On this day back in ’69, US Senator Edward Kennedy’s car drove off a bridge on Chappaquiddick Island, Massachusetts killing his 28-year-old companion Mary Jo Kopechne. Kennedy fled the scene of the accident and received a suspended sentence of two months and one year’s probation.
Even today, Chappaquiddick remains a shady part of Teddy’s past that won’t go away.
Read and hear Teddy’s “explanation” of the events of that night.
Internet = Air
The United Nations has put together a task force to look into regulation of the Internet.
Convicted Olympic bomber Eric Rudolph was sentenced to life in prison without parole today. The judge rendered the sentence after Rudolph angrily denounced abortion and told the federal court “deadly force is needed to stop it.”
Note to Mr. Rudolph: Murder is murder, regardless of who performs it.
Burrito backup or heart attack? Learn from Beldar, and don’t confuse the two.
Paul Begala, TV pundit, Democrat political strategist and charter member of the Clintonistas, had this to say at the Campus Progress National Student Conference:
Republicans, he said, “want to kill us.
“I was driving past the Pentagon when that plane hit” on Sept. 11, 2001. “I had friends on that plane; this is deadly serious to me,” Begala said.
“They want to kill me and my children if they can. But if they just kill me and not my children, they want my children to be comforted — that while they didn’t protect me because they cut my taxes, my children won’t have to pay any money on the money they inherit,” Begala said. “That is bulls*** national defense, and we should say that.”
Begala also included Republican domestic policies in his sweeping criticism. The GOP, he said, “ain’t had a new idea since they opposed Social Security, and guess what, they still do. … They are beginning to figure out that there is no Soviet Union, but they still want Star Wars to stop it,” Begala said.
“Okay, they are utterly and completely brain-dead,” echoing comments earlier this year by Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean, who accused Republicans of being “brain dead.”
This is like driving on the Interstate and slowing down to pass-by a massive car accident. You shouldn’t look, you shouldn’t stare, but you have to. The carnage is just too severe to ignore.
Paul Begala has finally gone completely nutso. His thought process is so twisted that it comes out of his mouth as complete psycho-babble.
The Democrats are desperate.
Hitting the nail on the head.
“I don’t think Ted Kennedy lecturing me on the teachings of the church and how the church should handle these problems is something I’m going to take particularly seriously.”
Senator Rick Santorum R-Pa., during a conference call with Catholic media, responding to criticism spewed by Senator Ted Kennedy, D-Ma.
Or is it?
The cult of Harry Potter.
The family of 18-year-old London bomber Hasib Mir Hussain say they are “devastated” by what has happened.
“We, the family of Hasib Mir Hussain, are devastated over the events of the past few days,” they said in Friday’s statement.
“We are having difficulty taking this in. Our thoughts are with all the bereaved families and we have to live ourselves with the loss of our son in these difficult circumstances.
We had no knowledge of his activities and, had we done we would have done everything in our power to stop him.
We urge anyone with information about these events, or leading up to them, to co-operate fully with the authorities. This is a difficult time and we ask you to let us grieve for our son in private.”
Maybe they should have been more aware their son’s friends, who he was seeing, what he was doing, and where he was going?
I, like other bloggers, have a tip jar. Problem with mine is it doesn’t ring. It never gets hit, so it stays empty, unlike others. I don’t go begging for money though since this blogging thing is really a hobby, and I don’t know of many people who expect to be paid for doing something they volunteer to do.
Apparently, readers of other blogs have strong opinions on the whole ‘hitting the tip jar’ request.
A commenter over at Althouse says:
I hate tip jars. Real ones and virtual ones.
I think service providers should charge what they expect to earn, and service workers should be paid what they are worth.
I realize that some workers depend on tips, but it seems archaic.
Perhaps it’s not correct to refer to a virtual tip jar as a tip jar. It’s a tin cup.
Bloggers with few readers are happy just to have readers. Bloggers with lots of readers ought to be happy with that. It’s not like they have to pay for postage stamps and fold newsletters and all that. Through advertising, they can now capitalize on their readership. Sounds like the market works.
I agree.
Adrian Warnock travelled through Kings Cross in London twice today. He passed by a memorial garden in the station containing flowers and hand written messages.
The first was written on a simple card which was signed “Rt Hon David Blunkett MP” and said:
In sorrow that I was not able to do more to save you
The second was anonymous but spoke volumes:
Where you have sought to spread fear, you will see only greater resolve
Where you have tried to spread division and hatred, you will only see greater love
Where you wanted to see weakness, we will triumph in unbowed strength
That will be our answer to you, in loving memory of all those who have suffered from your hatefulness
The third was written by a child:
Dear God, Help everyone to be kind to each other and to be friends