Another Burning Bigot: Jesse Helms dead
Friday, July 4, 2008 at 10:39AM 
“The Negro cannot count forever on the kind of restraint that’s thus far left him free to clog the streets, disrupt traffic, and interfere with other men’s rights.” - Jesse Helms
It makes me sick to think that he managed to stay in office from 1973 to 2003. He was a famous racist and hatemonger. In 1950 he helped to create an ad when working with fellow republican bigot Willis Smith in his campain against Democrat Frank Porter Graham. The ad stated
“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.”
Then the idiot republicans of North Carolina voted him into office in 1973 and kept him there until 2003.
He was a disgusting bigot who takes his place in hell now along with Jerry Fallwell, and hopefully soon Pat Robertson, he was part of my perception of the US axis of evil. 2 down and Robertson and Fred Phelps to go.
I know it sounds bad to wish that people would die. But they carry the message of bigotry and intolerance to a new generation of idiots every time they open their mouths. When they are gone, perhaps a new generation will step up and actually try to make the world a BETTER place. Instead of filling it with hate and bigotry.
You gotta be freeking kidding me!
Thursday, April 26, 2007 at 09:45PM By Jeff Long and Carolyn Starks
Chicago Tribune
CHICAGO � Told to express emotion for a creative-writing class, high-school senior Allen Lee penned an essay so disturbing to his teacher, school administrators and police that he was charged with disorderly conduct, officials said Wednesday.
Lee, 18, a straight-A student at Cary-Grove High School in Cary, Ill., was arrested Tuesday near his home and charged with the misdemeanor for an essay that police described as violently disturbing but not directed toward any specific person or location.
This is an example of overreacting. This kid instructed to write a FICTIONAL essay. He wrote one. His teacher had him arrested. The kid should have been commended for creating such a strong reaction with his FICTION.
There is NOTHING that this straight-A student could have written in a fiction essay that warranted this kind of response. How disgusting. The teacher should immediately be fired, along with anyone who colluded with him.
What the hell is this world coming to?
What the hell?
Tuesday, April 24, 2007 at 11:10PM 
photo by demedulce at flickr
This lady is nuts
courtesy of Obstinate.org
This is what’s wrong with people. This is that same sense of entitlement that pisses me off sooo much.
The lady..get this..CALLS THE COPS CUZ BURGER KING DIDN’T MAKE HER HAMBURGER RIGHT!!
Direct quotes from the recording…(which you can listen to for yourself at the link above)
Cop: Ma’am, I suggest you get your money back and go somewhere else. This is not a criminal issue. We can’t go out there and make them make you a cheeseburger the way you want it.
Lady: Well, that is- that- You’re supposed to be here to protect me!
Cop: What are we protecting you from? A wrong cheeseburger?
Lady: No!
Cop: Is this a harmful cheeseburger or something? I don’t understand what you want us to do?
Mike Daisey Audience Protest, Walkout and Attack
Tuesday, April 24, 2007 at 09:27AM Ok. This is terrible. I have never heard of Mike Daisey. He’s pretty funny. The group walks out….
People think they have the right to not be offended. They do. However, they are in conrol of that. If you don’t want to be offended. Don’t go anywhere that might potentially expose you to offensive material. Stay in your house, turn off your TV, tape up your windows and exist there. Or, you might just decide that reality is going to have some offensive bits. DEAL WITH IT.
If you go to a show, you should a) know the show’s content b) have respect for the performer.
It was absolutely inexcusable that someone destroyed his papers.
From what I gather, a high school choir group went to the show and their chaperone decided to leave due to the language. The chaperone is the one who poured water. Inexcusable behavior. Showing the kids that it was ok to do that, while protesting a performing artists language. The very DEFINITION of hypocrisy. If you are uninformed enough to take your innocent, virginal, raised-in-a-cave kids to a show with shocking foul language, and then realize your mistake, you should quietly get up and leave. When the artist asks what the heck is wrong, say:
“I made a mistake, I was not aware that this show would have such foul language. I cannot allow the children to see this sort of thing, I apologize for my rudeness, but if I don’t leave, I’ll be fired from my job.”
Then perhaps you won’t get people like me feeling that you are a pathetic loser with no redeemable qualities.
Labels: Mike Daisey, Protest, Video
Thoughts on Virginia Tech Massacre
Monday, April 23, 2007 at 09:46PM Hmm.
I guess I haven't really given it much thought. I hate to sound uncaring, but I think most people around here pretty much feel the same way. This affected almost no one around here directly. There was a good showing at the vigil, but there were no tears in evidence. Everyone showed up, did their moment of silence, prayers or whatever, then they left.
I took a few pictures for the paper. Then I left.
I gave it some thought on the way home.
To feel this sort of tragedy one needs to get into the victims. Needs to see them, hear them, feel them. Otherwise they're just characters in a tv show. Something that happened to other people. It loses it's reality.
There were many others. These people died. They're gone.
I kind of needed to put a face to these people. Make them real in some way. They look like people I might see, might know. They were having a good time when these pictures were taken. That's all I'll ever know of them.
They had parents, sisters and brothers, Husbands and wives, lovers and friends. Those people said goodbye to them that morning, that weekend, or even a month earlier and and knew with some certainty that they would see them again. They never will.
That sucks.
A lot.
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