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Former Senator Jesse Helms dead at 86
abclocal.go.com — Helms was born in Monroe, NC where his father, called "Big Jesse," served as chief of police. Jesse and Dot Helms are the parents of three children: Jane, Nancy of Raleigh, and Charles Helms of Winston-Salem, North Carolina. They have seven grandchildren....
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- Stevanoski, on 07/04/2008, -20/+5Great Conservative loved the way he would turn the tables on the Left using their own subterfuges to do it.
- StaticThunder, on 07/04/2008, -3/+11What, like attempting to block reparations to interred Japanese Americans unless Japan compensated us for Pearl Harbor?
Was that turning the tables on the left?
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940 ...
How about the University of Negroes and Communists?
http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1346
Yeah, he was a great conservative. A real credit to the bunch. Just the type to be adored by mindless zealots. - RogueGenius, on 07/04/2008, -2/+8There is no such thing as a '''Great Conservative." It's like saying hes a "Great *****" or a "Great Steaming Pile of Poo."
- StaticThunder, on 07/04/2008, -3/+11What, like attempting to block reparations to interred Japanese Americans unless Japan compensated us for Pearl Harbor?
- InfodivaMLIS, on 07/04/2008, -8/+7Ding Dong the blank is dead!!!
- DanThePainter, on 07/04/2008, -8/+4Well, I thought that there would be civil posts from the left on this topic. I trust that most will be respectful.
- StaticThunder, on 07/04/2008, -2/+9Stuff it, Dan. In my opinion he was a racist shill of the tobacco industry and the world is a nicer place with him gone. No wonder the right rushes to his defense. He was definitely one of you.
Infodiva, don't couch your language. People should know that you will be ill-remembered in death if you're an ***** in life. Politeness won't shame his worshipers sufficiently. - RogueGenius, on 07/04/2008, -1/+6Civil? Bitch I'm ***** DRINKING to it! This is like hearing Hitler is dead. Respectful my ass. You going to be respectful at Manson or Gacy's death? Hell no! When assholes die it's GOOD news.
- flip2trip, on 07/05/2008, -1/+2So I suppose we will see this same activity from you guys when Byrd is dead?
- StaticThunder, on 07/04/2008, -2/+9Stuff it, Dan. In my opinion he was a racist shill of the tobacco industry and the world is a nicer place with him gone. No wonder the right rushes to his defense. He was definitely one of you.
- DanThePainter, on 07/04/2008, -8/+4Well, I thought that there would be civil posts from the left on this topic. I trust that most will be respectful.
- pookkake, on 07/04/2008, -3/+12from reuters:
"Helms died at 1:15 a.m. in Raleigh, North Carolina, according to a notice on the Web site of the Jesse Helms Center, a foundation established to promote his legacy."
Man, founding an organization for the sole purpose of praising yourself. How egotistical.- HanFastolfe, on 07/05/2008, -2/+3Never been to West Virginia huh? Take a look at how many things are named after Sen. Robert Byrd.
- pookkake, on 07/05/2008, -1/+2I've been to west virginia many times, as I am originally from Ashland.
- pookkake, on 07/05/2008, -1/+2wrong place in thread.
- HanFastolfe, on 07/05/2008, -2/+3Never been to West Virginia huh? Take a look at how many things are named after Sen. Robert Byrd.
- pixelguru, on 07/04/2008, -2/+14For anyone working in the creative industry, his death is cause for genuine celebration.
- LMControl, on 07/04/2008, -12/+3You are one sick son of a bitch. Ideology trumps all in your disgusting world..... what a degenerate you have become.
- Dumbledorito, on 07/04/2008, -1/+12Ahem. From LMControl's recent posting history regarding Amy Winehouse:
"I will be so very glad when she finally over-doses on whatever drug she's doing that day and puts US out her misery! She is the biggest joke of an artist I've ever seen. She has no self control, no shred of talent, no self respect, no class. She's a horrifically ugly person in every sense of the meaning. Why someone would pay to see her is beyond all belief. Quite honestly, the only people who'll be sad the day she dies are the British press. She seems to give them half of their material nowadays. "
I guess if she were a Republican, you wouldn't eagerly anticipate her death, then? - StaticThunder, on 07/04/2008, -1/+10Wow, hypocrisy at its finest, LMControl, you're one sick son of a bitch.
