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My Mother and Senator Kennedy
From SeaTto Shining Sea ^ | 7/11/10 | Purple Mountains

Posted on 07/11/2010 3:10:33 PM PDT by PurpleMountains

When Senator Kennedy passed away, I honored the convention not to speak ill of the dead, although I hated him. Something happened today that brought it all back.

Norma is caring for an elderly aunt who lives in senior citizens housing. When she returned today she told me that her aunt places a chair under her doorknob when she goes to bed. Why does she do this in a secure building? Because she is afraid of some of the residents who are not elderly, but are mentally disabled and do crazy things.

This immediately brought back images of my own mother, who, after living peacefully for a time in a nice senior citizens building, suddenly became terrified of living there. It seems that Senator Kennedy, with his warped, liberal mind, decided that senior citizens housing would be a great place for disabled adults to live, as well as senior citizens.

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TOPICS: Government; History; Politics
KEYWORDS: barackobama; liberals; senatorkennedy; socialists

1 posted on 07/11/2010 3:10:38 PM PDT by PurpleMountains
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To: PurpleMountains
As the mother of a disabled teenager, who seems to suffer from mental problems as well, I am so frustrated that there seems to be no appropriate place for him to go as an adult (or even now). In their quest for "fair" housing, it has benefited no-one.
2 posted on 07/11/2010 3:12:59 PM PDT by conservative cat
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To: PurpleMountains

Kennedy probably smells better now than he did when he was alive.


3 posted on 07/11/2010 3:13:37 PM PDT by South40 ("Islam has a long tradition of tolerance." ~Hussein Obama, June 4, 2009, Cairo, Egypt)
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To: conservative cat

Sometimes, mentally disabled means “dangerous” . Dangerous people need to be separated from vulnerable people.


4 posted on 07/11/2010 3:16:15 PM PDT by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: AppyPappy

“Sometimes, mentally disabled means “dangerous” . Dangerous people need to be separated from vulnerable people.”

You mean Demoncrats???


5 posted on 07/11/2010 3:17:31 PM PDT by digital-olive
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To: PurpleMountains

I have no problem speaking ill of the dead if they deserve it. After all, we dont coddel the memory of Hitler...(but the MSM AND the zer0bama types treats Stalin and Mao as if they were American Patriots...).

but for all the reasons in this article and more, Teddy deserves our scorn.


6 posted on 07/11/2010 3:18:42 PM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Vaquero

The Pig Kennedy tried to bring Reagan down with the help of the Soviet Union.

I hope the traitor feels uncomfortably warm for eternity.


7 posted on 07/11/2010 3:35:46 PM PDT by Jacquerie (The law is reason unaffected by desire - Aristotle)
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To: conservative cat

I feel very badly for you. I have a friend with the problems you describe your son has, and she can’t find a place for him, either-—

There has to be an answer for people like him.........


8 posted on 07/11/2010 4:01:27 PM PDT by basil (It's time to rid the country of "Gun Free Zones" aka "Killing Fields")
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To: digital-olive

Word!


9 posted on 07/11/2010 4:04:25 PM PDT by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: PurpleMountains
seatmatch
10 posted on 07/11/2010 4:13:43 PM PDT by Nateman (If liberals are not screaming you are doing it wrong!)
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To: PurpleMountains

Teh convention to not speak ill of the dead is stupid, especially with someone as vile as Ted Kennedy.


11 posted on 07/11/2010 5:21:39 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (The US will not die with a whimper. It will die with thundering applause from the left.)
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To: PurpleMountains

It is even worse than this describes. Kennedy didn’t think that up by himself, he usually had other fish to fry. Ahem. But one of his young staffers thought this would be a wonderful idea, and Kennedy didn’t have the judgment God gave my dog to realize what a horrible idea it was. He, instead, decided to run with it. The man did incalculable harm to our country, and I hope he is rotting right now, bloated corpse that he must have been.


12 posted on 07/11/2010 5:28:37 PM PDT by La Lydia
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To: South40

and still is sober


13 posted on 07/11/2010 8:22:20 PM PDT by goat granny
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To: AppyPappy
Sometimes, mentally disabled means “dangerous” . Dangerous people need to be separated from vulnerable people.

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This is true of elected officials, too.

Cheers!

14 posted on 07/12/2010 3:45:55 AM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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