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		<title>Christmas on TV; You Happy O&#8217;Reilly?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 02:49:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems like only yesterday we were listening to the daily rantings from Bill O&#8217;Reilly about how &#8216;the liberals have a war on Christmas&#8216;. Well, it seems Bill&#8217;s dreams have come true; Walmart and the rest of the American retail market has decided that 2009 is the year that Christmas came back. On November 1, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More Idiotic Politicians</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:22:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Measure to Expand Gun Rights Falls Short in Senate http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/23/us/politics/23guns.html?_r=1&#038;hp The Senate on Wednesday turned aside the latest attempt by gun advocates to expand the rights of gun owners, narrowly voting down a provision that would have allowed gun owners with valid permits from one state to carry concealed weapons in other states. A group [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pirates and How To Stop Them</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 18:55:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In recent months, there has been a surge in the amount of &#8216;pirate&#8217; attacks off the Somalian coast and the Horn of Africa, but we saw a change in the attitude towards the resolution of those attacks on Sunday. Navy SEALs used sniper fire to take out 3 people holding the captain of a U.S. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iowa Ban on Same Sex Marriage &#8211; UNCONSTITUTIONAL!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 19:03:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a great day for those, like me, who think that the bans these states are doing on same-sex marriage is a travesty, since they don&#8217;t offer any equivalent, like civil unions. The Iowa Supreme Court today ruled unanimously that a 1998 state law defining marriage as a union between a man and a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Consensual Living Movement? HA!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:42:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I saw a news story today that, I have to say, scares me and angers me all at once. &#8220;In the consensual living model, father doesn&#8217;t know best. Neither does mom. Instead, parents and children are equal partners in family life, according to the principles laid out at consensual-living.com. Founded in 2006 by a group [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More Discriminatory Taxation in The USA</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 22:53:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today on NPR, there was a story about how the cigarette and cigar tax to pay for the SCHIP program was going into effect soon and I can&#8217;t help but voice some concern over this blatant intrusion into the rights of all Americans. I should preface this by saying that I am not a smoker, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Day The Ink Dried (up)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:43:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, the Seattle PI printed its last edition and it starts as a new &#8216;online only&#8217; news outlet; it will begin service as seattlepi.com. Sounds like a great plan and a wonderful way for me to get my news, but there&#8217;s something else that raises an issue: all but 20 of the staff were cut [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No love for people like this</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 19:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a recent story, radio pundit Laura Ingraham thought it would be witty to bag on John McCain&#8217;s daughter for being &#8216;plus sized&#8217; (which frankly, she&#8217;s anything but). Now, I&#8217;m not a fan of John, but his daughter is pretty hot and when we compare that to Ingraham, it sounds to me like a little [...]]]></description>
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		<title>[POLITICS] TimeWarner &amp; Windfall profits tax?</title>
		<link>http://brandonplank.com/blog/politics-timewarner-windfall-profits-tax/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Aug 2006 19:48:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think it&#8217;s time we sit back and take a gander at the hypocrisy that&#8217;s abound in the world today. &#8220;Time Warner Inc… reported a profit Wednesday of $1 billion for the second quarter…&#8221; http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14148907/ Now, I&#8217;m sure most people will read that headline and say &#8220;Gee, good for them; maybe I should invest in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>[Politics] The Israeli Conflict &#8211; some thoughts</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Jul 2006 01:58:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I guess it’s time that I make a blog entry about all the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah. We all know what the western media has said: Hezbollah soldiers went into Israel and kidnapped 2 soldiers. Some of the more liberal outlets have reported that 8 Israelis were also killed in that raid, but not [...]]]></description>
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