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2009-03-04 -Lurid Crime Tales-
Ted Kennedy to receive knighthood
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Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2009-03-04 06:16|| || Front Page|| [11125 views ]  Top

#1 I certainly hope there's a... 'no moat crossing' clause in his knightly contact.
Posted by Besoeker  2009-03-04 07:27||   2009-03-04 07:27|| Front Page Top

#2 First he will spend an entire night veiling the arms and praying. Then he will kneel in front of the queen and will be handled two vigorous blows with the flat of his sword. The he will mount on his horse and will go looking for damsels in distress to save and the wine in the Holy Grail to drink.
Posted by JFM">JFM  2009-03-04 07:50||   2009-03-04 07:50|| Front Page Top

#3 the Brave Sir Robin Teddy...
Posted by Andy Ulusoque aka Broadhead6 2009-03-04 08:38||   2009-03-04 08:38|| Front Page Top

#4 Question: if they removed everything malignant in Teddy, would he still exist? I normally refrain from mocking the dying, but in his case, especially with his attempts to install his wife in his seat, I make an exception
Posted by Frank G 2009-03-04 08:57||   2009-03-04 08:57|| Front Page Top

#5 So it a nutshell a Knighthood means exactly nothing. Next in line: Sir Jesse, Sir Billy, Sir Barney, and Lady Nancy. Well done UK.
Posted by Cyber Sarge 2009-03-04 09:04||   2009-03-04 09:04|| Front Page Top

#6 During Vietnam, Teddy once demanded that the US withdraw, then invade Northern Ireland to drive out the British army.

Old Joe Kennedy so hated England that as a reward from FDR, he was made ambassador to England prior to US entry into the war. He kept a known German agent on his staff, as an intelligence pipeline of US-British diplomacy, straight to Berlin.

Posted by Anonymoose 2009-03-04 09:06||   2009-03-04 09:06|| Front Page Top

#7 For saving drowning damsels?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2009-03-04 09:34||   2009-03-04 09:34|| Front Page Top

#8 Yes. In one occasion a damsel fell in a barrel of whiky and he saved her by drinking it.
Posted by JFM">JFM  2009-03-04 10:18||   2009-03-04 10:18|| Front Page Top

#9 Just out of curiosity I googled "joe kennedy gerry adams". Interesting. One of the first things I found is that there are some
conservative MPs who are none too happy about this.
Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2009-03-04 12:01||   2009-03-04 12:01|| Front Page Top

#10 Lost me at Sir Elton John. Too Low for Zero indeed.
Posted by swksvolFF 2009-03-04 12:22||   2009-03-04 12:22|| Front Page Top

#11 Apparently, all you need to be knighted these days is a pulse.
Posted by mojo 2009-03-04 12:46||   2009-03-04 12:46|| Front Page Top

#12 Does the suit of armor come with it? Because that could bankrupt Britain. Might provide a lotta shipyard jobs though...
Posted by tu3031 2009-03-04 13:03||   2009-03-04 13:03|| Front Page Top

#13 I always thought to be Knighted, you had to do something supremely noble,
not something supremely ignoble.
Posted by Redneck Jim (WMOF)">Redneck Jim (WMOF)  2009-03-04 13:09||   2009-03-04 13:09|| Front Page Top

#14 he must have set the new record for drinking
Posted by rabid whitetail 2009-03-04 15:24||   2009-03-04 15:24|| Front Page Top

#15 Can a serving member of Congress *accept* this sort of faux ennoblement? It seems vaguely unconstitutional... let me see, Article 1, 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.


Yep. Definitively unconstitutional, unless they're waiting on his retirement, or Brown's going to fucking ask Congress for permission during his verkakte speech.

Monarchist wanker son-of-a-bitch!
Posted by Mitch H.">Mitch H.  2009-03-04 16:15|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/]">[http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/]  2009-03-04 16:15|| Front Page Top

#16 If nobody sues he will get away with it. If somebody, some organization does (eg the Repunlican Party) then the court will have to enforce the law.
Posted by JFM">JFM  2009-03-04 16:24||   2009-03-04 16:24|| Front Page Top

#17 It's an honorary knighthood. He's not gonna be asked to swear fealty to the British throne. He's not gonna get a stipend.

They did the same for Dwight Eisenhower and some others, IIRC. Although generally with much more cause.
Posted by mojo 2009-03-04 17:48||   2009-03-04 17:48|| Front Page Top

#18 There are some interesting comments in the thread about this over at The Volokh Conspiracy.

My favorites:

"I can only hope that this is an exceedingly polite request by the Queen for Lord Chappaquiddick to retire at once."

"Perhaps Mary Jo Kopechne can be made 'Lady of the Lake'..."

"As for the wisdom of Kennedy being given this title by the Brits, Mary Joe Kopechne had no comment."

:-D
Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut  2009-03-04 19:00|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]  2009-03-04 19:00|| Front Page Top

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