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		<title>Unpublished letters</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#65279;The South should have just left the union. &#160; &#65279;After thinking it over, I believe I&#8217;ve come up with a solution for the right-wingers and the Tea Party folks: they want to quit paying taxes; keep out people whose skin color isn&#8217;t to their liking; carry guns on their hips; forbid freedom of choice [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fustia-blog.valleau.net/?p=110</link>
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		<title>The Story Behind the Tea Party</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s the reason the fantasies of the Tea Party folks have such strong hold on them. In short, it could be you. It depends on your story. ALL of us (not some of us) live in a fantasy world, since because of the way we are biologically wired as human beings, we live each moment [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fustia-blog.valleau.net/?p=92</link>
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		<title>A sure sign of the End Times</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today was one of sweeping political convulsions, kicked off this morning when the Cheeney father-daughter team appeared on Meet the Press. Dick Cheeney was mostly silent, with bowed head, letting his daughter Liz do most of the talking. &#8220;A friend of mine gave me a book titled &#8220;Civics&#8221; which I thought was about my Honda, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fustia-blog.valleau.net/?p=82</link>
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		<title>Snow &amp; global warming</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, et al. I hope this isn&#8217;t too complex for you: Where does snow come from? It comes from clouds. Where do clouds come from? Water evaporating from the oceans. What causes water to evaporate? Heat. The oceans are heating up because of global warming. If I could make this more [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fustia-blog.valleau.net/?p=78</link>
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		<title>Suggestion for the Democrat&#8217;s 2010 tv ads&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Populists like show and tell. So use the State of the Union video. Obama: &#8220;Tax breaks for small businesses&#8221; Cut to Republicans not applauding as Democrats cheer. Obama: &#8220;Banks repay us for loans.&#8221; Cut to Republicans not applauding as Democrats cheer. Repeat with other statements. Repeat again. Show them for what they are. Show and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fustia-blog.valleau.net/?p=76</link>
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		<title>The Republican Budget</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Republicans claimed that they submitted a budget for consideration, and that Obama ignored it. I wonder why&#8230;? Here&#8217;s a real budget: and here&#8217;s the Republican &#8220;budget&#8221;: Yeah. Right.]]></description>
		<link>http://fustia-blog.valleau.net/?p=74</link>
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		<title>Large Hadron Collider Works!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[November 23, 2009 ZURICH (Reuters) &#8212; Scientists have smashed together proton beams for the first time in a 27-kilometre tunnel under the French-Swiss border in an initial step toward discovering how the universe came into existence, they said on Monday. Unfortunately, the prediction of the doom-sayers proved correct, and the Earth has been completely swallowed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fustia-blog.valleau.net/?p=68</link>
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		<title>Pebble Beach Art Heist</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Playing Sherlock Holmes here&#8230; Re: the $27-$80 million &#8220;art heist&#8221; in Pebble Beach&#8230; we all agree it smells fishy, but the question has been &#8220;how are they going to make money off it, especially if the paintings are not insured?&#8221; Simple: the money isn&#8217;t >going< to be made; it's already been made. I suspect the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fustia-blog.valleau.net/?p=62</link>
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		<title>Senate Finance Committee: No on the public option</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Those senators who voted &#8220;no&#8221; on the public option have shown their true colors: corporate profits are more important than human life. Disgusting.]]></description>
		<link>http://fustia-blog.valleau.net/?p=60</link>
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		<title>How it looks from over here.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To the folks who marched on Washington on September 12, 2009. You proclaim that &#8220;Democrats want the terrorists to win&#8221; without thinking that would mean that 2 out of 3 people in the street, in the theater or grocery store, are terrorists. Without thinking that would mean that your neighbors on all three sides are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fustia-blog.valleau.net/?p=48</link>
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