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Thread ID: 102644	2009-08-26 21:07:00	Kennedy To Be Interred At............	SurferJoe46 (51)	PC World Chat

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804609	2009-08-26 21:07:00	Sen . Edward M . Kennedy (D-Mass . ), who died late Tuesday after a 15-month battle with brain cancer, will be buried early next week at Arlington National Cemetery, close to the famed gravesites of his slain brothers . His brain has been removed for forensic investigation, a wish he made years ago as a humanitarian effort to further medical knowledge about his condition . The brain, once removed fell off the table, bounced twice and rolled under a door and has not been found yet however . The doctor performing the autopsy said "It bounced just like a tiny Super-Ball® and I just couldn't catch it" . As tributes poured in Wednesday from across the country and the world, Washington mourned one of its longest-serving political hacks, whose outsized personality, bulbous red nose and political sidestepping skills continued to drive the health-care debate even in his final days . Flags flew at half-staff at the U . S . Capitol, the White House and federal buildings . Across the Potomac River at the nation's military cemetery, photographers and camera crews were escorted to the flickering orange flame and polished marble gravestones that mark the final resting places of John F . Kennedy, assassinated in 1963, in the third year of his presidency, and Robert F . Kennedy, gunned down five years later during his own White House campaign . It is supposed that this burial so close to the eternal flame is not unprecedented by tradition nor by ecological/environmental criteria . The bacterial digestion of his remains will be piped to the base of the Eternal Flame, providing illuminating gas to keep the cauldron fire lit for what is estimated to be twenty-five to thirty years, thus taking the energy usage off the natural gas grid . This news was greeted by applause and cheers from E-groups and ecologists and those worried over gaseous discharges from his body and their impact on the ozone layer over far away places like New Zealand . The Eternal Flame, however will have to be temporarily extinguished until total internment of the body, as his seeping alcohol fumes may prove to be hazardous and could promote an explosion . For all military personnel in the vicinity, the smoking lamp will be out until further notice: That is all . At national landmarks, tourists and federal workers paused to remember the last surviving Kennedy brother, an American self-aggrandizing legend known for his political prowess as well as his personal failings, accidental drowning of a campaign worker, his Santa Claus charisma as well as his Mob-storied family tree . Members of the Mary Jo Kopechne family were not invited to the gala and stated that they would not attend the event under any circumstances . The Kennedy Family had offered a Volkswagen stretch limousine for them, but they eschewed the offer for a "ride" into town . "If only Kennedy had been driving a Volkswagen at Chappaquiddick, Mary Jo would still be alive" were the last words from the family as they slammed the door on this reporter's face . How rude! After "The General", the largest giant redwood has been cut down and used to make his coffin, the body will be placed in it and driven by a forklift it will be placed on a bier for public display and all fees and donations will be sent to the Joseph P . Kennedy Whiskey Brewmeisters & Transportation Survivors for their earmarked "Prohibition Recovery & Rehabilitation Act of 1933" in Scotland . NOTE: I just hadda post this - it's too funny (tragically) to not . :thumbs:	SurferJoe46 (51)
804610	2009-08-27 03:31:00	Bad taste I would have thought!	Cicero (40)
804611	2009-08-27 03:52:00	I have no real idea of the gustatory value , but most people didn't like him after his daddy's money bought him out of the "accidental' drowning of the (young, nubile, female) party worker and the general Teflon slipperiness of the whole family.	SurferJoe46 (51)
804612	2009-08-27 03:59:00	Good riddance I say...	SolMiester (139)
804613	2009-08-27 04:12:00	Bad lad,but not evil. To ridicule in death always seems in bad taste to me. With two brilliant brothers,he had a lot to live up to. Sad case.	Cicero (40)
804614	2009-08-27 04:19:00	Bad taste I would have thought! Not to mention appalling bad taste. Which Americana excels in.	WalOne (4202)
804615	2009-08-27 05:18:00	I don't fear any goblins and the dead souls. I'm just posting a C/P and not even my thoughts - it's most of the country who are also saying "Relief, at last" and other much more sanguine comments. I present an ABC Network appraisal of the same conundrum and not talking trash about the dead: “The Good, the Bad…and Chappaquiddick” ABC's John Donvan reports: I was driving down an Israeli highway this morning, my kids in the backseat and all of us wrapping up summer vacation, when I heard the news that Ted Kennedy had died. Forty summers ago, I was the one in the backseat, and my parents up front, when I heard that Ted Kennedy had driven off a bridge on Chappaquiddick Island. As it happens, we were on vacation on that trip too, on Cape Cod, not all that far from where the accident happened. Until then I had never heard of Chappaquiddick, and to an Irish Catholic family, some of whose members had been nuts about Irish Catholic president John Kennedy, the whole sordid tale wrecked for good a certain kind of sweet innocence about American myths. Or at least about the Kennedymyth, or