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	<title>Comments on: &#8220;Chief Porker&#8221; Don Young Refuses To Share Bacon With Katrina Victims</title>
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		<title>By: Brendan Calling - I hear the voices, and I read the front page, and I know the speculation. But I'm the decider, and I decide what is best. &#187; Don Young: Prominent Lincoln Scholar</title>
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		<dc:creator>Brendan Calling - I hear the voices, and I read the front page, and I know the speculation. But I'm the decider, and I decide what is best. &#187; Don Young: Prominent Lincoln Scholar</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Feb 2007 15:35:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Young: Prominent Lincoln Scholar   By Brendan A lot of people associate Alaska Republican Don Young with the &#8220;Bridge to Nowhere&#8221; boondoggle Young is chairman of Congressâ€™s Transportation and Infrastructure Commitee and has ensured that [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] Young: Prominent Lincoln Scholar   By Brendan A lot of people associate Alaska Republican Don Young with the &#8220;Bridge to Nowhere&#8221; boondoggle Young is chairman of Congressâ€™s Transportation and Infrastructure Commitee and has ensured that [...]<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=1765432', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: New Direction - Will It Lead Anywhere? &#171; Open Board Blog</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2005/09/20/chief-porker/comment-page-2/#comment-1133133</link>
		<dc:creator>New Direction - Will It Lead Anywhere? &#171; Open Board Blog</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Nov 2006 21:31:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] The conventional edu-wisdom seems to be that &#8220;new direction&#8221; means something must be done with NCLB. Not to worry - the National School Board Association has a plan. Unfortunately the plan is: keep NCLB largely intact with a few nice-sounding reforms. All sponsored by - cue the horns - Don Young (R-AK). Yes, King of Pork, Bridge To Nowhere, that Don Young. I know politics means you sometimes pick a poisonous partner but this feels especially nauseous. Excuse me for a few moments&#8230; [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] The conventional edu-wisdom seems to be that &#8220;new direction&#8221; means something must be done with NCLB. Not to worry &#8211; the National School Board Association has a plan. Unfortunately the plan is: keep NCLB largely intact with a few nice-sounding reforms. All sponsored by &#8211; cue the horns &#8211; Don Young (R-AK). Yes, King of Pork, Bridge To Nowhere, that Don Young. I know politics means you sometimes pick a poisonous partner but this feels especially nauseous. Excuse me for a few moments&#8230; [...]<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=1133133', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: The Ptarmigan Nest - Ptarmigan, the State Bird of Alaska. A peaceful little creature. &#187; Don Young has his own Abramoff&#8230; er, Aronoff</title>
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		<dc:creator>The Ptarmigan Nest - Ptarmigan, the State Bird of Alaska. A peaceful little creature. &#187; Don Young has his own Abramoff&#8230; er, Aronoff</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Jul 2006 05:18:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Don Young has his own Abramoff&#8230; er, Aronoff   By Great Grey Don Young finally found someone to kiss his ear. His name is Dan Aronoff, and he is from Florida. The Alaska Report brings us the story of how some land developers in Florida held a little fund raiser for Don, pulled in $41,000. And whaddaya know, soon after $10 million is earmarked for an Interstate exit, adjacent to land owned by the folks that held the funder. [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] Don Young has his own Abramoff&#8230; er, Aronoff   By Great Grey Don Young finally found someone to kiss his ear. His name is Dan Aronoff, and he is from Florida. The Alaska Report brings us the story of how some land developers in Florida held a little fund raiser for Don, pulled in $41,000. And whaddaya know, soon after $10 million is earmarked for an Interstate exit, adjacent to land owned by the folks that held the funder. [...]<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=673384', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: ryan</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2005/09/20/chief-porker/comment-page-2/#comment-221961</link>
		<dc:creator>ryan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2005 13:14:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>lol chief porker</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>lol chief porker<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=221961', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Daily Revolution &#187; Bacon, Ham, and Chops</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2005/09/20/chief-porker/comment-page-2/#comment-173202</link>
		<dc:creator>Daily Revolution &#187; Bacon, Ham, and Chops</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2005 15:06:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Think Progress posted the story yesterday of Don Young, the Alaskan Republican responsible for some of the worst economic depredations of the pork-laden Transportation bill. It&#8217;s an almost incredible story, if you follow it to its roots and have a strong stomach. [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] Think Progress posted the story yesterday of Don Young, the Alaskan Republican responsible for some of the worst economic depredations of the pork-laden Transportation bill. It&#8217;s an almost incredible story, if you follow it to its roots and have a strong stomach. [...]<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=173202', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: john smith</title>
