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			<title>The Simpsons want YOU!!</title>
			<description>&lt;P&gt;Well the Simpsons have given &lt;A href=&quot;http://www.jwharrison.com/blog/2006/11/13/the-simpsons-on-army-recruitment/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;their take on Army Recriting&lt;/A&gt;.&lt;?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = &quot;urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office&quot; /&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
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&lt;P&gt;I personally always find it disturbing when The Simpsons or&amp;nbsp;&lt;?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = &quot;urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags&quot; /&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;&lt;st1:PlaceName&gt;South&lt;/st1:PlaceName&gt; &lt;st1:PlaceType&gt;Park&lt;/st1:PlaceType&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt; does a parody that so closely resembles real life.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
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			<pubDate>Tue, 14 Nov 2006 23:24:21 GMT</pubDate>
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			<description>Check out &lt;A href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seGhTWE98DU target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&quot;The Saints are Comming&quot;&lt;/A&gt;&amp;nbsp;a new video by Green Day and U2</description>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 28 Oct 2006 12:12:10 GMT</pubDate>
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			<description>&lt;P&gt;I got home from work today and one of the well-intentioned union officials I know had sent me an e-mail.&lt;/P&gt;
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&lt;P class=MsoNormal style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto&quot; align=center&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;SPAN style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial&quot;&gt;Senate Passes Measure to make&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;SPAN style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial&quot;&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;SPAN style=&quot;FONT-FAMILY: Arial&quot;&gt;English the National Language&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&lt;?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = &quot;urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office&quot; /&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;?xml:namespace prefix = u1 /&gt;&lt;u1:p&gt;&lt;/u1:p&gt;
&lt;P style=&quot;TEXT-ALIGN: center&quot; align=center&gt;&lt;I&gt;&lt;SPAN style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial&quot;&gt;63-34 vote gives assimilation&lt;BR&gt;key role in immigration debate&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/I&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;u1:p&gt;&lt;/u1:p&gt;
&lt;P class=MsoNormal style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto&quot; align=center&gt;&lt;SPAN style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial&quot;&gt;&lt;A href=&quot;http://www.us-english.org/inc/&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.us-english.org/inc/&quot;&gt;http://www.us-english.org/inc/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;u1:p&gt;&lt;/u1:p&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P class=MsoNormal style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto&quot; align=center&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;u1:p&gt;&lt;/u1:p&gt;
&lt;P class=MsoNormal style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto&quot; align=center&gt;&lt;EM&gt;&lt;SPAN style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial&quot;&gt;Look at how Senators from&amp;nbsp;NY &amp;amp; NJ let the&amp;nbsp;Americans citizens in their States down again. &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;u1:p&gt;&lt;/u1:p&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P class=MsoNormal style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto&quot; align=center&gt;&lt;EM&gt;&lt;SPAN style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial&quot;&gt;It&apos;s&amp;nbsp;time to make sure&amp;nbsp;they&apos;re&amp;nbsp;never&amp;nbsp;elected to any office, state or federal again.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;SPAN style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
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&lt;P class=MsoNormal style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;Getting this from a union person seriously bothered me, I shouldn&amp;#146;t have been surprised but I was. &lt;SPAN style=&quot;mso-spacerun: yes&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;Anyway I of course replied:&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P class=MsoNormal style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;FONT size=3&gt;&lt;FONT face=&quot;Times New Roman&quot;&gt;&lt;FONT size=2&gt;&lt;SPAN style=&quot;mso-tab-count: 1&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P class=MsoNormal style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in&quot;&gt;I am aware of this attempt by the powers that be to distract the hard working men and women that live in this country (legally or not) from the real issues, and turn us against one another so we will be too distracted to take the country back from them in November. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P class=MsoNormal style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P class=MsoNormal style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;SPAN style=&quot;mso-tab-count: 1&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/SPAN&gt;Like Gay Marriage and Flag Burning this is just a non issue that that can be used to divide and rule us. Not a single American citizen will benefit from this bill, but it makes us forget that our sons and daughters are still dieing in Iraq, that gas costs are skyrocketing, that the country is loosing good jobs in record numbers, replacing them with jobs that pay so bad only illegal immigrants are willing to do them, and that while congress recently gave millionaires an average of $32,000 each in tax cuts the average middle class family only got $20. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P class=MsoNormal style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P class=MsoNormal style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;SPAN style=&quot;mso-tab-count: 1&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/SPAN&gt;Never fear however, English is the National Language and we have a fence being built by Halliburton, all is well. We can go back to sleep, that is until Al-Quada attacks again and Uncle Sam needs us to give up more rights so they can &quot;protect us&quot;. &lt;/P&gt;
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&lt;P class=MsoNormal style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;SI&apos; &lt;?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = &quot;urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags&quot; /&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;SE PUEDE&lt;/st1:place&gt;,&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
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			<pubDate>Sat, 20 May 2006 19:38:56 GMT</pubDate>
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			<description>&lt;P&gt;&lt;IMG alt=&quot;A picture named Rick&apos;s Fish&quot; hspace=15 src=&quot;http://blogs.salon.com/0003999/images/Picture001.jpg&quot; align=left vspace=5 border=0&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
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&lt;P&gt;I Caught A Catfish!!! Thats right 2lbs 6 ozs!! Who Rocks the Locks? I DO!!!&lt;/P&gt;
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			<pubDate>Sat, 22 Apr 2006 08:31:53 GMT</pubDate>
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