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On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 12:56 AM, Piotr Antkowiak <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> SIR,
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> I congratulate you on the fantastic article !
> i would be absolute elated  if  more people  could see this horrible
> disease in so real terms.
> it can only help but. .nothing worse than cherishing   illusions.
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> --- On Sat, 8/29/09, rayilynlee <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> From: rayilynlee <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: DYNASTY
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Received: Saturday, August 29, 2009, 3:08 PM
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> Dear Tonetta:
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> I know what Kennedy did wrong because as a Republican until 2001 I also
> assailed him for his personal failings.
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> In 1996 I was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease and it is now 2009.
> During the past 13 years I have advocated for embryonic stem cell research,
> arguing against people like yourself and conservative legislators.
> Parkinson's disease destroys your life....slowly...you do not suddenly turn
> to stone.   It is very difficult to just exist, let alone fight for a cure.
> It is a cruel "life sentence" imposed on innocent people.
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> You just can't imagine how helpful it was to have had an important,
> effective, powerful senator like Kennedy, on your side.
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> Since his death, I have been reminded of how he always worked for people
> who had gotten the short stick in life.  Civil rights, Medicare, the
> Disabled, Veterans, Seniors, Immigrants, Education, Children's Health -
> these are all issues I agree with the senator on.   What has the Republican
> Party or you ever done for these people?
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> I was a Republican by birth, not by inclination.  I have always been a
> progressive/liberal because I believe we should improve the world, not be
> the party of "NO".
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> I don't think you have to answer for Kennedy's failings and personal
> faults, but you are responsible for what happens to your fellow human
> beings.
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> Ray
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> Rayilyn Brown
> Director AZNPF
> Arizona Chapter National Parkinson Foundation
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> From: Ray Toulouse
> Sent: Saturday, August 29, 2009 11:15 AM
> To: Rayilyn Brown ; Sam and Char Green ; Roger Edney
> Subject: FW: DYNASTY
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>           Subject: Kennedy  Dynasty
>          The   Last of The Kennedy
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>            Dynasty
>         As soon as  his cancer was detected, we noticed the immediate
> attempt at the "canonization" of old Teddy Kennedy by  the mainstream media.
> They are saying what a "great  American" he is.  I say, let's get a couple
> things clear & not twist the facts to change the  real history.
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>         1.    He was  caught cheating at Harvard when he attended it.   He
> was expelled twice, once for cheating on a  test, and once for paying a
> classmate to cheat for  him.
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>         2.    While expelled,  Kennedy enlisted in the Army, but mistakenly
> signed up  for four years instead of two.  Oops!  The  man can't count to
> four!  His father, Joseph P.  Kennedy, former U.S. Ambassador to E ngland (a
> step up  from bootlegging liquor into the US from Canada   during
> prohibition), pulled the necessary  strings to have his enlistment shortened
> to two years,  and to ensure that he served in E urope, not Korea ,  where a
> war was raging.  No preferential  treatment for him! (like he charged that
> President  Bush received).
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>         3.     Kennedy was assigned to Paris ,  never advanced beyond the
> rank of Private, and  returned to Harvard upon being discharged.   Imagine a
> person of his "education" N E V E R  advancing past the rank of Private!
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>          4.     While attending law school at the  University of Virginia ,
> he was cited for reckless  driving four times, including once when he was
> clocked  driving 90 miles per hour in a residential  neighborhood with his
> headlights off after dark.   Yet his Virginia driver's license was never
> revoked.  Coincidentally, he passed the bar exam  in 1959.  Amazing!
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>         5.     In 1964, he was seriously injured in  a plane crash, and
> hospitalized for several months.   Test results done by the hospital at the
> time he  was admitted had shown he was legally intoxicated.   The results of
> those tests remained a "state  secret" until in the 1980's when the report
> was  unsealed.  Didn't hear about that from the  unbiased media, did we?
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>         6.    On  July 19, 1969, Kennedy attended a party on
> Chappaquiddick Island in Massachusetts .  At  about 11:00 PM, he borrowed
> his chauffeur's keys to  his Oldsmobile limousine, and offered to give a
> ride  home to Mary Jo Kopechne, a campaign worker.   Leaving the island via
> an unlit bridge with no  guard rail, Kennedy steered the car off the
> bridge,  flipped, and into Poucha Pond.
>         7.     He swam to shore and walked back to  the party, passing
> several houses and a fire station.   Two friends then returned with him to
> the scene  of the accident.  According to their later  testimony, they told
> him what he already knew - that  he was required by law to immediately
> report the  accident to the authorities.  Instead Kennedy  made his way to
> his hotel, called his lawyer, and went  to sleep.  Kennedy called the police
> the next  morning and by then the wreck had already been  discovered.
> Before dying, Kopechne had scratched  at the upholstered floor above her
> head in the  upside-down car.
>         The Kennedy  family began "calling in favors", ensuring that any
> inquiry would be contained.  Her corpse was  whisked out-of-state to her
> family, before an autopsy  could be conducted.  Further details are
> uncertain, but after the accident Kennedy says he  repeatedly dove under the
> water trying to rescue  Kopechne and he didn't call police because he was in
> a  state of shock. It is widely assumed Kennedy was  drunk, and he held off
> calling police in hopes that  his family could fix the problem
> overnight.   Since the accident, Kennedy's "political  enemies" have
> referred to him as the distinguished  Senator from Chappaquiddick.  He pled
> guilty to  leaving the scene of an accident, and was given a SUSP  E ND E D
> S E NT E NC E OF TWO MONTHS.  Kopechne's  family received a small payout
> from the Kennedy's  insurance policy, and never sued  There was   later an
> effort to have her body exhumed and  autopsied,  but her
>  family  successfully  fought against this in court, and  Kennedy's
> family  paid their attorney's bills.. a "token of   friendship"?
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>         8.    Kennedy  has held his Senate seat for more than forty years,
> but considering his longevity, his accomplishments  seem scant.  He authored
> or argued for  legislation that ensured a variety of civil rights,
> increased the minimum wage in 1981, made access to  health care easier for
> the indigent, and funded Meals  on Wheels for fixed-income seniors and is
> widely held  as the "standard-bearer for liberalism". In his very  first
> Senate roll, he was the floor manager for the  bill that turned U.S.
> immigration policy upside down  and opened the floodgate for immigrants from
> third  world countries.
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>         9.    Since  that time, he has been the prime instigator and
> author  of every expansion of an increase in immigration, up  to and
> including the latest attempt to grant amnesty  to illegal aliens.  Not to
> mention the pious  grilling he gave the last two Bush Supreme Court
> nominees, as if he was the standard bearer for the  nation in matters of
> "what's right".
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>         10.     He is known around Washington as a  public drunk, loud,
> boisterous and very disrespectful  to ladies.  Must be a better description
> than  "great American".  "A blonde in every pond" is  his motto.
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>         Let's not  allow the spin doctors make this man a hero -- how
> quickly the American public forgets what his real  legacy is.  Let's keep
> this going for truth,  justice and the American  way!
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