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7/21/07

Bush reclaims power after colonoscopy

7/21/07

NEWS: Wil Wheaton's Geek in Review: Five Books Every Geek Should Read (Yes, it's a Rerun) [2]

7/20/07

spastic fools [2]

7/20/07

NEWS: Republicans Are Fucked [5]

7/19/07

NEWS: Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger: Rebuilding You For Yesterday's Future Today

7/19/07

SHOCK: The Super Secret, Mystery Guests of the Energy Task Force are. . .

7/19/07

NEWS: Satan Allowed Into Senate Chamber [9]

7/19/07

The myth of an Iranian menace is exposed to another monstrous scientific insight :70% of foreign insurgents come from Saudis Arabia, Syria/Lebanon and N.Af

7/18/07

NEWS: Little Wizard Needs Food...BADLY [5]

7/18/07

NEWS: Democrats: Only Slightly Less Slimy Than Republicans [2]

7/18/07

NEWS: The Answer To Our Problems Is Here: Nader [4]

emotedcreations

7/18/07

ABC Goes 'Inside the Surge'

7/18/07

38 Years Ago Today - Ted Kennedy Killed A Woman

7/17/07

How could he drown? [4]

7/17/07

NEWS: Your Phone's Off The Hook, But You're Not

7/17/07

NEWS: The Robots are Taking Over, Finally [2]

emotedcreations

7/17/07

NEWS: Asshole Fuckface Roundup [2]

7/17/07

WA State Supreme Court rules against contract arbitration clauses

7/17/07

NEWS: Michael Bays Greatest Commercial Ever Opens [4]

7/17/07

NEWS: Thanks For Visiting America! By The Way, Youre No Longer A Goddess [14]

7/16/07

NEWS: Australia Bans Booze and PornUnless Youre White. [6]

7/16/07

NEWS: Asshole Fuckface Roundup [2]

7/16/07

Alcohol, not so bad for you.

7/16/07

NEWS: Wil Wheaton's Geek in Review: It's the End of the World As We Know it, and I Feel Fine [2]

7/15/07

NEWS: Wikipedia, Groaning, and The Shape of the World Around Us [2]

7/15/07

NEWS: Gut Feelings, al-Qaeda, Turkeys and a Corpse Eating Badger. Its Summer! [3]

7/14/07

NEWS: How Bush Ruined Our Courts [5]

7/14/07

NEWS: Competitive Hot Dog Eating: Best Sport Ever

7/14/07

NEWS: British Muslim Leaders To Issue 'Fatwa' on Terrorists [2]

7/13/07

G-Spot Episode 9: Wizard of Gore (just in time for Friday the 13th!)

7/13/07

Huge Pussy Talk Good

7/13/07

This is some fucked up shit.

7/13/07

NEWS: Republicans Still Getting Their Asses Kicked [2]

7/12/07

NEWS: Bush Invokes Executive Privilege to Block Testimony [8]

7/12/07

Vote for Universal Healthcare

7/12/07

NEWS: Putin Takes A Dive Into Lake Hitler [7]

7/12/07

NEWS: Cindy Sheehan is the New Jason Voorhees [6]

7/12/07

NEWS: NRA Loses Switzerland As A Blah, Blah, Blah Point [26]

7/11/07

Olbermann: Righteously Angry

7/11/07

Possible Disturbing Discussion with Abu Ghraib Guard

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38 Years Ago Today - Ted Kennedy Killed A Woman

alpha22

Scottsdale, AZ

May 2005

JUL 18, 2007 07:11 AM

And he was well on his way to becoming the soul of the Democrat Party. Pathetic.

The Chappaquiddick Incident refers to the circumstances surrounding the 1969 death of Mary Jo Kopechne, a campaign worker for the brother of U.S. Senator Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts. Kopechne was killed when the Senator drove his vehicle off a bridge and into a channel after a party on the island of Martha's Vineyard. The incident became a national scandal and may have affected the Senator's decision not to run for President in 1972.