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		<dc:creator>john smith</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2005 14:15:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Ketchikan Alaska, does not give a crap about minorities who lost their homes in the gulf. Ketchikan is a little white community so caught up in our own convenience, we think pissing huge tax money away on Â½ mile link will encourage factories to run to Alaska. Hey wake up Ketchikan, who would ever fly/barge parts in, to be assembled, only to fly/barge out, to get on the market. We small town folk have been on our knees to local political idiots for too long. If Bush did not act fast enough to people in need, we pin heads up north are much worse. What an example of greed.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ketchikan Alaska, does not give a crap about minorities who lost their homes in the gulf. Ketchikan is a little white community so caught up in our own convenience, we think pissing huge tax money away on Â½ mile link will encourage factories to run to Alaska. Hey wake up Ketchikan, who would ever fly/barge parts in, to be assembled, only to fly/barge out, to get on the market. We small town folk have been on our knees to local political idiots for too long. If Bush did not act fast enough to people in need, we pin heads up north are much worse. What an example of greed.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=159526', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: john smith</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2005/09/20/chief-porker/comment-page-2/#comment-159520</link>
		<dc:creator>john smith</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2005 14:01:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I am a republican from Alaska, Don Young is an embarrassment to my party. His Pork barrel gouging of America in the form of Bridges to nothing in Alaska has nothing to do with conservative values. 350 million bucks to link a little Island to Ketchikan that his buddies own beachfront lots on is aristocratic thievery. Now we can pay big taxes to rebuild the gulf disaster while he justifies his EGO. Wait until Jesse Jackson finds out none of the fifty affluent land owners on this small Island are of color. You talk about a black eye for the Republican Party. Who will align themselves with this man now, for ANWR. We will pay for this greed in many ways.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am a republican from Alaska, Don Young is an embarrassment to my party. His Pork barrel gouging of America in the form of Bridges to nothing in Alaska has nothing to do with conservative values. 350 million bucks to link a little Island to Ketchikan that his buddies own beachfront lots on is aristocratic thievery. Now we can pay big taxes to rebuild the gulf disaster while he justifies his EGO. Wait until Jesse Jackson finds out none of the fifty affluent land owners on this small Island are of color. You talk about a black eye for the Republican Party. Who will align themselves with this man now, for ANWR. We will pay for this greed in many ways.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=159520', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: xristim</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2005/09/20/chief-porker/comment-page-2/#comment-146293</link>
		<dc:creator>xristim</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Sep 2005 20:32:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Alaska, too, is getting a bridge from one nowhere to the next nowhere.  Since the Chief of the Counterfeit Compassionate Conservative And Oh Yeah By The Way Conspicuously Caucasian Caucus and his Dither of Dolts (aka Bush and his Administration) have refused to rein in their party or to veto ANYthing, I think it only fair that all basically unnecessary bridges should be named in a way that affiliates them with the Chief.  I suggest naming them for the Lint Twins (aka the Bush Twins), since, like the twins, the bridges will not be decorative and will serve no purpose.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Alaska, too, is getting a bridge from one nowhere to the next nowhere.  Since the Chief of the Counterfeit Compassionate Conservative And Oh Yeah By The Way Conspicuously Caucasian Caucus and his Dither of Dolts (aka Bush and his Administration) have refused to rein in their party or to veto ANYthing, I think it only fair that all basically unnecessary bridges should be named in a way that affiliates them with the Chief.  I suggest naming them for the Lint Twins (aka the Bush Twins), since, like the twins, the bridges will not be decorative and will serve no purpose.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=146293', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Ryan Neat</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2005/09/20/chief-porker/comment-page-2/#comment-146099</link>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Neat</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Sep 2005 07:32:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;I have it on good authority that if anyone who voted for Kerry should die before the 08 presidential election where they have one last chance to atone by voting Republican, will go straight to hell.&quot;

