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		<title>By: Aaaargh</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2007/05/01/the-brownification-of-government-continues/#comment-665625</link>
		<dc:creator>Aaaargh</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2007 19:37:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;I’ve always thought that whenever a right winger trots out deregulation as the be-all and end-all that an ad should immediately be run non stop saying “Senator X wants you to have a thalidomide baby,” complete with loads of photos.  It works for the forced-pregnancy people, may as well use it for a good cause.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I’ve always thought that whenever a right winger trots out deregulation as the be-all and end-all that an ad should immediately be run non stop saying “Senator X wants you to have a thalidomide baby,” complete with loads of photos.  It works for the forced-pregnancy people, may as well use it for a good cause.</p>
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		<title>By: GoDownFighting</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2007/05/01/the-brownification-of-government-continues/#comment-665271</link>
		<dc:creator>GoDownFighting</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2007 17:22:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;TRUTH OFFENDS&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Truth is not what you want to believe. And truth is not something that offends no one. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Free speech is not the right to say anything that doesn’t offend anybody. Every slave in the Old South had the right to say anything he wanted to so long as it didn’t offend anybody. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;So the Modern Inquisition excuses its oppression by saying it only suppresses discussion that offends people. You can accuse American troops of routinely killing and raping people, but if you say that less than six million Jews died in the Holocaust or that races aren’t equal, you are being offensive. You must go to prison in Europe or be professionally ruined here if you say the wrong thing. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Obviously that is the excuse but that is not the reason. We all know the REASON for punishing free speech. Political Correctness relies heavily on the Holocaust and on the evil of white people to empower its professor-priesthood extortion racket. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;They have a reason to say what they say. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;So I have a reason not to believe them.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>TRUTH OFFENDS</p>
<p>Truth is not what you want to believe. And truth is not something that offends no one. </p>
<p>Free speech is not the right to say anything that doesn’t offend anybody. Every slave in the Old South had the right to say anything he wanted to so long as it didn’t offend anybody. </p>
<p>So the Modern Inquisition excuses its oppression by saying it only suppresses discussion that offends people. You can accuse American troops of routinely killing and raping people, but if you say that less than six million Jews died in the Holocaust or that races aren’t equal, you are being offensive. You must go to prison in Europe or be professionally ruined here if you say the wrong thing. </p>
<p>Obviously that is the excuse but that is not the reason. We all know the REASON for punishing free speech. Political Correctness relies heavily on the Holocaust and on the evil of white people to empower its professor-priesthood extortion racket. </p>
<p>They have a reason to say what they say. </p>
<p>So I have a reason not to believe them.</p>
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		<title>By: manofyre</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2007/05/01/the-brownification-of-government-continues/#comment-664873</link>
		<dc:creator>manofyre</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2007 13:11:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;when news broke of supermarkets clearing there shelves of all this “tainted” pet food, i immediately figured there is no way this stuff will be simply be thrown away:  ‘it’s going to become livestock feed — if not in this country, then somewhere.’&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;my guess is the “tainted chickens” story is just the tip of the iceberg.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;recall “&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_cow_disease&quot;&gt;mad cow&lt;/a&gt;” . . .&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;“Cattle, like most other food animals, are normally herbivores. In nature, cattle eat grass or grains. In modern industrial cattle-farming, various commercial feeds are used, which may contain ingredients including antibiotics, hormones, pesticides, fertilizers, and protein supplements. . . &lt;b&gt;[including] meat and bone meal produced from the ground and cooked left-overs of the slaughtering process [and] the cadavers of sick and injured animals&lt;/b&gt;. . .”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>when news broke of supermarkets clearing there shelves of all this “tainted” pet food, i immediately figured there is no way this stuff will be simply be thrown away:  ‘it’s going to become livestock feed — if not in this country, then somewhere.’</p>
<p>my guess is the “tainted chickens” story is just the tip of the iceberg.</p>
<p>recall “<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_cow_disease">mad cow</a>” . . .</p>
<blockquote><p><em>“Cattle, like most other food animals, are normally herbivores. In nature, cattle eat grass or grains. In modern industrial cattle-farming, various commercial feeds are used, which may contain ingredients including antibiotics, hormones, pesticides, fertilizers, and protein supplements. . . <b>[including] meat and bone meal produced from the ground and cooked left-overs of the slaughtering process [and] the cadavers of sick and injured animals</b>. . .”</em></p>
