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Jesse Helms, the much-maligned conservative senator from North Carolina, died today of natural causes. He's been called racist, divisive, and anti-democratic in the past, but today, another former GOP rep from NC deemed him "a patriot in the mold of those great men" (Thomas Jefferson and John Adams), while White House spokesman Scott Stanzel called Helms "a great public servant and true patriot."
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you know, both Jefferson and Adams also died on July 4th...Adams was 90 and Jefferson was 83, the average of which is 86.5 (Helms' age when he died today). Perhaps there's some Da Vinci Code nonsense in there somewhere...
uncanny!
A fitting memorial.