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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

]]> 2009-01-20T09:26:00+00:00 http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/entry/an_end_to_a_fight_that_shouldnt_have_happened/ Kenny 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.

Crossposted

]]> 2008-11-17T05:26:00+00:00 http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/entry/tolerance_on_display/ Kenny 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.

Crossposted

]]> 2008-11-15T06:06:00+00:00 http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/entry/so_what_about_that_bin_ladin_guy/ Kenny 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.

Crossposted

]]> 2008-11-14T21:52:00+00:00 http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/entry/the_death_of_the_politics_of_change/ Kenny Politics, Asshats, The Loony Left 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.

]]> 2008-11-11T23:07:00+00:00 http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/entry/why_republicans_and_democrats_are_different/ Kenny 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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