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		<title>By: The Oracle</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2007/05/01/the-brownification-of-government-continues/#comment-663827</link>
		<dc:creator>The Oracle</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2007 00:22:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;“Appropriate oversight needs to climb out of Grover Norquist’s bathtub and reassert itself in our lives.”&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Very nicely put.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Grover Norquist, and other neo-con(vict) Republicans of his icky ilk, are just as dangerous as Osama bin Laden.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Grover Norquist should be shown the door, a trapdoor. For the sake of our nation’s children.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>“Appropriate oversight needs to climb out of Grover Norquist’s bathtub and reassert itself in our lives.”</p>
<p>Very nicely put.</p>
<p>Grover Norquist, and other neo-con(vict) Republicans of his icky ilk, are just as dangerous as Osama bin Laden.</p>
<p>Grover Norquist should be shown the door, a trapdoor. For the sake of our nation’s children.</p>
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		<title>By: SnarKassandra</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2007/05/01/the-brownification-of-government-continues/#comment-663823</link>
		<dc:creator>SnarKassandra</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2007 00:20:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-663743&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;do-si-do @ 313&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-663710&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Gunga Djinn @ 310&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Gawl dang. I can’t stand to listen to Bush under normal circumstances, but this speech today sounds like an Al Qaeda promotional spot.&lt;br /&gt;
 I mean really, it’s a rally cry for the enemy. He’s gone so far in the rhetoric to demonize the Dem Congress, that he’s turned it into a laundry list of insurgent successes.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;He can’t possibly realize how it sounds.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Ditto with Kit Bond (News Hour): “Dem’s will own this war if we lose”.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Ditto K.B. Hutchinson (News Hour)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Hello? Hello? anybody home?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We won.  Bush said so four years ago.  &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Congress: WARNING!! Bush will say anything, anything, anything you want to hear.  And renege.  Get any committments in WRITING.  No more empty piecrust promises.  No more BS.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As Whitehouse said uphill sledding time.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We won the WAR.  We are losing the OCCUPATION.  See?&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="#comment-663743"><em>do-si-do @ 313</em></a></p>
<blockquote><p><a href="#comment-663710"><em>Gunga Djinn @ 310</em></a></p>
<blockquote><p>Gawl dang. I can’t stand to listen to Bush under normal circumstances, but this speech today sounds like an Al Qaeda promotional spot.<br />
 I mean really, it’s a rally cry for the enemy. He’s gone so far in the rhetoric to demonize the Dem Congress, that he’s turned it into a laundry list of insurgent successes.</p>
<p>He can’t possibly realize how it sounds.</p>
<p>Ditto with Kit Bond (News Hour): “Dem’s will own this war if we lose”.</p>
<p>Ditto K.B. Hutchinson (News Hour)</p>
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<p>Hello? Hello? anybody home?</p>
<p>We won.  Bush said so four years ago.  </p>
<p>Congress: WARNING!! Bush will say anything, anything, anything you want to hear.  And renege.  Get any committments in WRITING.  No more empty piecrust promises.  No more BS.</p>
<p>As Whitehouse said uphill sledding time.</p>
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<p>We won the WAR.  We are losing the OCCUPATION.  See?</p>
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		<title>By: SnarKassandra</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2007/05/01/the-brownification-of-government-continues/#comment-663822</link>
		<dc:creator>SnarKassandra</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2007 00:19:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-663555&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;cleter @ 203&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ok, Congressional Democrats–&lt;br /&gt;
The framing is:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;THE PRESIDENT VETOED FUNDING OUR TROOPS&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;WE GAVE HIM THE CHECK TO PAY OUR SOLDIERS AND HE TORE IT UP&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I don’t want to hear anybody call it the supplemental, or any of that legislature-speak. Don’t mention timelines or benchmarks. DO NOT say he vetoed benchmarks. Say he vetoed funding our troops. Stay on message, here.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Excellent!!&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="#comment-663555"><em>cleter @ 203</em></a></p>
<blockquote><p>Ok, Congressional Democrats–<br />
The framing is:</p>
<p>THE PRESIDENT VETOED FUNDING OUR TROOPS</p>
<p>WE GAVE HIM THE CHECK TO PAY OUR SOLDIERS AND HE TORE IT UP</p>
<p>I don’t want to hear anybody call it the supplemental, or any of that legislature-speak. Don’t mention timelines or benchmarks. DO NOT say he vetoed benchmarks. Say he vetoed funding our troops. Stay on message, here.</p>
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<p>Excellent!!</p>
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		<title>By: morphosequence</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2007/05/01/the-brownification-of-government-continues/#comment-663784</link>
