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Democratic presidential contenders flocked to Sen. Edward Kennedy's 75th birthday party earlier this year. Sen. Barack Obama showed up at Kennedy's home with a bottle of wine as a gift. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton pulled Kennedy aside to schmooze. Sen. Christopher Dodd needled Kennedy about getting older. The shower of personal attention underscored Kennedy's star power in the White House race. The liberal senator's endorsement is among the most coveted by the eight Democratic contenders. The birthday party was also a reminder of the tough endorsement choice Kennedy faces as the 2008 contest unfolds. The Massachusetts senator has close ties...

If you saw the June 12th edition of Special Report with Brit Hume, was your stomach not turning? Fred Barnes, Mara Liasson, and Mort Kondrake engaged in a pitiful love fest in praise of no one other than Teddy Kennedy. Sadly, Fox News seems to be always reminding us of their commitment to fair and balanced, but when it comes to amnesty it is difficult to find any commentators taking the other side of amnesty on any of their programming. So it was on this edition, we saw nothing but high praise for Teddy Kennedy, the infamous one, known in...

Have you seen the latest Citgo-sponsored commercial for Citizens Energy Corporation? At first glance you may have mistaken it for a Saturday Night Live sketch and watched it prepared for a good laugh. That is, until you’d realized it was all too serious. Until it struck you that a member of one of North America’s most powerful political families may well be in bed with one of South America’s most notorious and dangerous men. But it get’s even more disturbing. The language used to rationalize this unholy alliance appears to be right from the playbook of the devout anarchist many...

In his book, which came out this week, Kengor focuses on a KGB letter written at the height of the Cold War that shows that Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) offered to assist Soviet leaders in formulating a public relations strategy to counter President Reagan's foreign policy and to complicate his re-election efforts.

HARTFORD, Conn. --Republican Rep. Christopher Shays defended the House speaker's handling of a congressional page scandal, saying no one died like at Chappaquiddick in 1969 when Democratic Sen. Edward Kennedy was involved. "I know the speaker didn't go over a bridge and leave a young person in the water, and then have a press conference the next day," the embattled Connecticut congressman told The Hartford Courant in remarks published Wednesday. "Dennis Hastert didn't kill anybody," he added. Shays' comments recalled the Chappaquiddick incident, when Kennedy's car ran off a Massachusetts bridge, killing his passenger, Mary Jo Kopechne. Kennedy did not...

NOTE: Mark Foley should have resigned earlier and should be prosecuted to the full extend of the law. ========================================================== GREAT BACKGROUND IS HERE - Farrar thrust himself through the open window and into the car. Looking up, he found the body of a young woman. Her head was cocked back, her face pressed into the footwell. Both hands gripped the front edge of the back seat to hold herself in conformity with its upholstered contours. It was not the position assumed by a person knocked unconscious by the impact of a crash, Farrar said. "If she had been dead or...

Talk to Sen. Ted Kennedy Thu Sep 28, 1:51 PM ET This was a last-minute addition to the Talk to Power schedule, so the time for questions and comments is shorter than usual. Sen. Kennedy will be fielding your comments over the next 24 hours and responding, via an interview with host Judy Woodruff, on Friday morning. Thanks in advance to Yahoo! users for your thoughts, and to Sen. Kennedy for agreeing to participate. The question of immigration and immigration reform is likely to loom large in this forum, as it has with previous Talk to Power guests. Sen. Kennedy,...

First Interstate World Center (Library Tower) Vital Statistics: Location: Los Angeles, California, USA Completion Date: 1990 Cost: $350 million Height: 1,018 feet Stories: 75 Materials: Concrete, steel Facing Materials: Granite, glass Engineer(s): CBM Engineers The First Interstate World Center exists today for one reason: its neighbor, the Los Angeles Central Library, found itself in deep trouble. Ravaged by fire in 1986, the library was one step away from the wrecking ball when an urban development team stepped in. The team bought the ailing structure, restoring the library and building a 75-story skyscraper adjacent to it. Originally called the Library Tower,...

SHOULD have brought a life vest and snorkel, Teddy. Sen. Ted Kennedy was having a ball reading to a captive roomful of New York City third-graders yesterday when suddenly a dangerous question spewed out of the mouths of babes. "When was your most embarrassing moment with Splash?" a pint-sized jokester from PS 11 in Chelsea asked Ted. The kid was asking about Splash - Teddy's black Portuguese water dog who, at that very moment, sat quietly at Ted's feet, along with another pooch named Sunny. But the adults in the room could not help but think about "splash." As in...

