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Cancer finally claimed him:

http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/national_world&id=6983196&rss=rss-kabc-article-6983196

CAPE COD, Mass.—Sen. Edward Moore Kennedy, the youngest Kennedy brother who was left to head the family’s political dynasty after his brothers President John F. Kennedy and Sen. Robert F. Kennedy were assassinated, has died at age 77.
Known as the “liberal lion of the Senate,” Kennedy championed health care reform, working wages and equal rights in his storied career. In August, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom—the nation’s highest civilian honor—by President Obama. His daughter, Kara Kennedy, accepted the award on his behalf.
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, known as Ted or Teddy, was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor in May 2008 and underwent a successful brain surgery soon after that. But his health continued to deteriorate, and Kennedy suffered a seizure while attending the luncheon following President Barack Obama’s inauguration.
For Kennedy, the ascension of Obama was an important step toward realizing his goal of health care reform.
At the Democratic National Convention in August 2008, the Massachusetts Democrat promised, “I pledge to you that I will be there next January on the floor of the United States Senate when we begin the great test.”
Sen. Kennedy made good on that pledge, but ultimately lost his battle with cancer.

While the general rule is that you mourn even the staunchest of your enemies, I find no sadness in the death of Ted Kennedy. And I cannot find any kind words for the killer of Chappaquidick. I hope that in his final hours he begged for forgiveness for his sins, and I pray that he found it. But Kennedy is now off to meet his maker, and to attone for his role in leaving a poor woman to drown as he went home to sleep comfortably.

May the creator be kinder to his worthless creation than Kennedy was to Mary jo Kopechne at Chappaquidick.

Just…bizarre…

In this particular case, Wells Fargo holds the first and second mortgages on a condominium, according to Sarasota, Fla., attorney Dan McKillop, who represents the condo owner.
As holder of the first, Wells Fargo is suing all other lien holders, including the holder of the second, which is itself.
... court documents clearly label “Wells Fargo Bank NA” as the plaintiff and “Wells Fargo Bank NA” as a defendant.
Wells Fargo hired Florida Default Law Group., P.L., of Tampa, Fla., to file the lawsuit against itself.
And then Wells Fargo hired another Tampa law firm—Kass, Shuler, Solomon, Spector, Foyle & Singer P.A.—to defend itself against its own lawsuit, according to court documents.
Wells Fargo’s defense lawyers even filed an answer to their client’s own complaint.
“Defendant admits that it is the owner and holder of a mortgage encumbering the subject real property,” the answer reads. “All other allegations of the complaint are denied.”

h/t Michelle Malkin

The insanity of a business hiring a lawyer to sue themselves cannot be overstated. It’s practices like this that made Wells Fargo need the TARP money so bad, and is also the reason they shouldn’t have gotten any.

In a rational world, they’d collapse under the weight of their own stupidity. In ours? They’re propped up in perpetuity with tax payer bailouts, because they’re “too big” to fail.

For those wondering if that kiss in the Mormon Church was a ploy to start protests…

The answer seems to be a clear yes.

Protesters engaged in very public displays of affection in front of the Mormon church headquarters in Salt Lake City after two men were detained for sharing a kiss on the cheek in a plaza owned by the church.

The couple caused a scene, refused to leave private property when nicely asked, and were arrested as a result. They provoked conflict, and they got it.

This is not behavior to be celebrating, or showing solidarity with. But it is a great stimulus for protests and ham handed tactics to try and advance the gay agenda.

And that seems to have been the plan all along.

Comes this gem from HotAir:

Referring to the long history of Russia-U.S. trade stretching back more than two centuries, Obama told an audience of business people in Moscow:
“Along the way, you gave us a pretty good deal on Alaska. Thank you.”
Czar Alexander II’s sale of Alaska to the United States in 1867 for $7.2 million in gold, around 1.9 cents per acre, was regarded by Russians as a national disgrace — particularly once it became clear that the province was rich in oil.

Pointing out something that is sure to annoy the Russians is surely good diplomacy. And this is probably WITH his vaunted teleprompter.

The desire to push the leftist agenda means that victims feelings must matter more than anyone elses. This logic pushed Cindy Sheehan upon us. As a poor victimized mother, she must matter more than all the rest of us.

Well, now that Barack Obama is Pres…other victims are speaking.

Families of 9/11 victims want to keep Guantanamo open

GUANTANAMO BAY US NAVAL BASE, Cuba, (AFP) – Parents of five 9/11 victims called for the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay to remain open and for the military commissions to try the five men accused of perpetrating the attacks.
“We demand that this camp stay open and that the process continue,” said Joe Holland, whose son was killed during the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York, and the Pentagon in Washington.
“Right here, right now, this is a good process, they are getting a fair trial,” Holland told reporters, referring to the military commissions established by the administration of President George W. Bush to try “war on terror” detainees held at the controversial facility.

