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During the introduction, "Good Day" aired a clip from Kat's show "L.A. Ink" -- showing Kat getting a tattoo of Jesse James on her side -- and anchor Jeff Michael mentioned she got the tattoo before she and Jesse called it quits.
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I tweeted him: So we're just nerfing PVE damage for PVP with no compensation? Sounds fair.
Because that just makes that trinket utter crap if they just nerfed the proc by 1900 agility. You'll be lucky to even get 1300 agility out of if. Back to H bottle 2/2!
yeah i read the same. STR trinkets are getting the same treatement for the same reason (being a lot better than the pvp ones).
It doesn't appear to be hotfixed in game, it's still giving me 8800 agility on the dummies.
They said that tooltips won't be fixed - also don't know if the hotfix is already on or not.
Yeah, on the dummies, looking at my agility, it's still giving 8800 so it's not in the game for US atm.
Can't read twitter at work, so just want to check, is this a 1.9k nerf to the agility proc? So a nerf from 8800 to 6900?
If so, this obliterates the trinket.
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Supposedly, yes.
Preliminary estimation:
Post nerf (still assuming you can use all hit), heroic bottle is now ahead with no upgrades as is every raiding trinket from 5.2 normals onward (Rune still not modelled).
Post nerf (assuming you can't use the hit and only gain the reforged stats): It's worse than every trinket in game except 5.0 Raid Finder trinkets, normal Terror in the Mists and Relic of Xuen.
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Btw, just downloaded a small patch, probably the hotfix kicked in right now.
Still appears to be 8800 in game US. For clarification, I'm not looking at the tooltip, I'm looking at my agility on my character screen.
Seems to imply that its a pvp only nerf.
Nice news!
Ryme: gratz on the 2/12 HM
Eh, we need an healer and a ranged dps to be sure to start every night. Our progression is bad, but atm we're having enough fun
Back on topic - i got a little outdated with simis for different rogue specs, what is the situation atm? I'm assuming that 4t15 + RPPM trinkets boosted by haste are favoring combat an awful lot.
Not really, 4pc is really good for combat but it also makes combat really fragile. Most if not all of the 10-15% dps increase from 4pc comes from the GCD reduction so losing a single bonus GCD per AR+SB is a dps loss of 1%-1.5% per GCD lost. The net result is on paper combat looks very good but in practice getting that dps increase is very difficult because of latency and other general encounter mechanics.
So basically the only spec that has a clear stat prio (combat = haste) is screwed by mechanics, and assa has an utterly complicated modeling.
Fun patch for rogues huh?
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How can a spec be screwed by utterly complicated modeling? How exactly does the difficulty to model very precise and barely useful things affect its current ingame condition?and assa is screwed by utterly complicated modeling.
This is actually a very good patch for rogues, and good here applies for many meanings.
I'm taking the moments to experiment whilst being able to convince myself "It's OK, it's up in the air anyway, this could be the perfect unsuspected route to go"
And yeah, I concur with what firey says, in any kind of situation where GCDs are lost, combat's dps will plummet relative to assassination. Perhaps next tier, with better thought out bonuses and more gear.
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Try 'The Lily Nook', another large canadian grower/seller, based in Manitoba. You may also try: 'B&D Lilies', 'The Lily Garden' and 'Faraway Flowers', all based in the US. All these have www. com sites. Keep in mind two things. One is that canadian sources tend to favor Fellner hybrids and the like because they are hardy there in the colder zones. The other is that these growers/sellers grow their stock on a 3 or 4 year crop rotation basis, so if you don't see the particular ones your looking for this year, don't be discouraged, it will show up in the future. The source you mentioned, 'Plant Lilies.Com' is a good source as well and I believe they are in the process of building up (increasing) their field stock at this time. But I do believe they ship to the US in the Fall. With all the sources I've discussed here, you can always Email them and ask them what Fellner hybrids they have in their growing schedule and when they might be available. They are very good at responding back. |
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Mary Jo Manzanares, aka MJ, is a writer, Flight Attendant, and avid traveler. When she's not on a trip, she's planning or researching the next one, and has a bag always packed, ready for the next great adventure.
Mary Jo is a founder and the editor-in-chief of The Traveler's Way, an online travel magazine proving informational and inspirational travel recommendations for curious Baby Boomer travelers. She's also a member of the Travel Blog Mob.
Professional memberships include IFWTWA (International Food, Wine and Travel Writers Association), NATJA (North American Travel Journalists Association) and ITWA (International Travel Writers Association). Additionally, Mary Jo has been a speaker at various industry events on topics ranging from travel blogging as a second career to copyright issues to how the travel industry can best work with travel bloggers.
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Nancy Ferrrari returns to the Boomer and The Babe Show with updates on her latest activities.
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Nancy has launched her new company The Ferrari Energy Network as of 1-1-11, as she shares her energy and messages with a sense of purpose and giving back to the community of life. She had the honor of broadcasting live as a guest speaker at the 2010 AARP Convention speaking on the subject of "life energy", and has enjoyed numerous guest appearances on various internet radio shows.
