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			<title><![CDATA[ Ft Hood Massacre ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ At least 12 dead, many wounded.  Shot by one or more gunmen.  One gunman dead - identified as Army Major.  Two more suspects in custody.  
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			<title><![CDATA[ The company he keeps - Obama's A list ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ What are we to make of a White House visitors list that includes 22 swiftly scheduled appointments with a union boss at a time when Gen. Stanley McChrystal
can&#39;t get face time with the commander in chief?
<br>
<a target="_blank" href="http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=511113">http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=511113</a> ]]></description>

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			<title><![CDATA[ Trick or Treat !!! ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:32:28 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Off-year elections ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Predictions, meanings, fantasies???
<br>
<br>
NJ - No idea why these people continue to tax themselves to death but see little chance of change
<br>
<br>
VA - Barring last-minute scandal or massive voter fraud, McDonnell is new gov
<br>
<br>
NY 23 - GOP may win by losing here.
<br>
<br>
<a target="_blank" href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/latestpolls/2009.html">http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/latestpolls/2009.html</a> ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:17:08 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ GOP playground for kids ]]></title>
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<p>up the stairs, and out the other end full of it...<img src="http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y294/ord22/smile.gif" alt="image">
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			<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:06:09 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Health insurance profit margins typically run about 6 percent, ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ I wanted to post this on a new thread. Blue said or cut and paste from somewhere that the profit from the health industry is about 6 percent. Well if that is
the case we need to fire some of the CEO&#39;s�

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  <strong><br>
  Health insurance profit margins typically run about 6 percent, give or take a point or two. That&#39;s anemic compared with
  <br>
  other forms of insurance and a broad array of industries,</strong> even ome beleaguered ones.
  <br>
  <br>... ]]></description>

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			<title><![CDATA[ Why We Need Government-run Universal Socialized Health Care ]]></title>
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			<title><![CDATA[ DeFox America ]]></title>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Swine Flu "Emergency" ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Obama has declared Swine Flu a national emergency.
<br>
<br>
Nine weeks ago the President&#39;s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology reported a plausible scenario of 30,000 to 90,000 Swine Flu deaths peaking by
mid-October.  It&#39;s now late October.
<br>
<br>
Last Friday, the CDC said the disease had killed 1,000 and hospitalized 20,000 since the outreak began seven months ago.  That&#39;s about the number of people
who die every three or four days during the average flu season.... ]]></description>

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			<title><![CDATA[ Richmond, CA Girl Gang Raped Outside a High School Dance ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ <p>One of the most disgusting stories in recent weeks:
<br>
<br>
<a target="_blank" href="http://www.mercurynews.com/bay-area-news/ci_13643452?source=rss">http://www.mercurynews.com/bay-area-news/ci_13643452?source=rss</a>
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Approx 20 men were involved, some just observing, some filming it on their cell phones.  It was a person, not involved with this that called 9-1-1.  Most of
the &#39;men&#39; were actually boys, under the age of 18 and from reports last night attended the high... ]]></description>

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			<title><![CDATA[ One Fore Obama! ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ <br>
Read all about it in Politico: Obama ties Bush in Golf.
<br>
<br>
Our &quot;Present-in-Chief&quot; whacks at his balls while soldiers are dying in Afghanistan.  Obama dithers and Afghanistan withers.  When will he realize he
is not a state senator in Illinois anymore?  No more voting &quot;present&quot; with his handpicked general, McChrystal.
<br>
<br>
<br>
<a title="http://www.politico.com/click/stories/0910/obama_ties_bush_on_golf.html" target="_blank"... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 07:49:02 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Alan Grayson~you da Man! ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ <a target="_blank" href="http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/national/die-quickly-just-a-sample-of-alan-graysons-sound-bite-attack/1041022">http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/national/die-quickly-just-a-sample-of-alan-graysons-sound-bite-attack/1041022</a>
<br>
<br>
<br>

<p>Grayson keeps on chugging, unconcerned with convention or playing things safe for re-election. He topped it all last Tuesday with a bombastic speech on the
House floor, <font color="#FF0000" size="7">blasting... ]]></description>

