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Old 06-28-2010, 02:49 PM   #1
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Robert C Byrd Dies

All West Virginians are sad.

hxxp://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/06/28/robert-byrd-longest-serving-senator-dies/
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Old 06-28-2010, 02:51 PM   #2
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Countdown to thread implosion.....
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Old 06-28-2010, 03:22 PM   #3
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Old 06-28-2010, 03:28 PM   #4
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Wait a minute...there are people in West Virginia?
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Old 06-28-2010, 03:31 PM   #5
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Wait a minute...there are people in West Virginia?

Of course there are, silly.

Here's one now:

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Old 06-28-2010, 09:12 PM   #6
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I saw elsewhere someone ask whether there was anything else in West Virginia that could get his name on it. One of the replies was a tombstone.

Not that I speak ill of the guy, but given all the federal money he successfully channeled to the state, about the only things not named for him are the cities and towns and the state itself.
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Old 06-29-2010, 10:34 AM   #7
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The line of succession laws really need to be changed. 3rd in line (behind Biden and Pelosi) is now 85 year old Senator Inouye.
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Old 06-29-2010, 01:01 PM   #8
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I actually cried twice last night. I've only cried at two other famous people dying - Johnny Cash and Fred Rogers.
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Old 06-29-2010, 01:24 PM   #9
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Are they going to bury him in his Klan robes?
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Old 06-29-2010, 03:28 PM   #10
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Politics and racism aside, I've never gotten over that 20/20 interview he did with John Stossel where Stossel confronted him about all of the pet projects he got funded, and Byrd came off as such a conceited, arrogant asshole I've hated him ever since. His "twaddlizing" comment has stuck with me for I don't know how many years. I can still see that smug bastard's face in that interview...

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When the Democrats held power, I confronted Sen. Robert Byrd about wasting our money on "Robert Byrd Highway"-type projects in West Virginia. His answer was as arrogant as he was: "I would think that the national media could rise above the temptation of being clever, decrepitarian critics who twaddlize, just as what you're doing right here."

"Twaddlizing?" I asked.

"Trivializing serious matters," he explained.

I persisted, "Is there no limit? Are you not at all embarrassed about how much you got?" Byrd glared at me in silence, and finally demanded, angrily, "Are you embarrassed when you think you're working for the good of the country? Does that embarrass you?"
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Old 06-29-2010, 03:40 PM   #11
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Politics and racism aside, I've never gotten over that 20/20 interview he did with John Stossel where Stossel confronted him about all of the pet projects he got funded, and Byrd came off as such a conceited, arrogant asshole I've hated him ever since. His "twaddlizing" comment has stuck with me for I don't know how many years. I can still see that smug bastard's face in that interview...

How dare Stossel question his awthoritah!!
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