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Jane Stanfield is a boomer, author and speaker. Her passion is travel, volunteering and helping boomers figure how how to combine their passions with volunteering while they travel.
Jane was privileged to travel around the world in one year and volunteer in 8 countries. "From working with orphans, teaching English, helping on a archaeological dig, to working with the rehabilitating seven different species of wildlife, there are so many ways you can travel and give back at the same time", Jane says. "They are as addicting as a potato chip. But once you have gone on one, you will look at travel in a totally different light".
Learn first hand about how you can join the efforts of voulunteers aroaund the world and travel for enjoyment as well.
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It took a long time to pull it off, but by the time Tom Fabbri was 28 heI had made every life altering mistake a person could make. He drank too much, moved onto drugs, ruined a marriage, went bankrupt, went homeless, and finally ended up in jail. Looking up from that cold, hard place at the bottom – Tom decided to fix the life he had ruined. He had wasted his last minute and set out with purpose to become the person he should have been all along.
Since then Tom hasachieved every goal that he set. He became a Captain for a major airline as well as a Helicopter Pilot. HeI graduated from culinary school, had a TV gig as a guest chef, became a certified personal trainer, and a columnist for a fitness magazine. The formula was simple; if he wanted to do something, heI decided to do it….and then did it. It worked every time but it was only after fixing his life that Tom realized exactly how he had ruined it to begin with.
At 52 Tom is taking that wisdom with him on another life journey. Learn about Tom's newest journey on today's Boomer and The Babe Show. It promises to be an adventure.
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T.B. Fisher is an acclaimed author and speaker, who helped motivate thousands of people to get out of the proverbial rut and rejoin life.
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Non-profit Oliver Hazard Perry Rhode Island is celebrating its 200-foot square-rigged Tall Ship SSV Oliver Hazard Perrywith a fundraising gala at the Newport Shipyard. The event will pay tribute to Rhode Island's official Sailing Education Vessel; and honor the organization's three shipyard partners – Newport Shipyard, Senesco Marine and New England Boatworks – which have demonstrated the outstanding quality of Rhode Island's skilled marine trades. Throughout the evening, guests can participate in a live and silent auction all while enjoying cocktails, dinner and dessert. SV Mystic, the 180 ft square topsail schooner which is our platform for our 2014 programs, will be dockside and open for visits. Proceeds from the night will go toward the organization's educational programs.
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Young and in Love: Challenging the Unnecessary Delay of Marriage
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Cunningham believes that teaching people to delay marriage demeans the institution of marriage on several fronts. He believes that delaying marriage increases the frequency of cohabitation. Then, as cohabitation increases so does divorce. Young and in Love also argues that "delaying marriage delays adulthood" (p. 68). As long as people delay marriage, Cunningham argues, they have a license to be selfish and "self-centered" (p. 70).
To Cunningham's credit, he carefully acknowledges some of the ways that people rush into marriage, and some of the necessary delays for marriage. He is forthright about the truth that some people, especially young, chaste Christians, rush into marriage just because they do not want to wait to have sex any longer. He also wisely counsels against couples who marry young because it brings financial benefit (p. 85).
Young and in Love goes on, however, to argue against many of the prevailing arguments for delaying marriage. The arguments Cunningham disagrees with include increasing one's financial health (pp. 102-104), and waiting until one is through with college (pp. 105-106).
I have enjoyed reading Cunningham's arguments, although I think at times the book is overly repetitive. I agree with him on several points, and I disagree with him on others. You may agree or disagree with him, but I think if you read what he says you will agree with me that he has some intelligent arguments, and his point of view should be heard. Much of what we hear about delaying marriage is not value neutral, but driven by fears and agendas that may not be scriptural or godly. Personally, I got married rather late (age 34), but I certainly would not resent anyone or blame anyone for choosing to marry at a younger age if they were ready and had found the right partner. If nothing else, Young and in Love can challenge prevailing thought enough to rejoice with those who marry at a young age, and support them instead of gritting our teeth believing that their marriage has no chance because they are too young. Clint Walker, www.ChristianBookPreviews.com
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We also married young, while I was still in college & my wife had just graduated. Nearly 10 years later, our marriage is stronger than ever. The prevailing "wisdom" in our society, and our church, is that immediately following high school, you must go to college. Only after college can your real life begin. If a couple, who is strong in their faith & truly understands what love, commitment, and sacrifice are; then I see no reason why they should delay in marrying.
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You know the old saying that a man thinks about sex every few seconds? I don't doubt its truth. But what about us women? I know I think about sex every few seconds. A day doesn't go by that I'm not thinking about sex in some way or another. I'm thinking about it right now. And no, it's not because I'm writing this.
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Ebbie, a Dover Domestic Shorthair cat was adopted! Here's how you can benefit by looking at adoption as an option to buying a Domestic Shorthair for sale in Dover, or seeking a Domestic Shorthair cat from a breeder in Dover.