Big Rodents Overrun Washington Seniors "The marmots are coming, the marmots are coming." Seniors living in Wine Country Villa probably wish they had gotten such a warning.

Rep. Patrick Kennedy (news, bio, voting record) crashed his car near the Capitol early Thursday, and a police official said he appeared intoxicated. Kennedy said he had taken sleep medication and a prescription anti-nausea drug that can cause drowsiness. Kennedy, D-R.I., addressed the issue after a spate of news reports. His initial statement said: "I consumed no alcohol prior to the incident."'Later, however, he issued a longer statement saying the attending physician for Congress had prescribed Phenergan on Tuesday to treat Kennedy's gastroenteritis.Kennedy said he returned to his Capitol Hill home on Wednesday evening after a final series of votes...

The college where a student shouted 'Remember Chappaquiddick!' as Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., began a speech will not discipline the 20-year-old – even though campus police had warned the man of possible consequences of his action. As WorldNetDaily reported, Paul Trost, a student at Massasoit Community College in Brockton, Mass., was upset by an introduction of Kennedy given by Rep. Stephen Lynch, D-Mass., Tuesday in which the congressman noted how the long-time senator overcame hardship in life on his way to success. "Lynch said Kennedy had overcome such adversity to get to the place he was, and that's a bunch...

On my way home from work, while listening to my favorite local Christian station, 89.7 WMCU "Spirit" FM... The DJ mentioned that today was Senator Edward Kennedy's birthday...74 years "young", I quote. I nearly hurled.

A community college student in Massachusetts faces possible disciplinary action for shouting "Remember Chappaquiddick!" during an on-campus speech by Democrat Sen. Edward Kennedy. Paul Trost, 20, a student at Massasoit Community College in Brockton, Mass., says he was upset by an introduction of Kennedy given by Rep. Stephen Lynch, D-Mass., in which the congressman noted how the long- time senator overcame hardship in life on his way to success. "Lynch said Kennedy had overcome such adversity to get to the place he was, and that's a bunch of bull," Trost said of the introduction, which occurred in the school's student...

Ever since reporters took up Gary Hart's challenge to put a tail on him, then sunk his 1988 presidential candidacy with details of a tryst with an attractive model, the private sex lives of prominent politicians have been considered fair game for the press. The journalistic rationale is that character counts and voters have a right to know about questionable personal conduct because it may tell something about how an individual will perform in office or serve the public interest without fear or favor. Yet most mainstream news outlets continue to grant a reasonable right of privacy to public officials,...

MIDI - TEENAGER IN LOVE It's really not my fault 'cause our parents we can't pick With headlines I've read lately, I am becoming sick I think I'm in a world that's gone mad I'm hoping Cape Cod Orca Ted's not my dad When there's excessive drinking, don't drive your Oldsmobile If you are on a bridge, don't try to cop a feel I think I'm in a world that's gone mad I'm hoping Cape Cod Orca Ted's not my dad That blowhard is scum...he failed lifeguard class And in the Senate, he's really such an *ss When mother...

Ted Kennedy takes dog's eye view of Senate NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. Sen. Ted Kennedy is writing a children's book that will explain the workings of government from the point of view of his dog Splash. Publisher Scholastic said "My Senator and Me: A Dog's-Eye View of Washington, D.C." was a 56-page picture book about a day in the life of a senator and his dog, explaining how laws are made. It will be published in May. "Kids love animal stories and they will be captivated by the tale of Senator Kennedy's extraordinary Portuguese water dog, and his adventures...

MIDI - BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATER (musical intro) Alioto, you will be grilled Before we're done with you, we'll have had our fill You racist scum, we'll certainly be exposing you So I am warning you There's a bridge off of which I'll drive you if you don't withdraw There's a bridge off of which I'll drive you if you don't withdraw I failed lifeguard class...you know that But I float pretty well because I am so fat My Oldsmobile has been restored to original So I am warning you There's a bridge off of which I'll drive you...

"It is regrettable that Senator Kennedy has chosen Veteran's Day to continue leveling baseless and false attacks that send the wrong signal to our troops and our enemy during a time of war. It is also regrettable that Senator Kennedy has found more time to say negative things about President Bush then he ever did about Saddam Hussein. If America were to follow Senator Kennedy's foreign policy, Saddam Hussein would not only still be in power, he would be oppressing and occupying Kuwait." - Scott McClellan, White House Press Secretary Sen. Kennedy On Iraq Sen. Kennedy Said Saddam Hussein Was...

