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Rumsfeld’s a Hero Thanks to Glenn Reynolds’ invaluable blog InstaPundit, I linked to a pretty fun bit at scrappleface.com, a website whose motto reads "News Fairly Unbalanced. We Report. You Decipher." Dated Feb. 5, an item (which ought to make The Onion blush at its irrelevance) took out Teddy Kennedy, who’s currently bellowing at union halls for John Kerry, a man he once considered an ill-suited inheritor of his family’s (mixed) legacy. The piece read, in part: "Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told Sen. Edward Kennedy yesterday that he was ‘all wet’ when the senator alleged that the Bush administration lied...

EAST STROUDSBURG — The father of Mary Jo Kopechne died in Stroud Manor 34 years after his daughter was killed in one of the most notorious scandals to plague the Kennedy family. Joseph Kopechne was 90 years old when he died on Christmas Eve. He is survived by his wife of more than 60 years, Gwen. The Kopechnes moved to Swiftwater and later East Stroudsburg four years after their daughter's death in 1969. Mary Jo Kopechne was the passenger in a car driven by Sen. Edward Kennedy on Chappaquidick Island, Mass., on July 19, 1969, when the car ran off...

Posted on Wed, Dec. 31, 2003 Kopechne, Joseph December 24, 2003 Joseph A. Kopechne, 90, of Swiftwater, died Dec. 24 in Stroud Manor Nursing Home, East Stroudsburg. Born April 25, 1913, in Forty Fort, he was the son of Frank and Mary (Leitinger) Kopetchny. He served in the Civilian Conservation Corps. He worked at the shipyards in New Jersey during World War II and was employed by the Washington National Life Insurance Co. He attended Our Lady of Victory Roman Catholic Church, Tannersville, and was a member of the Knights of Columbus. He was preceded in death by his only...

QUOTE OF THE YEAR "If she had lived, Mary Jo Kopechne would be 62 years old. Through his tireless work as a legislator, Edward Kennedy would have brought comfort to her in her old age." - Charles Pierce in the Boston Globe Magazine. Kopechne drowned while trapped in Kennedy's submerged car off Chappaquiddick Island in 1969, an accident Kennedy did not report for several hours. MIDI - WHEN I'M 64 He had submerged her then ran away...many years ago Charles Pierce knows Teddy still would be her friend...looked out for her right to the end Please stop your laughing...give him...

<p>November 17, 2003 -- BOSTON - Sen. Edward Kennedy remembered his slain brothers yesterday, saying he felt loss, but also inspiration, when thinking of them.</p> <p>Kennedy (D-Mass.), an influential liberal who has served in Congress for four decades, was asked on CBS's "Face the Nation" about his thoughts as the 40th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy's assassination approached Saturday.</p>

As long as these Neanderthals keep coming before the Senate, the drunken killer lifeguard will turn them down. MIDI - ALLEY OOP Neander-er-thals...they're Neander-er-er-thals There are judges that I will never be confirming They're Neander-er-er-thals My lard butt sits here and without squirming They're Neander-er-er-thals While standing upright they've a funny walk They're Neander-er-er-thals They babble when they're trying to talk They're Neander-er-er-thals And I have noticed muscles they have are good for hunting They're Neander-er-er-thals They're something like two hundred thousand years behind the times They're Neander-er-er-thals They do not know that a dollar's the same as ten...

MIDI - ONE TIN SOLDIER Listen, children, to a story of a man out of control We don't know when it had happened...somewhere he would forfeit his soul He's not ex-communicated...why did his church give him room After all, he had no problem...killing babies in the womb Chappaquidick lifeguard Teddy...he is always in a rage He's a man who keeps on getting...more ridiculous with age He got a message from Dean Wormer...read by his ex-wife Being drunken, fat, and stupid...is no way to go through your life Hannity convinced the lifeguard to say just a word or two It...