- Rescues and shelter volunteers in Dover already know the personality and tendencies of their pets. This means they can match you with the right pet. That will makes it much easier transition to owning a pet for yourself and your new pet.
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Mohegan Sun Arena at Casey Plaza
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Expand - Will Call, Parking, Directions, and moreWill Call Info
Any tickets purchased by 5pm the day before the event may be picked up anytime the day of the show. Tickets purchased prior to that time can be picked up 48 hours after the purchase. Tickets purchased on the day of the event may be picked up beginning 2 hours prior to the start of the event. Customers must bring their credit card, driver's license and confirmation number to pick up Will Call orders.
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Parking - $5.00-$10.00. Event determines price. WBS Penguins Hockey parking fee is included in the ticket price.
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Box Office: (570) 970-7600 (General questions only. The Box Office does not accept phone orders.) Group Sales: (570) 970-3519 Group guidelines vary per show and are not valid for every event
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Home of the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins Hockey. The Mohegan Sun Arena at Casey Plaza was formerly known as Wachovia Arena and the First Union Arena. There are concessions available with merchandise, food and beverages. Restrooms are located on all levels and a family restroom is located at Guest Services (behind Section 110). Concessions: yes with and without alcohol. All Discounts are determined by the show. Restaurants nearby: Grotto Pizza, Sonic, and more.... Hotels Nearby: Hotels Nearby: Hilton Garden Inn, Fairfield Inn & Suites, Courtyard by Marriott, Days Inn, Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs. FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE VISIT: www.mohegansunarenapa.com The Mohegan Sun Arena at Casey Plaza is located in Wilkes Barre, PA, approximately 2 hours north of Philadelphia.
From All Points: Exit 168 off of Route 81. Take right off of exit on to Highland Park Blvd.
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SUMMER BOX OFFICE HOURS: Monday - Thursday 10:00am-5:00pm Friday-Sunday - Closed, open on event days Please call (570)970-7600 for details. IN SEASON BOX OFFICE HOURS: Monday-Friday: 10am-6pm Saturday: 10am-4pm Sunday: For events only. Open at 9am when event begins at 2pm or earlier, opens at 12pm when event begins after 2pm. Box office located adjacent to East gate. Box Office will be open for all ticketed events and will remain open as sales warrant. Doors open approximately 1 hour before event time. Suite Rentals are available for most events. Please call for information.
Payment Options
Cash, American Express, Visa, Mastercard, Discover, Travelers Checks. No Diners Club or Checks.
General Rules
The following items are PROHIBITED in the Arena: coolers, backpacks, oversized bags, bottles, cans and containers, outside food or beverages, horns, whistles, banners, noisemakers, laser pens, video cameras or recording devices, illegal substances, weapons or any other threatening objects. Electronic devices such as, but not limited to, laptops and mobile tablet devices that have capabilities of audio and/or visual recording are prohibited inside the venue. Banners, Signs, cameras and recording device policies vary from event to event. Please call on the day of the show for details. Bags are checked for every event. Other security measures may be used depending on event. The Arena is a SMOKE FREE facility. There is no Re-Entry upon Exit.
Child Rules
Children 2 & older require a ticket. WBS Penguins Hockey: Children 3 & older require a ticket. Discounts may vary from event to event.
Upcoming Shows | Past Shows
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U.S. health officials have officially declared the current mumps outbreak in the New York and New Jersey area the largest in years. With close to 180 diagnosed cases thus far, it is especially important to take precautions and prevent contraction of the viral disease. Here's what you need to know about mumps.
What is mumps?
It is a highly contagious viral infection. The mumps virus attacks selected tissues in the body. Its "favorite" is the salivary gland, especially the parotid glands located in front of and below the ear canals, but also all the salivary glands located under the lower jaw. It is the swelling of these glands that produces pain and the characteristic facial changes. The virus also occasionally attacks testicles (especially in postadolescent males), pancreas, and can cause inflammation of the brain (meningoencephalitis) and of the auditory nerve, leading to loss of hearing.
Why is mumps making a comeback?
Mumps is a bit of a mystery right now. In the past, "comebacks" of vaccine-preventable diseases were due to the "fading" of antibody levels with age (smallpox, diphtheria, and tetanus are known to require boosters every 10 years to maintain protection), high concentrations or crowding of unvaccinated individuals (hemophilus, whooping cough), immunosuppression (TB, polio) and "antigen drift," or mutations of pathogens (flu, pneumococcus). Any of these could be happening here.
Another explanation is a "mimic" disease: Back in the 70's, Lyme disease was discovered when a doctor noticed far more cases than expected of what appeared to be juvenile rheumatoid arthritis in a small town; investigation of this cluster led to the discovery of Lyme disease. What brings up this possibility is this: The one patient I saw had an absolutely perfect clinical picture of mumps, including contact with other mumps cases-but the blood test did not confirm it. Is this really mumps, or an emerging infection that mimics it perfectly? At this point, I would hesitate to guess.
