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		<title>Happy Old Year</title>
		<link>http://myapologies.wordpress.com/2009/12/29/happy-old-year/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 01:08:21 +0000</pubDate>
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More jibs from the Jab. Enjoy.
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		<title>Oral Roberts–– slain for good</title>
		<link>http://myapologies.wordpress.com/2009/12/21/oral-roberts%e2%80%93%e2%80%93-slain-for-good/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 17:49:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>artietexas</dc:creator>
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Oral Roberts saw a 900-ft Jesus (he stepped it off himself) and received a new medical wing for his school. Which is odd, considering he could heal with the touch of his hand. (Okay, maybe a dental center given his name was Oral.) But he is now dead, which is odd, considering he and his [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=myapologies.wordpress.com&blog=2151590&post=3709&subd=myapologies&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Death Panelist</title>
		<link>http://myapologies.wordpress.com/2009/12/20/death-panelist/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 20:15:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>artietexas</dc:creator>
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Howard Dean is leading up the left&#8217;s death panel. He says pull the plug on health care reform. If it is going to be this watered down, it&#8217;s no reform at all. No cost controls, just putting a gun to people&#8217;s heads and saying they have to help the bottom line of the health insurance [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=myapologies.wordpress.com&blog=2151590&post=3702&subd=myapologies&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Government Takeover of Health Care</title>
		<link>http://myapologies.wordpress.com/2009/12/19/a-government-takeover-of-healthcare/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 00:11:31 +0000</pubDate>
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That&#8217;s what Republicans called Medicare in the 1960s. So don&#8217;t be fooled as the try to posture themselves as the benign protectors of seniors&#8217; precious Medicare benefits. They were against improving health care, then. They are against it today. They are the party of &#8220;no.&#8221; Observe:
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		<title>Evildoers doing Allah&#8217;s will</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 23:36:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>artietexas</dc:creator>
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Here&#8217;s the deal. American troops will not defeat the Taliban. For one, we&#8217;re a two-hundred-year-old democracy fighting a 1400-year-old religion. We stand for the Enlightenment&#8217;s progressive notions of individual freedom. They stand for the Koran&#8217;s notion of a cohesive clan obeying the one true God. But the biggest reason we will not defeat them is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=myapologies.wordpress.com&blog=2151590&post=3693&subd=myapologies&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The other John McCain</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 04:37:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>artietexas</dc:creator>
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The other John McCain would be for this Senate healthcare bill. The one who didn&#8217;t have his health benefits provided by the &#8230;um&#8230;government. The one who isn&#8217;t married to a stinking rich heiress. Matt Miller imagines this John McCain from that alternate universe. He probably would also be a Democrat.
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		<title>Gates on the ground</title>
		<link>http://myapologies.wordpress.com/2009/12/12/gates-on-the-ground/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 04:20:55 +0000</pubDate>
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It&#8217;s going to be a long eighteen months. Maureen Dowd observes,
At a joint press conference Tuesday at the presidential palace in Kabul, Hamid Karzai surprised the usually unflappable Gates when he knocked down President Obama’s attempt to get out of Dodge.
Needling his American sugar daddy, the Afghan peacock observed: “For another 15 to 20 years, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=myapologies.wordpress.com&blog=2151590&post=3684&subd=myapologies&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Orrin has a dream</title>
		<link>http://myapologies.wordpress.com/2009/12/06/orrin-has-a-dream/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 20:41:48 +0000</pubDate>
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Orrin Hatch made a fascinating statement this week on Capitol Hill:
I dream some day of having the Republicans have 60 votes. I’ll tell you one thing, I think we would finally have the total responsibility to get this country under control and I believe we would.
Didn&#8217;t we just see that movie?

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		<title>A whiter shade of black</title>
		<link>http://myapologies.wordpress.com/2009/12/06/a-whiter-shade-of-black/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 20:22:48 +0000</pubDate>
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My black friends argue that the pathologies of black America are all rooted in slavery. In other words, &#8220;White folks made us this way.&#8221; While there is a grain of truth in this, it misses a larger point; white folks are in pursuit of a far happier, tamer black America. In fact, white America wants [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=myapologies.wordpress.com&blog=2151590&post=3668&subd=myapologies&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thou shalt not steal</title>
		<link>http://myapologies.wordpress.com/2009/12/05/thou-shalt-not-steal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Dec 2009 17:58:49 +0000</pubDate>
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Texas Congressman Louie Gohmert joins the garbled Bible thumping that is so popular among the Christian Right. Taxation=Stealing.
&#8220;Now, after someone dies and someone comes in and steals from them, we consider that in most society reprehensible. … But when the government comes in, because we have the power to pass laws and legalize theft that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=myapologies.wordpress.com&blog=2151590&post=3662&subd=myapologies&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Give&#8217;em Hell Harry</title>
		<link>http://myapologies.wordpress.com/2009/12/05/giveem-hell-harry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Dec 2009 17:48:37 +0000</pubDate>
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Michael Moore channels Harry Truman in his open letter to the President.
It is not your job to do what the generals tell you to do. We are a civilian-run government. WE tell the Joint Chiefs what to do, not the other way around. That&#8217;s the way General Washington insisted it must be. That&#8217;s what President [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=myapologies.wordpress.com&blog=2151590&post=3658&subd=myapologies&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In our own image</title>
		<link>http://myapologies.wordpress.com/2009/12/04/in-our-own-image/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 17:02:30 +0000</pubDate>
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A recent study reveals that people&#8217;s views of God are simply a bigger version of themselves.

[Nicholas Epley at the University of Chicago] found that when people contemplated God’s opinions, their brains activated similarly to when they were contemplating their own opinions — the same was not true when they contemplated the opinions of other people.

The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=myapologies.wordpress.com&blog=2151590&post=3647&subd=myapologies&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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