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	<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:05:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>House Republicans order Capitol Police to Arrest Journalists</title>
		<link>http://www.hxcboards.net/topic/86181-house-republicans-order-capitol-police-to-arrest-journalists/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[<a href='http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/01/house-republicans-order-j_n_1246971.html?mrefid=' class='bbc_url' title='External link' rel='nofollow external'>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/01/house-republicans-order-j_n_1246971.html?mrefid=</a><br />
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Kind of funny, especially since Danny said something along the lines that we asswipe liberals sound like conservatives when we support free speech. Because conservatives obviously support free speech, especially when it's exposong how corrupt and full of shit they are.<br />
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(The jab is in good humor, Danny. Lol fag.)]]></description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:05:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>State of the Motherfucking Union</title>
		<link>http://www.hxcboards.net/topic/86177-state-of-the-motherfucking-union/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[I wish Samuel L Jackson would do a SotU.<br />
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Anyway, I watched it last night and I thought Obama did a good job hitting on a lot of important areas. It's just too bad it doesn't really matter that he said there is a "corrosive influence of money in politics" because nothing will get done.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:48:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[I'll Take The Reactionary Over The Murderer]]></title>
		<link>http://www.hxcboards.net/topic/86135-ill-take-the-reactionary-over-the-murderer/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[<a href='http://charliedavis.blogspot.com/2011/04/ill-take-reactionary-over-murderer.html' class='bbc_url' title='External link' rel='nofollow external'>http://charliedavis.blogspot.com/2011/04/ill-take-reactionary-over-murderer.html</a><br />
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Ron Paul is far from perfect, but I'll say this much for the Texas congressman: He has never authorized a drone strike in Pakistan. He has never authorized the killing of dozens of women and children in Yemen. He hasn't protected torturers from prosecution and he hasn't overseen the torturous treatment of a 23-year-old young man for the “crime” of revealing the government's criminal behavior.<br />
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Can the same be said for Barack Obama?<br />
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Yet, ask a good movement liberal or progressive about the two and you'll quickly be informed that yeah, Ron Paul's good on the war stuff -- yawn -- but otherwise he's a no-good right-wing reactionary of the worst order, a guy who'd kick your Aunt Beth off Medicare and force her to turn tricks for blood-pressure meds. By contrast, Obama, war crimes and all, provokes no such visceral distaste. He's more cosmopolitan, after all; less Texas-y. He's a Democrat. And gosh, even if he's made a few mistakes, he means well.<br />
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Sure he's a murderer, in other words, but at least he's not a Republican!<br />
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Put another, even less charitable way: Democratic partisans – liberals – are willing to trade the lives of a couple thousand poor Pakistani tribesman in exchange for a few liberal catnip-filled speeches and NPR tote bags for the underprivileged. The number of party-line progressives who would vote for Ron Paul over Barack Obama wouldn't be enough to fill Conference Room B at the local Sheraton, with even harshest left-leaning critics of the president, like Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi, saying they'd prefer the mass-murdering sociopath to that kooky Constitution fetishist.<br />
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As someone who sees the electoral process as primarily a distraction, something that diverts energy and attention from more effective means of reforming the system, I don't much care if people don't vote for Ron Paul. In fact, if you're going to vote, I'd rather you cast a write-in ballot for Emma Goldman. But! I do have a problem with those who imagine themselves to be liberal-minded citizens of the world casting their vote for Barack Obama and propagating the notion that someone can bomb and/or militarily occupy Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Somalia, Yemen and Libya and still earn more Progressive Points than the guy who would, you know, not do any of that.<br />
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Let's just assume the worst about Paul: that he's a corporate libertarian in the Reason magazine/Cato Institute mold that would grant Big Business and the financial industry license to do whatever the hell it wants with little in the way of accountability (I call this scenario the “status quo”). Let's say he dines on Labradoodle puppies while using their blood to scribble notes in the margins of his dog-eared, gold-encrusted copy of Atlas Shrugged.<br />
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So. Fucking. What.<br />
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Barack Obama isn't exactly Eugene Debs, after all. Hell, he's not even Jimmy Carter. The facts are: he's pushed for the largest military budget in world history, given trillions of dollars to Wall Street in bailouts and near-zero interest loans from the Federal Reserve, protected oil companies like BP from legal liability for environmental damages they cause – from poisoning the Gulf to climate change – and mandated that all Americans purchase the U.S. health insurance industry's product. You might argue Paul's a corporatist, but there's no denying Obama's one.<br />