Why is the vaccine not working? Are people not getting it?
It IS working; let's not forget that mumps is more contagious than swine flu, and if the vaccines were worthless, we would have more mumps than flu around-not 180 cases, but more than 180,000. As to why it did not work as well as expected, that is a subject of an ongoing investigation. The Health Department is trying to find the common denominator in the affected individuals-down to cross-checking lot numbers of the vaccines administered many years ago to these patients, to see if there may have been a defective batch back then. What we seem to have is vaccine failure in less than one percent of recipients even in the fairly small communities where the cases occurred. Once you realize that people with mumps shopped, worked, and took public transportation while highly contagious (the week before appearance of symptoms), without the epidemic extending beyond this small group, you see how effective the vaccine really was.
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It wouldn't hurt to get another measles, mumps, rubella (MMR) vaccine. Even if vaccine failure is to blame for this epidemic, isolation is probably impractical, as viral shedding can continue for nearly a month, starting days before any symptoms are present. Treatment is supportive: Drink lots of fluids to let saliva flow freely, and avoid sour foods that cause overstimulation of salivary glands. "Real" treatment, such as IV fluids, is only needed in the fairly small fraction of patients who develop pancreatitis (severe abdominal pain with nausea), meningoencephalitis (severe headache with mental status changes), or other rare complications. Infertility is a possible consequence of testicular inflammation in postadolescent males, but at this time no specific treatment is available to prevent this.
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As work on a county agreement with the Richmond SPCA continued last week, the Board of Supervisors voted to raise the animal adoption fee to cover the cost of sterilizing animals at the Chesterfield County Animal Shelter.
"There are just a lot of very positive steps being taken," County Administrator Jay Stegmaier said Monday. "We expect that to be the beginning."
On April 14, the Board of Supervisors approved proposed code amendments raising the fee for adopting a sterilized dog or cat from the county's shelter to $60 from $10, and specifying that no fee will be charged for transfers of unsterilized animals to any animal rescue or humane society validly designated as a nonprofit organization.
At a public hearing on the issue, Police Capt. Steve Neal, commander of the support services division, said the $60 fee would cover the sterilization of the animals, a rabies vaccine, transportation to and from the sterilization facility and heartworm testing, as necessary.
Steve Hudson, of the Matoaca District, asked how increasing the fee would help the animal adoption rate.
"I just don't feel like the rate increase will help the number of adoptions," he said.
On Monday, Jane Weisenfels, a member of the Coalition for Shelter Improvement, said she was "very, very pleased" about the board's April 14 action.
"It's a really big thing to try to close off that reproduction," she said. "I'm very pleased that the county's now embracing that."
The board's action on April 14 was "a big step, and that's something that a lot of the rescue and advocacy groups have been looking forward to for some time," Stegmaier said.
The county is still working on the agreement with the Richmond SPCA, he said, and county officials met with Richmond SPCA CEO Robin Starr "about a week ago." Some e-mails have been exchanged since then, he said, and more conversations have taken place.
"I think we're pretty close," he said.
In November, Starr informed the Board of Supervisors of the Richmond SPCA's interest in developing a no-kill partnership with Chesterfield County, said Tamsen Kingry, the Richmond SPCA's chief operating officer. In December, the organization presented a written outline of such a partnership to the county, Kingry said.
On Dec. 16, the Board of Supervisors adopted a resolution outlining goals for the County Animal Shelter and directing Stegmaier to "expedite efforts to reach" those goals. Among the goals outlined in the resolution is initiating a process in January to develop a plan and partnership process to reduce the number of homeless animals in the shelter, with the ultimate goal of becoming a facility where "the lives of all healthy companion animals will be saved."
A no-kill organization is one that saves every healthy and every treatable sick homeless animal, Kingry said. The first step is to guarantee that the life of every healthy homeless animal will be saved, she said, and the second is to do the same for treatable sick homeless animals.
In March, the county presented a memorandum of understanding that "departed considerably" from the Richmond SPCA's proposal, Kingry said. Since then, the groups have been meeting to work out the details of the partnership.
"There are certain items that are still under consideration, but I think we're getting close," Kingry said. The items still under consideration are "relatively small things," she said.
"I think over the last couple weeks, it's been moving along at a satisfactory pace," Kingry said of work on the partnership, though the organization would have loved to have entered into an agreement by now.
Once completed, the agreement will probably go back to the Board of Supervisors for approval, Stegmaier said.
While some positive steps have been taken, Weisenfels said, more remain to be taken. She still advocates for the creation of a committee of citizens that would work with the shelter, an idea that was presented to the Board of Supervisors in 2008, she said. The Coalition for Shelter Improvement would also like to see increased volunteerism at the shelter and a better shelter website, she said.
"We just want the shelter to be the best it can be," she said.
