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		<title>By: ed  kriner</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2007/10/31/elephants-on-charade/#comment-1070391</link>
		<dc:creator>ed  kriner</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2007 18:45:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Funny when Wolfie II said there was a long history of “entertainment companies” used to bolster American image.  Would that include CNN?&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Funny when Wolfie II said there was a long history of “entertainment companies” used to bolster American image.  Would that include CNN?</p>
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		<title>By: Dennis</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2007/10/31/elephants-on-charade/#comment-1070135</link>
		<dc:creator>Dennis</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2007 16:39:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;We are nice??!!&lt;/em&gt;  Give me a break.  I remember a social studies book we had to read “The Ugly American”  That was in the 50’s, in the sixties, my wife did the touring around Europe bit with backpack, etc.  She said that one was received well if you sewed a Canadian flag to your backpack.  American flags got you little or no welcome.  In the 90’s–well take a look at this: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNzZzsvOClc&quot;&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNzZzsvOClc&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>We are nice??!!</em>  Give me a break.  I remember a social studies book we had to read “The Ugly American”  That was in the 50’s, in the sixties, my wife did the touring around Europe bit with backpack, etc.  She said that one was received well if you sewed a Canadian flag to your backpack.  American flags got you little or no welcome.  In the 90’s–well take a look at this: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNzZzsvOClc">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNzZzsvOClc</a></p>
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		<title>By: MarkH</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2007/10/31/elephants-on-charade/#comment-1069189</link>
		<dc:creator>MarkH</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2007 03:14:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-1068315&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;eCAHNomics @ 30&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-1068310&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;opie_jeanne @ 26&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Buh-Bye Karen.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Who’s next?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Will the last person to leave please turn off the lights.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;But, If Darth is the last one there they should turn the lights on. Since he normally works in the dark this would only scare him silly and make him go running away.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="#comment-1068315"><em>eCAHNomics @ 30</em></a></p>
<blockquote><p><a href="#comment-1068310"><em>opie_jeanne @ 26</em></a></p>
<blockquote><p>Buh-Bye Karen.</p>
<p>Who’s next?</p>
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<p>Will the last person to leave please turn off the lights.</p>
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<p>But, If Darth is the last one there they should turn the lights on. Since he normally works in the dark this would only scare him silly and make him go running away.</p>
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		<title>By: Beerfart Liberal</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2007/10/31/elephants-on-charade/#comment-1068646</link>
		<dc:creator>Beerfart Liberal</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2007 23:29:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-1068590&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;cinnamonape @ 106&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-1068288&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;SufiLizard @ 6&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;When O’Reilly starts peddling his “War on Christmas” again this year can we turn it around on him and talk about the Republican War on Christmas?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I mean, vetoing SCHIP is about as close to an antithesis to the Christmas Spirit as you can get. And rattling sabers against Iran doesn’t really gel with that old Biblical chestnut from the Christmas story, “Peace on Earth and Good Will Toward Men.”&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Maybe there really is a War on Christmas, but it just so happens it’s not being waged by liberals.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Let’s get that meme out this year. You know, as a little Christmas gift to the world.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Is there a war on All Hallows Day?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;See what their making a big deal of now?  I was home from work yesterday and tuned in FOX news for a few.  The story - Veterans are forbidden to say two parts of the flag folding recital where there are Biblical/religious references.  Some veterans groups vow to disobey this edict. Great.  Nobody’s gonna know.  who cares?  What’s the point?&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="#comment-1068590"><em>cinnamonape @ 106</em></a></p>
<blockquote><p><a href="#comment-1068288"><em>SufiLizard @ 6</em></a></p>
<blockquote><p>When O’Reilly starts peddling his “War on Christmas” again this year can we turn it around on him and talk about the Republican War on Christmas?</p>
<p>I mean, vetoing SCHIP is about as close to an antithesis to the Christmas Spirit as you can get. And rattling sabers against Iran doesn’t really gel with that old Biblical chestnut from the Christmas story, “Peace on Earth and Good Will Toward Men.”</p>
