Sen. Edward Kennedy Has Been Hospitalized

By Booman Tribune


by BooMan

Some troubling news out of Massachusetts:

 

U.S. Senator Edward M. Kennedy was rushed by ambulance
to Cape Cod Hospital this morning after falling ill at the Kennedy
compound in Hyannisport.

Hyannis fire responded to the compound after a call was made around
8:30 a.m. It's unclear what Kennedy's medical condition is, but after
he spent almost two hours in the emergency room a decision was made to
transfer him to Mass General Hospital in Boston.

Kennedy, 76, was placed on a stretcher and wheeled out to the MedFlight
helicopter around 10:15 a.m. where it took off from Barnstable
Municipal Airport.

I'm hearing that he had stroke-like symptoms. It's not unusual for
people to be airlifted from Cape Cod to Boston, as they have more
complete medical facilities there. Send the Kennedys some positive
thoughts.

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Ted sure has a lot

of demons to deal with..... maybe he can apologize for some of those things. it would only be right.

And what things

would those be?

Was your ID

"19thhole" or "a--hole"?

The Raven's Blog: May the Better Bird Win
http://www.ravensblog.net

its so over

for uncle teddy

It's over for

your pervert party too.

Get this clown...

I don't know what rock you crawled out fom under... I sure as hell have never seen your screen-name... BUT I'LL BET MY ENTIRE 401K ACCOUNT THAT YOU WERE BORN INTO REAGAN'S AMERICA.

You're not ONE SECOND over the age of 27.

My advice, douchebag??... Open up a fucking book on 20th Century American History.

http://www.medaloffreedom.com/JohnFKennedy_Robert_TedKennedy.jpg

WATCH THIS THREAD CLOSELY.


WATCH THE MEDIA AS WELL.

This kind of event is where people show there true colors.

===================================

Remarkably, the best coverage so far has been on Fox News... Go figure.

Even more remarkably has been the tone on Fox News. It has been respectful, sometimes grudgingly, but respectful nonetheless.

The least respectful and most politicized has been CNN, but it's early...

wait... this just coming in...

AN OFFICIAL STATEMENT FROM THE FAMILY SAYS THE SENATOR SUFFERED A SEIZURE ( implying it was NOT a stroke) AND IS RESTING COMFORTABLY.

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By A GMay 17, 2008 - 1:54pm

Just a seizure? That's good news indeed. I hope that it's true.

Support the Troops
End the Occupation

'just"?... not necessarily.

Seizure is consistent with stroke, but not a primary symptom.

Kennedy has been treated surgically for carotid artery blockage (main feeder to the brain - the "thumpers' on either side of your adam's-apple), so it is not unreasonable to strongly suspect vascular defficiencies in supplying the brain.

However, it is really an issue of tissue death.

I've seen this before personally.

Bottom line? There is reason to believe, based on reports at this hour, that he may recover well. Still, the underlying cause, most likely progressive atherosclerosis, isn't going to reverse itself.

Hey... He's old.

God bless him.

There's no such thing as "just" a seizure

One of the primary causes of seizures in a person who is not an epileptic is a dramatic decrease in the oxygen supply to the brain. In about 40% of reported cases, a person who goes into sudden cardiac arrest first exhibits a seizure as a sign. Working on the ambulance, I learned that if I was responded to a person over the age of 40 for seizures, and that person had no previous history of seizures, I should be prepared to handle a full cardiac arrest.

I hope the Honorable Mr. Kennedy pulls through whatever caused the seizure and is able to return to his duties on the Senate floor soon.

If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error. ~~~John Kenneth Galbraith

By nonexistent manMay 17, 2008 - 3:13pm

My bad, I shouldn't have been so flippant. I realize that seizures are nothing to scoff at, but I was just trying to express a little relief that it wasn't a stroke.

Support the Troops
End the Occupation

John Kennedy was a great man

Robert Kennedy could have been even greater.
Ted Kennedy is a drunk who long ago dishonored the Kennedy name.