Wow, more death threats - psychopath Racist Bigot MrWrong strikes again.

&quot;The â€œrule of thumbâ€ amongst us Conservative Fundamentalist Right Wing Children of the Only God is that you canâ€™t be a Democrat and expect to get into heaven. But that works out just fine because most Democrats donâ€™t believe in God or heaven anyway. &quot;

Sure we do, we just don&#039;t believe you have a snowballs chance of ever going there.  Once again, your delusion is disconnected from reality...  We don&#039;t believe in &#039;churches&#039;, because they distort stupid people like you into ignorant drones instead of helping them to find their actual spiritual fulfillment.  You prevent yourself from understanding religion - but considering you appear to be clinically insane, I doubt that can be helped in your case.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;I have it on good authority that if anyone who voted for Kerry should die before the 08 presidential election where they have one last chance to atone by voting Republican, will go straight to hell.&#8221;</p>
<p>Wow, more death threats &#8211; psychopath Racist Bigot MrWrong strikes again.</p>
<p>&#8220;The â€œrule of thumbâ€ amongst us Conservative Fundamentalist Right Wing Children of the Only God is that you canâ€™t be a Democrat and expect to get into heaven. But that works out just fine because most Democrats donâ€™t believe in God or heaven anyway. &#8221;</p>
<p>Sure we do, we just don&#8217;t believe you have a snowballs chance of ever going there.  Once again, your delusion is disconnected from reality&#8230;  We don&#8217;t believe in &#8216;churches&#8217;, because they distort stupid people like you into ignorant drones instead of helping them to find their actual spiritual fulfillment.  You prevent yourself from understanding religion &#8211; but considering you appear to be clinically insane, I doubt that can be helped in your case.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=146099', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: gols</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2005/09/20/chief-porker/comment-page-2/#comment-144659</link>
		<dc:creator>gols</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2005 15:02:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>mike tyson should bite off his ear he clearly is not hearing reason</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>mike tyson should bite off his ear he clearly is not hearing reason<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=144659', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: gols</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2005/09/20/chief-porker/comment-page-2/#comment-144655</link>
		<dc:creator>gols</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2005 14:53:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>someone should start a campaign against the bridge to nowhere</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>someone should start a campaign against the bridge to nowhere<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=144655', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: I-RIGHT-I</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2005/09/20/chief-porker/comment-page-2/#comment-142651</link>
		<dc:creator>I-RIGHT-I</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:28:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I have absolutely no respect for anyone whoâ€™s a republican. I doubt that thereâ€™s a single rethug (politician and or voter) who has any morality or humanity left in their sorry souls.

comment by don juan.com

I agree with the idea that this isn&#039;t about Democrats and Republicans, it&#039;s about morality, world view and a basic philosophy of life. Of course I have a different opinion regarding Republicans. I do think there are some good ones. I think any rational person who loves his country and fears God has a good reason to vote a straight Republican ticket regardless of the flaws of the party and the top management. The reason is this, God will forgive a man for voting Republican because he actually had no other choice. He will not forgive anyone who is immoral enough, brain dead enough,  in fact evil enough to put the Damned BY God, Evil RatBastardCommieMofo&#039;s in power. 

I have it on good authority that if anyone who voted for Kerry should die before the 08 presidential election where they have one last chance to atone by voting Republican, will go straight to hell.

