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      <title>Two off-the-books wars and an 800 billion dollar no-strings-attached Wall Street giveaway</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 07:31:10 -0600</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>MichaelRyerson</dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[Two wars, unbudgeted and off the books, one completely unnecessary and the other no longer necessary after the first ninety days and an 800 billion dollar untracable Wall Street giveaway and it's Obama's deficit? WTF? How stupid do the Democrats have to be to allow this fiction to repeated?]]></description>
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      <title>Poetry Month</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 28 Apr 2012 07:09:08 -0600</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>JoeJP</dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[<span>Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,<br />  Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,<br />    While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,<br />   As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.<br />  ''Tis some visitor,' I muttered, 'tapping at my chamber door-<br />                Only this, and nothing more.'&nbsp; ...</span>]]></description>
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      <title>Old age is upon me.</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2012 12:01:17 -0600</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>MichaelRyerson</dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[The laughter on Car Talk is starting to get on my nerves.]]></description>
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      <title>I&#039;ve come to the conclusion the Republicans have been right all along.</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 15:50:41 -0600</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>MichaelRyerson</dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[We should privatize Social Security. I want the Titans of Wall Street managing my retirement moneys.]]></description>
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      <title>Ike was right</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 13:50:22 -0600</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Schmutzie</dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[It's not so much that the House Republicans have voted to eliminate Pentagon budget cuts and replace those with cuts to social programs that <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">surprises me.</span> disgusts me. That was almost an automatic. What <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">surprises me</span> disgusts me is that the Dems counter proposal also spared the military a haircut, and instead took a big friggin' bite out of the farmers' asses. Somewhere between then and now we stopped being a Government with an army, and became an <a rel="nofollow" href="http://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-money/budget/226703-house-votes-to-replace-pentagon-cuts-mandated-by-debt-deal">Army with a government.</a><br />]]></description>
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      <title>RIP</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 07:57:20 -0600</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>JoeJP</dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[The American right: "These Republican schnooks would be comical&nbsp;if they weren't not funny."<br /><br /><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/oct/02/maurice-sendak-interview" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/oct/02/maurice-sendak-interview</a><br /><br />He didn't want to lie to children.&nbsp; Many can't bear telling the truth to adults, including themselves.&nbsp; Stephen Colbert had a great interview with him, including bonus footage last night ...&nbsp; as he said "no shit."&nbsp; Appropriate to goings on in NC, he noted in passing in the earlier interview that he was gay.&nbsp; <br /><br /><a href="http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/413972/may-08-2012/uncensored---maurice-sendak-tribute" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/413972/may-08-2012/uncensored---maurice-sendak-tribute</a><br />]]></description>
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      <title>White Supremacist. Is there a more irony-laden term in current use?</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 16:08:10 -0600</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>MichaelRyerson</dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[I see where some southern yahoo has been arrested along with a clutch of his followers for some apparently serious planning to kill some complete strangers in the name of evolutionary deadenders everywhere. From their mugshots (a term invented for these very people) I am again reminded that even recessive genes are capable of the occasional chance meeting. Which brings us to Intelligent Design, a term&nbsp;so unintentionally humorous and yet so portentous too. A troop of slack-jawed, heavy-lidded little boys in camo carrying automatic weapons. Perhaps it would serve some purpose to send these mooks to Guantanamo.]]></description>
