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		<title>Taxing A Recession, New Taxes in Budget, New Taxes in Healthcare, Record Debt and Government Spending.</title>
		<link>http://www.at-the-water-cooler.com/Discernment/2010/03/11/taxing-a-recession-new-taxes-in-budget-new-taxes-in-healthcare-record-debt-and-government-spending/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:25:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wayne Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You can not spend your way out of a recession has been said enough times that now Obama may just consider it a &#8220;talking point.&#8221; Reducing the cost of health care for seniors has also become an old talking point of the 2008 elections. Now taxing a recession is becoming a talking point.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You can not spend your way out of a recession has been said enough times that now Obama may just consider it a &#8220;talking point.&#8221; Reducing the cost of health care for seniors has also become an old talking point of the 2008 elections. Now taxing a recession is becoming a talking point.</p>
<p>The realities that increasing costs for businesses to hire employees will make them not hire employees has escape those who have faith in their President; They need to place their faith in God not Obama.</p>
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<li> <a href="http://www.fireandreamitchell.com/2010/03/10/obama-rakes-up-a-record-monthly-deficit-of-220-9-billion-in-february-highest-in-u-s-history/"> Obama rakes up a record monthly deficit Of $220.9 Billion in February &#8211; highest in U.S. history!</a>
<li> <a href="http://www.at-the-water-cooler.com/Currency/Taxing-Recession/0311-audacity">We have been Warned: Healthcare will cause U.S. Dollar Collapse</a>
<li> <a href="http://www.at-the-water-cooler.com/Currency/Taxing-Recession/0311-snt">It is not about health care insurance coverage, it is about health care COSTS</a>
<li> <a href="http://www.at-the-water-cooler.com/Currency/Taxing-Recession/0311-Yid">The 13 New Major Taxes/Fees In Harry Reid&#8217;s Healthcare Bill </a>
<li> <a href="http://www.at-the-water-cooler.com/Currency/Taxing-Recession/0311-ross">PelosiCare&#8217;s price controls will bankrupt health insurers in one year </a>
<li> <a href="http://www.at-the-water-cooler.com/Currency/Taxing-Recession/0311-hot">Changes in ObamaCare will require businesses to count part-time workers for coverage penalties</a>
<li> <a href="http://www.at-the-water-cooler.com/Currency/Taxing-Recession/0310-heritage">Obama Budget Raises Taxes and Doubles the National Debt</a>
<li> <a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2010/03/10/durbin-of-course-premiums-will-still-go-up-with-obamacare/">Durbin: Of course premiums will still go up with ObamaCare</a> That would be additional costs to hiring additional employees.
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		<title>Ironically AARP Forum RE Massa: We know about the bribes.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 07:24:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wayne Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many of the basic facts are across the internet. I think a fair statement would be &#8220;You can not fire me! I quit.&#8221;
AARP Forum
We know about the bribes.  How about the blackmail &#038; smear campaigns that have covnveniently happened to politicians that would oppose Obama administration?  NY govenor was smeared right after he [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Many of the basic facts are across the internet. I think a fair statement would be &#8220;You can not fire me! I quit.&#8221;</p>
<blockquote><p><a href="http://www.aarp.org/community/groups/displayTopic.bt?groupId=1472&#038;topicId=8071002">AARP Forum</a><br />
We know about the bribes.  How about the blackmail &#038; smear campaigns that have covnveniently happened to politicians that would oppose Obama administration?  NY govenor was smeared right after he refused to not run.  A few dems had initial smear stories on MSNBC that were not followed up after the targeted legislators voted with party the next week.  And in case you missed it Maddow started on Fri. smear of Stupak.  Will Stupak stay the course &#038; vote his convictions and get smeared or will he bow to blackmail &#038; story will disappear? </p></blockquote>
<p>The interview on Glenn Beck was not from a man with a lot of fight left in him. No sign of the nobel reasons to be in public office. While he wants to retain his standards &#8211; which he said he did not while in office &#8211; he does not represent that others have those standards; no demands from him that they should. </p>
<p>It does seem that he has accomplished getting to the exit and out the door without being hit to hard by the door. The description of his experience is one of day to day operations of following demands of the money &#8211; the Oligarchy &#8211; but does not confirm the names. And, being directed as to what to do by &#8220;the leadership&#8221; naming the structure of congressional whips who are not named but &#8230; <a href="http://www.at-the-water-cooler.com/WeThePeople/California/30/">that would be CA 30 &#8211; Cap and Trade &#8211; Henry Waxman.</a></p>
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		<title>It&#8217;s about to get interesting</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 04:13:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wayne Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The next 30 days are going to be marked by those entering the race for political office. They need to register with the state for their 2010 election; They need to meet with people. Indeed it has already started DeVore gains momentum against Barbara Boxer.

