Oh. My. God. Ted Kennedy and the Irish Look of Death.

[WilliamPitt]

Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and General Peter Pace, right, testified to a Senate panel, including Hillary Clinton and Edward Kennedy. (Doug Mills/ The New York Times)

...my mom has that look sometimes...it peels the paint...

[Cooley Hurd]

1. For a man who has had a ringside seat to the top rungs of our govt...

...in the last 45 years, this must disgust him to the bone.

[bananarepublican]

118. Ted knows what happened to JF and RFK. Is America really lost? n/t

[H2O Man]

2. Nominated.

That is, of course, the same look that the great Irish boxers have when they are sizing up their victim during the referee's instructions.

[leveymg]

107. I've seen that look on Patrick Fitzgerald's face, too.

I wonder when Round Two starts, or have I just failed to notice?

[Punkingal]

3. I love it!!!!!!!

It is dripping with contempt....he doesn't need to say a word about his opinion of Rumsfeld. It is on his face for all to see. I LOVE Teddy. I hope he lives to be 100 years old, and stays healthy and in the Senate.

[TwentyFive]

81. I love Teddy too! He's in great enough shape to run for President!

Not that he ever would....but if Ted decided to make a run for President, I'd work (and work hard) for him.

[bananarepublican]

119. I'm all for Teddy for the top job! Alas... enter "lone-nut-assassin"!! n/t

[Aviation Pro]

4. The "button yer lip" look on Pace's mug...

...also speaks volumes.

[cboy4]

5. That's definitely worth more than a thousand words!

:thumbsup:

Look at Rumsfeld....always with a smile as the world continues to burn on his watch..

[DoYouEverWonder]

6. The whole picture

is just perfect.

It really sums up the point we have come too.

Rummies doing the hand jive. Pace looks like he going to be ill. Hillary is savoring the moment. Ted - what can I say? He looks like he's ready to slap Rummie any second now. I think it might be worth going to jail just to deck the old bastard.

[OzarkDem]

15. Hillary looks

like she's saying "what an ass, can anyone believe anything Rummy is saying?"

[originalpckelly]

20. I think that looks like gas to me...

anyone else for that interpretation? :shrug:

[greguganus]

42. Hillary looking sexy as usual n/t

[4_TN_TITANS]

45. My thoughts exactly.....

I always thought she was the finest first lady ever. Wonder if she needs any younger male interns??? }( :evilgrin:

[greguganus]

46. Wait your "tern" buddy! n/t

[eridani]

97. Unlike her husband--

--Hillary is adult enough to shaddup about any "indiscretions" she might be committting. She'd expect the same of you, so proceed with caution.

[Imagevision]

89. Hil sounded pretty damn good today, and dufuss Dumsfeld comes back

with; 'my goodness" - Rumsfeld should resign, he isn't qualified to continue being Secretary of defense, too many failures!!

[zbdent]

7. Okay, aside from the idea that he's angry with Dumbsfeld, TK's face

looks like it caved in at the eyes ... weird.

That's just how it looked to me.

[underpants]

8. Great pic. Has Ted lost some weight?

or is it just the angle of the shot?

That is a great photograph.

[bobbolink]

58. He's looking very good, and so much healthier!

Amazing what falling in love with a good woman will do...

:)

[LittleClarkie]

95. Even so, there are time when I want to iron him.

Sadly, such things come with age and a hard life.

[Blue Belle]

73. It does look like he's lost some weight...

either that or he's having a good suit day.

[PADemD]

88. It looks like

he lost a hundred pounds.

[Blue Belle]

Yeah... I need to find a suit like that.

:+

[calico1]

9. I wonder what he's thinking in that picture?

I think something like this: "I have lived through many an administration in my life but never have I had to deal with such complete assholes!"

[me b zola]

48. The day before this pic, Teddy was at a funeral for one of the soldiers

Maybe Teddy's thought was, "That should have been you in the casket, asshole."

:shrug:

[ashling]

10. What the picture doesn't show

Rumsfeld's hand is reaching for the last jelly donut.

