Lonewolf Diaries: Mourning Dead People Who Suck
by Steven CrowderWhen a toolbag dies… How are you supposed to handle it? Are you supposed to honor them? Post-mortem, does a pedophile become the “greatest musician of all time”? Does a killer become an “American Icon”? Does death in itself wipe the slate clean, exempting the deceased from all judgment? Or are you supposed to view them just as you did in life (be it good or bad)?
In my humble opinion… None of the above. Death is not only a passing on, but a time for everyone else to truthfully reflect on one’s life. To skim through the unsavory parts (or in Kennedy/MJ’s case, skip entire chapters all together) is to do the world a disservice. How are the rest of us shmucks supposed to learn from past mistakes if we can’t even acknowledge them to begin with?
The fact that the media decided to smooch the Kennedys’ rears through the death of Ted is appalling. Not only was there no mention of the Chappaquiddick river “incident” or his character assassination of Clarence Thomas, but the coverage was carried out in a way that assumed everyone was in agreement with the man’s misguided agenda.
I guess I shouldn’t expect much from a media who, when covering Michael Jackson’s death reminisced of his “Thriller” days and praised his supposed upcoming comeback tour while ignoring the entire gap in between. Really, Mainstream Media? Getting kids sloshed with “Jesus juice” hidden in a soda can before escorting them to his boudoir doesn’t even deserve a passing glance?
It may sound insensitive of me, but in all honesty, I’d want my own death to be handled the same way that I’m preaching here. Granted, I’ve never killed anybody or molested any little boys but I’d want the same amount of people to dislike me in death as do in life. If you think I’m an annoying little pissant right now, please don’t show up to my funeral acting as though you felt any differently.
Basically, handle my death as the mainstream media did Ronald Reagan’s. When the Gipper died, the media made sure to cover “both sides of the story” and even sadder, they genuinely seemed dumbfounded at the fact that so many people were seriously mourning the man. They had spent such a long time painting him as an evil warmonger that they didn’t even realize how diametrically opposed they were to the mainstream American opinion.
The media’s ignorance of America’s Conservative roots are only surpassed by Barack Obama’s incapability of grasping Ted Kennedy’s “50 years in public office” as a perversion of the founding fathers intent for our government.
I get that it’s always sad to see a life lost, and my heart always goes out to a family in suffering. However, to give more credit than that to someone like Mr. Kennedy or Mr. Jackson would be disingenuous. Isn’t the truth more important than romanticizing the dead?
“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.” -Henry David Thoreau
Sean Penn, take notes.
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Well said!
And this:
"If you think I’m an annoying little pissant right now, please don’t show up to my funeral acting as though you felt any differently."
is exactly how I feel about my own death. I cannot stand all the schmoozing and fake affection that is shown to people at their death. Not that I'm planning on dying anytime soon, but the last thing I hope happens is that a bunch of people who can't stand me (whether in real life or online) suddenly start saying all sorts of lovey-dovey things about me.
If you never gave me a glance in life, or couldn't stand me, or were once my friend and then decided you weren't, please don't fake it at my funeral. Better yet, don't even show up. I can't stand that kind of hypocrisy.
Wow. Very insightful for someone so young. If only the rest of our youth would come around.
I always look forward to reading your comments Steven and as always insightful and well written.
I read Clarence Thomas' biography and found him it to be a wonderful read and informative he was smeared to the point where if the Republican's had done it to him the cartoon editorials coast to coast would have been every Republican Senator surrounding him in KKK outfits and burning a cross on his table, but because it was the other way around it was just Democrats trying to make sure there were no skeletons in his closet. Terrible stuff by terrible people and Kennedy was one of them, the only person who stabbed Thomas more in the back was Biden, and atleast Kennedy didn't lie to his face and say he was pulling for him like Joltin' Joe did.
Very, very well written. Great insight into the human condition that belies such a young writer. None of his words can be enhanced or improved on, Mr. Crowder speaks the truth, Excellent.