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      <title>Synthetic money&#039;s imposteration of coin was a scam to foist wealth transfer</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 22 Apr 2012 23:44:50 -0600</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Days</dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[From the get-go this was a plot, a well-engineered plan to set control valves in place to control the balance of wealth.<br /><br />(copy/paste of my post from TenMinuteCup)<br /><br /><h1 class="title"><b>the control factor behind synthetic money</b></h1><br />	<br />	    <p>We call it “fiat” … we think of it as “authority” … but we lose sight of what makes it tick; control.</p><br /><p>Consider this: when the Wall Street money trust placed America <br />securely in their grips, why was it necessary to pass an income tax <br />Amendment to the Constitution?&nbsp; The only good thing about fiat money is <br />it doesn’t require an income tax.&nbsp; Think about it; the money is <br />synthetic, it doesn’t exist as real money that needs to be collected to <br />be spent… salt, silver, and gold are mined from the earth and need to be<br /> possessed to be spent, but not fiat money, fiat money is created from <br />legal motions, it is thought money, it is created by whatever process <br />thought up by the fiat, it doesn’t exist as a real substance that was <br />mined from the earth, it doesn’t need to be collected in order to be <br />possessed, it is spoken into existence, it is the mind of the state.&nbsp; <br />The Federal Reserve system gives the creation of our particular fiat <br />money to the banks, but the authority begins with the US Treasury and <br />the Treasury can speak money into existence any time it feels like it… <br />not that it ever does… but that could change…&nbsp; it is all the mind of the<br /> state; whatever it is minded to do.</p><br /><p>So, why do we “collect” an income tax?</p><br /><p>Fiat money is easier to create than it is to collect.&nbsp; Collection is <br />not required to operate the government, the government can speak the <br />money into existence that it needs to spend and that would be a lot <br />easier process than collecting taxes… actually, creation does not <br />require a physical process like collection does, creation is executed by<br /> decision, the act of creation itself takes up no time or effort, it <br />just happens by keystroke… it all hinges upon the mind of the state.&nbsp; <br />The fiat just has to decide how much money to create and once that <br />decision is made, the money is created.</p><br /><p>So, why do we “collect” an income tax?</p><br /><p>The stock markets and bond markets act as a retainer for ownership of<br /> society by the fiat.&nbsp; The fiat controls the markets through money <br />creation.&nbsp; That drives the markets.&nbsp; Credit and money creation are <br />identical in a synthetic money system.&nbsp; This controls the creation <br />process.</p><br /><p>So, why do we “collect” an income tax?</p><br /><p>In order to control the balance of wealth held by society, the fiat <br />collects into a central holding tank… the central bank.&nbsp; This is where <br />your taxes get deposited.&nbsp; This is the real wealth transfer and wealth <br />distribution program.&nbsp; The government maintains a slaves share of money <br />for the working class to keep them functional… while the balance of <br />money earned is controlled through income taxes… it isn’t so much about <br />needing to collect money at the central bank, because the central bank <br />is the fiat; the central bank doesn’t to collect any money, it has the power of <br />creation.&nbsp; So, why do we “collect” an income tax?&nbsp; The international <br />bankers instituted the income tax to control the balance of wealth held <br />by the citizens of the state.&nbsp;&nbsp; That’s the control factor behind <br />synthetic money.</p><br />]]></description>
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      <title>A modest, incomplete collection...</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 08:18:10 -0600</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>MichaelRyerson</dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[<p>'...a robust public option.'</p><br /><p>'<em>The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of </em><a title="Uranium" rel="nofollow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium"><em>uranium</em></a><em> from Africa.'</em></p><br /><p><em>'I did not have sex with that woman.'</em></p><br /><p><em>'Read my lips, 'No new taxes.''</em></p><br /><p><em>'We do not negotiate with terrorists.'</em></p><br /><p><em>'</em><span class="st">I've looked on a lot of women with <strong>lust</strong>. I've committed adultery in <strong>my heart</strong> many times.'</span></p><br /><p><span class="st">'there is no Soviet domination of eastern Europe.'</span></p><br /><p><span class="st">'I am not a crook.'</span></p><br /><p><span class="st">'I will not seek nor will I accept...'</span></p><br /><p><span class="st">'And so, my fellow Americans...'</span></p><br /><p><span class="st">'...&nbsp;we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.'</span></p><br /><p><span class="st">'Someday I hope to meet you...'</span></p><br /><p><span class="st">'Yesterday, December 7, 1941, a date which will live in infamy...'</span></p><br /><p><span class="st"></span>&nbsp;</p><br /><p>&nbsp;</p><br /><p>&nbsp;</p>]]></description>