And you are a fascist collaborator

who has dishonored America. What do you know about honor, you dirty welfare cheat?

Yeah, well... We all can't be as pure as you, hatenomore.

Some of us have made mistakes in our lives and lack your virginal, immaculate perfection and benevolent good-will toward his fellow man.

Your insensitive, partisan, and frankly OPPORTUNISTIC kicking of this "Lion of Liberalism" when he's down, MERELY HIGHLIGHTS HIS GREATNESS.

Chappequidic ended his carreer... A lesser man would have gone home and enjoyed his wealth... Not Ted Kennedy.

He has since dedicated his life to sticking up for the little guys... just plain folks, the folks that fight our wars and toil to build the useless crap we love so much.

You, sir, aren't qualified to clean Ted Kennedy's bedpan.

Dear naacprep...

You watch your oldest brother die in a war and then your other two older brothers get blown away on National TV. That would probably make anyone throw a couple back. Listen, I don't like Teddy's politics one damn bit but, he's a fucking human being and based on the total of his lifes work, he's worthy of your respect. He certainly has mine. He's done some bad things but, he's done many more good things.

When you men get home and face an anti-war protestor, look him in the eyes and shake his hand. Then, wink at his girlfriend because she knows she’s dating a pussy… ~ Attributed to General Tommy Franks

By IlluminatiHottie May 18, 2008 - 1:14am

OK...I'm not gay, but right now I want to braid your hair. Thanks for being logical this time.

Good for you, Hottie.

This is exactly why I cut you some slack.

Deep down inside that Oil-Drenched, Privileged, Elitist, "Let-Them-Eat-Cake" exterior hides a compassionate, loving human being.

It's a small planet... Let's be friends.

By A GMay 18, 2008 - 1:34pm

She can be sympathetic because Ted is a US citizen. If Ted lived in another country she wouldn't care less if we nuked him or anyone else as long as she got to talk tough about it.

She thinks its just grand that we have murdered and terrorized people around the world so she can have cheap gasoline.

Ummmm...let me see if I can explain this so that even you

can understand it FuU.

People getting killed.....bad.
Thousands of people getting killed.....very bad.
Millions of people getting killed....unacceptable.

That is why I think you fight wars before your enemy gets in a position to kill millions of people like say.... in WW I and II

And you know what? Even Nancy and Harry and Obama agree with me. Obama is probably going to be President and it won't be the end of the world because, as foreign policy goes, he won't do any thing differently than W would. Th at is why Nancy and Harry put on a show for you guys about pulling out the troops but, guess what?!! They didn't. You know why? Because if they did, eventually we'd have to go back in and then lot's more people die. So, that's me and Obama and George and Nancy and Harry. We think that, when necessary, you commit to fight and sacrifice thousands to save millions. Of course it's also been policy since Truman. The only difference between me and them is that I'll tell you straight up what I think.

When you men get home and face an anti-war protestor, look him in the eyes and shake his hand. Then, wink at his girlfriend because she knows she’s dating a pussy… ~ Attributed to General Tommy Franks

By IlluminatiHottie May 18, 2008 - 1:14am

You say a lot of things that I disagree with...many of which annoy me...but I have always respected your right to express your opininon....even though it be laced with venom......because you are always cut-throat, yet never too much over board. Ok....you DO go over-board, but you are not insufferable.

I appreciate you respecting what should be respected.

So, hatemoron, what's your excuse for dishonoring

your family? Your rampant stupidity, perhaps?

"Bitch may be the new black but black is the new President, bitch."
Tracy Morgan, SNL

i sure hope

teddy doesn't die today. monday or tuesday would have much more impact.

HOTTIE??... IS THAT YOU?

Your posts have the curt, drive-by, hit-and-run quality of my favorite alcoholic, Oil-Drenched Georgian Diva, "Illuminatihottie".

How are you, sweetie?

