The Senator

Considering that FatBoy's been out with a 1st-day-of-camp injury for all of camp and preseason, save for a few plays where he sucked out loud, I'd say the trade's looking even better than it did last week - particularly since now we know that (1) to pay that fat POS $11M/year would have been a total waste, and (2) now we know we're gonna need that money and that cap room for a decent QB next season.

Or, the Bills must fail to satisfy yours. Jason Peters = POS. It was a great trade for the Bills

Depends on your perspective - it was a great trade for the Bills; if you're an Eagles fan, you're team got screwed. But why don't you ask them? link

"First, let me say that we really, really like all our guys. They worked hard - really hard - all week in practice. We'll have to look at the tape, but I thought we did a lot of things well tonight - unfortunately, we also made a lot of mistakes. Some really, really bad ones, too. It just shows that we've still got a long way to go. Luckily, it's the preseason, and we've still got plenty of time to fix those mistakes before the games actually count."

Somethin' and somethin' baby!!! GO BILLSSS!!!! REVERSE THE CURSE!!!!!

Somehow this thread seems to have devolved into something other than it was intended - namely into an ideological debate of left vs. right. (No doubt a result of Tennee's attempt to deflect criticism of the late Senator Kennedy by introducing bizarre digressions about George & Laura Bush, Dick Cheney, et al, then exacerbated by backwards-baseball-cap-wearing Exile's prolonged hijacking.) I would like to return the thread to it's original intent - a tribute to the late...

Then you must be... Batman himself ...for all the sense your unreasoned arguments make! (I believe you're confusing Reagan with THE biggest charlatan of all time - Bill Clinton - for whom I did not vote.) So someone who actually practiced a trade, actually earned a living in the private sector, and pulled himself up 'by his bootstraps' to become a millionaire before becoming SAG president, governor of the nation's most populous state, and - finally - President of the United States, all without the help of a wealthy, politically-connected patriarch and his underworld ties, is - by the definition of one who wears his baseball cap backwards - a charlatan??? This would be as opposed to, say, someone like Kennedy or Bill Clinton - neither of whom ever held a non-government job, both instead choosing to spend their entire adult lives 'on the dole'??? Sounds like someone's been wearing their backwards baseball cap too tight. Please - riddle me this, Batman... or How does one go from supporting Ted Kennedy to voting for Ronald Reagan? Though it will likely fall on deaf ears, let me try to explain once more - in 1980 I was not affiliated with any political party, but the choice between Carter and Reagan was a simple one, one that even you could have made. As I already cited, under Carter unemployment hovered around 10%, inflation near 14%, and interest rates 21%. Think about that for a moment - those numbers are unbelievable. (As a comparison, inflation is now flat, today's mortgage rates hover around 5%, and zero-interest loans are not unheard of in the automobile and durable goods industries.) In the Carter years, for those lucky enough to be employed, whatever income was not consumed by excessive taxes was usurped by astronomical interest rates, placing home-ownership - or even major purchases such as automobiles - beyond the reach of a large portion of the voting public (the demographics of whom would, I'm guessing, make most of them the lifeblood of the democratic party). During the Carter administration, Iran fell into the hands of an extremist Islamic regime that thumbed their noses at the U.S., taking and holding 53 Americans hostage for well over a year and periodically parading them - restrained and blindfolded - in front of world news cameras for public consumption while, in the meantime, the Soviet Union marched unopposed into Afghanistan, placing them perilously close to the Middle East and control of the world's oil supply. Carter's response? To blame the American public. In in 1979 Carter gave a speech now known as the "Malaise Speech" - he went on national television, looked straight at the American people, and decried a “growing disrespect for government” and “fragmentation and self-interest” that prevented Americans from tackling the energy crisis they confronted – the result of their over-reliance upon fossil fuels. Americans, he warned, now faced a “crisis of confidence.” Carter's solution? He instructed us to turn down our thermostats and wear sweaters. And, as a show of great resolve to the Soviet Union, their aggression against the Afghan people, and threat to the western world's oil supply, he responded by boycotting the 1980 Moscow Olympics - which certainly annoyed the Soviets but only served to punish, more than anyone else, the American athletes who had trained their entire lives for the event. As I said, the choice was a simple one - one that even you could have made. While Carter blamed the American people for a national malaise, Reagan gave a message of hope and optimism, won the support of Democrats and Republicans alike, and enjoyed one of the greatest electoral landslides in history. Iran - fearful of what the 'Amercian Cowboy' might do - released the hostages on the day of his inauguration. The Soviets were expelled from Afghanistan (see Charlie Wilson's War). Eventually democracy broke out in Poland, then East Berlin crumbled. The Wall (that went up during JFK's administration) came down. The Cold War was won without firing a single shot (as opposed to JFK's starting an arms race that brought the world to the brink of destruction). And the U.S. experienced the longest peacetime economic expansion in its history. So I ask you again... or...