Not that we care about these people. They’re just…well….not people we like.

In New York, a battle over patients rights was about to go to court:

NEW YORK (AP) — A 12-year-old New York City boy whose family battled a Washington hospital over his care has died in the hospital, the family’s lawyer said Sunday.
Motl Brody was pronounced dead Nov. 4 by Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, but a machine continued to inflate and deflate his lungs.
His remaining bodily functions ceased Saturday, the lawyer, Jeffrey Zuckerman, said.
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Motl had been diagnosed with severe brain cancer and was at the hospital for six months.
His parents, who are Orthodox Jews, had clashed with the hospital over the hospital’s desire to disconnect the ventilator. Although Motl had been pronounced dead, his heart was still beating with the help of a cocktail of intravenous drugs and adrenaline.
That heartbeat prompted Motl’s parents to refuse the hospital’s request to remove all artificial life support.
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The family had asked the hospital to leave the breathing machine on and keep administering drugs until the boy’s heart and lungs no longer respond.
Disagreements between families and medical providers over when to end care for terminally ill patients are common, experts say, but this case wound up in court with unusual speed.
On Nov. 2, the family asked a federal judge to block the hospital from doing any further tests for brain activity.
The hospital responded by asking a District of Columbia Superior Court judge for permission to discontinue treatment.

Let us make this clear. There should have been no disagreement. And that a hospital took legal action to discontinue treatment of a patient is absolutely outrageous.

The role of the doctor is to provide expert medical advice. One that has been given, it is the right of the patient or caregivers of the patient to refuse or accept that advice. Even if it is hopeless, it is the right of either the patient or the family to continue to continue to fight, and receive care up until the moment of death.

The medical profession, having long ago given up, do no harm, has gone further and further away from the goal of treating patients without the tradition, and clearly understood doctor patient relationships…in favor of abritrarily deciding who gets to live and who gets to die.

It is not the job of doctors to discard people who are too costly, too old, too sick, or have too little of a chance of survival, but rather to treat patients and follow the wishes of the sick and injured without bias. That fights between doctors and terminal patients (or their families) about how much care they deserve is a frightening development in medicine. One we should all be leary of. That the courts can be used by doctors to get rid of inconvenient patients is terrifying.

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Sad that a 14 year old gets it when so many adults don’t:

As the media keeps gushing on about how America has finally adopted tolerance as the great virtue, and that we’re all united now, let’s consider the Brave Catherine Vogt Experiment.
Catherine Vogt, 14, is an Illinois 8th grader, the daughter of a liberal mom and a conservative dad. She wanted to conduct an experiment in political tolerance and diversity of opinion at her school in the liberal suburb of Oak Park.
So just before the election, Catherine consulted with her history teacher, then bravely wore a unique T-shirt to school and recorded the comments of teachers and students in her journal. The T-shirt bore the simple yet quite subversive words drawn with a red marker:
“McCain Girl.”
“I was just really curious how they’d react to something that different, because a lot of people at my school wore Obama shirts and they are big Obama supporters,” Catherine told us. “I just really wanted to see what their reaction would be.”
“People were upset. But they started saying things, calling me very stupid, telling me my shirt was stupid and I shouldn’t be wearing it,” Catherine said.
“One person told me to go die. It was a lot of dying. A lot of comments about how I should be killed,” Catherine said, of the tolerance in Oak Park.
One student suggested that she be put up on a cross for her political beliefs.
Other entries in her notebook involved suggestions by classmates that she be “burned with her shirt on” for “being a filthy-rich Republican.”
Some said that because she supported McCain, by extension she supported a plan by deranged skinheads to kill Obama before the election.

The Politics of Tolerance has been illusory at best. And all of us who have not supported the messiah have been slandered like this.

Since Barack is a “new” politician, any criticism of him has been labelled “divisive”, “mean”, or downright “raaaaaaacist”. His supporters have been fanatics in exporting his “change”, by force if neccessary!

Behind each one of these violent little Obama “change thugs”, is a big violent Obama supporting “change thug” no doubt. Political stupidity in children comes from political stupidity in parents.

We have 4 years of this crap to look forward to.