The evil that men do live after them,
The good is oft interred with their bones.
You make some interesting points. However, aren't you just doing the opposite extreme of what you condemn? If the Mainstream Media depicts the recently deceased as icons and heroes, does that oblige you to depict them as villains? Incidentally, I suspect your perception of Michael Jackson as child molester no doubt comes in part from the media's depiction of him while he was alive. It is a fickle beast.
TK had fifty years in the Senate to accomplish what?
Teddy Kennedy is dead? Wow, thanks for the heads up Steven. Well I guess young women are safe now, and scotch stocks will be going down, drat. Who will Dodd’s teammate be in …what did they call that “sandwiching,” it’s some kind of senatorial extra curricular activity? Well I guess the liberal lion of the senate is in hell being tortured by Mary Jo Kophechne, it’s really kind of sad.
Hey, pedophiles don't even have to die to be canonized by media types: they just have to win an Oscar. Somebody needs to resurrect the film clip of the 2002 Oscar ceremony when Roman Polanski's name is announced as winner of Best Director for "The Pianist." Quite a few of the audience members start looking around to see if maybe Polanski will make a surprise appearance to accept the award — everybody knows he's a wanted criminal, having pleaded guilty to child-rape, but hey, the rules are different for Important People like movie stars and politicians from Massachusetts. I guess they figured Polanski could be smuggled in via private plane, whisked into the heavily guarded theatre (with police turning a blind eye) in time to grab his statue and run to a waiting limo, then whisked out of the country again before being busted. Wow — it's just too exciting — what a movie that would make!
Wisdom from my Dad:
When I was in high school a guy from his old neighborhood died. My grandmother, an old Slavic woman, wailed the usual, "Oh, he was a saint!" My Dad took me aside and said, "No he wasn't. He was an a$$hole. Let me tell you something- if you're an a$$hole and you die, you don't become a saint. You're just another dead a$$hole."
Great essay.
They say you shouldn't speak ill of the dead, and I suppose that's a fair maxim IMMEDIATELY after someone's death. But when every honest person knows there is plenty ill that can ( and sooner or later SHOULD) be said, it is particularly offensive to abuse that rule of politeness, "forget" the crimes altogether, and canonize the deceased as a saint and/or a genius.
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It certainly obliges someone to do so, if the MSM won't.
I subjectively agree with your first two points Rex, but objectively, the opposite viewpoint from Mr. Crowder; albeit extreme, fills a void and balances the scales.
Your third point about Michael Jackson again makes sense subjectively, but conflicts with my own perception of Michael Jackson as a result of the media. I found the coverage of his life and troibles vampiresque to the point where I wanted him to be innocent simply because foregone conclusions were being drawn by the media..
Steven, as usual, an excellent post.
I've always known the Woodstock Generation was loopy, but I'm ashamed to see my own generation being just as stupid. Growing up in Orange County, California with Reagan as President, "Alex P. Keaton" from "Family Ties" as a positive television character and more educated than any earlier generation, it's hard to see my peers fawning over Kennedy. Have we really fallen that far from reason? Or have I been living in a bubble?
I think I'm about to lose some friendships over this, and frankly, I don't give a damm.
And here I thought he had not accomplish anything.
And here I thought he had not accomplished anything.
This all reminds me of an incident in my senior year of high school. (And I'm a youngin' like Crowder, so it was only a few years ago.) One of my classmates had been shot to death by one policeman because he was in the process of trying to run over another policeman with a car. I read about it in the paper.
The next morning, an announcement over the intercom asked us to have a moment of silence for him. I was silent, and upon the moment's conclusion, registered aloud my objections that we were asked to do that, seeing as, you know, he'd tried to kill a police officer.
And I was being "cold", apparently. Good Lord.
Great post Steven! I always look forward to your Big Hollywood posts.
I'm just fearful that when Nancy Pelosi dies the media will use words like "beautiful" "sexy" "brilliant" and "nice" to describe her. *shudders*
Let us not overlook that Obama has proclaimed Kennedy 'the soul of the democrat party'.
