Such tragedy, that this 80-year-old lifelong politician never really got his “shot” in the limelight.
Ha ha, that is a joke about Arlen Specter’s first famous political thing, which was authoring the bizarre fantasy known as the “single bullet theory,” in which a single bullet from Lee Harvey Oswald’s gun was responsible for about a hundred different wounds through the bodies of President John F. Kennedy and Texas Governor John Connally. Later, he heartily endorsed the McCain-Palin 2008 ticket. This concludes our only edition of Great Moments in the Life of Arlen Specter. [Philly.com/PA2010]
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According to your story, Hernandez passes you and starts walking up the ramp. Then you say you were struck on the right temple. The spit then proceeds to ricochet off the temple, striking Newman between the third and fourth rib. The spit then came off the rib turned and hit Newman in the right wrist, causing him to drop his baseball cap. The spit then splashed off the wrist, pauses — in mid air, mind you — makes a left turn and lands on Newman’s left thigh.
That is one magic loogie.
I miss Bill Hicks
I’m sure that tears passed down the troughs of his cheeks.
And what of the Gurley Martin surge in Kentucky? Only 2%? Meh.
[re=580289]DoktorZoom[/re]: With his ability to come up with such a far fetched scenario, no wonder he thought he could win a primary for a 6-year position that will start when he’s nearly 81. I have some respect for Arlen, but jebus, it’s time to go home, dude.
Straight to number one with a bullet.
Maybe the Senate is as addicting as crack but these septuagenarians just can’t let it go. Adios Spector and I hope McCain, Byrd, Lieberman and many others follow you.
It’s time for Shady Pines, Arlen. Dinner at four o’clock and all the prune juice you care to drink. Enjoy retirement!
[re=580298]chascates[/re]: Yep, we’ll be watching Walnuts! making the same speech after the AZ primary. Teabag fever has swept the nation! Love how Ayn Rand Paul worked in a little climate change denialism in his victory speech.
and allllllll the Dutch Cleanser you can smoke.
Specter is a ghost! Ha! See what I did there?
Yes boys, that’s what it feels like to buggered by an expert strap-on artist!
Ken, speaking of the Kennedys, and OT, but Robert K., Jr.’s wife has been arrested for DUI. What IS it @ those Kennedy men that drive some of their women to drink? And wasn’t she the “trophy” wife that Robert Jr. left wife #1 for and over wife #1′s protests, had his marriage annulled so he could still have a career in politics as well as receive sacraments in the Pope’s holy church? — or maybe it’s just Catholicism in general. Poor Mary Kennedy.
[re=580291]druranium[/re]: This. On the book depository in Dallas:
“They have the window set up to look exactly like it did that day. It’s real accurate, you know, cause Oswald’s not in it.
I don’t know who did their research, but I’m talking painstaking detail…
There’s no fucking way, man. Not unless Oswald was hanging by his toes, off the fucking ledge… surely someone would have seen this.”
[re=580329]subo[/re]: Yeah, I knew that “magic bullet” shit would come back to haunt the old bastard.
Off-topic: What happened to Andrea Mitchell’s face? She looks different. Better actually. Maybe Arlen’s plastic surgeon fiddled with her while she was following him around Philly this spring. The doctor needs a new customer now that Arlen won’t need his weekly “No, I’m not dead” touch-ups anymore. Woot!
Fuck you guys.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSBXW1-VGmM
So … Lizard People killed Kennedy? Is that what I’m hearing? Cuz I could go with that.
what, you’re gonna sum up the illustrious career of Specter, and not even mention Anita Hill?
[re=580292]What Fresh Hell is This?[/re]: Gurley Martin 2012!!!!!!!!!
[re=580298]chascates[/re]: so, has Spector decided to pull a Lieberman yet? Has he offered to finally tell The Truth about ‘the Kennedy Affair’ if he’s re-elected to the sweet sweet Senate this November?
