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Kennedy Is Hospitalized After Seizure
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Edward M. Kennedy, a liberal Democratic icon of the Senate and the surviving patriarch of American political royalty, suffered a seizure at his home in Hyannis Port, Mass., yesterday and was rushed by helicopter to Massachusetts General Hospital in
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Kennedy Is Hospitalized After Seizure
http://www.immigrationwatchdog.com/?p=6548The Washington Post Edward M. Kennedy, a liberal Democratic icon of the Senate and the surviving patriarch of American political royalty, suffered a seizure at his home in Hyannis Port, Mass., yesterday and was rushed by helicopter to Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, hospital officials said. The 76-year-old senior senator from Massachusetts was awake and joking with his family by late afternoon, according to a source close to the Kennedy family who spoke on the condition of anonymity. By early evening, he was watching a Boston Red Sox game and ordering dinner from Legal Seafood, the source said. Larry Ronan, Kennedy’s primary-care physician, released a statement saying Kennedy was “not in any immediate danger.” “Senator Kennedy will undergo further evaluation to determine the cause of the seizure, and a course of treatment will be determined at that time,” Ronan’s statement said. Further information on his prognosis is not likely until Monday, said a spokeswoman, Stephanie Cutter. Read More ShareThis
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Have One on Me, Ted Kennedy
http://sympositorium.wordpress.com/2008/05/17/have-one-on-me...So apparently Ted Kennedy had a seizure today: I wish him all the luck and a speedy recovery. At a time like this, perhaps some kind of joke is inappropriate, but then again, I was never the one to care. So I’m going to tell a little story about Ted Kennedy, and please believe me when I say that I recall this story with only fondness and not malice. So last summer, when I was interning in DC, I met another intern at a party, and we started talking and telling stories. I found out that she interned for Ted Kennedy, and since Ted Kennedy is one of the most powerful people in the Senate, if not one of its living symbols, I asked her if she had any good stories to tell. And boy did she ever! Apparently, she was in Ted Kennedy’s office some fine day, at about 9 in the morning. Senator Kennedy kindly asked her to go get him a cup of coffee. Being a good intern, she of course asked what he wanted in his coffee, if there were to be cream and sugar, and if so, how much? At this point, the story gets interesting, because she told me that Ted Kennedy told her, and I quote: “Put some Baileys in it.” I was cracking up at this point in the story, because there he was, Ted Kennedy, one of our most esteemed and powerful Senators, member of our most powerful political family, one of the stalwarts in all of Congress, getting his drink on at 9 IN THE FUCKING MORNING. At this point, I wasn’t sure whether I wanted to give Ted Kennedy massive props for being a totally badass gangsta who gets his drink on before going to a committee meeting and passing laws, or whether to feel disturbed that someone who is as respected as Ted Kennedy is drinking on the job. But wait, this is not the best part. The best part is when this intern asked Ted Kennedy how dark he wanted his coffee, and Ted Kennedy replied, in a joking tone of course, “Make it as dark as your skin.” And wait, here’s the punchline: this intern is African American. At this point, I was really, really, really dying from laughter. I almost choked on my beer and shot that shit through my nose. That one had me going for a good five minutes, so filled with laughter was I, eyes brimming with tears of laughter, clutching my guts and all. So it saddens me to hear that Ted Kennedy suffered a seizure today. Not because I condone his on-the-job, early-morning drinking, or that I endorse his brand of of off-the-cuffs (if innocuous) racial joke, but because Ted Kennedy is after all only human. So have one on me Ted, I’ll be drinking and wishing you a speedy recovery, so you can go on with your bad self, taking names and kicking ass.
