Democratic Convention Schedule



6:00 p.m. - Opening flag burning ceremony.

6:05 p.m. - Opening secular prayers by Rev. Jesse Jackson and
Rev. Al Sharpton

6:30 p.m. - Anti-war concert by Barbra Streisand.

6:40 p.m. - Ted Kennedy proposes a toast.

7:00 p.m. - Tribute theme to France.

7:10 p.m. - Collect offerings for al-Zawahri defense fund.

7:25 p.m. - Tribute theme to Germany.

7:45 p.m. - Anti-war rally (Moderated by Michael Moore)

8:25 p.m. - Ted Kennedy proposes a toast.

8:30 p.m. - Terrorist appeasement workshop.

9:00 p.m. - Gay marriage ceremony (both male and female couples)




9:30.p.m. - * Intermission *

10:00.p.m. - Posting the Iraqi Colors by Sean Penn and Tim
Robbins

10:10 p.m. - Re-enactment of Kerry's fake medal toss.

10:20.p.m. - Cameo by Dean 'Yeeearrrrrrrg!'

10:30 p.m. - Abortion demonstration by N.A.R.A.L.

10:40 p.m. - Ted Kennedy proposes a toast.

10:50 p.m. - Pledge of allegiance to the UN.

11:00 p.m. - Multiple gay marriage ceremony (threesomes, mixed
and same sex). Rep. Barney Frank (D,Mass.), Sponsor

11:15 p.m. - Maximizing Welfare workshop.

11:30 p.m. - 'Free Saddam' pep rally.

11:59 p.m. - Ted Kennedy proposes a toast.

12:00 p.m. - Nomination of democratic candidate.

Any chance we could get Ted Kennedy to drive Hillary home from
the convention ?

S/V Express 30 "Ringmaster"
"Trains are a winter sport"

Now that's funny! Especially the Teddy part.

Reminds me of that old joke about Jackie... when she
died someone had to tell Rose. So, some poor *******
got the short straw, and to tell her. Her first question
was, "Was Teddy driving?"

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Democratic Convention Schedule



6:00 p.m. - Opening flag burning ceremony.

6:05 p.m. - Opening secular prayers by Rev. Jesse Jackson and
Rev. Al Sharpton

6:30 p.m. - Anti-war concert by Barbra Streisand.

6:40 p.m. - Ted Kennedy proposes a toast.

7:00 p.m. - Tribute theme to France.

7:10 p.m. - Collect offerings for al-Zawahri defense fund.

7:25 p.m. - Tribute theme to Germany.

7:45 p.m. - Anti-war rally (Moderated by Michael Moore)

8:25 p.m. - Ted Kennedy proposes a toast.

8:30 p.m. - Terrorist appeasement workshop.

9:00 p.m. - Gay marriage ceremony (both male and female couples)




9:30.p.m. - * Intermission *

10:00.p.m. - Posting the Iraqi Colors by Sean Penn and Tim
Robbins

10:10 p.m. - Re-enactment of Kerry's fake medal toss.

10:20.p.m. - Cameo by Dean 'Yeeearrrrrrrg!'

10:30 p.m. - Abortion demonstration by N.A.R.A.L.

10:40 p.m. - Ted Kennedy proposes a toast.

10:50 p.m. - Pledge of allegiance to the UN.

11:00 p.m. - Multiple gay marriage ceremony (threesomes, mixed
and same sex). Rep. Barney Frank (D,Mass.), Sponsor

11:15 p.m. - Maximizing Welfare workshop.

11:30 p.m. - 'Free Saddam' pep rally.

11:59 p.m. - Ted Kennedy proposes a toast.

12:00 p.m. - Nomination of democratic candidate.

Any chance we could get Ted Kennedy to drive Hillary home from
the convention ?

S/V Express 30 "Ringmaster"
"Trains are a winter sport"

I remember hearing someone on TV say that it was JFK that saved Teddy's
political hide in Chappaquiddick. But, since JFK was already dead six
years at the time of the accident, it didn't make much sense. What they
meant was that JFK promised that the US would land a man on the Moon
and return him safely to the Earth by the end of the decade, and do it
just two days after Teddy, driving drunk, managed to kill the young
female Kennedy groupie that he was banging that weekend. The short-
lived Mary Jo Kopechne did keep Teddy out of the White House, so I
guess she didn't die in vain. Thank you, Mary Jo.