These people have stepped up to represent the people many are [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The next 30 days are going to be marked by those entering the race for political office. They need to register with the state for their 2010 election; They need to meet with people. Indeed it has already started <a href="http://senateconservatives.com/v1/index.php?p=post&#038;id=79">DeVore gains momentum</a> against Barbara Boxer.</p>
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<p>These people have stepped up to represent the people many are making themselves available on twitter and other forums. Within the next few weeks those who are in congress and want to be in 2011 will need to start meeting with people, and not saying things like &#8211; this is my meeting not yours -</p>
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		<title>CBS Glorifies Obama for Christian Compassion!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:02:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wayne Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hat Tip NewsBusters
Near the end of Monday&#8217;s CBS Early Show, co-host Erica Hill touted a new Parade magazine survey on volunteerism in America: &#8220;it indicates America is in the midst of what some are calling a compassion boom.&#8221;  Moments later, the magazine&#8217;s contributing editor, Emily Listfield, argued: &#8220;There&#8217;s something we call the &#8216;Obama Effect.&#8217; [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hat Tip <a href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/kyle-drennen/2010/03/08/cbs-compassion-boom-america-result-obama-effect">NewsBusters</a></p>
<blockquote><p>Near the end of Monday&#8217;s CBS Early Show, co-host Erica Hill touted a new Parade magazine survey on volunteerism in America: &#8220;it indicates America is in the midst of what some are calling a compassion boom.&#8221;  Moments later, the magazine&#8217;s contributing editor, Emily Listfield, argued: &#8220;There&#8217;s something we call the &#8216;Obama Effect.&#8217; People are responding to the President&#8217;s call to service.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>The contrast with the truth I believe is all that need be said.</p>
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		<title>Forgive Barbara Boxer but vote her out of office</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:51:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wayne Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Forgiving does not mean to hold up somebody who has shown poor judgment and offer excuses for their poor judgment to positions were they will use their judgment. It is possible for people to learn from their mistakes and learn &#8211; It is also possible for people not to learn and continue to make them.
