I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
I take no pleasure in anyone's death.
Strom Thurmond invented affirmative action for whites only and negative action for anyone else.
God has already given Strom his air conditioner.
Do you want congress to enact a liberal agenda this year?
Demand that congress does so at
http://www.boycott-republicans.com
The George W Bush 2000 Stolen Election Commemorative Coin
http://www.stolenelectioncoin.com
All profits go to charity.
Don't ever forget, the Thurmond Dixiecrats (admired by today's Republicans) were pissed off by federal anti-lynching laws.
"States' rights" are all about states' freedom to oppress, disenfranchise and even murder their citizens.
Eulogize Thurmond like he's some avuncular treasure. Put a Thurmond bust next to your Jeff Davis shrine by your Tim Mcveigh memorial alongside your Hitler commemorative plate near the Bull Connor statuette. And keep votin' republican.
BECAUSE OF THE URGENCY OF THIS ACTION I POST IT HERE with very few comments here.
I call for a national boycott for the express purpose of repealing the so called Medicare prescription drug plan.
People living in the Northeast please boycott the CVS Pharmacy chain and demand that CVS talk to the Republican Party to demand repeal of that bad law.
I will consult with the Alliance for Retired Americans for Pharmacy chains to boycott in the Southeast, Southwest and Northwest United States. Stay tuned.
Good ol' Thurmond... "segregation forever!" ... they just don't make slogans like that anymore.
I only wish all those old slogans would die as these dinosaurs inevitably will do.
Are there any plans to ban the IP of "stolenelectioncoin.com"? At least s/he isn't leaving images here like s/he did on Alas a Blog.
To the point of the post...
PG, I can tell you do not appear an activist. You want to complain about how bad the Republicans act but you won't do anything to punish them.
I will.
PG, I can tell you do not appear an activist. You want to complain about how bad the Republicans act but you won't do anything to punish them.
I will.
Hope Randy Newman will appear at the memorial:
We're rednecks
We're rednecks
And we don't know our ass from a hole in the ground
We're rednecks
We're rednecks
And we're keeping the niggers down...
Lest anyone forget, Lester Maddox died Thursday. He loved the "little people" of Georgia...except for the black little people. Here's the Atlanta Urinal-Constipation's slavering tribute to a time when we had niggrahs that knew their place and good god-fearin' Americans who knew how to keep them their.
http://www.ajc.com/metro/content...ddox/
index.html
And, just so he didn't feel left out, a tribute to ol' Strom. Apparently, his longevity in the Senate is due to his constituents ability to forgive. Yeesh...
http://www.ajc.com/news/content/...nd/
28strom.html
I wonder if Satan's got different pitchforks for Lester Maddox's and ol' Strom's ass?
Did anyone see "Uncle" Armstrong Williams talking about Thurmond on CNN? My favorite statement of his, was "just because someone was in favor of segregation, and not mixing the races, that doesn't necessarily make them a racist"
I can't figure out what else it would make them. Maybe someone can help me out.
This whole affair infuriates me, especially as a Southerner. We've spent the last 30 years flat-out refusing to even admit any sort of wrongdoing in the civil rights struggle. We've got people today who admire the Helms and Thurmonds and Maddoxes- not to mention the Wallaces and Faubuses and Barnetts - for "standing up to the oppressive government", the same sort of people who admire Eric Rudolph for being able to play hide-n-seek really, really well.
I've been working on a book on the "dark side" of Southern culture for a little while, and it's amazing to me how many the above mentioned demons turned their ways around. Wallace, for example, introduced blacks into Alabama public office at a rate faster than the federal government and most Northern states and, in fact, won his last election with over 70% of the black vote. Maddox, for his part, appointed the first black highway patrolman Georgia had. It doesn't change the fact that both men used the suffering and oppression of an entire group of people and pandered the worst in the rest of the populace to grab their power. And you freepers don't worry; I don't let Robert Byrd off the hook either. However, he has done something very few politicians - Southern or otherwise - seem to be able to do: admit he made a mistake.
Politicians seem to have an inability to admit they're wrong. We're seeing that played out now with the whole WMD foolishness, and hell, imagine how much more pleasant the late '90s would've been in Mr. Bill had've owned up to the hummer. Beyond the lies and mendacities, the other thing that's really destroying American politics is the complete and total lack of responsibility when you screw up and do something stupid. Ask Trent Lott...you know he'd never apologize - such as it was - had he not been nailed to it. And Elvis help me, there's still plenty of folks in my home state of Mississippi that think he didn't say anything wrong...including most of my family.
Now, to leave, a selection from the very excellent Athens band The Drive-By Truckers that sums it all up. Indeed, the Devil has a Wallace sticker on the back of his Cadillac.
http://www.drivebytruckers.com/
l...ra.html#wallace
"I saw first hand the tremendous love he had for his white constituents, and the admiration the white people of South Carolina had for him."
Corrected version.
It simply means that it's another effort on the part of this president to dominate the country by force and to put into effect these uncalled for and these damnable proposals he has recommended under the guise of so-called civil rights.
