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		<title>By: Baby Boy Clothes</title>
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		<description>Nice post. Have bookmarked your blog and will be sure to come back soon!</description>
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		<title>By: susanai56</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Nov 2008 00:47:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well, it is the 8th november here, and we know the outcome now. Thankyou for replying to my letter. It is nice to sometimes get recognition - for at times one gets to thinking one is talking to oneself. Congratulations on your truly perfect President-elect. There were parties all over Australia when the vote came in. Yours, Sue.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well, it is the 8th november here, and we know the outcome now. Thankyou for replying to my letter. It is nice to sometimes get recognition &#8211; for at times one gets to thinking one is talking to oneself. Congratulations on your truly perfect President-elect. There were parties all over Australia when the vote came in. Yours, Sue.</p>
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		<title>By: Phil Dirte&#39;</title>
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		<dc:creator>Phil Dirte&#39;</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 17:25:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Does it hurt to be this crazy?</description>
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		<title>By: jzak100</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Nov 2008 17:41:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;m Sick and tired of hearing Obama compare John McCain to that of George Bush. Well here is a new one for Obama, should McCain wish to use it wisely:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;NEW SLOGAN:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &quot;A Vote for Obama is a Vote for Hugo Chavez - philosophy of government.&quot;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;We all know when Chavez preached &quot;CHANGE &amp; REDISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH&quot;.&lt;br&gt;Well the true finally was exposed, and it was Socialism followed by a terrified Riot &amp; &lt;br&gt;Civil Up-Roar in the country of Venezuela. As the Dictator also tried to change the Constitution for his gain, and was followed by high inflation, bankrupt economy, citizen jailed with the end results of Marxism / Socialism.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Hum does that speech reminds you of someone? However; Obama &amp; Biden tells us is the “PETRIOTIC THING DO!”&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;And, if that wasn&#039;t enough -  to add the insult to an injury Chavez goes on a kissing/hugging quest to Cuba uniting with Fidel Castro, Iran under the Terrorist &amp; Nuclear watch, and building an army to joint forces with Russia, Syria, Iran, Cuba, and others.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Yet again, Obama has no reservation as he stated he will go to these countries, sit with them, and have a dialog the same.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Supporters of Barack Obama&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FPoK1Oqh_Y&quot;&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FPoK1Oqh_Y&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Dear Mr. Obama: Who Are You?&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16aBNduAyQ4&quot;&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16aBNduAyQ4&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Of course not before manipulating, and dominating the news media and journalist just like a Communist country does.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Mark my words people if Obama wins; what&#039;s to come after the election is nothing short of chaos in a epic level that we have never seen in the history of the United Stated of America. God forbid if you or any of your love ones ever becomes prosperous.  You will be demonized as I&#039;m sure the Democrats will find a way to stick it to you on more taxes to give the undeserved.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Gaddafi: Obama is a Muslim - Foreign Donations to the Obama Campaign&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSemkPChvHo&quot;&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSemkPChvHo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I hope, that you all heed this message with great importance, and I pray for all as well for this dear Country of Ours that we have been blessed so much as we have supported others around the world and ours the same.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;What would our forth fathers say today if they were alive?   Because we have today, a failed education system how can this generation know what to vote for? But, that remains to be seen, and for the All Mighty to reveal the same on his own good time.  We will be weighted/judged as parents, and citizens the same for our social output for this future society. As, all citizens go out to the vote at their respective region for their own reasons; we must remember that what we sow will well reap!