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Type 97 Chi-ha 08-26-2009 06:25 AM

Senator Ted Kennedy dies
 
A rare Kennedy who died of natural causes:

http://news.aol.com/article/sen-ted-...-dies%2F639767

Jester 08-26-2009 06:29 AM

You forget Eunice Kennedy Schriver...seemed like a sweet lady.

Well there's another one. My condolences to the family.

Anarky 08-26-2009 06:30 AM

I can really feel your sorrow right through that very emotional post. I can tell that you thought highly of this man and opened this thread only to cope with your grief and shock.

I hope you pull through this hard time soon, Chi-Ha.

Type 97 Chi-ha 08-26-2009 09:32 AM

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Originally Posted by Anarky (Post 717081)
I can really feel your sorrow right through that very emotional post. I can tell that you thought highly of this man and opened this thread only to cope with your grief and shock.

I hope you pull through this hard time soon, Chi-Ha.

I admit I'm not one of the members of the cult of the Kennedys. I don't know if anyone else here is.

cqb101 08-26-2009 10:17 AM

He was my senator, and I'm proud of it.

R.I.P, Ted.

Raph's Girl 08-26-2009 10:31 AM

Wow.. 2 Kennedy's gone within 2 weeks of each other. Eunice died Aug 11th.

There's still one left tho, Jean Kennedy-Smith. She was the Ambassador to Ireland in the 1990's.

Original TMNT Cartoon Fan 08-26-2009 01:08 PM

Aeroplane
 
Wasn't he in that aeroplane that crashed when some other of Kennedy family died?

Raph's Girl 08-26-2009 01:15 PM

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Originally Posted by J 1982 (Post 717168)
Wasn't he in that aeroplane that crashed when some other of Kennedy family died?

You're thinking of JFK Jr and his wife.

cqb101 08-26-2009 01:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Raph's Girl (Post 717129)
Wow.. 2 Kennedy's gone within 2 weeks of each other. Eunice died Aug 11th.

There's still one left tho, Jean Kennedy-Smith. She was the Ambassador to Ireland in the 1990's.

Since you like to spout off random facts so much...

Arnold Schwarzenegger is married to Maria Shriver, Ted Kennedy's (and therefor also JFK and Bobby's) niece.

Anarky 08-26-2009 03:07 PM

Oh, are we playing Raph's Girl? Can I play?

John F. Kennedy is the father of a tunnel in Belgium. That makes Ted M. Kennedy the uncle.

Sewer Bull 08-26-2009 03:30 PM

I still believe there will to be a Kennedy in the White House again. John was so handsome.

Type 97 Chi-ha 08-26-2009 05:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Mino (Post 717192)
I still believe there will to be a Kennedy in the White House again. John was so handsome.

It may take a generation or two more. None of the Kennedys around today seem particular interested in the job.

BoggleKng 08-26-2009 08:38 PM

Man, it has been a bad year, folks dying left and right... Teddy, despite his faults, was a great Senator for Mass and always got back to my phone calls and emails quickly and with a sense of understanding for those that he served...

Jester 08-26-2009 08:54 PM

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Originally Posted by cqb101 (Post 717170)
Since you like to spout off random facts so much...

Arnold Schwarzenegger is married to Maria Shriver, Ted Kennedy's (and therefor also JFK and Bobby's) niece.

Arnold Schwarzenegger, under the name Arnold Strong, starred in the film Hercules Goes Bananas also called Hercules In New York or Hercules: The Movie.

Type 97 Chi-ha 08-27-2009 02:09 PM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_%28magazine%29

The accomplishment that put JFK Jr. (John-John) in the public eye for a while before his untimely death in a plane crash. (I remember reading the interview with Dr. Jack Kevorkian in one issue.)

Raph's Girl 08-27-2009 04:13 PM

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Originally Posted by cqb101 (Post 717170)
Arnold Schwarzenegger is married to Maria Shriver, Ted Kennedy's (and therefor also JFK and Bobby's) niece.

I meant that of the 9 children of Joseph Patrick Kennedy (Ted's father), there's only one still living.

Anarky 08-27-2009 05:51 PM

Jello Biafra, former singer of former punk band "Dead Kennedys" studied acting and the history of Paraguay before he went to be a punk rocker.

ThirdMarioBro 08-27-2009 06:11 PM

It figures. Just when the nation is on the brink of reforming health care and fighting off the corrupt insurance companies who spread lies and ignorance, the cause's greatest crusader passes away. Terrible.

Type 97 Chi-ha 08-27-2009 06:55 PM

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Originally Posted by ThirdMarioBro (Post 717394)
It figures. Just when the nation is on the brink of reforming health care and fighting off the corrupt insurance companies who spread lies and ignorance, the cause's greatest crusader passes away. Terrible.

Ted was already in a bad way for some time. And it so happens that Bill Clinton's effort to reform health care in 1993 also went down in flames. It's not the matter of one politician's making a difference; if the public isn't going to be behind health care reform, the politicians are not going to enact it.

cqb101 08-27-2009 09:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ThirdMarioBro (Post 717394)
It figures. Just when the nation is on the brink of reforming health care and fighting off the corrupt insurance companies who spread lies and ignorance, the cause's greatest crusader passes away. Terrible.

This should give the Dems the kick in the ass they need to get it passed. Sadly, I can see this having a positive effect on the cause.

whitemonkey 08-30-2009 01:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Anarky (Post 717392)
Jello Biafra, former singer of former punk band "Dead Kennedys" studied acting and the history of Paraguay before he went to be a punk rocker.

He ran for some form of office in california, not sure what though.
I gotta say when I read this I didnt think I see Jello Biafra's name pop up.

Type 97 Chi-ha 09-01-2009 09:45 AM

Here's a project Anarky should love:

On another forum, someone mentioned trying to find a drawing showing a bullet, and a marker pen which had written the letter "T" upon it, and was poised to write the next letter. The caption on the picture was "Never mind." Can anyone find that drawing anywhere?

Leo656 09-11-2009 11:41 PM

Too bad Teddy wasn't more a crusader for laws against drunk driving... or waiting ten hours to notify anyone that you may have left someone behind in your car when it went off a bridge and into the water, for that matter. "How was your date, Mr. Kenneddy?" "Good, good. Hmm, now what'd I forget? D'OH, the f*cking GIRL!"

Just in the interest of fairness. I like to see a person remembered for their WHOLE record.

Type 97 Chi-ha 09-14-2009 02:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Leo656 (Post 720202)
Too bad Teddy wasn't more a crusader for laws against drunk driving... or waiting ten hours to notify anyone that you may have left someone behind in your car when it went off a bridge and into the water, for that matter. "How was your date, Mr. Kenneddy?" "Good, good. Hmm, now what'd I forget? D'OH, the f*cking GIRL!"

Just in the interest of fairness. I like to see a person remembered for their WHOLE record.

Well put, Leo. So many liberals are saying what a wonderful big-hearted humanitarian he was, and they ignore Chappaquiddick or blow it off as a "youthful mistake." It wasn't a mistake, it was a crime, and Ted Kennedy got away with it! :x

Ironically there were plenty of other liberal politicians of far better character who died without even a fraction of the fanfare Kennedy received. Guess they weren't related to any celebrity families.


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