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Friday Afternoon News Roundup
ecthompsonmd April 20, 2012

Legendary drummer of The Band has died. Space Shuttle Discovery has found a new home. The president of the Catholic League would like to boycott The Daily Show because of “an unprecedented vulgar assault on Christians.” Well, as a Christian, I haven’t seen or felt the unprecedented vulgar assault by Jon Stewart. but maybe it is there. Maybe this is much to do about nothing. It would seem to me that Catholics should be outraged over the GOP budget plan that would gut all social services and put the poor out on the streets. But what do I know. Michele Bachmann

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Oops, I Didn't Mean "Great Whore"
ecthompsonmd May 13, 2008

I have misspoken many times in the past and I promise that I’ll do it again in the future because I’m not perfect. I do try to chose my words carefully, especially if I’m talking to someone who is recording me. It only makes sense. I have never called someone an idiot or pinhead or moron if I didn’t mean it (I try not to call anyone these names unless I’m joking. Name calling in a great way to get yourself in trouble). So, when Pastor John Hagee called the Catholic church the “great whore,” it was clear what he meant.

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