Personally, I think the backwards baseball cap makes a very loud fashion-statement - it just screams out loud, "HEY!!!! LOOK AT ME...I DRESS LIKE AN IDIOT!!!!!" But in your case - backwards, frontwards, sideways, whatever - it doesn't make much difference, since that lump between your shoulders is nothing more than a hat rack anyway!

Yes, it's obvious to all - from the way you wear your baseball cap backwards - that you're a man of extreme intelligence.

Dude...so where was you went to major in Stupid? See, just when I was ready to give you the benefit of the doubt, just beginning to think, 'Hey, maybe the guy's not retarded...' (What with this "Dude" schitt anyway? What an absolutely ridiculous, stupid-sounding, intellectually-vapid vernacular your age-group affects, no?) Of what 'liberal hate' is it you speak? You know nothing of my political leanings - or personal sentiment - so why shoot your mouth off in such an ignorant manner? KNOW, before you speak - otherwise, you come off like Tennessee Boy. FYI, in the late '60s and early 70s I was in grade school. And in the first Presidential election in which I was old enough to vote, I was actually supporting - get this - TED KENNEDY - in his primary battle against the incumbent President, an incompetent peanut farmer from Georgia. (Not that hard to fathom, really, when you consider that unemployment hovered around 10%, inflation near 14%, interest rates at 21%, and 53 Americans had been held hostage in Iran for well over a year.) And Ted was leading in all the polls - right up until the day he declared his candidacy! Watching Kennedy self-destruct, in one of the most incompetent campaigns I've ever seen, led me to read everything I could get my hands on about the jerk. The more I read, the more I wanted to know - not just about him, but the whole Kennedy myth. Naturally, the more I learned, the more disgusted I became. Eventually I came to understand how charlatans like the Kennedys can captivate the imagination of a unknowing, hero-starved electorate, and how rhetoric is sometimes an effective substitute for substance and results. And, since I wasn't about to vote for Carter (for reasons already mentioned), after Kennedy flamed-out I voted for Reagan. BTW - the last time I had to put up with smelly hippies frolicking in the mud was some time around 1996 in Golden Gate Park where time has apparently stood still since 1967. Now I just have to put up with smelly, unwashed, uneducated, inarticulate millenials and echo boomers with lousy taste in fashion and music, and an overabundance of piercings and tatoos.

For the life of me, EII, I can't understand why you haven't brought up the Kanes' guilty plea yesterday, but let's save that for another thread - I'm having too much fun bashing that murdering scumbag Ted Kennedy, and exposing Tennessee Boy for the ridiculous charlatan he is!

Almost, DC, but more like... The Senator: "Ted Kennedy is a murderous, misogynist scumbag who, just like the rest of his family, used power and privilege to avoid the consequences of his miscreant behavior!" Tenny: "Oh yeah? I suggest you find the legal definition of murder - which, btw, no judge or grand jury ever charged against TK." The Senator: "That's because the foreman of that grand jury claims they were manipulated by a judge, police, and other authorities, who blocked them from doing their job and conducting a thorough investigation. Here's ample attribution from several credible sources, along with a detailed explanation of the penal code you requested, particularly as it relates to murder and malice aforethought. Tenny: (puts fingers in ears) "I can't hear you. La la la la la la..." The Senator: "I SAID, I HERE'S EVERYTHING YOU ASKED FOR - EVERYTHING YOU CLAIMED DID NOT EXIST!!!!" Tenny: "I still can't hear you. Neener neener neener neener...I'm not going to look at any of it...neener neener neener...I never said George Bush and Dick Cheney were dead...neener neener neener...Laura Bush was never charged with murder...neener neener neener...end of story...neener neener neener..."

