I look forward to his funeral, because then I will know where to go to piss on his grave.

Anybody in his family who’s worth a shit is relieved. What a poisonous, loathsome POS.

He clearly gave up the ghost before one of them colored fellers became Preznit.

Today, God blessed America.

How close were he and Larry Craig?

Let me clarify my earlier remarks. Fuck him, piss on him, I’m glad he’s in the ground.

As a former citizen of North Carolina, let me express my deep regret that he didn’t live long enough to see Obama become president. It would have been more fitting to read that this evil old bastard choked to death on his own mouth-foam after the inauguration.

For evermore, Independence Day in America will be the day Jesse Helms died.

Do you still dare to be an atheist?

It is times like these when I sincerely hope there is a heaven and a hell, and that Helms got a tiny glimpse of the former as he was frog marched to spend eternity in the latter.

Oh frabjus day! Tooloor-a-lay!

They’re all starting to die off.

I don’t think this new breed of wingnut welfare whelps have the chops to keep that level of intensity up.

Guys like Helms and Falwell were head-spinningly green-vomit-spewingly batshit insane KAH-RAZY.

I think this new wave do it for the $$$ and are not nearly so committed.

Happy birthday America!

I can haz fierwerks for dead Jesse?

I thought he was already dead.

Damn shame too. I’d have loved to put a mike on him during the swearing in ceremony, wherever he was at the time.

“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.”

“CANNIBALISM”? What grade school is teaching “CANNIBALISM”? Did anyone question Jesse on that? What the hell is going on in North Carolina? I want answers.

I hope he gives Idi Amin indigestion. And any relatives who mourn him should join in that brunch.

Days like these I really wish I wasn’t an atheist. If ever a man deserved to roast for all of eternity, it’s him.

Oh, my favorite quote is still:

White people, wake up before it is too late. Do you want Negroes working beside you, your wife and your daughters, in your mills and factories? Frank Graham favors mingling of the races.

Forget marriage — we can’t even work in the same factories.

As a lifelong North Carolinian and a childhood member of the church Jesse attended (once every six years, anyway), I am glad he is dead and gone; it should have happened forty years ago. Apparently he’d been near-catatonic from stroke-caused dementia in a local rest home for the last few years. Too bad; it would have been nice if he could have felt and remembered his pain.

NYT actually put up a comment area on the Helms obit. I have never seen the raw hatred of a man poured out in a newspaper like it was there. Over three hundred and fifty comments and I doubt there was two positive. That will be one for the family album.

Since we are supposed to say something nice about the dead I’ll just say that I feel sorry for his family and understand the grief that they must feel, fully aware that Jesse is in hell today… most likely getting fucked in the ass by Roy Cohn.

I love this TBogg, I laughed so hard my stomach ached.

“All I know,” he replied, “is that D’Aubuisson is a free enterprise man and deeply religious.”

Ordering the deaths of innocent civilians is OK if one is “deeply religious”? I wonder if he ever ran that one by Jesus.

CaptPhealy:

He clearly gave up the ghost before one of them colored fellers became Preznit.

Yes, I really do wish he’d hung on until Nov. 5.

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i can think of a few hundred more republican fucknutz i would like to see quickly follow helms into the afterlife

RALEIGH - L.F. Eason III gave up the only job he’d ever had rather than lower a flag to honor former U.S. Sen. Jesse Helms.

Eason, a 29-year veteran of the state Department of Agriculture, instructed his staff at a small Raleigh lab not to fly the U.S. or North Carolina flags at half-staff Monday, defying a directive sent to all state agencies by Gov. Mike Easley.
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The brouhaha began late Sunday night, when Eason e-mailed eight of his employees in the state standards lab, which calibrates measuring equipment used on things as widely varied as gasoline and hamburgers.

“Regardless of any executive proclamation, I do not want the flags at the North Carolina Standards Laboratory flown at half staff to honor Jesse Helms any time this week,” Eason wrote just after midnight, according to e-mail messages released in response to a public records request.

He told his staff that he did not think it was appropriate to honor Helms because of his “doctrine of negativity, hate, and prejudice” and his opposition to civil rights bills and the federal Martin Luther King Jr. holiday.

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In a string of e-mail messages with his superiors, Eason was told he could either lower the flags or retire effective immediately.

Though he’s only 51, Eason chose to retire, although he pleaded several times to be allowed to stay at the lab. Eason, who had worked for the Agriculture Department since graduating from college, was paid $65,235 a year as the laboratory manager.