In case you missed it, I hope you are going to be as angry as I am. As the DemocRATS are celebrating the 2000th death of an American hero in the war, they can barely contain themselves. But Senator Edward "Ted" Kennedy has gone way over what anyone would consider decent behavior. On Tuesday, on the floor of the Senate, when discussing the 2000th death of a hero, he actually used the following words: "On this auspicious day . . ." I read it at mensnewsdaily.com Don’t think their[sp they're] celebrating? I give you Senator Edward (the Killer) Kennedy. He...

HYANNIS, Mass. Senator Edward Kennedy attempted to rescue six men who had become trapped by high tide on a jetty off Hyannisport yesterday. The Cape Cod Times reports that Kennedy eventually left the rescue to Hyannis firefighters. The senator was walking his two dogs on the shore at 11:15 a-m when he spotted the men cut off from shore by the rising waters. They had been fishing on a jetty that begins at the tip of the Kennedy compound. Tides rose over the patchy rocks, make it difficult to walk back to shore. Kennedy and a friend tried to rescue...

HYANNIS, Mass. (AP) - U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy attempted to rescue six men who had become trapped by high tide on a jetty off Hyannisport on Sunday. The Massachusetts Democrat eventually left the rescue to Hyannis firefighters, The Cape Cod Times reported Monday.

Dear Friend, None of us can forget the images from Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad that shocked our nation nearly two years ago and stained the United States in the eyes of the world. The American people suddenly realized an unpleasant truth -- the cruel practice of torture had infected the ranks of the world's finest military. Finally, on October 5th, by an overwhelming vote of 90-9, the Senate passed strict provisions as part of the Defense Appropriations Bill that would take the current military regulations against torture and turn them into law. Nine Republican Senators voted against the anti-torture...

Dear Friend, On Monday, we learned that the President nominated White House Counsel Harriet Miers--a long-time adviser and Bush loyalist--to replace Sandra Day O'Connor on the United States Supreme Court. Ms. Miers's record is little known so far, because she's largely served behind the scenes. What leaps out is her loyalty to President Bush beginning with his years as Governor of Texas. We know nothing about her loyalty to the rule of law and the Constitution, or her ability to do the job of Associate Justice on the Supreme Court. It's clear that Mr. Bush is fond of her work:...

The Supreme Court of the United States is the ultimate arbiter of our Constitution and, as such, it is the final protector of individual rights and liberties in this great nation. So when we vote to confirm a justice for a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court, we have an awesome responsibility to get it right. And when we vote to confirm the Chief Justice of the United States, we have an even greater responsibility, because the stakes are even higher. The Chief Justice sets the tone for the Court and, through leadership, influences Court decisions in ways both subtle...

MIDI - IN THE AIR TONIGHT (0:35) If Mary Jo was breathing in our air tonight, she'd die If Mary Jo was breathing in our air tonight, she'd die If Mary Jo was breathing in our air tonight, she'd die...she'd die (1:14) Teddy Lifeguard sent out his letter...about the GOP ----- They've poisoned water and our air Just take a big breath, my friends, and you will see They have a right wing agenda, you should know Send money to me right away And I will spend some on Scotch...but the rest will be used To shut those guys...

First time on the internet... A newly found photo of Mary Jo Kopechne has been posted at fatboy.cc This is not the standard "yearbook" photo of Mary Jo.

WASHINGTON - After days of Democratic deference to John Roberts, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy said Thursday that documents made public to date indicate the Supreme Court nominee holds a "rather cramped view of the Voting Rights Act." Materials that Roberts drafted while working at the Justice Department and White House counsel's office during the Reagan administration "certainly raise some questions in my mind about his commitment" to civil rights in general, added the Massachusetts Democrat. While couched carefully, Kennedy's remarks showed a willingness to raise pointed questions at a time when most other Democrats have stuck to pleasantries about Roberts'...

