Oh, he will be around for another 500 or so years, until we discover alien life and he leaves to go plague them.
Evil never dies. M -----Original Message----- From: William Wheatley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 27, 2003 10:12 AM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: Strom Thurmond dies at 100 Well lets hope that Orin hatch doesn't get such a fond fairwell because he wants to burn out all our eyes for looking at porn and piracy! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Haggerty, Mike" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, June 27, 2003 9:29 AM Subject: RE: Strom Thurmond dies at 100 > Believe it or not, Thurmond was a great friend of the Internet and I > will miss his enlightened approach of 'hearing from all parties with a > direct interest' in decisions that affect us all (unlike some other > officials I will fail to mention). > > Thurmond was single handedly responsible for removing some of the > darker, more disturbing passages of the Child Online Protection act, > which would have given individuals the right to sue individual ISPs > when someone accessed an objectionable Web site through their service. > In other words, you log onto AOL, you look at some naughty, you would > have the right to sue > AOL. He was a voice of reason on this one. > > In his last year of the senate, he blocked legislation which would > have forced online radio stations to pay high taxes to broadcast music > radio stations broadcast for free. He did this on the basis that this legislation > would put members of his constituency out of work, and decided that > this legislation would need much more review before it could be > seriously considered. The music labels quitely and quickly settled > with Internet radio, and this was Thurmond's doing. > > M > > -----Original Message----- > From: Dana Tierney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 11:32 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: Strom Thurmond dies at 100 > > > death of a dinosaur. > > you can feel for him persoanlly but you're kinda glad he isnt around > > Dana > > On Thu, 26 Jun 2003 22:25:18 -0500, Kevin Schmidt > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > He didn't have anything left to live for. :( > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Nick McClure" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 9:54 PM > > Subject: Strom Thurmond dies at 100 > > > > > >> Not much else to say. > >> > >> > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=5 Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