When the drowning of an innocent woman is reported in hindsight as an *incident*, you know media has sold out. Steven, you are not old enough to remember, but, I am. As a result, I never gave one ounce of credence to anything Teddy proposed or passed in Congress, nor did I mourn his loss. As a matter of fact, I took the opportunity to mark something off of my bucket list instead of watching the fanfare, and I went canoeing on the rapids. My body is bruised, but, my conscience is intact.
"it's hard to see my peers fawning over Kennedy." I don't know if you mean seeing them literally, but from where I am standing they are ignoring the whole fiasco. Michael Jackson, sadly, not so much. By the way "Alex P. Keaton" was not supposed to be a positive character, but the wacko parents were so bad that he became a positive role model by blunt reality. You cant hide the truth.
Laura,
Funny you should mention Alex P. Keaton; I was thinkning of Michael J. Fox and how this druggie/alcoholic became a living saint when he contracted a disease; a disease whose "only potential" for cure according to great researchers like FOx and Clare McCaskill, resides in embryonic stem cell research.
They re-wrote that Michael while he is still alive; I like his work, but he was a good candidate for early death before he got sick; and his condition is containable (unless he goes off the meds for sympathy shakes.)
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That's what I call sage advice.
At the moment of death, people need be respectful just for the sake of honour and tradition. But Mary Jo Kopechne mattered too but she got in the way of a liberal agenda.
History will judge correctly and God gets to judge us all.
We laughingly call our son Alex P. Keaton because he won't part with a nickel for anything!
I am the same age as Michael J. Fox and have no memory of him abusing alcohol or drugs. Hmmm. Not that he's a saint by any means, but I always thought he was a pretty solid guy, married to a nice woman with kids who stayed out of trouble.
Although Crowder is able to put his thoughts into writing with more structure and humor than I can, here's another "youth" who concurs on every point he made. Nothing is more sickening and painfully obvious than the liberal media attempting to pay homage to someone they know "regular society" wants nothing to do with – well, those of us who know the real Ted Kennedy, at least.
As I think has always been the case, young people believe its hip to be liberal. I've never bought that, and be thankful that more and more young people are coming to see that for the load of crap that it is.
I made a concerted effort to avoid any sight and/or sound of the "mournful festivities" over this past weekend. Our substitute pastor made no mention of the passing. (Maybe it's because we"re Lutheran-You know those rebellious Catholics-just kidding.) Still it absolutely made me want to retch when I caught an audio clip of one of the grandchildren praying for passage of the health care bill because this is what his grandfather worked for all his life…..Child you know not what you pray for…..
The problem with all of this nonsense is this: Ted Kennedy NEVER murdered some broad at some bridge or whatever because there was no evidence to prove so, and any liberal or conservative who tries to spin this non-event into some amazing transformation or the beginning of the end, I've got news for you: Use Occam's Razor for a change, for christsake! It was just an ordinary accident that happened to traumatize him to the point he didn't realize what was going on. Some broad died. Big deal. What about the countless innocent Vietnamese and Cambodians who were slaughtered because of Kennedy's public vote to pull our troops out of Vietnam? At least you can make a credible case as to why you think he might be a murderer, but you don't because you only care about damaged goods.
And how many times do I have to tell you that a dentist was the one who plotted to destroy Michael Jackson's career by brainwashing his children in accusing him of being a pedophile? Hey, while we're at, why not ask, while we kept investigating if Michael Jackson was a pedophile or not, why did we let a real child predator/rapist like Phil Garrido get away with kidnapping an eleven-year-old girl and turned her into his love-slave?
For a lark I did a Google search on "Steven Crowder" and came across a video of him doing stand-up Improv in Texas that was posted 3 years ago. I hadn't known he was a professional comedian. I didn't guffaw, but I chuckled. However, what was more shocking was to learn he's Canadian! Oy gevult! I never thought of him as a "pissant", but I guess I can like him anyway.
