Yes, I saw in the local paper that was today.

The National Lampoon was sued for this {obvious} parody, not by the Kennedy family, but by Volkswagen.  After proclaiming over and over that their car floats.

They dropped the suit once they heard the amount of laughter at their expense.

Last edited by Baywolfe (2019-07-18 16:34:17)

I for one am glad these days are gone. It just went on too long, over and over and over again all this stuff about Chappaquiddick and Ted Kennedy's career. Boring

Now we know the truth. The president can shoot a man on 5th avenue in broad daylight and face no consequences. Might even be cheered on. Makes Duterte bluster seem like putz from a softie.

Wait a minute, how could we have forgotten this trivial tidbit? I am exercising my right to change my mind. It wasn't boring at all in the past. These eminent public leaders had it going on. It is bloody BORING now what the current lot is up to.

In the days immediately after the Watergate break-in of June 17, 1972, Mitchell enlisted former FBI agent Steve King to prevent his wife Martha from learning about the break-in or contacting reporters. While she was on a phone call with journalist Helen Thomas about the break-in, King pulled the phone cord from the wall. Mrs. Mitchell was held against her will in a California hotel room and forcefully sedated by a psychiatrist after a physical struggle with five men that left her needing stitches. Nixon aides, in an effort to discredit her, told the press that she had a "drinking problem". Nixon was later to tell interviewer David Frost in 1977 that Martha was a distraction to John Mitchell, such that no one was minding the store, and "If it hadn't been for Martha Mitchell, there'd have been no Watergate."

In 1972, when asked to comment about a forthcoming article that reported that he controlled a political slush fund used for gathering intelligence on the Democrats, he famously uttered an implied threat to reporter Carl Bernstein: "Katie Graham's gonna get her tit caught in a big fat wringer if that's published."

We, not of the northeast, have all but forgotten about the Live Kennedys.  If John or Bobby had not been shot, well they'd probably be dead or in their drools anyway, but I can't see them allowing this kind of nonsense to survive inside the clan while they were alive.

Emmeran wrote:

choad wrote:

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/05/08/robert-kennedy-jr-measles-vaccines-226798

The medical industry from GP to Big Pharma brought this on themselves, why the fuck should we trust anyone who pushed opiates on trusting patients creating the tragedy we have playing out in our society now?? 

Fuck them all.

True. The nation's two primary opioid beneficiaries are the only two drug store chains I can reach from here, both now visibly profiting from the methadone 'cure'.

But I'm old enough to remember polio victims among classmates just a couple years older. And if there were vaccines for mumps, measles, chicken pox and rubella when I was a kid, I got the real thing instead, dutifully passing it along to my younger siblings. None of that was fun.

Vaccines are always a risk, with predictable mortality rates, but the alternative is infinitely worse. Their logic and track record after 300+ years is unassailable, often proven to little purpose. The only constant here is humans are stoopid.