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No one can yet know when the world economy will reach its low point and begin what may be a long climb to recovery. In the past week we have seen a couple of political events that have already proved not to be turning points: the summit meeting in Paris and the passage of the Paulson plan through Congress. These were no more than village halts on the railroad to depression. However, we do know when the last global banking crisis was turned round, when confidence started to recover. Indeed, the Great Depression has precise dates for its beginning, which...

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By Jamie Burch Video Published: Feb 22 2008 - 12:50 pm Last Updated: Feb 22 2008 - 1:27 pm Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy put on quite a show for Barack Obama supporters in Texas, serenading them in Spanish. During a rally in San Antonio Thursday, Kennedy sang a popular Mexican song, "Ay Jalisco No Te Rajes," before a mostly Hispanic crowd. Kennedy, who endorsed Obama for the Democratic nomination, is making several campaign stops in Texas this week, trying to drum up support for Obama before the Lone Star State's primary on March 4th. See video of him singing at...

Ted and niece Caroline Kennedy turned back on long history with Clintons, including a sailing jaunt that included Bill, Hil and Ted and son Patrick in 1997. Et tu, Teddy? America's liberal icon Ted Kennedy tossed old chums Bill and Hillary Clinton overboard Monday, after plunging a knife into the former First Couple as he abandoned them in favor of alluring newcomer Barack Obama. "I am proud to stand here today and offer my help, my voice, my energy and my commitment to make Barack Obama the next President of the United States," Kennedy told a crowd of 5,500 at...

But (perhaps ominously for the fall campaign) the right-wing Web sites were also aflame. The customary Photoshopped pictures of Mary Jo Kopechne in a sinking 1967 Oldsmobile were replaced by photos of Hillary, her hands raised, her mouth open, panic stricken in the Olds' backseat. As one poster summed up the red-state reaction on a California thread: "Can't drive, can't fly, can't ski, can't skipper a boat - but they know what's best for us." Ted Kennedy's back in the spotlight. It was fun yesterday. He'll soon know how long that sensation lasts. Howie Carr is a columnist for The...

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Muslims Reaction brings shame to Islam Dec 03, 2007 04:30 AM `Kill her by firing squad!' protesters chant Dec. 1 I have been following with embarrassment and shame the case of Gillian Gibbons and her class teddy bear. To construe that naming a child's toy Muhammad is an insult to our beloved Prophet is unreasonable. To protest it is ludicrous. To carry it so far as to bring a criminal conviction against Gibbons and to call for her execution is sheer madness. The actions of the Sudanese government and people in this regard have the effect of portraying Muslims as...

THE TRUTH BEARED Students named him for Mohammed. (The kids thought Mo’ would be honored!) Now Muslims are willin’ to kill poor ol’ Gillian! Why not just cut off the bear’s head? __________________ "When news breaks--I fix it."

A British teacher has been found guilty in Sudan of insulting religion after she allowed her primary school class to name a teddy bear Muhammad. Gillian Gibbons, 54, from Liverpool, has been sentenced to 15 days in prison and will then be deported. She had been accused on three counts of insulting religion, inciting hatred and showing contempt for religious beliefs. The Foreign Office said it was extremely disappointed by the verdict after a day-long hearing in Khartoum. The Sudanese ambassador is being called back to the Foreign Office to explain the decision. Officials there say the mood has changed...

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*****.......In 1965, when he pushed the Hart-Celler immigration-reform bill, Kennedy told us our cities would not be flooded with millions of immigrants. While the ethnic mix of Hyannis hasn't changed much, perhaps he should take a ride over the bridge to visit the real world. Bayville ***** ...... I will not support any presidential candidate who supports this pending legislation. Sun City, Ariz. ***** .....Why can't America do better than elect these obscene Congress critters we are plagued with? They are more interested in gaining votes and political power than in protecting America......Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi and Kennedy aren't looking...

Appears to me this lady was hired based on looks and not intelligence.

Former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy advised her sister-in-law, Joan, to stop being a doormat for her philandering hubby, Ted Kennedy - and if he didn’t shape up, to move out, according to letters up for auction tomorrow in Connecticut. “This is the 20th century - not the 19th - where the little woman stayed home on a pedestal with the kids and her rosary,� Jackie wrote in an undated four-page note to the senator’s wife and miserable mother of three. “Your life matters - as much as him - you love him - but you can’t destroy yourself.� The hand-written...

Former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy advised her sister-in-law, Joan, to stop being a doormat for her philandering hubby, Ted Kennedy - and if he didn’t shape up, to move out, according to letters up for auction tomorrow in Connecticut. “This is the 20th century - not the 19th - where the little woman stayed home on a pedestal with the kids and her rosary,” Jackie wrote in an undated four-page note to the senator’s wife and miserable mother of three. “Your life matters - as much as him - you love him - but you can’t destroy yourself.” The hand-written...

