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			<title><![CDATA[Fresh Fish Oil Jackpots.]]></title>
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			<author>(Mako Yamakura)</author>
			<description><![CDATA[I deal in fish.  Lots of it.  I'm a member of the global market, buying eel from the South China Sea, salmon from the North Sea, tuna from the Pacific, and shrimp from the Gulf.  Needless to say, I continually have to stay at the top of my game globally when it comes to getting the right price for a]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 12:04 AM</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[How about bringing back the draft?]]></title>
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			<author>(George Bullard)</author>
			<description><![CDATA[Obama's call to public service reaches back to John F. Kennedy. Not a bad reach. Not much call to public service lately. A lot of government work has become a gravy train -- 20 and out, and then get rehired into another government job.
   The senator should take it another step and call to restore]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 12:55 AM</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[The darkest days of Detroit]]></title>
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			<author>(Robert Smith Jr.)</author>
			<description><![CDATA[We are in the midst of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. The G.M. story is the most painful thing I have witnessed in my life about a great company. The G.M. executives ran the world I grew up in. The saying was "as G.M. goes, so goes the world." All the cabinet leaders in the]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 9:32 PM</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Happy to Pay More for Gasoline?]]></title>
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			<author>(John R. LaPlante)</author>
			<description><![CDATA[Are you happy to pay over $4 a gallon for gas? If so, keep voting for politicians who vote to lock up American oil reserves, thereby depressing the supply.

The congressional Republicans stumble across the truth once in a while. I'm not going to vouch for the veracity of each item in the image]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 6:17 PM</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[McCain - experienced liar]]></title>
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			<author>(Libby Spencer)</author>
			<description><![CDATA[In response to criticism that McCain can't even use a computer at a time when the world largely runs on internet connections, his spokesperson insisted that McCain is aware of the internet and has a great understanding of how it works. If that's true, one wonders why McCain feels free to boldly  lie]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 4:33 PM</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Guns & Posers]]></title>
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			<author>(JD Andary)</author>
			<description><![CDATA[Hooray for SCOTUS & the residents of Washington DC!  Now the good guys can arm themselves in the luxury of their own home.   I wasn't going to blog on Scalia & Co upholding the Second Amendment, until I noticed my co-bloggin', tax-immune minister, unearthing "a crime" with a handgun in Texas.  [BTW,]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 3:35 PM</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Happy 'Bring 'em on' anniversary]]></title>
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			<author>(Libby Spencer)</author>
			<description><![CDATA[How the time flies. It was five years ago today that our cowboy president swaggered to the podium and issued his famous challenge to the terrorists, arrogantly daring them to "bring it on."  At that point, only 186 Americans had lost their lives in Iraq. Since then over 4000 American military]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 3:48 PM</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Starbucks versus Government]]></title>
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			<author>(John R. LaPlante)</author>
			<description><![CDATA[Earlier this year I noted that McDonalds wants to enter the market for expensive coffee. 

Maybe they made a mistake. Starbucks is announcing that they will close down 600 of their stores.

This could mean that McDonalds is making inroads in their market. It could mean that public sentiment is]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 1:40 PM</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[No Apologies]]></title>
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			<author>(Jeanette Milliean)</author>
			<description><![CDATA[When I submitted my blog yesterday, I had no doubts that it would cause waves of disagreements.

Other bloggers have alluded to my comments and readers have called me straight out. I have no problem with people disagreeing with my views. If I did, there is no way I could blog.

I do mind people]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 11:16 AM</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[The right to murder]]></title>
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			<author>(Robert Smith Jr.)</author>
			<description><![CDATA[The new ruling by the Supreme Court upholding the right of law-abiding citizens to own firearms and wear them in public places in certain cities is a right to kill at will. The truth of the matter is lives will be lost with little explanation. People will kill people just because they have on a gun.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 11:15 AM</pubDate>
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