What the fuck are you talking about A. G.?

When you men get home and face an anti-war protestor, look him in the eyes and shake his hand. Then, wink at his girlfriend because she knows she’s dating a pussy… ~ Attributed to General Tommy Franks

FYI,

When Pres Bush waterboards, he waterboards murderous terrorists and they survive this appropriate and necessary treatment.

When ‘Uncle Teddy’ waterboards, he causes the drowning of an innocent, young, supporter and then disappears for 10 or so hours to sober up.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kopechne

Just in case anyone here thinks my regards for Uncle Teddy are unfounded.

Uncle Teddy’s epitaph – “I came, I saw, I got drunk, I puked on myself, I committed negligent homicide, I rode my dead brothers’ coattails for a few decades, I abused, I mentored nephew William, I waitress sandwiched with Sen. Dodd and that’s about all that’s worth remembering.”

so torture works?

When McCain was tortured and admitted he was a war criminal and baby killer he must have been telling the truth, right? There are videos of his confession. You stupid, ignorant neocon. Maybe when we liberals take over we should water board you for your treason against America.

You have it wrong.

It was John Kerry, on video, testifying before Congress, who admitted to being a war criminal and baby killer.

no it was McCain who was tortured

and admitted he was a war criminal and baby killer. Since torture works, he must have told the truth, right? Kerry never admitted anything like that. You stupid fool.

Yes he did. You can read his testamony at:

http://www.nationalreview.com/document/kerry200404231047.asp

Are you a child or just heavily medicated? Its really hard to tell.

No he didnt

didnt you work on your reading skills in prison or were you too stupid to be taught? Since torture works, I guess Mc Cain was telling the truth when he was tortured, right? He admitted he was a war criminal and baby killer after he was tortured. Torture works well to get the truth so McCain was telling the truth, right?

How is it that a certain Texas woman

KILLS her ex boyfriend by hitting him with her car never spends a day in prison??? Unless of course you consider being married to Der GWB being stuck in prison. Hmmm??? Maybe she IS being punished for killing her ex-boyfriend with her car!!! She takes her funny little vitamins everyday and smiles in her special stepford sort of way and obediently stands by her "decider" man.

One of the qualifications

to become a member of the Bush Crime Family is that you have to have killed or murdered another person. You must "make your bones".

One of my favorites

'Ted Kennedy’s car has killed more people than has my gun.'

It's early yet...

And the person most likely to be killed by your gun is you.

Good luck with that.

Guns don't kill people, drunk Kennedys do

I once put all of my guns on a table and dared them to shoot me and nothing happened.

Yeah, whatever shithead.


Keep yucking it up, jackass... Let's see how much you laugh when it happens... The fact remains that the people most likely to be killed by those guns on the table that you're talking to (disturbing in itself) ARE YOU AND YOUR FAMILY.

"The United States leads the world's richest nations in gun deaths -- murders, suicides, and accidental deaths due to guns - according to a study published April 17, 1998 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the International Journal of Epidemiology.

The U.S. was first at 14.24 gun deaths per 100,000 people. Two other countries in the Americas came next. Brazil was second with 12.95, followed by Mexico with 12.69.

Japan had the lowest rate, at 0.05 gun deaths per 100,000 (1 per 2 million people). The police in Japan actively raid homes of those suspected of having weapons."

http://tinyurl.com/2h3j2

Nice compassion there, sport...

...go teabag a shotgun.

If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error. ~~~John Kenneth Galbraith

By nonexistent manMay 17, 2008 - 3:16pm

"...go teabag a shotgun."

LMAO!!!

What should you do if you

What should you do if you see Ted Kennedy having a seizure in a bathtub??

Throw in a load of laundry!!

How does a right wing nut make a living?

He gets a gov job and becomes a socialist! But then he bitches about socialism being bad while the whole time he is a practicing socialist then he will complain about big govt but he wants the govt to be just big enough to make a living off of.

