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Title: Strom Thrumond, dead at 100
Post by: Galemp on June 26, 2003, 11:48:36 pm: http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/06/26/thurmond.obit/index.html

Good riddance. Just to give you some idea of how old he was: He ran for President. In 1948. His racial views were... interesting, to say the least.

Stryke, Anon, fire away.

EDIT: Just found this gem:
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As a Democrat during his first decade in the Senate, Thurmond once filibustered a civil rights bill for 24 hours and 18 minutes, stopping only when the Senate physician threatened to drag him from the floor. It was the longest filibuster in Senate history.
Title: Strom Thrumond, dead at 100
Post by: Stryke 9 on June 26, 2003, 11:50:49 pm: Why? He hasn't been an active menace to the country for years. Ancient politics don't really factor in when there's this much new scum in town.

Ol' guy had one hell of a life. Pretty cool, I'd say, if a bit long for my tastes.
Title: Strom Thrumond, dead at 100
Post by: Knight Templar on June 27, 2003, 12:24:50 am: Congress is on a roll today, eh'?
Title: Strom Thrumond, dead at 100
Post by: an0n on June 27, 2003, 04:40:25 am: What, you think I'd speak ill of such a dedicated, loyal and patriotic man? You think I'd mock or berate the dead because of mistakes he made over half a century ago? You insult me, sir. I challenge you to a duel!
Title: Strom Thrumond, dead at 100
Post by: Sandwich on June 27, 2003, 05:14:13 am: [q]In 1968, he married Nancy Moore, a former Miss South Carolina. He was 66; she was 22. They had four children and had lived apart for several years.[/q]

:eek2:

[q]Thurmond was the third Southern politician from the turbulent civil rights era to die this week.

Former Georgia Gov. Lester Maddox, who, like Thurmond, was a segregationist but who never backed away from his views, died Wednesday. Former Atlanta Mayor Maynard Jackson, the South's first black big-city mayor when he was elected in 1973, died Monday. [/q]

Hmmm.... :wtf: :nervous: :shaking:

[q]"No matter how tough the going gets, I don't give in and don't give up. After all, they don't call me Thurmond-ator for nothing!" he said.[/q]

:wtf: :wtf: :wtf:

Anyway, I originally thought this topic was about some Storm Thurmond that left 100 people dead so far. :nervous: :p
Title: Strom Thrumond, dead at 100
Post by: mikhael on June 27, 2003, 08:31:28 am: Quote
Originally posted by Stryke 9
Why? He hasn't been an active menace to the country for years. Ancient politics don't really factor in when there's this much new scum in town.

Ol' guy had one hell of a life. Pretty cool, I'd say, if a bit long for my tastes.

Actually, no. He was an active menace to this country as late as last year before he retired.
Title: Strom Thrumond, dead at 100
Post by: tEAbAG on June 27, 2003, 12:23:28 pm: Wow... Just as I was begining to think he was a robot.
Title: Strom Thrumond, dead at 100
Post by: Woolie Wool on June 27, 2003, 10:26:52 pm: He's actually dead? It's about time. That bigot was definitely a menace to our country.
Title: Strom Thrumond, dead at 100
Post by: Grey Wolf on June 27, 2003, 10:34:26 pm: Wow... And here I was, thinking that he was one of the Immortals from Highlander :p
Title: Strom Thrumond, dead at 100
Post by: Stryke 9 on June 27, 2003, 10:42:21 pm: Quote
Originally posted by mikhael

Actually, no. He was an active menace to this country as late as last year before he retired.

Nonfunctional for most of that time.

Isn't it kinda... cowardly to wait 'till the guy's dead to start taking potshots at him, by the way? I mean, a few months back, I woulda ripped away at him as best I could without doing any research, but now... what's the point?
Title: Strom Thrumond, dead at 100
Post by: Rictor on June 28, 2003, 12:16:11 am: Quote
Originally posted by Grey Wolf 2009
Wow... And here I was, thinking that he was one of the Immortals from Highlander :p

:D :D Good stuff man
Title: Strom Thrumond, dead at 100
Post by: Knight Templar on June 28, 2003, 12:19:19 am: Quote
Originally posted by Stryke 9

Nonfunctional for most of that time.

Isn't it kinda... cowardly to wait 'till the guy's dead to start taking potshots at him, by the way? I mean, a few months back, I woulda ripped away at him as best I could without doing any research, but now... what's the point?

I don't thinmk epople are because he's dead, people are because he's been brought up. If he was brought up here like 6 months ago, I'm sure everyone would have said the same thing.
Title: Strom Thrumond, dead at 100
Post by: Stryke 9 on June 28, 2003, 12:19:59 am: Possibly.
Title: Strom Thrumond, dead at 100
Post by: Knight Templar on June 28, 2003, 12:25:19 am: ok, i'll confess. I didn't know who he was untill that whole BET thing, but the point still stands. :p
Title: Strom Thrumond, dead at 100
Post by: Rictor on June 28, 2003, 12:32:45 am: Quote
Originally posted by Knight Templar
ok, i'll confess. I didn't know who he was untill that whole BET thing, but the point still stands. :p

Black Entertainment Television? Channel 49?:wtf: :wtf:
Title: Strom Thrumond, dead at 100
Post by: Knight Templar on June 28, 2003, 01:15:55 am: no, Bachelor's Etiquette Television. Channel 72 :doubt:

Spoiler:
Ever think I might have a different cable company than you? O_o
Title: Strom Thrumond, dead at 100
Post by: an0n on June 28, 2003, 03:38:26 am: I hope to god you're joking and didn't use the universal accepted acronym for Black Entertainment Television as an acronym for some yuppie napkin-folding channel.
Title: Strom Thrumond, dead at 100
Post by: Top Gun on June 28, 2003, 04:12:42 am: One down, loads more to go. My money is on Jesse Helms (http://www.bettybowers.com/helms.html) to be the next.