Hadsil –
Steven is an American. Like they say about Texas: "He wasn't born here, but got here as fast as he could!"
You are hereby convicted on multiple counts of get out of my brain. If you think I suck don't come to my funeral. Furthermore, keep your dirty condolences off my children.
I actually lost a real life friendship over this. Granted the friendship was in a coma, but it still disturbs me. More than I would have thought it would too. And the fact that I didn't photoshop his picture or call him foul names WAS me respecting the dead.
My conscience is clear.
Whew, Sybill. Great post. A conscience intact is an increasingly rare specimen.
Pensacola Greg
P.S. I remember too , , , and also exactly where I was when I learned the tragic news.
These sad hero worshippers act like they KNOW these false idols personally.
Oh I know, that drives me nuts when regular people die. One night stands become long term relationships and the kid who stole your lunch money becomes your wingman. That's offensive.
The mainstream media's depiction should be a non issue. The goal should always be the truth, whatever that is.
I now have to re-think my belief that you could always tell the "worth" of a man/woman, by how many people who didn't have to be there ( ie: family) come to a funeral. Many years ago, I was at my father-in-laws funeral with family, about 30 relatives. There were over 400 "non-family" that attended, and I was so impressed that he had "touched" so many in his life in a positive way, that they would take time out of their lives to attend his funeral. From that moment on, I always hoped that I would make a little difference in the lives of the people I interacted with in my life. Have things changed that much over the last 25 years?
It is always sad when someone dies, but that was the only way to blast him out of that senate seat. He wouldn't even step down when he knew he was on the verge of dying and could no longer fulfill his duties. He left Massachusetts without a senator and was trying to influence changing the rules for filling the seat. This is the definition of selfishness.
Ted is dead and he has nothing else to say about health care. Teddy smiling down from heaven is no reason to pass a rotten bill.
"Some broad died"? Big deal? I can only hope that no "broad" that's important in your life suffers a similar fate.
Teddy in heaven?
Methinks not.
Indeed they have. However at age 60 I suspect I've been to a few more funerals than you.
And regardless of the "turn out", funerals have a deep meaning and are necessary for our psyche.
I just wish I could skip mine entirely.
If you think it is bad now, wait until O.J. dies.
"Orenthal Simpson dies; leaves legacy of racial justice in the courtroom."
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The drinking got a mention in his Wikipedia article, referencing this piece in the Guardian. Nothing about drug use, unless it was regular Hollywood sampling.
That can be arranged.
The FTC has a funeral guide you can review. See "direct burial." No embalming, you just get planted fast, in as cheap a casket as you want as hardly anyone needs see it, a brief graveside service is optional. A previous version I remember pointed out they even have dirt-cheap fiberboard boxes. So, arrange to be simply planted, then skip having a funeral. Have set up a web page as a "remembrance site," Live Journal or something, that accepts comments and even photos.
No funeral, minimal expense. People get to grieve and remember together without traveling. Added bonus, no worrying about how well the makeup will look or even if you can have open casket. Select the best portraits and photos ever taken of you, let them remember you as you lived.
That can be arranged.
The FTC has a funeral guide you can review. See "direct burial." No embalming, you just get planted fast, in as cheap a casket as you want as hardly anyone needs see it, a brief graveside service is optional. A previous version I remember pointed out they even have dirt-cheap fiberboard boxes. So, arrange to be simply planted, then skip having a funeral. Have set up a web page as a "remembrance site," Live Journal or something, that accepts comments and even photos.
No funeral, minimal expense. People get to grieve and remember together without traveling. Added bonus, no worrying about how well the makeup will look or even if you can have open casket. Select the best portraits and photos ever taken of you, let them remember you as you lived.
Teddy Kennedy was a failure as a human being, no doubt…
And, as such he will need to address his, uh, 'issues' in his next incarnation. Pray that it is a higher conciousness than what he left behind in his endless Samsara cycles.