At this point, Stegmaier said, he isn't expecting the proposed citizens committee to be on the agenda at the Board of Supervisors' April 28 meeting. But, the county has been working with a number of rescue and advocacy groups, and it will continue working with them, he said.
A number of significant steps have been taken in the last six months, he said. The county has moved to the Asilomar Accords, which, according to their website, include a set of guiding principles, standardized definitions, a statistics table for tracking shelter populations and a formula for determining shelter live release rates. The shelter's staff has been working closely with the Richmond SPCA and receiving training, he said.
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Hey can people see my eyes through these?...
Hey can people see my eyes through these? and are they good for night boarding
I am sorry but it really is one or the other =). I ride with dragons dx goggles ionized and they arent as mirrored as i hoped. If your standing around in the park or taking a run no one will know they arent fully mirrored but if your standing in the lift line and someone wants to check themselves out in your goggles they will be able to see themselves but they will also be able to your eyes if they look for them.
And no they arent good for night riding unless you are getting the powder/pink ionized ones.
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August 26, 2009, 2:09 PM
By Burton Hersh
Early one otherwise unexceptional June evening in 1964 something happened to Edward Kennedy which may very well have amounted to the most important event in his life up to that time. The rented private aircraft in which he was doing some rather informal campaigning around back Massachusetts went into a spin somehow and crashed nose-first into an apple orchard not far outside Springfield. The pilot and Kennedy's administrative assistant, Edward Moss, were killed; Kennedy, who had been half-standing just behind them almost in the middle of the plane, was dragged out of the wreck in desperate condition. Surgeons at the nearest accessible hospital, after cleaning him up and putting him through a series of probes too sensitive to allow the use of pain-killers, found out little by little that three vertebrae in his lower back had been smashed together, two ribs were cracked, and internal hemorrhaging around his spleen and left kidney was so extensive that until some of it had dissipated there would be no way to discover how much, if any, permanent damage had been done to his inner organs. The position of the third lumbar vertebra was especially precarious; it had been driven out sideways so far that one more inch would have snapped his spinal cord and left him a paralytic.
Radio and television reports went out immediately, of course; within hours a party of Kennedys had arrived. The student nurse on duty refused to leave her post or make clear to the group, which included Robert, Governor Peabody, and Ted's wife Joan, which room the Senator was in. The increasingly anxious visitors finally found the young Senator beneath an oxygen tent, "tubes up his nose, things dangling from both his arms," as his wife remembers.
"There are more of us than there is trouble," Bobby told an overtaking newsman shortly. "The Kennedys intend to stay in public life. Good luck is something you make, and bad luck is something you endure."
The near-corpse inside the translucent tent apron, recognizing, perhaps, his wife's characteristic pink dress, showed signs of saying something. "Hi, Joansie," he managed, with difficulty. Then, typically, "Don't worry!"
Kennedy spent the next six months in a series of hookups, most notably a rotating Stryker frame. His mind and his secretary Angelique Voutselas' stenographic pad were increasingly busy. One suspects that such a prolonged brush with death went deep into Edward Kennedy's thinking and feelings. There was a suggestive similarity between his own injury which, he was told shortly, would leave him physically limited, half-crippled permanently and that of his assassinated brother Jack. This produced a strange result. People who had gone mountain climbing with Ted, for example, had always commented on his low-keyed calm and stamina and courage; now in times of danger or physical stress he began to show a peculiar detachment. "I could very well understand people's opposition to my original Senatorial candidacy," he told me once when he and I were discussing the subject. "The reservations of others. And I bore no ill feeling toward those people" he talks like this, very often: those stilted political phrases, those long, cold, dragged-out vowels of Kennedy-ese "Today, since then, a number of those people have been helpful...." Then, thinking it over: "Perhaps, had I been somebody else, and had I been asked, I'd have opposed my nomination myself."
This detachment pervades. David Burke, Kennedy's serious, able executive assistant, admits to a palm-clamming tenseness the moment he climbs into any aircraft smaller than a DC-8; Kennedy, for his own macabre reasons, will fly almost anywhere in almost anything, and since Burke accompanies him often, so must Dave. Kennedy has long since found this out and, having acquired a pilot's license early in his own life, Edward amuses himself quietly sometimes by unobtrusive little palms-up/palms-down gestures calculated to hint to Burke the way he himself would handle the stick. Circling into Topeka once in a privately owned jet, Kennedy speculated aloud about whether he could get the aircraft down, insisting that he could figure out the purpose of all the controls except one mysterious but presumably unimportant little red light.... Another time, during a very rugged passage indeed, Kennedy pulled together the deck of cards he was riffling idly and suggested that the ashen Burke pick one at random. Burke complied, fingers shaking. "Isn't it too bad nobody is going to know this is the last thing you ever did," his employer commented stonily.