&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;PS.:  On Oct 24th 2008.  We all knew that the majority of the early voters were Democrats, flocked, and crowded the polling places that you would think they were having a CUMBAYA PARTY along with a few other democrat mixtures - you don&#039;t need to take my word for it - just go to the polling places and see for your selves. It is call antagonizing, and bottle necking the line for others in hope that Republicans won’t vote or don’t have the chance to vote.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;As the democrats, and the liberal media were preaching that Obama was leading by 2 to 5 points when they know that these early prediction polls were false and unproven.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;However; assuming that were true than the democrats for Obama’s campaign are still in trouble, and the Obama&#039;s campaign know this. The reason is this, if the race is still close as the news media says they are; what will the Obama’s campaign do after their exhaustion of their supporters in their early polls?  I tell you, that&#039;s when the real voters for McCain will be out in full force, and will out-vote the democrats in the last 3 to 2 days of the early voting; not to mention on November, Tuesday 4th  with pay back interest. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Nothing, would be pleasing than hearing those in charge of polling predictions retract their comments from  their false premature reports as they too are in business of making money for supplying predictions to the mainstream liberal Media.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;On Oct 24th 2008.  Honestly, do you think that Republican voters would enjoy standing in the early voting places waiting 3 to 6 + hours rubbing faces with their counterparts? Do you think the predictors of early voting have called you for a Survey? Yet there are several millions of Republican voters waiting to cast their votes, but the mainstream media calls them un-deciders, and if not better Independents in which I respect them the same. But, many of us don’t have the same luxury on going to an early voting as democrats or welfare democrats do, as we have to work to pay our bills &amp; taxes so the Democrats can tax us some more, and give to the undeserved.  Like that of Obama&#039;s aunt who was living in the United States illegally. Obama&#039;s aunt had been instructed to leave the country four years ago by an immigration judge who rejected her request for asylum from her native Kenya. The woman, Zeituni Onyango is living in public housing in Boston and is the half-sister of Obama&#039;s and yes with our tax dollars, and making money contribution to Obama’s campaign with tax payer’s money. Oh that I also forgot to mention that she is not even a citizen of the United States which makes it illegal to do so. Go figure!&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;KNOW YOU’R MATH PEOPLE… IS THERE… THE DEVIL IS CONING AND FULL OF DECEPTIONS…  TO THE LEFT MEDIA I SAY THIS “PLEASE BE REALISTIC!”  ITS NOT OVER UNTILL THE FAT LADY SINGS… &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Respectfully your,&lt;br&gt;Joseph Zakaria /. Country First and for McCain &amp; Palin 2008&lt;br&gt;Reported Oct. 25th, 2008&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Here&#039;s a little experiment for you; next time you go out to eat, tell the waiter you are going to tip at 30%, but you are going to give his/her tip to the homeless person outside. Be sure to do it. You will find that a) your service will be abominable, you may find spit or worse, in your food, and you may be humiliated by the server who may announce quite loudly that your card has come back as STOLEN, and b) the homeless person will still be homeless. Redistribution just makes your own life sucks, and doesn&#039;t improve anyone else’s. The one earning the money (the server) should get the money and the one who sits on his butt all day shouldn&#039;t.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The right kind of redistribution is this: the server gets the tip, and after work, goes to the mall where he buys a new pair of MK&#039;s and a guitar hero, sending $$$ into the economy, so more goods are manufactured and more services are needed and more people are &lt;br&gt;employed, paid and in turn, pay taxes on their income. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;We would never have been in this mess in the first place if we hadn&#039;t legalized the annihilation of the greatest consumer class the world has every known: the American baby. They are greedy little consumers, they use stuff up every day. Diapers, food, clothes, shoes, toys. They grow and change and consume more and more. It&#039;s the law of supply and demand. Babies are extremely demanding consumers. Walmart was built on&lt;br&gt;the back of the American baby. It&#039;s a ridiculously lucrative demographic.