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Apparently, he’s been pretty effectively marginilized:

WASHINGTON (AFP) – Osama bin Laden remains deeply isolated and has been forced to devote much of his energy to his own security, while his Al-Qaeda terror network remains resilient, CIA Director Michael Hayden said in a speech on Thursday.
“He is putting a lot of energy into his own survival, a lot of energy into his own security. In fact, he appears to be largely isolated from the day-to-day operations of the organization he nominally heads,” said Hayden, referring to the Al-Qaeda network.
He suggested that bin Laden was hiding somewhere in the remote Afghanistan-Pakistan border region, where he said Al-Qaeda has regrouped and bolstered its organization.
Hayden described “the sheer challenge of surveying every square mile of that inhospitable and dangerous region,” and said “part of the explanation for his survival lies in the fact that he has worked to avoid detection.”

The article is a mix of good and bad news, but the important thing to note, which I’ve said for years, is that taking out Bin Ladin will do virtually nothing in the fight against terrorism. He’s been hiding for years, devoting all of his resources to running from the reaper….constantly looking behind to make sure we haven’t caught up with him. He has little, if any, real role in the operations, or even the propeganda, of the organization. Yet, they are doing fine without him. Even rebuilding.

Bin Ladin is mostly a figurehead. Yet we’ve gotten it into our heads that this guy is the be all, end all of terrorism. Finding and killing him would be a huge moral victory for us. But it would also do little to stop terrorism. We were all a twitter when we killed Zarquawi, about how this would be a huge blow to al Quida. And it was…for a day or two. Then they sent in the Egyptian al Masri, and redoubled their efforts. The reality of our fight is complex…but people want simple answers. So we’ve told everybody that Osama Bin Ladin IS al Quida. It’s not even remotely true.

We’d do better getting rid of Zawahiri, al Masri, or al Iraqi. But that’s complex, and messy…and people don’t have the time or patience for all that.

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Not that any of us expected Barack Obama to be an agent of real reform, but the speed at which he’s distanced himself from his supposed platform of “hope and change” is amazing.

Within a day of winning the election, Obama picked ultra-partisan Rahm Emanuel as his chief of staff. In 2006, his message to the Republicans said it all, “Since my kids are gone, I can say it. They can go fuck themselves.”  Reportedly after Clinton was being investigated, Emanuel stood at a table listing Clinton “betrayers”, and jamming the knife into the table after each name, screaming “Dead”. Even in the dirty world that is Washington politics, Rahm stands out for his nastiness, for sending rotting fish to his political enemies to make a statement.  Both as a Clintonista, and then again as a member of the House, he has been a ruthless, cutthroat advocate for the Democrat party, trying to bury Democrat scandals while overhyping Republican misdeeds. It was under his leadership that the Democrat party rallied around “Cold Cash” Jefferson.

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The Republican Take on Ted Stevens:

The GOP King of Pork has been found guilty on seven felony counts for making false statements in relation to his corruption probe.

Goodbye and good riddance.

Surely she’s alone…

Yea! Corrupt Sen. Stevens Guilty on All Counts

Well, at least I know that Rob guy is opposed:

I agree, though I think conservatives should have been a bit more adamant about this starting more than a few years ago.

Well, conservatives seem to want to root scum out of their party. Where’s the Democrat support for their party? Nonexistant? What a shame.

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Barack Obama was fear mongering from the word go. And of course, everything is Bush’s fault. The man can’t go three seconds without lying. So is the bailout package a bad idea cause it came from Bush?

McCain, the spending of Washington is to blame! What? We need to buy bad mortgages? GAH!

Warren Buffet for Treasury Sec? Christ McCain. Are you retarded?

95% of working families would include the rich. What a douche.

My God, they’re both loser populists. What the hell is the difference?

Finally, McCain hits on Freddie and Fannie. 2nd highest in history? Hmmmm.

He says that bad loans should never have been made...but we need to help the people anyways.

If companies are borrowing money to make payroll...they need to die. He lies about de-regulation. Lies about his record. LIES. God, I want this dishonest twat to go away.

We have to coordinate with other countries on our problems? WTF? Oh yea, and Obama has no “special interests”. Or McCain for that matter.

Theresa hits the nail on the head. Obama “Well, you’re just cynical.” Great. Lies about Bush and surplusses. And of course, Dems had nothing to do with deficits and debt. Lies about spending cuts.

McCain touts McCain-Feingold and McCain-Lieberman. What a moron. Lies about Obama never going against party lines. OK, McCain is BETTER than Obama, but he’s not good.

Obama said high gas is bad. But he said before he was ok with it. If one believes that wind or solar will replace oil, they're stupid.

How is leaving money in the system (tax cuts) taking money out of the system? God this dude is an imbecile.