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      <title>The Descendants</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 05 May 2012 12:49:11 -0600</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>JoeJP</dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[I basically liked this movie from the maker of <i>Sideways</i> and some other stuff.&nbsp; <br /><br />Did the web master here see it?&nbsp; If so, does he have any opinion of its portrayal of Hawaii?&nbsp; <br /><br />An actress in the film also is in this election ad:<br /><br /><div class="Video"><object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/s49HkpsbHmM&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/s49HkpsbHmM&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="640" height="385" /></object></div><br /><h1 class="player_page_h1"><br /></h1><br />]]></description>
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      <title>BEASTIE BOY DEAD !</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 23:16:01 -0600</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Garboduck</dc:creator>
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      <title>Don&#039;t worry, the coast is clear, no poetry here. Ooops, that rhymes. sorry.</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 12:17:57 -0600</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>MichaelRyerson</dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[<p>1. Starbucks coffee is crap. Nearly undrinkable. No, make that undrinkable. Dunkin' Donuts, Shipley Donuts or even McDonald's for a superior cuppa joe. As for the rest of the calorie-laden, cholesterol-choked menu, yuukkk.</p><br /><p>2. It was vaguely amusing the first couple of times I heard it as a child back in the mid-fifties. It had begun to grate on me by the early seventies, and now, everytime I hear an otherwise educated, presumably literate person refer to the Atlantic Ocean as 'The Pond' I want to throw up.</p><br /><p>3.Mitt Romney isn't qualified to hold Jimmie Carter's coat.</p><br /><p>4. Pawn Stars? Storage Wars? Parking Wars? Dancing with the Stars? The 'Stars'?? Pig Farmers from Hell? Swamp People? Duck People? Steven Seagal with a real gun? A Real Gun? MMA/UFC? These guys should fight to the death. Big bucks in High Def fatalities and it would functionally improve the gene pool. Fox News? Rupert Murdock? Easy answers to tough questions for people who just don't want to think about it. Ever notice 70% of the guests on Sunday Morning talk shows are Republicans? 70%. I see Ryan O'Neill is in the news again. I think we can pretty much agree the idea of the ashcan of history is no longer functional. The Kardashians. The Kardashians. </p><br /><p>5. Why do I get a sense of accomplishment when I finish watching an episode of Yard Crashers? I actually go into the kitchen and wash up. With Lava Soap. Two episodes in a row? Knocks me out. Gotta take a nap.</p><br /><p>6. My son, the Firefighter/EMT,&nbsp;was drawn into a heated exchange with a homeless man a couple of days ago. While bandaging up this old guy's head, he (the old guy)&nbsp;proceeds to launch into a discourse on how Obama's a communist and when my kid asks him why he thinks Obama's a communist he says 'Obamacare! Obamacare proves it!' True story. Hell in a hand basket.</p><br /><p>7. Ran into an old girlfriend of mine from high school. Cheerleader, Home Coming Princess, all-around object of lust, She'd gotten fat. Yeah, not 'heavy', fat. Made me kinda happy. I'm gonna have to think about that a while.</p><br /><p>&nbsp;</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Sen. John Thune says possible senate Republicans could support house GOP in welshing</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 15:31:36 -0600</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>MichaelRyerson</dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[on debt limit agreement. To which I say, I fucking&nbsp;dare you. In fact, I double fucking dare you. I say you haven't got the balls. Talk is cheap you fucking wuss. C'mon show us what you got. Shut the government down a month before the general election and then whine about gridlock. Yeah, that'll show em. Show em how you strike one deal and then, in the Republican universe, think nothing of abandoning it. Do it and then let's wait and see how long it is before the democrats strike another bargain with you. You monkeys have gone out of your way to turn the very&nbsp;word 'compromise' into a code for capitulation, so let's play this out to its logical conclusion. I agree with you, no compromise, don't give a inch, as the Stampers famously put it. C'mon King Kong, whatdya got?]