As a Senator he was a relaible liberal bellewether. You knew where he stood- wrong, mostly- but he is to be respected for that. But his callous nature and disregard for others will be his daunting legacy. Ask the Kopechnes…
History is rewritten almost daily and the sorry part about it is the sheer number of useful idiots who buy into it. There are so many losers that need validation from some external source which leads these people to worship mere mortals. These sad hero worshippers act like they KNOW these false idols personally. There is a name for the losers who always buy into what the snake oil salesmen are selling—-LIBERALS.
It seems odd that all you people have been mourning the death of Mary Jo for 40 odd years. I don't think you give a rat's ass about the woman herself, it's just something you can bring up to constantly discredit Kennedy.
Kennedy's evil treatment of Judge Robert Bork surpassed his insulting treatment of Clarence Thomas, John Roberts and Samuel Alito. Kennedy's character destroying rants against Bork created a new verb: "to bork", meaning to slander, slime, and otherwise destroy an honorable human being. Kennedy was a moral relativist villain who has the blood of 50 million aborted children on his heretical record.
I find it ironic and somewhat comforting that the fawning liberal news media handled the hearse processions of
Teddy "Capt. of the auto/submarine USS Delmont" Kennedy and Michael Jackson so eerily and so similarly….you have the dramatic T.V. copter coverage wall to wall, newsachors trying out their ~acting chops~ trying to be somber and serious..really nice extensive coverage for tragically flawed people…
"Could-da been an actor but I would up here, I just hafta look good, I don't have to be clear…" "Dirty Laundry"-Don Henley
"Granted, I’ve never killed anybody or molested any little boys but I’d want the same amount of people to dislike me in death as do in life."
And to add on to the statement above in reference to myself; I've been referred to as a "sweet adorable asshole" all of my life from my misspent youth to my current 51 years. I anticipate no change in precipitation of my opinions and remarks, and, nor will I apologize for them. As for those who love me, "Sucker!" for those who don't; "Blow Me!".
Of course much of that was practice for the eventuality that will surely occur sometime uring the next 30 to 40 years of God's good will and my ability to take care of my health. But it is true of me as well that for those who know me would understand, If you didn't like me don't say you did on my deathbed, and if you really didn't and decided to vent, by all means vent! Then Blow Me!
A bar tab that would make the 50's New York Yankees blush…
A *babe* bagging record exceeded only by his older brother…"ohh your a Kennedy, let's do it!"
One famous "waitress sandwich"…Dodd was the bottom slice of *white bread*…
a suspended sentence that exactly 0.00000009 of the rest of the population of the U.S. would have received under similar circumstances
Lot's O' Crazy liberal legislation and a record of voting 180% the opposite of sane Americans in all FIFTY STATES!
Why can't we just tell the truth about them? They would be doing it with Fallwell. The MSM is a tool of the machine, trying to destroy what is left of "American Values."
I think the whole "Shouldn't speak ill of the dead" is one of those sayings like "RACISTS!" It's just to get you to shut up. We've been talking ill about Hitler for decades, and as far as I know, he's dead. It would be a fine saying if it actually taught us some actual respect for some actual values…. but it doesn't.
Well said Steven C.
Just read that Kennedy's partner in the "waitress sandwich" and other disgusting and lewd acts~~~none other than Chris Dodd~~~~ will be chairing the Kennedyhealthcare push.
America! Wake up! Do you want a clean sweep here or do you want these creeps to run the show?
I watched Robin Williams latest move on VOD called "Worlds greatest dad" just days before Kennedy died, and it really got me thinking about how stupid most people get around the death of horrible people, the entire plot of the movie was making a point against such stupidity and it really was an interesting watch, the basic plot was that his kid was a horrible little pervert with no redeeming qualities at all, and dies giving himself auto-erotic asphyxiation(sp?), so that his son does not go out like that he fakes a suicide and writes a note, that gets the whole school worshipping this kid they hated, to the point where they are ready to name a library after this kid they were going to kick out a week earlier.. very interesting movie, and the point could not be better, death does not make a douche less of a douche, I do like Kennedy more now that he is dead, but that has more to do with the fact that he can no longer talk and piss me off.
