With apologies to the late, great, Sammy Davis, Jr:

Doesn’t get much better than this:

Forget cereal at home before heading out to work. Now there is a quick easy cheap way to burden our medical system even sooner. Some McDonald’s have expanded their dollar menues to include breakfast items.

But don’t go get the idea that it’s a thrift choice. It’s something like 3 times more expensive than making a similar breakfast at home. Home version is healthier too.  But never mind that. Go do your part to support our struggling economy and die of an obesity induced heart attack like a patriotic american should.

Gee, apparently those at the Huffington Post didn’t get the memo from Zen, Deb SF, and Co. that Mary Jo Kopechne need remain the Dead Woman Who Shall Not Be Named. What a lack of class! So what does this writer have to say? Well:

We don’t know how much Kennedy was affected by her death, or what she’d have thought about arguably being a catalyst for the most successful Senate career in history. What we don’t know, as always, could fill a Metrodome.

Still, ignorance doesn’t preclude a right to wonder. So it doesn’t automatically make someone (aka, me) a Limbaugh-loving, aerial-wolf-hunting NRA troll for asking what Mary Jo Kopechne would have had to say about Ted’s death, and what she’d have thought of the life and career that are being (rightfully) heralded.

Who knows — maybe she’d feel it was worth it.

Yeah, that’s right…maybe Mary Jo would feel being left to suffocate in a sitting US Senator’s submerged car while he called everyone BUT the police was all worth it, all to give Teddy the grandiose Senate career he had. This is Lefty spin at its finest. We either have folks who want to stick their head in the sand and decry any acknowledgment of her death and Kennedy’s role in it, or we have people like her who say hey, maybe she’d think her dying and all was OK as long as he could sit in the Senate for another forty years pushing lib legislation. Brush her under the rug, or suggest she didn’t mind too much since he was so awesome. Got it.

Update: Oh, guess who liked to joke about Chappaquiddick? What a great guy:

I don’t know if you know this or not, but one of his favorite topics of humor was indeed Chappaquiddick itself. And he would ask people, “have you heard any new jokes about Chappaquiddick?” That is just the most amazing thing. It’s not that he didn’t feel remorse about the death of Mary Jo Kopechne, but that he still always saw the other side of everything and the ridiculous side of things, too.

I guess Teddy knew she’d be glad she was dead (so, so worth it, man!), too, so why not yuk it up, right? Question: Too soon for this, too? Give me guidance, oh wise libs…what’s the waiting period before inconvenient truths are allowed to be uttered? Maybe we should ask Michael Jackson fans, as many of them to this day abhor any mention of that whole playing with little boys thing.

Can you ever do enough good things to balance out the bad? It would seem that some  people think so. But God is not so easily fooled.

I think it’s a shame that when people die we tend to gloss over much of what a person did  and make the person seem larger than life and beyond criticism. Why does a person get a pass for adultery, drunkenness, lying, leaving a woman to die and not reporting it? Because he was a champion for liberalism?

I  didn’t like or respect the things he represented to me, and am not about to remember Kennedy fondly and honor him while sweeping the memory of Mary Jo Kopechne under the rug.

I think I would feel differently had Kennedy been honest and repentant. I didn’t see that from him and don’t mourn his passing.

I don’t know what Ted Kennedy’s relationship with God was like. I hope it was was a relationship of repentant sinner forgiven by his creator. Cause repentance and accepting Christ’s atonement is what’s going to get him into heaven; not championing liberalism in the Senate.

I don’t know why some are so touchy about this or surprised that not everyone is willing to ignore this man’s character. I doubt many on the left will shed a tear when Rush passes on. And as Anon already pointed out, remembering a woman killed by (at best) drunken negligence is a far cry from what some liberals have had to say about those from the right that have died.

Take your self righteous outrage somewhere else. Maybe Rockdem. I hear they are editing out opposing vieews.

A lot of liberals seem to have gotten their panties in a knot over the supposed “lack of respect” some have shown the late Ted Kennedy, and so soon after his passing. Apparently, taking this time to remember Mary Jo Kopechne-herself a tireless advocate on behalf of Democrat politics and the Kennedy clan in particular-is akin to dancing on one’s grave. Or, is it that talking about the suffocation of a young woman and Kennedy’s curious disinterest in notifying the authorities afterward throws water on the whole “dedicated public servant” hagiography? A gem currently making the rounds is an effort to rebrand ObamCare after the senator, citing Kennedy’s lifelong “commitment to insuring the health of every American.” I guess that commitment took a flying leap off a bridge under Nixon, then:

When President Nixon proposed a plan for universal coverage that would have delighted Democrats in later years, Kennedy, who long backed a government plan, led the opposition, a move he later regretted.