-Thurmond during his presidential bid
That kind of sounds like many people today who try to denounce fairness & equality for homosexuals and other minority groups as "special rights".
That's me above. I'm no anonymous.
Sadly enough, I will always remember Strom Thurmond at his 100th birthday party on CNN(?) with a big lipstick smoochie mark on his head placed there by some 2nd rate Marilyn Monroe impersonator who was singing some kind of bastard version of "Happy Birthday, Mister President"...is "Dixie" finally dead? I mean the party, not the place. I personally love the South and want to be in Florida when I croak.
The Dixiecrats are not dead--their just done up in GOP drag.
However, he has done something very few politicians - Southern or otherwise - seem to be able to do: admit he made a mistake.
For some reason, while changing your mind in response to new information or changes in the world around you is generally regarded as a good thing for most people, for politicians it's often just an invitation for the other side to pounce. That has given rise to the bizarre situation of applauding people for continuing to stick to bone stupid opinions.
Backslider -- check out Flanner O'Connor's "The Complete Stories" for an excellent literary take on your interests.
To me, she's one of the great writers to capture the pain and agony of postwar Southern existence -- particularly given that she was an "outsider," being a Roman Catholic in overwhelmingly Protestant Georgia.
Oops, that's "Flannery O'Connor." Good thing i didn't do that on my thesis.
"States' rights" are all about states' freedom to oppress, disenfranchise and even murder their citizens.
Tell that to Californian cancer patients who can't get medicinal marijuana to ease their suffering despite a statewide referendum making it legal.
Let's here it for the only politician to know Jefferson Davis personally. Seriously though, our country is better off without the likes of him. They say such deaths occur in threes - would it be too much to hope that Bush and Cheney be next (if so, I'll settle for Trent Lott and Tom Delay).
Mike,
Tell me about it. The AJC ran a sidebar with pithy little tributes to Lester and one was some dude saying, and I quote, "I really admire the way he stuck with what he believed in, whether it was right or wrong." Well, yeah, dude, but ya know...Hitler was pretty solid in his convictions, too. Really not saying much.
Jim,
I am a definate admirer of O'Connor, my favorite author apart from Faulkner (I'm a Mississippi boy, what can I say). One thing that's taking me so long in writing the book is I'm trying to expunge a lot of the bitterness I feel towards the South, I'm a native of 28 years, born and bred. Right now, the way I look at it, the only things we got going for us is the food and the music. Everything else is hogwash and gilded gutters.
anyone know a good pda to buy?
Not really on the topic but thanks in advance.
How's his replacement doing?
His replacement is Linsey Graham. You figure it out. As a former South Carolinian (born, lived there 22 years, parents still do) I can tell you, "It's not the heat, it's the stupidity." Only in Charleston, with its Jews and at least a half-assed appreciation of the Kreyol culture that built it, is there group sentiment worth a damn, balanced by the worst sort of Lost Cause crap.
In my day, Thurmond's sexual exploits were better known than his policies.
The real trick is that the elites in South Carolina (and the South) have always used racism to overcome class unity. My white trash ancestors were always more proud of not being black than they were ashamed of being white trash servants of the well-to-do. Without racism, it just might have occurred to them that they were getting screwed just like those other folks were. By the way, I have just described Karl Rove's solid south plan.
My local news (in Savannah, GA just across the border from SC) did a sixty second gloss of Thurmond's carear the night he died. According to them his three best politcal moves were to appose intigration, Jump from the Dems to the Reps when they got too liberal and to help get Nixon into Office.
His 3 greatest achivements.
I do not celebrate any creature's death, but I have to say, I'm glad that there is one less Dinosaur stomping around the Hill today.
Well since nobody else typed I will.
Only the good die young.
Compare and contrast:
John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King
Strom Thurmond and Lester Mattox.
Discuss.
Brian C.B.- haven't you just described Rove's national plan? America united against the foreign infidels and a strong economy is a function of the rich having more?
I think Thurmond is too complex a character to pin down. Yes, he was a big segregationist. But there was evidence that he might have had some changes of heart. Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't he vote "yay" to Martin Luther King, while his protege` Trent Lott didn't?
I'm not agreeing with most of what Thurmond stood for, but I did not wish him death. He's just a perfect example why we should have term limits in Congress.
Unfortunately, Thurmond was in fact very ordinary -- his segregationist stance was hardly uncommon, and pandering to the lowest common denominator is not exactly an innovative political tactic. Just look at our current leadership.
Jeez, I can take enough satisfaction in his passing for two or three of you (in addition to myself), but isn't anyone else glad?
I don't let Robert Byrd off the hook either. However, he has done something very few politicians - Southern or otherwise - seem to be able to do: admit he made a mistake.
Backslider,
I have heard this before. Every once in a while, I try to dig up a reference to it on the web. Haven't managed it yet. Can you point us at anything? Not that he's moved away from racist viewpoints, but that he actually apologized.
I guess he just couldn't take the supreme court's decisions this week...
turning stone casino resort turning stone casino resort turning stone casino resort // t mobile to go ringtones t mobile to go ringtones t mobile to go ringtones
Characters Remaining:
Commenting by HaloScan
