I didn´t have to Google that one........He probably could have been president, but we will never know. 

 Umm....there was only one Kennedy POTUS....JFK....although I do agree he was very handsome.

Interesting they all go back to the middle of the 19th Centruy.  The Kennedy family are relative newcomers on the political stage.  The Bush family has a much longer history, going back to Samuel Bush, who during WWI was was appointed to the War Industries Board.

Then there is the Rockefeller family who goes back  over 150 years.  One interesting thing I noticed about the Bush and Rockefeller families is the association with banks.....?

The Roosevelt Family   Teddy Roosevelt, Franklin Delano Roosevelt....and the Delano Family...hmmm Alan Shepard...the fifth person to walk on the moon was from that family too...

An interesting fact about Patrick Kennedy (the son of Patrick Kennedy the Irish immigrent)   "......... thirty five year old Kennedy succumbed to the highly infectious cholera that infested East Boston, and died on November 22, 1858—105 years to the day before his great-grandson John F. Kennedy would be assassinated."  It seems the Kennedy family had much closer living memory relationship with poverty and need.

The Bush and Rockefeller famlies have been very far away from poverty for some time.

 5 months in Iraq, what would the American People rather have?

RIP

 It shows that we could care less, if we cared to, but we do not actually care anymore (it´s not worth the effort),  even though there are still some dregs left in the bottom of the bag.

Instead we are NOT going to care at all...............it´s implied....

 Good choices...

babaanne = mother of the father,

aneanne =  mother of the mother,

büyukanne = great grandmother (I think...correct me if I´m wrong)

May  Senator Edward Kennedy rest in peace....

he understood the lesson from his parents.........

"much is expected of those to whom much has been given"

"This is the cause of my life. It is a key reason that I defied my illness last summer to speak at the Democratic convention in Denver—to support Barack Obama, but also to make sure, as I said, "that we will break the old gridlock and guarantee that every American...will have decent, quality health care as a fundamental right and not just a privilege." For four decades I have carried this cause—from the floor of the United States Senate to every part of this country. It has never been merely a question of policy; it goes to the heart of my belief in a just society. Now the issue has more meaning for me—and more urgency—than ever before. But it´s always been deeply personal, because the importance of health care has been a recurrent lesson throughout most of my 77 years. "

— Ted Kennedy

Ted Kennedy on Health Care

Thank you Ted....

 Well, if I were more energetic, I would cook them myself, but I´m lazy and use canned ones instead.

BTW I use button mushrooms for this....any mushroom with a nice cap would work.  Small portobellos work great.

Remind me to tell you my cooking garbanzo bean story some time.............they need a LOT of water and time to cook. ...hint...they smell very bad when they burn...and make a LOT of smoke...

 Do you have dried mushrooms in your area? They are excellent for making soup.  Each mushroom has it´s own unique flavor.  I like shiitake mushrooms because they are very flavorful and has great health properties also.  In fact, many mushrooms have healthful properties.

I have them several times a week. 

Here is something I do with them maybe you would like to try.  It´s a vegetarian dish.

Take the stem off the mushroom so as to make a nice bowl for stuffing.

Grind up sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, garbanzo beans, mushroom stems.

Add some bread crumbs and mix them all together.

You might want to add a little water or liquid to make the mixture more easily worked.

Add a little butter to the tops of each mushroom.

Stuff the mushroom caps, add a little water to the baking pan and cover.

Bake in the oven for about half an hour. Take cover off the last 10 minutes of baking.  You may want to then put them in the broiler to crisp the top.

 Please excuse me, I am pretty busy and must admit I have not gone over each and every post in this thread with a fine tooth comb.  I do agree, pride and feeling superior are not the most elevated emotions in any circumstance, however I did not see that in Queent or Canli´s posts.  Couldyou point to any specific one,  or is it your opinion?

IMHO, one shoule feel privileged and grateful  to have been able to perform the Ramazan fast.  I think feeling prideful and superior would cancel much of the (sevap) benefits of fasting.