Kennedy: “It’s not so much that I don’t like the title, you understand—in fact, as power trio titles go, ‘The Smile Has Left Your Eyes’ is really rather catchy. It’s just that…well—let’s just say some wag is bound to bring up that whole ‘Mary Jo Kopechne gasping for air breath at the bottom of a pond in my Delta ‘88’-thing. Which, if it’s all the same to you fellas, I can do without that particular bit of irony…”*
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h/t Michelle Malkin, who watched live in disbelief. (As Kennedy came unhinged, that is. Not as he argued with John Wetton and Geoff Downes).
BLASPHEMER!!!! Not MY Carl Palmer. You can imagine any other cheeseoid 80’s band drummer, like, the Triumph drummer if you want, but not Carl! He was my first drum idol. ELP dontcha know?
Is anyone in Mass. even paying attention to this guy?
Can’t they see that they are his enablers?
Alito’s un-American subservience to the imperial executive will return us to the dark days of King Crimson!
P.S. Wouldn’t Teddy be likelier to complain about “Sole Survivor”?
Either he has worked himself into a complete froth, which is possible, everybody does from time to time, or he is one cynical hombre. I’m not sure which. Question, how will the Deomcratic party cope with th left’s disapointment over this? And will people like Evan Byah and Joe Lieberman finally realize that Teddy and John aren’t their friends?
Jeez! If Teddy Boy had displayed that much energy trying to save Mary Jo, she might be alive today.
Before we’re too hard on old Ted, let’s recall that Kennedy’s version of “Heat of the Moment” contained these unforgettable lines:
And now we find ourselves in ‘82 /
My disco pants had better be down /
around my ankles in 30-seconds /
or I’m cutting off all your toot,
honey. You got me?
“Sole Survivor” is an awesome tune. I just couldn’t bring myself to defile it.
They used to be awesome, even when horribly wrong. The triumvirat of the Democratic Party.
Jackson
Kennedy
Cuomo
I used to listen to the flow, the rhythm…
As long as I didn’t actually listen to what they were saying, it was art.
Bad timing.
Awesome above, was not the awesome assumed in Jeff’s awesome. Or that’s my assumption, anyway.
Speaking of Ted, that filibuster-Alito editorial in the New York Times makes a lot more sense when you substitute “Bauer” for “Alito.”
And funny you should mention Teddy’s eyes…
You guys were’nt even alive for Soul Survivor. We lived it.
That was when Mick was alive. And Keith was kickin’ (kinda)
Ok. Hubby and I brought back a box of wines from CA’s Central Coast and I’m working my way through em and most of this just slid by me…
But Teddy and his red-faced, arm throwing screeching?
Dean Martin would have beat the twerp into the carpet with a pool cue and never spilled a drop of his scotch…neat … while Sammy looked on in bemusement.
(I raised my girls right…18 y/o we dropped off at SFSU and she has a Rat Pack poster in her dorm room. Yessssssss.)
Hint: It’s because she’s dead, Darleen. But if I say anymore, that’ll give the game away.
Darleen  Of course, Sammy would then have sodomized the portly souse while he cowered on the floor, but hey, who needs an image like that, right?
That freakin’ tears it.
Just one more disco-Bruford SynTom fill will turn me into Leon Czoglosz.
We cannot stand idly by and let SCALIOTORQUEMADA AND HIS CHIMPUS DEI CHIMPMASTER CHIMP CHIMP turn back the
SMPTECHIMPTE clock!So what you’re saying is, I should have gone with Naked Eyes and “Always Something There to Remind Me.”
Christ. Everybody’s a critic.
The last 60 seconds or so was priceless…his vein popping, fist slamming passion is akwardly interrupted when he looses his place in his speech (think Bara, Bara, Barack Osama, Osamsbama, Obamosama,..er…Barack Obama)
Just as a sad note too, is that Kennedy will leave the Senate on his own terms. How I would love to see him go down from a vote. But it just won’t happen.
And yet this also brings up an interesting constitutional question that has bothered me recenlty. Hit me if I may have missed earlier discussion on this topic. When did congress go national? Evidence does point to 94, but it seems that senatorial power overstepped state representation many years ago. But that you have senators conducting fund raisers in other states, and not in support, but for themselves, is apalling. They have set themselves up as some kind of overlord more equal branch, but are elected my a greator minority. This has been the catalyst for national attention for the likes of Kennedy, Reid, and even McCaain.
Shut up you blovating beached whale. I didn’t vote for you. I couldn’t have voted for you. All praises be to St Pete (R-NM).
Yeah, if there is campaign finance reforming to be done, that is where I would start. It irks me to no end.
Oooohh, snap, Paul Zrimsek! (Sorry, late to the party.)