Gitmo called death camp(snip) About 9 million persons, including 6 million Jews, died in Hitler's death camps, 2.7 million persons died in Stalin's gulags and 1.7 million Cambodians died in Pol Pot's scourge of his country. No prisoners have died at Guantanamo, and the Pentagon has acknowledged five instances of abuse or irreverent handling of the Koran, the holy book of Muslims

July 19: Happy Anniversary to Ted -- MICHAEL ROW THE BOAT ASHORE Mary Jo did not reach shore...Teddy killed her She could not open the door...Teddy killed her He had emptied out the fridge...Teddy killed her Then he drove off of the bridge...Teddy killed her He left her in the car to die...Teddy killed her He really is that kinda guy...Teddy killed her For ten hours he'd hidden the crime...Teddy killed her To save her, there had still been time...Teddy killed her Then he wore a fake neck brace...Teddy killed her That slug is such a disgrace...Teddy killed her...

MIDI - RHINESTONE COWBOY Leftist interest groups are sensing doom…the nominee's in the room They know that they need some help and they need it quickly Barbara Boxer’s starting to whine…but things are not going fine She’s ignored as a fool Look who is standing in the doorway…he has just flown in from Norway A bloated and drunk mound of flesh, but he is their tool It is Lifeguard Teddy…maybe he’ll take him out on the bridge for a friendly drive It is Lifeguard Teddy…if he goes there’s no chance the nominee will survive The old drunk will get...

MIDI - A LITTLE HELP FROM MY FRIENDS What would it take for a filibuster To be keeping you off of the court What if you left a girl so she would die For 10 hours you made no report Hey, that might just be extraordinary...hey, I think many of us would agree Yes, that would be extraordinary What if you're scared of your last Spanish test You'd not studied 'cause you're such a fool What if you hired a friend to take your test You got caught and you're thrown out of school Hey, that might just be...

MIDI - TAKE ME OUT TO THE BALLGAME Take me to Teddy's ballgame...we'll hear him shouting loud He will tell Rummy he ought to quit We know Teddy is so full of it He will root, root, root for the bad guys If we lose it's a shame For it's one, two, three fifths he's drunk That is Teddy's game Take me to Teddy's ballgame...he'll go out on a bridge We hear a big splash and a gurgle sound He hopes the body never is found He will root, root, root for the bad guys If we lose it's...

A Cockeyed Kennedy Perspective With the one-year anniversary of the Abu Ghraib scandal that gave liberals a hammer to hit President Bush with before and after the election, ethics-challenged Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy added his voice via a lengthy statement. Now while I go through some of this drivel, especially his reference to water torture, don’t forget his willingness to let a woman drown in his car so he could escape and get his story straight a few hours later. Politics does have its ironies. The images of cruelty, and perversion are still difficult to look at a year later....

WASHINGTON (AFP) - America's ongoing military entanglement in Iraq (news - web sites) has become President George Bush (news - web sites)'s Vietnam, US Senator Edward Kennedy, a leading member of the opposition Democratic party, said. The harsh words refer to the US role and ultimate defeat in the 1964-1975 Vietnam war. Iraq is "clearly is George Bush's Vietnam," said Kennedy, speaking on CBS's "Face The Nation" program. Kennedy then blasted Bush's claim in an interview in Sunday's Washington Post that his Iraq policy was endorsed by the US public because of his November 2004 re-election victory. "I think that's...

LET'S CALL THE WHOLE THING OFF Keep on pouring and I'll get blotto...then I will go get in my auto My legs quiver...my poor liver...I'm lucky I'm not dead You say Obama and I say Osama...pass me the bottle, I'll step on the throttle Obama, Osama, the bottle, the throttle...let's go drive on the bridge I guess that I shouldn't speak while drunk...that's what some pundits note And I should drive a Vee Dub...an Oldsmobile can't float Dodd and I so love a good waitress sandwich Pass me the mustard, and pass me the Manwich My legs quiver...oh, my...

MIDI - IT NEVER RAINS IN CALIFORNIA Sometimes we have really had enough of water Mary Jo found that out thirty-five years ago Water boarding for the terrorists Lifeguard Ted is so p*ssed Enough...we've had enough What the heck is all this rain in California My roof's leaking, and I think it's just three years old Why all of the rain in California? The DemocRATS warned ya Whose fault?...it's Bush's fault They loathe George Bush...he fills them with dread And many have gone right out of their head Some even wish that they were now dead John Kerry had...

This was just too funny. One of Mrs. DFU's favorite shows is CSI. I don't watch TV, but a re-run from 2001 was on in the background while I was putting up wallpaper. I heard the following and started laughing like h*ell in disbelief. The character Grissom says -- "Well, this is a phony as a chappaquiddick neck brace. See how the clothes are all bunched?" Organ Grinder Season 2 Episode #033 Air Date - December 13, 2001 Written by Ann Donahue, Elizabeth Devine Directed by Allison Liddi Brief Synopsis An amorous couple's desires are deflated when the hotel elevator...