[YankeyMCC]

11. Lol!

[Gman]

12. 13 K&R in 15 minutes?

over a picture?

[WilliamPitt]

13. It's outrageous

Horrifying.

You should write a letter or something.

[cboy4]

18. K&R!!

:spray:

[H2O Man]

23. !

n/t

[Kingshakabobo]

30. now I HAVE to k&r

[Laurab]

34. ! K&R

n/t

[LSK]

43. but what about the children?

:D

[Ghost Dog]

49. Magic of the Irish. 'Nuff said.

:smoke:

ed: Uillean Pipes playing in my mind right now.

[stepnw1f]

29. You Sound Upset

why?

[bridgit]

35. you got it...

:rofl:

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

92. Another K&R!

:evilgrin:

[Ex Lion Tamer]

14. My wife can use that same look on me. Scares the hell out of me!

There's a brilliant song by the band Ok Go about such a look. Called "Invincible."

Lyrics:

“When they finally come to destroy the earth, they'll have to go through you first.
I bet they won't be expecting that.
When they finally come to destroy the earth, they'll have to deal with you first,
and my money says they won't know about the
(screaming) thousand Fahrenheit hot metal lights behind your eyes.
Invincible.
You're invincible.
That crushing, crashing, atom-smashing, white-hot thing... It's invincible.

When they finally come, what'll you do to them? Gonna decimate them like you did to me?
Will you leave them stunned and stuttering?
When they finally come, how will you handle them? Will you devastate them deliberately?
'Cause I'm gonna guess they won't be prepared for the
(screaming) thousand Fahrenheit hot metal lights behind your eyes.
Invincible.
You're invincible.
That crushing, crashing, atom-smashing, white-hot thing... It's invincible.

So, please use your powers for good. You're invincible.”

[Fovea]

26. Or this one, which could be Pace's inner monologue

Kenny Loggins- Angry Eyes
Lyrics-

Time, time and again I see you staring down at me
Now, then and again I wonder what it is that you see
With those angry eyes
Well, I bet you wish you could cut me down
With those angry eyes

You want to believe that I am not the same as you
And now I cant conceive, oh lord, of what it is youre trying to do
With those angry eyes
Well, I bet you wish you could cut me down
With those angry eyes
What a shot you could be if you could shoot at me
With those angry eyes

/snip

[madokie]

16. Slap him Ted, full front on beetch slap. pace is worried sick

he knows we know how fucked it all is in bushrummy world

[ananda]

17. I call it..

.. the Blue Celtic Warpaint look.

Sue

[Cerridwen]

38. :) The Woad Look?

:rofl:

[eridani]

98. Woad?

http://sniff.numachi.com/pages/tiWOADWEAR;ttHARLCH.html

Tune: Men of Harlech

Woad

What's the use of wearing braces,
Hats or spats or boots with laces,
Coats and vests you buy in places
Down on Brompton Road?
What's the use of shirts of cotton,
Studs that always get forgotten?
These affairs are simply rotten--
Better far is woad.

Woad's the stuff to show men,
Woad to scare your foemen
Boil it to a brilliant blue
And rub it on your back and your abdomen.
Ancient Britons never hit on
Anything as fine as woad to fit on
Neck or knees or where you sit on--
Tailors, you'll be blowed!

Romans crossed the English Channel
All dressed up in tin and flannel;
Half a pint of woad per man'll
Clothe us more than these.
Saxons, you can keep your stitches,
For making beds for bugs in britches
We have woad to clothe us which is
Not a nest for fleas.

Romans, save your armors,
Saxons, your pajamas,
Hairy coats were made for goats,
Gorillas, yaks, retriever dogs and llamas.
March on Snowdon with your woad on
Never mind if you get rained or snowed on.
Never need a button sewed on,
W-O-A-D woad (or, Glory be to woad!)(or, Bollocks to the breeze!)

[Hekate]

106. ROFL I do believe I'll have one for the woad now.

What a great ditty. :rofl: :beer: :spray:

Hekate

[schmuls]

19. His eyes look like they are shooting daggers at Rummy - I wish

they really were!