"Liberalism" among the Kennedys originally, was the kind of term Old Joe liked to lay up in quotes whenever he needed to use it: the liberal in politics was somebody with a heart bleeding all over the carpet, and applesauce for brains. Edward, once his Senate seat was warmed properly, began to show symptoms of an instinctive gut liberalism of approach, a deeply effective, very detailed sense of whom the commonest of people were, and what they really needed. Recently turning over the pages of his photograph album he showed me a picture somebody had taken of him, early in that first campaign, shaking hands all around a machine shop. "If you look closely," he remarked, "you can see that half the people there are without at least part of one of their fingers." He turned the binder page over: the next picture showed him soliciting across some kind of conveyor belt tended by a gnomic flour-dusty old man. "That man was kneading the blueberries out as they came through that endless pie-making machine," Kennedy said. "He told me, 'If you want my vote, Kennedy, you'll have to shake my hand.'" The candidate was photographed dripping blueberries halfway to the elbow.
More and more, the legislation Kennedy began to be associated with concerned the plight of the scratch-dirt poor, people suffocating in the impacted slums, the dispossessed and homeless, the old, the immigrants, draftees. He began to spend a lot of his Massachusetts time talking with out-of-work fishermen, with workers in the cranberry bogs. Kennedy became the most knowledgeable man in the Senate about voting-rights problems, about refugee affairs. His concern was unmistakably deep. His sense of the corruption and dislocations within postwar America became increasingly specific. He began working harder and harder. His day might last from an early tactical discussion in his McLean, Virginia, home at seven in the morning until a post-dinner-party stint with his willing but fading staff people that started at ten p.m. and went on into the morning following. An avid brain picker anyhow, the half-crippled young Senator, trying to formulate a piece of legislation, was likely to import an expert from Harvard or take a jet halfway around the world to find out for himself precisely the relevant facts; these facts had a way of coming back in debate on the floor of the Senate like machine-gun bullets. The legislation he proposed gained a name for being exceptionally well-backgrounded, clear in its intention, and limited in its intention. Typical was his recent amendment to the Administration's O.E.O. (Poverty) Act, which provided in complete detail for the establishment, staffing, and maintenance of forty "neighborhood health centers" clinics throughout the worst American city slums. "His proposals are laid in with a rifle, accurately, and not with a shotgun," a ranking Republican told me; this made them easier for his conservative opponents to vote for and justify at home. The Democratic leadership on The Hill began to prefer Kennedy's work to the often very abrupt, badly timed, frequently blanketing legislation being brought forward by the Junior Senator from New York.
While Kennedy's intensity at work now approached total preoccupation, his way with whichever people he cared about became more relaxed, simpler, more whimsical. His secretaries tried to stay out of giggling range when, as is most frequently true, he realized he wasn't going to make it home in time to put his three young kids to bed and so was forced to deliver, via telephone, the afternoon's installment of an ongoing animal saga in which he himself plays all the voices. Never ostentatious anyhow (he drives his own Chrysler around, frugally trading it every couple of years), he now made every effort to keep everything as unencumbered as possible for himself.
His reputation his justification for being there at all pretty much established in the Senate by 1964, he got himself reelected for a full term from his hospital bed and returned early in 1965 to receive his colleagues' heartfelt welcome. Then, in September of 1965, came the Morrissey incident.
Francis Xavier Morrissey, Frank Morrissey, had been a municipal judge in the Boston city court system for a good many years before the trip he took to Washington, D.C. which was to make him momentarily famous. Morrissey, essentially an old-line Kennedy family coat holder, aspired to the dignity of a place on the Federal Bench to cap his career. In fact, the Kennedys owed him. Frank Morrissey had done a great many services for Joe, and when first Jack, and finally Ted, decided to establish their political bases in Massachusetts, Morrissey guided both boys adeptly and with an unmistakable devotion. There had even been talk of a judgeship for Morrissey early in the Kennedy administration; snooping at the time by the ever-vigilant Boston Globe seems to have scared the Administration off. When, much later on and largely as a personal courtesy, one suspects, Edward Kennedy sent along to Lyndon Johnson his recommendation of Morrissey for the judgeship, the political expectation overall was that the President would appoint one of his own among the Massachusetts devoted.
The expectation proved incorrect. In a special conference at the L.B.J. ranch, the President announced that he was going to forward to the Senate for its ratification the long-dormant Morrissey nomination. Why is disputed. Some claim that Johnson agreed to the Morrissey idea to hang a man of Morrissey's limited qualifications on the record of the Kennedys. Others regard it as a favor granted Edward in gratitude for the way he had floor-managed the Administration's regional development bill shortly before, and explained that the President had craftily waited until Autumn of 1965 to forward the nomination because The New York Times was struck; Johnson's intention here, supposedly, was to give the Kennedys at least a partial news blackout during which to drag hapless Frank Morrissey through.
Unfortunately for Morrissey The Boston Globe was not struck. The Globe, in an exhaustively researched series of exposés and editorials, exhumed Frank Morrissey's past, his graduation from a Georgia diploma mill, his struggle to pass the Massachusetts bar, his desultory achievements since. Local defenders of the honor of the Bench, like Judge Wyzanski and the Boston chapter of the American Bar Association, disapproved of Morrissey publicly and sternly.
