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		<title>McDonald&#8217;s Faces Happy Meals&#8217; Lawsuit?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 22:37:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[McDonald&#8217;s Faces Happy Meals&#8217; Lawsuit (http://www.latimes.com/news/health/sns-health-mcdonalds-happy-meal-lawsuits,0,1457303.story) I saw this story today and felt it needed some commentary. But the first line I saw was this: &#8220;Weeks after a Silicon Valley county in California became the first in the nation to ban toys from McDonald&#8217;s Happy Meals and other food promotions aimed at children, a public [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hypocritical California</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2010 02:26:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[California is a wonky state and now, it seems a hypocritical one. The Global Warming Solutions Act, which Governor Schwarzenegger signed into law in 2006, is essentially &#8216;Cap &#38; Trade&#8217; on the state level, with the lofty goal of reducing CO2 levels to 1990 levels, by 2020. While this is a goal we should all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poor Little Nigerian Boy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 15:55:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unless you&#8217;ve been living under a rock, you&#8217;ve no doubt heard about the rich Nigerian that tried to blow up a NorthWest Airlines jet from Nigeria to Detroit. This story kinda touches on my feelings on the subject: LINK, as the media seems to be taking the wrong approach to the issue. Stories on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Keep Christ in Xmas?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 16:25:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a new fad that I noticed more, now that I moved to Texas: &#8220;KEEP CHRIST IN CHRISTMAS&#8221;. While I&#8217;m all for expressing one&#8217;s faith and beliefs, there&#8217;s an air of hypocritical assholery that accompanies these magnets and stickers, plastered to the back of the SUVs I see. From what I can tell, there are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another Excessive Judgement</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:13:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, it was announced that a Florida jury awarded a 60 year old with emphysema $300 million in compensatory and punitive damages, &#8216;because she claims the cigarette company committed fraud against her.&#8217; The claimant stated she took up smoking at age 20 in 1968, &#8216;because she thought it made her look older and more sophisticated&#8217;; [...]]]></description>
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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>The EU and Why They Can Suck It</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:36:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[EU says Texas, Nation Should End Executions http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/politics/63904292.html In a nationally run story the other day, the EU chastised the US and Texas for continuing to dole out capital punishment for crimes. &#8220;The EU believes that the elimination of the death penalty is fundamental to the enhancement of human dignity and to the progressive development [...]]]></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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