Cant find that proof of fascism being on the left, huh? You really made a complete fool of yourself that time. But I am sure you are used to being made fun of. Unreconstructed jackass!

All their policies were left

All their policies were left wing, you would know that if you ever bothered to look at them, but it's just easier to buy into all the left-wing propaganda isn't it? The proof has already been provided several times, you just choose to ignore it.

so in other words

you have no proof because you are lying and no proof exists anywhere. You deranged ditto head disgrace.

From Wiki

Fascists promote a type of national unity that is usually based on (but not limited to) ethnic, cultural, national, racial, and/or religious attributes. Various scholars attribute different characteristics to fascism, but the following elements are usually seen as its integral parts: patriotism, nationalism, statism, militarism, totalitarianism, anti-communism, economic planning (including corporatism and autarky), populism, collectivism, autocracy and anti-liberalism (i.e., opposition to political and economic liberalism).[6][7][8][9][10][11][12]

Key words you seem to have missed - nationalism, militarism, corporatism, anti-communism and anti-liberalism. If that don't spell conservative, I don't know what does.

Laura Bush's car

HAS killed an ex boy friend.....I suspect that turned Der GWB on enough to qualify her for being his wife. Fore play for them must be a romantic evening of discussing all the dead and harmed that lay in their wake!

Wow. Nopeater... You are one ignorant SOB.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/bush/laura.asp

When you men get home and face an anti-war protestor, look him in the eyes and shake his hand. Then, wink at his girlfriend because she knows she’s dating a pussy… ~ Attributed to General Tommy Franks

It's interesting watching the bloodthirsty g0p sheeple-trolls

...jumping all over themselves on this thread to castigate a senior Senator and wish him ill. It demonstrates, very clearly, the chickenhawk nature of the g0p, and their complete lack of humanity and compassion.

Little wonder their party is about to be even more thoroughly kicked to the curb than they were back in '06!

If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error. ~~~John Kenneth Galbraith

A thoughtful response.

I’m actually a very compassionate person.

I reserve this kind hatred for those who hate our country enough as to impede the actions of the one man voted in, by a majority of the voters, twice, to protect this nation from foreign forces.

2008 is an election year. Do your best to get your man/woman elected and let them fight (or surrender) on. But in the end, the PRESIDENT, not the congress, is responsible for the security of the country.

When it comes to fighting a war, members of congress and other public officials can quietly disagree with the president. But if a public official publicly and politically goes after the president’s war policies so as to embolden and encourage those who are trying to kill our deployed soldiers AND our innocent citizens, then I have no alternative but to wish ill-will upon that public official. The sooner that misguided politician is defeated by political opponent, death or illness, the better for the greater good which is our United States.

I've been watching Ted Kennedy phuck up and phuck things up for 40 plus years. But only because of his position on the war and opposition of Bush's war policies do I wish his demise. Again, the sooner the better.

I firmly believe what I have written here and look forward to being proved correct by future historians and their books and records.

Folks, it really IS just this simple.

By bend_me_overMay 17, 2008 - 4:16pm

What bend_me_over meant to say was, "Folks, I really AM just this simple." Glad I could translate.

Support the Troops
End the Occupation

sorry Bush lost to Al Gore

by 600000 votes. Bush came in second. The American people chose Gore. Cheating is not winning. It is treason. 70% of Americans want the war stopped. The war was based on lies and Bush is a war criminal and terrorist. With your support of Bush illegal actions, you are also a terrorist and war criminal and you will soon pay for your crimes against America.

It is really that simple.

Like that No child left behind fiasco

that he has taken credit for writing, and the Secure America and Orderly Immigration Act, which he co-sponsered with McCain.

Kennedy did write it, sponsored it

but Bush and the Republican congress never funded it adequately.

By its_so_overMay 17, 2008 - 4:16pm

"But in the end, the PRESIDENT, not the congress, is responsible for the security of the country."

9/11/2001.

Folks, it really IS just this simple.

