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	<title>Rob Lifford &#187; politics</title>
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		<title>more idealistic, impractical ranting</title>
		<link>http://rob.lifford.org/2009/09/17/more-idealistic-impractical-ranting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 05:56:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Observing the bloody fray that is U.S. health care reform, Andrew is about as fed up as I am: &#8220;the way we write legislation is stupid,&#8221; he notes.
I couldn&#8217;t agree more. And tonight, it seems that the only means I have to make myself feel better about this smoking train wreck that is our government [...]]]></description>
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		<title>the national debt</title>
		<link>http://rob.lifford.org/2008/09/04/the-national-debt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 03:13:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are many indicators of a healthy or troubled economy, but I never took economics (stupid, stupid, stupid!) so I&#8217;m not in a position to tell you much about them.
However, I got curious tonight about one of those indicators, the National Debt, and did some research. Here&#8217;s a quick look at what I found (data [...]]]></description>
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		<title>bitch goddess Katrina</title>
		<link>http://rob.lifford.org/2005/09/07/bitch-goddess-katrina/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2005 04:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s really bumming me out that the process of overcoming a massive tragedy like Hurricane Katrina and all the associated challenges has so quickly deteriorated into the kind of heated partisan rhetoric that characterizes&#8230; well, just about everything these days. Democrats and Republicans alike, nearly everyone holding office right now just looks like a blustering [...]]]></description>
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		<title>the last word on gay marriage&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://rob.lifford.org/2004/12/07/the-last-word-on-gay-marriage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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&#8230;or, at least, the last time I expect to post on the subject, anyway. I&#8217;ve finally stumbled across the kind of post that covers most everything I wish I&#8217;d found the time and skill to say myself about the issue. Everyone ought to read it. It was written by none other than Eric Meyer, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>the culture wars continue&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://rob.lifford.org/2004/11/03/the-culture-wars-continue/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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&#8230;and the bad guys are winning big. The bans on gay marriage in Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Michigan, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma and Utah also prohibit any type of legal civil union arrangements for same-sex couples.
The people of those eight states have now successfully wiped their collective ass with their states&#8217; constitutions.
All over those states, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>the UN&#8217;s corporate welfare office</title>
		<link>http://rob.lifford.org/2004/10/18/the-uns-corporate-welfare-office/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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This may be another fine reason for the US to get the hell out of the UN: Why is Iraq giving $190,000 to Toys R Us? Or $321,000 to Colonel Sanders? Disgusting, if it&#8217;s true. A number of American companies come off looking pretty awful in the article, and it sounds like they deserve it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>go to hell, Zell</title>
		<link>http://rob.lifford.org/2004/09/04/go-to-hell-zell/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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I&#8217;ve gotta admit, Zell is a really, really cool name.
However, Zell Miller is just another shady, slimy, screw-&#8217;em-and-smile politician. Mike Rundle illutrates that quite nicely with his post; thanks, Mike.
Maybe Miller felt the need to contradict himself so thoroughly because of some personal feud with Kerry that&#8217;s come up in the last few year. Who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>write me in for president&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://rob.lifford.org/2004/08/31/write-me-in-for-president/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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&#8230;because if elected, I promise America that any blogger who uses the phrase &#8220;the party of hate&#8221; (to describe the political party opposite his/her own affiliation) will be hog-tied with USB cable and spanked 14,871 times with his own keyboard.
That&#8217;s one spank for every time I&#8217;ve seen that phrase used this year. Enough of this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ronald + Osama</title>
		<link>http://rob.lifford.org/2004/06/24/ronald-osama/</link>
		<comments>http://rob.lifford.org/2004/06/24/ronald-osama/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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After writing recently about my difficult-to-suppress desire to overthrow rogue governments from within, my Kiwi buddy and former co-worker Julian pointed out this article: Reagan&#8217;s Osama Connection &#8211; How he turned a jihadist into a terrorist kingpin. After a quick review of the situation&#8212;the Reagan administration funneled billions to Afghanistan&#8217;s Islamic resistance to the Soviets&#8212;the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Homer, Ronald, the war</title>
		<link>http://rob.lifford.org/2004/06/09/homer-ronald-the-war/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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It seems The Simpsons has become like a drug to me. I actually felt a twinge of anxiety when I saw that tonight&#8217;s 6 p.m. re-run was being pre-empted by services for the late Ronald Wilson Reagan.
No, it doesn&#8217;t make me particularly proud to think that my dependence on a cartoon momentarily overshadowed the proper [...]]]></description>
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