Sir Edward of Tanqueray
“We dub thee Sir “Don’t call the police for 10 hours while you let your pregnant secretary drowned after a drunken party while your wife was away then spend decades running around Palm Beach with no pants with your rapist nephew while dragging the US into socialism but that’s OK ‘cause your father and grandfather’s drug and liquor-running during the Depression amassed a huge fortune that let you take over the entire state of Massachusetts in a lifetime appointment” Kennedy....
....yeah, color me thrilled....
Posted by TimO
03/04/2009 at 11:10 AM
Words fail me.
It’s rather like the Nobel Prize.
I remember when they were given to persons who had made a real and lasting contribution for the good of the world.
Then they started handing them out to goofs like Arafat, Carter, and, last but not least, Al Gore for a slideshow of junk science.
Next: The Pope will begin elevating standup comics to bishoprics worldwide.
Sad.
Posted by heldmyw
03/04/2009 at 02:51 PM
– U.S. Constitution, Article One, Section Nine.No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince or foreign State.
Seems to me that it will take an Act of Congress for Teddy ‘The Swimmer’ Kennedy to be able to accept this. So, start writing your Congressmen and Senators opposing this.
Oyez! Oyez! Oyez!
All rise for Lord Oldsmobile.Posted by sig94
03/04/2009 at 06:03 PM
I’m not particularly impressed by the KBE honor, but it’s obvious all the previous posts were by men, because Ted Kennedy has been womankind’s best friend in the Senate for a lot of years. No, I’m not from Massachusetts, I just give props where they are deserved.
Posted by Lughna
03/04/2009 at 08:16 PM
Great best friend of women, shag them then piss off when too drunk to make the bridge, ugly, lying lump of shit, that is unkind to shit though. This is about right for the fascist state, the former UK.
Posted by Chris Edwards
03/04/2009 at 08:52 PM
Knighting Ted Kennedy just further degrades the notion that British Knighthood represents chivalry. When it comes to chivalry, Ted Kennedy comes in dead last.
Bumper stickers for Chappaquiddick Teddy:
My other car is a Submarine!
Kennedy <del>’68</del><del>’72</del><del>’76</del> Aww, fuhgedabout it..
Scotch, The other white meat!I am surprised, that with the 40ish years since the ‘incident’ that Teddy didn’t run in 2004 or 2006.. Hell, for a politician, a massive brain tumor is a job enhancement.. I would have voted for him before Obama, at least he has a history we can find out without his lawyering up.
The man is scum, pure and simple, but better the scum we know, than the <del>scum</del> candidate we can’t find out about.Just random stuff…
Billbtw, ask any “Generation X” about Teddy and see how well Chappaquiddick has been whitewashed and hidden.. A lot of people, even from my ‘generation’ (I still don’t know which one that is) have little or no clue about it..
-BThe knighthood decision must have been made by a town council. No one else is sick or crazy enough.
Lyndon ... I intensely dislike the Hero of Chappaquiddick as do all here. But wait.
Did that bastard really say that? Much as I can’t stand the sight or sound of the creep, I find it hard to believe that even he could be so totally stupid and .... ? I need another word.
I never heard that quote before. Nobody in politics could be that dumb but then ...I don’t know. Why not? I’m just very surprised. He really did say that? Jeesh. Bad as I thought he was if true, it turns out then that he’s even worse then my imaginings.The Queen couldn’t have much power anymore and I feel sorry for her. But could she not have told whoever suggested his name that she would refuse to go along?
Your royalty here is beyond my understanding. My wife keeps trying to explain it but I still don’t get it.Hey Kuso
When it comes to chivalry, Ted Kennedy comes in dead last.How right you are and good to see you back here. Not often but when you do it’s always on the mark and well said.
All you guys have have it nailed dead to rights. Damn shame more of you aren’t running for office. How the hell do we end up with what we’ve got and that would include Bush, when there are folks like you ppl out there?
Drew ... Wife says she agrees totally your feelings also and Labour has NO respect nor do they have any great feelings for what knighthood was supposed to be for. They toss it about like candy and it has lost any meaning it may have ever had. It’s a joke now she says, and not a very funny one. They have no respect for the institution. She’s disgusted. As one who appreciates England’s long history, so am I.
Mary Jo Kopechne was unavailable for comment....
Peiper you’re right it wasn’t Kennedy it was his mate Gerry Adams.
Ted Kennedy’s car has killed more people than my Gun! An oldie but a goody.
In 1974 the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to an Irishman called Sean Macbride.
He was the co-founder of Amnesty International, the founder (with CIA money) of Justice (the international lawyers organisation for monitoring show trials in dictatorships), the author of the constitution of Ghana - first British colony in black Africa to gain its independence, and the author of the constitution of the Organisation for African Unity. He was a former Foreign Minister of the Republic of Ireland, a former President of the General Assembly of the United Nations, a former Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations, a former United Nations High Commissioner for Namibia and a former United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. He was the Irish barrister who had qualified fastest (just five years) to the status of Senior Counsel and was best known in Ireland as the legal advisor to the IRA. He was the only person ever to be awarded both the Nobel and Lenin Prizes for Peace. But in the UK he is remembered for the job he held before any of that. His Nobel prize was announced in that icon of British Liberal journalism ‘The Manchester Guardian’ with the headline “Former IRA Chief of Staff gets Nobel Prize for Peace”.Now why does Ted Kennedy’s honorary knighthood remind me of that?
Posted by gerardmulholland
03/06/2009 at 08:20 PM
If we could only get one of the millions of British muslims to do the sword thing
What do they mean: “Irish-American political dynasty?” Old Joe Kennedy (father of JFK, Robert and the sainted Teddy, and ambassador to Britain during the early part of WW2 when he continually pushed the idea that England was finished) was a bootlegging thug who would have remained in well-deserved obscurity without that unbelievably misguided Volstead Act.
Posted by formernavalperson
03/07/2009 at 12:01 AM
FNP ... there were a number of Brits who didn’t believe England would catch up in time either. Re. German rearming. Not to defend Joe Kennedy, only thing I know about him is that he was involved (at what level? wasn’t Murder Inc.)in bootlegging as you point out.
Lots of ppl were. BUT ....
Based on what Kennedy saw in the 30’s (and so did Lucky Lindy) all the evidence of the time suggested that Germany was unbeatable. And that was before the war ever started. And don’t forget, Brits themselves were somewhat divided on pro-anti Germany. The vast majority of those who were anti German were also reds, which many Brits did not want to align themselves with. And they weren’t too crazy about AH either. So I can understand why Joe Kennedy saw things in a light of his times.
03/05/2009 at 05:37 AM
