What The Hell?
Recently deceased bigot, homophobe and Good Ol' Boy, Senator Jesse Helms is still dead.
But his name lives on in Rachel Weiner's post at the HuffPo! Seems nutty Elizabeth Dole introduced an amendment to name an HIV/AIDS relief bill after the still deceased bigot, racist, segregationist, anti-gay buffooon Jesse Helms.
The blogger at Joe. My. God. recaps some of Jesse's finer moments in the fight against HIV/AIDS:
Yes, let's honor those who have died from AIDS, those who have been diagnosed with HIV/AIDS, as well as the families who have had to bury loved ones and who now care for family members with the disease by naming a relief bill after a man who was filled with nothing but hate for everyone afflicted by the disease.
And let's not forget all the women and children in Africa trying to stave off this disease. I guess they asked for it, too... right, Jesse? But thanks for reversing your position on AIDS funding for the negrahs in Africa, I'm sure they 'preciate it.
Dear Elizabeth Dole... you are demented; please go away.
Dear Jesse Helms... do me a favor: please stay dead. Thanks.
But his name lives on in Rachel Weiner's post at the HuffPo! Seems nutty Elizabeth Dole introduced an amendment to name an HIV/AIDS relief bill after the still deceased bigot, racist, segregationist, anti-gay buffooon Jesse Helms.
SA 5074. (pdf file) Mrs. DOLE submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by her to the bill S. 2731, to authorize appropriations for fiscal years 2009 through 2013to provide assistance to foreign countries to combat HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows: On page 1, line 5, strike "and Henry J. Hyde" and insert ", Henry J. Hyde, and Jesse Helms".
The blogger at Joe. My. God. recaps some of Jesse's finer moments in the fight against HIV/AIDS:
Jesse Helms, the man who in 1987 described AIDS prevention literature as "so obscene, so revolting, I may throw up."
Jesse Helms, the man who in 1988 vigorously opposed the Kennedy-Hatch AIDS research bill, saying, "There is not one single case of AIDS in this country that cannot be traced in origin to sodomy."
Jesse Helms, the man who in 1995 said (in opposition to refunding the Ryan White Act) that the government should spend less on people with AIDS because they got sick due to their "deliberate, disgusting, revolting conduct."
Jesse Helms, the man who in 2002 announced that he'd changed his mind about AIDS funding for Africa, but not for American gays, because homosexuality "is the primary cause of the doubling and redoubling of AIDS cases in the United States."
Yes, let's honor those who have died from AIDS, those who have been diagnosed with HIV/AIDS, as well as the families who have had to bury loved ones and who now care for family members with the disease by naming a relief bill after a man who was filled with nothing but hate for everyone afflicted by the disease.
And let's not forget all the women and children in Africa trying to stave off this disease. I guess they asked for it, too... right, Jesse? But thanks for reversing your position on AIDS funding for the negrahs in Africa, I'm sure they 'preciate it.
Dear Elizabeth Dole... you are demented; please go away.
Dear Jesse Helms... do me a favor: please stay dead. Thanks.
Labels: bigots, elizabeth dole, HIV/AIDS, homophobes, jesse helms, racists, segregationists
Posted by Debbie @ 7/16/2008 12:30:00 PM
21 Comments:
naming an HIV/AIDS bill after Helms is indeed clueless and in bad taste.
But homosexuality IS the main cause of AIDS in this country; while rates in other areas are declining, they're back up among the younger gay community who thinks that the drugs for HIV are enough protection -- just look at any gay lit, even that given out by cities like WeHo, and take off the PC blinders.
I'm also opposed to letting those with HIV enter this country as legal immigrants, gay Bill Rosendahl's outrage about that notwithstanding: at best, the HIV drugs are very expensive, and might be absorbed by taxpayers; private insurance in areas like LA are high partly because of the high incidence of HIV cases. At worst, if the person gets AIDS, that's enormously expensive and infectious. Claiming it's not, is another PC lie: how's you like your kids bitten by a child with HIV?
But in spite of his right wing politics and sometimes extreme political views, he not only supported funding to fight aids in African he used all of his political clout to get it through. I want this bill to pass because it reminds those that are in politics for the worst reason to worry at least a little bit about their legacy and that has to be a good thing.
I think it's magnificently clever. I'm no homo, but I think naming such a bill against a scumbag-hater like Jesse Helms is brilliant and unexpected of government.
But anyone with such a disease should be prevented from entering the country, even as a tourist.
What bugs me most is how Valley Dull couldn't write up this post in half the words.
