Ted Kennedy has passed

[Alaya]

I was thinking that maybe we could let a family member feel sad for a day or two before we go cutting the dead person to sheds.



Doesn't anyone remember that saying about walking in someone else's shoes...?

Can anyone claim to KNOW what really happened at Chappaquidick?

There is so much high energy virulence here about what really is just speculation.

[OP ED]

Wait, are you saying that, as far as you're concerned, Ted Kennedy was more or less/somehow the same as Dick Cheney?

for me:

i was personally saying that to someone living in Afghanistan, the differences are fleeting.

[daba64]

I was thinking that maybe we could let a family member feel sad for a day or two before we go cutting the dead person to sheds.



Doesn't anyone remember that saying about walking in someone else's shoes...?

Can anyone claim to KNOW what really happened at Chappaquidick?

There is so much high energy virulence here about what really is just speculation.

You must be looking for http://www.emilypost.com

High energy virulence is what we're all about. It's only called RI 'cause highenergyvirulence.com was already taken.

[whipstitch]

Spent his last days with his wife 'watching every episode of 24 on DVD'

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/27/us/po ... .html?_r=1

[compared2what?]

May he rest in peace. No child of Joe and Rose could possibly have had an easy time in life. And none did. Same goes double for more than a few of their grandchildren, if you want to really start counting heads. Nevertheless. In itself, the fact that most (if not all) of the kids who once sat (or in Jean Smith's case, still do sit) on the same branch of the family tree as the late Senator Kennedy are exceptionally easy to romanticize and/or heroize/demonize does not make doing it a mandatory exercise. And I really don't see how bickering about whether or not this or that isolated dramatic moment from any of their lives has more heroic than demonic properties as a narrative feature with every bit as much passion as if the true issue in contention was whether any has yet departed from life having significantly altered the balance of good and evil in the world can possibly be an exercise that's worth the effort. Because the latter is not a disputed issue. None has, few people do, and United States Senators can't. In light of which, the former is no better way to commemorate the real person's death than it is to piss on his grave. It simply has no the-real-person-compatible applications. The man was 77 years old. What joys and sorrows he really felt and occasioned over the course of his life are as unknowable to me as whether the disposition of his or anybody's soul in death will really be peaceful or tormented or, for that matter, really be, period. What does it avail anyone to fantasize about such questions? I wish for him to have known true joy in life, and to know true peace in death, if that's a real option, on a do-unto-others basis. Because not having known the man, I don't have a better one.

So fwiw, R.I.P.

[justdrew]

I was thinking that maybe we could let a family member feel sad for a day or two before we go cutting the dead person to sheds.



Doesn't anyone remember that saying about walking in someone else's shoes...?

Can anyone claim to KNOW what really happened at Chappaquidick?

There is so much high energy virulence here about what really is just speculation.

You must be looking for http://www.emilypost.com

High energy virulence is what we're all about. It's only called RI 'cause highenergyvirulence.com was already taken.

that's not really true though. you're cherry picking your data points if you think so.

[chlamor]

Endless paeans to the ruling class.

[seemslikeadream]

[quote="chlamor"]


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[Alaya]

I was thinking that maybe we could let a family member feel sad for a day or two before we go cutting the dead person to sheds.



Doesn't anyone remember that saying about walking in someone else's shoes...?

Can anyone claim to KNOW what really happened at Chappaquidick?

There is so much high energy virulence here about what really is just speculation.

You must be looking for http://www.emilypost.com

High energy virulence is what we're all about. It's only called RI 'cause highenergyvirulence.com was already taken.

Wrong, Daba. I can keep up with the nasty better than most.

Terribly sorry to have presented a peaceful thought to you ferocious creatures.

[n0x23]

seemslikeadream

Well now this is the 3rd I've had to post this, I'm staring to get the impression that you are intentional avoiding responding to this..hmmm...but that's alright, you must have just missed the first two, eh, these things happen. Right?

let's stay with the obscure, yet very pertinent to the history, to the present, good/evil

Alright.
Now, when you said....

The battle rages on and on....

....my reply was...

You mean this one?

+ + =


....and yet instead of responding to my reply to YOU, you quoted my reply to justdrew and then stated....

See I told you all he wouldn't get it

...so, let's over-look your ignoratio elenchi and your complete disregard of my second post referring you back to the original question and give you the benefit of the doubt,....momentarily.

[justdrew]

A self-defense organization later co-opted by provocateurs and moles. What's that got to do with anything?

[seemslikeadream]

A self-defense organization later co-opted by provocateurs and moles. What's that got to do with anything?

thank you

[psynapz]

I wish for him to have known true joy in life, and to know true peace in death, if that's a real option, on a do-unto-others basis.

You would be so fun to shut up with a big, wet, surprise kiss. At least a couple times a week.

The rest of the time, you can babble to your hearts content. Like a ripening nectarine.

[n0x23]

A self-defense organization later co-opted by provocateurs and moles. What's that got to do with anything?

Good question.
It's in response to seemslikeadream's posts and comments, such as...

He did know his history especially what happened in Co. Wexford 1778.
Wexford Rebellion (look it up n0x23) Both our families lost loved ones at Enniscorthy and New Ross. History, take a look sometime n0x23.

The battle rages on and on....

...and....

why do I have the feeling n0x23, you won't be able to comprehend any of this?

....so the obvious connection is....who were the 1778 Wexford Rebels and the 1969 IRA both fighting?

Answer: The usurpation, occupation and oppression of Ireland by The British Monarchy.

Which leads us to Teddy "the lush" Kennedy, the supposed Diplomat of Peace between Britain and Northern Ireland in 1971, all the while claiming to be sympathetic to Britain, he persuaded Clinton, in pure nepotistic fashion, to appoint his sister Jean Kennedy Smith as Ambassador to Ireland to further his true Irish nationalist agenda.

Or so the story goes....but this then begs the question...if Teddy was such a true sympathizer and "hero" of the plight of the Northern Irish, why then did he willfully accept the Queen's honorary Knighthood?


There's something fishy about good 'ol Teddy and it 'aint the Chappaquiddick.

But I don't really blame fanatical zealots like seemslikeadream, he/she is just like the Christian Conservatives who fell for the propagandistic PSYOPS that G.W. Bush was a GOD fearing Christian.

[whipstitch]

He's already done enough for the Kennedys

Elder Bush will not attend Kennedy funeral

The elder President George Bush of Houston will not be attending Sen. Edward Kennedy's funeral.

A spokesman for Bush said Friday that he and his wife, Barbara, decided not to attend Kennedy's funeral after learning their son, former President George W. Bush of Dallas, would attend.

Jim McGrath says the 85-year-old Bush feels his son's presence would "amply and well represent" the family Saturday.

Bush released a condolence statement on behalf of him and his son immediately after Kennedy's death. It was part of a stream of fond remembrances issued by Republicans.

The other remaining former presidents — Democrats Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton — will join the younger Bush at the service. President Barack Obama will give the eulogy.