End of story? No, actually that IS the story - that Ted Kennedy and the whole freakin' Kennedy clan are a bunch of lying scumbags who use their power and privilege to circumvent the law, and avoid its consequences when they run afoul of it. That was the point, which you now seem to have conveniently forgotten. You attempted to proffer that there was no basis for a murder charge because no judge or grand jury made such a charge... To which I pointed out that you were simply ignorant of that fact that the foreman of the grand jury alleged corruption by a judge, several police officers, and other authorities to prevent them from conducting a legitimate investigation of the crime... In a recent interview with The Vineyard Gazette, Leslie Leland, the foreman of the grand jury that investigated the accident, said the panel was pressured by a judge and a prosecutor not to pursue the case. ''I think that we were manipulated,'' Mr. Leland said, ''and I think that we were blocked from doing our job, and if you want to use the word cover-up, then O.K., that's what it was.'' Ms. Kopechne's parents also spoke up recently, in the July issue of Ladies' Home Journal. ''He was worried about himself, not about Mary Jo,'' said Joseph Kopechne. Gwen Kopechne insisted, ''Somebody's hiding something.'' Link - New York Times (your 'Bible', I believe) That allegation of corruption and a cover-up is well-supported by John Farrar - the diver that recovered Mary Jo Kopechne's body... Link - Farrar interview And even the Massachusetts State Police detective who investigated the accident stated, "Senator Kennedy killed that girl the same as if he put a gun to her head and pulled the trigger." - George Killen ~ State Police Detective-Lieutenant THAT never was a story, until YOU introduced it as a most bizarre and obtuse digression - one that, BTW, made absolutely no sense whatsoever. Kinda of like saying, "My uncle has a red pencil box. So there. End of THAT story." Yes - that IS the end of THAT story, because, well, because it's impossible to see that which you haven't bothered to see! You haven't read any of the books I cited. Not a single one. Not even the first one - The Senator: My Ten Years with Ted Kennedy) by Kennedy-aide Richard Burke, whom you frantically attempted to discredit, then proudly posted the results of your cursory Internet search - which was, BTW, nothing more that a hasty and desperate smear-campaign by the Kennedy machine, one they began mobilizing even before the book's publication to undermine the author's first-hand revelation of Kennedy's miscreant behavior. Try to remember - I posted, in response to Sage, that if he really wanted to know what Ted Kennedy was all about, read something other than the revisionist hero worship of the Kennedy sycophants. I suggested Burke's tome. You ran to Google to find disparaging info on the author. I stated I could provide many others, which I did. The reason you see nothing in them is because you haven't read - nor seen - a single one of them. Eureka! You've finally made a factual and relevant remark. You seem to have a hard time staying 'on point' - or, for that matter, even remembering what the point is. 'el Tigre' posted... to which I responded... to which you came back with the obtuse remark... You see, the whole exchange was about not speaking ill of the dead. Your introduction of Bush and Cheney into the exchange was as obtuse as your strange digression regarding Laura Bush earlier in the thread. They have wonderful new drugs for ADD these days - you should get some.

A great blues-man and pioneer of the unique Fender Telecaster sound, I've never heard anyone produce such an amazing range of effects from that instrument quite like the late.... Roy Buchanan

