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Huh? I am usually able to

artappraiser — Tue, 01 May 2012 14:02:08 +0000

Huh? I am usually able to follow your bouncing ball, but maybe not discerning enough this time. Are you referring to your frequent use of "precious blood of sweet baby Jesus"? I do admit a fondness for seeing the phrase, because, rather than Swaggert/Sheen, it reminds me of tough old nuns or devout spinsters with hearts of gold, the kind that would have been butch lesbians if born in another era. Use of the phrase is an attempt to get across swearing vigorously without sinning. There was a sort of equivalent in the Polish-Catholic-English language that I recall: Jezu kochany!

O/T, DoubleA, you will

jollyroger — Tue, 01 May 2012 00:59:40 +0000

In reply to Precious Blood of the Sweet

O/T, DoubleA, you will probably already have discerned the mashup of Jimmy Swaggart and Bishop Sheen in my original (to the best of my knowledge) pirate's oath previously set forth.

Precious Blood of the Sweet

jollyroger — Tue, 01 May 2012 00:52:31 +0000

In reply to NPR's Morning Edition on

Precious Blood of the Sweet Baby Jesus, Ornstein is an American Enterprise Institute hack, and even his well lubed gorge revolts!

NPR's Morning Edition on

artappraiser — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 22:47:46 +0000

In reply to Let's just say it: the Republicans are the problem

NPR's Morning Edition on same, transcript and audio options:

Extremism In Congress: 'Even Worse Than It Looks'?

April 30, 2012

Congressional scholars Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein are no strangers to D.C. politics. The two of them have been in Washington for more than 40 years — and they're renowned for their carefully nonpartisan positions.

But now, they say, Congress is more dysfunctional than it has been since the Civil War, and they aren't hesitating to point a finger at who they think is to blame. [....]