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		<title>Glenn Beck&#8217;s &#8220;Restoring America&#8221; Rally as covered by Mr. Hitchens and Mr. Fish</title>
		<link>http://www.harikari.com/politics/glenn-becks-restoring-america-rally-as-covered-by-mr-hitchens-and-mr-fish.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.harikari.com/politics/glenn-becks-restoring-america-rally-as-covered-by-mr-hitchens-and-mr-fish.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 21:33:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christianity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christopher Hitchens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Glenn Beck]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mr. Fish]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[racism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[xenophobia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Christopher Hitchens gets to the heart of it with these words from a Slate column titled &#8220;White Fright:&#8221;
In a rather curious and confused way, some white people are starting almost to think like a minority, even like a persecuted one. What does it take to believe that Christianity is an endangered religion in America or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Deep Fried Beer at the State Fair of Texas</title>
		<link>http://www.harikari.com/food-and-drink/deep-fried-beer-at-the-state-fair-of-texas.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.harikari.com/food-and-drink/deep-fried-beer-at-the-state-fair-of-texas.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 00:29:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food and Drink]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[beer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fried food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[summer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Texas]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.harikari.com/?p=3783</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s late summer, and you know what that means.  It&#8217;s time for y&#8217;all to go to a state fair and gorge yourself on all kinds of things that have been submerged in a vat of very hot oil.
Used to be just donuts and other doughy things like fritters and elephant ears, but over the years [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Hallowed is that Muslim Mosque Ground Anyway?</title>
		<link>http://www.harikari.com/politics/how-hallowed-is-that-muslim-mosque-ground-anyway.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.harikari.com/politics/how-hallowed-is-that-muslim-mosque-ground-anyway.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 15:50:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mosque]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Muslim]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tea Party]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.harikari.com/?p=3767</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Protesters from both sides met in New York City on Sunday at the site where a Muslim community center may be built two city blocks away from where the twin World Trade Center towers once stood.  The New York Times reports:

Other protesters insisted that while they supported religious freedoms, the location of the planned Islamic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GOP Uses Ground Zero Mosque as a Wedge</title>
		<link>http://www.harikari.com/politics/gop-uses-ground-zero-mosque-as-a-wedge.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.harikari.com/politics/gop-uses-ground-zero-mosque-as-a-wedge.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 17:31:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Army of God]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christianity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ground Zero]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Islam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mosque]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[racism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Republicans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Westboro Baptist Church]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[xenophobia]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.harikari.com/?p=3763</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Al Qaeda bombed the World Trade Center towers, not Muslims.  But the members of al Qaeda are Muslims!  They follow the teachings of the prophet Muhammad and worship the Islamic god Allah! 
And that’s supposed to be the reason for halting the development of a Muslim community center two blocks away from Ground Zero?
Are you familiar [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Voting Republican is Masochistic:  Vote Smart, Vote Democrat</title>
		<link>http://www.harikari.com/politics/voting-republican-is-masochistic-vote-smart-vote-democrat.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.harikari.com/politics/voting-republican-is-masochistic-vote-smart-vote-democrat.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Aug 2010 16:43:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>N J Barnes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[deficit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Democrats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dick Cheney]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gridlock]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Midterm-Elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Republicans]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.harikari.com/?p=3759</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Americans need to face a hard fact: we almost certainly dodged another Great Depression by a hair’s breadth thanks to the combined efforts of Bush Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, the Obama administration and the much maligned Democratically-controlled Congress. But the fallout from the near economic collapse and financial meltdown is likely to endure for years [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Throw Rag Returns to Seattle</title>
		<link>http://www.harikari.com/music/throw-rag-returns-to-seattle.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.harikari.com/music/throw-rag-returns-to-seattle.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Aug 2010 01:50:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Panties]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Throw-Rag]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Captain is in town tonight.  Throw Rag is playing at El Corazon.  I wish I could go but I can&#8217;t.  Damnit!
The rest of you should go.  You should all start getting shitfaced right now start stumbling towards The Seattle Tattoo Expo After Party featuring The Generators, God Spit, The Spittin&#8217; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Religious Fundamentalist Running for U.S. Senator of Washington State</title>
		<link>http://www.harikari.com/politics/religious-fundamentalist-running-for-u-s-senator-of-washington-state.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.harikari.com/politics/religious-fundamentalist-running-for-u-s-senator-of-washington-state.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 19:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Allah]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bible]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christianity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Islam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mike Latimer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Quran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[senate]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.harikari.com/?p=3743</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[From and advertisement in today’s printed edition of The Seattle Times:
My name is Abdul Maalik Hosseini, and I am running for US Senator representing Washington State. It&#8217;s not an accident that our nation is having so many problems at this time. Allah is trying to get our attention and if He doesn&#8217;t get it soon, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The &#8220;Little Boy&#8221; Atomic Bomb Explodes in Hiroshima &#8211; August 6, 1945</title>
		<link>http://www.harikari.com/war/the-little-boy-atomic-bomb-explodes-in-hiroshima-august-6-1945.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.harikari.com/war/the-little-boy-atomic-bomb-explodes-in-hiroshima-august-6-1945.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010 15:59:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[War]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hiroshima]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nuclear disarmament]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[terror]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.harikari.com/?p=3737</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
From a column by Kenzaburo Oe in today&#8217;s New York Times:
Sixty-five years ago, after learning that a friend who was reported missing after the bombing of Hiroshima had turned up in a hospital there, my mother put together a meager care package and set out from our home in Shikoku to pay a visit. When [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mr. Fish is None too Pleased about the Wars</title>
		<link>http://www.harikari.com/humor/mr-fish-is-none-too-pleased-about-the-wars.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.harikari.com/humor/mr-fish-is-none-too-pleased-about-the-wars.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2010 00:24:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Humor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[War]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[military]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mr. Fish]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.harikari.com/?p=3733</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Thank you Mr. Fish for searing images into my brain of a camouflaged genitals and American GI&#8217;s traversing a hairy ass.
I&#8217;ve always thought war was way more disgusting than romantic, and now&#8230; even more so.
]]></description>
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		<title>Government Economic Intervention Worked</title>
		<link>http://www.harikari.com/politics/government-economic-intervention-worked.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.harikari.com/politics/government-economic-intervention-worked.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 02:50:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stimulus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[U.S.-Govt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unemployment]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.harikari.com/?p=3725</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I never had any doubts that the federal government&#8217;s financial bailout and the stimulus bill were needed to weather the economic storm that hit us in 2008.  Many people disagreed, but as the New York Times reported this week:
Now, two leading economists wielding complex quantitative models say that assertion can be empirically proved.
In a new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Drinking and Vocabulary</title>
		<link>http://www.harikari.com/asides/drinking-and-vocabulary.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.harikari.com/asides/drinking-and-vocabulary.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:03:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asides]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drinking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[intelligence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vocabulary]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.harikari.com/?p=3715</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Take a look at this chart from a Discover Magazine blogpost that shows people who drink more have more extensive vocabularies.