I’m sure the fact Nixon was a Republican had nothing to do with his opposition. Regardless, I started wondering how liberals reacted to the death of those notable on the Right. Like, say, Jerry Falwell, from Think Progress:

Yeah he died watching kiddie porm.Either way it’s good he’s dead!
Comment by Gerald Gibson Jr. — May 15, 2007 @ 12:55 pm

Falwell overdoes on Meth!He’s an evil man worse than Bin Laden or the Ayatollahs of Iran.They have more honor tyhan this scum!
Comment by Gerald Gibson Jr. — May 15, 2007 @ 1:06 pm

At last my prayers may be answered. It’s just a beginning though as my list is very long.
Comment by Apple — May 15, 2007 @ 1:23 pm

Or Tony Snow:

I’m sorry but it just sickens me to read diary after diary of silly, bleeding-heart little condolensces to Snow and his family.

I swear some of you weak-kneed progessive brethren of mine have no clue about the vicious nature of the ideological battle we are in. When a bad guy dies, we should rejoice, not sing his praises or wish him anything but scorn.

Etc, etc. Of course, I’m sure our resident libs, er, progressives, were just as eager to whine about a lack of class in those instances, too.

Guess what the 2nd most-searched for term on Google is, as of 1 PM? RIP :

On July 18, 1969, Kopechne attended a party on Chappaquiddick Island, off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, held in honor of the Boiler Room Girls. It was the fourth such reunion of the Robert Kennedy campaign workers.

Kopechne left the party at 11:15 p.m. with Robert’s brother Ted Kennedy, after he — according to his own account — offered to drive her to catch the last ferry back to Edgartown, where she was staying. Kennedy stated he made a wrong turn on the way and came upon a narrow, unlit bridge without guardrails. Kennedy drove the 1967 Oldsmobile Delmont 88 off the bridge and it overturned in the water. Kennedy extricated himself from the submerged car but Kopechne died, after what Kennedy said were several diving attempts to free her.

Kennedy contacted several aides that night, but failed to report the incident to the authorities until the car and Kopechne’s body were discovered the next morning. Kopechne’s parents said that they learned of their daughter’s death from Ted Kennedy himself before he reported his involvement to the authorities, but that they learned Kennedy had been the driver only from wire press releases some time later.

She apparently died from suffocation, not drowning, though the parents refused an autopsy so that remains inconclusive.

Update: That vaunted Republican “attack machine”, the same one that put McCain in the Oval Office and solid GOP majorities in Congress (har de har har) has apparently reared its ugly head…on Twitter. Seriously:

The late Ted Kennedy was enjoying a ride at the top of Twitter’s trending topics earlier today — following what we feel ought to be called the #MJbump — but even this morning it became clear that a backlash was brewing, even in 140-characters-or-less land.

That’s now become something of an orchestrated movement, as ghoulishly insensitive right-wingers bumped Ted out of the top spot…But evidently there’s another vast conspiracy afoot, which has now succeeded in moving the search term “Mary Jo Kopechne” — the victim of Chappaquiddick — ahead of the late Senator. If you want to get a taste of right-wing bile, this has become the non-hashtagged battle to follow.

Yeah, its all a conspiracy…just like the whole Lewinsky matter was. Oh, wait…

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Wowzers!

1. I think skinny jeans are ugly. They make men look effeminate and make women’s backsides look dumpy.
2. I like couscous.
3. I wish parents wouldn’t let their kids roll around on wheelies in the grocery store.
4. I think it’s neat that I often see men "riding" the shopping cart out to their cars. Women don’t do that much. I think I will next time.
5. I wish doctors, dentists, eye doctors and vets would post their fees before hand. It would be nice to know how much something is going to cost before you have it done. The spay and neuter clinic does this.  To a certain extent Cooks Creek Clinic does as well.  I like that.
6. You should eat corn the day it is picked. I would have people buy corn on Tuesday and then stop again on Friday and tell me they didn’t need anymore corn yet cause they still had some left from Tuesday. They wanted potatoes; but not too many– they were going away for the weekend and didn’t want them to go bad.
7. If you buy a ripe tomato, it won’t keep for 5 days sitting on a plate on your table.
8. Good hot dogs aren’t healthy. And the healthy hot dogs aren’t good.  But cooking over a fire makes almost everything good.
9. I love Sharp Shopper.
10. I think our family goes through an extraordinary amount of toilet paper. But that’s one item that I don’t want to go reusable on.
11. Veggie Tales are very clever.

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