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Remembering Mary Jo
35 years later: Ted Kennedy's under-investigated scandal.
by Myrna Blyth
National Review
July 20, 2004
http://www.nationalreview.com/blyth/...0407200944.asp

This week we may hear a little about the 35th anniversary of Neil
Armstrong's moonwalk, but there is another anniversary that has
alreeady gone unnoticed. On July 18, 1969, a couple of nights before
Armstrong took that "giant step for mankind," Ted Kennedy took a turn
onto a narrow bridge in Chappaquiddick. The passenger in his car that
night was Mary Jo Kopechne, a pretty, blond Capitol Hill secretary,
just about to celebrate her 29th birthday. The two events are
inextricably linked in my mind because my husband, who was a
correspondent for a British newspaper, instead of reporting on our
glorious odyssey into space, ended up at police headquarters on
Martha's Vineyard covering that sordid story.

In case you have forgotten or never knew the details, Ted and five of
his pals and six women known as the "Boiler Room Girls" who had worked
in Bobby Kennedy's presidential campaign, cut short by his
assassination the year before, were weekending together. Afterward, the
men claimed it was just a couple of days of innocent fun to thank the
girls for their help, though the six guys were all married but partying
without their wives, and the young women were all single. One of
the "Boiler Room Girls" is now big-time New York literary agent Esther
Newberg, who was Mary Jo's roommate for the weekend. Like everyone
involved in the incident, Esther remains close-mouthed about what
occurred.

What everyone testified at the time was that Kennedy and Mary Jo left
the party before midnight. Kennedy said he was driving her back to the
ferry to Edgartown, and took a wrong turn, though he was very familiar
with the roads on the island. His car toppled off a narrow wooden-
planked bridge, a bridge that is in the opposite direction to the road
that led to the ferry but is on the way to the beach. The car landed
upside-down in eight feet of water and, Kennedy claimed that after
escaping, he tried unsuccessfully to rescue Mary Jo. He then staggered
back to the party, called out his cousin Joe Gargan and his pal Paul
Markham, to return to the scene. What he didn't do, inexplicably, was
seek help in a lighted house only yards from the bridge or use the fire-
alarm phone at a fire station he passed on the way back to the party.

Right from the start, the reporters who arrived at the scene were
skeptical of his story, skeptical even of how he claimed he got back to
Edgartown that night. Markham and Gargan said when they drove to the
ferry landing - the ferry had stopped running by then - Kennedy took
them by surprise by jumping in the water, and swimming across the
channel towards Edgartown. They assumed, they said, he would report the
accident that night to the police. Instead Kennedy went back to his
hotel, ostensibly to change his clothes but instead, went downstairs to
complain about a noisy party that was going on.

The next morning Markham and Gargan were waiting for Kennedy when he
arrived at 9 A.M. on the first ferry. The ferry operator said Kennedy
appeared to be in a jovial mood, but probably only until he was told
that his car had been found. Only then did Kennedy return and report
the accident.

Some reporters, primarily the foreign press, did ask tough questions.
For example: Did Kennedy really swim back to Edgartown that night? No
one saw him with wet clothes and my husband, for one, interviewed a
young man who had tied up his rowboat at the Chappaquiddick dock on
Saturday night. When he got there on Sunday morning, he said, it had
been retied and with what he called a "land lubber's knot."

But the whole incident was overshadowed by the worldwide coverage of
the moonwalk. Besides, all the people involved had, by midday, left
Martha's Vineyard and headed home. When the police went to the cottage
where the party had taken place, all they found were some washed Coca-
Cola bottles. There was no one to interview and no one who would talk
then - or ever. Besides, Kennedy was treated like Massachusetts royalty
by the local police chief, Dominick Arena, who even gave up his office
so that Kennedy could make telephone calls to advisers and lawyers in
privacy.

It may have been the last time when a scandal was so under-
investigated, so quickly dispatched - and the man involved seemed to
get off so easily for what he had done. A week later, Kennedy, who
arrived in court wearing a neck brace, pleaded guilty to leaving the
scene of an accident and was given a two-month suspended sentence and a
year's probation.

Next week Ted Kennedy will be center stage at the Democratic convention
in Boston. "It will be a celebration...of the work of Ted Kennedy....
There will be a lot of appropriate attention paid to a person who has
been at the center of national politics for the past forty years," his
colleague Senator Christopher Dodd has enthused. And last year Boston
Globe reporter Charles Pierce commented, "If she had lived, Mary Jo
Kopechne would be 62 years old. Through his tireless work as a
legislator, Edward Kennedy would have brought comfort to her in her old
age."

It would be funny - if it wasn't so sad.