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        <title><![CDATA[Criticise now?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Isn't funny how none of them energetically criticized him before?  Why now?  What does it actually achieve?  Boy, does our system need a reboot or what!]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[33Nick]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 08 Nov 2012 12:45:21 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The other effect of socialism...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[...is that it causes people to no longer care what happens outside their borders.  When it's a decision between keeping or expanding your goodies or doing good elsewhere, socialists will always pick the former.Remember when there was genocide in Europe in the '90s, it was the US that responded; not the Europeans who just sat and watched it happen only a few miles away.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[JohnMcGrew@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2012 14:13:28 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[That's probably true...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[But fortunately, articles like this expose it for what it is, and destroys credibility.  I like that.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2012 14:11:16 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[If Smart planet were Republican...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Then it would be called Stupid Planet... If you don't like it, leave. No one will miss you.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[i8thecat4]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2012 19:01:55 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The only reason they can afford socialism in Europe.]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Is because the US has been footing the bill for their defense since WW II ended.The UK, Ireland, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the rest of them with almost non-existent military would have been buried under a mountain of debt decades ago if they had to pay for their social welfare states and their own national defense.As is their welfare/nanny state policies are still crushing them, even with US defense subsidies.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Hates Idiots]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2012 07:18:36 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Fox was right.  The moderator was wrong and biased.]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Are you seriously insinuating that Obama was being truthful when he said that he called the Benghazi attacks an act of terrorism in his Rose Garden address the day after the attack?Any reasonable person who heard his speech or read the transcript knows that that is simply not true.  He did utter the words &quot;act of terrorism&quot; but that was not in regard to the Benghazi attack but rather just a general reference after mentioning 9/11, etc.If he truly felt that the Benghazi attacks were acts of terror, then why did he and his administration claim for the next two weeks that the attack was a spontaneous protest in reaction to the anti-Islam youtube video?If you want to support Obama that is fine, but can't you at least be honest and admit that he lied during the debate about claiming that he called the Benghazi attack an act of terror the day after it occurred and that Romney had it right?  The moderator interjecting herself at that point was inappropriate and biased, and Fox taking exception to it is what real journalists are supposed to do.  They are supposed to report facts and not their own opinions.  Maybe you've forgotten that after watching too much MSNBC.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 03 Nov 2012 10:23:11 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[To this day, Dan insists the documents were &quot;true&quot;...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[...even though they might possibly had been not &quot;real&quot;.And remember that Dan tried to blame is staff; after all, all he really does is read the stuff, or so he said at the time.At least we discovered what the threshold for CBS was; a pretty low bar by any standard.  As long as the story fits the narrative, it's fit to print as-is.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 03 Nov 2012 09:54:45 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Oh, come on.  We're so tired of that role.]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The Europeans happily surrendered that role to us so they could afford their lavish welfare state.  The Progressives view them with such envy.  We've been the globalcop for over a half century.  It's someone else's turn.  I'm sure that China will be more than happy to take up the slack from us now.Besides, soon our interest payments to them will eclipse what we spend on defense.  They'll be able to afford it.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 03 Nov 2012 09:47:52 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[When we are the de-facto military service for the world, then,]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[we have to maintain the largest military in the world.  It's that simple. Unfortunately, we are the &quot;world's policeman&quot;, like it or not, and therefore, it's going to cost a lot more than most would wish.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[adornoe]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2012 20:09:55 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Get YOUR facts straignt!!!!!]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Those regimes in the middle-east have been the enemies of the U.S. and all western governments, for over 1400 years, and it's nothing to do with our failures or our tactics or our desire for oil.  They are our enemies because they make themselves our enemies.  They make themselve our enemies when they want to destroy our way of life, including our religions and cultures. Until we, the west, submit to Islam, we will continue being the enemy to those regimes in the middle-east.  Get YOUR facts straight!!!!!]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2012 20:08:08 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[CBS had no choice on the matrter, because,]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[a supposed &quot;journalist&quot; was caught falsifying documents, and reports, which is a big NO-NO in anybody's book.  When the whole world was talking about how corrupt Rather had been, CBS could not cover for him any more.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[adornoe]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2012 20:01:58 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Military downsizing]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The military needs to be downsized!  The US spends more on the military than the next 14 countries combined and for 2012 according to the SIPRI Yearbook the US is spending $711 billion and #2, China is spending $143 billion.  We could cut the military by half and still spend more than twice as much as China.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2012 11:34:38 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Chrysler hasn't strictly been an American company ...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[... since their merger with Daimler-Benz back in 1998.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2012 11:19:36 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Sorry.  Not directed at you.]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[It was directed at harrim47I get burned up that challenging Romneys statements is ok ( as it should be) ,but when people ask for a little civility, like no nose games, they are met with a response like Hs.Yet if one dares to challenge the president it is often met with furious outrage and cries of racism.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Hates Idiots]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2012 07:56:15 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Reading comprehension?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Try reading my comment again without your own biases showing through.  I said that I appreciated the article, but that the Pinocchio nose was unwarranted.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[sissy sue]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2012 07:14:38 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[You need to be informed.]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[When you talk about America's enemies, have you given a thought to why they are your enemies ? Apart from China and Pakistan - with whom we have border disputes - we have NO enemies in the world. Accordingly to you artificially created and installed feudal systems in the middle east are acceptable so long as they continue to supply what US wants. But on the other hand popular public revolt aginst an oppressive regime - as happened in Iran - that overthrew the US puppet Shah - and brought in theological regime is not acceptable. Iraq allowed far more freedom to their population than most current governments in other middle east countries. They had no WMDs either. Fortunately world opinion counts for at least something in the Us otherwise I would not be surprised if the entire population of Iraq is moved to some arid and barren reservation to take over the country as the 51st state of the US.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[pmshah@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2012 20:55:59 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Could it be possible]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[that terrorist cells are ready and waiting for absolutely any event of even minor religious significance to cloak their action behind it ? The first incident in Egypt may have been due to the uTube video clip but what followed may have been just this kind of reaction.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[pmshah@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2012 20:42:03 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[My understanding...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[GM has plants in India and builds cars here. So does Ford. We have differential import duty structure for components and completely built vehicles. May be China does too! So what is wrong if GM or Chrysler puts up a plant in China and creates jobs there to supply the local markets at competitive price structure? It makes more sense logistically and economically. May be the situation is that it would be impossible to sell US built Jeeps on these grounds.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[pmshah@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2012 20:32:49 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Present facts compared to what?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The photoshopped nose may be in bad taste BUT I don't see distortion the way Fox News does. When  Romney blatantly lies during a debate and the moderator does quick fact-check Fox news takes exception to it. So Romney can lie through his teeth to suit the moment but a news channel can't call him on that?  I fail to understand the logic !]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2012 20:26:21 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Your truth]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The report in Nature Climate Change was for one specific tree ring set in northern Norway.  It's probably stretching the evidence too far to try an apply this to the Northern Hemisphere.  There's an interesting discussion of the paper by Michael Mann here:http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2012/07/tree-rings-and-climate-some-recent-developments/CO2 emissions have dropped significantly due to the ongoing switch from coal to natural gas.  But in the long run that won't be enough.  Unless we reduce our net emissions of CO2 to zero the problem of global warming just keeps getting worse.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[riverat1]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2012 18:24:21 -0700</pubDate>
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