According to Kennedy, he made a wrong turn onto an unlit road that led to Dike Bridge (also spelled Dyke Bridge), a wooden bridge angled obliquely to the road with no guardrail, and drove over its side. The car plunged into tide-swept Poucha Pond (at that location a channel) and came to rest upside down underwater. Kennedy was able to swim free of the vehicle, but Kopechne was not. Kennedy claims he tried to swim down to reach her several times, then rested on the bank for several minutes before returning on foot to the Lawrence Cottage

Kennedy entered a plea of guilty to a charge of leaving the scene of an accident after causing injury. He received a sentence of two months in jail, which was suspended. The sentence was notable in that the statute for the crime provided only for mandatory jail time and not the discretion of a suspended sentence. An Edgartown grand jury later reopened the investigation but did not return an indictment.

The incident quickly became a scandal. Kennedy was criticized for failing to save Kopechne, for failing to summon help immediately, and for contacting not the police but rather his lawyer first

Chainlink

Key West, FL

August 2005

JUL 18, 2007 07:25 AM

Wow ! REALLY ?????
No ones EVER heard that story.

STOP THE PRESSES !! NEWS ALERT !!!!

pft.

Uncognitive

Brooklyn, NY

May 2003

JUL 18, 2007 07:28 AM

You know, if you're going to cut and paste a Wikipedia article you might want to consider giving credit where credit is due.

Or at least use this picture instead:

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True story: My dad almost got kicked out of the Iowa Democratic Party when he and three of his drinking buddies showed up to the 1972 Democratic Caucus in Iowa City wearing swim trunks and holding innertubes with "Kennedy '72" written on them.

Subrosa

San Francisco, CA

July 2004

JUL 18, 2007 07:28 AM

HOW IS THIS NEWS!?!?

Chainlink

Key West, FL

August 2005

JUL 18, 2007 07:30 AM

Uncognitive

Brooklyn, NY

May 2003

JUL 18, 2007 07:32 AM

Subrosa said:
HOW IS THIS NEWS!?!?

Because it exposes the dark secret of the Democratic Party, that they allow anyone elected to the Senate or the Presidency to kill one person and get away with it.

Much like how Bill Clinton murdered Vince Foster and pretended it was suicide, or how Jimmy Carter beat Elvis Presley to death with his bare hands and blamed it on heart failure.

Chainlink

Key West, FL

August 2005

JUL 18, 2007 07:34 AM

Uncognitive said:

Subrosa said:
HOW IS THIS NEWS!?!?

Because it exposes the dark secret of the Democratic Party, that they allow anyone elected to the Senate or the Presidency to kill one person and get away with it.

Much like how Bill Clinton murdered Vince Foster and pretended it was suicide, or how Jimmy Carter beat Elvis Presley to death with his bare hands and blamed it on heart failure.

. . . or how dick Cheney communes with aliens from Centuri 7.

RudieCantFail

Baton Rouge, LA

January 2006

JUL 18, 2007 07:41 AM

Uncognitive said:
Jimmy Carter beat Elvis Presley to death with his bare hands and blamed it on heart failure.

True story: Jimmy Carter also roundhouse kicked Chuck Norris to the face, and broke Chuck's skull. Don't fuck with Jimmy Carter, he's a bad ass mofo.

PointBlank

New York, NY

November 2004

JUL 18, 2007 07:42 AM

40 minutes ago - some douche plagiarized someone else's work.

_kungfoo_

Los Angeles, CA

April 2005

JUL 18, 2007 07:46 AM

Dissolving into a Silliness thread in 5, 4, 3...

Subrosa

San Francisco, CA

July 2004

JUL 18, 2007 07:53 AM

I eagerly look forward to this being posted (without citation) in a few months:

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Chainlink

Key West, FL

August 2005

JUL 18, 2007 07:54 AM

Chainlink

Key West, FL

August 2005

JUL 18, 2007 07:56 AM

Subrosa said:
I eagerly look forward to this being posted (without citation) in a few months:

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did she say " it was crushing " ?

RudieCantFail

Baton Rouge, LA

January 2006

JUL 18, 2007 07:57 AM

chainlink said:

Subrosa

San Francisco, CA

July 2004

JUL 18, 2007 07:57 AM

chainlink said:

Subrosa said:
I eagerly look forward to this being posted (without citation) in a few months:

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did she say " it was crushing " ?

She's clearly a cold, calculating, soulless murderer.

_DictionaryGirl_

NEWSWIRE

San Diego, CA

JUL 18, 2007 08:00 AM

chainlink said:

Subrosa said:
I eagerly look forward to this being posted (without citation) in a few months:

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did she say " it was crushing " ?

That boat accident did sink her spirits, but it wasn't until the airplane crash that her psyche really took a nosedive.