McCain's first good answer. On "sacrifices". Nvm, no, they just grow "more slowly than we like."

Obama. "Some of you may remember 9/11"...um all of us. The lie about Bush telling people to shop. It's all his fault we're divided! Imbecile. Jesus cries when he talks. That was one of the few things Bush did right.

Obama "It's not people's fault they took bad loans. The bank shouldn't have given them!" Fool. Earmarks are well over 18 billion every year. Class warfare crap. Higher taxes masked in neat rhetoric. What a schmuck.

McCain hits him with Jello line. Great. Good call on Herbert Hoover and raising taxes. His tax cuts sound nice. Would indeed help.

Good for Brokaw for shooting Obama down on breaking the rules.

Obama "We can't fix SS without understanding taxes". Less than 95% of Americans make under 250k. Long way of not answering the question.

McCain: "Social Security is easy to fix....did you hear Obama is a jerk."

Awesome. The solution is so simple it doesn't even need to be discussed. I shake my head.

Damnit, McCain on global warming. GAH. The only part that sounds ok is nuclear technology.Obama's 5 million jobs line is utter bullshit. It won't happen.

Uh oh, Obama and McCain agree...I'm gonna get screwed. Obama lies about the 23 times against alternative fuels. Factcheck shot him down there.

Obama sounds so stupid saying we can't drill our way out of the fuel problem. Oil is the only solution. And who the hell cares about China.

Brokaw's question about nukes is leading. The government shouldn't fund it either way.

And I'm tired of McCain saying "my friends" every six seconds. I'm also tired of the "You're Bush the 3rd" "No I'm not". It makes them both sound like children.

And Brokaw sounds pathetic begging them to stop.

Government mandate NEVER helps reduce costs. It just adds beaurocracy, which is expensive. Demanding same money coverage for those with

pre-existing conditions will riase the cost for all. Oh please, health insurers spend a shitload of money on Dems. God, neither of them are winning the debate...but I'm losing.

The line about Obama fining people for not having insurance is a lie. Sigh. The man sucks enough without lying about his record. He's attributing Hillary's plan to Obama.

Why can't we have interstate insurance. Because Arizona sucks. Great. Thank you Obama. Get hit with a clue please.

We do need to help the world...but we are not the world's keeper. We did wrong in Kosovo, and McCain is wrong to stand by it. If you're going to hammer Obama about being wrong in Iraq, admit you were wrong in Kosovo.

Oh who the hell cares about 9/11 when talking about Iraq? Iraq wasn't about 9/11. We WERE greated as liberators in Iraq. Hell, no matter how silly McCain sounds to back Kosovo (most people don't know hes wrong), Obama is stupid to CONTINUE to oppose Iraq. And what else cost 700 billion? Oh right, that horrible bailout. How did Obama vote on that....oh right.

How has our respect hurt our ability to respond? And Obama won't change our respect, This dude is a child.

We had the ability to stop Rwanda. We just didn't. I do believe that was a Democrat.....That's the first smart thing he ever said. "We can't be everywhere all the time. Some attrocities will happen." And he follows up with stupid. "It would be little cost." Iraq was still expensive before the invasion. He sounds naive.

Damnit, Somalia was a joint screwup. Bush Sr. sent troops where they didn't belong. Clinton escalated. And then Republican pressure made Clinton remove troops when they were attacked. It DIRECTLY led to 9/11.

Katie's question was the best one all night.

And Obama flubs. We lost Osama BEFORE we invaded Iraq. And Afghanistan is not the central front. Does he get his intel from a children's book? Reading an 8 ball? On the toilet reading the funnies?

Obama had a Rick James moment. "We need to invade Pakistan" "No One called for the Invasion of Pakistan." You see...cocaine is a hell of a drug.

The reason they don't like us in Pakistan is because they have a LOT of radical Muslims.

We ARE demanding Iraq take responsibility. We are sending troops to Afghanistan as we pull them out of Iraq. If it was 2005, this would be a good point. But it's almost 2009. He's out of touch.

McCain gets it right. Safety procedes progress. If the people are not safe they will not make political and social progress. And he shows he was right about Putin.

Yea, the dude who wants to spend out money to rebuild all the former Soviet Union countries is gonna have spending cuts. What a joke.

We didn't rush into Iraq. We spent a decade getting into it.

Good for McCain for saying that he'd support Israel against Iran.

Again with diplomacy with Iran. That's not the solution. The time for diplomacy has passed. We DO talk to our enemies. He's such a tool.

If Obama learns everything from his radical wife...I am terrified.

The commentators got it right. Unless you've follow politics, it was hard to see the differences on them.