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And at least Paul would – and this is important, I think – stop killing poor foreigners with cluster bombs and Predator drones. Unlike the Nobel Peace Prize winner-in-chief, Paul would also bring the troops home from not just Afghanistan and Iraq, but Europe, Korea and Okinawa. There'd be no need for a School of the Americas because the U.S. wouldn't be busy training foreign military personnel the finer points of human rights abuses. Israel would have to carry out its war crimes on its own dime.<br />
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Even on on the most pressing domestic issues of the day, Paul strikes me as a hell of a lot more progressive than Obama. Look at the war on drugs: Obama has continued the same failed prohibitionist policies as his predecessors, maintaining a status quo that has placed 2.3 million – or one in 100 – Americans behind bars, the vast majority African-American and Hispanic. Paul, on the other hand, has called for ending the drug war and said he would pardon non-violent offenders, which would be the single greatest reform a president could make in the domestic sphere, equivalent in magnitude to ending Jim Crow.<br />
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Paul would also stop providing subsidies to corporate agriculture, nuclear energy and fossil fuels, while allowing class-action tort suits to proceed against oil and coal companies for the environmental damage they have wrought. Obama, by contrast, is providing billions to coal companies under the guise of “clean energy” – see his administration's policies on carbon capture and sequestration, the fossil fuel-equivalent of missile defense – and promising billions more so mega-energy corporations can get started on that “nuclear renaissance” we've all heard so much about. And if Paul really did succeed in cutting all those federal departments he talks about, there's nothing to prevent states and local governments -- and, I would hope, alternative social organizations not dependent on coercion -- from addressing issues such as health care and education. Decentralism isn't a bad thing.<br />
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All that aside, though, it seems to me that if you're going to style yourself a progressive, liberal humanitarian, your first priority really ought to be stopping your government from killing poor people. Second on that list? Stopping your government from putting hundreds of thousands of your fellow citizens in cages for decades at a time over non-violent “crimes” committed by consenting adults. Seriously: what the fuck? Social Security's great and all I guess, but not exploding little children with cluster bombs – shouldn't that be at the top of the Liberal Agenda?<br />
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Over half of Americans' income taxes go to the military-industrial complex and the costs of arresting and locking up their fellow citizens. On both counts, Ron Paul's policy positions are far more progressive than those held – and indeed, implemented – by Barack Obama. And yet it's Paul who's the reactionary of the two?<br />
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My sweeping, I'm hoping overly broad assessment: liberals, especially the pundit class, don't much care about dead foreigners. They're a political problem at best – will the Afghan war derail Obama's re-election campaign? – not a moral one. And liberals are more than willing to accept a few charred women and children in some country they'll never visit in exchange for increasing social welfare spending by 0.02 percent, or at least not cutting it by as much as a mean 'ol Rethuglican.<br />
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Mother Jones' Kevin Drum, for example, has chastised anti-Obama lefties, complaining that undermining – by way of accurately assessing and commenting upon – a warmonger of the Democratic persuasion is “extraordinarily self-destructive" to all FDR-fearing lefties.<br />
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“Just ask LBJ,” Drum added. The historical footnote he left out: That LBJ was run out of office by the anti-war left because the guy was murdering hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese. But mass murder is no reason to oppose a Democratic president, at least not if you're a professional liberal.<br />
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There are exceptions: Just Foreign Policy's Robert Naiman has a piece in Truth Out suggesting the anti-war left checking out Gary Johnson, the former governor of New Mexico who's something of a Ron Paul-lite. But for too many liberals, it seems partisanship and the promise – not even necessarily the delivery, if you've been reading Obama's die-hard apologists – of infinitesimally more spending on domestic programs is more important than saving the lives of a few thousand innocent women and children who happen to live outside the confines of the arbitrary geopolitical entity known as the United States.<br />
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Another reason to root -- if not vote -- for Ron Paul: if there was a Republican in the White House, liberals just might start caring about the murder of non-Americans again.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Dec 2011 17:35:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>I would how ronery he is now</title>
		<link>http://www.hxcboards.net/topic/86121-i-would-how-ronery-he-is-now/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[<a href='http://www.cnn.com/2011/12/18/world/asia/north-korea-leader-dead/index.html?hpt=hp_t1' class='bbc_url' title='External link' rel='nofollow external'>http://www.cnn.com/2011/12/18/world/asia/north-korea-leader-dead/index.html?hpt=hp_t1</a>]]></description>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 03:45:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Compare Israel and Native Americans</title>
		<link>http://www.hxcboards.net/topic/86090-compare-israel-and-native-americans/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[I need your help on this, guys. Even though conservatives say there's no such thing as a hate crime, and that special interests are taking over politics, every election the Republican candidates go to the Jewish groups and tell them how Israel is a better country than the USA, and how the USA exists to support Israel.<br />