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His support of fighting AIDS in Africa probably stems from his late in life guilt for probably funding the CIA in their bio-warfare experiments of AIDS. Lat in life conversions are common for those looking to enter the gates of heaven.
But ValleyDoll, how do you REALLY feel about Jesse Helms?
Didn't Jesse Helms die of AIDS?
Going through life with a stiff one up your butt doesn't give you aids.
Didn't Jesse Helms die of AIDS?
No, he was run over by OJ Simpson's Bronco.
1:34 said: I'm no homo
Why is it that the gays (or maybe gay curious?) on the down-low are always the ones who have to right away profess their hetero street-cred? It's a dead giveaway every time.
It's okay... I still dig ya.
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right back!
There are only two:
Man (penis)
and
Women (Vagina)
Now and days:
We still have Man.(Penis)
What ever
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And still Women.(Vagina)
Hmmmm... a budding tit-for-tat naming war perhaps? Up north they are proposing that the sewage plant name after George W. Bush.
That old racist bigot Jesse Helms, the hero(along with that other patriot of the old racist South Strom Thurmond), fought against every civil rights advance and integration for many years.
A disgusting creature who the world is better off without.
Funniest thing I remember about the old racist was when a few years back it was discovered he had a daughter out of wedlock with one of his wealthy families black servants (he was 25 or so and she was 15).
The daughter, who was a very nice, cultured middle aged black woman who had lived in Los Angeles most of her life, kept the secret of her father for many years.
Jesse Helms admitted the truth, he was a father of a black woman,and had supported her financially so long as she kept the secret.
Jesse Helms who for most of his life as a southern foghorn politician supported the Souths laws on miscegenation and non missionary position sex had kinky sex with a poor black servant girl. What hypocrisy! But funny as hell!
Don't forget the republican gavachos Michael Higby and Walter Moore are the biggest bigot and racist.
My abuelita and abueltio always taught me not be racist or prejuidice, I learned to love all of my fellow men.
I hope my good friend Joe ManHandler post his comments on this subject.
Once again, Valley Dull does her school-girlish neener neener routine.
Not very becoming for a gal quite near 50.
Right, Dull? You're not so far from 50. Right?
Is it coincidence that Don Quixote and his good amigo Don Culo's comments are one right the other.
I am so glad Don BesaCulo's abuelita taught him to repect the mayates, even the ones who are not "very nice, cultured middle aged black women"
Who's the worst speller: donculo, donrojo, or donvillar?
"Dear Jesse Helms... do me a favor: please stay dead. Thanks."
Dear Valley Doll,
My spirit lives on. I entered the body of Reverend Wright 5 years ago. Why should I stay dead when inhabiting the body of the living is so much fun?
Excellent post Valley Doll. I am glad to see you have acquired some haters. Welcome to the blogging world. For real now... you got your own haters.
I agree with your whole Helms-bashing post. But the poster who thought it was kind of ironically cool is right. Maybe Helms deserves it.
Keep on.. You're doing great.
Miss you - we'll talk soon and I don't care who makes fun of me, so
LUV YA!
First poster -
Hate to disappoint you or upset you inaccurate facts, but homosexuality isn't the MAIN cause of AIDS in this country.
Stop listening to John and Ken.
1:57 said: I agree with your whole Helms-bashing post. But the poster who thought it was kind of ironically cool is right. Maybe Helms deserves it.
If someone wanted to name a gay bar in West Hollywood, "Jesse's Place" with a big portrait of Jesse Helms dressed in S&M gear, with a red, plastic ball gag in his mouth hung over the bar, that would be ironic, fun and fitting.
But to have Elizabeth Dole trying to rewrite history, so that years and years from now, Jesse Helms will be regarded as the Great White Father Who Saved His Beloved Blacks From AIDS? Aw, hell no!
I just don't want my kids picking up a history book and reading all about how wonderful Jesse Helms was because he saved the black babies from AIDS, and acheived a false reputation as someone totally committed in the fight against the disease is just too much, when so many others with nothing named after them have committed more time, more energy, more tears to the obliteration of this disease and the care of its victims than this dead a-hole.
xoxo
ps. i luv ya, too... ;-)
12:37 said: Dear Valley Doll,
My spirit lives on. I entered the body of Reverend Wright 5 years ago. Why should I stay dead when inhabiting the body of the living is so much fun?
Hmmm... that kinda makes sense. I can kinda see it....
But honestly, Jesse, all this time, I really had you pegged as a Zombie type, and was really half-expecting you to rise from the dead at any moment and begin feasting on the brains of libruls and homosekshuls.
xoxo
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