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 14:28:17 -0600</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>MichaelRyerson</dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[<p>I just need a place where I can lay my head.</p><br /><p>"Hey mister, can you tell me where a man might find a bed?"</p><br /><p>He just grinned and shook my hand, "No," was all he said</p><br /><p>Levon Helm dead at 71.</p><br /><p>Take a load off Annie, take a load for free...</p><br /><p>&nbsp;</p><br /><p>&nbsp;</p><br /><p>&nbsp;</p>]]></description>
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      <title>New York AG Schneiderman is helming a ghost ship for the Obamans</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 13:32:12 -0600</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>wberger</dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[<span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: small;">No one <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.btcnews.com/btcnews/4951">could have predicted</a> ...</span><blockquote><div><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span>On March 9 — 45 days after the speech and 30 days after the announcement — we met with Schneiderman in New York City and asked him for an update. He had just returned from Washington, where he had been personally looking for office space. As of that date, he had no office, no phones, no staff and no executive director. None of the 55 staff members promised by Holder had materialized. On April 2, we bumped into Schneiderman on a train leaving Washington for New York and learned that the situation was the same.</span><br /><span>[...]</span><br /></span><p><span style="font-family: Georgia;">In fact, the new Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities Working Group was the sixth such entity formed since the start of the financial crisis in 2009. The grand total of staff working for all of the previous five groups was one, according to a surprised Schneiderman. In Washington, where staffs grow like cherry blossoms, this is a remarkable occurrence.</span></p><p><span></span></p><p></p></div></blockquote><span><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/obama-mortgage-unit-awol-article-1.1063094#ixzz1sQAd3WWL">More here</a>.</span><p></p>]]></description>
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      <title>Israeli Military Chief signals early retirement.</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 11:14:03 -0600</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>MichaelRyerson</dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[Israeli military chief Lieutenant-General Benny Gantz, in remarks delivered as part of the Israeli Memorial Day celebrations, said he believes the Iranian leadership is rational and is not interested in using its nuclear program to produce a nuclear device. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, seated nearby, remained seated.]]></description>
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      <title>the Global Scam: the past 50 years</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 01:40:17 -0600</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Days</dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[This is not a conspiracy theory, this is an analysis of global business; nothing criminal here, just a record of business.<br /><br />Let me pick up where I left off with the management of synthetic currency.&nbsp; Understanding that the fiat of synthetic currencies main plight is to manage the overall balance and growth of the currency, we have seen that activities like interest rates and income taxes are focused on controlling the growth and balance of the overall currency.&nbsp; This is why inflation refers not to the price of goods, but the growth of the currency; the money supply is what's being inflated, and that results in each dollar being a smaller proportion of the whole, hence it falls in value, hence it takes more dollars to buy goods; hence their price goes up.<br /><br />The reason I refer to the global business behavior of the past 50 years as a scam is because it was effected as a conscious plan by the super elites who absolutely hide their total presence on the planet.&nbsp; As far as the media and magazines like Forbes is concerned, we have no super elites running the planet.&nbsp; We have no trillionaires.&nbsp; We have only the upper classes that they rule over, the paltry billionaires, who often enough, still have to work for a living.&nbsp; As for global trade, it is supposedly a free trade, happening spontaneously, and that trade adjusts currencies in value.