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<dc:date>2008-08-20T03:44:42-04:00</dc:date>

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<title>The Port Huron Statement: ''Weeds''</title>
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<dc:date>2008-07-02T22:07:15-04:00</dc:date>
<dc:creator>Posted by TJ</dc:creator>
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<title>This Week In Hypocrisy, Vol. 4, No. 17  ''James Peake and Ted Stevens''</title>
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Every Tuesday, TBR likes to spotlight an individual or group whose blatant hypocrisy in the face of facts warrants recognition. The winner receives the TBR &#8220;the Hyppie&#8221;¯ award for hypocrisy.
Ah, Memorial Day.&#160;It&#8217;s the one day a year that we are asked to take at least a moment to remember those who have sacrificed for us in uniform.&#160;Regardless of your thoughts on the justifiable excuses for any of the wars or conflicts in which the United States has participated, ]]></description>
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<dc:date>2008-05-28T01:34:51-04:00</dc:date>
<dc:creator>Posted by TJ</dc:creator>
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<title>The Port Huron Statement: ''Uncle Tommy''</title>
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&#160;
When I was a small child Memorial Day meant listening to the Indy 500 on the radio, a family get together and a special meal, and a trip in the afternoon to the cemetery.&#160;The cemetery was a few miles away in Mt. Vernon, Washington and was really just another place to run and play but I do remember always visiting my Uncle Tommy&#8217;s grave site.&#160;He was my namesake.&#160;
Of course I never knew him; he had died many years before in the war.&#160;He was my mom&#8217;s little]]></description>
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<dc:subject>Old School Bias</dc:subject>
<dc:date>2008-05-25T23:15:15-04:00</dc:date>
<dc:creator>Posted by TJ</dc:creator>
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<title>This Week In Hypocrisy, Vol. 4, No. 17 – ''Hypocrisy Potpourri''</title>
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Every Tuesday, TBR likes to spotlight an individual or group whose blatant hypocrisy in the face of facts warrants recognition. The winner receives the TBR &#8220;Hyppie&#8221; award for hypocrisy.
&#160;
In celebration of the primary season winding down, I thought it would be fun to piece together a few brief stories of hypocrisy that have occurred over the past week.&#160;Hope you all enjoy. . . . 
&#160;Capt. Andrew Douglas Franz
Here&#8217;s a guy that&#8217;s running for a Congressi]]></description>
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<dc:date>2008-05-20T11:57:38-04:00</dc:date>
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<title>This Week In Hypocrisy, Vol. 4, No. 16 – ''Vito Fossella''</title>
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&#160;
Every Tuesday, TBR likes to spotlight an individual or group whose blatant hypocrisy in the face of facts warrants recognition. The winner receives the TBR &#8220;Hyppie&#8221; award for hypocrisy.
&#160;
Considering the multiple tragic events that have occurred in the past week, I thought it best to keep things light for today&#8217;s column - Jeff
We could have written about Vito Fossella last week, but sometimes fate smiles upon us.&#160;If we had written about this GOP Congressm]]></description>
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<dc:subject>Hypocrisy</dc:subject>
<dc:date>2008-05-13T02:14:44-04:00</dc:date>
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<title>The Port Huron Statement: ''Initiatives that Never Were''</title>
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            Is there an initiative for this man?
            
        
    