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Smorgasbord Saturday
http://politicalgame.blogspot.com/2008/05/smorgasbord-saturd...I am keeping tabs on the status of Senator Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) who was hospitalized this morning after what appears to be a seizure--at first reported as stroke-like symptoms. This morning felt unusually like the July morning I awoke to news that John F. Kennedy, Jr.'s plane had gone missing. I wonder if I, and other Americans, will always get this weird feeling whenever bad news comes across the wire having to do with any one of the Kennedys. Regardless of political philosophy, it is hard to ignore the political status and superiority of Teddy Kennedy. Updates as they come. TV Guide has their hot summer movies list up--nothing surprising with all the sequels and superhero movies--and they have wisely listed the X-Files: I Want to Believe movie as one of the top films they are looking forward to. I am surely not the only X-Files fan on the edge of my seat awaiting the second feature release from Chris Carter and especially with the tight lid they've kept on the plot. Hopefully the film can answer some of the many questions I have about the nine season run. July 25th can't come soon enough! An interesting apology ran by Lee Family Broadcasting in the Magic Valley caught my eye this morning, the regional radio powerhouse is apologizing for encouraging students at Minico High School to participate in a protest that included wearing the colors of the Mexican flag to school after a Minico High School teacher tossed out a Mexican flag being waved by a Hispanic student in celebration of Cinco de Mayo. I would be willing to bet my life savings that Lee Broadcasting took some heat from community leaders on this one... There was a story that made the Idaho reader section of the Idaho Statesman this week that caught my eye: Author James Loewren's book called "Lies Across America" lists what he calls "The Top Ten Worst Historical Sites in the United States," and one of those sites is in the small south-central Idaho farm town of Almo. Utah TV station ABC4 reports that historians say the massacre of 300 pioneers along the California-Oregon trail near Almo, for which there is a monument in town, never happened. Residents say they are aware of what historians say, but the monument has "been in town so long, since 1938, that it is a part of their community." What do you say to that? They have a monument to something that didn't happen, but they are keeping it around? Granted, Almo isn't a big place and the chance of this "tainted" history being wide-spread isn't huge, but what about all of us, students of Idaho history, who have believed the massacre story all this time? While I'm on the topic of Idaho history (when am I not?) I thought I'd mention this post over at Red State Rebels that still has be wound tight--"Boneheaded Bush trips over Bill Borah's ghost." Minus me initially "tripping" over the concept of referring to William E. Borah, the Lion of Idaho, as Bill Borah, I was really happy to see Julie snag this story. And Joe Biden wins the prize for favorite person in the universe this week! NewWest Boise has a new look--go check it out! I haven't spent tons of time on the site since it went down for the upgrade around lunchtime, but I think it looks really sharp. I still don't quite understand the in-house search engine or why when I use it I always get at least 300 results, usually unrelated to anything I've searched for, but I doubt that was part of the upgrade. Hey Jill and NewWest, could you give the Idaho State Journal some web design lessons?? Pretty please, with sugar on top?
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Permanent Link to
http://www.drasties.com/?p=2760May 18th, 2008 Update: The AP reports that Kennedy had a seizure, not a stroke as was originally reported. His spokeswoman, Stephanie Cutter, says he is “resting comfortably.” john, robert, ted. CONTEMPLATING A SENATE WITHOUT A KENNEDY. This week I grabbed a few minutes of Senator Ted Kennedy’s time on his way for a vote on the Senate floor. I asked him how the presidential candidates who fail in their bid for the White House will handle returning to the Senate - as he did after after his own failed run for the Democratic nomination in 1980. “There’s a transition, obviously, moving from a candidate for the presidency back to the Senate, but I loved the Senate before I ran,” Kennedy said, walking slowly through the Capitol building, hunched due to chronic back pain he suffers from a 1964 plane crash. “I came to the Senate at an early age. I always wanted to be in the Senate. I love it now, and so I very quickly adapted to returning to the Senate.” read on here >> Lees verder hier » Posted in historie, politiek
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Oh No
http://adaniller.com/2008/05/17/oh-no/Senator Ted Kennedy is in the hospital after suffering a seizure. Not much more will be known until the hospital completes its tests. Very sincere wishes for a speedy recovery. ShareThis
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Senator Kennedy Taken To Hospital
http://geraldlcampbell.typepad.com/impact/2008/05/senator-ke...Senator Ted Kennedy was taken to the hospital this morning after showing "stroke-like symptoms." It was later reported that he had suffered a seizure, not a stoke as first suspected.