[Fovea]

21. So how many rounds do the septuagenarian golden gloves

matches usually run? Or are all septuagenarian fights bare knuckles death matches?
I can't help feeling that Kennedy is about to invite Rummy to step into the steel cage
for some quality time with a folding chair.

That is the look that says: "When we take over the government, I am going to see you tied naked to a light pole in Falujah.

[goclark]

22. What are those white lights behind TK?

[Arkham House]

24. Let's just say this once and for all--Teddy is the greatest Senator...

...there's ever been. And he's been at his greatest since 1980, when the lunatics took over. He's been in full-court press to preserve the decencies of American life against those who's try to destroy them, and he's quietly won a lot of victories. That picture is priceless...

[spanone]

25. Here's looking at your evil ass, Rummy. Sen. Kennedy is looking great!

[Midlodemocrat]

27. The old lion at his best.

God, I adore that man.

[Peace Patriot]

28. Keltic golden warrior vs Anglo Saxon thug. Tragic poetic glory vs.

illiterate dull-witted callous butchery. High culture vs low. Faced off across the battlefield. The Kelts will lose the battle but win the war, over the long term, which is a war for the human soul. The invading hordes may slaughter us, but one will survive, and, because he is a child of the Radiant Island, he will remember, and he cannot be made to forget--it is etched in every line of his wise old face, and flashes in his fiery eyes, and pours forth in the eloquent formation of his thoughts--that brutal conquest is an insufficient reason to live, and that we earn our human soul through generosity. He sees the empty man, the worthless slaughterer of many, and hates him, because to earn your soul is not an easy business. It is a battle. It requires all your faculties, and the soulless one is an affront, a devil if you will. He is what we must not be. He represents all that we must struggle to overcome: coldness, brutality, power for power's sake. Keltic memory, however, cannot demonize him, for he, too, is human, and must be incorporated, and must be conquered not on his own brutal terms, but rather by guile, by poetic gift, by story. Victory lay in what human beings remember, not what they suffer here and know. All human beings, future human beings--for we are all one. The wizard, the druid, though he may be locked in battle with what appears to be a demon, yet thinks long term, of the unfolding human story as it ripples through time. How will it all be remembered? Of what use will it be to the future, as the collective human soul aims for its highest accomplishment: the generous heart. Thus the wizard transcends all the carnage around him, and is able to focus with singular penetration on the immediate enemy and the weakness in its paltry soul, that it thinks brute power is the winner; its smugness; its arrogance; all alone over there on its icy throne. Never was true. Never will be. Even in the days of kings, worth was measured by the generosity of their material gifts, symbol of their oneness with all. All for one and one for all. The icy conqueror, the empty man, does not realize what a thin sheet of ice he is sitting on, nor does he see the fires burning all around him even in the eyes of his own minions. He does not know what true victory is; he will never savor it. True victory is self-conquest, through which our greatest desire, true love, enters the world.

The wizard is not a saint. He is a man who struggles with demons. And the empty man is not a demon, he is a failed man--a chilling example of the lack of poetic gift. His smooth, oblivious visage is a lesson to us all. Seek the higher goal, generosity, whatever it might cost you. Mere conquest is worthless coin, in the end. It buys you nothing but the frozen depths of hell.

-----------------

That's quite a photo you posted, Mr. Pitt.

[Ghost Dog]

55. There you are expressing ancient European mythology, wisdom

(and beyond European, and beyond recorded history, though snippets have occasionally been photographed).

This is the authentic voice of the old people that is nevertheless forever young, forever renewed, forever forthcoming.

"True victory is self-conquest, through which our greatest desire, true love, enters the world."

On edit: Also, amongst many pieces of eternal Chinese wisdom there is this (I paraphrase unpoetically): "If you suspect that you may have an enemy, get as close to him as you can." "Love your enemy" may be seen as an extremely progessive form of the same concept.

[marions ghost]

31. that is a great shot

just says it all

Kennedy's face reveals his absolute disgust with these criminals. I hope he can hold out for The Final Battle.

