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PostPosted: Sat Jul 05, 2008 7:20 am    Post subject: Senator Jesse Helms 1921-2008 Reply with quote


Jesse Helms a five term Republican Senator from
North Carolina died on July 4 at around 1:00AM more details......
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92241325
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,376389,00.html
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/07/04/politics/main4234069.shtml
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 05, 2008 8:42 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

i'm sure he and jerry falwell are having a great party up in hetero-whites-only heaven.

"White people, wake up before it is too late. Do you want Negroes working beside you, your wife and your daughters, in your mills and factories? Frank Graham favors mingling of the races."

everybody add your favorite jesse helms quote!
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 05, 2008 9:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Jesse Helms wrote:
"I've been portrayed as a caveman by some. That's not true. I'm a conservative progressive, and that means I think all men are equal, be they slants, beaners, or niggers."


Good Riddance, Jesse Helms, rot in your hell.

Encore:

Jesse Helms wrote:
"The New York Times and Washington Post are both infested with homosexuals themselves. Just about every person down there is a homosexual or lesbian."

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PostPosted: Sat Jul 05, 2008 11:53 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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i'm sure he and jerry falwell are having a great party up in hetero-whites-only heaven.


Eh, I wouldn't go that far...

Helms was an extremist conservative religious fanatic, but he made friends with Bono, which many people thought was impossible, considering Bono's a pro-gay, pro-Africa, anti-war Christian (thankfully, most Christians fit into this latter description, me included).
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 05, 2008 12:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Jesse Helms wrote:
"I've been portrayed as a caveman by some. That's not true. I'm a conservative progressive, and that means I think all men are equal, be they slants, beaners, or niggers."


Good Riddance, Jesse Helms, rot in your hell.

Encore:

Jesse Helms wrote:
"The New York Times and Washington Post are both infested with homosexuals themselves. Just about every person down there is a homosexual or lesbian."


Amen! What a hateful, hurtful, ignorant, arrogant, dumbass, cruel, bigoted, racist, misogynistic, homophobic, tiny-minded, jingoistic, nationalistic, hopeless, useless, worthless, wasteful piece of sh** scum he was. The damage he did as senator is incalculable. I hope he and Falwell are enjoying hell, where they both belong. They were both about as much Christian as Bin Laden is.
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 05, 2008 12:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sometimes the death of another person is a cause for celebration. This is certainly one of those times.
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 05, 2008 1:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I agree. When I talk about people who are conservative, these are the people I refer to.
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 05, 2008 8:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Jesse Helms wrote:
"I've been portrayed as a caveman by some. That's not true. I'm a conservative progressive, and that means I think all men are equal, be they slants, beaners, or niggers."

Does anyone think an apology to cavemen is in order as well as the other groups he offended with his remarks?


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PostPosted: Sun Jul 06, 2008 4:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

ed wrote:
Sometimes the death of another person is a cause for celebration. This is certainly one of those times.

You should never celebrate the death of anyone.
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 06, 2008 10:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

beau99 wrote:
ed wrote:
Sometimes the death of another person is a cause for celebration. This is certainly one of those times.

You should never celebrate the death of anyone.


Helms had no problem aiding, and celebrating, the deaths of AIDS sufferers, blacks, etc., etc. He was a nasty POS who deserves no accolades and no mourning.
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 06, 2008 11:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

bill hicks on jesse helms -

I'm so sick of hearing, "Well, your leaders misspent your hard-earned
tax dollars, so you the people have got to tighten your belts and we
gotta start payin' this back, because we, your leaders, misspent your
money." You know what would make tightening my belt a little easier?
If I could tighten it around Jesse Helms' scrawny little chicken-neck.
"AHHHH, I feel better about the sacrifice right now!"

"You ****** tobbacco-pushin' ************... you are the worst
****** drug dealer in the ****** wooooorld, you scrawny, right-wing
fearmongering piece of -- SUCKER OF SATAN'S ****! YOU SUCK SATAN'S
****, you ****** chicken-necked little cracker!" I'd tighten my belt
if that were the case. I'd eat bologna for a week, you know what I
mean? I'd sacrifice.

Boy, Jesse Helms is another great one, isn't he? Just another fevered
ego tainting our collective unconscious. Cause you know, anyone that
far to the right, like Swaggart, anyone that far to the right is
hiding a very deep and dark secret, you do know that, right?

I'm an armchair ******', uh, psychologist BUT, anyone - you know that
when Jesse Helms finally dies, he's gonna commit suicide first of all
in a washtub outside, underneath a pecan tree. He's gonna slash his
wrists and write in blood, "I've been a bad boy." But you know they're
going to find the skins of young children drying in his attic, swarms
of horseflies going in and out of the eaves, and on CNN over and over,
his wife going, "I always wondered about Jesse's collection of little
shoes." Anyone that far to the right is hiding a deep, dark secret.

- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igvJ1Mew6Go -very funny and very very nsfw. the bit about rush limbaugh after ^^^^ is the most beautiful use of the term 'scat muncher' ever.
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 06, 2008 11:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

well, at least that's one thing less we have to be embarrassed by (our former senior Senator)
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 07, 2008 12:16 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I really do find it quite tasteless to applaud a man's death because you disagree with his politics. Politics are just differences of opinion writ large, nothing more, and I can't imagine too many reasonable people thinking that disagreement warrants death. I'm not a huge fan of the man myself, but I don't find his death to be reason to celebrate.
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 07, 2008 2:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Dox47 wrote:
I really do find it quite tasteless to applaud a man's death because you disagree with his politics. Politics are just differences of opinion writ large, nothing more, and I can't imagine too many reasonable people thinking that disagreement warrants death. I'm not a huge fan of the man myself, but I don't find his death to be reason to celebrate.


It's not the politics. It's his hateful racism, bigotry, misogyny and homophobia, and the power he wielded to do tremendous damage to members of groups he hated. I'm not applauding his death, but I sure as hell ain't mourning it, either, and I absolutely will not apologize in any form for that. HE is the one who needs to apologize to the millions his bigoted, hateful policies and statements hurt and affected. My black friends and those I know who died of AIDS sure as hell aren't gonna apologize for not mourning his death, either

I'll never forget when he was on the Larry King Live show and a SC caller called in to thank him for all he did to "keep the niggers down and in their place" and that he should have "gotten a medal for that." "Well, thanks, I think", he smirked. f**k him and I hope he's rotting in hell right now.
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 08, 2008 4:34 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

westernwild wrote:

It's not the politics. It's his hateful racism, bigotry, misogyny and homophobia, and the power he wielded to do tremendous damage to members of groups he hated. I'm not applauding his death, but I sure as hell ain't mourning it, either, and I absolutely will not apologize in any form for that. HE is the one who needs to apologize to the millions his bigoted, hateful policies and statements hurt and affected. My black friends and those I know who died of AIDS sure as hell aren't gonna apologize for not mourning his death, either

I'll never forget when he was on the Larry King Live show and a SC caller called in to thank him for all he did to "keep the niggers down and in their place" and that he should have "gotten a medal for that." "Well, thanks, I think", he smirked. f**k him and I hope he's rotting in hell right now.


So basically, you're upset that he not only held views different from your own, but that he went out and did something with them? The man was a product of his time and place, and must have reflected the values of where he was from, considering his reelection success. I for one will be forever grateful to him for being the thorn in the UN's side for most of his career. Again though, he was a person with a family, and to wish eternal damnation upon him seems a little bit hypocritical, don't you think?
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