The &quot;rule of thumb&quot; amongst us Conservative Fundamentalist Right Wing Children of the Only God is that you can&#039;t be a Democrat and expect to get into heaven. But that works out just fine because most Democrats don&#039;t believe in God or heaven anyway.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have absolutely no respect for anyone whoâ€™s a republican. I doubt that thereâ€™s a single rethug (politician and or voter) who has any morality or humanity left in their sorry souls.</p>
<p>comment by don juan.com</p>
<p>I agree with the idea that this isn&#8217;t about Democrats and Republicans, it&#8217;s about morality, world view and a basic philosophy of life. Of course I have a different opinion regarding Republicans. I do think there are some good ones. I think any rational person who loves his country and fears God has a good reason to vote a straight Republican ticket regardless of the flaws of the party and the top management. The reason is this, God will forgive a man for voting Republican because he actually had no other choice. He will not forgive anyone who is immoral enough, brain dead enough,  in fact evil enough to put the Damned BY God, Evil RatBastardCommieMofo&#8217;s in power. </p>
<p>I have it on good authority that if anyone who voted for Kerry should die before the 08 presidential election where they have one last chance to atone by voting Republican, will go straight to hell.</p>
<p>The &#8220;rule of thumb&#8221; amongst us Conservative Fundamentalist Right Wing Children of the Only God is that you can&#8217;t be a Democrat and expect to get into heaven. But that works out just fine because most Democrats don&#8217;t believe in God or heaven anyway.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=142651', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: doncom</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2005/09/20/chief-porker/comment-page-2/#comment-142495</link>
		<dc:creator>doncom</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2005 20:49:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I have absolutely no respect for anyone who&#039;s a republican.  I doubt that there&#039;s a single rethug (politician and or voter) who has any morality or humanity left in their sorry souls.  Rethug pols are upfront about their gluttonty because they control the voting machines.

As for Prescott Bush, who with his father-in-law founded the Bush Family Evil Empire, not only was not in office to vote for the Civil Rights Act, he and George Herbert Walker were movers and shakers in the Eugenics movement in the 1920&#039;s.  In addition, Wycliffe Draper, who advocated the responsibility of every white person to have large numbers of children to offset procreation of african americans, placed responsibility of his eugenics foundation called the Pioneer Fund in Walker&#039;s private bank.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have absolutely no respect for anyone who&#8217;s a republican.  I doubt that there&#8217;s a single rethug (politician and or voter) who has any morality or humanity left in their sorry souls.  Rethug pols are upfront about their gluttonty because they control the voting machines.</p>
<p>As for Prescott Bush, who with his father-in-law founded the Bush Family Evil Empire, not only was not in office to vote for the Civil Rights Act, he and George Herbert Walker were movers and shakers in the Eugenics movement in the 1920&#8217;s.  In addition, Wycliffe Draper, who advocated the responsibility of every white person to have large numbers of children to offset procreation of african americans, placed responsibility of his eugenics foundation called the Pioneer Fund in Walker&#8217;s private bank.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=142495', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: boing</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2005/09/20/chief-porker/comment-page-2/#comment-142136</link>
		<dc:creator>boing</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2005 17:47:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>We need those bridges for two growing communities that are surrounded by federally owned land.  The anchorage bridge will shave two hours of commuting time for many residents, saving gas for sure.  The Ketchikan bridge will expand the available land for a growing community and connect two islands to the main town, reducing the use of a diesel ferry that deflects killer whales and other marine mammals from the area.  You all can&#039;t tell me that since you all got your bridges, highways, power lines, etcetera that state 49 can just suffer.  H2 anybody?  Hello?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We need those bridges for two growing communities that are surrounded by federally owned land.  The anchorage bridge will shave two hours of commuting time for many residents, saving gas for sure.  The Ketchikan bridge will expand the available land for a growing community and connect two islands to the main town, reducing the use of a diesel ferry that deflects killer whales and other marine mammals from the area.  You all can&#8217;t tell me that since you all got your bridges, highways, power lines, etcetera that state 49 can just suffer.  H2 anybody?  Hello?<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=142136', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: progressive and proud</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2005/09/20/chief-porker/comment-page-2/#comment-141874</link>
		<dc:creator>progressive and proud</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2005 13:37:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well, it looks like Ryan answered IRI.  Well, IRI, what about it?  It looks like the ball&#039;s in your court.  Have any clever retort?  I thought not.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well, it looks like Ryan answered IRI.  Well, IRI, what about it?  It looks like the ball&#8217;s in your court.  Have any clever retort?  I thought not.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=141874', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: birdseatbugs</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2005/09/20/chief-porker/comment-page-2/#comment-141729</link>
		<dc:creator>birdseatbugs</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2005 07:35:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Not that anyone cares but... You know, Alaska isn&#039;t Mars. Sure, some places are &quot;far away&quot; by the standards of most people that live in the Lower 48, but that doesn&#039;t make them &quot;Nowhere&quot;. I&#039;d also like to have the name of the place with &quot;one tenant and a handful of houses&quot; -- is that Eklutna? Knik? Point Woronzof? (I didn&#039;t think anyone lived in/on Pt. W) Fire Island, maybe? 

