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the whole Kenndy anniversary- I was never a fan of his and while I don’t think particularly ill of him, I’m irritated by the whole family, bunch of criminals that they are.
My ex and I visited DC toward the end of the Reagan years; we were both big fans of THAT administration, he was the first president we’d had a chance to vote for and we were damned proud of him. I often wish I had some of the pictures I took then.
Anyway, we visited Arlington. We saw the civil war headstones, the confederate soldier’s headstones are peaked so no damned yankees can sit on them. We saw the changing of the guard, I stood in rapt attention until my feet ached. And in an out of the way area, we came on a little round stone set in the ground with a little flame burning at it’s center. Nobody was around, and I didn’t realize the significance until I saw “John F Kennedy”.
I wasn’t, as I said, a particular fan. But I wasn’t a total dick, either. In any event, I bent down and lit a pall mall off the “Eternal flame”. So I can honestly say JFK was useful to me, even after his death. The Ex called him “President Ronson” therafter.
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Family lore is that a distant relative was a boyfriend of Jacqueline Bouvier until she dropped him for that poseur Jack Kennedy. And another thing galls me about the Kennedys is that my Grandfather Pete was a bootlegger but never made out so well as ol’ Joe.
Yeah, a lot of my folks were shiners. We were at the very bottom of that food chain.
Had you lit a Cuban it would have been an even better story.
So the real cause of Global Warming is now revealed.
Proving once again that the only good politician is a dead politician.
hale: I figured everyone knew it was my farts.
No, global warming is passe, since the arctic ice cap is bigger and all its now global change. Like they can stop that.
I kind of liked JFK. Although in 2nd grade my politic views where still a little green.
He was a philandering SOB but he was not bad for business nor a commie lite like the rest of his party.
We did have a neighbor kid that was one of the guards at the tomb of the unknown. He was very proud of that.
I considered that your personal contribution was “naturally occurring”, like volcanoes and the gas a polar bear emits after a particularly large meal of baby seals.
yeah, but polar bears don’t shake sriracha on baby seals, as far as I know.
There are a LOT of polar bears
Met Kennedy in passing. I was five or so, holding on to mom’s hand…she jumped into the street to grab his hand as the local police car he was in passed by. (Fast forward 3-4 years later, and she would have been, at the very least placed face down on the ground in very short order for doing that.)
Still remember his smile, and how bright his eyes were (quite possible that was due to meds he may have been on, but who knows).
My Kennedy story: In 1959, I had a part-time job as a Western Union Telegraph courier in DeeCee. My Station was the New Senate Office Building, and 99.9% of the telegrams I delivered were to Senators. I met Jack Kennedy several times, and he was always courteous and personally signed for his signature-service telegrams.
On the other side of that coin was Richard Nixon, then President of the Senate. He got many telegrams, but was an asshole about signing them. One day, I got one for Tricky Dick from an important industrialist, and it was Personal Service Only. My Dispatcher told me I had to get Nixon’s actual signature. He refused it, and I refused to give it to him. We had s short standoff in his office, but I had my orders, and I returned to the office with the telegram. The Dispatcher sent a company message back to the Big Shot telling him that Nixon had refused to sign for the telegram.
Nixon was a jerk, but Kennedy more than made up for him, AND he had some real babes working in his office.
One day Og, I’ll try to one-up your Pall Mall………
………I’ll go with a stick and a marshmallow.
Bail me outta jail though, willya?
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Dog: I’m not a big Nixon fan either, but that comment gave me a newfound respect for him. people in positions of authority have no business receiving “personal service” messages, it makes it apparent that some individual has the ear of that politician. making the communications all go though a chain of command rather than eyes only means there is less possibility- in my mind- that there is something out of line taking place. I don’t want personable, glad handing politicians, I want angry men who hate the job and want to stop doing it as soon as possible.
Jim: I may not be able to muster the bail money, but I will damned sure take up a collection for your legal defense. Make sure you use a marker to draw the flag on the marshmallows so you will be exercising your constitutionally protected rights.
I want angry men who hate the job and want to stop doing it as soon as possible.
Yep. The best man for the job is the man who doesn’t want it and fights the hardest to keep from having it foisted on him. There should be something in the Constitution to this effect, I often think.
Nathan, if ever I was going to say “There ought to be a law” (I hate that expression, actually) it would be to support what you have just said.