If you're on the government dole you shouldn't get to vote. You'll just vote yourself more money. Stupid college students should be denied.

And everybody agrees that McCain won, but didn't do enough to overcome Obama's lead.

Biden clearly lost for one reason tonight…he couldn’t be Biden. Like him or not, Biden has taken multiple positions that are now at odds with his running mate. During the primaries he said Obama wasn’t ready to lead, and mocked him for believing violence would go down if we simply left. He can’t do that anymore. And since Barack is always bringing it up, it’s not like Biden can duck the issue. So he’s got to do this weird sort of contortion act, where he completely stops being Joe Biden to be an Obama sycophant. It doesn’t work. He seems uncomfortable in the role, and it seems impossible to pull off for Biden, who does seem (to me) to be a man of principles. So he’s now trying to sell these beliefs that he doesn’t share and doesn’t buy himself. It creates a lot of openings to hammer him, and Palin did just that…all night. Biden got caught in lie after lie after lie, and Palin just laid into him.

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Even if they refuse to give a soldier a room

A hotel that refused an injured soldier a room, forcing him to spend the night in his car, was backed into issuing a grovelling apology yesterday after receiving a barrage of abusive phone calls.
The Metro Hotel, in Woking, Surrey, called the police as its phone lines were flooded with angry and threatening calls from the public.
The attack on the switchboards came after it emerged that Corporal Tomos Stringer, 24, had been told that it was company policy not to accept members of the Armed forces.
A soldier since the age of 16 and veteran of multiple tours in Northern Ireland, Iraq and Afghanistan, Corporal Stringer had travelled to Surrey to help with funeral preparations for a friend killed in action.
The corporal, who was not in uniform, presented his warrant card when asked by the hotel for proof of identity. After being refused a room, he had to bed down in his car, with his wrist, broken during a convoy ambush, encased in plaster.

That it’s the hotel’s policy to shun veterans is shameful. Good for everyone who called in to shame the hotel into an apology.

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Not Surprisingly from Planned Parenthood

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com)—As news of the pregnancy of vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s daughter Bristol makes the headlines, she is coming under attack from backers of pro-abortion candidate Barack Obama. But few have gone as far as former Planned Parenthood president Gloria Feldt, who suggested Palin is making her daughter keep the baby.
“She probably feels powerless right now,” Feldt said on Tuesday responding to the news about Bristol Palin.
Feldt said Governor Palin’s pro-life views may have made it so she and her husband Todd prevented Bristol from getting an abortion.
“Because of her family’s attitude she probably doesn’t feel that she has a choice in terms of what will happen to her,” Feldt said.

Not only is Palin not a woman, she’s forcing her child into slavery! /sarcasm

What a twisted worldview. Assuming that the girl looks at her child as a burden and her family is forcing her to have it is a sign of sickness. As the article nicely sums up:

“In Gloria Feldt’s bizarre world, families that cherish children are toxic. If the goal is to reduce the number of abortions, surely the first step is to allow families to love and embrace their children, not reject the weak and inconvenient,” Wright said.

But the goal of Planned Parenthood has never been to reduce abortions. If abortions stop Planned Parenthood goes out of business. These are twisted people who see babies as a curse. As Obama said “I don’t want my daughters ‘punished’ with a baby.

Why Not Mitt Romney?

As McCain ran up to his announcement for VP, one of the most absurd demands made on him was that he draft Romney as his vice. Even before the pick was announced, this was a weird rallying cry for conservatives “Romney or bust”, but now AFTER the pick, it’s utter insanity.

Don’t misunderstand me, I’m not some huge Palin fan, but Romney? Please.

In order to shore up support with the conservative base that hates him, McCain was going to pick the one man who was to his left on almost every issue? That’d inspire hope in conservatives. And would’ve ushered in the first ever Democrat 49-1 state sweep ever.

While Romney is charismatic and likable in debates, he’s got a record to rival Hillary Clinton in the liberal department. Matched up to Palin, the man looks like a conservative lightweight.

Romney ignored his faith to become the only pro-choice Mormon in history. His support of gay marriage is pretty well documented. He was in favor of McCain’s amnesty plan and has never been serious about illegal immigration. His record on taxes is mixed at best, with him STILL refusing to endorce the Bush tax cuts.

And most importantly, while all of his supporters love to credit his private industry successes…as a public official, he almost bankrupted his state with the ridiculoud “Romneycare” proposal, that put Hillary care to shame.

Romney wasn’t the worst candidate in the bunch, but any honest supporter has to realize that Romney and McCain was a losing ticket to at least 4 years of Obama.

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