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Dear Mr. Obama II : Economics 101&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oM3Ls8NNc5Q&quot;&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oM3Ls8NNc5Q&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;If they want &quot;CHANGE &amp; REDISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH&quot; they can do themself&lt;br&gt;a favor, and buy a copy of the movie Doctor Zhivago (1965). It covers the years prior to, during, and after the Russian Revolution, as seen through the eyes of poet/physician Yuri Zhivago. You can click the link below:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/Doctor-Zhivago-Two-Disc-Special-Caffarel/dp/B00003CX9M/ref=pd_bxgy_m_text_b&quot;&gt;http://www.amazon.com/Doctor-Zhivago-Two-Disc-S...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Aagain I pray for all as well for this dear Country of Ours, and for our Troops here, and over seas who fight to protect what is dear to us, and that is our Freedon that we have in this country of ours.&lt;br&gt;Dear Mr. Obama&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TG4fe9GlWS8&quot;&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TG4fe9GlWS8&lt;/a&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#39;m Sick and tired of hearing Obama compare John McCain to that of George Bush. Well here is a new one for Obama, should McCain wish to use it wisely:</p>
<p>NEW SLOGAN:</p>
<p> &#8220;A Vote for Obama is a Vote for Hugo Chavez &#8211; philosophy of government.&#8221;</p>
<p>We all know when Chavez preached &#8220;CHANGE &#038; REDISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH&#8221;.<br />Well the true finally was exposed, and it was Socialism followed by a terrified Riot &#038; <br />Civil Up-Roar in the country of Venezuela. As the Dictator also tried to change the Constitution for his gain, and was followed by high inflation, bankrupt economy, citizen jailed with the end results of Marxism / Socialism.</p>
<p>Hum does that speech reminds you of someone? However; Obama &#038; Biden tells us is the “PETRIOTIC THING DO!”</p>
<p>And, if that wasn&#39;t enough &#8211;  to add the insult to an injury Chavez goes on a kissing/hugging quest to Cuba uniting with Fidel Castro, Iran under the Terrorist &#038; Nuclear watch, and building an army to joint forces with Russia, Syria, Iran, Cuba, and others.</p>
<p>Yet again, Obama has no reservation as he stated he will go to these countries, sit with them, and have a dialog the same.</p>
<p>Supporters of Barack Obama<br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FPoK1Oqh_Y">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FPoK1Oqh_Y</a></p>
<p>Dear Mr. Obama: Who Are You?<br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16aBNduAyQ4">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16aBNduAyQ4</a></p>
<p>Of course not before manipulating, and dominating the news media and journalist just like a Communist country does.</p>
<p>Mark my words people if Obama wins; what&#39;s to come after the election is nothing short of chaos in a epic level that we have never seen in the history of the United Stated of America. God forbid if you or any of your love ones ever becomes prosperous.  You will be demonized as I&#39;m sure the Democrats will find a way to stick it to you on more taxes to give the undeserved.</p>
<p>Gaddafi: Obama is a Muslim &#8211; Foreign Donations to the Obama Campaign<br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSemkPChvHo">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSemkPChvHo</a></p>
<p>I hope, that you all heed this message with great importance, and I pray for all as well for this dear Country of Ours that we have been blessed so much as we have supported others around the world and ours the same.</p>
<p>What would our forth fathers say today if they were alive?   Because we have today, a failed education system how can this generation know what to vote for? But, that remains to be seen, and for the All Mighty to reveal the same on his own good time.  We will be weighted/judged as parents, and citizens the same for our social output for this future society. As, all citizens go out to the vote at their respective region for their own reasons; we must remember that what we sow will well reap!</p>
<p>PS.:  On Oct 24th 2008.  We all knew that the majority of the early voters were Democrats, flocked, and crowded the polling places that you would think they were having a CUMBAYA PARTY along with a few other democrat mixtures &#8211; you don&#39;t need to take my word for it &#8211; just go to the polling places and see for your selves. It is call antagonizing, and bottle necking the line for others in hope that Republicans won’t vote or don’t have the chance to vote.</p>
<p>As the democrats, and the liberal media were preaching that Obama was leading by 2 to 5 points when they know that these early prediction polls were false and unproven.</p>
<p>However; assuming that were true than the democrats for Obama’s campaign are still in trouble, and the Obama&#39;s campaign know this. The reason is this, if the race is still close as the news media says they are; what will the Obama’s campaign do after their exhaustion of their supporters in their early polls?  I tell you, that&#39;s when the real voters for McCain will be out in full force, and will out-vote the democrats in the last 3 to 2 days of the early voting; not to mention on November, Tuesday 4th  with pay back interest. </p>
<p>Nothing, would be pleasing than hearing those in charge of polling predictions retract their comments from  their false premature reports as they too are in business of making money for supplying predictions to the mainstream liberal Media.</p>