It [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Forgiving does not mean to hold up somebody who has shown poor judgment and offer excuses for their poor judgment to positions were they will use their judgment. It is possible for people to learn from their mistakes and learn &#8211; It is also possible for people not to learn and continue to make them.</p>
<p>It is possible for pro-choice advocates to change; And, that is a great thing; But, Barbara Boxer has not changed. <a href="http://www.lifenews.com/nat5648.html">Boxer voted to block Stupak amendment</a>, and against other amendments from representatives of the people, that stop tax payer funding of abortion. If life were on a scale (it is not) between two evils &#8211; her position would be to the extreme on the right to kill side. Forgiving does not mean allowing somebody to continue to kill.</p>
<p>The Congress are voted on by the people to represent the people &#8211; Boxer does not even know who the people are!</p>
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<p>Does Boxer really believe the millions who have attempted to have their voices heard not citizens! Or that they are the same people and travel around the country from place to place (sometimes on the same day)! Or that the American people have been corrupted by Lobbyists and Special interests. That the American people have been paid off by the insurance industry? Unions? Acorn? Overseas donations?</p>
<p>Does she think they smell?<br />
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<p>Forgiveness does not mean allowing people to be unjustly slandered.</p>
<p>Emerging alternatives include<br />
<a href="http://twitter.com/chuckdevore">Chuck Devore</a> for California Senate<br />
<a href="http://twitter.com/Ed4Congress">Ed Martine</a> MO 3<br />
<a href="http://twitter.com/Heck4Nevada">Joe Heck</a> Nevada<br />
<a href="http://twitter.com/BillJohnson2010">bill Johnson</a>  Kentucky<br />
<a href="http://twitter.com/RobMcCarthyJr">Rob McCarthy Jr</a> Boston, MA<br />
<a href="http://twitter.com/ZALESKI4CONGRES">Thomas Zaleski</a> Azirona<br />
<a href="http://twitter.com/aridavid2010">Ari David</a>I am running for Congress against Henry Waxman<br />
<a href="http://twitter.com/JohnDennis2010">John Dennis</a>Challenging Nancy Pelosi in 2010 for personal liberty, peace, and fiscal sanity in San Francisco &#8211; CA&#8217;s 8th District</p>
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		<title>The Demonization of #teaparty &#8211; Prov 26:4 or Prov 26:5</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:16:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wayne Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jules Crittenden post today &#8211; Crazy Shooter Identity
Admit it. One of the first things that goes through your head when you hear about another crazy shooter incident is … “Mohammed or Billy Bob?”  Islamic extremist nutcase or homegrown ultra right-wing nutjob? What name are the cops going to release? Which side, politically, is going [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Jules Crittenden post today &#8211; <a href="http://www.julescrittenden.com/2010/03/05/crazy-shooter-identity/">Crazy Shooter Identity</a></p>
<blockquote><p>Admit it. One of the first things that goes through your head when you hear about another crazy shooter incident is … “Mohammed or Billy Bob?”  Islamic extremist nutcase or homegrown ultra right-wing nutjob? What name are the cops going to release? Which side, politically, is going to say “Told you so.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Hat Tip to <a href="http://talkwisdom.blogspot.com/2010/03/news-roundup-of-great-blog-posts.html">Talk Wisdom</a> for locating the post.</p>
<p><a href="http://legalinsurrection.blogspot.com/2010/03/anti-tea-party-crowd-disappointed-again.html">Legal Insurrection</a> is also on top of it: </p>
<blockquote><p>Despite their worst intentions, the people who try to tie every act of violence to the Tea Party movement are going to have trouble spinning the Pentagon shooting by J. Patrick Bedell.</p>
<p>It has become pretty clear pretty quickly that Bedell sufferred from Bush Derangement Syndrome, and was a 9/11 Truther, just like 35% of Democrats as of May 2007.</p>
<p>But that&#8217;s not to say the left-wing blogosphere will not try to spin this into something it is not (image right).</p>
<p><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_A24UZctD--E/S5EEPlitSvI/AAAAAAAABYY/YhLuRXrrZu4/s320/Pentagon+Shooter+-+Bedell+-+Mediaelite.jpg" alt="" />