So George W. Bush inherited the Al-Qaeda problem from Bill Clinton, and Clinton's failure to deal with Osama Bin Laden is the reason we had 9/11. I never thought someone of your ilk would have admitted that, but thanks for clearing that up. Damned right the missile crisis was significant - JFK and his inexperienced, naive band of Harvard ninnies nearly blew up the planet. I'll concede that the Peace Corps provided a haven for a generation of wayward idealists while accomplishing a modicum of good, but the Civil Rights Act was Johnson's baby. The Kennedy brothers were more interested in reelection than civil rights, never trusted MLK, and kept him 'at arm's length' - going so far as to wiretap his phones. You are obviously a huge admirer of the late senator - you should get one of these commemorative t-shirts... Ted Kennedy 1932-2009 First, you are not that naive enough to think that the 'Kennedy Machine' did not bring to bear all of its resources to ensure that Teddy received nothing more than a suspended sentence for the misdemeanor crime of 'leaving the scene of an accident', after failing to report the incident for 10 hours, are you? Perhaps statements by the foreman of that grand jury may persuade you otherwise... Juror Alleges Coverup on Chappaquiddick Second, you are not silly enough to suggest that everyone gets that kind of preferential treatment, are you? Ex-attorney sentenced in fatal hit-and-run I'm quite comfortable stating that Kennedy's actions that night - namely, getting behind the wheel of a car while under the influence, driving off a bridge, then failing to report the incident for 10 hours while his passenger (who many say could have been saved had Kennedy acted immediately) struggled until her dying breath to find pockets of air - meet the legal definition of murder - The precise definition of murder varies from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. Under the Common Law, or law made by courts, murder was the unlawful killing of a human being with malice aforethought. The term malice aforethought did not necessarily mean that the killer planned or premeditated on the killing, or that he or she felt malice toward the victim. Generally, malice aforethought referred to a level of intent or recklessness that separated murder from other killings and warranted stiffer punishment. The definition of murder has evolved over several centuries. Under most modern statutes in the United States, murder comes in four varieties: (1) intentional murder; (2) a killing that resulted from the intent to do serious bodily injury; (3) a killing that resulted from a depraved heart or extreme recklessness; and (4) murder committed by an Accomplice during the commission of, attempt of, or flight from certain felonies. Some jurisdictions still use the term malice aforethought to define intentional murder, but many have changed or elaborated on the term in order to describe more clearly a murderous state of mind. California has retained the malice aforethought definition of murder (Cal. Penal Code § 187 [West 1996]). It also maintains a statute that defines the term malice. Under section 188 of the California Penal Code, malice is divided into two types: express and implied. Express malice exists "when there is manifested a deliberate intention unlawfully to take away the life of a fellow creature." Malice may be implied by a judge or jury "when no considerable provocation appears, or when the circumstances attending the killing show an abandoned and malignant heart." I've already given you the one above (the one about the Chappaquiddick grand jury foreman alleging a cover-up) from your Bible - The New York Times - so I guess I owe you 19 more. And since you didn't refute the Washington Times restaurant story about TK and Chris Dodd attacking the waitress in the room known as 'Ted Kennedy's Fun Room' and breaking up the place (behavior for which you, I, and most others would surely have been arrested), let's make it 18 more. And since you didn't refute or try to discredit the rape victim, Patricia Bowman (thank you for that), we'll whittle it down to 17. Here ya go, starting with an actual participant in the events of July 18, 1969... 1.) Chappaquiddick Diver John Farrar And continuing... Two decades after the horrific event more light was shed on the cover-up when the foreman of the grand jury that investigated the accident, came forward and confessed that the panel was pressured by a judge and a prosecutor not to pursue the case. The foreman said the jury was manipulated and blocked from doing its job. Regardless of this shameful event, Kennedy remains a fixture in the U.S. Senate. He usually loves the media, but made sure to avoid reporters when Gwen Kopechne died this week in a Plains Township nursing home. She was 89 and never got over the death of her only daughter. 2.) Link - Sen. Ted Kennedy Outlives Family He Ruined And... Just past midnight on Saturday, July 19, 1969, Senator Ted Kennedy drove his black Oldsmobile sedan off a bridge on Chappaquiddick Island near Martha's Vineyard, just off Cape Cod. The Senator escaped a watery death, but a passenger in his car, twenty-eight-year-old Mary Jo Kopechne, did not. The Democrat icon murderer, Ted 'Splash' Kennedy best represents the decadent and immoral standard of the utterly debased and corrupt Democrat party. He is their lion, their standard bearer (more like pall bearer). "Senator Kennedy killed that girl the same as if he put a gun to her head and pulled the trigger." - George Killen ~ State Police Detective-Lieutenant who investigated the accident 3.) Link - Mary Jo Kopechne, it was forty years ago today Continuing on... Once he reached shore, Kennedy claims to have made seven or