Ted Kennedy

Senator Edward M. "Ted" Kennedy of Massachusetts died August 25, 2009 following a long battle with brain cancer. Kennedy was 77.

Considered by friends and foes alike as one of the most effective legislators of the past several decades, Ted Kennedy became known as the "lion of the Senate" following his crucial roles in the passage of such landmark legislation as the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Kennedy was also a longtime champion of health care reform, which the senator referred to as "the cause of his life."

As the younger brother of former President John F. Kennedy and 1968 presidential candidate and former Senator Robert Kennedy — both of whom were assassinated in the 1960s — Ted Kennedy was expected by many to follow a similar path towards the White House. However, those aspirations were cut short following a controversial car accident in 1969 where Kennedy's car was driven off a bridge at Chappaquiddick near Cape Cod. Kennedy survived the crash, but his female companion, Mary Jo Kopechne did not.

An attempt several years later to challenge incumbent President Jimmy Carter for the Democratic nomination in 1980 would prove unsuccessful. Kennedy did however serve eight full terms in the Senate, making him one of only six senators to remain there more than 40 years (only Sen. Robert Byrd has served longer).

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• LA Progressive: November 15 to 21, 2009

  
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• Congradulations to Ted Kennedy on 90 Days Sobriety

  
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  Way to go, Ted! Everyone here at Belch.Com wishes you many continued years of sobriety to come! Spread the Word!
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• Quote of the day.

  
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  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid … "Ted would be happy." Me too.
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• Nicolas Cage dances with Somali pirates

  
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  Cage, a U.N. Goodwill Ambassador on Drugs and Crime, seems more concerned about the pirates than the crime victims. Film star Nicolas Cage has visited a Kenyan prison holding suspected Somali pirates awaiting trial to highlight the problem of piracy in the Indian Ocean. Inmates danced for the movie star and shook ...
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• Is Obama dissing jews with WH Hanukkah party?

  
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  He doesnt want to offend his Muslim “friends”. As the White House prepares for its annual Hanukkah party and candle-lighting, many previous attendees are going to find themselves left in the dark as the number of invitations is set to shrink to half of last years. Though several Jewish leaders expressed ...
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• NY Gitmo trails may not start for a year

  
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  but where are the terrorists going to be kept before and during the trail. Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, said he thought there was little chance that Mr. Mohammed would be acquitted. But he argued that Mr. Holder’s decision was a mistake for a different reason: in the future, he said, ...
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• S2781: The “Don’t call them retarded” Act

  
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  More political correctness because someone was offended by the term of mentally retarded. S. 2781 To change references in Federal law to mental retardation to references to an intellectual disability, and change references to a mentally retarded individual to references to an individual with an intellectual ...
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• HR4111: The ‘Don’t 7-11 captured Islamic Terrorists” Act

  
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  Don’t mirandize enemy combatants caught on foreign soil. Don’t treat them like they robbed the local 7-11. H. R. 4111 To prohibit the prosecution of unprivileged enemy combatants by the Department of Justice. Source: Thomas LOC Don’t allow enemy combatants caught on foreign soil tried on US Soil in the ...
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• Kennedy’s Passing, Markey’s Backing Could Affect Wind Farm

  
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  By Amy Harder TonyfromOz prefaces ….. This post deals with the Cape Wind project in Nantucket Sound. I have used this project in numerous earlier posts, detailing the futility of a reliance on this form of power to actually take the place of the conventional power plants currently supply a constant supply of ...
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• Meet the Candidate: State Senator Scott Brown

  
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  A ceremonial moment: The grand opening of an Attleboro Department of Motor Vehicles office. A chance for a rising political star to mingle -- especially now that State Senator Scott Brown is a Republican candidate for the late Ted Kennedys U.S. Senate seat. “In less than three and a half weeks we got twenty-four ...
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• Liberals Establishment of Religion

  
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  by Ken Blackwell, Contributing Author : One of the reasons liberals are so hostile to public expressions of Christianity is because it threatens the monopoly that the religion of liberalism enjoys in the public square. The late Ted Kennedy was more than a leading senator, to liberal supporters. He was a secular ...
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• Was Carl Cephas’ Separation From the Library of Congress Overdue?

  
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  As the lead library technician for the Library of Congress’ music division, Carl Cephas specialized in retrieving obscure rock and jazz materials for patrons. To a handful of his coworkers and managers, he specialized in being a major headache. There was the time he told his supervisor Mary Wedgewood , “Fuck ...
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• HR4093: The “Buy Illinois Thomson Correctional Center” Act

  
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  but not as Gitmo North. H. R. 4093 To authorize the Director of the Bureau of Prisons to purchase the Thomson Correctional Center in Thomson, Illinois, and for other purposes. Congress finds that, according to the most recent statistics available from the Department of Justice, Federal prisons are operating at ...
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• EO creates a Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force

  
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  Obama’s Punish capitalism and people who are successful. By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and in order to strengthen the efforts of the Department of Justice, in conjunction with Federal, State, tribal, territorial, and local agencies, ...
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• Will Obama again endanger our national security?

  
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  Will Obama kowtow and wimp out on the Okinawa base? "This is not a senior-versus-junior partnership," Obama said, speaking to Japans NHK network before his departure from Washington. "This is one of equals in which Japan has been an extraordinary contributor." The major focus of tension centres on the future of ...
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• Senator Byrd Achieves Senate Milestone

  
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  On Wednesday, the Senate honored Senator Robert Byrd (D-WV) for being the longest serving member of Congress. Byrd was elected to Congress in 1952 and 6 years later, was elected to the Senate. Byrd made the following remarks about his long tenure: “I look forward to serving you for the next 56 years and 320 ...
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• Profiles in Courage: Atif Moon

  
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• Criminal Alien amnesty group attacks anti-amnesty Tea Party protesters

  
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• Canada’s Harper upstages Obamamania in China

  
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  Our “green” president has a 71 vehicle motorcade. Laid back and unassuming—typically Canadian—Canada’s Prime Minister does not project rock star status. But quiet, likable, get-the-job done Stephen Harper is trumping Obamamania in China. Modest in entourage, Harper unlike President Barack Obama, didn’t ...
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• Iraqi Catholic Bishop holds Mass for US Troops

  
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  Imad Al Banna thanks US Troops Acting Bishop of Basrah, Imad Al Banna, holds a Catholic Mass at Contingency Operating Base Adder, Nov. 7. Banna also had lunch with troops and civilians and was given a Liberty Bell statuette by the 28th Combat Air Brigade, Pennsylvania National Guard. Bishop Al Banna, a Chaldean ...
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