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Sen. Robert Byrd’s office reports that the 92-year-old, and longest serving member of Congress, has died.
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Alan Brooks| 6.28.10 @ 8:04AM
They put a sheet over him.
JP| 6.28.10 @ 8:07AM
Alan,
That was low.
Alan Brooks| 6.28.10 @ 8:53AM
Yes, and the KKK is extremely low, too. Funny if a Commie or Nazi dies, you aren't so respectful.
To Hell with them all. This is AS, not PC.
Alan Brooks| 6.28.10 @ 9:16AM
Fine. Tell me what you want to write or not write and your wishes shall be complied with, Sir.
one doesn't want to be a REBEL.
Alan Noise| 6.28.10 @ 9:26AM
Hiccup
Stan Redmond| 6.28.10 @ 12:23PM
Now THAT was funny.
If only they scattered old Teddy's ashes in a river we'd be 2 for 2
Margie| 6.28.10 @ 8:40AM
Does this mean if they cremate him that when they scatter his ashes it'll be two sheets to the wind?
Alan Brooks| 6.28.10 @ 9:01AM
If only JP would understand. AS can rake Dems over the coals, but not for having joined a terrorist organization at one time??
How was Byrd's joining the KKK better than a Commie being an inactive member of the Weather Underground?
JP coward| 6.28.10 @ 9:24AM
I'm a coward, which is why I don't write my name.
Alan Noise| 6.28.10 @ 9:27AM
Hiccup
Margie| 6.28.10 @ 9:24AM
Some people have a thing for "not speaking ill of the dead." It's superstition and as superstition goes it is ridiculous. I say tell the truth about the dead. Let the sheets fall where they may.
Just imagine the "kind" words that would come from Byrd's mouth concerning one of our dead. I'm not waving the white flag on this one.
LarryK| 6.28.10 @ 10:29AM
Adolph Hitler made the trains run on time. Especially the Treblinka Limited.
Mark In WV| 6.28.10 @ 8:50AM
I am sorry the man has died, but as a 4th generation West Virginian, I'm proud to say no one in my family ever voted for that old segregationist.
Alan Brooks| 6.28.10 @ 9:10AM
Get this:
when Clinton dies, anyone can get away with all the jokes they want, but I'm low for the first comment?
Geez, maybe if we stop talking & writing we wont hurt others' precious feelings.
Always be respectful...
unless it is someone else's ox being gored.
Pete2| 6.28.10 @ 9:17AM
Sen Byrd just did the nation a favor.
JP noise| 6.28.10 @ 9:21AM
Ah DO declare.
Alan Noise| 6.28.10 @ 9:29AM
Hiccup
Alan Brooks| 6.28.10 @ 9:22AM
"Sen Byrd just did the nation a favor."
Tell it to that little weiner, JP.
Alan Noise| 6.28.10 @ 9:28AM
Hiccup
matthew s harrison| 6.28.10 @ 9:35AM
This is sad. it is sad, because many of us were hoping that there would be some arrests, and when the long in the tooth fellow klansmen to "senator" byrd's conscience had gotten to them, they would sing like canaries and tell the truth about all of the murders of women, children, and republicans Byrd had a hand in. Now, we will never know-unless somewhere in his personal belongings, there is a diary of some sort in which he spilled the beans. May he rest as poorly as the families he terrorized while riding around the countryside terrorizing innocent people. And they had better not even think of putting that dastardly son of a bitch in Arlington.
Dixie Pixie| 6.28.10 @ 10:07AM
What??? the Big Byrd is DEAD.
Does that mean West Virginia has give back all the swag Senator Byrd has looted from the Federal Treasury?!?!?
Truth to Power| 6.28.10 @ 11:35AM
The Democratic Party is the party is the party of race obsession. Byrd had to join the KKK for credibility in his community and Obama had to join a racist church for credibility in his community. There is no difference. When will the Democratic Party end its love affair with race obsession?
ggoblue| 6.28.10 @ 12:27PM
too bad....
it wasnt 6 months sooner....
then my freedom wouldn't be in such danger
Bob Miller| 6.28.10 @ 12:45PM
Don't you know
About the Byrd?
Anyway, my former boss once returned from a meeting of the Battery Council International in Washington, DC. As he told it, Sen. Byrd was introduced to deliver some opening remarks, whereupon Byrd pulled out a fiddle and and sang and played "Rye Whiskey" for the confused attendees.
a sane person| 6.28.10 @ 3:15PM
well bye