[lonestarnot]

32. I feel it too Ted!

[Nikki Stone 1]

33. He looks like one of my old nuns

when she was disgusted

[Beausoir]

36. Bwahhaaaaa! ROFLMFAO.

Sorry..that's all I can say.

ABsolutely hilarious.

[Oilwellian]

37. Being Irish....

I can identify with this photo. There's something about our ability to just give "a look" and it can send shivers down the spine of anyone on the receiving end. My kids are always teasing me about "the look" when they reminisce about their childhood years. I never had to say a word. :D

[Gormy Cuss]

83. Wordless -- that is the key.

The look is all it takes, and Irish and Irish-Americans seem to have a knack for it.

[Sydnie]

100. I have that look too,

being Irish myself. I add a raised brow to mine though. It has come to be known as "giving someone the brow" in my house.

I think my son has it too. I try not to look when he does it though, because I am not quite ready to pass the torch. ;)

[obreaslan]

39. He's keeping an eye on Rummy's evil hands...

To make sure they don't get out of control.

The Rummy Hand-Jive:

[me b zola]

50. My favorite part is the naked guy behind rumdum

:rofl:

[Ghost Dog]

57. Those are, uh, significant, expressive fingers:

- Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld discusses Iraq, Afghanistan and the war on terror, during an appearance before the Senate Armed Services Committee in Washington Thursday, Aug. 3, 2006. (AP Photo/Dennis Cook)

ed: Almost, musician's fingers. ¿But, do the (cold) eyes have it, or is it that (hard, mean) mouth?

[Mad_Dem_X]

40. I love it!

If looks could kill...dayyum...

[garybeck]

41. I've seen that look before - the Lorax to the Onceler

just as he picks himself up from the seat of his pants and takes off at the end of the story. very disgusted look.

[mtnsnake]

44. It's not quite Mark Messier's famous glare, but it's not too shabby!

[lies and propaganda]

47. OUCH!

i feel giulty of something, damn.

[Kadie]

51. and his "enough is enough" look - pic from yesterday

[Tsiyu]

62. Crummy looks like he's praying for mercy in that shot

and Pace appears to be ready to run interference if Teddy comes over the table and starts to choke the living shit out of Crumsfield.

I'm sure the image of that casket a day before and the family of the fallen are superimposed over the DS' face in Teddy's mind as he glares at the Warmongering shithawk.

[Lifelong Protester]

103. THAT picture has enough clues as to what is going on

as any of them. Talk about Enough is a Gol'Darned 'Nough.

"Really, Kiss my Royal Irish Ass. No, Really, I mean you can just KISS IT."

[Ganja Ninja]

52. We know how you feel Ted.

When he went into his usual self interrogation session yesterday I felt like I was being tortured. I wanted to lash out physically to make it stop.

[Pierzin]

53. Sweeeeet!!!!! Yes!! I am continually amazed these crackheads

are actully running our country!!! Rummy and the whole Bush cabal along with the Repug congress are just insane. Jes, it's no wonder Ted doesn't kill himself with that look when he gets up to shave in the morning.

[EFerrari]

54. My MIL is a Kelly. I won't say more.

lol

[LuckyLib]

56. Ted's thought: "You lying sack of shit!"

I fantasize him saying so out loud followed by a standing ovation from the Senate gallery. A girl can dream, can't she?

[Totally Committed]

59. He is an outstanding Senator...

We in Mass. appreciate that withering "Irish look of death" -- especially when he points it in the correct direction. He's the best!

(A small P.S. -- I haven't actually "seen" a pic of Ted in a while. I'm glad to see he called Jenny Craig. He looks great! LOL!)

TC

[Janice325]

60. Whoa!!

Great photo.
I love you, Teddy!
k&r

[cain_7777]

61. Kennedy wnats to slap the shit out of that incompetent bastard...

and so do I. War crimes, war crimes, war crimes!

[tex-wyo-dem]

63. Maybe this is one reason TK is pissed...all for lies:

Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., says his prayer and touches the coffin of U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Geofrey R. Cayer, 20, of Fitchburg, Mass., after placing flowers during a funeral ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery

[donsu]

65. this pic brought tears

nt

[Ghost Dog]

67. Yes, that's a fine photograph. n/t.

[dflprincess]

87. Mine too

I thought of all the caskets Ted has had to stand beside and thought if anyone gets what this soldier's family is going through, it's Ted.

