How about a photo thread?

[ginnyinWI]

Pirate Smile suggested that we need one about now! I'd like to suggest a sports theme, in honor of John's knee surgery. Here's some to start it off:

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and:

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[elshiva]

1. Thank You!

John Kerry (back row, far right) in a 1960 St. Paul's club hockey team photo.

[ginnyinWI]

2. In Milwaukee

An early morning ride along the lakefront:

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not Milwaukee, but

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and--
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[Pirate Smile]

3. Here is one and I like the sports theme.

[seito]

4. Catch

[ginnyinWI]

6. somehow I just can't imagine Chimpy doing this

I just don't think he's athletic or coordinated enough (he seems to fall down a lot). JK is in fine shape for it, though! You'd never know he has an "office" job.

[Pirate Smile]

7. New sport - Ping Pong

[Pirate Smile]

8. .

[Pirate Smile]

5. more

[sandnsea]

9. The bowl-a-thon

Do you know if that was from Iowa? I vaguely remember a 24 hour bus trip with bowling in the wee hours in the morning. Is that a picture of it?

[Pirate Smile]

10. The photo's properties lists Manchester in it so I assume it was in NH.

[Corey_Baker08]

11. Here He Is Skiing....

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[ginnyinWI]

13. ski pic

Corey, when you are on your photobucket page, copy the line that says "Tag" and paste it into your post.

[ginnyinWI]

12. Sheesh--what sport has he not done?

Football, baseball, motorcycles, bicycles, soccer, hockey, windsurfing--ping pong !?! Fencing in college, swimming--(who has that pool pic?) How about the skiing one? Hm, what else?

Basketball is the only other one I can think of right now that is missing--that I haven't seen a pic of him doing. But the odds are somebody probably has one of him playing that, too--he's tall enough!

edit: almost forgot bowling. :hi:

[WildEyedLiberal]

14. Pool pic!

[ginnyinWI]

15. Thanks! That's the one, all right.

:yourock:

[rox63]

18. Ok, that pic is definitely hot!

Even though I don't generally think of Kerry as a hottie, the pool pic is definitely hot. :evilgrin:

[JI7]

16. more football at night

[JI7]

17. i love this one , look at that smile

[TayTay]

19. Wow, definitely ads up to arthroscopic knee surgery

Wow! You know, I had no ideer that Kerry was so athletic. I knew about the hockey, of course, because of the Denis Leary events for the Worcester Firefighters. I did read this from Stewart O'Nan in his and Stephen King's book 'Faithful':

Page 224-225 hardcover edition

This is about a description of a Sunday July 25th game last year between arch-enemies, the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees at Fenway Park. This game occured the day before the Democratic National Convention in Boston began.

John Kerry's sitting two sections over from us, right by the end of the Sox dugout, along with John Glenn, Joe Biden, Tom Brokaw, Tim Russert, and a gaggle of other Democratic National Convention celebrities. Between innings, the teenage guys sitting in front of us gesture to him with a ball they want signed. Kerry waves it on. The kid's throw is short, hitting Katie Couric. Kerry signs it, and since I'm the only one with a glove, he throws it back to me. When the next half-inning's over, I catch Kerry's eye with the ball I snagged from Miguel Cairo and toss it to him -- the right distance but wide. I think it's going to bounce onto the field, but Kerry reaches over the wall, stretches and makes a sweet one-handed grab. I point to him, suurprised; he points back and nods. After he signs, his toss is perfect, head-high, and again we point at ech other. Oil Can Boyd and John Kerry in one day!

Now, if only the media had shown that on the news that night instead of criticizing Kerry for tossing a soft curve off the mound that was short. Sigh!

EDIT" Oh, I forgot. Kerry didn't notify the press that the campaign was going to Boston until very late the day before. I believe the announcement was something like, "This plane is being hijacked to Boston so we can see the Sox-Yanks game." A man after my own heart. If I had a plane, was friends with the co-owner and had the time, I would turn my plane around in a frggin heartbeat and go see the Yanks get beat as well. I loved that. A true Masshole moment.

I have a pic, but hmmm, not all pics are good, ya know.

Half of this article is a friggin riot. The other half: Bite me ya sports writing bastard. : http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1208/is_32_228/ai_n6148378

[sandnsea]

22. Dagger through my heart

When I read that stuff, it just kills me. Mary Beth & Stephanie Cutter are Kennedy people for chrissake. How could they not know how important this kind of stuff was??? That "vouching" thing again.

Awesome story, thanks!!