Ah yes….libturds always become 'saintly' when they contract a disease or die. Michael J. Fox, Christopher Reeves, Kennedy, etc. all become quite 'saintly' during their distressing times…while conservatives, in liberal lala land, "get what they deserve!" Lamenting over dead or diseased liberals, frankly, is just "above my paygrade" (in reference to the liberal's black messiah as to when life begins).
if he'd succeeded in killing the officer, somehow i doubt your school would have observed a moment of silence for him…
"It was just an ordinary accident that happened to traumatize him to the point he didn't realize what was going on."
Is that the new definition of drunk?
Welcome to 1984!
You forgot one major blemish on Teddy's life. It's one thing to make realky bad choices whenyou are drunk and in shock, its another when you plan and calculate against our country on Ideological grounds.
http://www.forbes.com/2009/08/27/ted-kennedy-sovi...
Cut to the chase. I like it!
Pedophiles, killers, cheaters, cowards, drug addicts. These are all God's children too!
Sadly, I am not God and have a different view on these recently departed "celebrities."
Wow, there must have been lots of empty space in that casket. Mom was wondering why skinny Maria was on pallbearer duty instead of Arnold, guess the Governator's awesome muscles weren't required.
Come to think of it, good thing there weren't any strong winds blowing while they were carrying it outside. If everyone didn't have a firm grip, well, that would have been embarrassing.
It would have been cool to see the Kennedy funeral procession go over the Chappaquiddick bridge. And by the way, Chappaquiddick is much tougher to type than say.
A thing I find interesting in all of these whitewashed, sanctimonious eulogies is this: These supposed friends are using that persons death to further their own interests and careers. They don't care, they just crave the spotlight. When was the last time you said, "Gee, I'd really love to hear Tito Jackson one more time." Never, would be my guess, but he had no trouble using his brothers death to remind us that talent does not run in the family.
Same with Teddy. (May I call him Teddy?) Let's use his death to get what we want!
This is why you don't want to be too friendly to liberals. They may show up at your funeral looking for a handout.
I like your Dad.
People can say what they want at my funeral. Heck, I won't be there, anyway!
Teenagers being idiots can be overly and foolishly sentimental. Looking through a fraternity brother's high school yearbook, I saw that it was dedicated to some guy with shaggy hair and a sleepy squint. I asked my frat brother what this was about. He responded with an embarrassed chuckle and said, "Oh, him – he was smoking pot in a barn when it caught fire and he apparently was too stoned to get out."
It just occurred to me. How ironic that Paris Hilton went to jail, and Ted Kennedy did not.
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"Quite richly, with ridiculous display,
the Politician's corpse was laid away.
While those of his acquaintance sneered and slanged,
I wept, for I had longed to see him hanged."
-From "Epitaph on a Politician" by Hillaire Belloc
If my memory is correct, it was Ted Kennedy himself who, in speaking at the funeral of his brother Bobby, said something like, "Let us not make more of him in death than in life."
I wonder if that's what he wanted for his own funeral?
John Lennon was not a pedophile and michael jackson was FAR from a great musician.
Ted Kennedy in his 40+ years in politics did more harm to this country than anyone else I can think of. Now that he is gone, I say good riddance! I, for one, am tired of the Kennedys and hope not another one of them takes his place.
Cortez, why aren't you mourning for all those poor Aztecs you slaughtered while they were innocently engaged in sacrificing children to their dark gods?
But Kennedy DID know what was going on: he knew enough to try to establish an alibi for himself and avoid taking responsibility for the initial accident — while deliberately failing to take any action whatsoever that might have alerted the authorities and perhaps resulted in Mary Jo Kopechne being saved! Had he been deliberately trying to insure her death, he would have done very little differently.