&nbsp; Of course, reality is just the opposite; currency drives trade, not the other way around, and currency is completely controlled, so the markets are controlled in that process.&nbsp; A perfect example of all this was the global scam of the past 50 years.<br /><br />When the globalists set out to industrialize the Pacific Rim, they put in place roads and shipping and enough investments to jump start the Pacific Rim economies.&nbsp; Now, remember, the central bankers have a tool box of controls that are normally used to keep a synthetic currency in check.&nbsp; (the Royal global scam of the past 500 years was the placing of synthetic currencies throughout the planet through the greatest tool of all; revolution)&nbsp; What the fiats in the Pacific Rim did (during the Clinton years) was stand back and let inflation of those currencies grow like wild fires.&nbsp; This then led to the collapse of value of those currencies...&nbsp; (and a huge surge of buying up the American dollar which created the credit glut that led to the housing bubble, but that's another story) ... a collapse of value which was pounced upon with global precision, by the elitists that supposedly do not exist, and in short order land was bought up and factories built on the largest scale in history (totally on the cheap, thanks to the exchange rate of the dollar to the destroyed yuan and other pacific Rim currencies) which was followed by a pegging of the fallen currencies in value (breaking all the stupid rules that are designed to keep trade in check) and a subsequent closing of old factories in the United States and elsewhere, with an accompanying surge in container ship construction on a grand new scale so big, the Panama Canal became obsolete for this new world trade.<br /><br />There's an even larger scale of container ships, presently being built, that are too large to dock anywhere in the world, but they will dock solely at the new deep water hub ports that will bring sanity to the Pacific Rim shipping lanes.&nbsp; This is the largest market place on earth, and thankfully, we are a part of it (with our west coast) but we are not the center of this new empire; that would be China.&nbsp; The deep water ports / shipping hub system will be completed by 2020-2022.&nbsp; Hopefully, the Federal Reserve has plans to make us competitive in that market.&nbsp; It all begins with the currency.&nbsp; Right now, it seems they are more concerned with getting the shipping lines built and protected.&nbsp; Once that is finished, we should be able to discover more customers for our own products... which we should be developing ASAP.&nbsp; We need to find and enlarge our niche in this market, beyond just purchasing their goods.&nbsp; The Pacific Rim central bankers have built their own regional IMF and it happens to be five times larger than the original IMF... that gives you an idea how large this new market is (remember, a monetary fund is just currency, not real money).<br />]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 08:17:00 -0600</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>MichaelRyerson</dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[<p>and admittedly just scratching the surface, what do these guys have in common?</p><br /><p>Benjamin Netanyahu</p><br /><p>Hosni Mubarek</p><br /><p>Augusto Pinochet</p><br /><p>Ferdinand Marcos</p><br /><p>Shah Reza Pahlavi</p><br /><p>Saddam Hussein</p><br /><p>Manuel Noreiga</p><br /><p>Anastasio Somoza</p><br /><p>The House of Saud</p><br /><p>Rafael Caldera</p><br /><p>Osama bin Ladin</p><br /><p>Ariel Sharon</p><br /><p>&nbsp;</p><br /><p>&nbsp;</p>]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 08:40:53 -0600</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>tartuffe</dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.levonhelm.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.levonhelm.com/</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/levon-helm-america-8173059" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/levon-helm-america-8173059</a><br /><br />And then there were 2, Garth and Robbie (I think).<br />]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 21:29:02 -0600</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[(as at least one attempted against Kerry)?<br /><br /><a href="http://maddowblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/04/12/11162372-faith-based-budgeting?lite" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://maddowblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/04/12/11162372-faith-based-budgeting?lite</a><br />]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 02:38:13 -0600</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Days</dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[I don't care what their factories make; all of it used to be made in the USA.&nbsp; <br /><br />Remember when Nixon went to Red China?&nbsp; We was all perplexed... why did he go there?<br /><br />Remember when the yuan took a nosedive under Clinton and the globalists bought up a ton of land cheap; tossed the people off their ancestral homes and built factories?