Not that I&#039;m saying that we &lt;i&gt;should&lt;/i&gt; have zillion-dollar bridges or that Don Young is a paragon of virtue*, I&#039;m just saying. Most of the rest of the world already treats Alaska like it&#039;s on another planet, and this really doesn&#039;t help. 

Also? I&#039;ve eaten MREs. When I wasn&#039;t starving or otherwise desperate. They were pretty decent, for industrially-packaged food designed to last for ages. Sure, maybe C-Rations sucked (my mom said they were okay, but that they weren&#039;t that great), but technology and food science have come about a million miles since then. I imagine that people who have nothing and cannot grow or otherwise obtain their own food would be grateful for anything, including and especially entire meals, packaged to be heated and eaten without much in the way of resource-intensive preparation (i.e. no using precious water to heat/reconstitute the food, then washing the pots/pans/dishes/utensils too). 


* I know no one that voted for Young. I think that he&#039;s like Stevens or Murkowski -- he&#039;ll be in office no matter what until he either drops dead or is too feeble to totter into the building. It&#039;s really rather frustrating.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Not that anyone cares but&#8230; You know, Alaska isn&#8217;t Mars. Sure, some places are &#8220;far away&#8221; by the standards of most people that live in the Lower 48, but that doesn&#8217;t make them &#8220;Nowhere&#8221;. I&#8217;d also like to have the name of the place with &#8220;one tenant and a handful of houses&#8221; &#8212; is that Eklutna? Knik? Point Woronzof? (I didn&#8217;t think anyone lived in/on Pt. W) Fire Island, maybe? </p>
<p>Not that I&#8217;m saying that we <i>should</i> have zillion-dollar bridges or that Don Young is a paragon of virtue*, I&#8217;m just saying. Most of the rest of the world already treats Alaska like it&#8217;s on another planet, and this really doesn&#8217;t help. </p>
<p>Also? I&#8217;ve eaten MREs. When I wasn&#8217;t starving or otherwise desperate. They were pretty decent, for industrially-packaged food designed to last for ages. Sure, maybe C-Rations sucked (my mom said they were okay, but that they weren&#8217;t that great), but technology and food science have come about a million miles since then. I imagine that people who have nothing and cannot grow or otherwise obtain their own food would be grateful for anything, including and especially entire meals, packaged to be heated and eaten without much in the way of resource-intensive preparation (i.e. no using precious water to heat/reconstitute the food, then washing the pots/pans/dishes/utensils too). </p>
<p>* I know no one that voted for Young. I think that he&#8217;s like Stevens or Murkowski &#8212; he&#8217;ll be in office no matter what until he either drops dead or is too feeble to totter into the building. It&#8217;s really rather frustrating.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=141729', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Ryan Neat</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2005/09/20/chief-porker/comment-page-2/#comment-141688</link>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Neat</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2005 05:17:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>kjlovell,

NED is an israeli zionist - that&#039;s different from a jew.  A jew is someone who practices the jewish religion.  An israeli zionist is someone who practices political fanaticism.  It&#039;s the difference between being Irish and a member of the IRA, or English/Scotch Irish and being an Orangeman.  I know this scenario well...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>kjlovell,</p>
<p>NED is an israeli zionist &#8211; that&#8217;s different from a jew.  A jew is someone who practices the jewish religion.  An israeli zionist is someone who practices political fanaticism.  It&#8217;s the difference between being Irish and a member of the IRA, or English/Scotch Irish and being an Orangeman.  I know this scenario well&#8230;<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=141688', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: kjlovell</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2005/09/20/chief-porker/comment-page-2/#comment-141668</link>
		<dc:creator>kjlovell</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2005 04:19:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Nor east dimentia a jew....