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So many Americans just can't understand the Palestinian situation. They say things like, "There is no such thing as a Palestinian."<br />
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So I want to essentially gather together what it would look like if we took the 5 Native American tribes displaced on the Trail of Tears and moved them back to their native lands (as the Zionists did), and then use analogs in the people who are living there now for the Palestinians. You know, because there is no such thing as a Floridian, they all moved there from somewhere else.<br />
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I want to explore how people would feel being displaced to give homes to an ethnic group, and how those displaced would become second class citizens, etc.<br />
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Good idea?<br />
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Let's do this together.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 16:38:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>War on Christmas</title>
		<link>http://www.hxcboards.net/topic/86085-war-on-christmas/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Fuck you and your baby Jesus.<br />
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<a href='http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-december-6-2011/tree-fighting-ceremony---war-on-christmas' class='bbc_url' title='External link' rel='nofollow external'>http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-december-6-2011/tree-fighting-ceremony---war-on-christmas</a>]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 17:48:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>House votes to end Election Commission</title>
		<link>http://www.hxcboards.net/topic/86047-house-votes-to-end-election-commission/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[<a href='http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/house/196613-house-passes-bill-ending-election-commission-public-financing-of-campaigns' class='bbc_url' title='External link' rel='nofollow external'>http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/house/196613-house-passes-bill-ending-election-commission-public-financing-of-campaigns</a><br />
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Pish-posh, we don't need anyone making sure voting machines work anyway.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 06:32:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.hxcboards.net/topic/86047-house-votes-to-end-election-commission/</guid>
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		<title>Protect IP</title>
		<link>http://www.hxcboards.net/topic/86037-protect-ip/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 20:56:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>The Vatican criticizes the global financial markets</title>
		<link>http://www.hxcboards.net/topic/86007-the-vatican-criticizes-the-global-financial-markets/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[<a href='http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/vatican-calls-for-radical-reform-of-world-financial-system-adding-global-political-authority/2011/10/24/gIQAgFc2BM_story.html' class='bbc_url' title='External link' rel='nofollow external'>Vatican wants reform of world financial system, creation of authority to manage world economy</a><br />
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As you can imagine, the dispensationalists are all, "Told you so! The pope is the Antichrist!"]]></description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 21:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.hxcboards.net/topic/86007-the-vatican-criticizes-the-global-financial-markets/</guid>
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		<title>The war is over</title>
		<link>http://www.hxcboards.net/topic/86003-the-war-is-over/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Obama announces all US troops will be home from Iraq by the end of the year. I'm sure they won't be sent to Afghanistan.<br />
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 18:32:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Limbaugh and the LRA</title>
		<link>http://www.hxcboards.net/topic/86002-limbaugh-and-the-lra/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Transcript from show in which he criticizes Obama for sending troops to kill 'Christians' in Uganda:<br />
<p class='citation'>Quote</p><div class="blockquote"><div class='quote'>Now, up until today, most Americans have never heard of the combat  Lord's Resistance Army.  And here we are at war with them.  Have you  ever heard of Lord's Resistance Army, Dawn?  How about you, Brian?   Snerdley, have you?  You never heard of Lord's Resistance Army?  Well,  proves my contention, most Americans have never heard of it, and here we  are at war with them.  Lord's Resistance Army are Christians.  It means  God.  I was only kidding.  Lord's Resistance Army are Christians.  They  are fighting the Muslims in Sudan.  And Obama has sent troops, United  States troops to remove them from the battlefield, which means kill  them.  That's what the lingo means, "to help regional forces remove from  the battlefield," meaning capture or kill.</div></div><br />
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Later...<br />
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<p class='citation'>Quote</p><div class="blockquote"><div class='quote'>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<br />
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  Is that right? The Lord's Resistance Army is being accused of really  bad stuff? Child kidnapping, torture, murder, that kind of stuff? Well,  we just found out about this today. We're gonna do, of course, our due  diligence research on it. But nevertheless we got a hundred troops being  sent over there to fight these guys -- and they claim to be Christians.</div></div><br />
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Guess one of these assholes pulled out their Android and located the wikipedia article.<br />
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http://www.hxcboards.net/public/style_emoticons/default/banghead.gif<br />
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 13:11:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Gold</title>