As the Bush administration draws mercifully to a close - and takes its inevitable place among the worst nightmares in American history &#8211; I&#8217;m caused to wonder&#8230;could the last 7 years have been any worse?&#160;Well, according to an internal Republican memo recently unearthed (it was buried in Ka]]></description>
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<dc:subject>Old School Bias</dc:subject>
<dc:date>2008-05-11T21:16:25-04:00</dc:date>
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<title>This Week In Hypocrisy, Vol. 4, No. 15 – ''The RNC'' </title>
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Every Tuesday, TBR likes to spotlight an individual or group whose blatant hypocrisy in the face of facts warrants recognition. The winner receives the TBR &#8220;Hyppie&#8221; award for hypocrisy.
&#160;
Ah, the Republican National Committee.&#160;Sure, they aren&#8217;t always the ones that put out the nasty ads, but they certainly do a great job of cheerleading from the sidelines while others do.&#160;At the very least, their &#8220;disowning&#8221; of some of the more vile tactics promul]]></description>
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<dc:date>2008-05-07T01:49:03-04:00</dc:date>
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<title>The Port Huron Statement: ''The Incident at Nookachamps Creek Bridge''</title>
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In a little less than two weeks it will be my birthday.&#160;I don&#8217;t mention that to receive congratulations, happy birthday wishes, or presents (which if mailed now will get here in plenty of time).&#160;No, I hate birthdays&#8230;they only remind me of how old I&#8217;ve gotten&#8230;and how little I&#8217;ve accomplished. &#160;&#160;Though, don&#8217;t get me wrong, I DO want to experience many more of them before I shuffle off this mortal coil.&#160;&#160;And, they do serve to mar]]></description>
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<dc:subject>Old School Bias</dc:subject>
<dc:date>2008-05-04T17:49:16-04:00</dc:date>
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<title>This Week In Hypocrisy, Vol. 4, No. 14 – ''Tony Zirkle''</title>
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Every Tuesday, TBR likes to spotlight an individual or group whose blatant hypocrisy in the face of facts warrants recognition. The winner receives the TBR &#8220;Hyppie&#8221; award for hypocrisy.
&#160;
Here at This Week in Hypocrisy we do our best to bring you stories of infamy and oftentimes ribaldry that you might have otherwise missed.&#160;Usually we go after the bigger fish, since they&#8217;re the folks who have the most impact on our lives from a policy standpoint.&#160;However, ]]></description>
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<dc:subject>Hypocrisy</dc:subject>
<dc:date>2008-04-29T12:45:47-04:00</dc:date>
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<title>Young American, Vol. 2, No. 12 : ''We Don't Need No Stinking Fences''</title>
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&#160;
Not a myth left the ghetto&#34;
-David Bowie's &#34;Young Americans&#34;
&#160;
Here&#8217;s a fun story that you might not have seen this week:
A $20 million prototype of a virtual fence to help patrol the border between Arizona and Mexico had to be scrapped this week.&#160;When I first heard this story I thought it was great news on two fronts:&#160;first, the fences are a boondoggle and don&#8217;t address the real problem, which is how can we help Mexico to create an economy]]></description>
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<dc:subject>Young America</dc:subject>
<dc:date>2008-04-25T21:57:51-04:00</dc:date>
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<title>This Week In Hypocrisy, Vol. 4, No. 13 – ''John McCain & Co.''</title>
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Every Tuesday, TBR likes to spotlight an individual or group whose blatant hypocrisy in the face of facts warrants recognition. The winner receives the TBR &#8220;Hyppie&#8221; award for hypocrisy.
I was talking to a like-minded political friend this week about the looking general election campaign between John McCain and (almost certainly) Barack Obama this week.&#160;I found it amusing that he was concerned that no matter what happened, the Republicans would use every tactic in the book]]></description>
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<dc:subject>Hypocrisy</dc:subject>
<dc:date>2008-04-22T22:00:55-04:00</dc:date>
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<title>Young American, Vol. 2, No. 11 – ''If Only Knowledge Were Power”</title>
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Hey, did any of you catch the Democratic debate the other night?&#160;It had seemingly been so long since I had seen one I almost forgot how maddening they are to watch.&#160;
Maybe it&#8217;s just how I romanticize my youth, but it seems as though the questions asked during debates seemed like they were a little smarter back then, almost as though the people asking the questions thought that the viewing audience might want to hear a thing or two of substance before the obligatory c]]></description>
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<dc:subject>Young America</dc:subject>
<dc:date>2008-04-18T16:40:38-04:00</dc:date>
<dc:creator>Posted by TJ</dc:creator>
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<title>Serving a constituency-but which one?</title>
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With the news that the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) will appeal a ruling handed down last week by the courts, it gives one pause to consider why they would have a problem with the new law regarding lobbying. The law in question is the Honest Leadership and Open Government Act (HLOGA). In fact, the NAM folks are so verklempt about this ruling they are actually going to seek an emergency stay of the decision. Lets see how one of the NAM faithful spins this sh]]></description>
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<dc:subject>Dusty</dc:subject>
<dc:date>2008-04-16T00:04:17-04:00</dc:date>
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<title>This Week In Hypocrisy, Vol. 4, No. 13 – ''Alberto Gonzales''</title>
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Every Tuesday, TBR likes to spotlight an individual or group whose blatant hypocrisy in the face of facts warrants recognition. The winner receives the TBR &#8220;Hyppie&#8221; award for hypocrisy.