&nbsp; 160 million Chinese were thrown off their farms.&nbsp; that's called progress.<br /><br />Factories ship their stuff in containers <i><b>(teus)</b></i> - they measure that traffic in the millions of tons moved each year.<br /><br />Let's compare China's top container ports vs America's top container ports for the year 2010.....<br /><br /><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><i><b>world rank</b></i></span> ...... <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><i><b>port</b></i></span> ............................................. <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><i><b>teus</b></i><b> </b></span>(millions of tons<span style="text-decoration: underline;">)<br /><i><b><br />#1</b></i><i><b> .............</b></i></span> Shanghai, China.................................. 29.07<br /><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><i><b><br /><a rel="nofollow" href="/search?Search=%233&amp;Mode=like">#3</a> .............</b></i></span><i><b> </b></i>Hong Kong, China .............................. 23.70<br /><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><i><b><br /><a rel="nofollow" href="/search?Search=%234&amp;Mode=like">#4</a>.............</b></i></span><i><b> </b></i>Shenzhen, China ................................. 22.51<br /><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><i><b><br /><a rel="nofollow" href="/search?Search=%236&amp;Mode=like">#6</a>.............</b></i></span><i><b> </b></i>Ningbo-Zhoushan, China .....................13.14<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><i><b> <br /><br /><a rel="nofollow" href="/search?Search=%237&amp;Mode=like">#7</a>.............</b></i></span><i><b> </b></i>Guangzhou Harbor, China ....................12.55<br /><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><i><b><br /><a rel="nofollow" href="/search?Search=%238&amp;Mode=like">#8</a>.............</b></i></span><i><b> </b></i>Qingdao, China ....................................12.01<br /><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><i><b><br /><a rel="nofollow" href="/search?Search=%2311&amp;Mode=like">#11</a>...........</b></i></span><i><b> </b></i>Tianjin, China .......................................10.08<br /><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><i><b><br /><a rel="nofollow" href="/search?Search=%2312&amp;Mode=like">#12</a>...........</b></i></span><i><b> </b></i>Kaohsiung, Taiwan, China .....................9.18<br /><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><i><b><br /><a rel="nofollow" href="/search?Search=%2317&amp;Mode=like">#17</a>...........</b></i></span><i><b> </b></i>Los Angeles, U.S.A ................................6.50<br /><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><i><b><br /><a rel="nofollow" href="/search?Search=%2318&amp;Mode=like">#18</a>...........</b></i></span><i><b></b></i> Long Beach, U.S.A. ................................6.26<br /><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><i><b><br /><a rel="nofollow" href="/search?Search=%2319&amp;Mode=like">#19</a>...........</b></i></span><i><b> </b></i>Xiamen, China .......................................5.82<br /><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><i><b><br /><a rel="nofollow" href="/search?Search=%2320&amp;Mode=like">#20</a>...........</b></i></span><i><b> </b></i>New York and New Jersey, U.S.A ...........5.29<br /><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><i><b><br /><a rel="nofollow" href="/search?Search=%2321&amp;Mode=like">#21</a>...........</b></i></span> Dalian, China .........................................5.26]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Readers at the Smirking Chimp seem to be taking&nbsp;seriously&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/weldon-berger/42319/democrats-agree-to-push-for-single-payer-health-care-system-if-mandate-falls">my post</a> about Democrats gearing up to fight for universal health care. I never expected this.<div><br /></div><div>$182 billion in bailout funds later, AIG wants to start <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/f301dd7a-7bea-11e1-af2b-00144feab49a.html#axzz1qp8E9ZkG">buying mortgages</a>. What could go wrong?</div><div><br /></div><div>Iraq's vice president is out of the country on diplomatic missions to Qatar and other countries. The rest of the government wants him to come home so they can <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=d705428ecc3349c31136d5bd7d3b0ff9">arrest him</a> on terrorism charges.</div><div><br /></div><div>We're going to <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/02/world/middleeast/us-and-other-countries-move-to-increase-assistance-to-syrian-rebels.html?partner=rss&amp;emc=rss">drop some big dollars</a> on the Syrian whatever-they-are fighting Assad. What could go wrong?</div><div><br /></div><div>Not their best ever, but an <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.google.com/racing/">A for effort</a>.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 14 Apr 2012 13:18:12 -0600</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[<a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.nixonrising.org/">http://www.nixonrising.org/</a><div><br /></div><div>Spread the Word ...</div>]]></description>