Rich in Martigues, exactly so – and it certainly shines some light on the NSA program “controversy,” doesn’t it, when you watch senior Senators appear to consider themselves national actors rather than State representatives. I’m no fan of Byrd (which is rather a huge understatement), and I’m sure his Alito vote comments from a couple of days ago was a pragmatic one (“How best can I get reelected?” rather than “What does my constituency actually want?”), but at least he talked as if he were acting for his constituents by noting that he’s from a conservative State.
From the Harvard Crimson :
During his days as a student at Harvard, the youngest brother in the Kennedy clan garnered just one mention in The Crimsonâ€â€a 1956 article about an inter-house debating event, according to an archive search.
The question at the debate was: “Resolved: That the Federal Government should compel the state of Alabama to grant equal educational opportunities to Negroes.†Kennedy’s Winthrop team took the negative side and won.
Whoops.
Jesus Jeff! A guy gets drunk and throws a fit and you just jump all over his ass.
Ted Kennedy’s Lament (sung to the tune of Irish Washerwoman):
Oh, your father is dead
and your mother is dead
and your sister is dead
and your brother is dead
and your brother is dead
and your brother is dead
and nephew can’t fly
and your car doesn’t float.
Now, now, Salt Lick–and the rest of you Protein Gang–let’s give Mr. Kennedy a break. We all have something in our past that we would like to forget. Why, I killed a 17 year old boy in a car accident. I don’t need some bunch of sillys bringing it up every single time my name is mentioned, now do I?
Well Laura, did you run and hide instead of trying to save the 17 yr old boy?
And were you drunk and driving without a license while leaving your chauffeur at the party you just left? Trying to compare a tragic accident by a 17 year old with the drunken, amoral ruthlessness of a sitting US Senator is one of the most vile and disgusting tactics the moonbats have come up with yet.
Well, Laura, the problem is that Ted Kennedy has a lot of somethings in his past that he would like to forget. That most of them are a matter of public record is a separate issue, but most useful to those of us who chose toact as Ted’s conscience when hr leaves it on the dresser when he leave for work.
TW: lot. Really!
Damn you Jeff Goldstein. I just massacred 15 precious minutes of my life – not to mention my workday – on the History of Asia. Damn you and your pop culture links, I say!
And in the senate court of Taxachussett’s drunken crimson king…
tw: Just found my original copy and yes, the resemblance is striking.
I’ll be a sole survivor
So-o-ole survivor.
Sole survivor,
Solitary diver.
Well Laura, you’re yet more proof for the old Texas adage, “It’s hard to get the big picture when you have such a small screen.”
(I Just) Died In Your Arms Tonight –
MarCutting CrewTee hee
At least he was wearing his pants and no one seems to have died.
In a screeching partisan funk,
(and more than a little bit drunk)
the bootlegger’s son, is coming undone
but he, not Alito, is sunk.
A DAY IN THE LIFE OF JOE REPUBLICAN
Joe gets up at 6 a.m. and fills his coffeepot with water to prepare his morning coffee. The water is clean and good because some tree-hugging liberal fought for minimum water-quality standards. With his first swallow of coffee, he takes his daily medication. His medications are safe to take because some stupid commie liberal fought to insure their safety and that they work as advertised.
All but $10 of his medications are paid for by his employer’s medical plan because some liberal union workers fought their employers for paid medical insurance – now Joe gets it too.
He prepares his morning breakfast, bacon and eggs. Joe’s bacon is safe to eat because some girly-man liberal fought for laws to regulate the meat packing industry.
In the morning shower, Joe reaches for his shampoo. His bottle is properly labeled with each ingredient and its amount in the total contents because some crybaby liberal fought for his right to know what he was putting on his body and how much it contained.
Joe dresses, walks outside and takes a deep breath. The air he breathes is clean because some environmentalist wacko liberal fought for laws to stop industries from polluting our air.
He walks to the subway station for his government-subsidized ride to work. It saves him considerable money in parking and transportation fees because some fancy-pants liberal fought for affordable public transportation, which gives everyone the opportunity to be a contributor.
Joe begins his work day. He has a good job with excellent pay, medical benefits retirement, paid holidays and vacation because some lazy liberal union members fought and died for these working standards. Joe’s employer pays these standards because Joe’s employer doesn’t want his employees to call the union. If Joe is hurt on the job or becomes unemployed, he’ll get a worker compensation or unemployment check because some stupid liberal didn’t think he should lose his home because of his temporary misfortune.
Its noontime and Joe needs to make a bank deposit so he can pay some bills. Joe’s deposit is federally insured by the FDIC because some godless liberal wanted to protect Joe’s money from unscrupulous bankers who ruined the banking system before the Great Depression.