<p>Maybe there really is a War on Christmas, but it just so happens it’s not being waged by liberals.</p>
<p>Let’s get that meme out this year. You know, as a little Christmas gift to the world.</p>
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<p>Is there a war on All Hallows Day?</p>
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<p>See what their making a big deal of now?  I was home from work yesterday and tuned in FOX news for a few.  The story &#8211; Veterans are forbidden to say two parts of the flag folding recital where there are Biblical/religious references.  Some veterans groups vow to disobey this edict. Great.  Nobody’s gonna know.  who cares?  What’s the point?</p>
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		<title>By: Beerfart Liberal</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2007/10/31/elephants-on-charade/#comment-1068637</link>
		<dc:creator>Beerfart Liberal</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2007 23:25:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-1068345&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Biodun @ 55&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;And hey, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/31/washington/31cnd-hughes.html?hp&quot;&gt;these are a couple of Hughes’s..em…”achievements”:&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;
[Hughes] was credited for her vigor, care and the sweep of her efforts. But she was mocked at times for gaffes or misreadings of local sentiment.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Shortly after taking up her job, she told an audience of 500 Saudi women that she hoped some day they would be able to drive and “fully participate in society”; but many of the women expressed resentment at the American assumption that everyone wanted to live like them.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Just in the past week, many Canadians were annoyed that a new welcome-to-America video, proudly posted on Ms. Hughes’s blog on the State Department web site, used images of the Horseshoe portion of Niagara Falls, which is entirely within Canada.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;I saw that about them filming some of this :Come to America” film in Canada.  What a bunch of schmucks.  The Canadians should be pissed. The people who made this should be embarrassed,  Pathetic.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="#comment-1068345"><em>Biodun @ 55</em></a></p>
<blockquote><p>And hey, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/31/washington/31cnd-hughes.html?hp">these are a couple of Hughes’s..em…”achievements”:</a></p>
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[Hughes] was credited for her vigor, care and the sweep of her efforts. But she was mocked at times for gaffes or misreadings of local sentiment.</p>
<p>Shortly after taking up her job, she told an audience of 500 Saudi women that she hoped some day they would be able to drive and “fully participate in society”; but many of the women expressed resentment at the American assumption that everyone wanted to live like them.</p>
<p>Just in the past week, many Canadians were annoyed that a new welcome-to-America video, proudly posted on Ms. Hughes’s blog on the State Department web site, used images of the Horseshoe portion of Niagara Falls, which is entirely within Canada.
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<p>I saw that about them filming some of this :Come to America” film in Canada.  What a bunch of schmucks.  The Canadians should be pissed. The people who made this should be embarrassed,  Pathetic.</p>
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		<title>By: Mike G</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2007/10/31/elephants-on-charade/#comment-1068634</link>
		<dc:creator>Mike G</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2007 23:23:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;watching a film about how great the U.S. is while waiting in an endless line to get your passport stamped by a surly ICE employee. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I recently travelled to Australia and the difference in immigration procedures was startling.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Australia — Personable staff in blue uniforms, professional and efficient, working in a soothing-colored airport entrance hall. Not friendly or chatty, but treated people like human beings. Not unlike a trip to Kinko’s.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;USA — Military-style shaved-headed muscled lunkheads with pistols, bellowing for the next victim to step forward in a glaring white airport basement, with airport staff shouting instructions at dazed, sleepy travellers; very police-state. And that was in the US citizen queue — I imagine the foreign passport holders had it worse.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Australians don’t even seem to dislike the US much anymore, as they did a few years ago; they’re just tuning us out of their viewpoint of the world like a belligerent, ill-tempered drunk uncle who has nothing positive to offer them anymore.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>watching a film about how great the U.S. is while waiting in an endless line to get your passport stamped by a surly ICE employee. </em></p>
<p>I recently travelled to Australia and the difference in immigration procedures was startling.</p>
<p>Australia — Personable staff in blue uniforms, professional and efficient, working in a soothing-colored airport entrance hall. Not friendly or chatty, but treated people like human beings. Not unlike a trip to Kinko’s.</p>
<p>USA — Military-style shaved-headed muscled lunkheads with pistols, bellowing for the next victim to step forward in a glaring white airport basement, with airport staff shouting instructions at dazed, sleepy travellers; very police-state. And that was in the US citizen queue — I imagine the foreign passport holders had it worse.</p>