		<link>http://www.hxcboards.net/topic/85981-gold/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[I have no idea who this guy is. Some friend of a friend. He just repeated the phrase so many idiots keep saying:<br />
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<p class='citation'>Quote</p><div class="blockquote"><div class='quote'>The value of Gold has not changed since the time of the Romans... It still buys the same thing.</div></div><br />
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This in response to a video my friend posted where a reported accurately described why gold prices are down saying that gold isn't backed by anything, and the Dollar is backed by "the full faith and credit of the United States."<br />
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He also said, <br />
<p class='citation'>Quote</p><div class="blockquote"><div class='quote'>Gold backs it isn't backed!</div></div><br />
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Gold backs what?<br />
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This is a religion to these people. That gold is currency, and even though we're not on a gold standard, our currency is valued based on the fact that gold is real money and everything else isn't money.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 00:09:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Occupy Wall Street</title>
		<link>http://www.hxcboards.net/topic/85969-occupy-wall-street/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[<a href='http://www.rawstory.com/rawreplay/2011/09/chris-hedges-occupy-wall-street-is-where-the-hope-of-america-lies/' class='bbc_url' title='External link' rel='nofollow external'>http://www.rawstory.com/rawreplay/2011/09/chris-hedges-occupy-wall-street-is-where-the-hope-of-america-lies/</a><br />
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 15:41:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Class Warfare</title>
		<link>http://www.hxcboards.net/topic/85962-class-warfare/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2011 15:35:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>The only way to really learn philosophy</title>
		<link>http://www.hxcboards.net/topic/85948-the-only-way-to-really-learn-philosophy/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[FUCKING FINALLY<br />
<a href='http://aya.shii.org/2011/09/17/european-philosophers-become-magical-anime-girls/' class='bbc_url' title='External link' rel='nofollow external'>http://aya.shii.org/2011/09/17/european-philosophers-become-magical-anime-girls/</a>]]></description>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Sep 2011 06:03:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>USPS</title>
		<link>http://www.hxcboards.net/topic/85946-usps/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[I think it's funny that the conservatives are piling on the Postal Service because it's not a profitable venture. <strong class='bbc'>It's a government office, they should never be profitable by their very nature of public service. </strong> But it's also ironic because they're always so "Read your constitution!"<br />
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Constitution of the United States of America<br />
Article 1 - The Legislative Branch<br />
Section 8 - Powers of Congress<br />
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To establish Post Offices and Post Roads;]]></description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 21:08:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Hitler</title>
		<link>http://www.hxcboards.net/topic/85941-hitler/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[I'd like to have a historical thread on Hitler and the Nazis. I'm taking a course on Nazi Germany this semester from a professor who is an expert in the history of Eugenics. He's a really sharp guy and I'm learning some interesting stuff.<br />
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http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-57wOxV0dX1g/TiVWqjaV66I/AAAAAAAACYI/cqwnL9HQFe0/s1600/Hitler+school+-+Occult+History+Third+Reich+-+Peter+Crawford.jpg<br />
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Hitler looked like a dickhead as early as the third grade. Yeah, that's him at the top there in the middle.<br />
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http://www.fpp.co.uk/Hitler/images/Hitler_schoolboy.jpg<br />
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Also, he wasn't much of a hands-on guy. He'd wake up late, hang around talking to his top-level underlings and just say stuff. About what he thought, or believed, or would like to see in the future. And then people who wanted to impress him or get on his good side would just go out and do stuff, without running it by him, and report back, and he'd be like, "great job, keep it up."<br />
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Joseph Goebbels cheated on his wife and got caught, and she went straight to Hitler with it, which kind of pissed him off, and to get back on his good side, Goebbels engineered the "night of broken glass," when people smashed up the windows of Jewish owned businesses and local synagogues. Obviously it worked and Goebbels got back into Hitler's good graces.<br />
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The really amazing thing about Nazi Germany is that it didn't fall apart before the war even began. The whole thing was run by the seat of its pants. Not at all the well-oiled machine it appeared on the exterior.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 13:37:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>More Rick Perry lulz</title>
		<link>http://www.hxcboards.net/topic/85937-more-rick-perry-lulz/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[<a href='http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0911/62780.html' class='bbc_url' title='External link' rel='nofollow external'>http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0911/62780.html</a><br />
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After he cuts the budget allocations for firefighters, he asks the feds for aid to fight the wildfires. <br />
