DISQUS

tlsintx · 1 year ago

agreed. ignorance and hatred are not honorable, in life or death.

MElouise · 1 year ago

Liddy is clearly overwhelmed and delusional in her grief. Yeah, let's go with that.

jackofallthumbs · 1 year ago

Ditto. The first political campaign in which I was active was in 1972, when Jesse ran against Nick Galifinakis. We couldn't believe that Helms won that one, or most of his re-election campaigns for that matter. The success of his divisive politics taught me a lot about most American voters.

Bush_Bites · 1 year ago

Wish those Act Up kids were still around.

I'm sure Jesse's grave needs a lot of pissing upon.

ndtovent · 1 year ago

leave it to a bigot like liddy dole to come up with an idea like this..

Heather · 1 year ago

This reads like an Onion headline. Truly bizzare and insulting to the actual heroes of the AIDS battle.

jr · 1 year ago

the daddy worshiping GOP is obsessed with naming things after their white nationalist icons like Grover Norquist wanting something named after Reagan in every county

Shannon · 1 year ago

Hence......the sewage treatment plant in SF, being named the George Bush stp.......

vkobaya · 1 year ago

Surprising that Elizabeth Dole has stooped so low. She was a Kennedy-Johnson Democrat who went over the dark side when she stayed on and became a Republican during the Nixon administration. Helms is unquestionably, the anti-thesis of a hero, a vile, evil, hateful, malicious man who exploited race and homophobia issues for his own benefit. Dole knows better than to regard Helms as a hero. That she tries to make Helms out to be deserving demonstrates far more than simply politics, but a complete sell out to corruption and the darkest side of the Republican-conservative agenda. We are very fortunate that when she was president of the American Red Cross, she didn't convert that agency to being one devoted to charity-enriching the corporations, rich, powerful and corrupted, politically connected.

Yeah, very fortunate, Dole didn't think out her role at the American Red Cross. If she had, she would have implemented blood transfusion reserved for the rich, powerful and elite, with premium charge for anyone with the misfortune of being a commoner, not powerful, connected or Republican. Same for transplants, but then that is already true, has been since they gave Mickey Mantle a liver transplant when his case was hopeless and he had zero points to justify the transplant. I removed the dot from my driver's license on that day and will never again volunteer for organ transplants to anonymous person in need of a transplant. Pretty bad idea even to volunteer for transplant to some one you know and love as you know the current administration has access to those records and will make use of the information if you happen to be the best match for heart transplant for Cheney, or nose for Bush's nose damaged by too much nose candy.

evan_la · 1 year ago

No Liddy. Absolutely not. Jeez, have you no shame?

Webster · 1 year ago

Not only is it time to bury him and not to praise him, it's time to get busloads of people together, fill them full of beer, drive out to the cemetery and piss all over his grave.

And piss on Libby too, while we're at it.

nicho · 1 year ago

Is Elizabeth Dole still alive? I thought she died about the same time her husband did.

Shootingstar · 1 year ago

Elizabeth Dole is alive and still our senator from NC. I'll promise to do my best to change that. We had been excited about Jim Neal who got my vote in the primaries.

Shootingstar · 1 year ago

My first reaction was one of shock. Being from NC and having to put up with the shame of having our state associated with this well know bigot I started to think - why not. This would be poetic justice to have his name associated with AIDS.

KingCranky · 1 year ago

Someone please ask Dole just how much sympathy Helms showed for Ryan White, or the Ray brothers down in Florida, the kids who were chased out of their hometown when word got out they were HIV positive.

The historical revisionism, of Helms record by his fellow knuckledraggers, is already under way, but it won't do any good. Every day, the homophobes and racists get a bit weaker, not stronger.

It's simple evolution in action, and history's rubbish heap is the proper place for Helms and all those who think and act like him.

OlderAndWiser · 1 year ago

Hell no! Only a gay-hating racist arch-conservative like Dole would even make such a proposal.

Those of us in NC who know better know that Dole is going to be defeated by Kay Hagan, not my first choice in the primary, but a Dem nonetheless and she can learn, unlike Dole, who's stuck up Bob's ass so much she doesn't even live in NC.

Helms is dead, and good riddance to bad rubbish. Let the Klan name a Klavern after him and he can fade away into obscurity.

larz · 1 year ago

Don't forget that Sen. Dole was head of the American Red Cross and was behind them not including any references to gay sex in their AIDS/HIV training materials. She fought to remove any references to behaviors that could be found "offensive". In many ways, her leadership compounded the AIDS epidemic as AIDS educators were knowingly provided with information that was incomplete and inadequate. She's in the same league as Jesse and worshipped the ground he walked on.

TheOriginalLiz · 1 year ago

The winners write the history. In America, thanks to the spineless democratic party and the large percentage of sub-humans, the GOP are the winers and they call the shots.

Shannon · 1 year ago

It will be interesting to see how history will treat George Bu$h II.

Õ¿Õ · 1 year ago

Anything with that stinking fuck's name on like that, I will curse. It wont be allowed by the spirit voices of my gay bros who died. I will invoke their names to respond to any rep-brobate in congress who does this.

AdmNaismith · 1 year ago

Fine, pass it with his name on it. Reversing all the crap he did with his name would be a fairly fitting tribute. Letting HIV people travel and be free would be the ultimate revenge.

firrodion · 1 year ago

I think it's a great idea. Naturally this will set off any seismic readers in the area of the late senator's grave (from the intense spinning).

anarchy · 1 year ago

what kind of fucking bizarro world are we living in, anyway??

I have a better idea: let's re-name burning a cross on someone's front
lawn "giving them a Jesse Helms Jack-O-Lantern" or when somebody
exhibits the same backward, pig-headed, bigoted sort of thinking, we
could say "don't go all Jesse Helms on me" or best of all we can simply
memorialize him as he deserves: "excuse me, I have to go clean up
after my dog because he made that Jesse Helms over there!"

Shannon · 1 year ago

The day he died, I said a little prayer..

"Thank you God for killing Jesse Helms this morning...................Amen."

the53rdcalypso · 1 year ago

All the sodomites would be really into that: http://www.236.com/news/2008/07/17/jesse_helms_...