Joe has to pay his Fannie Mae-underwritten mortgage and his below-market federal student loan because some elitist liberal decided that Joe and the government would be better off if he was educated and earned more money over his lifetime.
Joe is home from work. He plans to visit his father this evening at his farm home in the country. He gets in his car for the drive. His car is among the safest in the world because some America-hating liberal fought for car safety standards. He arrives at his boyhood home. His was the third generation to live in the house financed by Farmers’ Home Administration because bankers didn’t want to make rural loans. The house didn’t have electricity until some big-government liberal stuck his nose where it didn’t belong and demanded rural electrification.
He is happy to see his father, who is now retired. His father lives on Social Security and a union pension because some wine-drinking, cheese-eating liberal made sure he could take care of himself so Joe wouldn’t have to.
Joe gets back in his car for the ride home, and turns on a radio talk show. The radio host keeps saying that liberals are bad and conservatives are good. He doesn’t mention that the beloved Republicans have fought against every protection and benefit Joe enjoys throughout his day.
Joe agrees: “We don’t need those big-government liberals ruining our lives! After all, I’m a self-made man who believes everyone should take care of themselves, just like I have.”
Some people have ego’s that are so large and so tied in with a particular identity group that you have to wonder what sort of breakdown might occur if it were suddenly ripped away from them.
Dear above anonymous pansy-assed poster,
What does your spiel have to do with the left wing of the <i>modern<> liberal democrat movement?
Love,
Me
You will ignore the unclosed tag…you are getting verrrrrrrrry sleepy…
sorry, etc. – Thank you, thank you, thank you – Your post is the purest expression of liberal self congratulation, delusion and condescension I have ever seen. It’s going in my wallet.
It should also be noted that the above BS was lifted from Mikey Moore’s website. So, grain of salt and all that.
Gee, you think Nancy liberal wakes up and thanks the U.S. military, the NSA, the FBI etc for providing “the blanket of the very freedom” under which they rise and sleep? To paraphrase Colonel Jessup.
And what about the tens of millions of Americans who never even got to be born thanks to liberals like fat Mikey Moore?
Methinks the purple piper is Teddy the K. and his tune goes something like this…
Confusion will be my epitaph.
As I crawl a cracked and broken path
If we make it we can all sit back
And laugh.
But I fear tomorrow I’ll be crying,
Yes I fear tomorrow I’ll be crying.
I’m told, Iraq’s water quality sucked under Saddam.
Yeah, it’s really sad how every product killed every American before the Feds graciously stuck their noses into every piece of commerce they could get their grubby little hands on.
Yes
And the education system in Los Angeles is much the better, because some limpwristed milktoast Liberal thought it was better to educate students in the proper method to put a condom on, and how to deal with “My two dads”, instead of stressing the importance of Algebra. Your cut and paste post smells of the pachouli you fester in….
Can’t think of anyone that ugly….
Seconding RCC: Because everything was fatal until it was regulated. And how do modern (or any, for that matter) Leftists convince themselves that either employer-subsidized health insurance or government-subsidized transportation represent a “bargain” to the person whose salary is lower than it could otherwise be because of one, and whose taxes are higher than they could otherwise be because of the other? (Hang on, I know the answer: it’s because the person who benefits most from the subsidies is the person who contributed least toward them, under a progressive scheme. Until that person loses or doesn’t get a job because the person who contributed most toward the subsidies has been taxed to the point of either not having the capital to expand, or moving shop altogether.)
A Canadian friend of mine is vocal about the attitudes of too many (though not all, thank goodness!) Canadians about their healthcare system: they actually believe it’s “free.” Gracious.
DDT, your point is? Are you just generally indisposed to ugliness, or was there a partisan comparison in the works there? Because I’ll put a carefully posed and airbrushed professional portrait of Mr. Moore up against a single frame of video of Michelle Malkin talking (when one’s face actually moves, creating briefly unattractive configurations no matter how attractive the face at rest), any day of the week. If I cared about such things. A matter of opinion, of course.
sorry, thanks for illustrating not only the bitter ignorance your ilk stay willfully mired in, but just how dependent you all are.
How you can justify your sad residence presumably in the land of self-responsibility, choice, market-driven excellence, and limited government is beyond me. But then I remember that leftism is a mental disorder and everything becomes clear.
Whomever composed your copy/paste writes for beans and obviously thinks for shit.
When you realize that you argue against your own socialist talking points, please also realize the Canadian border isn’t ever all that far away. Use it.
tw: Led blindly.
Good one, DDT. Except that an outrageous rant by a purely rhetorical US senator who panders to dependents and who gives every evidence of having a lifelong alcohol problem obviously qualifies as bona fide political problem.