"T.R.? He's No T.R." Thus, in last Sunday's New York Times, began the latest round of mockery about one of President Bush's increasingly far-fetched historical comparisons. The editorial excoriated the environmental record of the wilderness-drilling, Halliburton-coddling second Bush, who, the paper argued, was no match for the wildlife-loving, trust-busting first Roosevelt.

Note: today is the anniversary of the birth of Theodore Roosevelt (born October 27, 1858). In a time when Eliot Spitzer is likely to become the next governor of New York, and Hillary Clinton is likely to be re-elected to be its Senator, it's worth remembering this great New Yorker of the past for the purposes of comparison. Here are some of his most famous quotes. - Ivan There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have...

The New York Times Co. reeled yesterday from a 39 percent drop in profits as it came under a surprise attack from liberal politicians for gutting and damaging its sister Boston Globe...... pressure mounted on chief Arthur "Pinch" Sulzberger to plug a drain of newspaper ad dollars being steadily siphoned away by the Internet. The profits bomb came as Sulzberger got scolded yesterday by a group of prominent politicians and business leaders in Boston, led by Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.), claiming Sulzberger and his team have committed a "terrible shame" by gutting the paper since acquiring it in 1993. In...

Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., left, and Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., center, share a light moment as Worcester Mayor Tim Murray, right, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Deval Patrick's running mate and the Democratic nominee for lieutenant governor, looks on at a Democratic fund-raiser, in Boston, Monday, Oct. 16, 2006. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Senator Edward M. Kennedy, the 44-year incumbent Democrat, has agreed to participate in his first campaign debate since 1994. Kennedy will face off with Kenneth B. Chase, his Republican challenger, for 30 minutes on a New England Cable News forum hosted by Chet Curtis at a time and date that have yet to be announced.

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,...

A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the...

U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA) (L) and Representative Patrick Kennedy (D-MA) listen during Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's address of a joint meeting of the U.S. Congress in Washington July 26, 2006. REUTERS/Molly Riley (UNITED STATES)

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Generally, when someone makes a teddy bear-themed gadget, his/her intention is to overwhelm bystanders with cuteness. But whoever created this little guy, whose head has to be removed in order to access the internal USB drive, must have watched one too many Tim Burton movies. No word on how much it holds or if there are any plans to make these available for purchase, but with your own bear, a thumb drive, some thread and a closet full of skeletons, you can probably make your own without too much effort.

“A vote for this amendment is a vote for bigotry, pure and simple.” Thus spoke Sen. Ted Kennedy in reference to the Marriage Protection Amendment being debated in the Senate today. One cannot help but wonder what His Eminence Sean Patrick Cardinal O’Malley of Boston thinks of Sen. Kennedy’s thunderous pontificating. Cardinal O’Malley, along with all seven other U.S. Catholic cardinals, signed a statement on behalf of the Religious Coalition for Marriage supporting the amendment and urging the Senate to pass the measure along to the states for ratification. Presumably, by Sen. Kennedy’s lights, Cardinal O’Malley and the three score...

...A group of 69 [Mass.] state legislators, ...earlier this month signed a letter to Congress opposing a Kennedy-backed amendment that would grant Governor Mitt Romney unilateral authority to kill the electricity-generating wind farm proposed for Nantucket Sound. Kennedy's effort to sink the project with an amendment tacked on to a pending Coast Guard authorization bill has met with opposition from fellow Democrats in Congress and drawn the wrath of his usual allies in the environmental movement. But the heavy weather now coming at him at home highlights just what a raw nerve Kennedy has hit with his stand. ``We've listened...

Washington, D.C. -- This evening, Senator Edward M. Kennedy released the following statement in response to President Bush's immigration address: "I commend the President for his courage in calling the nation's attention to the urgent need for comprehensive immigration reform that includes providing a path to citizenship for those who are here. We are at a critical moment in this debate and his leadership is essential as we fight to fix our broken system once and for all. In reality, this debate is much larger and far reaching than the issue of immigration alone. It is about our national security...

At the newscast at the top of the hour, George Weber reported that Teddy Kennedy has cancelled a scheduled book reading for schoolchildren in Brooklyn, NY, where he was to read his A Dogs Eye View of DC because of extensive media interest. Weber closed the segment by noting that the name of the Senator's dog was named "Splash"...

Fans of U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy have long argued that he has fought the good fight ... But today, he is defending the indefensible: special interest legislation, tucked into a Coast Guard authorization bill, that would give Gov. Mitt Romney the power to veto the proposed Cape Wind energy project, even though it would be in federal waters. The project... more than five miles offshore of Cape Cod. The equivalent of burning 113 million barrels of oil per year. Proponents of Cape Wind say it is an important source of alternative, renewable energy, and it has the backing of such...

