The “REAL” Ted Kennedy

Senator Ted Kennedy died Tuesday night at the age of 77 after a year-long battle with brain cancer.  Kennedy’s life was full of contradictions and self-destruction, yet full of success.  He earned a reputation as an outspoken liberal standard-bearer during a conservative-dominated era from the 1980s to the early 2000s.

In 1951 he was expelled from Harvard for cheating on exams.  Kennedy became a voice for ending the war in Vietnam.  Kennedy is best known for his focus on health care and education.  Kennedy fought to end apartheid rule in South Africa.  In 1964 Kennedy’s first speech to the Senate was in support of the  civil rights bill that finally established full citizenship rights for African-Americans.  Kennedy worked with his friend and colleague, conservative Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah, to develop the State Children’s Health Program, which provides the matching funds for state programs. Congress passed the necessary legislation in 1997.  Kennedy played a key role in passing the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act and the 1993 Family and Medical Leave Act.  Kennedy introduced legislation to impose economic sanctions on South Africa.  In 1987, Kennedy led the opposition to President Reagan’s nominee for the Supreme Court, Robert Bork. The senator was quick to warn that he thought Bork’s conservative ideology would be dangerous for the country.

Some think of personal controversies, like the Chappaquiddick incident, having been drinking and partying with young women aides of his brother Robert Kennedy, Senator Kennedy, at this time a married man and a father, slipped away with 28-year-old Mary Jo Kopechne, who was trapped in his car after he took a wrong turn off the Chappaquiddick bridge, lost control of his car which was submerged in just eight feet of water. Kennedy chose to flee the scene , leaving the young woman to die an agonising death not of drowning but of suffocation over a period of hours. Incredibly, it was 10 hours before Kennedy reported the accident, by which time he’d consulted a family lawyer. The senator’s explanation for this unconscionable, despicable, unmanly and inexplicable behaviour was never convincing: he claimed that he’d struck his head and was “confused” and “exhausted” from diving and trying to rescue the young woman and had gone home to bed.

Senator Kennedy  pursued collaboration with the Soviet Union to undermine Ronald Reagan’s defense policy during the Cold War, and influence the 1984 election. The proof of this comes in the form of a memo from KGB chief Viktor Chebrikov to Andropov. In 1983 Kennedy conveyed an offer to Soviet General Secretary, Yuri Andropov through his law school and confident John Tunney. Kennedy’s offer was to help the Soviets burnish their image in American public opinion to ostensibly ease tensions during a particularly warm period of the Cold War. Kennedy was concerned about the deteriorating US-Soviet relationship.

If you remember Kennedy criticizing George W. Bush for being in the National Guard during Vietnam, Kennedy was in the Army, and was assigned to honor guard duty in Paris until 1953.  Easter 1991 was yet another proud moment for Sen. Kennedy. He was “hanging” with his young nephew, William Kennedy Smith, and his friends in his Palm Beach home, where his nephew was accused of raping a young woman.

Then there is the  “kennedy dodd waitress sandwich”.  Some accounts put this event at The Monocle, another DC restaurant. For all we know, it happened at both establishments–and who’s to say similar antics didn’t occur at many others.  In 1985, Chris Dodd and fellow Senator Ted Kennedy were out (with dates) for a night on the town at La Brasserie. Much liquor was consumed and the two Senators were at one point unaccompanied by their dates. Kennedy picked the waitress up and heaved her onto a table. The crystal candlesticks and champagne glasses shattered and he grabbed her again and flung her on top of Dodd, who was slumped in a chair, Kennedy then jumped on top of her, forming a ‘human sandwich’.  Another waitress entered to find things all tipped over and Kennedy was on top, the waitress was in the middle and Dodd was on the bottom.  She was said to have run screaming from the room.”

Should Kennedy have stayed in the Senate for as long as he did?

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The Afghanistan War

There have been 1,337 coalition deaths — 801 Americans, 11 Australians, one Belgian, 207 Britons, 127 Canadians, three Czech, 24 Danes, 19 Dutch, six Estonians, one Finn, 29 French, 30 Germans, two Hungarians, 14 Italians, three Latvian, one Lithuanian, four Norwegians, 10 Poles, two Portuguese, 11 Romanians, one South Korean, 25 Spaniards, two Swedes, two Turks and one NATO/ISAF — in the war on terror as of August 27, 2009. Here are the names of the soldiers, Marines, airmen and sailors whose deaths have been reported by their nation’s governments. The troops died in support of the U.S.-led Operation Enduring Freedom or the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan.

Obama You Can’t Hide On This Conflict Forever!

British Sound Off On Afghanistan War

The Afghanistan War seems to be following the footsteps of the Korean War.  Obama has kept so silent about Afghanistan that America has forgotten that troops are over there. At least the Sun in Britain has acknowledged that the Afghanistan War is still going on.

The Sun placed the faces of 207 soldiers on a cover page to remind Prime Minister Gordon Brown that they were still in conflict.

The Obama Media will never do something like this, unless it was George Bush or any Republican Official. This is the problem with the Democrats, they hide the truth when they are in office. The Sun asks the Government and Gordon Brown: Where is your leadership? Sun, come over there and ask Obama, Where Is His Leadership?

207 heroes … faces of those who have died

Glenn Beck Attacks Obama

Glenn Beck detailed a multitude of questionable quotes and inappropriate associations of Obama’s White House appointees. To the Obama Kool Aid Drinker, Obama Dust Sniffer, and Obamedia Beck is a thorn in the side. Blogger Pasadena Closet Conservative commented in a post something all should know ‘If you want to piss off a conservative, tell him a lie; if you want to piss off a liberal, tell him the truth.’ Thanks Pasadena for that wisdom.

