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MIDI - A LITTLE HELP FROM MY FRIENDS What would it take for a filibuster To be keeping you off of the court What if you left a girl so she would die For 10 hours you made no report Hey, that might just be extraordinary...hey, I think many of us would agree Yes, that would be extraordinary What if you're scared of your last Spanish test You'd not studied 'cause you're such a fool What if you hired a friend to take your test You got caught and you're thrown out of school Hey, that might just be...

MIDI - TAKE ME OUT TO THE BALLGAME Take me to Teddy's ballgame...we'll hear him shouting loud He will tell Rummy he ought to quit We know Teddy is so full of it He will root, root, root for the bad guys If we lose it's a shame For it's one, two, three fifths he's drunk That is Teddy's game Take me to Teddy's ballgame...he'll go out on a bridge We hear a big splash and a gurgle sound He hopes the body never is found He will root, root, root for the bad guys If we lose it's...

Interesting comments from Senator Ted Kennedy on the Supreme Court in this little-noticed Bloomberg News article from Friday: Kennedy, 73, said he believes that the consideration on Rehnquist's replacement should be more than just "replacing one right-winger for a right-winger." Still, the Senate debate on any Rehnquist replacement would "clearly" be much different than the discussion about a nominee who would tip the ideological balance of the court. "It's clear it's going to have a significant impact" on the Senate debate that "Rehnquist is leaving and not" one of the court's moderates, the Massachusetts Democrat said in an interview. He...

Title and link only. All GM vehicles except the Hummer H3 at GM employee discounts? Huge! Read about it, especially if you are in the market for a newer vehicle. http://www.freep.com/money/autonews/gm28e_20050528.htm

WASHINGTON -- Senator Edward M. Kennedy said yesterday that President Bush's Iraq policy is ''ridiculous" and disputed Bush's statement that the 2004 reelection validated the war. Iraq is ''Bush's Vietnam," Kennedy said. Bush, in an interview with The Washington Post published yesterday, said, ''The American people listened to different assessments made about what was taking place in Iraq, and they looked at the two candidates, and chose me." Kennedy, asked about Bush's comment on CBS's ''Face The Nation," noted that then-President Lyndon Johnson was easily reelected during the Vietnam War but did not seek reelection in 1968. ''Look what happened,"...

Unlocking the Secret of the Acronym (early) Morning, all! In my perusing I’ve run across a particular acronym I haven’t been able to figure out. I admit I’m not the sharpest tack in the box, so I figure I would give it one last shot, then gather wisdom from you experts. The acronym is IMO IMO: Iguana Meatball Omelette? I’m Mentally Oscillating? Imagine Monica(LewdINski) in Office? (ew!) Iggys Marvelous Oldsmobile? Imagine My Overbite? Anyway, thank you in advance for your input. God Bless

LET'S CALL THE WHOLE THING OFF Keep on pouring and I'll get blotto...then I will go get in my auto My legs quiver...my poor liver...I'm lucky I'm not dead You say Obama and I say Osama...pass me the bottle, I'll step on the throttle Obama, Osama, the bottle, the throttle...let's go drive on the bridge I guess that I shouldn't speak while drunk...that's what some pundits note And I should drive a Vee Dub...an Oldsmobile can't float Dodd and I so love a good waitress sandwich Pass me the mustard, and pass me the Manwich My legs quiver...oh, my...

(cut and past this URL if the link below becomes inoperable)- http://www.garyrog.50megs.com/xmas.html MIDI - SLEIGH RIDE - long version Saddam was skimming money and laughed his way to the bank The nitwit airhead leftists are the ones he should certainly thank The U.N. is a pain in the butt with Kofi as head The time is right for riding in a nice Oldsmobile with Ted I can't wait, I can't wait, I can't wait to hear...that gurgling sound Yogi would say it's dejavu again Ted will run, Ted will run, Ted will run away...till the body's found He'll drink until...

