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			<title><![CDATA[ Shopping around before making a purchase ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ The wedding plans are coming along. We are at the invitation ordering stage. We went to a few a places and found a place which has the best price/service
combination. At least that&#39;s our opinion. In our search for invites, we saw a few places and one of them was at the store we refer to as Marine Park,
because of its general location. It took the owner/manager 2 weeks to make an appointment. She was late for the appointment. And when we walked in the whole
place was dark and uninviting.... ]]></description>

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			<title><![CDATA[ Tea Party tax protests ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ What do you think about this?  I got myself to town to attend one, my first protest actually, having been a bit young for the sixties.  Media is doing its
typical bias thing with it.  Wondering how y&#39;all are interpreting it? ]]></description>

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			<title><![CDATA[ Avigdor Lieberman, Israel's Shame... ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ <blockquote>
  <span class="submitted">Published on Wednesday, March 25, 2009 by <a target="_blank" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/mar/25/avigdor-lieberman-binyamin-netanyahu-israel">The Guardian/UK</a></span>

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			<title><![CDATA[ Teen studying ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ I was listening to my teen studying for her US history test, so she is reading to me the following from her notes, &quot;...Blacks are inferior and need whites
to help them&quot; so she stops and says &quot;Not in basketball. But apparently in bowling, based on Obama&quot; It got a chuckle out of me. ]]></description>

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			<title><![CDATA[ well.. where i came from.. where i am headed.. ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ TY. ichigo, btw.. for the invite..
<br>
<br>
i was born in calif.. of parents from Mass.  they split up when i was 2 and i , along w/my sibs, born at the time, went into a foster home.. (i am not a big
advocate of  THAT system).. came back to live w/mom at nine.. (youngest bro was w/us for a time, having  been born after we moved , and went to different
homes)..
<br>
State took youngest brother a few years later because of sever abuse..   managed to grow up, went out on my own at 17.. waited... ]]></description>

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			<title><![CDATA[ Justify THIS, Rita... ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ <blockquote>
  <span class="submitted">Published on Friday, March 20, 2009 by <a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article5939611.ece">the Times
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			<title><![CDATA[ The IDF in Gaza ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ <blockquote>
  <span class="submitted">Published on Thursday, March 19, 2009 by <a target="_blank" href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1072040.html">Haaretz (Israel)</a></span>

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			<title><![CDATA[ Obama on Jay Leno ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Last night on Jay Leno Obama suggested that Credit Cards should come with warnings like toasters... He also claimed that NO ONE was able to predict the
economic collapse. (I was, and I know lots of people who were too.) When Jay Leno asked him a hard question they went into a commercial and after that Obama
just said a few unrelated things without answering Jay&#39;s question. Then he was going on and on about having fun in the White House like basket ball and
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			<title><![CDATA[ Subprime Mortgages for Dummies ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ I finally understand how a bunch of crappy mortgages brought down the world economy!
<br>
<br>
<a target="_blank" href="http://www.businesspundit.com/sub-prime/">Subprime Primer</a> ]]></description>

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			<title><![CDATA[ The walking dead... ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Moody&#39;s has started a list of the companies most likely to fail.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Coulter vs. Maher ]]></title>
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        <p style="font-family: arial; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><strong>Coulter, Maher spar at Radio City</strong>
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        <span class="author">By: <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);... ]]></description>

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			<title><![CDATA[ Send this letter to congress. ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ .
<br>
<br>
<br>
The Barack Obama Presidential Coin <a target="_blank" href="http://coin.democratz.org">http://coin.democratz.org</a>
<br>
<br>
<br>
Send this letter to congress.
<br>
<br>
<br>
Send the following letter by US Mail or email or fax to your congressman and your 2 Senators and Senate Republican minority leader Senator Mitch McConnell.
Tell 3 other people to visit this site and have these people to get 3 other people to visit this site.Then go to <a target="_blank"... ]]></description>

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			<title><![CDATA[ dismal prospects for the economy ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ <blockquote>
  <p>This is why America seems so hopeless right now, and so depressed. We are stuck going in exactly the wrong direction on economic policy because of
  currently dominant ideological fashions.</p>

  <p>A natural economic recovery will begin sometime this year, not because of the president&#39;s policies, but because soon this will be the longest
  recession since World War II. However, thanks to the administration&#39;s retrograde policies -- cut from the cloth of the 1970s... ]]></description>

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			<title><![CDATA[ stupid things said... ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ My family has this long debate whether my older brother is stupid or just too lazy to think before he speaks. The other day I called him to announce that my
daughter got engaged and here are a few of the things he said that are just too funny not to post.
<br>
<br>
&quot;So did she get engaged or is she getting married?&quot;
<br>
<br>
After a long lecture of how they should live together before they get married, I pointed out his track record in that department, so he replied,... ]]></description>

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			<title><![CDATA[ Prayers and Expressions of Support ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ <font size="4"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">***</span> This thread has been started for those members who want to share or ask for prayers or
expressions of support. <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">***</span></font>
<br> ]]></description>

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			<title><![CDATA[ Hunger - Faces of the Future ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ You may like to consider this contribution to another place, reproduced with the author&#39;s permission:
<br>
<br>
Hunger--Faces of the Future
<br>
<a target="_blank" href="http://www.newsweek.com/id/131518">http://www.newsweek.com/id/131518</a>
<br>
<br>
One of the things that strikes me from looking at these pictures is that it&#39;s not just hunger in Africa any more. We&#39;ve become far too jaded about
Africa for Newsweek to bother with a series of photographs of malnourished black... ]]></description>

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			<title><![CDATA[ A funny letter ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Having flown on a few airlines (but not Virgin - who wants an airline that won&#39;t go all the way?), I have been lucky enough to miss <span style="font-style: italic;">this</span> experience:
<br>
<strong><a title="A good meal?" target="_blank" href="http://timesnews.typepad.com/news/">Airline food</a>
<br>
<br></strong>Enjoy!<strong><br></strong> ]]></description>

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			<title><![CDATA[ The altruistic mind of enlightenment ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ <div>
  <font size="2" face="Arial">&quot;Unable to bear the suffering of sentient beings without doing something about it, you generate strong compassion and love,
  wishing beings to be rid of suffering and possess happiness. Then, seeing that to accomplish this purpose there is no way but to attain Buddhahood, you
  generate the altruistic intention to achieve enlightenment. This intention to attain the omniscience of a Buddha in order to be of service to others is
  called the altruistic... ]]></description>

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			<title><![CDATA[ Snark ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ I heard &#39;em talking about this on the radio today- haven&#39;t read this review but this is the book and the concept:<a href="http://nymag.com/arts/books/reviews/53159/"><br>
<br>
<br></a><a target="_blank" href="http://nymag.com/arts/books/reviews/53159/">http://nymag.com/arts/books/reviews/53159/</a>
<br>
<br>
starts out:
<br>
<br>
&quot;<span class="drop">Y</span>ou have to give David Denby credit for bravery: Writing a book titled <em>Snark: It&#39;s Mean, It&#39;s Personal, and... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 18:05:35 GMT</pubDate>
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