [snip]

SpongeBob Books, Other Toys Recalled

More children’s items made in China have been recalled because they contain high levels of lead. The largest recall affects about 250,000 SpongeBob SquarePants address books and journals, manufactured in China and imported by Martin Designs. [snip]

Next they Chicoms will be making toys out of the chopsticks. Then we’ll be in trouble. Imagine trying to eat Moo Goo Gai Pan with a couple of SpongeBobs?

Next issue: How Bush formed the NAU without talking to Ted Kennedy.

As much as the White House says the polls don’t matter, I bet they’d kill for a 10 point bump right about now. To be effective, you have to maintain some level of popular support. The White House may find its predicament “liberating”, but it also liberates your opponents and the wayward members of your party. At this point, it’s hard to see anything major coming out of the White House over the next 18 months.

How did the President Bush get from a very lofty popularity height to Nixonian approval ratings? Let’s start with trying to do too much. Did an unpopular president really think he could lead an unpopular war while also pushing a deeply unpopular immigration bill? Good gamblers know the odds, and they were definitely stacked against him.

Next, the White House pushed a lot of policies that were unpopular with its constituents over a long period of time. It also compounded its liberal bent with an inability to pass legislation on conservative issues like defending marriage and Social Security reform.

And while the president pushed the right away, he was never going to get a corresponding amount of support from the left. The immigration bill was very lenient, but the left felt it didn’t go far enough. Ted Kennedy wrote the No Child Left Behind Act, but liberals always claimed it was underfunded.  In reality, there was practically nothing President Bush could do to make the left happy.

Did I mention the unpopular war? The left was never going to support the War on Terror. The best result there would have been a winning effort that made criticizing it politically dangerous. That’s how the White House got votes from Hillary Clinton and John Kerry to authorize the effort in the first place. But not only were they never going to garner true support from the left, the White House made the right deeply suspicious of the effort by not prosecuting it as aggressively as they could. Isn’t the whole “surge” effort a tacit admission that not every effort was being made to win the war?

Now when you combine all of the above with things like Katrina, it creates a general sense of weariness and a longing for something new. The big question in 2008 is going to be whether that weariness extends to the Republican Party or not. If it does, a lot of Republican politicians could be looking for jobs in the dreaded private sector.

I’m not against Congress getting a cost of living adjustment. Most of us recognize the need to adjust their salaries for inflation, and they do make a few good points supporting their position:

Most members support the pay raise as a means of retaining experienced lawmakers and of making sure that Congress is not simply dominated by wealthy people. Many lawmakers maintain homes both in the expensive Washington housing market and back in their districts. On most days, they meet with lobbyists making far more than they do.

My real problem is the idea that retaining “experienced lawmakers” helps us. Senators and Congressmen with lifetime seats, like Ted Kennedy and John Kerry, do not benefit the American people. The amnesty bill is a perfect example of what happens when our representatives get too accustomed to power and there’s little accountability.

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