Alas, poor Fredo, if only we missed ye. . . . 
I found it interesting to hear yesterday during news broadcasts that Alberto Gonzales was having difficulty landing a job on his own.&#160;You know, former Attorney General of the United States Alberto Gonzales?&#160;According to the New York Time]]></description>
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<dc:subject>Hypocrisy</dc:subject>
<dc:date>2008-04-15T02:49:35-04:00</dc:date>
<dc:creator>Posted by TJ</dc:creator>
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<title>Young American, Vol. 2, No. 10 – ''You Say Goodbye, I Say Hello”</title>
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By now many of you have heard that radio talk show Randi Rhodes has quit working for Air America Radio.&#160; Apparently there was a major dispute between Rhodes - the #1-rated liberal talker in the country - and the network because of some things that she said off the air during a promotional tour for her show in San Francisco.&#160; According to reports, it was her use of the word &#8220;whore&#8221; to describe the behavior being used by people like Hillary Clinton and Geraldi]]></description>
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<dc:subject>Young America</dc:subject>
<dc:date>2008-04-11T12:57:39-04:00</dc:date>
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<title>This Week In Hypocrisy, Vol. 4, No. 12 – ''Virginia Foxx''</title>
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Every Tuesday, TBR likes to spotlight an individual or group whose blatant hypocrisy in the face of facts warrants recognition. The winner receives the TBR &#8220;Hyppie&#8221; award for hypocrisy.
&#160;
Hey, are any of you like me when it comes to assessing the dismal job done over the last year or so of our Democratic Congressional majority?&#160; I bet that many of you out there have sat watching the news one evening where Nancy Pelosi or Harry Reid have shriveled cowardly in the face of]]></description>
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<dc:subject>Hypocrisy</dc:subject>
<dc:date>2008-04-01T15:53:19-04:00</dc:date>
<dc:creator>Posted by TJ</dc:creator>
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<title>The Port Huron Statement: ''Miscellaneous Observations''</title>
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    Asian Girl Selling Something
    
        
            
            
            
        
        
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This week&#8217;s offering is not the concise carefully considered, prose ladened, political manifesto that you expect to see from the Dude.&#160;No, this week I have decided to be brief (some would say lazy) and just present a few random thoughts.
Asian women are the new blonde.&#160;If you&#8217;ve watched TV commercials lately you]]></description>
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<dc:subject>Old School Bias</dc:subject>
<dc:date>2008-03-23T22:13:12-04:00</dc:date>
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<title>Young American, Vol. 2, No. 9 – ''Random Musings”</title>
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&#8220;Scanning life through the picture windows. . . &#160;&#8220;
&#160;-David Bowie&#8217;s &#8220;Young Americans&#8221;
&#160;
Here&#8217;s a few quasi-random musings that have crossed my malted barley-addled mind over the course of the past week:
I keep seeing commentators on the news talking about how Barack Obama failed in his major race policy speech this week because he didn&#8217;t distance himself far enough from his former minister, reverend Jeremiah Wright.&#160; He repudia]]></description>
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<dc:subject>Young America</dc:subject>
<dc:date>2008-03-21T15:22:30-04:00</dc:date>
<dc:creator>Posted by TJ</dc:creator>
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<title>Idealism...Only Takes You So Far...</title>
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It must be very hard living under a microscope for most of one's life.&#160; I needed to know more about Barack...or Barry in his younger days in Hawaii while in school.&#160; I wanted to learn of his younger years and what had to be apparent struggles being from both a black and white background.&#160; His ancestry means nothing to me personally because the blood flowing in all our veins is the same.&#160; People are simply people...some being more human than]]></description>
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<dc:subject>When Worlds Collide</dc:subject>
<dc:date>2008-03-20T17:43:44-04:00</dc:date>
<dc:creator>Posted by Sumo</dc:creator>
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<title>This Week In Hypocrisy, Vol. 4, No. 11 – ''On The Air''</title>
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Every Tuesday, TBR likes to spotlight an individual or group whose blatant hypocrisy in the face of facts warrants recognition. The winner receives the TBR &#8220;Hyppie&#8221; award for hypocrisy.
&#160;
This past Saturday morning, I was at the KPHX studios here in Phoenix talking on the air about the Democratic primary process.&#160; Specifically, we were discussing Barack Obama&#8217;s former minister&#8217;s comments, which, although inflammatory, were taken somewhat out of context.&]]></description>
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<dc:subject>Hypocrisy</dc:subject>
<dc:date>2008-03-18T23:49:30-04:00</dc:date>
<dc:creator>Posted by TJ</dc:creator>
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<title>The Port Huron Statement: ''Back to the Future''</title>
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&#160;

