I've had Facebook discussions with Tom previously. He is conservative but after yesterday's Facebook smack down and reading about the vile things tweeted by the King of Hate Andrew Breitbart I am convinced that Tom the former friend is really just another idiotic, decency free, human being (and I use that term lightly with him) really! And of course those character traits are perfect for a reader of Breitbarts, in fact they are probably required.  Tom usually angers me to no end. So yesterday I was preparing for my daily bicycle ride, I usually ride 25 miles at least 4 days a week, sometimes more, I was perusing Facebook. I saw my friend Suzanne's front page; she said something nice about Ted Kennedy. I liked the item, and clicked the thumbs up button, at the same time I ventured to her page to read the other comments. It was disappointing to say the very least. The decency free minions were already on the attack.

The first comment was by our friend Rod. This was relatively disappointing to me because I didn't think Rod was a winger. So this is how it went.

Rod never would have thought I would have learned about a major news event like this on FB, but I have! In any case, I am curious what the reaction of Mary Jo Kopechne's family is.

Next was Tom's reply.

Tom I am sad to see he never was held accountable for killing her.

Ok, when I read this I became very angry. I inbox Suzanne, I can't believe what they've written! She can't either. I told her I was going to go for my ride and then decide how I would respond to them. She said, "Do it"! I have to say I rode 31 miles yesterday because I was angry. All 31 miles I thought about what I would write. Here is how it went:

Teresa Occasionally the better part of valor or decorum calls for silence from political opponents. I take no comfort in knowing that there are always those would not let the dead rest not even for 24 hours. So I lift my shot of Jamieson to you Rod and Tom, hoping that nothing ever befalls your own family, hoping no child, no wife, no brother, no sister makes a grievous mistake, here is hoping you never have to live with that shame. Here is hoping that if there is a God, you are forgiven for you own inability to believe the words of "There but for the grace of God go I".

I felt pretty sure my response to them should end anymore derogatory statements about Sen. Kennedy, but alas I was wrong.

Tom Well said. I would just hope that all our friends or family members would show sound character and sorrow if tehy have commited a grievous mistake. The true test of character is how we behave in times of adversity. In this adverse situation a young woman died and TK went to the hotel to get a good nights sleep.

Yes those are with his typo's you might as well see a winger in full regalia, including an inability to edit.

I was really angered yet again. So I took a half hour or so to compose a response to a friend who was about to be un-friended, or deleted, or whatever it is. It is great to have that option!

Teresa  "Watch your thoughts, for they become words.
Watch your words, for they become actions.
Watch your actions, for they become habits.
Watch your habits, for they become character.
Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny."
Mark Twain
I will repeat what I wrote, I take no comfort Tom in knowing that there are always those who will not let the dead rest not even for 24 hours. I will add, in that you will use an occasion such as this to get in one last political shot, to diminish a life, make sure everything is overshadowed by the event that never touched your life personally says much more about the quality your own character than you may know.

Yes this was enough Tom did not respond again.  I think I finally humiliated him enough to get him to stop, to check himself; my real hope is that he is embarrassed, I was embarrassed for him. It is amazing to me that these folks have no idea when to self censor. But now I know, he was reading Andrew Breitbart! Anybody who reads Breitbart and follows his instruction can never be a friend of mine.