YOU ARE AS TWISTED AND DELUSIONAL

AS YOUR LYING, THIEVING, SADISTIC FUEHRER!! DER GWB HAS WOUNDED OUR COUNTRY TERRIBLY AND AT THE VERY LEAST HE WILL LEAVE DEEP SCARS ON EVERYTHING HIS EVIL HAS TOUCHED!! THERE WILL BE INCREDIBLE CELEBRATIONS HERE AND AROUND THE WORLD WHEN HE LEAVES THE WHITE HOUSE FOR GOOD!! its_so_over it really IS that simple!!

I heard a joke

It went something like this:

"Did you hear that noise?

That was John McCain. He Just tripped off a chair. He was getting ready to speak. Somebody aimed a gun at him and he...he dove for the floor."

It was something like that. I can never get the punch line right.

It goes like...

..."somebody aimed a gun at mccain, and he dove for the floor crying, "Somebody just call my daddy the admiral! Theres no Dom Perignon, and Ho Chi Minh's penus is too salty!"..

Bannedfrog's mother

She still won't tell him what the coat hanger in all his baby pictures is all about.

Bush supporters are murderers

They have the blood of millions on their hands.

I sincerely hope their children suffer a prolonged bout of Leukemia.

Bannedfrog, its_so_over, et al.

Their children are scum.

Blood of Millions ?

Sorry, you lose the Daily Double and go home empty handed.

The fact is,

Democrat presidents and their administrations have been much more successful at getting Americans killed in foreign wars than have Republican presidents. If I recall, by a margin of about eight to one.

In fact, the last president any good at getting Americans killed was LBJ. Prior to that, you have to go the Truman and FDR. Now those two murderers really knew how to make American mothers mad. (Truman killed countless innocents in Aug. 1945)

Bush has been only slightly adept at getting Americans and deserving foreigners killed.

btw, "scum"? Look in the mirror and at your offspring (unless you talked your 'ho' into aborting it/them). But as long as our kids don't have to interface with your's who likely attend PS 34 or some other "no child left behind" (haha, jokes on you - make libs feel better about public schools so the educated don't have increased competition at our private schools) public school, we're ok.

You? Educated?

What a joke!! You are a fucking numbskull neocon. What a joke. You make sure you keep those little NAZIS that you are raising far, far away from normal, decent American children. You should home school them so they stay completely out of American society.

The only reason that more people have been killed under Dems is because Republicans have NEVER, EVER had the guts to stick up and fight for America.Liberals have saved this country many times while you sissies sat back and watched. In fact, GWB grandfather Prescott Bush was busy selling arms and financing Hitler while liberals were busy saving America from fascism. The Bush family fortune was made by colaborating with the enemy.

So stop trying to rewrite history, you scum sucking traitor. Why dont you just keep up what you usually do and go to a public bathroom and try to find a teenager to fuck.

Thank you, flarry2K.

I accept that you have nothing factual to add and concede the point. I will now take my victory lap.

* Note to other non-America hating non-Libs who may be lurking. You know that you have won the point or debate when you see the above type of post. A lot of curse words, caps, idiotic conjecture, etc.

At this point, take your victory and move along.

Then why dont you prove me wrong

But you cant because you post nothing but lies and right wing propaganda. You will soon live under LIBERAL rule. We will use YOUR tax dollars to further OUR agenda. And there is nothing YOU can do about it.

You lose, we true Americans win.

By its_so_overMay 17, 2008 - 9:04pm

Dear Jesus

Take this republican's children form this earth before they grow up to be murderers like their parents. Take them soon. Give them a disease so they leave this earth before they know how to advocate killing like a republican does.

Dear Jesus

Deliver us from the evil of the republicans. Take their children form this world before they turn into monsters like their parents and kill more people. Save them from their fate.

done done and done, my son

Can I conscrew your "take their children from this world" as going into outer space with them? Then done.
Who will remain behind and tend to the tourists? Why, park rangers living in teepees, of course!

