Fuck yes, mi hermano.

Congrats.

Think McCain'll show up at the funeral? How about George?

There's internet access there???!!!

You can name names.
It kind of made my day to be able to call you with the news.

There are several wireless hotspots on the island, but right now I'm stealing it from the people next door.

It kind of made my day to be able to call you with the news.

And it made my day to then call Joseph S. with the news. We're nothing if not ghouls.

I too am of the having-a-party-when-Jesse-kicks-it fold, and doing it on a day when many other folks who would be celebrating with me are already busy is a STONE BUMMER. However, I am going to be drinking a few in celebration regardless (as well as planning a detour to his grave in August, assuming he's interred by then).

I wonder if his wife is still a slumlord in Raleigh?

Additionally, this brings a new necrophiliac twist to the game "how much would it cost for you to fuck Jesse Helms?" (or be fucked by, if male)

Yeah, Joseph was prevalent in my mind too.
It was part of the reason I called.

Yeah, Joseph was prevalent in my mind too.
It was part of the reason I called.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hZXWb68Lwo

Wow, awesome! And I'm glad apostropher.com should be the place I first read the good news.

Jesse Jackson has the best "fuck that guy" response I've seen: At the height of his power, he fought for the values of the old confederacy. He resisted the new South. He resisted the opportunity to fight for a more perfect union.

However, the Independent (which curiously gives his isolationism top billing), notes that he did learn at least a modicum of compassion before the end: At the instigation of U2's Bono he accepted that debt was the cause of suffering in the developing world and campaigned for a debt relief bill and attended his first ever pop concert in Washington DC.

He attended a pop concert! I'm saddened that I will never be able to see Jesse Helms at another pop concert.

John Adams and Thomas Jefferson also died on the Fourth of July.

Now they have someone to point and laugh at.

the game "how much would it cost for you to fuck Jesse Helms?"

That's not funny.

Well it was a variant of the "how much would it cost for you to eat dog shit" game, where grad students' responses teetered very low in the dollar range. Bump it up a notch and you get the Helms Question. I believe that was almost a 100% "no money in the world" answer.

Thank you, Jesus! At a party last night, we kept spontaneously breaking out into choruses of "Ding, Dong, the witch is dead!"

KJ, what's the punchline to "how many feminists does it take to screw it a light bulb?"

Yikes, I have no idea. Must have forgotten it after too many encounters with rabid Women's Studies students.

18:
"Who cares as long as one of them is..." The punchline varies after that point.

"How many feminists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?"

"That's not funny."

Okay, I am off to be with the Apostropher and family where I can finally celebrate this occassion without upsetting my delicate and ailing mother.

Woo!

yeah, wouldn't touch his dead body, except to make sure he was really dead and not about to rise as a zombie... and maybe spit on it.

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He'll be missed.

On the bright side, bacon cookies!

The rest of us had to put up with this bigot for as long, but not as our Senator. So I can understand why you might not at all feel charitable.

However, I'm grateful for this quote, which McClatchy has posted:

“Compromise, hell!” Helms once wrote. “That’s what has happened to us all down the line — and that’s the very cause of our woes. If freedom is right and tyranny is wrong, why should those who believe in freedom treat it as if it were a roll of bologna to be bartered a slice at the time?”

Looka like good ammo against the right, who have been very busy at bartering away our freedom, in exchange for domestic political gain and lucre.

I hope that before he died, Helms appreciated the irony of his own support for the Iraq war and for dictators around the world. But I kinda suspect he didn't.

The man raised hell. He angered people. He was honest. That much can be said about him. I tried to vote him out of office, so he could fine a more suitable job as a village idiot. Failed at that.

Thank you NC for your contribution to the world, for the man who reflected your refined sense of taste and values.

Can't quite connect with the humor in KJ's necrophilia banter, but I will say this:

It's odd that he got to enjoy a long and fulfilling life, while slipping away unpunished for the lives he no doubt shortened.

http://www.indyweek.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=15917

He was honest.

He was predictable, which is not the same thing as being honest.

I have heard a story from a fellow Monk regarding the sadly lost existence of a ranting left-wing screed that Helms submitted for publication to a newspaper in Southport, NC, just after he was a recruiter for a while. Unfortunately, it's never been seen by this generation; fortunately, everyone in the family seem to be packrats and so it may be around somewhere.

Jesus Christ, are you ever coming back?

Apparently Caradoc has not been paying attention to the advent of Barack Obama.

Those of us who hated Helms policies and prejudices should be better than those who loved them, called us names and questioned our love for the American People and Ideal (love your country always and your government when it deserves it...Mark Twain). I got caught up in the moment and mused that I wondered if he remembered to bring ice to Strom. Hopefully someone will get out of office Kentucky's Jesse Helm, Mitch McConnell this November...

Jesse should have fronted a band called Jesse Helms and the Wise Men.

29: I believe our apo is busy cleaning up fallen trees.

I didn't get around to saying it in the other thread, but condolences, apo, and best of luck with that whole "God Hates You" thing.

Yes, and catching up at work and trying to get the washer repaired that quit working just before we left for vacation and blah blah blah. I'll be back in posting action eventually, though, I promise.

Always look on the bright side, apo: Helms is dead, Bush/Cheney and the rest of their pack of lying thieves will be gone soon, and then Obama will be our new Deciderer in Chief/Unitary God.

Perhaps these small condolences can help to brighten your day?

I believe that was almost a 100% "no money in the world" answer.

The best answer to this I was able to record was Doc's: "I'd do it for free as long as he cried."