Below are excerpts from Glenn Beck’s broadcast which aired on Fox News.

Treasury Secretary, Timothy Giethner said, ”To get through this, governments need to act, great obligation, responsibility for governments to act to solve these things.  The Market will not solve this and the great risk for us that we do too little, not that we do too much.”

Vice President, Joe Biden said, “The markets are still a free market, still need to be able to function, but if I can steal a phrase from a former president, it was referenced about him that he saved capitalism from the capitalists.”

President of the Service Employees International Union, Andy Stern said, “I think I’m gonna win the Nobel Prize, cause I think I can finally prove that Ronald Reagan is wrong, George Bush is wrong, wealth does not trickle down, it trickle’s up.”

US Congresswoman Maxine Waters said to oil industry leaders on the house floor, “And guess what this liberal would be all about?  This liberal would be all about socializing… uh… would be about… basically [pause]… taking over, and the government running all of your companies.”

Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean said, “I think we’ve had enough capitalism in the last eight years, I think we need some regulation now.”

Obama administration Science Czar, John Holdren said, “The need for de-development presents our economists with a major challenge.  They must design a stable, low consumption economy in which there is a much more equitable distribution of wealth than the present one redistribution of wealth both within and among nations is absolutely essential, if a decent life is to be provided for every human being.”

John Holdren also said while writing of large families, that they “contribute to general social deterioration by overproducing children [and] can be required by law to exercise reproductive responsibility.” -  “it has been concluded that compulsory population-control laws, even including laws requiring compulsory abortion, could be sustained under the existing Constitution if the population crisis became sufficiently severe to endanger the society.” – “Neither the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution mentions a right to reproduce.”  This quote is directly from his book 1977 book, “Ecoscience: Population, Resources, Environment,” co-authored with Paul and Anne Ehrlich, and dealt with limited resources and mandatory population control.

Obama administration Regulatory Czar, Cass Sunstein said,  “Without taxes there would be no liberty.  Without taxes there would be no property.  Without taxes few of us would have any assets worth defending [it is] a dim fiction that some people enjoy and exercise their rights without placing any burden on the public fisc… there is no liberty without dependency.  That is why we should celebrate tax day.”  Sunstien has proposed bans on hunting and eating meat, offered a proposal that dogs, be allowed to have an attorney in court and proposed a fairness doctrine for the internet.

Carol Browner, Global Warming Czar,  was listed up until January 5th, as one of 14 leaders of the socialist group, Socialists International. Socialist International, an umbrella group for many of the world’s social democratic political parties such as Britain’s Labor Party, says it supports socialism and is harshly critical of U.S. policies.  The group’s Commission for a Sustainable World Society, the organization’s action arm on climate change, says the developed world must reduce consumption and commit to binding and punitive limits on greenhouse gas emissions.

Healthcare Czar, Ezekial Emanuel a believer in the “Complete Lives System” said this in a paper he co-authored in Lancet 2009, “ Because none of the currently used systems satisfy all ethical requirements for just allocation, we propose an alternative: the complete lives system. This system incorporates five principles: youngest-first, prognosis, save the most lives, lottery, and instrumental value. … When implemented, the complete lives system produces a priority curve on which individuals aged between roughly 15 and 40 years get the most substantial chance, whereas the youngest and oldest people get chances that are attenuated … the complete lives system is least vulnerable to corruption. Age can be established quickly and accurately from identity documents.  Prognosis allocation encourages physicians to improve patients’ health, unlike the perverse incentives to sicken patients or misrepresent health that the sickest-first allocation creates.”

Green Jobs Czar, Van Jones developed the radical group STORM, who says this about itself, “STORM developed and promoted a set of explicitly revolutionary ideas during a time when these politics were hard to find.  While many people in our generation dismissed Marxism as inherently white and sectarian, we looked towards the revolutionary traditions of third world communism and found valuable and inspiring models for revolutionary change.”  Van (Anthony) Jones was a leading member  of a Marxist organization known by the acronym STORM, which means Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement.

Van Jones, is a former black Nationalist who admitted to becoming communist whie in jail.  He has served on the board of directors for, the Social Venture Network, an acivist group for the Global Government giant, the World Trade Organization (WTO) the Apollo Alliance mentioned above, the Rainforest Action Network (RAN), a group listed on several Socialist action websites as a resource on several websites.

Regarding the coal industry in the united states, Van Jones has said, “All that clean coal stuff, now, I’m gonna tell ya right now…we could have clean coal, I’m for clean coal, but I tell ya what, if we gonna have clean coal, let’s have a couple of other things, Instead of clean coal,  we could have unicorns pull our cars for us equally fictitious, equally fantastic, equally ludicrous… we could have the tooth fairy bring us our energy at night, equally ludicrous, there is no such thing as unicorns, there is no such thing as the tooth fairy and there is no such thing as clean coal, so let’s be clear about that.”  As clean coal is the only way the coal industry will survive regulatory requirements in Cap and Trade, is the administration going to put the coal industry out of business?

Deocrating representative John Conyers said when asked about reading the healthcare bill before signing it, “I love these members, they get up and say, ‘Read the bill… What good is reading the bill if it’s a thousand pages and you don’t have two days and two lawyers to find out what it means after you read the bill?”

And we end with President Obama’s long time friend and advisor, William Ayers.  In 2006, Mr. Ayers said, “You want me to elaborate the point?  Down with capitalism!”

I like Beck, don’t get a chance to listen/watch him but I do try to read some of his articles.  Those on the LEFT cannot face the truth of how this Administration plan to ruin this country. Beck, keep the torch, sooner or later the country will wake-up and see the Real Obama.