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If you ask me, he just needs to pray a little harder.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 20:23:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Support Our Troops</title>
		<link>http://www.hxcboards.net/topic/85925-support-our-troops/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Here's a picture of dead Iraqi babies:<br />
http://media.mcclatchydc.com/smedia/2011/08/31/16/49/gmz1i.WiPh.91.jpg<br />
<a href='http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2011/08/31/122789/wikileaks-iraqi-children-in-us.html' class='bbc_url' title='External link' rel='nofollow external'><br />
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<a href='http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2011/08/31/122789/wikileaks-iraqi-children-in-us.html' class='bbc_url' title='External link' rel='nofollow external'><br />
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<a href='http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2011/08/31/122789/wikileaks-iraqi-children-in-us.html' class='bbc_url' title='External link' rel='nofollow external'>http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2011/08/31/122789/wikileaks-iraqi-children-in-us.html</a> <br />
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  <span style='font-size: 13px;'>GRACIOUS ALMIGHTY LORD, BLESS OUR TROOPS AS THEY GO INTO HARMS WAY BY SHOOTING INFANTS IN THE HEAD TO PROTECT OUR MANIFEST DESTINY.<br />
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 13:10:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Climate Change</title>
		<link>http://www.hxcboards.net/topic/85922-climate-change/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[<a href='http://www.skepticalscience.com/The-Scientific-Guide-to-Global-Warming-Skepticism.html' class='bbc_url' title='External link' rel='nofollow external'>http://www.skepticalscience.com/The-Scientific-Guide-to-Global-Warming-Skepticism.html</a><br />
<br />
<p class='citation'>Quote</p><div class="blockquote"><div class='quote'>The Guide explains the science in brief, plain language without getting too technical. For those who wish to dig deeper into the science, more detailed treatments can be found at the following pages (often presented with varying levels of complexity from Basic to Advanced):<br />
<br />
Human CO2 emissions is tiny compared to natural emissions<br />
Global warming stopped in 1998<br />
It's cooling<br />
Climate sensitivity is low<br />
Climate has changed in the past<br />
CO2 lags temperature<br />
CO2 doesn't cause much warming<br />
The warming trend is due to microsite influences<br />
The temperature record is unreliable<br />
The hockey stick is broken<br />
Global warming is a good thing<br />
Climategate shows there's a conspiracy among climate scientists<br />
There's no scientific consensus</div></div>]]></description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 23:44:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Walmart</title>
		<link>http://www.hxcboards.net/topic/85915-walmart/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[This is an interesting essay asking if Walmart should pay their employees more.<br />
<br />
<a href='http://www.businessinsider.com/walmart-employees-pay' class='bbc_url' title='External link' rel='nofollow external'>http://www.businessinsider.com/walmart-employees-pay</a><br />
<br />
<p class='citation'>Quote</p><div class="blockquote"><div class='quote'>Walmart employs an astounding 2.1 million people.  In the United States alone, the company employs 1.4 million people.  This is a staggering 1% of the U.S.'s 140 million working population.</div></div>]]></description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 18:45:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Rick Perry and BoA</title>
		<link>http://www.hxcboards.net/topic/85908-rick-perry-and-boa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Aug 2011 04:35:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Seasteading</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[You've probably heard of this.<br />
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<p class='citation'>Quote</p><div class="blockquote"><div class='quote'>Pay Pal founder and early Facebook investor Peter Thiel has given $1.25 million to an initiative to create floating libertarian countries in international waters</div></div><br />
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<a href='http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/silicon-valley-billionaire-funding-creation-artificial-libertarian-islands-140840896.html' class='bbc_url' title='External link' rel='nofollow external'>http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/silicon-valley-billionaire-funding-creation-artificial-libertarian-islands-140840896.html</a><br />
<br />
The purpose is to make "a kind of floating petri dish for implementing policies that libertarians, stymied by indifference at the voting booths, have been unable to advance: no welfare, looser building codes, no minimum wage, and few restrictions on weapons."<br />
<br />
This already existed. It's called humanity, and the experiment is 150,000 years old.<br />
<br />
I also think it's funny that they want a floating country with no building codes. I guess the first guy who puts a hole in the wrong place will change that.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2011 18:04:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Emails From Dad</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[<strong class='bbc'>Fw: One Evil Human</strong><br />
<p class='citation'>Quote</p><div class="blockquote"><div class='quote'>More politics for your perusal concerning One Evil Human.<br />
<br />
FROM STEVE KROFT (60 Minutes)<br />
<br />
This is very interesting material. Glen Beck has been developing information to<br />
show all the ties that George Soros has through the nation and world along with his<br />
goals. This article is written by Steve Kroft from 60 Minutes. It begins to<br />
piece together the rise of Obama and his behavior in controlling the U.S., along with<br />
many members of Congress (in particular the Democrats, such as<br />
the election of Pelosi as the minority leader in Congress)<br />
<br />
If you have wondered where Obama came from and just how he quickly moved<br />
