So, whatever side you fall under…
- Rest in Peace
or
- Good Riddance
or
- Both!
I guess not being in office took its toll on him. You know, it is amazing how many people die shortly after retirement. Strom was like an institution in Congress…a scary institution, but one just the same.
The Washington Post shows a (then) Vice President Richard Nixon swearing the newly elected Senator Strom Thurmond in back in 1955, and Strom already looks like an old man. Jeez…
What was remarkable about him, though, was he was always a ladies man. I remember in the 1990’s, he had an 18-year old daughter (18 years old, and the guy was already in his 90’s!), anway, she was killed by a drunk driver and Strom got on the anti-drunk driver crusade. But, my god, he must have fathered her in his 70’s!!
I guess not being in office took its toll on him. You know, it is amazing how many people die shortly after retirement. Strom was like an institution in Congress…a scary institution, but one just the same.
Every institution in Congress is a scary one.
Yeah, it couldn’t be that he was a billion years old…it was the stress of not being in office.
Good riddance and burn in hell.
This and the Texas decision on the same day puts bookends on things.
He probably heard about the Supreme Court ruling and died of shock.
He probably heard about the Supreme Court ruling and died of shock.[/quote]
Or maybe somebody fucked him in the ass.
Gary Whitta:
I don’t even know HOW I was planning to out-obnoxious you. You are a pro.
Contragradulatiuns.
He probably heard about the Supreme Court ruling and died of shock.[/quote]
Or maybe somebody fucked him in the ass.[/quote]
And he died of the shock when he realised how much he liked it.
He probably heard about the Supreme Court ruling and died of shock.[/quote]
Or maybe somebody fucked him in the ass.[/quote]
And he died of the shock when he realised how much he liked it.[/quote]
And it was from black man.
Yeah, it couldn’t be that he was a billion years old…it was the stress of not being in office.
Good riddance and burn in hell.[/quote]
Cookie you are crazy! He was only 100! If he can go, any of us can! Makes you think…
The day he retired was a happy day for me. A more arch-conservative, pork belly, racist man never worked in our government in the last 50 years. But to make 100 years old is one hell of an accomplishment…So long Strom.
What are the characteristics of being a ‘pork belly’? Is it a bad thing?
Living in SC, it’s interesting seeing the reaction. The local news stations took over for the morning - and the paper had font size almost as large as when the bombing in Iraq started.
I found it interesting that when he retired & the paper did a whole rhapsodizing retrospective that there actually were a few letters to the editor (in the midst of all the “oh how wonderful he is” articles) saying it was about time he went & his accomplishment was simply staying in office and having an effective staff. That said, it’s nice that he did choose not to run again, 'cause people in this state would have elected him anyway…
Ah well… at least we’ve finally got the confederate flag off the state house & out of chambers…
It’s American slang for diverting as much money from other regions to your region as possible, regardless of need or what it’s spent on. In the 19th century, one way to do this was spending federal funds on barrels of salted pork to be handed out to constituents, and the name stuck.