Well he did vote for the bailout. Of course it would’ve worked better if it hadn’t been stuffed with tax cuts to appease the cult of tax cuts, of which he’s been a longtime member. Then again, that vote spurred the GOP — who’ve complained long and loud about how the administration isn’t bipartisan enough — to try to give him the heave-ho, which is why he switched to the Democrats. At that point he must’ve realized his political career was over, barring a miracle. Anyway, it was pretty much the political equivalent of a rundown in baseball — and ended in the usual way, too.
[re=580333]Jukesgrrl[/re]: It’s just the result of Alan Greenspan having more time at home, where he’s finally able to treat Andrea right.
[re=580360]Mr Blifil[/re]: Buttseks?
Who else remembers him from the Anita Hill debacle? Whata total JERK.
[re=580362]Bearbloke[/re]: I’m not sure Blifil goes that way.
[re=580351]Bearbloke[/re]: I must see this Oprah episode with Jello Biafra and Tipper Gore. To youtube!
Trivia:
When Arlen looked at becoming DA of Philadelphia, he was a Dem. The Dem primary field was too crowded, so he became a Repug and won. Then he ran for US Senator as a Rethug from urban Pennsylvania; almost as if were a Democrat. And he split his votes in the Senate, keeping everyone guessing and courting. Moderate Republican or tissue-paper Centerist Democrat?
Not too opportinistic, no.
Game’s up.
Now do we finally get to find out who killed Kennedy? And how they hid Obama’s real birth certificate?
[re=580379]Lionel Hutz Esq.[/re]: JFK took Obama’s secret to the grave!
It’s a new era for Philly–Kevin Kolb, now Sestak. Turnin’ oover a new fuggin’ leaf.
“Christ, what an asshole.”
Wow, it works for photos on Wonkette as well!
[re=580303]RoscoePColtraine[/re]: …and Wednesday night is sloppy joe night,yum
Okay, Arlen, you know the drill:
Back, & to the Hamptons … back, & to the Hamptons … back …
[re=580338]BarackMyWorld[/re]: Thank you. Bill Hicks = great comedian, but not much of a crime solver. And Oliver Stone is a fucking nutjob, matched only by Jim Garrison. “Back, and to the left,” is what happens when the right front of your skull pops open and ejects your brains out, Ollie.
[re=580399]Lazy Media[/re]: *please* don’t tell me you think Oswald did it alone….
Jim Garrison was NOT a nutjob, nor is Stone.
[re=580375]S.Luggo[/re]: Trivia question… when Arlen ran for D.A. who was the other guy who was part of the slogan, “they’re young, they’re tough and nobody owns them?”
Hint – he was one of the greatest basketball player in Philly history.
Political and baketball trivia at the same time – and it’s not bill Bradley or Tom McMillan.
[re=580327]Words[/re]: You’ve got the wrong Kennedy there. It is Joseph Kennedy III who had his marriage to first wife (mother of his twin sons) annulled so that he could marry second wife and remain in the Church. I’m sure RFK, Jr. has his own flaws, but the above is not one of them.
[re=580399]Lazy Media[/re]: Oh, so you’re an expert on brain ejection. Well excuuuuuse me!
http://bln.gs/b/1ujvwa
Can’t he now run as an independent? Call up Joe Lieberman for advice.
[re=580364]Denverite[/re]: I remember clearly. I kept wondering all night if anyone on MSNBC would ever mention it (they did not). I’m glad Specter is gone for that reason alone.
[re=580375]S.Luggo[/re]: Thank you. WADR to Ken, that headline should be Democrat/Republican/Democrat/Unemployed.
[re=580291]druranium[/re]: *sigh* me too.
[re=580383]Bearbloke[/re]: You mean that JFK was a secret Muslim and Obama’s real father?
[re=580329]subo[/re]: Don’t forget being held up by anti-Castro pigeons. “Coup, coup.”
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