[TayTay]

23. I get nervous now about posting these

There is good stuff in there, there is also stuff that I consider torn half-pages. Imagine that a person is a book, some even long interesting novels, fascinating in their complexity and character insights. There are some reporters (and other observers as we see in DU in general sometimes) who don't bother to read the whole book. Heck, they don't even bother to read a full chapter. They rip a page out of the book, reflect on this poor little context-free thing and announce that they know how the book began and how it ends. "This torn little page in my hand is the sum of all things," I imagine they say to themselves. But it's not. It's still just a torn little half page, forced to live without context and the richness of being connected to the rest of the book. How sad.

Press coverage strikes me this way. I get all the stories together, positive and negative, and try to figure out what page they have torn out of the book. Is it relevant? Is it detailing anything real and insightful, which is what writers and maybe reporters are supposed to do? Or is it a mailed in effort, the writer finding that torn half-page and imagining it to be the whole sum of the book?

I have this marvelous story from The Boston Globe from 1984. It was a pure think piece that ran in the Sunday Magazine before the Massachusetts Senate primaries of that year. It is both utterly pretentious and completely captivating. It gives a lovely history of who has held US Senate seats in MA and the utterly lofty regard that the seats from MA are held in. Being a native this article is fascinating. My first response is to notice the high-mindedness of it and laugh my head off. Oh Good lord, nobody can ever live up to those standards, it's completely loony. My second thought is that, well, yeah, I expect those standards. That means I'm a loony as well. How can I have such high standards that nobody can ever live up to them? I admit to this impossibility and have tried to mediate it. I wish the press would see this as well. They are unable to see the human being anymore, just the torn page of gotchas. How sad and how awful for the nation. Maybe, as a nation, we just don't have time anymore for insight and the ups and downs of actual humanity. Sigh! Too bad. This is the good stuff.

[ginnyinWI]

20. this picture won't come in for me!

could somebody re-post it or something? :cry:
TayTay's got my curiosity going!

[TayTay]

21. You know, Teresa was converted last year.

Sssshhhhhhh, don't tell any of our most esteemed Pirates fans. This is from a UNH newspaper late last year:http://www.tnhonline.com/news/2004/10/19/News/Teresa.Heinz.Kerry.Catches.Up.With.Students-772332.shtml



Teresa Heinz Kerry catches up with students
By Mark Daniels

With secret service agents around me, I sat nervously as presidential candidate John Kerry's wife Teresa Heinz Kerry hit my Red Sox cap and asked me if I saw the game last night. I told her I did and how David Ortiz hit the game winner. She then slapped the table said "yes," and that she hasn't talked to "John yet about the game." After offering me a potato chip, I kindly declined and learned that Mrs. Heinz Kerry was here to talk about more serious subjects than that of the Red Sox.

[elshiva]

24. Thanks! She looks beautiful there!

[globalvillage]

25. Damn.

I searched for an article to refute your post, and found NOTHING except a statement that she's not a Steeler fan (sob) either.
I am heartbroken.

[JohnKleeb]

26. Ahh she's not a Steelers fan

Ahh well, well I am glad I am now not the only Steelers fan in the group. They got a nice fan base down here in Virginia I am happy to say.

[TayTay]

27. But Pittsburgh still has Teresa's heart

She has never abandoned her first American home for the Bay State. Teresa's legal voting residence is still in Pittsburgh, she is devoted to a number of worthy causes in the Pittsburgh area and has never even hinted that she would ever abandon her principle residence. Her 'loyalty' is still with the Keystone State.

When the VP announcement was made last year, it was not done in Boston. (Nor Nantucket.) It was done in Pennsylvania. What does that say? (This is fine by me. We have a long history in Massachusetts of having our Senators vacation and establish housing outside of the state. The Kennedys are as much citizens of Palm Beach Florida as they have ever been citizens of Hyannis or Boston, MA. This just is. And it had never been disparaged, as far as I know. They have MA in their bones, wherever they may chose to live.)

BTW, there were articles in the Boston papers in January that said there was a friendly argument in the Heinz-Kerry household over who would win that Pats-Steelers game. Bets were placed.

EDIT: The Red Sox devotional conversion may not count. The poor woman did marry a Bostonian. It is not possible to talk to many of us without encountering this ardent, and until last year, unrequited love for the Red Sox. It is a localized form of mental illness and it is catching.

Time was that the Red Sox would engage the local populace in a tease, a maddening, hair-pulling, vicious tease that would leave one rather lathered up with no place to put the energy at the end. (Hmmm, my metaphors are getting spicier.) This resulted in odes to, ahm, frustration all over the local media. (Which proves there are indeed too many people with advanced degrees in Boston driving cabs.) So, last year the Red Sox finally, ahm, consummated the relationship. Which leaves Boston and by extension New England as the only place wherein if you win you are most happily f*cked. (How could anyone resist that? This is what Puritan romanticism means, my dear. You win, you're f*cked.)