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<p>How much bad information is out in the public about the Teaparty and Christianity as a whole. Some are putting out information that parts of the bible are &#8220;HATE&#8221; speech. If this goes unanswered it is reasonable that some believe it as true.</p>
<p>While Proverbs 26:4 says &#8220;Do not answer a fool according to his folly, or you will be like him yourself.&#8221; Proverbs 26:5 says &#8220;Answer a fool according to his folly, or he will be wise in his own eyes.&#8221;</p>
<p>In not answering slanderous lies &#8211; The person becomes convinced he is correct and works to convince others to his revelation, which in reality is a lie. These slanderous charges must be answered, Not with another foolish lie, but with the truth. Do not argue but end the argument &#8230; Several examples of how are on Snt Johnny&#8217;s post<a href="http://sntjohnny.com/front/the-silence-of-the-wolves-atheists-turn-docile-in-face-of-the-facts/752.html">The Silence of the Wolves: Atheists Turn Docile in Face of the Facts</a> &#8211; Answer a fool but do so wisely.</p>
<p>Additional Reading</p>
<ul>
<li> <a href="http://www.at-the-water-cooler.com/WeThePeople/WedgeIssues/0303-wnd">Scathing report: Tea partiers just like Timothy McVeigh</a>
<li> <a href="http://www.at-the-water-cooler.com/WeThePeople/WedgeIssues/217-Big">Clinton Plotting Tea Party Counterattack</a>
<li> <a href="http://www.at-the-water-cooler.com/WeThePeople/WedgeIssues/00211">Newsweek: TEA Party Convention Full of 9/11 Truthers</a>
<li> <a href="http://www.at-the-water-cooler.com/WeThePeople/WedgeIssues/0221-ACLU">Where are People of Color at Tea Parties? Right Here!</a>
<li> <a href="http://www.at-the-water-cooler.com/WeThePeople/WedgeIssues/0221-big">If This Is the GOP Future, They Will Be a Minority Party</a>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s other nuke option &#8211; Sign Reidcare without reconciliation and 51 votes.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 03:07:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wayne Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This morning I posted on the front page a link to Prediction: Obama Will Sign Senate Bill If Reconciliation Fails and on twitter 
The possibility of Obama signing Reid Care without addressing the differences in the house and senate exists and is now starting to go viral.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This morning I posted on the front page a link to <a href="http://legalinsurrection.blogspot.com/2010/03/prediction-obama-will-sign-senate-bill.html">Prediction: Obama Will Sign Senate Bill If Reconciliation Fails</a> and on twitter <a href="http://twitter.com/WSDiscernment/status/9987492984"></a></p>
<p><a href="http://twitter.com/WSDiscernment/status/9987492984">The possibility of Obama signing Reid Care without addressing the differences in the house and senate exists and is now starting to go viral.</a></p>
<p>Hot Air <a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2010/03/04/theory-of-the-day-obama-will-stab-the-house-in-the-back-by-abandoning-reconciliation-after-they-pass-the-senate-bill/">Theory of the day: Obama will stab the House in the back by abandoning reconciliation after they pass the Senate bill</a></p>
<p><a href="http://votingfemale.wordpress.com/2010/03/04/bob-corker%E2%80%99s-senate-office-number-is-202-224-3344/">Voting Female</a> Lists a link to the issue as additional reading.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.healthcarebs.com/2010/03/04/the-latest-ocare-conspiracy-theory/">Health Care BS</a> Considers it a conspiracy theory.</p>
<blockquote><p>I first encountered this latest black helicopter plot yesterday at William Jacobson’s blog, where he predicted that the House would pass the Senate bill, on the promise that it will be “fixed” via reconciliation, but that Obama will sign it into law whether it’s fixed or not.</p>
<p>I don’t doubt for a minute that Obama would do such a thing, but I have serious doubts that he’ll get the opportunity. Today, Jacobson’s theory bubbled up at Hot Air, where Ed Morrissey has been apparently been getting a lot of e-mail about it.</p></blockquote>
<p>There are several problems with the current course of Obamacare that seem to suggest the only options are to start over or pass health care without the house:</p>
<p><a href="http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2009/08/16/sorry-cant-pass-health-care-bill-without-a-public-option/">Sorry, Can’t Pass Health Care Bill Without A Public Option</a></p>