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			<title><![CDATA[ The torturer~movie ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ <a target="_blank" href="http://www.thetorturermovie.com/">http://www.thetorturermovie.com/</a>
<br>
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<img height="1" src="http://web.me.com/grahamhgreen/page/Media/transparent.gif" width="1" alt="image">

<p><br></p><img height="1" src="http://web.me.com/grahamhgreen/page/Media/transparent.gif" width="1" alt="image">

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			<title><![CDATA[ BUSTED! ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ These a~wipes will are so desperate.<a href="http://hartfordadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=15188"><br>
<br>
http://hartfordadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=15188</a>
<br>
<br>

<p><font color="#FF0000" size="5">Twitter, Inc., shut down 33 fake Twitter accounts created by Republicans using the names of Democratic state representatives.
The Republican scheme was to send out posts under the Democrats&#39; names mocking the liberal tax-and-spend bastards.</font></p> ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 09:54:44 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ STFU dick ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ <a target="_blank" href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gMy6C2AiBsrQQ-jwPliaZANmi7kQD9BFS6NG1">http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gMy6C2AiBsrQQ-jwPliaZANmi7kQD9BFS6NG1</a>
<br>
<br>
Irrelevant little runt trying so hard to be relevant. ]]></description>

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			<title><![CDATA[ Green stuff that can make you blue ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ From a blog -
<br>
<br>
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a bill, passed by the state legislature, to issue an &quot;<a target="_blank" href="http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local-beat/Los-Angeles-Are-You-Ready-For-Some-Football-64701932.html">environmental exemption</a>.&quot; Why? <strong>So
that investors can build a new football stadium in Los Angeles,</strong> allowing L.A. to once again have an NFL team.

<p>But nobody is willing to issue an &quot;environmental... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 08:43:38 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Republican Gomorrah ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ <a target="_blank" href="http://www.republicangomorrah.com/about.php">http://www.republicangomorrah.com/about.php</a>
<br>
Scary, creepy, and scummy people.
<br>
<img height="521" src="http://www.republicangomorrah.com/images/book-cover.jpg" width="444" alt="image">
<br>
<br>
<a target="_blank" href="http://www.republicangomorrah.com/buy.php"><em><font color="#FF0000" size="5">Republican Gomorrah</font></em></a> <font color="#FF0000" size="5">is a
bestiary of dysfunction, scandal and... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 09:34:02 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Racism? ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ <p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/2009/10/12/24103/">RACISM ON CAMPUS:</a></p>

<blockquote>
  <p>According to the data, not all races are considered equal in the college admissions game. Of students applying to private colleges in 1997,
  African-American applicants with SAT scores of 1150 had the same chances of being accepted as white applicants with 1460s and Asian applicants with perfect
  1600s.</p>

  <p>The results of the study come three years after Jian... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:03:15 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ The NFL's Bad Play! ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ The big heroes at the St. Louis Rams, beaten down by the Left Wing Hissy Fit Screamers, led in part by the saintly Rev. Al Sharpton, have bounced Rush Limbaugh
from buying into the team.  His money is too... conservative?   The Big Bad NFL can&#39;t take the heat of having Limbaugh as an investor, because of what he
thinks?  I wonder if they would have that same reaction if Michael Moore wanted to buy in?   Would the &quot;Oh-so-tolerant&quot; LWHFS and the NFL wimpies
consider Michael Moore... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 05:05:33 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Rightwing Loon ordered to pay $20,000 fine. ]]></title>
			<link>http://twcrossroadsdiscussionforum.yuku.com/topic/10852/t/Rightwing-Loon-ordered-to-pay-20-000-fine-.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Oily Taint has been fined $20,000 for &quot;wasting the court&#39;s&quot; time and resources.  Taint is the crazy loon who keeps filing lawsuits about
Obama&#39;s birth certificate. She also tried to pass off some blatant phony birth certificates from assorted African countries.
<br>
<br>
<a title="" target="_blank" href="http://washingtonindependent.com/63558/orly-taitz-sanctioned-for-20000">Story here.</a>
<br>
<br>
She should have to pay $20,000 to every American who had to listen to her... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:23:50 GMT</pubDate>
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