Posted on 03/04/2009 1:55:02 AM PST by SolidWood
Veteran US senator Ted Kennedy, 77, is to be awarded an honorary knighthood.
The Queen has agreed the honour for the brother of former US president John F Kennedy for services to the US-UK relationship and to Northern Ireland.
Gordon Brown is to formally announce the award during his address to both houses of Congress on Wednesday.
The prime minister's speech comes on the second full day of his visit to which featured brief talks with President Obama on Tuesday.
Mr Kennedy, who has been a senator for his home state of Massachusetts for more than 46 years, is being treated for a brain tumour.
The most senior living member of the famous Irish-American political dynasty, he was diagnosed with brain cancer in May last year after being rushed to hospital with stroke-like symptoms.
He has since had chemotherapy and radiation to treat the malignant glioma, an aggressive type of brain tumour.
Mr Kennedy suffered another seizure during President Barack Obama's inaugural lunch in January, but was released from hospital a day later.
The father-of-five was elected to the US Senate as a Democrat in 1962 following the election of his brother as president.
Apart from his famous family connections, he is probably best known in the UK for his work on the Northern Ireland peace process.
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Mr Kennedy joins a select band of overseas nationals given an honorary knighthood.
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Isn’t it Ironic that Teddy is going to be knighted when his father was thrown out of England as the US Ambassador to England because of his support for Adolf Hitler before World War II.
He can't travel to pick up the knighthood and he won't have long to flaunt it.
I don't think your people even need to waste time designing a coat of arms, although we could all have some fun with that.
This murdering scumbag will have his day of reckoning soon enough. Don't suppose that when he knocks on those pearly gates that his last name will count for scratch.
Probably, Order of the Butt.
Sir Osis of the Liver?
Sir Loin of Beef?
Baron of Gray Matter?
All except President Reagan were military men. US Constitution refers to members of the Legislative Branch. As such, Congressional approval is needed for Swimmer to get a title.
Makes sense, though, considering how much Scotch Lord Kennedy consumes...
Wow. I hadn't heard that. Ironic indeed.
Good knight, Ted,,,,,,you bastard.
“TITLES OF NOBILITY” AND “HONOR”
In 1789, the House of Representatives compiled a list of possible Constitutional Amendments, some of which would ultimately become our Bill of Rights. The House proposed seventeen; the Senate reduced the list to twelve. During this process that Senator Tristrain Dalton (Mass.) proposed an Amendment seeking to prohibit and provide a penalty for any American accepting a “title of Nobility” (RG 46 Records of the U.S. Senate). Although it wasn’t passed, this was the first time a “title of nobility” amendment was proposed.
Twenty years later, in January, 1810, Senator Reed proposed another “Title of Nobility” Amendment (History of Congress, Proceedings of the Senate, p. 529-530). On April 27, 1810, the Senate voted to pass this 13th Amendment by a vote of 26 to 1; the House resolved in the affirmative 87 to 3; and the following resolve was sent to the States for ratification:
“If any citizen of the United States shall Accept, claim, receive or retain any title of nobility or honour, or shall, without the consent of Congress, accept and retain any present, pension, office or emolument of any kind whatever, from any emperor, king, prince or foreign power, such person shall cease to be a citizen of the United States, and shall be incapable of holding any office of trust or profit under them, or either of them.”
The Constitution requires three-quarters of the states to ratify a proposed amendment before it may be added to the Constitution. When Congress proposed the “Title of Nobility” Amendment in 1810, there were seventeen states, thirteen of which would have to ratify for the Amendment to be adopted. According to the National Archives, the following is a list of the twelve states that ratified, and their dates of ratification:
Maryland, Dec. 25, 1810
Kentucky, Jan. 31, 1811
Ohio, Jan. 31, 1811
Delaware, Feb. 2, 1811
Pennsylvania, Feb. 6, 1811
New Jersey, Feb. 13, 1811
Vermont, Oct. 24, 1811
Tennessee, Nov. 21, 1811
Georgia, Dec. 13, 1811
North Carolina, Dec. 23, 1811
Massachusetts, Feb. 27, 1812
New Hampshire, Dec. 10, 1812
TOO BAD THIS ONE MISSED RATIFICATION !!!
Just don't mention the Lady of the Lake...
This must be in recognition of his life long sympathy and support of the Irish republican Army terrorist group as it blew up British police, statesmen, and civilians.
Father of Five???? I thought he had three kids.
He left Mary Jo to slowly drown while he ran away to save his worthless hide. He called his lawyer while her body was still warm.
He is a coward and a murderer.
For service to the Illuminati.
and Sir Loin of Pork
and Lord Shitwhistle
You forgot to mention obstruction of justice, perjury, and DUI. Kennedy got a life sentence in the U.S. Senate, whereas the average member of a “working family” would have received 20 years in prison.
What is it with people from Massachusetts? I know one who winters here, I see him at the YMCA gym, he seems like a fine fellow and he despises what is happening now but when you talk to him about guns his logic is upside down and backwards.
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