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Re: Hagan, Miller want civil rights coins

bniolet — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 09:35:34 -0400

Right you are, awbeal, and wrong we were. Error fixed. Thanks for pointing it out. BN

Re: Hagan, Miller want civil rights coins

beachbum3 — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:43:45 -0400

When i first vote for senator hagen i thought for sure that she would at the least acknowledge the citizens of this state an their personal concerns but in reality she is just another right winged democrate votes heavely along the lines with the republican party as that she will probably do so in the up comming health care reform issues as they in my personal estimations she is probably just like the rest of this states pols already bought an paid for by the insurance comapny's an thier lobbyist just as our wonderful bev is also thank you

Re: Hagan, Miller want civil rights coins

BitterEXdemocrat — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:51:16 -0400

AFTER she votes to AUDIT (and hopefully ABOLISH the Federal Reserve Bank)...

Re: Hagan, Miller want civil rights coins

awbeal — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:59:37 -0400

You mean 50th anniversary, not 40th anniversary, right?

Re: Memories of Helms: A drop-in visit

dahedgehog — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 10:31:43 -0400

"He was no more racist than you or I"

Why is this guy accusing me of being an overtly racist jerk? I never even met the man!

Re: Memories of Helms, or Neanderthals live!!!

persondem — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 13:46:56 -0400

You might consider that advice yourself. How many "odes to Jesse" threads does this site need?

Re: Memories of Helms, or Neanderthals live!!!

ryanteaguebeckwith — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 12:45:56 -0400

Please don't post the same item verbatim. You can make the same point, but don't repeat yourself or I'll have to delete them.

Thanks!

— RTB

Re: Memories of Helms, or Neanderthals live!!!

persondem — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 12:42:44 -0400

'"He was called a racist and a bigot [sic] and a homophobe,"...'
for very good reasons. From his mouth ...

"Let me adjust my hearing aid. It could not accommodate the decibels of the Senator from Massachusetts. I can't match him in decibels or Jezebels."
-- After Ted Kennedy made an emotional speech to let foreigners with HIV become US citizens, 1993.

"The New York Times and Washington Post are both infested with homosexuals themselves. Just about every person down there is a homosexual or lesbian."
-- 1995

"The University of Negroes and Communists"
-- Reference to the University of North Carolina devised by Mr. Helms when he worked for Willis Smith's 1950 U.S. Senate campaign.

"All I know is that D'Aubuisson is a free enterprise man and deeply religious."
-- Responding to evidence that Roberto D'Aubuisson directed Salvadoran death squads that murdered thousands of civilians.

"Your tax dollars are being used to pay for grade-school classes that teach our children that CANNIBALISM, WIFE-SWAPPING and MURDER of infants and the elderly are acceptable behavior."
-- Fund raising mailer, 1996

"All Latins are volatile people. Hence, I was not surprised at the volatile reaction."
-- After Mexicans protested his visit in 1986

"It's their deliberate, disgusting, revolting conduct that is responsible for the disease."
-- Justifying his refusal to give financial support to families of AIDS victims.

"They should ask their parents if it would be all right for their son or daughter to marry a Negro."
-- In response to Duke University students holding a vigil after Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated, 1968

Re: Perdue accuses Moore of "race-baiting"

FFC1304 — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:42:38 -0400

Democrats ARE race baiters! TIME AND TIME AGAIN!!!

Re: Perdue accuses Moore of "race-baiting"

killrecu58 — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:00:03 -0400

Lets talk about issues and leave all that other junk out!
We are hurting in this state because none of the politicians will face the real facts that loss of jobs, loss of products due to outsourcing, high food prices and gas price's are the real issues, not race-baiting. We need to empty Raleigh and Washington of the old politicians and put some new blood in both places that will look for real solutions instead of fighting among themselves along party lines. People are tired of this . They want meaningful bills that will get passed.