Weer'd World

As a follow-up to the comments in this post I’ll lead with a quote from Buddy Mike W.

I should also point out that one of my favorite SCOTUS justice (Hugo Black) was also a KKK Member, but his history as a justice proves that he really DID change his stance. He actively championed for Constitutional Rights of blacks & other minorities as a justice as early as the 1940′s. Hell, he was on the side of desegregation in Brown v. Board of Education and other cases.

What did Byrd do after dropping his Klan membership? He certainly didn’t establish a long & unambiguous record of supporting the rights of minorities the way Black did.

Heh, Mike being the law clerk, he has a favorite justice! Still he makes a good point. One is not condemned to bring the sins of their past along with them, but they DO have to atone for them.

I was, like many young people, once amicable with Marxism, and gun control. But I’m doing my best to atone for those sins through activism and spreading of information.

Sounds like Justice Black did more than his share. But what did Byrd do? Yes, he endorsed Barrack Obama. Is that much? I mean I endorsed John McCain in the same election. Do I like John McCain in any way? No, not really. I didn’t much like Bush, and I endorsed him…and I think McCain would have made a WORSE President than Bush.

But I think he would have done a better job than President Obama. And that’s IT!

What has Byrd done to wash his hands of a Klan Leadership days?

Or maybe he was just a racist old man who did his best to keep his crude and evil opinions to himself. (Even more damning facts from Linoge and Mzmadmike)

We’ll never get away from racism if one half of the electorate keeps propping it up.

PS: Oh goodness, I need to remember this delectable bit of one-party racism on Heller/McDonald day

One of my favorite hate-filled bigots is this nasty shell of a woman She’s from Maine, and essentially has a blog that’s entirely 1 part narcissistic preening and 10 parts frothing rage against the right-wing. (FYI the “Right Wing” is anything she says it is) In the death of Klansman Robert Byrd, rather than speaking his praise (which I suspect she can’t think of any) she just pours on the hate:

Sen. Robert Byrd has died

(….and yes right wing neocon neck drooling knuckle draggers…we know Sen. Byrd was in the KKK, but unlike the current crop of republicans across the nation, Sen. Byrd saw the error of his ways and changed himself! You assholes could learn a thing or two from this man!)

Yep, that’s the best she could do for an Obit. What’s interesting is she doesn’t actually note what Byrd did to “see the error of his ways and change himself”. I mean he DID leave the Klan, but hey, I could let my NRA membership lapse, or just dump it completely, would that make me any less of a second Amendment supporter? I’m not currently certified in CPR, do you think that means I’ll stand idly by if somebody has a cardiac episode when I’m around? (for legal reasons I’ll ask if somebody IS certified, but that’s just for legal, and selecting somebody who might be more dedicated than me…I mean I DID let my C-Card lapse…)

What did Robert Byrd do to affirm that he thinks Blacks, Non-Protestant, and Non-White people are all equal people under the law and in God’s eyes?

Yeah. Something tells me the Senator just hung up his sheets and his torches just to get out of a political nightmare. I mean look at Elena Kagan’s Supreme Court Nomination. Seems there’s a lot of Talk of Ms. Kagan being openly gay for a portion of her life, now she is making claims to be straight.

I must say Occam’s Razor is telling me she’s a Lesbian, and frankly with all the Gay Marriage controversy out there, I think we NEED a gay justice I WANT her to be gay. This would also give me at least SOMETHING to sweeten the deal, I mean Obama is an ultra-left Marxist, his nominees are GOING to be far to the left of me, at LEAST give me SOMEBODY who is sympathetic to gay rights (and maybe hates the war on drugs) so I can at LEAST hope that SOME good will come out of them.

But if I’m correct and Ms. Kagan is in fact Gay, and has been pushed back into the closet by either the Obama administration, or by her own shame (I vote the former given the stories out there, and Obama’s own hatred) she’s doing gays a disservice, as well as tainting her general honesty and good word.

Sometimes I’m just amazed by the left….

Robert C. Byrd, , a conservative West Virginia Democrat who became the longest-serving member of Congress in history and used his masterful knowledge of the institution to shape the federal budget, protect the procedural rules of the Senate and, above all else, tend to the interests of his state, died at 3 a.m. Monday at Inova Fairfax Hospital, his office said.

Blah Blah Blah, about speaking ill of the dead, I personally don’t follow that. If you can’t speak ill of those who deserve it, you can’t speak well of those who lived a good life.

Senator Byrd has not been fit to represent his state in a long time, and his horrible racist past has been ignored by the Democrats who would best like to forget that they were the party that revolted over slavery (and Republicans rose to power over advocating abolition of slavery) and they are the party that formed the Klan when they lost the war and were concerned about freed blacks getting out of their place.

You won’t be missed Senator, and like your Beloved West Virginia, I hope there are a few bridges and roads named after you where you are now.