****It's not just Julia Roberts----John Kerry's entourage consisted of a bunch of SUVs................and not only have the Kennedys refused to build wind-powered systems on Nantucket Sound; they own two major oil-producing companies here in America. If the liberals want to whine about "the oil-rich making money off of the backs of the poor" .....one of President Bush's friends in the big-oil business is the Kennedy family....often claiming to champion the very poor that they are robbing. onroe Township, N.J. ***** The problem I have with the environmental movement is its opposition to industrial progress. Sen. Ted Kennedy is a waste...

No politician in America has a darker history with the waters off Martha's Vineyard than Senator Ted Kennedy. The Chappaquiddick Kid has been leading a three-year old battle to stop a windmill energy farm. A Boston company proposed building 130 wind turbines over a 24 square mile area off the Massachusetts coast. The wind turbines would provide three-quarters of Cape Cod's energy needs and nearly two percent for all of New England instead of relying on coal burning power plants. Greenpeace supported the idea. Yet big-time environmental liberals, the Chappaquiddick Kid, Robert Kennedy, Jr. and the befuddled Walter Cronkite oppose...

Teddy’s kids well-represented in police log By Howie Carr Boston Herald Columnist Sunday, April 9, 2006 Who are these illegal aliens who ‘‘play by the rules” that Ted Kennedy keeps talking about? These were his talking points again this week - that illegals ‘‘work hard” and ‘‘pay taxes” and, despite all evidence to the contrary, ‘‘play by the rules.” Does Ted Kennedy deign to dip into the police logs and blotters of his home state’s newspapers? This is not to say that some Americans don’t break every law in the book with impunity - just ask the Hero of Chappaquiddick....

Opponents of a plan to build the first offshore U.S. wind farm in Nantucket Sound off Massachusetts were a step closer on Friday to blocking the $900 million project. Negotiators in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate agreed late on Thursday to give Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney the power to block a plan by Cape Wind Associates LLC to put 130 giant wind turbines near the resort islands of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket. Backers say the project could generate enough electricity for most of Cape Cod and nearby islands. Opponents include wealthy residents with yachts and shorefront property near...

Arguing that President Bush should have followed the strategy of diplomacy employed in the Cuban missile crisis by his brothers rather than to have launched a pre-emptive strike against Saddam Hussein, Sen. Ted Kennedy castigated the president for his attack on Iraq. In his new book, "America Back on Track," his first since 1982, Kennedy claimed that his two brothers' refusal to launch a pre-emptive strike on Fidel Castro when it was learned back in 1962 that there were missiles in Cuba aimed at the United States was the proper approach to the crisis. Kennedy writes that they were right...

Massachusetts' attorney general is demanding that contractors refund $108 million for poor work on Boston's "Big Dig," which is the biggest public works project in U.S. history and has been plagued by leaks and delays. Attorney General Tom Reilly's office plans to sue Bechtel/Parsons Brinckerhoff and other companies if the two sides do not reach an agreement over some 200 complaints of shoddy work in putting a major highway running through downtown Boston underground... Costs for building the 7.8 mile underground roadway through Boston ballooned from under $3 billion to the current $14.6 billion.

The other night Jimmy Carter popped up on the Larry King show, live via satellite, standing in a ski lodge and wearing a fur-lined outdoorsman jacket as though he'd just come in from felling a spruce. He was publicizing an upcoming auction in which he would sell the furniture he'd been making. Also his wine. This may have come to many viewers as a surprise: There is Jimmy Carter Wine. The former president didn't say how he made it, but you know what it's probably called: peanut noir. Also he plans to sell his paintings. "My paintings," he told King,...

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...

MIDI - MORE (scroll down to second section) More human beings died in Teddy's car Than lost their lives by Cheney's gun, so far More times Ted cheated on a Spanish test So, you reporters just give it a rest More left wing bias has shown through...it is what they always do If their side's not winning, we will see their daily spinning More campaign finance fraud by Hillary Than throughout all GOP history More rapes by their last president...it is very evident He's what "scumbag" always meant More skin has been stretched on Pelosi's face She's on a...

Ted Kennedy’s people yesterday continued to deny a supermarket tabloid tale that the senior senator fathered an out-of-wedlock son 21 years ago after a New York newspaper reported that the alleged “love child” confirmed the story. “It’s still not true,” said Kennedy spokesgal Melissa Wagoner after the New York Daily News reported a bizarre e-mail exchange with a man purporting to be Christopher Allen. In the e-mail, Allen joked that he has “the classic Kennedy drinking problem” to the Daily News and added “it is kinda shocking to finally find out who my real father is.” But a family member...