Chainlink

Key West, FL

August 2005

JUL 18, 2007 08:01 AM

"Ted Kennedy called for Rumsfeld's resignation. This is interesting. This marks the first time Kennedy has ever come out against anything with rum in it." --Conan O'Brien

Uncognitive

Brooklyn, NY

May 2003

JUL 18, 2007 08:09 AM

Subrosa said:
I eagerly look forward to this being posted (without citation) in a few months:

Alas, he's a week late with this one:

203 Years Ago Today, A Republican-Democrat Shot The Secretary Of The Treasury

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alpha22 said:
The Burr-Hamilton duel was a duel between two prominent American politicians, former Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton and sitting Vice President Aaron Burr, on July 11, 1804[1]. Burr shot and mortally wounded Hamilton, who died the following day from his wounds at his home, The Grange, in northern Manhattan.

The most famous duel in American history, the Burr-Hamilton duel arose from a long-standing political and personal rivalry that had developed between both men over a course of years. Tensions reached a bursting point with Hamilton's journalistic defamation of Burr's character during the 1804 New York gubernatorial race in which Burr was a candidate. Fought at a time when the practice of dueling was being outlawed in the northern United States, the duel had immense political ramifications. Burr, who survived the duel, would be indicted for murder in both New York and New Jersey (though these charges were either later dismissed or resulted in acquittal), and the harsh criticism and animosity directed towards him would bring about an end to his political career and force him into a self-imposed exile. Further, Hamilton's untimely death would fatally weaken the fledgling remnants of the Federalists which, following with the death of George Washington (1732-1799) five years earlier, was left without a strong leader.

A mortally wounded Hamilton died the following day and was buried in the Trinity Churchyard Cemetery in Manhattan (Hamilton was nominally Episcopalian). Gouverneur Morris, a political ally of Hamilton's, gave the eulogy at his funeral and secretly established a fund to support his widow and children.

Burr was charged with murder in New York and New Jersey, but neither charge reached trial. In Bergen County, New Jersey, a grand jury indicted Burr for murder in November 1804, but the New Jersey Supreme Court quashed the indictment on a motion from Colonel Ogden.[34]

Burr fled to South Carolina, where his daughter lived with her family, but soon returned to Washington, D.C. to complete his term of service as Vice President. He presided over the Samuel Chase impeachment trial "with the dignity and impartiality of an angel and the rigor of a devil." Burr's heartfelt farewell speech in March 1805 moved some of his harshest critics in the Senate to tears. [35]

With his political career over, Burr went west, where he allegedly had plans to establish a new empire carved out of the Louisiana territory. However, after General James Wilkinson refused to support Burr and William Eaton informed President Jefferson of Burr's duplicitous intentions, Burr was charged with treason after being detained in Missouri in the process of recruiting for his coup. He was later acquitted due to lack of physical evidence.

Years later, he returned to New York City to practice law and was tried and acquitted for his role in the duel. He died in 1836 in Staten Island, New York, never having apologized to Hamilton's family.

wildswan

I'm lost

June 2006

JUL 18, 2007 08:17 AM

PointBlank said:
40 minutes ago - some douche plagiarized someone else's work.

Subrosa said:
I eagerly look forward to this being posted (without citation) in a few months:

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You guys make me laugh - a lot!

Quirky

Birmingham, AL

October 2005

JUL 18, 2007 08:18 AM

45 seconds ago - I ate a cheezit.

DhD_No_Pants

Katy, TX

May 2006

JUL 18, 2007 08:42 AM

chainlink said:

I laughed. And yes, it was out loud. So, basically, I LOL'd.

mingol

Singapore

July 2005

JUL 18, 2007 08:54 AM

The name of this board is 'CURRENT Events,' you putz.

Chainlink

Key West, FL

August 2005

JUL 18, 2007 09:02 AM

_DictionaryGirl_ said:

chainlink said:

Subrosa said:
I eagerly look forward to this being posted (without citation) in a few months:

SPOILERS! (Click to view)

did she say " it was crushing " ?

That boat accident did sink her spirits, but it wasn't until the airplane crash that her psyche really took a nosedive.

I oooo-ed so hard it shorted out my pun-omiter.

lil_tuffy

MODERATOR

San Francisco, CA

JUL 18, 2007 09:04 AM

this is the current events forum.