<p>On Oct 24th 2008.  Honestly, do you think that Republican voters would enjoy standing in the early voting places waiting 3 to 6 + hours rubbing faces with their counterparts? Do you think the predictors of early voting have called you for a Survey? Yet there are several millions of Republican voters waiting to cast their votes, but the mainstream media calls them un-deciders, and if not better Independents in which I respect them the same. But, many of us don’t have the same luxury on going to an early voting as democrats or welfare democrats do, as we have to work to pay our bills &#038; taxes so the Democrats can tax us some more, and give to the undeserved.  Like that of Obama&#39;s aunt who was living in the United States illegally. Obama&#39;s aunt had been instructed to leave the country four years ago by an immigration judge who rejected her request for asylum from her native Kenya. The woman, Zeituni Onyango is living in public housing in Boston and is the half-sister of Obama&#39;s and yes with our tax dollars, and making money contribution to Obama’s campaign with tax payer’s money. Oh that I also forgot to mention that she is not even a citizen of the United States which makes it illegal to do so. Go figure!</p>
<p>KNOW YOU’R MATH PEOPLE… IS THERE… THE DEVIL IS CONING AND FULL OF DECEPTIONS…  TO THE LEFT MEDIA I SAY THIS “PLEASE BE REALISTIC!”  ITS NOT OVER UNTILL THE FAT LADY SINGS… </p>
<p>Respectfully your,<br />Joseph Zakaria /. Country First and for McCain &#038; Palin 2008<br />Reported Oct. 25th, 2008</p>
<p>Here&#39;s a little experiment for you; next time you go out to eat, tell the waiter you are going to tip at 30%, but you are going to give his/her tip to the homeless person outside. Be sure to do it. You will find that a) your service will be abominable, you may find spit or worse, in your food, and you may be humiliated by the server who may announce quite loudly that your card has come back as STOLEN, and b) the homeless person will still be homeless. Redistribution just makes your own life sucks, and doesn&#39;t improve anyone else’s. The one earning the money (the server) should get the money and the one who sits on his butt all day shouldn&#39;t.</p>
<p>The right kind of redistribution is this: the server gets the tip, and after work, goes to the mall where he buys a new pair of MK&#39;s and a guitar hero, sending $$$ into the economy, so more goods are manufactured and more services are needed and more people are <br />employed, paid and in turn, pay taxes on their income. </p>
<p>We would never have been in this mess in the first place if we hadn&#39;t legalized the annihilation of the greatest consumer class the world has every known: the American baby. They are greedy little consumers, they use stuff up every day. Diapers, food, clothes, shoes, toys. They grow and change and consume more and more. It&#39;s the law of supply and demand. Babies are extremely demanding consumers. Walmart was built on<br />the back of the American baby. It&#39;s a ridiculously lucrative demographic.</p>
<p>Dear Mr. Obama II : Economics 101<br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oM3Ls8NNc5Q">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oM3Ls8NNc5Q</a></p>
<p>If they want &#8220;CHANGE &#038; REDISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH&#8221; they can do themself<br />a favor, and buy a copy of the movie Doctor Zhivago (1965). It covers the years prior to, during, and after the Russian Revolution, as seen through the eyes of poet/physician Yuri Zhivago. You can click the link below:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Doctor-Zhivago-Two-Disc-Special-Caffarel/dp/B00003CX9M/ref=pd_bxgy_m_text_b"></a><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Doctor-Zhivago-Two-Disc-S.." rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.com/Doctor-Zhivago-Two-Disc-S..</a>.</p>
<p>Aagain I pray for all as well for this dear Country of Ours, and for our Troops here, and over seas who fight to protect what is dear to us, and that is our Freedon that we have in this country of ours.<br />Dear Mr. Obama<br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TG4fe9GlWS8">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TG4fe9GlWS8</a></p>
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		<title>By: Burr Deming</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2008 20:59:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The racial appeals bubble beneath the surface, mostly among the base, but sometimes they rise up to startle the rest of us.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The viral email I got earlier this week was especially notable for the false witness it contained and for the way it introduced, as is too usual these days, the issue of race.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;So I wrote a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.FairAndUnbalanced.com?http://www.testimoanials.com/blog/blog1.php/2008/10/31/why-some-of-my-best-friends&quot;&gt;reply posted here&lt;/a&gt;.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The racial appeals bubble beneath the surface, mostly among the base, but sometimes they rise up to startle the rest of us.</p>