[Lifelong Protester]

102. me too,

looks like my late Dad, also Irish to the core.

Anyone see any pictures of that son of a you know what in the White House expressing ANY sadness, dismay, sense of RESPONSIBILITY for all the needless death HE has caused? Makes you sick.

[proud patriot]

64. I know that look

I used to get that look from my grandpa , when I told a fib .

[dflprincess]

86. I got that look from my grandma

My mother has perfected it as well. Not something you want to see directed at you. My niece says I have it, but it's not as scary as when her grandmother (my mom) gives it to her.

[gully]

66. My child has a nickname for my "Irish look."

LOL

[Vinca]

68. That look could melt the grease in Rummy's hair. nt

[Gregorian]

69. A new level of disgust. We need a new word.

Repgust.

[MichiganVote]

70. In my Irish background, that's the look that says, "You're toast"

[stevedeshazer]

71. I'm no artist, but the composition of that photograph seems masterful.

And completely accidental.

[im10ashus]

72. OMFG!

It looks like the look I used get from dear old dad. And look at Hillary. I'll give her credit this time, she handed Rummy his ass. I wish she was this vocal in 2003.

Kick and Nominate!

:kick:

[Maat]

74. K&R.

My first (I just never was a 'recommender' before - but now I am)!

[A-Schwarzenegger]

75. CAPTIONED:

Rummy: Is this my hand? Is it at the end of my arm? Is it full of blood and bones and other mysterious matters that nobody can really say what they are for sure but at least it helps distract us from the total hell-on catastrophe I've helped create in Iraq? Yes, it is.

Hills: I've really really really always wanted to be against the war and now the polls say it's pretty safe so I'm happy, and I took a poll and found that people like me when I'm smiling, but not too much, so that's what I'm doing right now.

Kennedy: I smell caca.

General Pace: I ate caca. With salsa.

[graywarrior]

76. I recognize that look.

I grew up in Lynn with a buncha Irish. I'm lucky to be alive today.

[Swamp Rat]

77. I love Ted Kennedy!!! ... that is one of the BEST photographs I have seen

in a while. :applause:

GREAT composition!!!

:kick:

[NastyDiaper]

78. From right to left..

..
General: Looking like he knows he's gonna see "civil war" in tomorrow's headlines.
Ted: Look of Death.
Hillary: Looking for that fking DU to cut her some slack finally.
Rummy: Looking forward to that next "Happy Ending" Asian manicure.

[rodriguez94]

79. I have seem Senator Kennedy in person twice and

I heard in speak one of those times when I attended the Democratic National Convention in Boston, 2004 as a Delegate from NC!!! :party: :toast:

It was a blast...it pumped me up for the Presidential campaign of 2004!

I wanted my NC homeboy, Senator John Edwards, in the White House..one way or the other.

Instead, I was deprived of the right to have my vote counted...my vote was "lost" in the Carteret County Election Fiasco of 2004..over 4,000 missing votes...

What did I do about it?

1 - Signed up on DU

2 - Co-founded the Carteret Coalition for Verifiable Voting (we have new machines now with a optiscan paper ballot)

3 - Filed for office in my County...Commissioner, 3rd District, Carteret County...

see my blog

http://www.myspace.com/votetina06

:kick:

ps..I have paypal and am taking donations!

Recommend my post and Save the Crystal Coast!!

[Eric J in MN]

93. Are there automatic audits of at least a percentage

...of the optical scan ballots?

[MelissaB]

94. You are one busy little bee!

:yourock:

[savemefromdumbya]

80. Rummy and the General are crying!

Nuremberg trials awaits!

[Olney Blue]

82. Ted Kennedy speaks (and glares) for me!

[mohinoaklawnillinois]

84. That's the exact same look my Dad used to give us

when we were "acting up". Chilling isn't it...

Even though I was Daddy's little girl, I knew when I got "that look" to knock off whatever I was doing.