(cut and past this URL if the link below becomes inoperable)- http://www.garyrog.50megs.com/xmas.html MIDI - SLEIGH RIDE - long version Saddam was skimming money and laughed his way to the bank The nitwit airhead leftists are the ones he should certainly thank The U.N. is a pain in the butt with Kofi as head The time is right for riding in a nice Oldsmobile with Ted I can't wait, I can't wait, I can't wait to hear...that gurgling sound Yogi would say it's dejavu again Ted will run, Ted will run, Ted will run away...till the body's found He'll drink until...

Wednesday August 04, 2004--The latest Rasmussen Reports Presidential Tracking Poll shows the race for the White House is tied once again--Senator John Kerry and President George W. Bush each attract 46% of the vote.

MIDI - SURREY WITH THE FRINGE ON TOP (scroll to "From Oklahoma") Mary Jo, come for a drive with me With the wind in our hair we'll feel free I have all the power of two hundred horses We will have a fun time, you will see Fords and Cads and Jags better scurry 'Cause I'll really be in a hurry 'Cause I'll really be in a hurry in my Oldsmobile You are making my dingy quiver I am hoping you will deliver I know a nice place by a river where I'll cop a feel It's automatic and...

Word on the Beltway is that Sen. Ted Kennedy's Portuguese water pooch Splash is about to make a Splash on the kiddie-lit front. Kennedy is in talks with publishers to write a children's book that gives a dog's-eye view of Washington based on the adventures of his loyal canine companion. ``The senator participates in a reading mentor program in D.C.,'' said Kennedy spokesguy David Smith. ``And after seeing the impact and the benefits reading has had on these second-graders, and after seeing how the children really respond to animals, he warmed up to the idea of doing a book.'' Harry...

..."You won't hear the C-word during the Democrats' Teddy lovefest, of course. Yet the events at Chappaquiddick gave birth to a Democratic mantra that would be sounded over and over in the years to come: Character doesn't count. That's the phrase we heard endlessly during the debate over Bill Clinton's White House romps and whether or not they merited impeachment. Only competence and ability matter, we were told. Indeed, mention the word "Chappaquiddick" and you're inevitably met with groans of annoyance and complaints that "it's an old story," or "it's totally irrelevant to today's issues" or "there goes the Republican...

WE HAVE A NEW HERO FROM THE O'REILLY SHOW! O'Reilly: Who's gonna say this isn't a war anymore? Col. David Hunt: We can't have Americans being beheaded anymore. We can't have towns like Fallujah. Its time for the bombs to start dropping. O'Reilly: This is a war. I think just about everybody will believe that at this point. Everyone except Ted Kennedy. Col. David Hunt: Who gives a crap about Ted Kennedy! Put him in a boat in Boston harbor and ship him off!!!! MIDI - LOVE HURTS Hey Ted...fat head...oh, what he said Colonel Hunt...quite blunt...drop back and punt...

RE: Dear Uncle Ted When Sen. Ted Kennedy was merely just another Democrat bloviating on Capitol Hill on behalf of liberal causes, it was perhaps excusable to ignore his deplorable past. But now that he's become Sen. John Kerry's leading campaign attack dog, positioning himself as Washington's leading arbiter of truth and integrity, the days for such indulgence are now over. It's time for the GOP to stand up and remind America why Sen. Kerry's chief spokesman had to abandon his own presidential bid in 1980 - time to say the words Mary Jo Kopechne out loud. As is often...

This week the last Oldsmobiles rolled off their Lansing, Michigan assembly lines. "Oldsmobile production has remained unprofitable and, therefore, GM's current planning is to end production with the 2004 models," read a September 2001 General Motors announcement. The last 500 Aleros, painted metallic cherry red, were given special "Final 500" markings. While the modern Alero bears little resemblance to the old metal dinosaurs I remember from my Cleveland childhood, news of the end of Olds felt to me like that singular loss of innocence American novelists like to remind us of -- over and over again. Growing up in...

<p>Edward Kennedy, a man whose ideological and partisan frenzies have apparently obscured his vision, looks at George W. Bush and sees Richard M. Nixon. Perhaps Bush should be grateful. At least Kennedy has not compared the president to a member of the Senate who once skedaddled from the scene of a drowning, forgetting to inform officials about it until 12 hours later.</p>