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			<title><![CDATA[A decent burial]]></title>
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			<author>(Pete Waldmeir)</author>
			<description><![CDATA[The people who think that the group of baseball fans who have been trying to save Tiger Stadium from demolition will raise the money they need by Aug. 1 to turn aside the wrecking ball are the same kind of folks who believe Barak Obama is going to give them $4,000 to go to college.

I like and]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 8:12 AM</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Why a stealth campaign?]]></title>
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			<author>(Pete Waldmeir)</author>
			<description><![CDATA[Isn't it curious that the group that wants to rewrite the Michigan Constitution to make government less expensive and  "more transparent" refuses to divulge the names of the person or persons who are footing the bill for their petition drive?


An obscure group based in Hastings, MI, that calls]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 7:48 AM</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Boot some dupa, Barak.]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[While it is not uncommon for political candidates to stack the house with supporters while barring potential rabble-rousers at high profile photo-op events, I wonder what would have happened at the recent Obama rally at Cobo Arena if my wife's sainted Polish grandmother had shown up wearing her]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 9:14 AM</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Veeps, Fieger, ashes and a primate boss.]]></title>
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			<author>(Pete Waldmeir)</author>
			<description><![CDATA[Random thoughts:


* With nothing more to be done about the presidential nominations, politics now turns to the theater of the absurd, i.e., who should Republican John  McCain and Democrat Barack Obama select as a vice presidential running mates?


I recently have notified both candidates that]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 1:24 PM</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Poetic justice?]]></title>
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			<author>(Pete Waldmeir)</author>
			<description><![CDATA[Is it only me, or are there others out there in bloggerland who think it's poetic justice that a Detroit casino is declaring bankruptcy?


Now they know how it feels, right?


The gambling joint in question is the Greektown Casino, the first and the smallest of the city's three gaming houses.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 12:00 PM</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Let voters decide Dillon's fate in November]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Much as I disagreed with the huge tax increase that Speaker Andy Dillon, D-Redford Township, pushed through the Michigan House of Representatives late last year, I didn't believe in the recall effort that was launched by tax revolter Leon Drolet and I'm pleased that it failed.


Dillon's up for]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 1:52 PM</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Smokers' rights can go up in flames]]></title>
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			<author>(Pete Waldmeir)</author>
			<description><![CDATA[My wife, Marilyn, has a stock answer for anyone who asks, "Do you mind if I smoke?" She smiles and responds demurely, "Frankly, I don't care if you go up in flames."


Actaully, that pretty much sums up how I feel about smokers' rights, which presently are a hot topic of debate in the Michigan]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, May 22, 2008 at 3:21 PM</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Detroit mayor scandal: Enough is enough]]></title>
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			<author>(Pete Waldmeir)</author>
			<description><![CDATA[Headlines in both The Detroit News and the Free Press this week said it all: "Finally".
Too bad it was only alluding to the Red Wings and the Pistons making the playoffs in their respective pro sports and not to the topic that is uppermost in the minds of most thinking residents of southeast]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, May 22, 2008 at 2:08 PM</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Fugitive deserves hard time]]></title>
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			<author>(Pete Waldmeir)</author>
			<description><![CDATA[I think that it's absurd to even suggest that Susan LeFevre (AKA Marie Walsh or whatever else she called herself) should be allowed to go free after walking away from DeHoCo back in 1976, where she was serving 10-to-20 on a drug dealing conviction.


If fact, this recaptured fugitive's rationale]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sat, May 3, 2008 at 1:47 PM</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Blues sing the Blues]]></title>
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			<author>(Pete Waldmeir)</author>
			<description><![CDATA[Cudos to Atty. Gen. Mike Cox for holding Blue Cross/Blue Shield CEO Dan Loepp's feet the the fire over the Blues' brazen attempt to use their special tax-free status as a so-called "not for profit" insurer to buy up yet another for-profit subsidiary.


It helps, of course, that Cox is a]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 10:04 AM</pubDate>
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