NO. 1 - John Kerry NO. 2 - Dan Rather and CBS

Word on the Beltway is that Sen. Ted Kennedy's Portuguese water pooch Splash is about to make a Splash on the kiddie-lit front. Kennedy is in talks with publishers to write a children's book that gives a dog's-eye view of Washington based on the adventures of his loyal canine companion. ``The senator participates in a reading mentor program in D.C.,'' said Kennedy spokesguy David Smith. ``And after seeing the impact and the benefits reading has had on these second-graders, and after seeing how the children really respond to animals, he warmed up to the idea of doing a book.'' Harry...

THE only new car my grandmother bought was a dark green 1951 Oldsmobile Series 98 Deluxe sedan with a Rocket V-8 engine. Family members proudly posed in front of it when Grandma, then 44, drove home from the dealership. A few days later, she wrapped a telephone pole around it, when she couldn't stop it fast enough. No one was hurt, although the car was a total loss. "It just had too much power," said Grandma, who never drove again. But for decades she encouraged family members to keep buying Oldsmobiles - 88's and 98's, Starfires and Cutlasses - because,...

RE: Dear Uncle Ted When Sen. Ted Kennedy was merely just another Democrat bloviating on Capitol Hill on behalf of liberal causes, it was perhaps excusable to ignore his deplorable past. But now that he's become Sen. John Kerry's leading campaign attack dog, positioning himself as Washington's leading arbiter of truth and integrity, the days for such indulgence are now over. It's time for the GOP to stand up and remind America why Sen. Kerry's chief spokesman had to abandon his own presidential bid in 1980 - time to say the words Mary Jo Kopechne out loud. As is often...

I have received a communication from Iraq that outlines a particular form of torture of Iraqi female prisoners that is nothing short of a war crime. The torture was first performed in 1969. If a female is suspected of having critical information but refuses to talk, she is taken outside and placed inside a rented 1969 Oldsmobile. The biggest, fattest, drunken slob of a human being who cannot swim is assigned to take her for a drive. He heads to the Euphrates River and warns her that she had better talk. If she still refuses, he drives off the bridge...

DETROIT (Reuters) - After 107 years of tooling roads from Nova Scotia to San Diego, the last Oldsmobile rolled off a Michigan assembly line on Thursday, marking the end of the oldest auto brand in the United States. Workers signed their names under the hood of the last car -- a cherry red Alero -- which will be displayed at the R.E. Olds Transportation Museum. It will end up in the collection of parent company General Motors Corp. . Ransom E. Olds founded Oldsmobile in Lansing in 1897, and soon after the turn of the century "the Olds" became a...

<p>LANSING, Mich. (AP) -- General Motors Corp. officials on Wednesday geared up for the final send-off for Oldsmobile, the brand that pioneered chrome-plated trim and gave drivers the Eighty Eight series, the front-wheel-drive Toronado and the Cutlass.</p> <p>Outside Oldsmobile's vast complex in the state capital, officials displayed a dark cherry red metallic Alero, number 78 of the final 500 to be produced. The last car is slated to roll off the line at the Lansing Car Assembly plant on Thursday.</p>

LAS VEGAS - No one's wearing a sandwich board with an ominous message, but for hundreds of Oldsmobile dealers attending their industry's annual convention, there's no denying reality: The end is near. AP Photo Related Quotes GM DJIA NASDAQ ^SPC 49.68 10488.07 2066.15 1131.13 -1.03 -22.22 -2.08 -2.98 delayed 20 mins - disclaimer Quote Data provided by Reuters Related Links • Oldsmobile "It's time to get on with the burial," said Gary Wight, who has sold Oldsmobiles, the oldest automotive brand name in U.S. history, for 30 years. "It's sad and it's done and it's not going to change. Oldsmobile...

Some liberal Democrats in the Senate are fuming over the role Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) played in advancing what they view as a flawed $400 billion Medicare drug bill. The chief complaint is that Kennedy, whom many view as a leading liberal on healthcare, undermined their party's negotiating position by throwing his support behind the bill before Democrats could adopt a political strategy on the GOP-backed plan, potentially handing Republicans a significant legislative victory. Kennedy's early support has paved the way for the Medicare proposal to pass the Senate with few of the changes they favor, Democrats say. The enactment...