Former Senator Jesse Helms has died

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dawn9476	Former Senator Jesse Helms has died	Lead	[-]
Posts: 9967 (07/04/2008 10:16 AM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Friend Block Invite Ignore	http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080704/pl_nm/usa_helms_dc My condolences go out to his family.
LauritaK		#1	[-]
Posts: 47480 (07/04/2008 3:04 PM) Best Current Events Scoop '06 & '08 Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Friend Block Invite Ignore	Jesse Helms Finally Dead We interrupt your Fourth of July with some Breaking News: Jesse Helms was apparently still alive, and now he's dead, hooray! He was a sour troll and a bigot, and it's a testament to every rotten thing about this country that for a quarter century, he was one of the most powerful people in American politics. [LAT/NYT]
Goosepookie		#2	[-]
Posts: 3694 (07/04/2008 3:10 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Friend Block Invite Ignore
blairboy		#3	[-]
Posts: 25895 (07/04/2008 3:14 PM) Best Male JJBer '07 Best Debater '08 Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Friend Block Invite Ignore	Cya!
Qrobur		#4	[-]
Posts: 1818 (07/04/2008 3:17 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Friend Block Invite Ignore	Well, I don't often say this and my sympathies go to his family but... ...good riddance.
Rockstar51Fifty		#5	[-]
Posts: 1735 (07/04/2008 3:35 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Friend Block Invite Ignore	Wtf!?
SwanGeese		#6	[-]
Posts: 4042 (07/04/2008 4:05 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Friend Block Invite Ignore	I thought that he was already dead. Oh well...
JaimJaim		#7	[-]
Posts: 21134 (07/04/2008 8:58 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Friend Block Invite Ignore	I'm glad he got to see two states legalize same sex marriage and a black man in the running to become the next President. Actually, maybe that's what did the bastard in!
JustBrit2007		#8	[-]
Posts: 19930 (07/04/2008 11:32 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Friend Block Invite Ignore	JaimJaim wrote: I'm glad he got to see two states legalize same sex marriage and a black man in the running to become the next President. Actually, maybe that's what did the bastard in!
LeilaGabby54		#9	[-]
Posts: 10738 (07/05/2008 11:44 AM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Friend Block Invite Ignore	JustBrit2007 wrote: JaimJaim wrote: I'm glad he got to see two states legalize same sex marriage and a black man in the running to become the next President. Actually, maybe that's what did the bastard in!
LauritaK		#10	[-]
Posts: 47661 (07/10/2008 8:25 AM) Best Current Events Scoop '06 & '08 Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Friend Block Invite Ignore	N.C. State Employee Picks Retirement Over Lowering Flag For Dead Jesse Helms Meet a brave American Hero: L.F. Eason III, the "29-year veteran of the state Department of Agriculture" who chose early retirement over the foul task of lowering the American Flag to half mast for the dead bigot Jesse Helms. Eason went to work for the North Carolina government right out of college, and spent 29 years working for the state's Department of Agriculture. Now, at the age of 51, he has taken retirement rather than allow his small staff at Raleigh's North Carolina Standards Laboratory to lower the flag for trash like Jesse Helms, the dead piece of trash. (Thanks to Wonkette/N.C. Operative Kelly Thompson for the tip!) He quit rather than lower flag for Helms [News Observer] Man retires rather than honor Helms [Charlotte Observer]