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		<title>By: grumpyoldvet</title>
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		<dc:creator>grumpyoldvet</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Nov 2007 15:31:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-1112937&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Margot @ 78&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-1112843&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Toby Wollin @ 14&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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I know THIS may sound un-American, but I don’t understand football. At all. My husband played in high school and has tried several times, without success.&lt;br /&gt;
Another reason we don’t have tv in our house..&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I don’t understand it either, and I live in Ohio. I see the ball in the air, it lands, a bunch of people pile onto it and…that is where I lose track of the ball, and lose interest.&lt;br /&gt;
I do love baseball though.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;BASEBALL IS A THINKING MAN’S SPORT…FOOTBALL IS A JUST A BUNCH OF OVERGROWN GORILLAS RUNNING AROUND AND JUMPING ON EACH OTHER….PLAYED BASEBALL IN HIGH &amp; COLLEGE AND ALWAYS WONDERED WHAT THOSE GUYS DID IN THE PILEUPS….LOTS OF STROKING &amp; GRABBING…&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="#comment-1112937"><em>Margot @ 78</em></a></p>
<blockquote><p><a href="#comment-1112843"><em>Toby Wollin @ 14</em></a></p>
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I know THIS may sound un-American, but I don’t understand football. At all. My husband played in high school and has tried several times, without success.<br />
Another reason we don’t have tv in our house..</p>
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<p>I don’t understand it either, and I live in Ohio. I see the ball in the air, it lands, a bunch of people pile onto it and…that is where I lose track of the ball, and lose interest.<br />
I do love baseball though.</p>
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<p>BASEBALL IS A THINKING MAN’S SPORT…FOOTBALL IS A JUST A BUNCH OF OVERGROWN GORILLAS RUNNING AROUND AND JUMPING ON EACH OTHER….PLAYED BASEBALL IN HIGH &amp; COLLEGE AND ALWAYS WONDERED WHAT THOSE GUYS DID IN THE PILEUPS….LOTS OF STROKING &amp; GRABBING…</p>
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		<title>By: MarkH</title>
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		<dc:creator>MarkH</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Nov 2007 07:09:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-1112850&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Eureka Springs @ 20&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;
… “Fire Coach Nutt!”&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;… why don’t you all protest Bush and Pryor that way? I got less than *crickets* in reply.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;…
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;People may hate a coach, but if they voted for Bush they’re probably somewhat embarassed or even angry.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="#comment-1112850"><em>Eureka Springs @ 20</em></a></p>
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… “Fire Coach Nutt!”</p>
<p>… why don’t you all protest Bush and Pryor that way? I got less than *crickets* in reply.</p>
<p>…
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<p>People may hate a coach, but if they voted for Bush they’re probably somewhat embarassed or even angry.</p>
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		<title>By: skippy</title>
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		<dc:creator>skippy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Nov 2007 02:16:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;whoops i screwed up the strikeout code on that last comment, my bad.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>whoops i screwed up the strikeout code on that last comment, my bad.</p>
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		<title>By: julia</title>
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		<dc:creator>julia</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Nov 2007 02:16:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-1112917&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Christy Hardin Smith @ 59&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;julia at 57 — Reading all of this in one fell swoop, I kept thinking two things:  (1) jeebus, this reads like a huge racketeering and ponzi scheme and (2) how in the hell does anyone have the balls to lie this much to people’s faces and claim to be pious out of the other sides of their mouths.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Really appalling.  And I already knew a lot of this in bits and pieces.  But honestly, the scope of the mendacity is beyond what even a criminal lawyer would believe if this were a work of fiction.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The chaplain of Harvard, a man named Peter Gomes, wrote a book called &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://books.google.com/books?id=K8hFHAAACAAJ&amp;dq=the good book&quot;&gt;The Good Book&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, which addresses the use of religion in american politics to promote immoral goals. It’s an interesting read.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;My answer would be that an honest God is the noblest work of man, and with nobility politics frequently has little to do.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="#comment-1112917"><em>Christy Hardin Smith @ 59</em></a></p>
<blockquote><p>julia at 57 — Reading all of this in one fell swoop, I kept thinking two things:  (1) jeebus, this reads like a huge racketeering and ponzi scheme and (2) how in the hell does anyone have the balls to lie this much to people’s faces and claim to be pious out of the other sides of their mouths.</p>
<p>Really appalling.  And I already knew a lot of this in bits and pieces.  But honestly, the scope of the mendacity is beyond what even a criminal lawyer would believe if this were a work of fiction.</p>
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<p>The chaplain of Harvard, a man named Peter Gomes, wrote a book called <i><a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=K8hFHAAACAAJ&amp;dq=the good book">The Good Book</a></i>, which addresses the use of religion in american politics to promote immoral goals. It’s an interesting read.</p>
<p>My answer would be that an honest God is the noblest work of man, and with nobility politics frequently has little to do.</p>
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		<title>By: skippy</title>
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		<dc:creator>skippy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Nov 2007 02:14:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;thanks for the linkage, azmatt, but to be fair i lifted found that entire piece from at &lt;a href=&quot;http://agonist.org/ian_welsh/20071120/what_do_conservatives_spend_their_time_thinking_about&quot;&gt;the agonist&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>thanks for the linkage, azmatt, but to be fair i lifted found that entire piece from at <a href="http://agonist.org/ian_welsh/20071120/what_do_conservatives_spend_their_time_thinking_about">the agonist</a>.</p>
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		<title>By: Rayne</title>