By dewbie dubaiMay 18, 2008 - 1:57am

I am very happy the Fine Senator

is recovering from the seizure. He is in my prayers and thoughts.

Bottom line ... No biggie in USA.

He's had a BRAIN WIPE that essentially promotes his health care proxy (WIFE) to his seat in congress.

Check your history. At least one POTUS has been displaced by his spouse in the same fashion, not to mention numerous others including the Brooklyn Bridge architect who's nitrogen BENDS symptoms had the same effect on his capacity.

The exceptions to rule are Sharone and Arfatt whose influence was obliterated by their serendipitous demise that benefited the LIKUDNIC AIPAC MILITANT ZIONIST CULT that has been linked to the PNAC GWoT eight ways to Sunday.

Where's Gore Vidal when you need to be awoken from your UNITED STATES OF AMNESIA and DENIAL?

Transient Ischemic Attack with Infarction

Do all cerebral ischemic attacks without clinical residue have similar significance?

Researchers addressed this question by studying 87 patients diagnosed with transient ischemic attack (TIA) and 74 with ischemic stroke. Participants were enrolled consecutively over 2 years; all underwent diffusion-weighted imaging upon hospital admission. Of the 87 TIA patients, 36 had a focal region of increased signal intensity consistent with acute infarction (i.e., transient symptoms associated with infarction [TSI]), and 51 had TIA without infarction (i.e., TIA alone).

Infarcts were significantly smaller, on average, in TSI patients than in ischemic-stroke patients, but no particular lesion-size threshold distinguished the two groups. Mean hospital stays were 9.1 days in the ischemic-stroke group, 5.5 days in the TSI group, and 4.5 days in the TIA-alone group. During these stays, no TIAs and one ischemic stroke occurred in the ischemic-stroke group; four TIAs and three ischemic strokes in the TSI group; and one TIA and no ischemic strokes in the TIA-alone group.

The authors repeat the previously suggested notion that TSI and TIA without infarction are different entities. They further state, "TSI appears to be the most unstable phenotype [of TIA]; it is associated with the greatest risk for imminent stroke."

This small series provides important lessons for the stroke neurologist and for every practitioner who sees TIA patients in the office or emergency department. A first TIA should be considered a medical emergency, as the risk for stroke is especially high within the initial hours and days afterward. The disappearance of symptoms in a few minutes or hours can give the patient and practitioner a false sense of security. Patients who have a first clear but transient focal hemisphere event must be referred quickly to a hospital with sophisticated personnel and the requisite imaging equipment.

www.snipr.com/TransIschemicAttack

neurology.jwatch.org/cgi/content/full/2006/112/1

ted kenndy

If some of these people would think about ted watching two of his brothers get
there brains blown out on TV would they have a drinking problem?

bruce mcfarlin

Hang in there Ted.

Here's wishing the best for you and your family. Get well soon.

When you men get home and face an anti-war protestor, look him in the eyes and shake his hand. Then, wink at his girlfriend because she knows she’s dating a pussy… ~ Attributed to General Tommy Franks

Best Wishes for Recovery

The one guy who I think could most convincingly persuade Obama not to put Clinton on the ticket. Someone who knows and appreciates the history of 1960.

He has always been a thorough disappointment compared to his brothers, but I like what he's done in this contest. (Though I suppose if he were to pass, the Rovesque attack machine might refrain from using him as a lightening rod to rally the troops.)

rove getting "dragged" into first of indictment cases this week.

rove has stalled the gallows as much as will stall.
Conyers said its time for rove's ass-kicking.

rove said the republicans have to stand for something. What better time for them to stand trial.

Ted Kennedy was a kid when his oldest brother died at war, and his big brother ran for office.
Can anyone truely grok the pressure on the youngest son from a patriarchal dynamic, that focuses all energies on the oldest son? Having to step into that role, with little preparation?
Call him Mr, Kennedy, because he's okay.

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