Sen. Robert Byrd of West Virginia dead at 92

[Catfish]

The thing is, in some cases it is not just a matter of kidding around. I can only imagine what would happen if one of my co-workers or boss saw me reading, let alone responding to some of the drivel that gets written on this site at times. It's one of the reasons I tend to avoid the FL during the work day, much the same as I don't go into the Picture-Palooza thread either. It simply isn't worth the hassle. There are several sites not accessible through the filters we have set up, as that is part of working for a municipality. So I'll be damned if I'll screw up being able to view this site during the day by taking any unnecessary chances when people choose to just "kid around".

These are quality points!

As long as the Dems support and defend pigs like Robert KKK Byrd, we'll have plenty to "kid around" about!

[chefcraig]

I again would like to say I have never broken one of Sarge's golden fucking rules. I can't be responcible for what anyone can do at work. While urmmm not working.

In no way am I saying that you (or anyone else) should govern yourself, I'm merely pointing out a truism about work. If you are sitting in an open office, you more than likely are not going to be looking at porn pics, right? However, no matter what you are viewing, other people seem naturally attracted to what amounts to be a television set. Look, people need to be responsible for their own actions, that's all. In the workplace, that includes what you are posting as well as what you are viewing. As such, I've made a personal decision as to what constitutes viable internet "viewing" while supposedly working. Once home, I'm free to check out the sites I wouldn't even contemplate looking at while at work, and this is nothing more than common sense. As much as I'd love to sit around at work in my underwear drinking beer, for one reason or another my boss frowns upon this activity. No biggie, I'll wait until I get home to do so. And that same reasoning works as applied to the internet. I'm not attempting to tell anyone what they should or should not post, I'm merely pointing out the practical means for not responding to it. Tempting as it may be at times, more often than not, it simply isn't worth the trouble.

[Nickdfresh]

You're right. I'd never have the balls to refer to Robert KKK Byrd as a pig who is given special treatment because of leftist dick sucks on this board! That would take craaaaaazy balls!!!

A.) Always with the balls and cock, you're very fascinated with male genitalia

B.) Nobody is giving anyone "special treatment." How the fuck are we "leftist mods" giving a corpse special treatment?

I never said you talk about me and Jagermeister in there. I just said y'all sit in there all day sucking each other off instead of making the real boards more interesting. You know, like Mods should!

Learn to read!

I think Catfish is mad for the cock™ ...

[Catfish]

A.) Always with the balls and cock, you're very fascinated with male genitalia

B.) Nobody is giving anyone "special treatment." How the fuck are we "leftist mods" giving a corpse special treatment?



I think Catfish is mad for the cock™ ...

Uh... Okay???

[Jagermeister]

I found this interesting. This man was a racist through and through.

Byrd joined the Ku Klux Klan as a 24 year old in 1942. His adopted father had been a klansmen, and he had grown up watching klan processions in his hometown. At various times, he held the positions of grand cyclops (leader of local chapter) and kleagle (recruiter). While admitting his involvement in the KKK, Byrd claims that he left the klan in early 1943. That seems unlikely, however, since a letter written by Byrd to a Grand Wizard in 1946 or 1947 indicates that Byrd was willing and ready to help spread the klan to every state in the nation. This would seem to indicate that he still held the kleagle title at that time.

We cannot know when exactly Byrd cut his ties with the klan, but it was certainly long before 1952 when he ran for the United States House of Representatives. By that time, he said he no longer had any interest in it and that he had signed up as a young, immature man because he thought it offered excitement and he approved of its strong opposition to communism.

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/493331/senator_robert_byrd_and_the_kkk.html

[Catfish]

I found this interesting. This man was a racist through and through.

Byrd joined the Ku Klux Klan as a 24 year old in 1942. His adopted father had been a klansmen, and he had grown up watching klan processions in his hometown. At various times, he held the positions of grand cyclops (leader of local chapter) and kleagle (recruiter). While admitting his involvement in the KKK, Byrd claims that he left the klan in early 1943. That seems unlikely, however, since a letter written by Byrd to a Grand Wizard in 1946 or 1947 indicates that Byrd was willing and ready to help spread the klan to every state in the nation. This would seem to indicate that he still held the kleagle title at that time.

We cannot know when exactly Byrd cut his ties with the klan, but it was certainly long before 1952 when he ran for the United States House of Representatives. By that time, he said he no longer had any interest in it and that he had signed up as a young, immature man because he thought it offered excitement and he approved of its strong opposition to communism.

http://www.associatedcontent.com/art...d_the_kkk.html

Well, that can't be right? MSNBC.com reports that Byrd only had "a complicated history on racial matters."