from obscurity to President, or why the media is "selective" in what we are<br />
told, here is the man who most probably put him there and is responsible. He<br />
controls President Obama's every move. Think this is absurd? Invest a few<br />
minutes and read this. You won't regret it.<br />
<br />
Who is Obama? Obama is a puppet and here is the explanation of the man or<br />
demon that pulls his strings. It’s not by chance that Obama can manipulate<br />
the world. I don't think he knows how to tie his shoe laces. After reading<br />
this and Obama's reluctance to accept help on the oil spill you wonder if<br />
the spill is part of the plan to destroy the US ? "In history, nothing<br />
happens by accident. If it happened, you can bet someone planned it".<br />
Franklin Delano Roosevelt<br />
<br />
Who Is George Soros? He brought the market down in 2 days. Here is what CBS'<br />
Mr. Steve Kroft's research has turned up. It's a bit of a read, and it took<br />
4 months to put it together. "The main obstacle to a stable and just world<br />
order is the United States . "George Soros"<br />
<br />
George Soros is an evil man. He's anti-God, anti-family, anti-American, and<br />
anti-good." He killed and robbed his own Jewish people. What we have in<br />
Soros, is a multi-billionaire atheist, with skewed moral values, and a<br />
sociopath's lack of conscience. He considers himself to be an elitist World<br />
class philosopher, despises the American way, and just loves to do social<br />
engineering and change cultures.<br />
<br />
György Schwartz, better known to the world as George Soros, was born August<br />
12, 1930 in Hungary . Soros' father, Tivadar, was a fervent practitioner of<br />
the Esperanto language invented in 1887, and designed to be the first global<br />
language, free of any national identity. The Schwartz's, who were<br />
non-practicing Jews, changed the family name to Soros, in order to<br />
facilitate assimilation into the Gentile population, as the Nazis spread<br />
into Hungary during the 1930s<br />
<br />
When Hitler's henchman Adolf Eichmann arrived in Hungary , to oversee the<br />
murder of that country's Jews, George Soros ended up with a man whose job<br />
was confiscating property from the Jewish population. Soros went with him on<br />
his rounds.<br />
<br />
Soros has repeatedly called 1944 "the best year of his life." 70% of Mr.<br />
Soros's fellow Jews in Hungary, nearly a half-million human beings, were<br />
annihilated in that year, yet he gives no sign that this put any damper on<br />
his elation, either at the time or indeed in retrospect" During an interview<br />
with "Sixty Minute's" Steve Kroft, Soros was asked about his "best year."<br />
<br />
KROFT: My understanding is that you went out with this protector of yours<br />
who swore that you were his adopted godson. SOROS: Yes. Yes.<br />
<br />
KROFT: Went out, in fact, and helped in the confiscation of property from<br />
your fellow Jews, friends and neighbors. SOROS: Yes. That's right. Yes.<br />
<br />
KROFT: I mean, that sounds like an experience that would send lots of people<br />
to the psychiatric couch for many, many, years. Was it difficult?<br />
<br />
SOROS: No, not at all. Not at all, I rather enjoyed it.<br />
<br />
KROFT: No feelings of guilt?<br />
<br />
SOROS: No, only feelings of absolute power.<br />
<br />
In his article, Muravchik describes how Soros has admitted to having carried<br />
some rather "potent messianic fantasies with me from childhood, which I felt<br />
I had to control, otherwise they might get me in trouble." Be that as it<br />
may. After WWII, Soros attended the London School of Economics, where he<br />
fell under the thrall of fellow atheist and Hungarian, Karl Popper, one of<br />
his professors. Popper was a mentor to Soros until Popper's death in 1994.<br />
Two of Popper's most influential teachings concerned "the open society," and<br />
Fallibilism.<br />
<br />
Fallibilism is the philosophical doctrine that all claims of knowledge<br />
could, in principle, be mistaken. (Then again, I could be wrong about that.)<br />
The "open society" basically refers to a "test and evaluate" approach to<br />
social engineering. Regarding "open society" Roy Childs writes, "Since the<br />
Second World War, most of the Western democracies have followed Popper's<br />
advice about piecemeal social engineering and democratic social reform, and<br />
it has gotten them into a grand mess."<br />
<br />
In 1956 Soros moved to New York City , where he worked on Wall Street, and<br />
started amassing his fortune. He specialized in hedge funds and currency<br />
speculation. Soros is absolutely ruthless, amoral, and clever in his<br />
business dealings, and quickly made his fortune. By the 1980s he was well on<br />
his way to becoming the global powerhouse that he is today.<br />
<br />
In an article Kyle-Anne Shiver wrote for "The American Thinker" she says,<br />
"Soros made his first billion in 1992 by shorting the British pound with<br />
leveraged billions in financial bets, and became known as the man who broke<br />
the Bank of England . He broke it on the backs of hard-working British<br />
citizens who immediately saw their homes severely devalued and their life<br />
savings cut drastically, almost overnight."<br />
<br />
In 1994 Soros crowed in "The New Republic ," that "the former Soviet Empire<br />
is now called the Soros Empire." The Russia-gate scandal in 1999, which<br />
almost collapsed the Russian economy, was labeled by Rep. Jim Leach, then<br />
head of the House Banking Committee, to be "one of the greatest social<br />
robberies in human history. "The "Soros Empire" indeed. In 1997 Soros almost<br />
destroyed the economies of Thailand and Malaysia . At the time, Malaysia 's<br />
Prime Minister, Mahathir Mohammad, called Soros "a villain, and a moron."<br />
Thai activist Weng Tojirakarn said, "We regard George Soros as a kind of<br />
Dracula. He sucks the blood from the people."<br />
<br />
The website Greek National Pride reports, "Soros was part of the full court<br />
press that dismantled Yugoslavia and caused trouble in Georgia , Ukraine and<br />
Myanmar [Burma] Calling himself a philanthropist, Soros' role is to tighten<br />
the ideological stranglehold of globalization and the New World Order while<br />