<blockquote><p>There are 435 seats on the House.  Of those, 257 are filled by Democrats and 178 by Republicans.  Which means a majority is 218.  The Republicans have vowed to vote against health care, period.  The Democrats can pass health care on their own, but if they lose 40 of their own, they only have 217 votes.</p>
<p>There are 57 Democrats who signed the July 30 letter saying that they &#8220;simply cannot vote&#8221; for a bill that &#8220;at minimum&#8221; does not have a public plan (PDF).  There are 7 more not listed on the letter who have pledged to vote against any bill that does not have a robust public plan.  That makes 64 Democrats who won’t vote for the &#8220;co-ops&#8221; that both Kathleen Sibelius and Robert Gibbs say the White House is &#8220;open&#8221; to.</p>
<p>Do the math:  257 – 64 = 193.  They need 218 to pass the bill.</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://news.firedoglake.com/2010/03/04/anti-choice-site-names-the-stupak-12/">Anti-Choice Site Names The Stupak 12</a></p>
<blockquote><p>The website lists the 12 House Democrats as follows: Bart Stupak (D-MI), Joseph Cao (R-LA), Jerry Costello (D-IL), Kathy Dahlkemper (D-PA), Joe Donnelly (D-IN), Steve Dreihaus (D-OH), Brad Ellsworth (D-IN), Marcy Kaptur (D-OH), Dale Kildee (D-MI), Dan Lipinski (D-IL), Jim Oberstar (D-MN), and Charlie Wilson (D-OH).</p></blockquote>
<p>Pelosi can not lose these votes and still pass the bill. The Senate rejected taking abortion funding out of the bill.</p>
<p>Now if you know this by reading blogs &#8211; It is a certainty that Obama know it. He knows it and is proceeding forward &#8211; not to have Obamacare fail but to write his legacy &#8230; Yes &#8220;I&#8221; Can.</p>
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		<title>Reconciliation: The Tyranny of Reid&#8217;s Majority</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 20:43:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wayne Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[People who are pushing for Pelosicare, Reidcare or Obamacare will say reconciliation is a good and moral practice. They will site &#8220;Great&#8221; presidents who have used it. Or will they? Nobody printed on the US dollar has used it. Nobody who face is on a mountain has used it. No these people who are so [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>People who are pushing for Pelosicare, Reidcare or Obamacare will say reconciliation is a good and moral practice. They will site &#8220;Great&#8221; presidents who have used it. Or will they? Nobody printed on the US dollar has used it. Nobody who face is on a mountain has used it. No these people who are so honored warned against the tyranny of the majority and set in place protections against it &#8211; The 2/3rds rule. Reconciliation has been used to remove spending. It has been used to introduce changes to legislation. It has never been used to make massive changes in Government. Our greatest leaders never used it &#8211; Why would they? They were leaders not dictators.</p>
<p>2/3rds can be a difficult number. It is required to change the constitution or remove a president. Reconciliation was created to allow the congress to act quicker on small maters of state to prevent a filibuster. A filibuster requires 2/3rds to end it &#8211; It can be used at anytime but it is rarely used.</p>
<p>Our leaders have decided that 2/3rds may not be required to change 1/6th of our economy and impose a federal requirement that people must purchase insurance. </p>
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<li><a href="http://www.at-the-water-cooler.com/WeThePeople/MereMajority/0303-Heritage">Reconciliation: A Rarely-Used Procedure with Serious Consequences</a>
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<li> <a href="http://www.at-the-water-cooler.com/WeThePeople/MereMajority/0303-values">Senator Harkin Says Democrats Will Use Reconciliation!</a>
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<li> <a href="http://www.at-the-water-cooler.com/WeThePeople/MereMajority/0303-Lonely">Democrats Will &#8216;Short Circuit&#8217; the Constitution to Pass ObamaCare Through Reconciliation</a>
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<li> <a href="http://www.at-the-water-cooler.com/WeThePeople/MereMajority/0301-pat">Boehner: Reconciliation Is Here, And It Aint Pretty</a>
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<li> <a href="http://www.at-the-water-cooler.com/WeThePeople/MereMajority/0301-2cents">Reconciliation Immolation Is On The Way </a></li>
