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Earlier this week, ABC, CBS and NBC all noted the tenth anniversary of the death of John F. Kennedy, Jr. That Kennedy was an “icon” according to CBS’s Harry Smith, and “the Prince of Camelot” to ABC’s Chris Cuomo, a former cousin-in-law. Today marks the 40th anniversary of the death of Mary Jo Kopechne, killed July 18, 1969 after leaving a party with Senator Edward Kennedy. That night, Kennedy drove his car off a bridge, and left the scene with Kopechne still in the submerged vehicle; he did not call the police until the following morning. Over the course of...

TEDDY: IN HIS OWN WORDS. 9 tonight, HBO. THERE ARE people who can forgive Ted Kennedy anything. There are people who can forgive him nothing. Many of the rest, perhaps, regard the senior senator from Massachusetts as a marvelously flawed human being who's somehow survived scandal and tragedy and more than three-quarters of a century in the public eye to arrive at a point where colleagues from both sides of the aisle appear to regard him with affection and respect. With Kennedy currently engaged in battles for both health-care reform and his own life, the timing of tonight's HBO documentary,...

Kennedy Endorses Water Dog For Obama Family [from the unbelievable but true file!] WBZTV.Com ^ | January 13, 2009 Senator Ted Kennedy made an important political endorsement Tuesday [January 2009]. Massachusetts' Senior Senator endorsed the Portuguese water dog as the perfect pet for the nation's new first family. [snip] "A Portuguese water dog is the perfect choice for first dog," Kennedy said in a written statement. "The Obama girls -- and their parents -- will love a Portuguese water dog. They're loyal, smart, loving and they became a real part of the family. And they definitely do not shed." Senator...

Even in Illinois -- a state where governmental snafus are legendary -- this one is award-winning. Take a bow, Illinois State Board of Education, which is responsible for overseeing the all-important achievement tests mandated under President Bush's ludicrous No Child Left Behind education "reform" law. And while we're at it, how about some applause for our Illinois legislators, who set all this in motion about 15 years ago when they ruled there could be no school "reform" without state tests. Since then, the tests appear to have become the driving force in Illinois education, especially in less-affluent school districts where...

Americans still remember vividly the scenes from a year ago when Hurricane Katrina swept away entire communities, sent thousands of families for shelter in the Super Dome, and left hundreds of thousands more homeless and jobless. Americans throughout the land were moved to help in any way they could - sending donations and aid and volunteering to meet the needs of our fellow citizens. We responded because that's what Americans do. We care for our country, help our neighbors, and lend a hand to those in need. However, as we all painfully know, the Administration did not live up to...

CS Song - Come, give us Your Guns, Sung to "The old Villiage Doctor or Come, Take Your Medicine!" (For the 170,000,000 people who have been killed by their OWN GOVERNMENTS enabled by "reasonable" gun control laws) Original song by Henry Clay Work (1879) Update Parody by Coral Snake (2005) Midi - The Old Villiage Doctor or Come Take Your Medicine: at: www.pdmusic.org/work Look under 1879 (Musical Introduction) (1.) In a Turkish villiage warry, Some Armenians did terry; When new gun control laws on their nation fell. How they propaganda fed them, And then killed, tortured and bled them, There...

For those of you who are wondering why a former "Clown" with a bad reputation for bashing FReepers would want to come back here with his original screen name, I largely came back to FreeRepublic because of exposure to three websites together with the passage of the recent San Francisco handgun ban. These websites are: www.jpfo.orgwww.jpfo.netinnocentsbetrayed.com/index2.htm If any FReeper has any friends who are even remotely on the "gun grabber" side of the Gun Rights issue he or she should be exposed to these websites. They are a goldmine of information about the DEADLY side of "Gun Control". One hundred...

STAMFORD, Conn. -- A man accused of leaving his girlfriend to die after his car ended up in a Stamford pond has been sentenced to 3 1/2 years in prison. Francisco Loaiza, 30, of Stratford, had previously pleaded guilty to second-degree manslaughter with a motor vehicle. Before his sentencing Monday, Loaiza apologized for causing the accident. "Your honor, I just want to say I'm sorry," Loaiza said. "I hurt the person I loved and wanted to spend the rest of my life with." In the early morning hours of Jan. 15, Loaiza was driving a Nissan Altima on Weed Avenue...

Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., waits in line to sign a condolence book for earthquake and flood victims at the Indonesia Embassy on Wednesday, Dec. 29, 2004 in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)