As I&#8217;ve mentioned several times before on these pages, the Dude is from the future. &#160;So I know what&#8217;s going to happen- and when- and could tell you the results of the upcoming Pennsylvania primary if I wanted to.&#160;&#160;Hell, I could tell you the results of the general election if I felt like it.&#160;But I won&#8217;t, because that wouldn&#8217;t be fair and then you&#8217;ve got the whole the grandfather paradox thing to worry about.&#160;Plus there&#8217;s som]]></description>
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<dc:subject>Old School Bias</dc:subject>
<dc:date>2008-03-16T12:46:16-04:00</dc:date>
<dc:creator>Posted by TJ</dc:creator>
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<title>Dirty Water: ''How I Spent My Spring Break''</title>
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&#160;
South Florida is full of old people.&#160;I mean its chock full of really, really old people.&#160;My own dad is 70 and an old fart in his own right but these folks made him look YOUNG!&#160;Most of them seemed to be driving gianormous automobiles with state plates from Illinois, Michigan, Connecticut, New York and other eastern, typically chilly climates.
&#160;
I&#8217;ve heard tell of the snowbirds and had experiences of my own with the ones that love Arizona in the winter]]></description>
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<dc:subject>Hamblin</dc:subject>
<dc:date>2008-03-14T22:13:30-04:00</dc:date>
<dc:creator>Posted by TJ</dc:creator>
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<title>Bad Political Positions To Be In...is there a number for this one?</title>
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Hang in there with me folks on this post...it is probably going to ramble a bit and may look a tad odd by the time I finish it.&#160; Three days ago while retrieving a desert from a convection oven I burned the back of my left hand because I didn't pay attention to the swinging oven door that came back to lovingly embrace said hand.&#160; The sound of sizzling flesh is not one to rejoice on by any standard...just tell that to my knuckles that I cannot bend.&#38;nbsp]]></description>
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<dc:subject>When Worlds Collide</dc:subject>
<dc:date>2008-03-13T16:28:29-04:00</dc:date>
<dc:creator>Posted by Sumo</dc:creator>
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<title>This Week In Hypocrisy, Vol. 4, No. 10 – ''Eliot Spitzer''</title>
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Every Tuesday, TBR likes to spotlight an individual or group whose blatant hypocrisy in the face of facts warrants recognition. The winner receives the TBR &#8220;Hyppie&#8221; award for hypocrisy.
&#160;
Hey, thanks Eliot Spitzer!