<li> <a href="http://www.at-the-water-cooler.com/WeThePeople/Nebraska/0302-hill">Nelson defends Senate health bill, signals strong backing for reform</a>
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<li> <a href="http://www.at-the-water-cooler.com/WeThePeople/Virginia/0302-Wayward">Blow-Hard,Tim Kaine, Bloviates To Reconciliation!</a>
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<li> <a href="http://www.at-the-water-cooler.com/WeThePeople/California/0301-kettle">Pelosi orders Dems to End their Careers for her and a Totalitarian USA</a>
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<li> <a href="http://www.at-the-water-cooler.com/WeThePeople/California/0225-Boxer">Boxer Signs Letter Calling for Public Option in Reconciliation</a>
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<li> <a href="http://www.at-the-water-cooler.com/WeThePeople/NewMexico/0301-bigGraft">Graft, Greed and Waste in State Government: New Mexico Edition</a>
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		<title>United for Obama goes under the &#8220;bus&#8221; New Name Coffeeparty</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:20:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wayne Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hat Tip Legal Insurrection


More Astroturf Exposed
&#8216;Grassroots&#8217; Coffee Party Organizer Exposed as Obama Political Operative

American Public Policy Center &#8211; Two man anti teaparty movement.

Dems plan to astroturf conservative radio
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hat Tip <a href="http://legalinsurrection.blogspot.com/2010/03/coffee-party-parasite.html">Legal Insurrection</a></p>
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<p><a href="http://www.at-the-water-cooler.com/WeThePeople/AstroturfExposed/">More Astroturf Exposed</a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.at-the-water-cooler.com/WeThePeople/AstroturfExposed/0302-News">&#8216;Grassroots&#8217; Coffee Party Organizer Exposed as Obama Political Operative</a></p>
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<a href="http://www.at-the-water-cooler.com/WeThePeople/AstroturfExposed/0226-nice">American Public Policy Center &#8211; Two man anti teaparty movement.</a></p>
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<a href="http://www.at-the-water-cooler.com/WeThePeople/AstroturfExposed/0226-thinker">Dems plan to astroturf conservative radio</a></p>
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		<title>Symptoms of Social Illness</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:45:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wayne Smith</dc:creator>
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Tulsa Restaurant Patrons Step Over Shooting Victim To Reach Pickup Window
&#8216;Biology-based&#8217; restrooms called &#8216;discrimination&#8217;
&#8216;Schools therefore cannot segregate students based on sexual orientation&#8217;
Baby girl survives after being shot in the chest in parents&#8217; &#8216;global warming suicide pact&#8217;
Fox&#8217;s &#8216;Family Guy&#8217; raking in the indecency complaints
Obama Voters In Focus Group Like Family Guy&#8217;s Attack On Palin
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Initially Published <a href="http://www.at-the-water-cooler.com/Symptoms/">here</a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.newson6.com/global/story.asp?s=12058604">Tulsa Restaurant Patrons Step Over Shooting Victim To Reach Pickup Window</a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&amp;pageId=126662">&#8216;Biology-based&#8217; restrooms called &#8216;discrimination&#8217;<br />
&#8216;Schools therefore cannot segregate students based on sexual orientation&#8217;</a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1254619/Baby-girl-survives-shot-chest-parents-global-warming-suicide-pact.html">Baby girl survives after being shot in the chest in parents&#8217; &#8216;global warming suicide pact&#8217;</a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/entertainmentnewsbuzz/2010/02/fcc-family-guy-fox-complaints-draft.html">Fox&#8217;s &#8216;Family Guy&#8217; raking in the indecency complaints</a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2010/02/27/obama-voters-focus-group-family-guys-attack-palin">Obama Voters In Focus Group Like Family Guy&#8217;s Attack On Palin</a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&amp;pageId=125839">Without God, insanity is just around the corner</a></p>
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