eight attempts to rescue Kopechne, but could not free her. Kennedy then walked back to the cottage where he and four other men, were partying with several young women known as the “Boiler Room Girls“ who had worked on Robert Kennedy‘s campaign. Though Kennedy passed by a fire station and a private home to return to the cottage, he never stopped to ask for help for the trapped Kopechne. He returned to the party and according to Kennedy himself, informed his cousin and a friend of the situation. The two men, Joseph Gargan and Paul Markham claim to have returned to the scene of the accident and made several unsuccessful attempts to free Kopechne. Then Kennedy’s story takes an even stranger turn. After the failed rescue attempts, Kennedy claims to have jumped back into the water and made the 500-foot swim across the channel back to Edgartown. He then walked back to his hotel and spent the night. He even took the time to change clothes and pay a visit to the front-desk, to complain about a noisy party--no doubt Kennedy's sloppy attempt at securing an alibi. The next morning, Gargan and Markham, who finally reported the incident around 8:00 a.m., were supposedly shocked to discover that Kennedy never reported the accident to police. 4.) Link - Kennedy's story still doubtful One last reference to the events of July 18/19, 1969... Manslaughter might have been forgiven if Kennedy hadn't decided to evade responsibility for the accident and cover it up by failing to report it, trying to co-opt one of his aides to cop to being the driver, and then leaving them to try and fix it for him for over seven hours. Worse, Mary Jo Kopechne, whose drowned body was found in a position trying to eke out the last molecules of air within the submerged car, was left to drown by the self-involved Senator who chose not to seek immediate help. 5.) Link - Death at Chappaquiddick: Mary Jo WHO? And now for some books, articles, and authors - along with their opinions of Ted, his neglect of his first wife Joan, his cheating on her, her subsequent descent into alcoholism, the Harvard cheating scandal, Papa Joe's 'fixing' of Ted's military enlistment blunder, and the Kennedy men in general, that you may feel free to discredit at your leisure. Lets start with 'one of our own' - Buffalonian Ed Cuddihy's critique of Kennedy apologist and sycophant Edward Klein's latest work of fiction, Ted Kennedy: The Dream That Never Died... Klein cannot ignore the Kennedy family skeletons nor Ted’s many warts, but even so, and despite his denials, Klein is clearly a Kennedy apologist. Just as in an earlier book, Klein blamed the Irish potato famine of the 1840s for the Kennedys’ legendary drinking and womanizing, in this one, he excuses Ted’s inability to control the “Irish demons” by claiming Ted’s position as the youngest of nine driven children made his weaknesses all but inevitable. In fact, when he raises Kennedy to the same pedestal as Senate icons Clay and Webster, he does so by pointing out that they, too, were great statesmen whose lives “were dedicated to lechery . . . and self-gratification.” It is as if to say: Back off. It goes with the territory. 6.) Link - Ed Cuddihy, Buffalo News - Ted Kennedy chronicler offers apologies, insights Here's one from Time magazine - another trusted publication of yours, I presume... A lifetime of hard, and often selfish, living also took its toll on Kennedy. In 1951, as a freshman at Harvard who was more interested in football than his studies, Kennedy arranged for a friend to take his spring Spanish exam. He was caught cheating and was subsequently expelled from the school for two years, during which time he served as a military police officer in Paris, at the arrangement of his father. Years later, while he was a law student at the University of Virginia, Kennedy was arrested for reckless driving, after a chase with police. 7.) Link -Ted Kennedy's Legacy: His Darkest Moments I trust that ABC News is acceptably left-leaning enough for you... Ted Kennedy’s sometimes stormy personal life was always fodder for his critics and the tabloids. Yet one scandal often forgotten centers on his abrupt exit from Harvard in the spring of 1951. Then a freshman, Kennedy was forced to withdraw from Harvard for two years after cheating on a Spanish final. According to “The Education of Edward Kennedy,” by Burton Hersh, the future U.S. Senator and presidential candidate had the roommate of one of his football teammates take the exam for him. Within minutes of the exam's conclusion, Kennedy got a call from the Dean’s office announcing his immediate suspension. The story eventually made the front page of the Boston Globe. 8.) Link - ABC News - Kennedy, Harvard, and That Spanish Exam Just in case you don't believe them, I'll save you the trouble of refuting... 9.) Link - Boston Globe front page - March 30, 1962 Before this gets too lengthy (that ship does seem to have already sailed, but you insisted on 20)... 10.) Death at Chappaquiddick, Richard and Thomas Tedrow 11.) The Education of Edward Kennedy, Burton Hersh 12.) The Last Brother : The Rise and Fall of Teddy Kennedy, Joe McGinnis 13.) The Kennedy Men: Three Generations Of Sex, Scandal And Secrets, Nellie Bly 14.) The Sins of the Father: Joseph P. Kennedy and the Dynasty he Founded, Ronald Kesslar 15.) The Dark Side of Camelot, Seymour Hersh 16.) Rethinking Kennedy: An Interpretive Biography, Michael O'Brien 17.) A Question of Character: A Life of John F. Kennedy, Thomas Reeves And because I'm a nice guy, I can't resist throwing in a little bonus (although you may feel free to refute it) from the late Crown Prince of Camelot himself - JFK, Jr. (God rest his soul)... Link - "My cousins are poster children for bad behavior."