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		<dc:creator>Rayne</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Nov 2007 02:13:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Eureka Springs — and a Happy Thanksgiving weekend to you, too!  Been too long; I’m hoping that work will lighten up a bit and let me spend more time here once again.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Eureka Springs — and a Happy Thanksgiving weekend to you, too!  Been too long; I’m hoping that work will lighten up a bit and let me spend more time here once again.</p>
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		<title>By: neokneme</title>
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		<dc:creator>neokneme</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Nov 2007 02:12:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;I’m glad Condi has a big shoe closet!  That way goopers can satisfy themselves each time one drops…&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.reuters.com/article/bondsNews/idUSN2331636420071123&quot;&gt;UBS debt deal loses 90 percent on financials-Moody’s&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;
Moody’s has also placed under review for downgrade 340 million euros worth of debt from five CPDOs that are also exposed to financial companies.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Ahhh, sweet release…  Keep ‘em coming goopers!&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I’m glad Condi has a big shoe closet!  That way goopers can satisfy themselves each time one drops…</p>
<p><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/bondsNews/idUSN2331636420071123">UBS debt deal loses 90 percent on financials-Moody’s</a></p>
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Moody’s has also placed under review for downgrade 340 million euros worth of debt from five CPDOs that are also exposed to financial companies.</p>
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<p>Ahhh, sweet release…  Keep ‘em coming goopers!</p>
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		<title>By: Rayne</title>
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		<dc:creator>Rayne</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Nov 2007 02:11:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-1112961&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;LS @ 100&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;I’ve tossed around the idea that Gannon was a mole for those investigating the potential “perps”, but that it just takes a lot of time to pull the whole network together, because it is quite vast.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Hmm.  I wish I could believe that.  The work we did at DKos/ePluribus Media didn’t lead me to think that.  He looked a lot more like a possible plant by a third-party since his point of origin was too shaky.  &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Third-parties have it all; this RICO outfit played fast and loose with far too many rules, including their own communications.  Blackberry devices used so widely, for crying out loud…what stupidity, what hubris, to ignore that their every communication traveled unencrypted to servers outside of the U.S.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I can’t figure out why third-parties haven’t dropped the hammer on the RICO organization, other than they must be profiting more from having them in office than getting them out.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="#comment-1112961"><em>LS @ 100</em></a></p>
<blockquote><p>I’ve tossed around the idea that Gannon was a mole for those investigating the potential “perps”, but that it just takes a lot of time to pull the whole network together, because it is quite vast.</p>
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<p>Hmm.  I wish I could believe that.  The work we did at DKos/ePluribus Media didn’t lead me to think that.  He looked a lot more like a possible plant by a third-party since his point of origin was too shaky.  </p>
<p>Third-parties have it all; this RICO outfit played fast and loose with far too many rules, including their own communications.  Blackberry devices used so widely, for crying out loud…what stupidity, what hubris, to ignore that their every communication traveled unencrypted to servers outside of the U.S.</p>
<p>I can’t figure out why third-parties haven’t dropped the hammer on the RICO organization, other than they must be profiting more from having them in office than getting them out.</p>
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		<title>By: Richmond</title>
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		<dc:creator>Richmond</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Nov 2007 02:10:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-1112948&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;AZ Matt @ 89&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;From Skippy the Bush Kangaroo:&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.xnerg.blogspot.com/&quot;&gt;Watch outTrex!!!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;what do conservatives spend their time thinking about?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;one answer is provided by conservapedia’s most viewed list:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;1. main page‎ [1,897,388]&lt;br /&gt;
2. homosexuality‎ [1,488,013]&lt;br /&gt;
3. homosexuality and hepatitis‎ [516,193]&lt;br /&gt;
4. homosexuality and promiscuity‎ [416,767]&lt;br /&gt;
5. homosexuality and parasites‎ [387,438]&lt;br /&gt;
6. homosexuality and gonorrhea‎ [328,045]&lt;br /&gt;
7. homosexuality and domestic violence‎ [325,547]&lt;br /&gt;
8. gay bowel syndrome‎ [314,076]&lt;br /&gt;
9. homosexuality and syphilis‎ [262,015]&lt;br /&gt;
10. homosexuality and mental health‎ [249,14]&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Oh my… and even the popular first item (main page) appearsto be about pernicious sexual fantasies (pedaphelia at court?)&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="#comment-1112948"><em>AZ Matt @ 89</em></a></p>
<blockquote><p>From Skippy the Bush Kangaroo:<a href="http://www.xnerg.blogspot.com/">Watch outTrex!!!</a></p>
<blockquote><p><b>what do conservatives spend their time thinking about?</b></p>
<p>one answer is provided by conservapedia’s most viewed list:</p>
<p>1. main page‎ [1,897,388]<br />
2. homosexuality‎ [1,488,013]<br />
3. homosexuality and hepatitis‎ [516,193]<br />
4. homosexuality and promiscuity‎ [416,767]<br />
5. homosexuality and parasites‎ [387,438]<br />
6. homosexuality and gonorrhea‎ [328,045]<br />
7. homosexuality and domestic violence‎ [325,547]<br />
8. gay bowel syndrome‎ [314,076]<br />
9. homosexuality and syphilis‎ [262,015]<br />
10. homosexuality and mental health‎ [249,14]</p>
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<p>Oh my… and even the popular first item (main page) appearsto be about pernicious sexual fantasies (pedaphelia at court?)</p>
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		<title>By: Bustednuckles</title>
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		<dc:creator>Bustednuckles</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Nov 2007 02:08:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;New thread.&lt;br /&gt;
Sorry, Zed #4 for me today.&lt;br /&gt;
*G*&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/11/23/opposition-youre-doing-it-wrong/#respond&quot;&gt;http://www.firedoglake.com/200.....g/#respond&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>New thread.<br />
Sorry, Zed #4 for me today.<br />
*G*</p>
<p><a href="http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/11/23/opposition-youre-doing-it-wrong/#respond">http://www.firedoglake.com/200&#8230;..g/#respond</a></p>
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