Characteristics which should never be mentioned in front of children.
Yeah, some "history" ...
Posted on 06/06/2013 11:57:28 AM PDT by neverdem
The Kennedy family name is laden with history and brings to mind a definite set of characteristics: glamor, power, intelligence, wealth, influence. Kennedys have had their name on a president, numerous senators, representatives, ambassadors, and other high office holders.
The Kennedy dynasty, if you wish to call it that, has seen its share of triumphs and disasters, of course. I need not go into detail; scores of books have been written about them, from putting humans on the Moon and the championing of civil rights to personal tragedies of assassination, death, scandal, and more.
Most of these issues are in the past. But there is an ongoing problem associated with a Kennedy, one I consider extremely troubling. Specifically it’s with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is an attorney, a radio host, and an environmental activist.
He is also, as it happens, a full-blown anti-vaccination conspiracy theorist.
And I do mean full-blown. RFK Jr. has a long history of adhering to crackpot ideas about vaccines, mostly in the form of the now thoroughly disproven link to autism. He’s been hammering this issue for a decade now, and his claims appear to be no better and no more accurate now than they were when he first started making them...
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Mad muuzzies are killing workers trying to stop polio recently in Nigeria and Pakistan, IIRC.
I had measles in 1962. I was out of school for three weeks, and my weight dropped from sixty to fifty pounds. I wish I had been vaccinated, but they didn't have a vaccine for measles yet.
Some of the more recent vaccines approved for childhood vaccination are questionable, IMHO, e.g. chicken pox was approved because parents would stay home while their kids were sick, i.e. to prevent economic losses.
The Kennedy fortune traces back to Joseph P. Kennedy’s bootlegging activities using US Navy ships during Prohibition.
Correction: brings to mind a definite set of characteristics: corruption, drug abuse, womanizing, infidelity, manslaughter, homicide, recklessness, arrogance, hypocrisy, treason, dishonesty.
Another mother bleeping LAWYER attempting to deny me and mine the health care we need.
Lost me at, "intelligence".
I’m confused - is this one the rapist, the druggie, the mental case, or the leftist swindler?
Its so hard to tell them apart!
JFK had a measured IQ of 119, well below that of any recent President, including GWB.
As a 78 year old man, I’d say that RFK is an unknowing idiot. When I started school in 1940 (!) there were NO vaccines yet discovered. There was modern medicine, but the medicine of 1940.
Each year during the school year, it was almost normal for a classmate to die. Scarlet fever, whooping cough, measles, chicken pox, flu, POLIO, mumps, an infection gone fatal, and a baker’s dozen of other causes. This is not even to mention childhood injuries, possibly fatal then, and a week out of school today.
Many years have passed and the death of a youngster from health causes is today a shocking event. How many of these anti-vaccine zealots have familiarity with the “normal” health issues literally conqoured by vaccinations?
I would happily condemn them to the world they strive for.
This is the best news I have heard all day.
We have a good chance that the Kennedy line, a genetic dead-end if I ever saw one, will go extinct sooner that expected!
I don’t know that questioning the idea of putting something into your body just because the government tells you to necessarily makes you a “conspiracy theorist”.
As we learned from Rick Perry’s abortive run at the Presidency, often that decision to tell you is made on the basis of political influence, rather than science.
I think he’s the druggie and the leftist swindler, although that doesn’t mean other Kennedys can’t also be one or both.
FReepmail me if you want on or off my combined microbiology/immunology ping list.
P.S. I prefer to leave to the left the dubious habit of mixing science and religion. Let them worship gaia.
Kennedy-ism is a disease of the brain. It makes people delusional to the point of idolatry to all things Kennedy. It is curious why no one has seized the stupidity of the Massachusetts populace and struck a plastic Kennedy for the dashboard.
1970 at The Citadel, I was in a classmate's room and saw that he had a picture of JFK on his desk. The absolute shock of dismay when I told him I also had the same picture and kept it in case I ran out of toilet paper was priceless.
I’ll never forget the look on this POS’s face when Hannity asked the “environmental activist” about flying around on his private jet to his various appearances.
BUSTED
JFK - the navy wanted to court marshal him for poor PT boat commanding (kinda opposite of what JKF’s book said)
Dead Ted - driving wasn’t his forte. Neither was self control, honesty, intellect (cheated at college) etc.
Michael Kennedy - showing off while skiing and pulled a dead Ted (albeit without killing anyone else after abandoning them)
JFK Jr - used the Kennedy coordination talents to successfully crash a plane killing himself and one other, I believe. (Not qualified, no flight plan, total dork)
William Kennedy Smith - rape conviction.
Heck, the Obamadork DNA group had better keep trying if they want to outslime the Kennedys.
In the interests of fairness, which I think of as a conservative value, Joe Kennedy junior died a hero in WWII attempting to test an early remote control aircraft. It was loaded with explosives and he and another airman were to take off and then hand over control to radio operators in a chase plane. Once airborne, Kennedy and the other fellow were to bail out and await rescue. The plane exploded as it began to lift off. I believe the best of the Kennedy’s died that day.
Vaccines are developed not discovered,and you sure had smallpox vaccine in 1940.
martial
“Specifically it’s with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is an attorney, a radio host, and an environmental activist.”
And allround lowlife slimeball like his father, two uncles and and grandfather.
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