Careful what you wish for. I'm glad you did not refute the Drunken Ted/Chris Dodd waitress-abusing/restaurant-demolition story recounted in the Washington Times, and relieved that you made no attempt to impugn or refute the rape victim, Patricia Bowman.

HAPPY NATAL ANNIVERSARIES!!!! Cheers

Thanks. Where the f&kc have I been? I didn't even realize that Bush and Cheney were dead.

Fair enough, K-9 - but just remember that the most rabid Losman-bashers relentlessly proffered the arguments, "Well, he still gains experience standing on the sidelines holding a clipboard," or "So you're saying that OTAs, training camps, classroom time, practices, and just being on an NFL team don't count?" Just sayin'. Same yardstick for Edwards that was used for Losman, please.

Now, by "fond memories of Camelot", are you referring to the Bay of Pigs, the loss of Cuba, being brought to the brink of nuclear annihilation, and an escalation of the war in southeast Asia? (JFK accomplished all that all in a mere 1000 days - imagine what he might have done in full term...or two!) I'm glad you chose the term "Camelot" - as the as the many romantic myths surrounding the JFK administration are as much folklore as the legend of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table! The notion of "Camelot" - and the very term itself, as it is used to refer to JFK's brief time as President - was coined/fabricated by Jackie purely for public consumption, in an interview with T.H. White for LIFE magazine a week after the assassination, and then expanded and perpetuated by a slew of other Kennedy sycophants. Ted's dead. People who are naive about his past want to grieve. I get that. But please, no more blind hero worship. That family has a history of misogyny and criminal behavior that goes all the way back to Ambassador Joe's bootlegging, stock-market manipulation, and dealings with the mob - including 'buying' the 1960 Presidential election. And, BTW - Obama was on Marxist Vineyard, right across Nantucket Sound from Hyannisport, yet he thought it better to squeeze in a round of golf instead of visiting the dying senator who basically derailed Hillary's campaign by endorsing/annointing Obama? Nice guy, that Barry Obama.

Sorry, dog - I was gonna leave this thread alone, but I just can't. Why is it that the Losman-bashers count his broken-leg rookie season a full year, and 2005 - when Mularkey kept yanking him for Kelly Holcomb - as a full year, and 2007 - when Wilford's cheap-shot to Losman's knee took him out in September - as a full year, yet Trentative Checkwards doesn't even have two full seasons?????!!!!!!!! (And this is NOT a 'JP Losman is better then Trent Edwards' thread - just a plea for consistency - regardless of circumstances, bad coaching, multiple HCs/OCs, whatever, they BOTH suck.) Let's just please use the same yardstick for Edwards that we used for Losman- this is Los Gatos Boy's THIRD SEASON as a starting NFL QB.

You picked the obvious one - and I'm surprised it took a whole 8 minutes for someone to come up with that response. But, like your misguided worship of that murderous misogynist, Ted Kennedy, your statement about Mussolini is also a vile canard... Loco Motive

Got it. Let's hear some positives about Hitler and Mussolini.

I notice you didn't try to discredit the Washington Times excerpt. I have an 11:30 meeting with a retired judge who gets cranky when I'm late, so don't have time for this nonsense right now - will cite another 20 or so authors later, so you can spend the rest of the evening discrediting them.

'Marred by his youth', huh? He was 57 years old at the time of this incident... In the Summer of 1989 Kennedy and fellow Senator Chris Dodd were having lunch at famous Washington D.C. restaurant La Brasserie. Kennedy requested the attendance of waitress Carla Gaviglio. According to the Washington Times... "When she put in an appearance in their private retreat - 'The Teddy Kennedy Fun Room' - the Massachusetts senator picked her up and heaved her onto a table. The crystal candlesticks and champagne glasses shattered as he grabbed her again and flung her on top of Dodd. "Then Kennedy threw himself on top of the woman. The waitress implored Mr. Kennedy to 'Get off me!' "Another waitress entered to find 'things all tipped over and Kennedy was on top, [the waitress] was in the middle and Dodd was on the bottom.' At that point the sandwich was disassembled." Two years later, on Good Friday, the now 59-year old senior senator from Massachusetts went out drinking and carousing with his young nephews in Palm Beach. Later that evening, Patricia Bowman ended up being raped on the beach by Kennedy nephew William Smith. Patricia Bowman later told her best friend that while she was being raped and shouting for help, that Sen. Ted Kennedy was nearby, watching, and did nothing. I you really want to know about Edward Moore Kennedy - booze, pills, poppers, cocaine, and all - get yourself a copy of Richard Burke's book... The Senator: My Ten Years with Ted Kennedy TK was a spoiled frat boy that never grew up, and used his family's money and privilege to hold himself above the law.