Another one bites the dust

[greatbear]

I am ordinarily saddened by someone's death. The closer they are to me, of course, the greater the feelings of sadness. This is true for almost all of humanity. It's our nature. However, I tend to find a relief when some person dies who lived to make others' existence pure hell. When I read early this morning that Jesse Helms kicked the bucket, I was not truly overcome with joy. Rather, it was more disappointment. Disappointed that his croaking did not open a giant sucking vortex into his brand of hell taking with him all of his kind, crushing and mangling their bodies on the way. I'll just have to be content with just being rid of his stinking carcass.

The fact that he died on Independence Day is only icing on the cake.

But, anyway.

Hope y'all are having a great day, and are able to enjoy a nice long weekend.

Comments

[mhkrabat.livejournal.com]

...and the Castles made of sand, fall into the sea, Eventoo-alee"...

[greatbearmd.livejournal.com]

They need to fall faster and more numerous.

[mhkrabat.livejournal.com]

I agree Phil, faster would be better. Biding my time has paid off on more trite matters, and it's said (Italian Proverb alert!) that "Revenge is a dish best served cold". Still; time's a-wastin' for sure.

The way I see it we have two viable choices: Continue to do well at what we do anyway, or be proactive and make things happen/change. I think both are fine ways to address our woes, one's faster. One's low impact and the other demands we engage and win-over those who would have pursued agendas that mean us ill (requires a strong stomach and infinite patience). You must tailor your actions to what does both the most good and harms you the least though in order to get as much as you can out of your own life.

[nyrimmer.livejournal.com]

Too bad he didn't take Bush with him.

[greatbearmd.livejournal.com]

And every other neocon for that matter

[sfmini.livejournal.com]

As a tiny tot, living near Raleigh North Carolina our only available TV station was WRAL-5, which then had a split network affiliation between CBS and ABC, I think. At any rate after the 6 o'clock news this horrid man would give a few minutes of a piece of mind. It was Jesse Helms and this was at least before 1965. I didn't much care for him so I would go turn the TV down. At 4 or 5 I didn't like the man. How did he get away with spewing that crap on the air? Easy, he owned the TV station.