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He may be the poster boy for term limits.

Ted Kennedy’s Soviet Gambit‏

http://www.forbes.com/2009/08/.....inson.html

Hugs back to one and all. The Glory Road lives!!!!

Again, I’m going to reproduce your great letter: “hi Linda, if ever someone needed to be ripped a new one, even posthumously, it was that drunken, despicable, murderous sack of animated socialist lard we are finally rid of. that the country has been gripped in funereal frenzy since his long overdue demise is downright embarrassing to those of us who haven’t been sucked into the whirlpool of malodorous spin being generated by the controlled media. your every article is a delight but this one was especially tasty. regards, james”

Rolling chuckles…Gary, I didn’t write THIS one either!

Much more mail like this and maybe we can carve out a little corner for those of us who love to play with words and ideas somewhere dim and dusky in the Whiskey Bar. Whoo-wee, you’d fit right in, James, having quite a way with words yourself! Y’all come on in, set raht down, an’ tell us ’bout yourself.

I think it would be fun if we could put together “A Shot Across the Bows,” just to keep the theme going, and that’s a mighty nice load of flaming pitch you lobbed out of your catapult!

Thanks for writing, and I’ll hope to hear from you again.

Cordially, Linda

“What a fantastic letter about the passing of Ted Kennedy. It was so well written I am almost embarrassed to even make a comment. It is a pleasure to read something from someone who knows what they want to say and say it…perfectly. I have often wondered how much better our world would have been if Mary Jo had lived and Kennedy had died in a heroic attempt to save her life. Congratulations on living in the Republic of Texas. I spent four Air Force years “defending Texas” from a possible air attack from the South. As it turns out, the threat was/is a ground instead of an air one.

Again, kudos to your literary skills. Now that I know where to read what you say, I’ll be back.
DS”

Dear DS:

Thank you VERY much for…words fail me. That doesn’t happen very frequently, but your letter is like a present that is so marvelous every attempt to write a thank you note ends up sounding insincere.

Please DO become a regular in the bar, and if it isn’t too much to ask would you tell us (that is, those of us here in my little corner of the joint where I wipe up drink rings and pass out peanuts, not a “royal us”) what you’re doing now and why you aren’t living in the Republic? Were you at Del Rio? Abilene? Amarillo?

I loved your comment on “what if Mary Jo had been saved heroically and Teddy had died?” I never thought of that! It would, indeed, have been far better for the world and for the Kennedy family and even for Teddy. What a wasted life he had…

I obviously have to quit, DS, or I will ramble on at enormous length. Again, my very deep thanks. Honest, Gary, I didn’t write this and neither did Charles!

Linda

I don’t know who you think you’re fooling, Richard Marmo, but it didn’t deceive the hawk-eyed Super Editor who would know your style anywhere!

Ah, what a wonderful letter. I shall continue to write and hope to earn a similar encomium from someone who isn’t a frequent houseguest at the Rafter TS.

Soft chuckles…ah, would that it were so, dear friend, and we of the Texas Ring could walk the Glory Road together instead of slogging through the sticky swamps of statist slime and left wing larceny. Shall we cast Roy in the role of my faithful troll?! Hugs to you and Nelda