<p>Australians don’t even seem to dislike the US much anymore, as they did a few years ago; they’re just tuning us out of their viewpoint of the world like a belligerent, ill-tempered drunk uncle who has nothing positive to offer them anymore.</p>
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		<title>By: cinnamonape</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2007/10/31/elephants-on-charade/#comment-1068590</link>
		<dc:creator>cinnamonape</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2007 22:40:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-1068288&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;SufiLizard @ 6&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;When O’Reilly starts peddling his “War on Christmas” again this year can we turn it around on him and talk about the Republican War on Christmas?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I mean, vetoing SCHIP is about as close to an antithesis to the Christmas Spirit as you can get. And rattling sabers against Iran doesn’t really gel with that old Biblical chestnut from the Christmas story, “Peace on Earth and Good Will Toward Men.”&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Maybe there really is a War on Christmas, but it just so happens it’s not being waged by liberals.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Let’s get that meme out this year. You know, as a little Christmas gift to the world.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Is there a war on All Hallows Day?&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="#comment-1068288"><em>SufiLizard @ 6</em></a></p>
<blockquote><p>When O’Reilly starts peddling his “War on Christmas” again this year can we turn it around on him and talk about the Republican War on Christmas?</p>
<p>I mean, vetoing SCHIP is about as close to an antithesis to the Christmas Spirit as you can get. And rattling sabers against Iran doesn’t really gel with that old Biblical chestnut from the Christmas story, “Peace on Earth and Good Will Toward Men.”</p>
<p>Maybe there really is a War on Christmas, but it just so happens it’s not being waged by liberals.</p>
<p>Let’s get that meme out this year. You know, as a little Christmas gift to the world.</p>
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<p>Is there a war on All Hallows Day?</p>
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		<title>By: public.takeover</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2007/10/31/elephants-on-charade/#comment-1068484</link>
		<dc:creator>public.takeover</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2007 21:28:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;One small step for Disney; one giant leap for Karen Hughes.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One small step for Disney; one giant leap for Karen Hughes.</p>
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		<title>By: opie_jeanne</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2007/10/31/elephants-on-charade/#comment-1068469</link>
		<dc:creator>opie_jeanne</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2007 21:18:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-1068410&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;darkblack @ 102&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Karen Hughes resigned because she just couldn’t help George to &lt;a href=&quot;http://xs220.xs.to/xs220/07443/KHughesFOL.jpg&quot;&gt;understand the facts of life&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;;&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You’re my hero!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;What is that other little sumbliminal thingie that appears over on the right when I start to navigate away from that page?&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="#comment-1068410"><em>darkblack @ 102</em></a></p>
<blockquote><p>Karen Hughes resigned because she just couldn’t help George to <a href="http://xs220.xs.to/xs220/07443/KHughesFOL.jpg">understand the facts of life</a>.</p>
<p>;&gt;)</p>
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<p>You’re my hero!</p>
<p>What is that other little sumbliminal thingie that appears over on the right when I start to navigate away from that page?</p>
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		<title>By: opie_jeanne</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2007/10/31/elephants-on-charade/#comment-1068461</link>
		<dc:creator>opie_jeanne</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2007 21:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-1068373&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Smgumby @ 81&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-1068351&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;peanutbutter @ 61&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;*headkerplooie*&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Oh, COME ON!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This.  Must.  Be.  A.  Joke.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I have clicked around the page and I just can not tell if this is alleged to be real instructions sent to our embassies.  If so.. ..how can they “improve” the constitution, and if they released it more than 20 days ago why have we not heard?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It’s a joke.  Read some of the other numbered points on that page.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<blockquote><p><a href="#comment-1068351"><em>peanutbutter @ 61</em></a></p>
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<p>*headkerplooie*</p>
<p>Oh, COME ON!!!</p>
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<p>This.  Must.  Be.  A.  Joke.</p>
<p>I have clicked around the page and I just can not tell if this is alleged to be real instructions sent to our embassies.  If so.. ..how can they “improve” the constitution, and if they released it more than 20 days ago why have we not heard?</p>
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<p>It’s a joke.  Read some of the other numbered points on that page.</p>
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