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Ted Kennedy's Club Discriminated
News Max.com ^ | January 13, 2006 | Staff

Posted on 01/13/2006 2:26:39 PM PST by yoe

When Ted Kennedy tried to chastise Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito for his one-time membership in a group opposed to admitting more women and minorities to Princeton, the pot was calling the kettle black.

Sen. Kennedy still belongs to a social club for Harvard students and alumni that was thrown off campus nearly 20 years ago after refusing to allow female members, an investigation by the Washington Times reveals.

According to the membership directory of the Owl Club, Kennedy updated his personal information as recently as September 7.

Ironically, the Owl Club, long reviled at Harvard as "sexist," was evicted from the campus in 1984 for violating federal anti-discrimination laws authored by Kennedy.

"It's a social club. It's like a fraternity."

But according to the Times, Harvard views organizations such as the Owl Club quite differently from fraternities and sororities, which are considered a form of housing and therefore are not coeducational. Kennedy's hypocritical attack on Alito over his membership in CAP would come as no surprise to readers of the blockbuster new book "Do As I Say (Not As I Do): Profiles in Liberal Hypocrisy" by bestselling author Peter Schweizer.

In his book Schweizer discloses that while Kennedy has fought for the estate tax and spoken out against tax shelters, he has repeatedly benefited from an intricate web of trusts and private foundations that have shielded most of his family's fortune from the IRS.

One Kennedy family trust wasn't even set up in the U.S., but in Fiji.

Schweizer also reveals that while Kennedy has championed the development of alternate energy sources, he opposed a plan to build a wind-power generating facility to provide clean, cheap power to Cape Cod.

The reason: The wind turbines would be positioned off the coast from the Kennedy compound in Hyannis, in one of the family's favorite yachting and sailing areas.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 109th; discrimination; doasisay; doublestandard; harvard; kennedy; owlclub; schweizer; tedkennedy
The book - Do As I Say, (Not As I Do). They fail to mention that Ted was fired from Havard for cheating...has anyone ever uncovered his military record?
1 posted on 01/13/2006 2:26:40 PM PST by yoe
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To: yoe

The man is a disgrace. When will the Democrats learn that hitching your wagon to Ted (or getting in his car, for that matter) is just a bad idea all around?


2 posted on 01/13/2006 2:30:54 PM PST by Gator101
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To: yoe

Expelled.


3 posted on 01/13/2006 2:31:53 PM PST by billhilly
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To: billhilly

Fired, expelled, bounce, dismiss, shown the door - whatever, the man is a total failure in all things that show character and integrity.


4 posted on 01/13/2006 2:37:04 PM PST by yoe
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To: yoe

Let's just hope he goes into liver failure REAL soon.


5 posted on 01/13/2006 2:52:42 PM PST by Westlander (Unleash the Neutron Bomb)
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To: yoe
I'm not surprised.

BTW, Schumer is a hypocrite for accusing Alito of belonging to an group which wanted to exclude women. Schumer's a Mason and they do not admit women to full membership.

Schumer is more interested in getting women on abortionists' tables than he is in getting them into his lodge.

6 posted on 01/13/2006 2:58:53 PM PST by syriacus (Independent counsel system has "been corrupted and no longer serves its intended purpose" Leahy,1998)
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"Schumer's a Mason"

WOW! You sure? That is hard for me to believe.

7 posted on 01/13/2006 3:53:16 PM PST by moonman
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To: moonman

http://www.c-span.org/questions/weekly65.asp

Schumer is a Mason, unless Schumer has left the Masons. This list is from some years back....

Masons in the 106th Congress
Arizona
Rep. J.D. Hayworth, Jr. (R)
California
Rep. Bill Thomas (R)
Florida
Rep. Michael Bilirakis (R)
Illinois
Rep. John Porter (R)
Indiana
Rep. Dan Burton (R)
Rep. Stephen Buyer (R)
Iowa
Senator Charles Grassley (R)
Louisiana
Rep. Richard Baker (R)
Michigan
Rep. Nick Smith (R)
Mississippi
Senator Trent Lott (R)
Missouri
Rep. Ike Skelton (D)
Montana
Senator Conrad Burns (R)
Nevada
Senator Richard Bryan (D)
New Hampshire
Rep. Charles Bass (R)
New York
Rep. Benjamin Gilman (R)
Senator Charles Schumer (D)
North Carolina
Senator Jesse Helms (R)
Rep. Howard Coble (R)
Ohio
Rep. Paul Gillmor (R)
Rep. David Hobson (R)
Pennsylvania
Rep. Bud Shuster (R)
South Carolina
Senator Ernest Hollings (D)
Senator Strom Thurmond (R)
Tennessee
Rep. John Tanner (D)
Rep. John Duncan, Jr. (R)
Texas
Rep. Ralph Hall (D)
Virginia
Rep. Owen Pickett (D)
Washington
Rep. George Nethercutt (R)
West Virginia
Senator Robert Byrd (D)
Rep. Nick Rahall (D)
Wisconsin
Rep. Thomas Petri (R)
Wyoming
Senator Michael Enzi (R)
Senator Craig Thomas (R)


8 posted on 01/13/2006 4:03:37 PM PST by syriacus (Independent counsel system has "been corrupted and no longer serves its intended purpose" Leahy,1998)
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To: syriacus

If he is he's a PISS POOR example.


9 posted on 01/13/2006 4:20:11 PM PST by snowman1
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To: syriacus
It was also hypocritical of Schumer to question the ability of avowedly religious men, like John Ashcroft, to hold public office.

According to a Masonic website, Schumer should believe in one God and should be placing his duty to God above all other duties.

"Masons believe that there is one God..."

"Freemasonry is far from indifferent toward religion. ... it expects each member .. to place his Duty to God above all other duties."


10 posted on 01/13/2006 4:27:23 PM PST by syriacus (Independent counsel system has "been corrupted and no longer serves its intended purpose" Leahy,1998)
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To: snowman1

Schumer is a good example of a school-yard bully, and not much else.


11 posted on 01/13/2006 4:28:28 PM PST by syriacus (Independent counsel system has "been corrupted and no longer serves its intended purpose" Leahy,1998)
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To: syriacus
Famous Freemasons
12 posted on 01/13/2006 4:31:10 PM PST by syriacus (Independent counsel system has "been corrupted and no longer serves its intended purpose" Leahy,1998)
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To: syriacus

Thanks for the list. I appreciate it.


13 posted on 01/13/2006 4:45:40 PM PST by moonman
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To: moonman

You're welcome., moonman.


14 posted on 01/13/2006 4:50:18 PM PST by syriacus (Independent counsel system has "been corrupted and no longer serves its intended purpose" Leahy,1998)
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