The chart is based on WORDSUM scores (a vocabulary test included in the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale) compared to percentile groupings of people in the survey who identified themselves as drinkers. 
There are many more drinking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Incoherent GOP</title>
		<link>http://www.harikari.com/politics/the-incoherent-gop.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.harikari.com/politics/the-incoherent-gop.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 15:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>N J Barnes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[deficit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Republicans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stimulus]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.harikari.com/?p=3704</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ever since Democrats passed the stimulus bill in early 2009, Republicans in congress have attempted to portray themselves as born-again deficit hawks, eschewing their profligate ways during the George W Bush years.  Fortunately, this fiction has not survived the question of what to do about the Bush tax cuts for the rich which are due [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bastille Day in America</title>
		<link>http://www.harikari.com/asides/bastille-day-in-america.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.harikari.com/asides/bastille-day-in-america.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 03:18:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asides]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Berlioz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bicycle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[France]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Freedom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wine]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.harikari.com/?p=3701</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What should an American do to celebrate La Fête Nationale?
Drink!
I&#8217;m always looking of an excuse to open a bottle of French bubbly, and a day celebrating the French people&#8217;s freedom from monarchy seems like as good a reason as any.
So right now I am watching le Tour de France, listening to Symphonie Fantastique by Hector Berlioz, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hot Summer Day in Seattle</title>
		<link>http://www.harikari.com/asides/hot-summer-day-in-seattle.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.harikari.com/asides/hot-summer-day-in-seattle.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 20:58:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asides]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Panties]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marilyn Monroe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[summer]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.harikari.com/?p=3694</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Summer finally arrived in Seattle the day after the 4th of July weekend.  That’s pretty normal around these parts.
It’s been getting warmer every day since the 4th, and today the weathermen say it’s going to be 94 degrees.   Too hot for some folks around here.  I can hear them complaining now&#8230;
Driving in to work today, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Catching Up with Nick Cave and Grinderman</title>
		<link>http://www.harikari.com/music/catching-up-with-nick-cave-and-grinderman.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.harikari.com/music/catching-up-with-nick-cave-and-grinderman.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 21:33:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grinderman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Hillcoat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nick-Cave]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.harikari.com/?p=3682</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[While flipping through the pages of the August 2010 issue of MOJO Magazine last night, I came across and advertisement for Grinderman’s upcoming European tour that I thought was pretty funny.  I went surfing around today for a digital copy of the ad, and I found it on a website called Nick Cave Fixes.  It’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Celebrate the 4th of July with R. Lee Ermey</title>
		<link>http://www.harikari.com/humor/celebrate-the-4th-of-july-with-r-lee-ermey.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.harikari.com/humor/celebrate-the-4th-of-july-with-r-lee-ermey.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jul 2010 18:51:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Humor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Full Metal Jacket]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Geico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[R. Lee Ermey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[therapy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.harikari.com/?p=3677</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Happy Fourth of July.
Now why don&#8217;t you maggots skip on over to R. Lee Ermey&#8217;s official website for a quick video lesson on what it mean s to be an American.
Maggots?   Oh come on now&#8230; maybe you need a refresher course on R. Lee Ermey.  Watch this famous motivational speech scene from Full Metal Jacket:

&#8230;and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Preview New Alejandro Escovedo Album</title>
		<link>http://www.harikari.com/music/preview-new-alejandro-escovedo-album.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.harikari.com/music/preview-new-alejandro-escovedo-album.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 02:58:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alejandro Escovedo]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.harikari.com/?p=3671</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[You should be listening to the new Alejandro Escovedo album, Street Songs of Love.  You can listen to it in its entirety on this NPR page before it is released next Tuesday.
You New Yorkers should go see him at City Winery on June 30th and/or July 2nd.
You Seattleites should get tickets to the No Depression [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cheney&#8217;s Fracking Firewater</title>
		<link>http://www.harikari.com/environment/cheneys-fracking-firewater.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.harikari.com/environment/cheneys-fracking-firewater.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 21:42:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dick Cheney]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[documentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fracking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HBO]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In certain parts of rural Colorado, this is what happens if you light a match next to your running tap water.

 
 
 
 
 
The documentary film by Josh Fox titled Gasland explains how flammable tap water came to be.  The film airs on HBO tonight, and the network&#8217;s synopsis of the movie includes:
Fox reveals alarming facts about America’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lego Soccer Highlights of USA vs. England</title>
		<link>http://www.harikari.com/asides/lego-soccer-highlights-of-usa-vs-england.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 23:17:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[via The Guardian:

That makes a tie something tolerable to watch.
That and the absence of a hundred thousand vuvuzelas making a very loud and annoying, never-ending buzzing beehive sound.
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		<title>Finally a New Reason to Fight in Afghanistan</title>
		<link>http://www.harikari.com/war/finally-a-new-reason-to-fight-in-afghanistan.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 19:49:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Military invaded Afghanistan 9-1/2 years ago to topple the Taliban and capture Osama bin Laden.  Our number one reason for being there vacated the caves of Tora Bora just months after we arrived and, since then, the mission has been one of keeping the Taliban at bay and instituting some form of modern democracy in a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>American Christian Jihadist Pursues Bin Laden in Pakistan</title>
		<link>http://www.harikari.com/al-qaeda/american-christian-jihadist-pursues-bin-laden-in-pakistan.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.harikari.com/al-qaeda/american-christian-jihadist-pursues-bin-laden-in-pakistan.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 19:09:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From today&#8217;s New York Times:
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) &#8212; An American armed with a pistol and a 40-inch (102-centimeter) sword was detained in northern Pakistan and told investigators he was on a solo mission to kill Osama bin Laden, a police officer said Tuesday.
The man, identified as 52-year-old Californian construction worker Gary Brooks Faulkner, said he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kid in Philly Sips a Beer at a Game</title>
		<link>http://www.harikari.com/humor/kid-in-philly-sips-a-beer-at-a-game.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.harikari.com/humor/kid-in-philly-sips-a-beer-at-a-game.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 02:59:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
A TV cameraman and someone with a phone camera got videos of this kid tipping a what is most likely his grandpa&#8217;s empty beer bottle to his mouth, and now lots of people are pissed off.
What is the big deal?  It&#8217;s a LIGHT beer (98% water!) and, like I said, it&#8217;s most likey empty &#8211; meaning [...]]]></description>
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		<title>National Education Standards at Last?</title>
		<link>http://www.harikari.com/politics/national-education-standards-at-last.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 04:33:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>N J Barnes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The good news, potentially, was the release last week of new national standards for math and reading by a panel of experts convened by the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers. I say potentially because the standards have to be accepted and adopted by individual states, two of which (Texas [...]]]></description>
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		<title>George W. Bush, Advocate of Torture</title>
		<link>http://www.harikari.com/politics/george-w-bush-advocate-of-torture.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jun 2010 16:02:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New York Daily News reported last week that former President George W. Bush said:
Sure, we waterboarded Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, former President George W. Bush reportedly said on Tuesday.
And he would &#8220;do it again to save lives.&#8221;
Bush and his military advisors adhered to the morally misguided &#8220;intelligence at any cost&#8221; school of thinking.  Bush was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Man Shoots his Rocks Off</title>
		<link>http://www.harikari.com/news/man-shoots-his-rocks-off.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2010 21:37:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A lot of attention has been paid recently to &#8220;Rocks Off,&#8221; the opening track of the recently remastered Stones album, Exile on Main Street.
Well there&#8217;s getting your rocks off Mick Jagger style,and then there&#8217;s shooting your rocks off Plaxico Burress style. 
From today&#8217;s Seattle Times:
A man accidentally shot himself in the testicles at Lowe&#8217;s Home Improvement [...]]]></description>
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