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Occam Bandage Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-20-09 02:42 PM
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CNN REPORTS A SENATOR HAS COLLAPSED DURING THE LUNCH - UPDATED REPORTS CONFIRMED SEN. KENNEDY
Edited on Tue Jan-20-09 02:55 PM by Occam Bandage
Edit 1: First reports were Sen. Byrd. New reports suggesting TK. Headline adjusted.
Edit 2: Further reports suggesting Sen. Kennedy was taken from the lunch by ambulance, having convulsions. If true, it may signify the final stages of brain cancer, given my family's experience with it. One episode of convulsions and hospitalization, a long period of nothing, and then a second episode followed by a rapid worsening of condition. Headline adjusted.
Edit 3: CBS suggests Byrd and Kennedy have both been removed from the luncheon.
Edit 4: Confirmed TK by Obama. God watch over him. Headline adjusted.
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UrbScotty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-20-09 02:43 PM
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1. CBS says it was Byrd
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Better Believe It Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-20-09 02:43 PM
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10. ABC Reporting it was Kennedy
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Solly Mack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-20-09 02:43 PM
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2. Either Byrd or Kennedy...it is being reported
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Eurobabe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-20-09 02:43 PM
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8. Just heard on CNN, either Byrd or Kennedy
Not good news, either way.
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Solly Mack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-20-09 02:44 PM
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11. I wish they would verify already though
Not good either way...
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originalpckelly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-20-09 02:44 PM
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13. I know...
feel bad for whomever it is.
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Wickerman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-20-09 02:43 PM
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3. oh, fuck
thoughts and prayers with whomever.
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originalpckelly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-20-09 02:43 PM
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4. It was Senator Kennedy!
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nc4bo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-20-09 02:43 PM
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5. Ted Kennedy. Oh NOo. nt
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FrenchieCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-20-09 02:43 PM
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6. It's Teddie!
:cry:
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bdamomma Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-20-09 02:44 PM
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14. oh crap, come on Senator Kennedy hang on please!!
Edited on Tue Jan-20-09 02:50 PM by alyce douglas
anyone watching C Span it's the luncheon. They just presented both Obamas and Biden a beautiful crystal bowls.
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HeraldSquare212 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-20-09 02:43 PM
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7. CNN says they're told not Byrd
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Ichingcarpenter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-20-09 02:43 PM
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9. He was in a wheel chair. ..... I saw him earlier talk with Carter
MSNBC has a live feed right now at the lunch and nothing is mentioned.
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-20-09 02:44 PM
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12. Oh no.
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Arugula Latte Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-20-09 02:45 PM
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15. Oh no!
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bigtree Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-20-09 02:45 PM
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16. just heard someone on MSNBC (behind the picture) say it was Kennedy
wheeled out on a stretcher.
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OnceUponTimeOnTheNet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-20-09 02:47 PM
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17. That's what I heard also.
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bigtree Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-20-09 02:53 PM
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25. they just confirmed this
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Bluerthanblue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-20-09 02:47 PM
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18. Ted had seizure, Byrd overcome with emotion
according to ABC
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-20-09 02:48 PM
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20. CBS reporting both have had to be taken out of the luncheon.
Be safe, good people.
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Bluerthanblue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-20-09 02:52 PM
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23. my wishes too-
i know how intense i'm feeling- i can only imagine what it must be like to be there.

Obama's speaking about Ted right now.

:hug:
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Dennis Donovan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-20-09 02:47 PM
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19. What in God's name is going on?
I'm hearing nothing on MSNBC???
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bushmeister0 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-20-09 02:48 PM
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21. Oh Christ, poor Teddy!
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Occam Bandage Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-20-09 02:52 PM
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22. I hate these periods of no information. nt
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snooper2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-20-09 02:53 PM
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24. I guess you would have hated
living around 1847 :rofl:
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Occam Bandage Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-20-09 02:53 PM
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26. I demand ABSOLUTE INSTANT INFORMATION AT ALL TIMES
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ProfessorGAC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-20-09 02:54 PM
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27. Well, I'll Admit It. I'd Hate Living Back Then
That would suck!
GAC
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Occam Bandage Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-20-09 02:58 PM
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28. Obama confirms it was TK.
:(
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Barack_America Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-20-09 02:58 PM
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29. A seizure does not mean certain death.
He has had seizures before (sine the surgery) and is reportedly on medication for this. The seizures could be due to either the cancer advancing -OR- complications from his surgery.

Let's not jump to any conclusions here.
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-20-09 03:01 PM
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30. That's right. n/t
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