- pixelguru, on 07/04/2008, -1/+6Mr. Helms actively worked to stifle the creativity of the nation so that publicly funded art would conform to his own personal ideology and beliefs. I see nothing wrong with rejoicing at his departure. The nation is better off without his influences.
- dondara, on 07/07/2008, -0/+2***** off. He was a racist piece of *****.
- Dumbledorito, on 07/04/2008, -1/+12Ahem. From LMControl's recent posting history regarding Amy Winehouse:
- RogueGenius, on 07/04/2008, -1/+6I am openly and joyously celebrating the death of this piece of confederate human garbage. If there is a line to piss on his grave look for me in it.
- LMControl, on 07/04/2008, -12/+3You are one sick son of a bitch. Ideology trumps all in your disgusting world..... what a degenerate you have become.
- pauliewoll, on 07/04/2008, -2/+4But can the Dutch sleep easier now?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Servicemembe ...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4 ... - StaticThunder, on 07/04/2008, -4/+4Here's an appropriate tribute:
http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?vide ... - wastelander, on 07/04/2008, -5/+12Burn in hell dude!
- Dumbledorito, on 07/04/2008, -3/+8I'd like to think he was getting re-elected because his seniority meant that he could benefit his state with pork... because if he was getting sent back to D.C. on the merits of his apparenlty skewed view of the world as applied to race, gender, and academia, then our populace is a scarier bunch than I'd previously considered..
- animatedtripod, on 07/04/2008, -3/+3I can't be the only Bill Hicks fan who's slightly disappointed by the lack of suicide, washtubs, pecan trees and the skins of young children drying in his attic.
- DuggDowner, on 07/04/2008, -3/+11Happy Birthday America! One less person to be ashamed of.
- pintomp3, on 07/04/2008, -2/+8good riddance. racist homophobic POS.
- jstohler, on 07/04/2008, -2/+5Hells yeah.
- graverubber, on 07/04/2008, -1/+8MC Hawking said it best.
Big fat ***** from North Carolina state,
he's a worthless piece of *****, he's a paragon of hate,
he's a redneck, *****-face, brain-dead waste of space,
two-bit, two-timing, ***** pool of slime.
Against gay rights, and funding for the arts,
tried to cancel PBS and tear Big Bird apart.
cut AIDS funding, corporate welfare for the rich,
he's a shameless money grubber, he's a two dollar bitch.
Why won't Jesse Helms just hurry up and die?
Fundamentalist, *****, dickless prick,
he's ugly as a morlock, dumb as a brick.
He's a sack of *****, hypocrite, single-minded, fat bigot,
punk bitch, ignorant, ass-munch sycophant.
Life long friend of the deadly cancer sticks,
thinks AIDS is the fault of the people it inflicts.
Racist ***** who supports segregation,
foe of the people friend of the corporation.
Why won't Jesse Helms just hurry up and die?
Uh.
Damn.
Get up, get up!
Why won't Jesse Helms just hurry up and die?
Yo Jesse, you dumb-ass, racist, cracker *****!
Why the ***** won't you just hurry up and die?
And take that punk-bitch Strom Thurmond with you! - nedzeve, on 07/05/2008, -2/+3"Are civil rights only for Negroes? While women in Washington who have been raped and mugged on the streets in broad daylight have experienced the most revolting sort of violation of their civil rights. The hundreds of others who have had their purses snatched by Negro hoodlums may understandably insist that their right to walk the street unmolested was violated." --Jesse Alexander Helms
- alkajazz, on 07/05/2008, -0/+5Just goes to show that even if you're ***** crazy the fundies will line up behind you if you oppose abortion and gay rights. And they wonder why no one takes them seriously!
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