Your finding your tidy little moonbat Photoshop-like frames from tv interviews doesn’t.
You guys mainline appearances and stereotypes and myths and phantoms all day long, don’t you? Where exactly does that come from anyway?
tw: Firmly believing their own deranged imaginations.
Heh heh…
6Gun, they done lost that happy shelter now too.
TW: Heart It’s how many months wait for a heart bi-pass, eh?
“Better Red than dead.”
tw: Market
“Opportunity costs” and “unintended consequences” are only two of the many rhetorical tricks talk radio hosts use to dupe hapless Six-Pack Joe into the mindtrap known as “conservatism”. No, I’ve never taken an economics course; why do you ask?
Regards,
Sorry, this (bzzzzzz) had to go somewhere (oh, yeah baby—bring it hard)
Vladimir,
BLASPHEMER. Not MY Gil Moore!!!
Due to said unrelenting union pressure, Joe then loses his job with GM. He naturally loses his private insurance too (it having been a benefit paid in a once-free market by a once-solvent employer competing with other once-solvent employers.)
Joe contracts a fatal illness and his only hope of survivability is a very expensive drug developed by a private and yet-solvent, for profit Swiss company that invested over $1B over a decade developing. This company also invested billions in other drugs that never panned out.
After years in government FDA red tape, this drug was approved for market. The drug is the “miracle drug” for his rare cancer.
Meanwhile, over three agonizing months, Joe was twice turned down for Medicaid by rude government staffers lodged behind bullet-proof Lexan and less competent than the average WalMart check out mule.
Joe’s doctor applied to the Swiss company for aid. He was approved in under 24 hours.
Today Joe is medicated with the $1B drug for free and not only does he expect a mean survival of 20 years (instead of dying in under 6 months) but his meds cost him nothing.
The difference being, Mr. Sorry, that this is a true story… Bring it, indeed.
tw: Well served by the profit motive; not served by nannyism.
Well I have taken Lefty Econ 101 and I just know capitalism is the most unnatural social structure on earth. I mean, no toothpaste labelling is so Darwinian…
tw: Social services
You mean “Mis dos papás”. They wait until 8th grade to transition them to “My two dads”.
TW: “thing”. Where’d Jill go?
And no fluoride is—ick—Birchian.
The 6gun is ablazin’ now!
Drug companies in the free-market utopia of Switzerland make lots of profit by giving drugs away for free.
Drug companies in Switzerland make lots of PR by giving drugs away for free. They make profit by selling it thru insurance plans to other visciously utopian American for-profit corporations who underwrite the risk with more profit.
Is this hard?
tw: Passed the 5th grade.
If giving drugs away for positive PR is due to the profit motive then what isn’t? Bill Gates giving money to cure African Aids? Unbridled captitalism. Think harder.
But had to repeat the grammar segment, it would seem.
Sorry, Josh, I may be grammatically challenged, and I admit to fully missing cryptic bullshit, but you’re going to have to explain that just a little.
At any rate, the bottom line is where does innovation come from? And what is the nature of this constitutional republic (and why?)
ALERT!! ALERT!! ALERT!! ALERT!!
TOPIC DIVERSION!!! MOVING GOALPOSTS!! STRAWMAN GENERATION!!!
ALL PERSONNEL, GO TO MOPP LEVEL FOUR, AND BEGIN DECONTAMINATION PROCEDURES IMMEDIATELY!!
That is all.
I thought that diatribe looked familiar. When that article first surfaced on Moore’s site, I took the time to research every assertion that the liberal-idiot-author made. I was surprised to find that Republican Presidents were responsible for signing approximately 75% of those laws into effect:
– Clean Water Act 1972 – Richard Nixon
– Occupational Safety and Health Act 1970 – Richard Nixon
– Clean Air Act 1970 – Richard Nixon
– Worker’s Compensation 1908 – Teddy Roosevelt
– Food and Drug Administration 1927 – Calvin Coolidge
Those were just a few that I recall. I wish I had retained a copy of the debunking e-mail that I sent to Moore’s website. Come to think of it, I never recieved a reply.
Josh
Bill Gates may well be a fine and moral man now that he married a real human who can help him. In any case, the money to India for AIDS will help Microsoft in that marketplace. He knows this very well, as do all manner of folks who actually made it past lefty econ 101 to the harder course of real world 401.
You probaly used too many big words and facts. Long sentences will confuse them too.
Maybe if we could go into the future and learn how to tie a twinky to an e-mail we could egin a long road to persuasion.
LionDude,
You inspired me to go to I-Tunes where I clicked on the short sample of “Fight the Good Fight”.
Triumph was to Rush as the Alarm was to U2.