In fact, rather than belittle the importance of this tragedy, you might instead argue that Teddy's utter callousness toward his single passenger foreshadowed his "larger" callousness toward the millions of people of Indochina whom he gleefully abandoned to Communist rule.
I loved the title of this article – it made me laugh!
Do you think if/when Ted Kennedy gets into the Pearly Gates of Heaven, JFK will beat the crap out of him. Ted had undermined his brother's memorable acceptance speech of "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country." Everything Ted did politically was what government can do for you.
Ah, a Darwin award nonimee.
ok, just coughed up my coffee.
Hopefully not all over your keyboard because that would be a tragedy.
Never knew BO could even tell the truth… Whodathunkit.
I'm a little surprised to see so many people assume Ted's in Heaven. It's not my place to make a call on where he did end up, but I can't imagine judgment was a giggle fest for him.
My problem with both MJ and Kennedy is that there was no decency for either when they died. I remember when decent people didn't speak ill of the recently departed. On the flip side, I also agree that you don't white wash someone's life as soon as they pass away. But if you're going to rail about someone else's indecency, you better check yourself as well.
Sometimes the best thing to say is nothing at all.
better yet, Sean Penn suck it!!!
I plan to be late for mine.
I offered my condolences to his family because I'm sure they miss him, but that's as far as I could go.
Not only was he trying to change the rules for the seat; he was trying to change the rules that he, himself, lobbied for when Romney was governor and Kerry was running for president. It wouldn't have been right for Kerry to vacate his seat and have a Republican appoint his repacement see. However, when the shoe is on the other foot, it's absolutely critical that the Patrick, the Democrat governor of MA, be allowed to appoint an interim as soon as possible.
Luckily, God does not make his judgements based on the media's story of the hour.
Luckily, just my screen this time. I've been covering my keyboard with plastic wrap when I come here, just in case.
He was ~stealthy~ that way…you know the story that he was *helping* MaryJo "get home" or "to the ferry boat that night?
well, her purse was still at the house they left and the direction they were heading was TOWARD the beach, and away from the ferry boat…hmmm
…and Paris Hilton is just about as intellectually astute as Barbara "call me Senator Barbie" Boxer
I wanna feel sorry for California but they just make it so damn hard…I hate to see the wild fires, but then the idiots in charge won't let people clear undergrowth, if I understand correctly…
Absolutely, his diatribe was way over the top and totally personal, political and mean spirited…Bork is multiples X's hundreds the man and the human being that fat drunk bonehead Kennedy ever was…
who's remembered fondly and deified? Bork is still with us and Teddy isn't…God works in miracilous ways…
Honestly, I don't think you have a choice.
I don't think you have a choice.
The MSM is dying at a more accelerated pace than Liberal Snagglepuss Ted and Cryptkeeper Jacko were, and I for one cannot wait for THAT burial!
You never find the losers writing the history books. The victors can spin the facts any way they want to.
Your dad is cool. And right.
I'm arranging to have the hearse's tires slashed and make everyone is wait at the docks and holding their torches near the small boat that will be my fiery Viking funeral.
I wonder if the media's over the top adulation of Michel Jackson at his death, didn't have more than a little bit to do with their constant portrayal of him as a child molester while he was alive. Guilty conscious perhaps?
Steven: Thank you very much for writing this terrific piece! I've wanted someone to say this publicly for so long, and I'll print off your words and keep them handy for a long time to come. The deaths of Jackson and Kennedy are just 2 more examples of praising people after they die, and making them into something they never were, and you nailed this perfectly. Thanks again!
People refer to me much the same way, omitting the "sweet, adorable" parts, of course. I really don't care about what people think about me, and my life has been an exercise in just that.
When I take the last ride, my only hope is that people would say. "He did a good job at being himself." and "He always told me the truth."
That is the highest praise a fella can have.
I was more alluding to the "late" Darkwolf–
If you're not late for your own funeral, you must have ObamaCare.
I was more alluding to the "late" Darkwolf–
If you're not late for your own funeral, you must have ObamaCare.
But your way is good too.