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      <title>Down the Memory Hole</title>
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      <dc:creator>JoeJP</dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/briefing/slate_fare/2012/03/slate_will_turn_off_the_fray_archives_on_friday_march_30_.html?ArticleID=2206441" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.slate.com/articles/briefing/slate_fare/2012/03/slate_will_turn_off_the_fray_archives_on_friday_march_30_.html?ArticleID=2206441</a><br /><br />I linked to my old fray posts elsewhere and checking a link, saw this tidbit.&nbsp; Oh well.&nbsp; See in the comments all the love of the new system.&nbsp; <br />]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 07 Apr 2012 22:00:43 -0600</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[<a rel="nofollow" href="http://motherjones.com/mojo/2012/04/women-picking-fruit-stock-photos-endorse-al-franken">Really funny fund-raising e-mail</a> (h/t digby):<br /><blockquote><div><img src="http://mjcdn.motherjones.com/preset_16/woman_fruit.jpg" alt="image" /><br /><br /><blockquote><div><br /></div></blockquote><p>Hello, I'm Woman Picking Out Fruit In Supermarket.  And I'm writing <br />to you today on behalf of Al Franken—a Senator who stands up for real <br />people (including those of us who make a living posing for stock <br />photos).</p><br /><p>You've seen us shaking hands in business suits, posing together on <br />college campuses, and laughing while we eat salads.  You've seen us on <br />billboards, in magazines, and on pretty much every political website.  <br />We are the people in stock photos.</p><br /><p>I know the people in stock photos don't typically write emails, but <br />Al isn’t your typical politician—he's a progressive fighter who puts <br />people first.  Will you stand with us by making a small contribution to <br />his grassroots campaign right now?</p><br /><p>There's a reason I'm standing with Al.  You see, I'm not just Woman <br />Picking Out Fruit In Supermarket.  I am also an actual woman worried <br />about the right-wing attacks on my access to health care.</p><br /><p>And when Republicans tried to put my boss in charge of what health <br />care treatments I can and can't get, Al stood up and fought back— just <br />like he did when Republicans tried to destroy Planned Parenthood, and <br />just like he has every time Republicans launch an attack on my rights.</p><br /><p>Al's a Senator I can count on to stand up for all women—whether <br />they're walking a golden retriever in the park, pointing at a chart in <br />an important meeting, or simply staring into the camera.</p><br /><p>Your contribution will help keep Al's campaign strong so he can keep fighting for us—click here to give today!</p><br /><p>I hope I can count on you for a contribution.  After all, the rights <br />to stock photos aren't cheap.  And neither is the actual grassroots <br />organizing Al’s team does every day, fighting to keep progressive values<br /> -- and the middle class -- alive and well.</p><br /><p>And whether you're a Tattooed Guitar Player, a Guy Wearing Hard Hat, <br />or an Elderly Couple Sitting At Kitchen Table, there's no better way to <br />show your support than by making a contribution today.</p><br /><p>Thanks for standing with Al.</p><br /><p>Sincerely,</p><br /><p>Woman Picking Out Fruit In Supermarket</p><br /><p>Co-Chair, People in Stock Photos for Franken (PSPF)</p><br /><p>P.S. As someone who eagerly reads every email I get from Al, I have <br />to be honest: I don't really understand why he's under the impression <br />that adding an "extra ask" in the P.S. of every message is helpful.  But<br /> I asked my friends Scientist Looking At Line Graph and Doctor With <br />Stethoscope Hanging Around Her Neck, and they both agreed it works.  So:<br /> Would you click here to make a contribution of $5, $10, or $25 today?</p><br /><br /></div></blockquote>]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 14:20:06 -0600</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>MichaelRyerson</dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[I go way back, all the way back to Dave Garroway and Jack Lescoulie and, yes, J. Fred Muggs. When I was a kid, my mother would leave it on in the other room as we got ready for school and I could hear most of what was going on and allowed to go in for a quick look-see if something really interesting was happening which, as I remember it, was pretty often. Garroway, a thoughtful man, was informed across a broad range of topics and an easy interviewer. I remember it being reported he had set for himself, as a personal challenge, systematically reading the entire Encyclopaedia Britannica. Took him four and a