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*sips coffee*

What took him so fucking long!?!

This Motherfucker made me ashamed to be from NC. Because of him everyone else thought we were all a bunch of racist redneck dumbshits (actually that only describes 60% of the state). The fucker is in hell now with a pitch fork up his ass. Too bad he lived 87 years longer than he deserved to.

Now that I have gotten that out, never has some ones death made me so intensely happy!

It's not that they won't speak truth to power, it's that they're even afraid to speak truth to themselves.

My first draft of this comment included stuff about the MSM and objectivity and the truth not being an average or median, but... eh, see my first sentence.

Also, Hitler used religion very effectively.

The founder, the late art curator Bruce Kurtz, and others were HIV positive and were so personally traumatized and scared by the comments Helms made and the work he did to keep HIV research and education under-funded. I simply could not imagine a man of his position and authority being so hateful and backward in the face of a disease that killed people at that time so pitilessly and relentlessly.

His behavior was disgusting and an embarrassment. Upon his death, I ask everyone to remember that and not gloss it over with politesse.

Shame on Jesse Helms.

May God Bless him and his family. He really stood for North Carolina, and all her people. He served his state well.

all her people... except the non-white, non-hetero ones.

In his first Senate campaign in 1972, he ran against a Greek-American Congressman who was born in Durham, NC, attended Duke, and served in the USMC during the Korean War. The slogan he used was, "Elect One of Us!" To Jesse's voters, a funny furrin name and a non-Anglo ethnicity = not fully White. And this guy wasn't even a Yankee, he was born in NC, but you know... funny, furrin name.

Also, Pol Pot used mass murder very effectively.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fd62dptmpBk

Makes me wish there was a Hell.

May his corpse rot among his fellow worms.

Don't dance on that grave, PISS on it!!!

Give the man the tribute he's deserving of.

xoxoxoxo

"It just goes to show that everybody has something that they can do to make the world a better place."

I like to think it might be subtle enough to make it through.

Dick Cheney's turn should be up soon, praise jebus.

What's that you say? Dan Savage isn't a U.S. Senator, just a writer with a blog who has posted a few unflattering stories about one particular breed of dogs? Then it looks like Dan isn't to dogs what Helms was to the Gay Community. Julie, however, is a total fucking idiot.

Ever hear of an analogy? Or as some say an anal loogy?

I'd say that you were anal loony.

Eighty ONE???!!?

Also, this is why I love The Slog. My ex used to say, "don't speak ill of the dead," about everyone! But I have always believed that some people really need to be spoken ill of, and y'all are happy to thet it all fly. Fuck him. And you know what? Fuck his family, too. I'm sure there a lots and lots of really nice Helms' out there, blah blah blah.

FUCK THEM

Rain FTW!!!!!!!!!

Nice!

http://trconnection.com/lyrics/Song.20.11

You are to the straight community what you are to the human race...an embarrassment.

Kind of like Jesse Helms, except he's dead.

Happy 4th!

Looks like Kanye was right.

RIP Senator Helms. Let us celebrate this great day with fireworks and barbecuing.
Willie Horton (Boston, MA)

When I think of what North Carolina truly stands for, when it is allowed to reveal its honest opinions, I am always reminded of Sen. Helms.

Nathan Forrest
Memphis, TN

Now, as you may or may not know, General Nathan B. Forrest was the first Grand Dragon of the KKK.

Let's see if that makes it.

Ah, Bill Hicks. Sigh.

That's for Bruce, you racist dead bastard.

BTW, Although Helms is gone, Limbaugh just got $400 million to spew hate until 2016.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zhPmACTdks

My favorite quote:

"He had a philosophy and principles he believed in and he stood and fought for them."

Like bigotry and hatred, for instance?

"Jesse Helms represented the essence of the American character. Please accept our deepest sympathies."

"Well, Jesse Helms will have a buddy in hell as he joins George Lincoln Rockwell."

Among the best quips.

(Rockwell was at one time the leader of the American Nazi Party, of course, Helm's real home.)

They didn't post my honest opinion of the man under my own name, so I posted one under the American Nazi's name. Hopefully it will slide under the radar with 'Nathan B. Forrest' and 'Willie Horton'.

"Now that this hate-filled man has passed away, let's focus on erasing his horrible legacy."

George Lincoln Rockwell didn't make it under the radar.

The message wasn't offensive:

"May he recieve his just rewards now that he has passed on..." and "He truly stood for all that his party and the voters represented..."

I have no idea why they found it offensive.

Joe Palmer (Champaign, IL): May the fruit of your actions here on Earth be multiplied many times to provide you your eternal reward.

Eric Holeman (Anchorage, AK): Words cannot describe how I feel about the Senator's departure from this realm.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jul/04/usa

"Where can I send a bouquet of pansies as an expression of sympathy?"

Nevertheless, may agony and death strike all his shit-brained fans and supporters and strike down staunch Republicans by the millions.

One can hope...

good riddance to this foul specimen of fascist vermin - even though about a half a century too late... i was wondering why the sun seemed a little brighter, the laughter of the children a little clearer, the songs of the birds a little sweeter on the 4th past. now i know why! this filthy fascist maggot finally slithered off to the deepest sewers of hell where it belongs. i only hope he died screaming. better late than never, i suppose. GOOD RIDDANCE.