at least about its youngest member, who has now left us. Odd thing -- that while I was here under the Holy Land sun, I knew the obituary I'd put together for Nightline was at that moment hitting the air back home. One of my editors, Mark Lima, had asked me to put it together on a recent Friday. "Consider it done," I emailed. Four days later, I was still struggling with it (and four days is a long time, at least for me, to write a decent obit). The thing was, while I knew that on the day of any celebrity's death it is practically indecent to say or write anything critical, there was still the Chappaquiddick thing. And not just that, but a rather long run of bad decisions and bad behavior. That said, I knew there was also an authentic "good" Ted Kennedy story to be told. And that should be told as the genuine story of the life of the man. So it took me a bit of time to figure out how to paint a full portrait -- in 8 minutes -- of a man whose talents and flaws were both outsized, and to do so without appearing to speak ill of the dead, on the day of his death There's video that refuses to allow pasting the link or url, so I have a few comments from other subscribers: Posted by: ddg | Aug 26, 2009 6:05:42 PM I'm glad Ted Kennedy is finally where he belongs - burning in hell. Posted by: Dennis Lee | Aug 26, 2009 11:03:37 PM Lets all have a round of drinks and get into our cars and drive off a bridge. This guy got away with murder, not only figuratively, but as a "senator". I hope he died in pain. A comrade in arms for the new USSA (United Socialist States of America). Rmember MaryJo Kopeckne as she rejoices in her grave. Morpheus wrote: Now he has to answer to his actions in the death of Mary Jo... When he gets to hell I wonder who they will be make him bunk with his brother, Hitler or Edie Amine. John wrote: I bet his body stinks like a big dead carcass. You better go to the funeral and stick a pen into him to make sure he is really dead. "In a brief statement to reporters at his rented vacation home on Martha's Vineyard, Mass., President Barack Obama eulogized Kennedy as one of the 'most accomplished Americans' in history - and a man whose work in Congress helped give millions new opportunities."---------- Mary Jo Kopechne could not be reached for comment. Finally. He represented everything that is wrong with our government. "Lion of the Senate"???? What a "puke bucket" moment. If we are all idiots, why was that drunk **** a democrat? Don't forget about TK getting 2 of his nephews all drunked up also. And one of them ended up raping that girl. Wasn't that long ago either.. Yeh. What A Guy. What A Guy. This man was a dishonest hypocrite right up to the end when he tried to reverse his OWN policy on governor appointments when that policy no longer suited his needs. Soon after the Chappaquiddick accident, I saw the intersection where he allegedly made the wrong 120-degree right turn onto the dirt road leading to the bridge (instead of a 90-degree left turn onto the paved road to the Martha's Vineyard ferry). There is NO way he could've NOT known he was going the wrong way as he claimed. His attempt to cover up his involvement was hideous. His only surviving sibling is his sister Jean Smith, the mother of his drinking buddy and nephew, William Kennedy Smith--need I say more? Posted by: John | August 26, 2009 at 02:10 AM it just gets nastier and more hateful. I left out the really heavy duty TK hate and applause for his death. As you can see, the US didn't really like the guy or his recentemente ricchi parents, siblings and other pretenders for a throne.	SurferJoe46 (51)
804616	2009-08-27 05:59:00	This stuff's resurfacing too now:	SurferJoe46 (51)
804617	2009-08-27 06:16:00	I don't fear any goblins and the dead souls . I'm just posting a C/P and not even my thoughts - it's most of the country who are also saying "Relief, at last" and other much more sanguine comments . I present an ABC Network appraisal of the same conundrum and not talking trash about the dead: There's video that refuses to allow pasting the link or url, so I have a few comments from other subscribers: it just gets nastier and more hateful . I left out the really heavy duty TK hate and applause for his death . As you can see, the US didn't really like the guy or his recentemente ricchi parents, siblings and other pretenders for a throne . I think you are being a bit selective with your quotes and when you say the US didn't like him . Sure he had his enemies but he had a big following as well . Have a read of this for a bit of perspective . . cnn . com/2009/POLITICS/08/26/zelizer . senator . kennedy/index . html" target="_blank">edition . cnn . com	Safari (3993)
804618	2009-08-27 07:34:00	I think you are being a bit selective with your quotes and when you say the US didn't like him . Sure he had his enemies but he had a big following as well . Have a read of this for a bit of perspective . . cnn . com/2009/POLITICS/08/26/zelizer . senator . kennedy/index . html" target="_blank">edition . cnn . com That's reprinted from the LA Times, a very large non-republican stronghold . Most of the quotes I found were from his own home state, Massachusetts where he was firmly despised and hated . They knew him best and the whole family too . When you C/P from the Left Coast (California) news sources it makes the numbers all skewed since this is the land o' radical liberals . It's like sitting naked in a bowl of Crunchy Granola Cereal . What around you that isn't flakes, is fruits and nuts . I just live here .	SurferJoe46 (51)
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