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Jesse Helms has died on the 4th.
And no, I'm not sorry he's dead. I'm sorry for his grieving family; it's terrible to lose a loved one. But I'm not sorry he's dead.
No caffeine yet - anyone got a punchline?
ETA: Some words of wisdom from the great man himself:
“It's their deliberate, disgusting, revolting conduct that is responsible for the disease.” -- on homosexuality and AIDS.
"To rob the Negro of his reputation of thinking through a problem in his own fashion is about the same as trying to pretend that he doesn't have a natural instinct for rhythm and for singing and dancing." -- on criticism that a newspaper cartoon of a black person was offensive.
"[President] Clinton better watch out if he comes down here [to North Carolina]. He'd better have a bodyguard." -- on then-President Clinton's supposed unpopularity with the North Carolina military. According to Helms (and refuted by military personnel), the military was likely to shoot Clinton if he came to North Carolina.
"Your tax dollars are being used to pay for grade school classes that teach our children that cannibalism, wife-swapping, and the murder of infants and the elderly are acceptable behavior." -- from the text of a fundraising mailer sent out by the Helms campaign.