I took the brash step of actually writing a completely different column for today, but I feel that in the interest of topicality and fairness that I have to scrap my original story and focus on you, the &#8220;law and order&#8221; governor of New York who was r]]></description>
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<dc:subject>Hypocrisy</dc:subject>
<dc:date>2008-03-11T15:27:32-04:00</dc:date>
<dc:creator>Posted by TJ</dc:creator>
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<title>Young American, Vol. 2, No. 8 – ''It’s All About the Math”</title>
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&#8220;It took him minutes, took her nowhere,
Heaven knows she would have taken anything, but. . . &#8220;
&#160;-David Bowie&#8217;s &#8220;Young Americans&#8221;
&#160;
This past Tuesday was supposed to be the day where Barack Obama tied up the Democratic nomination for President over his rival Hillary Clinton.&#160;It was supposed to be the night where we could forget about all of these primaries and begin to focus on the general election.&#160;
&#160;On one hand, I&#8217;m happy tha]]></description>
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<dc:subject>Young America</dc:subject>
<dc:date>2008-03-07T12:49:43-04:00</dc:date>
<dc:creator>Posted by TJ</dc:creator>
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<title>This Week In Hypocrisy, Vol. 4, No. 9 – ''Jack Kingston''</title>
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<description><![CDATA[
Every Tuesday, TBR likes to spotlight an individual or group whose blatant hypocrisy in the face of facts warrants recognition. The winner receives the TBR &#8220;Hyppie&#8221; award for hypocrisy.
&#160;
If you&#8217;ve watched any of the major political shows over the past fifteen years or so, the chances are more likely than not that you&#8217;ve seen the empty, smiling face of Jack Kingston, Republican Congressman from Georgia.&#160;Kingston has always been good with providing whatever t]]></description>
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<dc:subject>Hypocrisy</dc:subject>
<dc:date>2008-03-04T14:01:36-04:00</dc:date>
<dc:creator>Posted by TJ</dc:creator>
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<title>The Port Huron Statement: ''Abominable Obama''</title>
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&#160;
A few days ago I read about a young man in Bristol, Tennessee who killed his ex-girlfriend&#8217;s current boyfriend, her mother, two of his ex-girlfriend&#8217;s neighbors, and was reloading when his ex-girlfriend locked him out in the hallway.&#160;Then he went to a wooded area &#8211; where he shot and killed himself.&#160;A Bristol Police spokesman told the press &#8220;We are looking into the possibility of him being distraught.&#8221;
Well, I hope never to be that &#8220;distrau]]></description>
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<dc:subject>Old School Bias</dc:subject>
<dc:date>2008-03-02T23:20:46-04:00</dc:date>
<dc:creator>Posted by TJ</dc:creator>
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<title>What People Perceive In Their Candidates...</title>
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I've been griping for some time now how the media influences our thoughts and perceptions specifically regarding our political candidates.&#160; Or rather they try to influence us.&#160; People listen to their views and in many cases actually believe what they are hearing as the gospel truth.&#160; Some manage to speak about the politicians and their views as just that.&#160; You wouldn't know by their words with whom their true feelings lie...and that i]]></description>
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<dc:subject>When Worlds Collide</dc:subject>
<dc:date>2008-02-28T17:51:48-04:00</dc:date>
<dc:creator>Posted by Sumo</dc:creator>
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<title>U.S. and the CONVENTION ON ELIMINATION OF all forms OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION.</title>
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Surely as there is a sun rise tomorrow, the United States has once again blow off something they swore to uphold. This time around its the United Nations CONVENTION ON ELIMINATION OF all forms OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION.  


In 1994, the US Senate ratified this treaty, wherein they promised to &#8220;provide reports every two years on racial discrimination in the United States. The reports were to include anywhere in the world where the US military is in charge. In other]]></description>
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<dc:subject>Dusty</dc:subject>
<dc:date>2008-02-27T15:41:33-04:00</dc:date>
<dc:creator>Posted by Sirens</dc:creator>
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<title>This Week In Hypocrisy, Vol. 4, No. 8 – ''Hillary Clinton''</title>
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Every Tuesday, TBR likes to spotlight an individual or group whose blatant hypocrisy in the face of facts warrants recognition. The winner receives the TBR &#8220;Hyppie&#8221; award for hypocrisy.
I know that we Democrats are famous for episodes of internal cannibalization - where we allow internal squabbles over nuance to weaken a superior policy stance to an inferior but united opposition.&#160; I also know that in a political sense, this has been one of the more tranquil primary processes]]></description>
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<dc:subject>Hypocrisy</dc:subject>
<dc:date>2008-02-26T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
<dc:creator>Posted by JAY</dc:creator>
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