North Carolina: Insanity Personified
I have been working to better control and moderate my sarcasm and outrage at obvious stupidity and insanity. But sometimes circumstances defy all attempts at keeping it civil.
U.S. Senator Elizabeth Dole is proposing an international AIDS initiative be re-named to include the name of recently deceased (but not soon enough) renowned bigot and hate monger, Jesse Helms.
In the comment I sent to the Senator's office, I asked if her next bright idea was to include Adolf Hitler's name in the name of the Holocaust Center.
Here is the excerpt from the July 14th Congressional Record:
SA 5074. Mrs. DOLE submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by her to the bill S. 2731, to authorize appropriations for fiscal years 2009 through 2013 to 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’’.
Included among the funding initiatives the late Senator Helms opposed in his years on the Hill, was the Ryan White Act. In opposing that measure he wrote that that people with AIDS do not deserve life saving research because AIDS was caused by their “deliberate, disgusting, revolting conduct.”
His criticism of AIDS prevention literature included the opinion that it was “so obscene, so revolting, I may throw up.” He stupidly and arrogantly opposed AIDS funding in 1988 by saying “There is not one single case of AIDS in this country that cannot be traced in origin to sodomy.”
But Senator Elizabeth Dole, who once pictured herself as First Lady, now believes Senator Jesse Helms was such a friend to the fight against AIDS, that an international treatment program focusing on AIDS and other serious illnesses should carry his name.
My e-mail to the Senator also suggested that she is not just out of touch... she is out of her mind. I suppose her next brilliant idea will be to name a pediatric AIDS clinic for Ronald Reagan. Maybe they could donate funding for that to Iran.
No anger or sarcasm from anyone can beat the sheer stupidity, insanity and complete cluelessness of Elizabeth Dole. This is a person who should know better, but doesn't know anything. So, I hope you will take keyboard in hand and drop the Senator a strongly worded, but still respectful e-mail. I'll simplify things for you by providing a link:
http://dole.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=ContactInformation.ContactForm
Resist the urge to remind her that reality might take a little getting used to, but it's a world she really should be spending a little more time in.
U.S. Senator Elizabeth Dole is proposing an international AIDS initiative be re-named to include the name of recently deceased (but not soon enough) renowned bigot and hate monger, Jesse Helms.
In the comment I sent to the Senator's office, I asked if her next bright idea was to include Adolf Hitler's name in the name of the Holocaust Center.
Here is the excerpt from the July 14th Congressional Record:
SA 5074. Mrs. DOLE submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by her to the bill S. 2731, to authorize appropriations for fiscal years 2009 through 2013 to 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’’.
Included among the funding initiatives the late Senator Helms opposed in his years on the Hill, was the Ryan White Act. In opposing that measure he wrote that that people with AIDS do not deserve life saving research because AIDS was caused by their “deliberate, disgusting, revolting conduct.”
His criticism of AIDS prevention literature included the opinion that it was “so obscene, so revolting, I may throw up.” He stupidly and arrogantly opposed AIDS funding in 1988 by saying “There is not one single case of AIDS in this country that cannot be traced in origin to sodomy.”
But Senator Elizabeth Dole, who once pictured herself as First Lady, now believes Senator Jesse Helms was such a friend to the fight against AIDS, that an international treatment program focusing on AIDS and other serious illnesses should carry his name.
My e-mail to the Senator also suggested that she is not just out of touch... she is out of her mind. I suppose her next brilliant idea will be to name a pediatric AIDS clinic for Ronald Reagan. Maybe they could donate funding for that to Iran.
No anger or sarcasm from anyone can beat the sheer stupidity, insanity and complete cluelessness of Elizabeth Dole. This is a person who should know better, but doesn't know anything. So, I hope you will take keyboard in hand and drop the Senator a strongly worded, but still respectful e-mail. I'll simplify things for you by providing a link:
http://dole.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=ContactInformation.ContactForm
Resist the urge to remind her that reality might take a little getting used to, but it's a world she really should be spending a little more time in.
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