		<dc:creator>morphosequence</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2007 00:01:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;It almost seems like a joke that wheat gluten has to be imported into the a country that grows as much wheat as the US. Must be cheaper to buy coal adulterated food additives China. And they call it free trade.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Pardon the pun, but this scandal has legs.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It almost seems like a joke that wheat gluten has to be imported into the a country that grows as much wheat as the US. Must be cheaper to buy coal adulterated food additives China. And they call it free trade.</p>
<p>Pardon the pun, but this scandal has legs.</p>
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		<title>By: do-si-do</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2007/05/01/the-brownification-of-government-continues/#comment-663743</link>
		<dc:creator>do-si-do</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2007 23:45:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-663710&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Gunga Djinn @ 310&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Gawl dang. I can’t stand to listen to Bush under normal circumstances, but this speech today sounds like an Al Qaeda promotional spot.&lt;br /&gt;
 I mean really, it’s a rally cry for the enemy. He’s gone so far in the rhetoric to demonize the Dem Congress, that he’s turned it into a laundry list of insurgent successes.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;He can’t possibly realize how it sounds.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Ditto with Kit Bond (News Hour): “Dem’s will own this war if we lose”.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Ditto K.B. Hutchinson (News Hour)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Hello? Hello? anybody home?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We won.  Bush said so four years ago.  &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Congress: WARNING!! Bush will say anything, anything, anything you want to hear.  And renege.  Get any committments in WRITING.  No more empty piecrust promises.  No more BS.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As Whitehouse said uphill sledding time.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="#comment-663710"><em>Gunga Djinn @ 310</em></a></p>
<blockquote><p>Gawl dang. I can’t stand to listen to Bush under normal circumstances, but this speech today sounds like an Al Qaeda promotional spot.<br />
 I mean really, it’s a rally cry for the enemy. He’s gone so far in the rhetoric to demonize the Dem Congress, that he’s turned it into a laundry list of insurgent successes.</p>
<p>He can’t possibly realize how it sounds.</p>
<p>Ditto with Kit Bond (News Hour): “Dem’s will own this war if we lose”.</p>
<p>Ditto K.B. Hutchinson (News Hour)</p>
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<p>Hello? Hello? anybody home?</p>
<p>We won.  Bush said so four years ago.  </p>
<p>Congress: WARNING!! Bush will say anything, anything, anything you want to hear.  And renege.  Get any committments in WRITING.  No more empty piecrust promises.  No more BS.</p>
<p>As Whitehouse said uphill sledding time.</p>
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		<title>By: do-si-do</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2007/05/01/the-brownification-of-government-continues/#comment-663730</link>
		<dc:creator>do-si-do</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2007 23:43:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-663562&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;punaise @ 209 &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Kay Baley Hutchinson, just now on the News Hour:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;“blah blah blah&lt;br /&gt;
Congress shouldn’t be telling the generals what to from 30,000 miles away&lt;br /&gt;
blah blah blah”&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;given that the circumference of the earth is some 24,000 miles, that means she’s taking - to put it kindly - the long view. loopy.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Gawd she was nauseating.  Hello?  Oversight?  I like how they call oversight “micromanaging”.  And how she a CONGRESSWOMAN says “they” meaning Congress.  and, AND, said CONGRESS cut off funding!!!&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="#comment-663562"><em>punaise @ 209 </em></a></p>
<blockquote><p>Kay Baley Hutchinson, just now on the News Hour:</p>
<p>“blah blah blah<br />
Congress shouldn’t be telling the generals what to from 30,000 miles away<br />
blah blah blah”</p>
<p>given that the circumference of the earth is some 24,000 miles, that means she’s taking &#8211; to put it kindly &#8211; the long view. loopy.</p>
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<p>Gawd she was nauseating.  Hello?  Oversight?  I like how they call oversight “micromanaging”.  And how she a CONGRESSWOMAN says “they” meaning Congress.  and, AND, said CONGRESS cut off funding!!!</p>
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		<title>By: egregious</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2007/05/01/the-brownification-of-government-continues/#comment-663714</link>
		<dc:creator>egregious</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2007 23:35:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;I nearly died in 1973 from E. coli in hamburger thanks to a remarkable disinterest in regulation on the part of the government.  We’re talking 106 F. and delirium kind of close.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;So not even counting me being in public health, you can sign me up on the list of people interested in smarter regulation of the food supply.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I nearly died in 1973 from E. coli in hamburger thanks to a remarkable disinterest in regulation on the part of the government.  We’re talking 106 F. and delirium kind of close.</p>
<p>So not even counting me being in public health, you can sign me up on the list of people interested in smarter regulation of the food supply.</p>
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