half years, three hours a day. Said it seemed like a worthwhile thing to do and while he didn't expect to remember it all, of course,&nbsp;if he could&nbsp;retain 20-30% he was way ahead. Hugh Downs and Barbara Walters and even Tom Brokaw, it was a mildly entertaining show, with an occasional really interesting guest or news story until they began to roll off the edge of the table with the self absorbed Bryant Gumbel. The race to the bottom was then on, although&nbsp;in defense of the show it was probably no more than a reflection of the society at large but it became, like so many other outlets, less thoughtful, less truly eclectic and infinitely more disposable. And now they've had Sarah Palin on as a guest host. A guest host! Can you imagine? The utter cynicism and venality of it, boggles the mind. Why the next thing you know they'll be trotting out a goddam&nbsp;chimpanzee.&nbsp;]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 15:54:34 -0600</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Let's see, they require their members to divorce their wives because the love they feel for one another may diminish the love they feel for the organization. check.&nbsp;And the children? Oh well that's another problem so they round up the kids and ship them off, too. check.&nbsp;Good so far? Not satisfied, they require once a week confessions to the leadership of any and all sexual fantasies the newly single members might have had and appropriate discipline is administered, one supposes to reduce or eliminate the likelihood of further regressive fantasizing. Their numbers are not big, they are quite small in fact,&nbsp;but they are true believers and they oppose the present government, so we should be cool. Or so the 'reasoning' goes. Of course, there is that little matter of appearing on a State Department list of terrorist organizations&nbsp;and the fact that support for organizations appearing on such a list is against the law but, pshaw! Those laws are for the other dummies and besides if there are enough of us, prominent people all, they don't dare actually enforce the law. Besides we're the Republicans and we're the law enforcers, right?, not them, what do they know about enforcing the law? Remember the mujahadeen? That worked out&nbsp;pretty well. Prominent Republicans began today to taunt Eric Holder, daring him to enforce the law. The balls on these guys are really something. In fact, some jumper cables attached to those gonads would be a fine idea. But after the water-boarding, of course.]]></description>
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      <dc:creator>MichaelRyerson</dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[Fifty-four years ago today, Cheryl Crane pegged this greaseball in her mother's bedroom as he was working out some self esteem issues at Lana's expense. A minor light in the local crime scene, Johnny was a part time thug for Mickey Cohen and a full time gigolo. A devotee of the open-shirt-front-gold-chain-nestled-in-a-heavy mat-of-chest-hair school of fashion, part of his charm, of course,&nbsp;was being a dangerous kind of guy and let's face it some women like to be pushed around some and Johnny, never one to disappoint the ladies, maybe let his enthusiasm get the better of him, so the fourteen year old put a stop to it. What really happened, the actual truth of it, we'll never really know but there was little grieving for Stompanado, the kid did time and momma returned to her fruitless search for Mr. Right. Fifty-four years ago today. Seems like yesterday.&nbsp;]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2012 22:41:50 -0600</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[<br />The story goes: Johnny Carson asked his guest, legendary golfer Arnold Palmer's wife, what she did for good luck for Arnie before a tournament. "I kiss his balls," Mrs. Palmer replied. To which Carson, never one to pass up a straight-line gift, riposted "I'll bet that makes the putter stand up!" (Believe I've even seen that clip at some point, though I wouldn't swear to it. The story also goes that she subsequently sued Carson for, I dunno, humiliation or some such -- no idea how that turned out.)<br /><br />Not one to be topped by a mere golfer's wife: Ann Romney<br /><blockquote><div><span>Quote 'O the Day</span><br /><br />by digby<br /><br /><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.twitter.com/EmilyABC">ABC News</a><br /><br /><blockquote><div><b>Ann<br /> Romney asked about Romney being "too stiff": "I guess we better unzip <br />him and let the real Mitt Romney out because he is not!"</b></div></blockquote>.<br /><br />    			<span class="postinfo">digby <a rel="nofollow" href="http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2012/04/quote-o-day-ann-romney.html">4/02/2012 10:00:00 AM</a><br /></span></div></blockquote>This is posted under "Visuals" in a somewhat different sense than the usual, if you catch my drift.<br /><span class="postinfo"></span>]]></description>
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