Ted is definitely "not pleased"...

[kineneb]

85. TK is not a happy camper

"you are the scum of the earth, you are so absolutely replaceable, go do something rude to yourself with a plumber's helper" all in one look...

wonderful picture


(I have been told I am able to give a similar look... got it from my grandma, who was a master of The Look)

[Breeze54]

90. If looks could kill!

:P





~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

:kick: and Recommended! ;)

[lamp_shade]

101. OMG! That's "The Look"

My Mother's "look". It'll turn ya to stone.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

91. I get that look and my dad got that look.

They both mean, get the fuck out of our way, before somebody gets hurt.

Do not get in the path of an Irish person when they have that look.

[Cleita]

96. All he needs is a little blue woad warpaint.

Yep, I saw that look on my Irish husband a few times when someone crossed him.

[Skittles]

99. William, how is Raven doing

I miss her

[WilliamPitt]

109. Excellent

She is in the NH woods on the world's slowest dial-up, so posting for her is a pain in the ass. That'll change this autumn; she's moving into a house where there will be high-speed internet, so you'll see much more of her.

She is, in all respects, doing wonderfully. I'll tell her you asked after her.

[Chulanowa]

104. Yep, that's my mother's look.

"You say one more word and I will punch the taste out of your mouth, young man!"

In all honesty not as scary as my dad's look. Natives Get this dissappointed "Sigh, now I have to bruise my knuckles all over your knobby little head" look... :)

[Warren DeMontague]

105. He's thinking "Wow. When did McNamara get so stupid?" nt

[Peace Patriot]

108. One of the reasons I so like this pix of TK and the English Overlord--

besides the great antiquity of The Look (goes back at least two and a half millenia to the first sacking of Rome, by the KELTS)--is that it BREAKS up the Senate chumminess and politeness with torturers, liars and mass murderers. I find it so sickening when they're all so deferential and respectful, and all smiley-faced, like Miz Hillary. Granted, she has reason to smile--she socked the asshat in the nose--but still, that's how it usually ends: 'We're all millionaires here (some of us billionaires); we're all Lords of the Earth, or wannabes; we're all prospering, while others are rotting and dying; we're all brethren and sisteren power players under the skin, and so we smile, and smile, and smile together, whatever our petty differences over who gets which loot from the spoils of war and global corporate predation.'

It's great to see Ted's ancient Irish Druid come out, with this "drop dead" eyeing of the Enemy. He's one of the few in the Diebold Congress that still has that kind of soul (and was genuinely elected). The Great Keltic Leaders have ever been this way--men of the people. They hold many in one. They are spiritually incapable of coldness, of callousness to the suffering of others. Their blood runs with the joy of conversation and connectedness. It is a Gift. It is the foundation of the Arthurian legend. And love and sobriety have brought it out in Ted. From us (the many), through him (the one), to Rumsfeld (the enemy): We are done with losing to the likes of you--we have your measure--prepare to die!

[dailykoff]

110. When does Hillary buy a new dress?

or is that a cardboard cutout?

[knitter4democracy]

111. That's "look o' death" according to an old friend.

She always called it that, and we all started saying it that way, too. :D

[dr.zoidberg]

112. Aw, Teddy's upset because...

Rumsfeld isn't a whiskey bottle. :)

Goddamn, this shit is too easy. :)

[NVMojo]

113. yep, that's the look alright ...he is fecking pissed and had it ....

[brainshrub]

114. Someone remind me: Has he called for a time-table or

troop withdrawls?

[zulchzulu]

115. I drove Ted around Madison in 2004 and was really amazed

He is one of the most down-to-earth people I've ever met with the stature he has.

That photo shows a lot about how he knows he will have Rumsfeld to either resign in shame or be ousted from his position in the near future. Ted looks like a jaguar ready to pounce on a limping antelope.

[Spirochete]

116. That must be what it wuld be like

to stand face to face with a basilisk. Ted does not seem to like Donny Death very much.

[BreweryYardRat]

117. I've produced that look on rare occasions.

We French can pull it out when it really counts.

And if there was ever a time...