promoting his own financial gain. He is without conscience; a capitalist who<br />
functions with absolute amorality."<br />
<br />
France has upheld an earlier conviction against Soros, for felony insider<br />
trading. Soros was fined 2.9 million dollars. Recently, his native Hungary<br />
fined Soros 2.2 million dollars for "illegal market manipulation." Elizabeth<br />
Crum writes that the Hungarian economy has been in a state of transition as<br />
the country seeks to become more financially stable and westernized. Soros<br />
deliberately driving down the share price of its largest bank put Hungary 's<br />
economy into a wicked tailspin, one from which it is still trying to<br />
recover.<br />
<br />
My point here is that Soros is a planetary parasite. His grasp, greed, and<br />
gluttony have a global reach. But what about America ? Soros told Australia<br />
's national newspaper "The Australian." " America , as the centre of the<br />
globalised financial markets, was sucking up the savings of the world. This<br />
is now over. The game is out," he said, adding that the time has come for "a<br />
very serious adjustment" in American's consumption habits. He implied that<br />
he was the one with the power to bring this about."<br />
<br />
Soros: "World financial crisis was "stimulating" and "in a way, the<br />
culmination of my life's work."<br />
<br />
Obama has recently promised 10 billion of our tax dollars to Brazil , in<br />
order to give them a leg-up in expanding their offshore oil fields. Obama's<br />
largesse towards Brazil came shortly after his political financial backer,<br />
George Soros, invested heavily in Brazilian oil (Pet rob ras).<br />
<br />
Tait Trussel writes, "The Pet rob ras loan may be a windfall for Soros and<br />
Brazil , but it is a bad deal for the U. S. The American Petroleum Institute<br />
estimates that oil exploration in the U S could create 160,000 new,<br />
well-paying jobs, as well as $1.7 trillion in revenues to federal, state,<br />
and local governments, all while fostering greater energy security and<br />
independence."<br />
<br />
A blog you might want to keep an eye on is SorosWatch. com. Their mission:<br />
"This blog is dedicated to all who have suffered due to the ruthless<br />
financial pursuits of George Soros. Your stories are many and varied, but<br />
the theme is the same: the destructive power of greed without conscience. We<br />
pledge to tirelessly watch Soros wherever he goes and to print the truth in<br />
the hope that he will one day be made to stop preying upon the world's poor,<br />
that justice will be served."<br />
<br />
Back to America . Soros has been actively working to destroy America from<br />
the inside out for some years now. People have been warning us. Two years<br />
ago, news sources reported that "Soros [is] an extremist who wants open<br />
borders, a one-world foreign policy, legalized drugs, euthanasia, and on and<br />
on. This is off-the-chart dangerous." In 1997 Rachel Ehrenfeld wrote, "Soros<br />
uses his philanthropy to change or more accurately deconstruct the moral<br />
values and attitudes of the Western world, and particularly of the American<br />
people. His "open society" is not about freedom; it is about license. His<br />
vision rejects the notion of ordered liberty, in favor of a PROGRESSIVE<br />
ideology of rights and entitlements."<br />
<br />
Perhaps the most important of these "whistle blowers" are David Horowitz and<br />
Richard Poe. Their book "The Shadow Party" outlines in detail how Soros<br />
hijacked the Democratic Party, and now owns it lock, stock, and barrel.<br />
Soros has been packing the Democratic Party with radicals, and ousting<br />
moderate Democrats for years. The Shadow Party became the Shadow Government,<br />
which recently became the Obama Administration.<br />
<br />
Discover The Networks. org (another good source) writes, "By his [Soros']<br />
own admission, he helped engineer coups in Slovakia , Croatia , Georgia ,<br />
and Yugoslavia . When Soros targets a country for "regime change," he begins<br />
by creating a shadow government, a fully formed government-in-exile, ready<br />
to assume power when the opportunity arises. The Shadow Party he has built<br />
in America greatly resembles those he has created in other countries prior<br />
to instigating a coup."<br />
<br />
November 2008 edition of the German magazine "Der Spiegel," in which Soros<br />
gives his opinion on what the next POTUS (President of the U. S. ) should do<br />
after taking office. "I think we need a large stimulus package." Soros<br />
thought that around 600 billion would be about right. Soros also said that<br />
"I think Obama presents us a great opportunity to finally deal with global<br />
warming and energy dependence. The U. S. needs a cap and trade system with<br />
auctioning of licenses for emissions rights."<br />
<br />
Although Soros doesn't (yet) own the Republican Party, like he does the<br />
Democrats, make no mistake, his tentacles are spread throughout the<br />
Republican Party as well.<br />
<br />
Soros is a partner in the Carlyle Group where he has invested more than 100<br />
million dollars. According to an article by "The Baltimore Chronicle's"<br />
Alice Cherbonnier, the Carlye Group is run by "a veritable who's who of<br />
former Republican leaders," from CIA man Frank Carlucci, to CIA head and<br />
ex-President George Bush, Sr.<br />
<br />
In late 2006, Soros bought about 2 million shares of Halliburton, Dick<br />
Cheney's old stomping grounds. When the Democrats and Republicans held their<br />
conventions in 2000, Soros held Shadow Party conventions in the same cities,<br />
at the same time. In 2008, Soros donated $5,000,000,000 ( that’s Five<br />
Billion ) to the Democratic National Committee, DNC, to insure Obama's win<br />
and wins for many other Alinsky trained Radical Rules Anti-American<br />
Socialist. George has been contributing a $ billion plus to the DNC since<br />
Clinton came on the scene.<br />
<br />
Soros has dirtied both sides of the aisle, trust me. And if that weren't bad<br />
enough, he has long held connections with the CIA. And I mustn't forget to<br />
mention Soros' involvement with the MSM (Main Stream Media), the<br />