I think the key word here is not just honesty, but also respect. Yes, they probably did some bad stuff and they aren't saints, but can't we at least give them recognition for the things they did right?
Steven, when you have children and you bring them up in the right way – love them, provide for them etc, you'll want to be celebrated for the fact that you loved your children, not letting the fact that you piss idiot liberals off for your living overshadow your death.
indeed! thus far, I will be conveniently late by either method.
It's just a name I took from a song I like. It means nothing. If mary jo had survived the accident there would have been more looking into just what she was doing with ted that night and it might have ended his political career anyway and you guys would today be descrediting her as a Kennedy groupie
"Kennedy and Michael Jackson so eerily and so similarly"
What was that line? Right. "As long as I'm not caught in bed with a dead girl or a live boy…."
The ratings were rock bottom low for the stations carrying the Kennedy phony machinations. Did the media miss it that the only ones watching this invidious creature were the people that defend a false cause rather then serving an ideal they genuinely believe in. I just found you on the net. You have a keen sense of perception, a farsighted penetration and judgement for one so young.
Acute discernment comes to a very few. May your shewdness ascend and amplify.
Russell G.
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Ironic and depressing how so many so-called Christians prefer self-righteousness to love and grace. Michael Jackson was a sinner, so are you. You failed in God's eyes just as badly as any pedophile. You are no better than anyone else.
you know the old expression about how your parents get smarter as you get older? I'm closing in on the half-century mark and he's still getting smarter.
hmmm, that's a bit of a conundrum, or self-contradiction, (or something dammit!)… how can something or somebody be the soul of an organization that, virtually by definition, has no soul?
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Well at least Kennedy practiced what he preached about believing in abortion. Who knows how many kids Mary Jo Kopechne would have had.
Then Teddy will live forever, and he will leave lonely bones.
I knew Crowder when he lived in Canada. He was a jerk then too.
I completely agree with you. Sen. Kennedy told Bork in the hearings "Robert Bork's world doesn't have room for blacks, poor people and other people with disadvantages, therefore the Supreme Court doesn't have room for Robert Bork". Ironically, the Sen. tried not to make room for a black man a few years later.
*gasp*
The carbon footprint will be horrifyingly high!
I avoid drinking or eating while reading here. Especially your postings, Darkwolf.
Exactly! My last and final act on this Earth will be flipping Algore's minions the fiery bird.
Why thank you Patrick! Actually, your plan is a much better one than mine. If we were libs, we'd be insisting on warning labels pasted all over the place.
That implies the MSM have consciences.
I don't know how it is in other places in the state, but here in the San Bernardino Mountains, property-owners are required to clear excess pine needles and undergrowth on an annual basis.
We just never get any rain (the drought has been going on for as long as I can remember), and we admittedly are a state filled with lunatics, some of whom are arsonists.
Like Laura, I was unaware of his personal life. What's soured me on him is his relentless advocacy for embryonic stem cell research. Apparently he believes his life is worth more than others. I want to like him based on his television persona, but that ghoulish agenda just makes me pity him, not respect him.
God also warned all of these people to repent of their sins. Jesus doesn't call the unrepentant sinner a "child of God"…quite the opposite, in fact.
and that woyld make sense…and droughts are harsh I've been around a few…the other factor is that some of our more "green" motivated Fed agencies have some wacky views concerning their opinion of *land management*…IMO…
My instincts want desperately to agree with you, because we are politically aligned on pretty much every issue
On principle, I get the Kennedy and MJ comparisons….but for anyone who knew and loved a 'misguided' man–lumping those two is quite offensive. I mean, I would trust my children with the older Kennedy. Everyone will agree that drugging/abusing children is wrong (unless you march with gay pride parades–pedophiles, I'm talking to you!)…but not everyone agrees that Kennedy's policies undermined the founding fathers–so there's room for debate there. As far as Chappaquiddick–I guess there's massive room for equivocation.
I would have preferred that Perez Hilton had died instead of Kennedy in this instance.
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