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Ex-Senator Thurmond Dies at 100

PostPosted:Fri Jun 27, 2003 6:24 am
by Kupek
<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '><b>Link:</b> <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/ar ... ptop_tb</a>

Ex-Senator Thurmond Dies at 100</div>

PostPosted:Fri Jun 27, 2003 8:37 am
by G-man Joe
<div style='font: 11pt "Fine Hand"; text-align: left; '>Yep. The man remembered for his change of heart over Civil Rights and African Americans. He wasn't as bad as George Wallace......or was he.</div>

PostPosted:Fri Jun 27, 2003 9:06 am
by Zeus
<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>The only guy who can remember watching the Wright Brother's first flight....when was he no longer Senator?</div>

PostPosted:Fri Jun 27, 2003 9:06 am
by Zeus
<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>You guys went to high school together, didn't you? :-)</div>

PostPosted:Fri Jun 27, 2003 9:21 am
by G-man Joe
<div style='font: 11pt "Fine Hand"; text-align: left; '>Yep. I used to beat him up and take his lunch money and sleep with his girlfriends. That's probably why he was a segregationist for a while after. He was afraid someone else would take what was once his. BTW....why aren't you honey-mooning somewhere exotic? What are you doing here?</div>

PostPosted:Fri Jun 27, 2003 10:10 am
by ManaMan
<div style='font: 12pt Arial; text-align: left; '>"Keep the damn pacific islanders separate but 'equal'!"</div>

PostPosted:Fri Jun 27, 2003 10:50 am
by G-man Joe
<div style='font: 11pt "Fine Hand"; text-align: left; '>Yeah...so it's my fault. At least he saw the error of his ways. And he re-married. Poor wife #1. She didn't snore at all. 8^D</div>

PostPosted:Fri Jun 27, 2003 12:25 pm
by Kupek
<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>I wonder if the segregration proponents changed because they genuinely felt differently, or if they realized continuing with that position would hurt them politicaly.</div>

PostPosted:Fri Jun 27, 2003 12:40 pm
by ManaMan
<div style='font: 12pt Arial; text-align: left; '>I'm sure that each one of them had their own reasons for doing so... although in Strom Thurmonds case I think it was probably purely political.</div>

PostPosted:Fri Jun 27, 2003 12:51 pm
by G-man Joe
<div style='font: 11pt "Fine Hand"; text-align: left; '>Hard to say. Did he interact with people of different races at outside of politics?</div>

PostPosted:Fri Jun 27, 2003 12:53 pm
by G-man Joe
<div style='font: 11pt "Fine Hand"; text-align: left; '>And George Wallace was shot. I think his turn around was purely political.</div>

PostPosted:Sat Jun 28, 2003 12:22 pm
by SineSwiper
<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>Fuck yes!!</div>

PostPosted:Sat Jun 28, 2003 12:23 pm
by SineSwiper
<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>You mean physical?</div>

PostPosted:Sat Jun 28, 2003 2:26 pm
by Eric
<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>*cough* You usually don't celebrate death.</div>

PostPosted:Sat Jun 28, 2003 5:55 pm
by Tortolia
<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Not like tact has ever been his strong suit.</div>

PostPosted:Sat Jun 28, 2003 6:05 pm
by G-man Joe
<div style='font: 11pt "Fine Hand"; text-align: left; '>It's non existant, actually. The boy likes to feel miserable about a lot things and yet celebrate other people's demise.</div>

The guy was a racist, bigot, ultra-conservative, and the model of a career politician.  I'm happy to see him go.  Or, to put it in terms of Bill Hicks...

PostPosted:Sat Jun 28, 2003 8:12 pm
by SineSwiper
<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '><i>"Boy, I tell ya, politics makes for strange bedfellows. That's true, man. I read a quote in the paper two days after the election from Saddam Hussien, and he said...oh, they had to wait two days to get a quote from him, you know. They had to wait for him to quit GUT laughing in some bunker in Baghdad. [Imitates gut laughing] Hahahahahaha...the elephant is dead! Saddam Hussien says in this quote, 'We have nothing against America. We just want to see George Bush beheaded and his head kicked down the road like a soccer ball.' And I was thinking, 'Well, that's so weird, cuz that's what -I- wanted to see.' Wow...me and Hussien, we're like THIS! Who would have thunk it?"</i> -- Bill Hicks, "Me and Saddam" from Arizona Bay.</div>

PostPosted:Sun Jun 29, 2003 6:18 am
by Tortolia
<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Let me sum up. "The guy was a...conservative."</div>

PostPosted:Sun Jun 29, 2003 8:19 am
by G-man Joe
<div style='font: 11pt "Fine Hand"; text-align: left; '>He was shot in Maryland in 1972. Paralyzed and long ago renounced his segrationist views. He's the man who stood in front of a high school to block the black students from entering.</div>

PostPosted:Tue Jul 01, 2003 8:12 pm
by Ishamael
<div style='font: 14pt "Sans Serif"; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 15% 0% 15%; '><b>Link:</b> <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2085087/">http: ... 085087/</a>

Probably about the same level as Wallace, though I'd say Strom is the bigger hypocrite since he fathered a daughter by his black house made in the 20's. I'd heard about this somewhere before, but Slate has an interesting article on it...</div>