entertainment industry (e. g. he owns 2.6 million shares of Time Warner),<br />
and the various political advertising organizations he funnels millions to.<br />
In short, George Soros controls or influences most of the MSM. Little wonder<br />
they ignore the TEA PARTY, Soro's NEMESIS.<br />
<br />
As Matthew Vadum writes, "The liberal billionaire-turned-philanthropist has<br />
been buying up media properties for years in order to drive home his message<br />
to the American public that they are too materialistic, too wasteful, too<br />
selfish, and too stupid to decide for themselves how to run their own<br />
lives."<br />
<br />
Richard Poe writes, "Soros' private philanthropy, totaling nearly $5<br />
billion, continues undermining America 's traditional Western values. His<br />
giving has provided funding of abortion rights, atheism, drug legalization,<br />
sex education, euthanasia, feminism, gun control, globalization, mass<br />
immigration, gay marriage and other radical experiments in social<br />
engineering."<br />
<br />
Some of the many NGOs (Non-Government Organizations) that Soros funds with<br />
his billions are: MoveOn. org, the Apollo Alliance , Media Matters for<br />
America , the Tides Foundation, the ACLU, ACORN, PDIA (Project on Death In<br />
America ), La Raza, and many more. For a more complete list, with brief<br />
descriptions of the NGOs, go to DiscoverTheNetworks. org.<br />
<br />
Poe continues, "Through his global web of Open Society Institutes and Open<br />
Society Foundations, Soros has spent 25 years recruiting, training,<br />
indoctrinating and installing a network of loyal operatives in 50 countries,<br />
placing them in positions of influence and power in media, government,<br />
finance and academia."<br />
<br />
Without Soros' money, would the Saul Alinsky's Chicago machine still be<br />
rolling? Would SEIU, ACORN, and La Raza still be pursuing their nefarious<br />
activities? Would Big Money and lobbyists still be corrupting government?<br />
Would our college campuses still be retirement homes for 1960s radicals?<br />
<br />
America stands at the brink of an abyss, and that fact is directly<br />
attributable to Soros. Soros has vigorously, cleverly, and insidiously<br />
planned the ruination of America and his puppet, Barack Obama is leading the<br />
way.<br />
<br />
The words of Patrick Henry are apropos: "Is life so dear, or peace so sweet,<br />
as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, almighty<br />
God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty,<br />
or give me death!"</div></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Tea Party</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is funny. A CNN/ORC poll was conducted over the past 18 months asking,<br />
<br />
<p class='citation'>Quote</p><div class="blockquote"><div class='quote'>"We'd like to get your overall opinion of some people in the news. As I read each name, please say if you have a favorable or unfavorable opinion of these people -- or if you have never heard of them. The Tea Party movement."<br /></div></div><br />
 <br />
The results showed the Favorable level stayed statistically flat, and the Unfavorable level doubling as the level of "Never heard of" grew.<br />
<br />
&#91;IMG&#93;http://i.imgur.com/jSNKn.png&#91;/IMG&#93;<br />
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<a href='http://www.pollingreport.com/politics.htm' class='bbc_url' title='External link' rel='nofollow external'>http://www.pollingreport.com/politics.htm</a>]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2011 19:07:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>The difference between Libya and Syria</title>
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		<description>Oil.</description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Aug 2011 15:34:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>New GOP Strategy Involves Re-Electing Obama</title>
		<link>http://www.hxcboards.net/topic/85895-new-gop-strategy-involves-re-electing-obama/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[<a href='http://www.theonion.com/articles/new-gop-strategy-involves-reelecting-obama-making,21113/' class='bbc_url' title='External link' rel='nofollow external'>http://www.theonion.com/articles/new-gop-strategy-involves-reelecting-obama-making,21113/</a><br />
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Wait...  <img src='http://www.hxcboards.net/public/style_emoticons/default/blink.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':blink:' />]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2011 18:33:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Michelle Bachmann</title>
		<link>http://www.hxcboards.net/topic/85894-michelle-bachmann/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[It's amazing how people scream that Obama isn't in the mainstream of America because of his alleged ties to fringe people, but then they coalesce around politicians like Bachmann who are clearly outside the mainstream of reality.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2011 18:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>The Fed Audit</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p class='citation'>Quote</p><div class="blockquote"><div class='quote'>"As a result of this audit, we now know that the Federal Reserve provided more than $16 trillion in total financial assistance to some of the largest financial institutions and corporations in the United States and throughout the world," said Sanders. "This is a clear case of socialism for the rich and rugged, you're-on-your-own individualism for everyone else."</div></div><br />
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<a href='http://sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/news/?id=9e2a4ea8-6e73-4be2-a753-62060dcbb3c3' class='bbc_url' title='External link' rel='nofollow external'>http://sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/news/?id=9e2a4ea8-6e73-4be2-a753-62060dcbb3c3</a>]]></description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 16:50:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Riots in London</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 15:54:30 +0000</pubDate>
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