<p>The viral email I got earlier this week was especially notable for the false witness it contained and for the way it introduced, as is too usual these days, the issue of race.</p>
<p>So I wrote a <a href="http://www.FairAndUnbalanced.com?http://www.testimoanials.com/blog/blog1.php/2008/10/31/why-some-of-my-best-friends">reply posted here</a>.</p>
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		<title>By: ekimobmulap</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2008 12:25:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>what you say is very true concerning fox, hannity et. al. and it is encouraging to know that people beyond our borders see them for who they are.but do not fail to also see the majority of our citizens whom are rejecting their hateful rhetoric en masse and are creating a ground swell of epic size in support of Obama. this has been the most fascinating election i have ever witnessed due to the support that Obama has garnered and to witness the self destruction of a campaign based on division and cloaked racism.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>what you say is very true concerning fox, hannity et. al. and it is encouraging to know that people beyond our borders see them for who they are.but do not fail to also see the majority of our citizens whom are rejecting their hateful rhetoric en masse and are creating a ground swell of epic size in support of Obama. this has been the most fascinating election i have ever witnessed due to the support that Obama has garnered and to witness the self destruction of a campaign based on division and cloaked racism.</p>
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		<title>By: Jeri</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2008 08:01:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The US used to have something called the &quot;Fairness Doctrine&quot;, upheld by the Federal Communications Commission, that said that viewpoints had to be told from both sides. I will admit that I&#039;ve never researched the doctrine, but that&#039;s what I understand that it meant. So in the case of Hannity, or Rush Limbaugh, they couldn&#039;t blare their crap without a liberal being able to blare his crap, too. At some point the doctrine was eliminated which gave rise to the uncontrolled right wing radio and TV programs and only poor little Air America as, generally, the only left wing outlet. Limbaugh supposedly has 20 million listeners, I have no idea how well Air America does. Unless they bring back the Fairness Doctrine, there&#039;s not a lot that can be done about FOX News, Hannity, and Limbaugh, what with the 1st Amendment to the Constitution, except just not listening to them.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The US used to have something called the &#8220;Fairness Doctrine&#8221;, upheld by the Federal Communications Commission, that said that viewpoints had to be told from both sides. I will admit that I&#39;ve never researched the doctrine, but that&#39;s what I understand that it meant. So in the case of Hannity, or Rush Limbaugh, they couldn&#39;t blare their crap without a liberal being able to blare his crap, too. At some point the doctrine was eliminated which gave rise to the uncontrolled right wing radio and TV programs and only poor little Air America as, generally, the only left wing outlet. Limbaugh supposedly has 20 million listeners, I have no idea how well Air America does. Unless they bring back the Fairness Doctrine, there&#39;s not a lot that can be done about FOX News, Hannity, and Limbaugh, what with the 1st Amendment to the Constitution, except just not listening to them.</p>
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		<title>By: susanai56</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2008 01:02:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Living here, in Australia, and watching various american news networks - I get the feeling that there is a lot of hate out there. You see, we do get Fox, and it is a viscious thing, especially Hannity. So maybe this article was written with the right intentions, but you have millions watching that garbage. How do you overcome that! Fox should not be able to be on the air, just because it is a &#039;hate crime&#039; network. But with your stupid translation of the 1st ammendment Fox will be around spouting its hate for millenia - this cannot be helpful. Oh, and I forgot those wonderful right wing radio shows! How is it that they grow in number and followers?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Living here, in Australia, and watching various american news networks &#8211; I get the feeling that there is a lot of hate out there. You see, we do get Fox, and it is a viscious thing, especially Hannity. So maybe this article was written with the right intentions, but you have millions watching that garbage. How do you overcome that! Fox should not be able to be on the air, just because it is a &#39;hate crime&#39; network. But with your stupid translation of the 1st ammendment Fox will be around spouting its hate for millenia &#8211; this cannot be helpful. Oh, and I forgot those wonderful right wing radio shows! How is it that they grow in number and followers?</p>
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