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To: sam_paine

First of all, please don’t use profanity. This isn’t du.

And yes, Congress plays a critical role. But we have seen how zero, using executive orders, has usurped the law at every turn. A conservative president could rescind ALL of those eo’s. A rino or zero in a second term would only mean more of the same or worse.

Not being dramatic, just realistic.


354 posted on 08/24/2011 4:00:57 PM PDT by Reddy (B.O. stinks)
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To: Reddy
First of all, please don’t use profanity. This isn’t du.

Well, if it's good enough for WFB, then it's ok for FR. You do know who WFB was, don't you? Reagan did.

November 18,1969
Dear Mr. Buckley:
How do you square your "goddams" with your
Catholicism? Are you really blaspheming (which I
tend to doubt), or is there some distinction between
"goddam" (NR) and "God damn" with which I'm not
familiar? If so, I'd be interested to know how one
makes this distinction in the spoken word; also,
to have your definition and understanding of "goddam,"
not in my dictionary.
Ann Jones
New York Hilton Hotel

Dear Miss Jones: No. I am not really blaspheming, or in any case, do not
mean to be blaspheming, blaspheming being one of those things I am against. 
"Goddam" is nowadays simple expletive, an intensifier. It is that
by cultural usage. In the most cloistered convent in Catholic Spain, you
will hear from the venerable lips of an aged nun, 'Jesus Mary and Joseph, I
forgot my umbrella!" "I would pray hard to his Maker to save his soule
notwithstanding all his God-damnes," a writer is quoted by the Oxford
English Dictionary as saying in 1647, back when they were fighting religious
wars. Three hundred years later, the American Heritage Dictionary of the
English Language lists "God damn" and "goddam" as "a profane [i.e.,
a-religious] oath, once a strong one invoking God's curse, now a general
exclamation ... used as an intensive." -- WFB

From Cancel your own goddam subscription: notes & asides from National Review, Buckley, W.F., 2007

355 posted on 08/25/2011 6:57:41 AM PDT by sam_paine (X .................................)
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