The Washington Post picked the story up and attacked from the opposite flank. By the time Frank Morrissey got down to his Senate hearings, conservatives on the Judiciary Committee, scenting vulnerable game, were very nearly drooling. "Certain questions have arisen," Everett Dirksen began too gently. Then Morrissey showing up all loquaciousness, his inflections one moment affected and mincing, the next the low, whining South-Boston bleat, pure borderline Irish Dirksen took him, a little more archly, further: "Grave questions have arisen." Finally, "Serious accusations have been leveled" Morrissey talked some more; liberals all over the chamber were coming up hesitant. Edward Kennedy now spoke on Morrissey's behalf: under unmistakable personal pressure, the Cro-Magnon jaw trembling, very obviously near tears, Kennedy launched a diatribe, recalled the shoeless Irish boy Morrissey was in childhood, his battle for respectability, the regard he earned as a Justice within the Boston Courts.... Warming to his subject, Kennedy reprimanded the American Bar Association as an organization narrow-minded enough to have tried to stop the ratification of Louis Brandeis for the Supreme Court....
Dirksen, in too deep to backpedal, called Washington's puzzled press corps together before the committee could vote: he had a "bombshell," which he intended to explode if Morrissey's nomination went further.
Everett Dirksen's "bombshell," when unearthed finally, was a particularly puny little operatic ladyfinger. In 1961 Frank Morrissey and Edward Kennedy, traveling together in Italy where Kennedy had received an award from the American Committee on Italian Migration, vacationed for a day or two on Capri. There they shared a meal with a fellow American who bragged around about it later. The fellow American turned out to be a deported Mafia gangster; apparently Dirksen, somehow digging up the item from an Italian newspaper four years afterward, had some intention of linking publicly the names of Edward Moore Kennedy, Frank Morrissey, and the American criminal underworld.
Appraised of what Dirksen's bombshell was, Kennedy painfully and reluctantly sent the nomination back to the Judiciary Committee to die: I would want any nominee of mine to be confirmed on a record clear and complete enough.... "I think Teddy learned then," Doyle of The Boston Globe told me years afterward, "that you can't buy the whole thing."
More vital than the Dirksen "bombshell" was the realization that no matter what happened, the Morrissey nomination was tarred with notoriety; any Senator who voted for Morrissey and Kennedy could have compelled the vote, that is commonly agreed would come away tarred to his constituents too. Every Senator around felt the strain of patronage obligations himself; all understood Kennedy's position; all appreciated the public humiliation and the private judgment that killing the nomination involved.
Conservative knives had probably been sharpening for Kennedy since his whirlwind unexpected decision, not months after he hobbled back into the Senate chambers on his silver-headed cane, to buck both Conservative establishment and the Liberal leadership and try to stick an amendment outlawing local and state poll taxes onto the Administration's 1965 Voting Rights Bill. The oligarchs of the Committee Power in the Senate hated the idea of another incursion by Northerners into the sanctified inequities of their vespertine political world; the Liberal wing feared that the Kennedy amendment would cost them votes enough to endanger the bill.
From the vantage point of his Senatorial career, that shaky spring was probably the worst time Kennedy could have chosen to displease elders of both persuasions. He himself had just been selected, with crotchety old Eastland's suffrage, as floor manager of the Administration's expanded Immigration Bill.
To Judiciary Committee Chairman Eastland, a gnarled old moss-bedecked cypress of seniority and Dixieland privilege, young Kennedy had already become one of the trials of advancing age. "Wha' you wan' now, Kennedy," he is reputed to inquire wearily whenever the youngster appears. Sometimes the compromises they work out prove touchy to live with. For example, at the time Kennedy was shepherding his Immigration Bill through, Kennedy finagled, through Eastland, a kind of informal agreement with the Southern bloc that none of them would speak on the subject for the record. Then, on the Senate floor itself, Senator Holland of Florida suddenly got up to asking how many Spanish-speaking "nigras" this liberalization would involve: the Deep South delegation scuttled for the cloakroom en mêlée.
Determined whatever the upshots, Kennedy went recruiting for his anti-poll-tax army. Persuasion, old political debts, appeals to democratic principal, implicit logrolling threats, implicit logrolling promises he employed whichever, in each case, seemed indicated. Mark De Wolfe Howe of Harvard, that very same Mark De Wolfe Howe who had once circulated the academic letter labeling Kennedy's candidacy "both preposterous and insulting," came down to help. "Ted is a real expert at diffusing the opposition," one old Washington hand explains. "He knows just where to look for the opposition's weakness. He might start in working on X, for instance. He knows he'll never get X's vote, but he will have prevented X from dragging Y's vote away from him too." Kennedy opened the debate by delivering a major speech that treated the poll tax in historical terms as a liberalizing step in the development of universal suffrage, a means of permitting non-property-holders to vote. It played on the egalitarian impulses of even the most conservative.