Not a chance!  

Nor east dimentia an idiot...

sure, i buy that one.

Please don&#039;t engage the trolls.  It makes them feel welcome.

I scan over nor east dimentia, mightie dykie and mr. wrong, I believe they are all the same person.

Most probably the one person in AmeriKKKa that loves bush and can&#039;t see them as Nazis.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Nor east dimentia a jew&#8230;.</p>
<p>Not a chance!  </p>
<p>Nor east dimentia an idiot&#8230;</p>
<p>sure, i buy that one.</p>
<p>Please don&#8217;t engage the trolls.  It makes them feel welcome.</p>
<p>I scan over nor east dimentia, mightie dykie and mr. wrong, I believe they are all the same person.</p>
<p>Most probably the one person in AmeriKKKa that loves bush and can&#8217;t see them as Nazis.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=141668', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Marie</title>
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		<dc:creator>Marie</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2005 03:43:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thoughtful comments, Nancy.  If we are going to begin to resolve this issue, we need a concerted effort at real help.  Education, child care, and health care, and everything that entails.I agree that welfare queens are rare; we must allow people to pick themselves up by giving them the support to do it. I don&#039;t see it happening until we get a very strong and popular leader with vision and the power of persuasion -- sounds very  unlikely, but I hate to think it will never happen.  Just think of what we could do if we weren&#039;t spending billions on unjust wars and devoted the same funds to our domestic agendas.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thoughtful comments, Nancy.  If we are going to begin to resolve this issue, we need a concerted effort at real help.  Education, child care, and health care, and everything that entails.I agree that welfare queens are rare; we must allow people to pick themselves up by giving them the support to do it. I don&#8217;t see it happening until we get a very strong and popular leader with vision and the power of persuasion &#8212; sounds very  unlikely, but I hate to think it will never happen.  Just think of what we could do if we weren&#8217;t spending billions on unjust wars and devoted the same funds to our domestic agendas.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=141651', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Ryan Neat</title>
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		<dc:creator>Ryan Neat</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2005 03:38:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Nancy,

I&#039;m glad you liked the information.  The whole welfare mom thing is just nonsense of greedy racist and stupid white men.  The feds have a breakout on welfare you can find here - just go to the link for the complete report.

http://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/tb1898/

What you&#039;ll find interesting is that african americans only make up 34% of food stamp recipients.  All of the right wingers like to believe that all of the fight against poverty just applies to black people, but clearly that&#039;s utter nonsense by the government&#039;s own reports.

I&#039;ve never seen a group of more ignorant and arrogant a$$holes than this generation of republican &#039;activists&#039;.  It&#039;s clear to me that I&#039;ve forgotten more things than they&#039;ll ever know!  They are so full of themselves and don&#039;t know squat!  Information like this link is readily available from the government and budget offices that clearly show that the republican spin machine is nothing but a big lie.  And they&#039;re too lazy and stupid to check the summary reports!  How insane is that?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Nancy,</p>
<p>I&#8217;m glad you liked the information.  The whole welfare mom thing is just nonsense of greedy racist and stupid white men.  The feds have a breakout on welfare you can find here &#8211; just go to the link for the complete report.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/tb1898/" rel="nofollow">http://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/tb1898/</a></p>
<p>What you&#8217;ll find interesting is that african americans only make up 34% of food stamp recipients.  All of the right wingers like to believe that all of the fight against poverty just applies to black people, but clearly that&#8217;s utter nonsense by the government&#8217;s own reports.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve never seen a group of more ignorant and arrogant a$$holes than this generation of republican &#8216;activists&#8217;.  It&#8217;s clear to me that I&#8217;ve forgotten more things than they&#8217;ll ever know!  They are so full of themselves and don&#8217;t know squat!  Information like this link is readily available from the government and budget offices that clearly show that the republican spin machine is nothing but a big lie.  And they&#8217;re too lazy and stupid to check the summary reports!  How insane is that?<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=141645', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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