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As a U.S. senator, Kennedy earned a base salary of $165,200 a year, but that just skimmed the surface of his net worth.

On the most recent report in 2008, which includes his own assets and those of his wife and any dependents, Kennedy listed a string of publicly and non-publicly traded trusts and assets. Under the filing rules, Kennedy was only required to place the value of those assets within a range, rather than give an exact dollar amount.

The report placed the net worth of his publicly traded assets somewhere between a low of $15 million and high of $72.6 million.

Just a year earlier, Kennedy reported somewhat rosier totals that placed his publicly traded assets somewhere between a low of $46.9 million and a high of $157 million.

Kennedy has other sources of income, including $1,995,833 in royalties he received from Grand Central Publishing a division of Hachette Group Book, publishers of his memoir True Compass scheduled for release in mid-September. Part of the proceeds will go to charity, including the John F. Kennedy Library.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090830/ap_on_re_us/us_kennedy_fortune

Rather redefines the words ‘chutzpah’ considering they paid off Mr. & Mrs. Kopechne with approximately $150,000. A very odd title – True Compass, from a man who didn’t have a moral one.

That’s why over any long period of time, regardless of what Republicans do legislatively, Republicans lose power and Democrats gain it.

They don’t have to get rid of Republicans via the electoral system. The character assassination method is very efficient for them as a way to remove from power particular obstacles.

After all, “better one of our’uns than your’uns.

It’s a thoroughly amoral and unethical approach… and thoroughly secular as well.

It’s good to keep in mind that conservatives don’t put up with our scum once we find them out (and they eventually get found out! Hear me, Larry Craig!) Liberals on the other hand seem to accept anything from their own. Bill Clinton and Monica, Jefferson and his foil-wrapped money in the fridge, sexual scandals galore… they accept it all.

But yes, Ted Kennedy’s traitorous overtures to Moscow, and leaving Mary Jo to die and then covering it up… it takes the cake. And the fawning tributes in the media leave me sickened. I try to believe that it is only a symptom of our media’s celebrity-driven culture, but I’m still troubled by the media coverage.

As Helen has said, white privilege and systemic racism is endemic because of the privileges given to whites. Not even OJ Simpson, a black man, could get away without a full media trial for murder. But Ted Kennedy, the rich white boy, could.

The Left claims they are against white privilege. Then again, it seems very convenient for them to utilize in their personal lives, Al Gore included.

“Here’s what Father Euteneur, President of Human Life International had to say about this great scandal, of which I totally agree. And this was written before the funeral.

‘ Senator Kennedy needs to be sent to the afterlife with a private, family-only funeral and the prayers of the Church for the salvation of his immortal soul. He will not be missed by the unborn who he betrayed time and time again, nor by the rest of us who are laboring to undo the scandalous example of Catholicism that he gave to three generations of Americans.

Sincerely,

Rev. Thomas J. Euteneuer,
President, Human Life International’ “

My friend Zhombre was at the bookstore perusing the shelves when he came across a Penguin Press book entitled “The Inaugural Address, 2009.” That’s well and good. I’m sure there are some in America who want to clutch this banal……

The news lines are aflutter with the fact that the Vatican has kept mum about Kennedy’s death. This is scarcely surprising given that Kennedy, although raised a Catholic, took (and sought to use his political power to impose on America)……