Dave Burke had started working for Kennedy just before that. Burke himself was not fully aware, from the Senator's typically circular lines of early inquiry, exactly what his new employer was about; he was startled one afternoon when Kennedy looked up during a Committee meeting and asked for "my poll-tax amendment." Panic-stricken, no lawyer himself, Burke rushed back to the offices for a few lines of legalese to get Kennedy through the Committee session.
Katzenbach, the Attorney General, and Mansfield, the Majority Leader, and the reactionaries assembled marshaled their forces quickly and almost too late; the floor vote on the Kennedy Amendment that defeated it went 49-44; three out of five Senatorial Democrats voted against their own Administration on this matter. To placate them a provision went into the voting-rights bill requiring that if local or state poll taxes were collected, the much hated Federal registrars must collect them. Katzenbach had hinted broadly that two pending Supreme Court cases dealing with the Virginia poll tax might decide the matter without embarrassing the legislators. Obligated, the Justice Department pushed its suits harder, and on March 25, 1966, the Court reversed itself and found all local poll taxes in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment. To Senatorial insiders, operators, Kennedy's parliamentary skill and leadership had left people holding their breaths. "Ted is not as forceful in the Senate, yet, as Jack was," says the Republican moderate Thurston Morton, who knew both of them well. "But Teddy is personally more popular. He's much quieter, less in evidence, lower keyed. As a parliamentarian and what, for lack of a better word, I'd call a floor strategist, he's better than Jack. He's patient in debate with those who take an opposite viewpoint. Jack Kennedy, and Bobby after him, could sometimes answer quite shortly, indicate quite clearly his feeling of intellectual superiority to his colleagues. The Senate is a deliberative body; Ted intuitively understands this. He handles the whole thing with a lot more suavity."
The poll-tax fight set a kind of pattern: Edward showed himself almost invariably willing to trade a victory of form i.e., a vote victory for one of substance, as when he managed, as part of his Federal gun-control-legislation campaign, to force the Army to stop sponsoring the National Rifle Matches by permitting it to sponsor them one last time. The reapportionment broil, a very stubborn, bitter struggle Kennedy fought over many months in 1967 and ultimately won, is illustrative again of the kind of parliamentary generalship at which he has become so effective. The issue itself arose out of a series of Supreme Court decisions, the so-called one-man-one-vote cases. These required the states to reapportion voting districts according to the population shifts since 1904. Once the effort to prevent such a return to democracy through Constitutional Amendment had failed, conservatives like Everett Dirksen, fearful of the erosion of their own pocket boroughs, fell back on legislation that would delay significant redistricting until at least 1972. Kennedy very shortly got upwind of all this, and recruited young Republican Senator Baker of Tennessee (Dirksen's son-in-law, of all men), and beat the obstructive legislation to pieces every time it, or some form of it, came from the House of Representatives. In the course of his inquiry he pinpointed the abuses resulting from later-day gerrymandering and suggested a "compactness and equality" criterion for voting districts that the Supreme Court has now taken under advisement. All these are, certainly, sophisticated issues, the infighting is complicated, but to the convinced libertarian they are in fact the heart and kidneys of a surviving democracy.
Two somewhat more dramatic campaigns had begun to bring Kennedy to the attention of newspaper readers even before Robert's assassination: his early skirmishing with preparatory, obviously, to a frontal attack on Congressional defenders of the draft policies, and his investigations into the refugee problems of Vietnam. Kennedy's Vietnamese concern came as an unintended consequence of a look he was forced to take, as Chairman of the Special Subcommittee on Refugees and Escapees, at the human marginalia piling up along the edges of our involvement there. He began to mull over the war's moral purposes, its human and political cost-effectiveness, the way, in detail, it was actually being waged. Overall indictments and geopolitical recommendations are very far from Kennedy's method his characteristic working principles, his staff people admit, are "Let's preserve our options," or "It's a long road ahead" but he is obviously deeply troubled. His way of dealing with this is, as usual, to return again and again to the facts. He picks the brains of experts, he empties and re-empties his famously overstuffed attaché case, "the Bag," on trips like his twice-yearly visits to the International Conference on Refugee Affairs at Geneva or his investigations, like the one last January, into the corruption inside Vietnam itself. His speeches detailing the unutterable misery of that nation's two to three million refugees have already worked a powerful effect among his Senate colleagues. Further than that he cannot seem to make himself go. As late as the middle of March of 1968, Edward was reported unconvinced of the wisdom of Bobby's challenge. "Now when my brother Bobby recently decided to give an anti-Vietnam-policy speech and showed it to me and asked me what to do," he said a short time before his brother was assassinated, as he opened an Americans for Democratic Action dinner meeting, "I said he should put the speech in a plain brown envelope and sent it along to the Ramparts magazine. Then I took him over to the Senate, and I show him where his seat was, and I told him a few things I thought would help him get along...."
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