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		<title>By: big papa</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/02/14/thinkfast-february-14-2007/comment-page-1/#comment-1745212</link>
		<dc:creator>big papa</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Feb 2007 23:36:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Comment by Tobey Tall #24

&lt;strong&gt;I concur...&lt;/strong&gt;</description>
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<p><strong>I concur&#8230;</strong><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=1745212', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: big papa</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/02/14/thinkfast-february-14-2007/comment-page-1/#comment-1745183</link>
		<dc:creator>big papa</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Feb 2007 23:31:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;em&gt;&quot;The Swiss ambassador to Iran informed American officials in 2003 that an Iranian proposal for comprehensive talks with the U.S. had been reviewed and approved by the highest levels of the Iranian government.&quot;&lt;/em&gt;

&lt;strong&gt;The problem is...

...it hadn&#039;t been approved by...

...The House of Saud, Cheney/Halliburton/Carlyle Group, or Israel...&lt;/strong&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>&#8220;The Swiss ambassador to Iran informed American officials in 2003 that an Iranian proposal for comprehensive talks with the U.S. had been reviewed and approved by the highest levels of the Iranian government.&#8221;</em></p>
<p><strong>The problem is&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8230;it hadn&#8217;t been approved by&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8230;The House of Saud, Cheney/Halliburton/Carlyle Group, or Israel&#8230;</strong><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=1745183', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Raymond Funamoto</title>
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		<dc:creator>Raymond Funamoto</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Feb 2007 21:13:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>GO CALIFORNIA, GO!
Inhofe, GO TO HELL(though he might dispute all the fire and brimstone down below)!
As Sgt. Schultz(a good little Nazi said) &quot;Helicopter? I see nothing, I hear nothing, I know nothing...I&#039;m a GOOD Nazi!&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>GO CALIFORNIA, GO!<br />
Inhofe, GO TO HELL(though he might dispute all the fire and brimstone down below)!<br />
As Sgt. Schultz(a good little Nazi said) &#8220;Helicopter? I see nothing, I hear nothing, I know nothing&#8230;I&#8217;m a GOOD Nazi!&#8221;<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=1744422', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Uncle Ho</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/02/14/thinkfast-february-14-2007/comment-page-1/#comment-1743758</link>
		<dc:creator>Uncle Ho</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Feb 2007 19:19:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>wake-n-bake; maybe we should go to work on Madison Ave. : P</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>wake-n-bake; maybe we should go to work on Madison Ave. : P<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=1743758', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: wake-n-bake</title>
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		<dc:creator>wake-n-bake</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Feb 2007 19:04:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Now the major oil producers can scare investors into driving up oil futures, and eventually pump prices.

&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/02/14/saudi.oil.reut/index.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt; Al Qaeda group calls for attacks on U.S. oil&lt;/a&gt;

Well, W did ask for the terrrrrrists to &quot;bring it on&quot;. Finally, he gets his wish.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Now the major oil producers can scare investors into driving up oil futures, and eventually pump prices.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/02/14/saudi.oil.reut/index.html" rel="nofollow"> Al Qaeda group calls for attacks on U.S. oil</a></p>
<p>Well, W did ask for the terrrrrrists to &#8220;bring it on&#8221;. Finally, he gets his wish.<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=1743635', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: wake-n-bake</title>
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		<dc:creator>wake-n-bake</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Feb 2007 18:57:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Uncle Ho, &lt;em&gt;or&lt;/em&gt;:


&lt;strong&gt;THE FEW, THE FEWER, THE FEWEST.&lt;/strong&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Uncle Ho, <em>or</em>:</p>
<p><strong>THE FEW, THE FEWER, THE FEWEST.</strong><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=1743582', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Evil Spaniard</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/02/14/thinkfast-february-14-2007/comment-page-1/#comment-1743487</link>
		<dc:creator>Evil Spaniard</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Feb 2007 18:46:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;em&gt;#20 and 21
Are you guys being funny? If not, what the heck? I donâ€™t watch tv, so I really donâ€™t know.

Comment by Bluedahlia â€” February 14, 2007 @ 10:03 am&lt;/em&gt;

Yes, at least, I was trying to. One of the TV shows more succesful in some countries now is one called &quot;Prison Break&quot;, about a guy who goes to jail to free his brother who is in turn imprisoned in the same penitentiary.

Hence, the &quot;Army recruits with criminal backgrounds&quot; caption quickly brought to my mind the TV show, but staged at Iraq, full of ex-convict military personel fleeing from the military and the country.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>#20 and 21<br />
Are you guys being funny? If not, what the heck? I donâ€™t watch tv, so I really donâ€™t know.</p>
<p>Comment by Bluedahlia â€” February 14, 2007 @ 10:03 am</em></p>
<p>Yes, at least, I was trying to. One of the TV shows more succesful in some countries now is one called &#8220;Prison Break&#8221;, about a guy who goes to jail to free his brother who is in turn imprisoned in the same penitentiary.</p>
<p>Hence, the &#8220;Army recruits with criminal backgrounds&#8221; caption quickly brought to my mind the TV show, but staged at Iraq, full of ex-convict military personel fleeing from the military and the country.<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=1743487', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Uncle Ho</title>
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		<dc:creator>Uncle Ho</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Feb 2007 18:45:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>BNF:


THE FEW, THE PROUD, THE FELONS</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>BNF:</p>
<p>THE FEW, THE PROUD, THE FELONS<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=1743478', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Barfly</title>
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		<dc:creator>Barfly</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Feb 2007 18:42:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well, if someone wants to turn his or her life around by joining the military I&#039;ve got nothing against that - but at what point do we begin to point out that our all volunteer army &lt;em&gt;now&lt;/em&gt; demographically resembles the &quot;dregs and drugs&quot; draftees of the Vietnam era?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well, if someone wants to turn his or her life around by joining the military I&#8217;ve got nothing against that &#8211; but at what point do we begin to point out that our all volunteer army <em>now</em> demographically resembles the &#8220;dregs and drugs&#8221; draftees of the Vietnam era?<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=1743453', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Sharon Cox</title>
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		<dc:creator>Sharon Cox</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Feb 2007 17:17:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Happy Valentines Day to one and all......Now please go out and hug someone...Blessings</description>
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		<title>By: tom baker</title>
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		<dc:creator>tom baker</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Feb 2007 17:13:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Some fruit from the AEI was on Colbert last nite, pimping his &quot;book&quot; about how global warming is a &quot;controversy&quot; It&#039;s titled: &quot;The politically incorrect guide...&quot;, blah blah blah.....as though it was just some oversensitive minorities creating the whole dust up in the first place. His attempt to make the argument that there were some &quot;profiteers&quot; just looking to &quot;make a buck&quot; was the most comical I&#039;ve ever seen.

The Army&#039;s plan is keenly diabolical: Who&#039;s going to feel bad about the troops getting killed, when they know they were &quot;just some kind of criminals anyway&quot;. Cheney must&#039;ve come up with that one.

Some research is indicated on the political matchmaking site. I&#039;d wager the #&#039;s of women on the rightie site is WAY below the # of women on the lefty site (no wonder those wingers are so cranky all the time). We could also post odds on which site will first produce a stalking case......give ya one guess where my money is.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Some fruit from the AEI was on Colbert last nite, pimping his &#8220;book&#8221; about how global warming is a &#8220;controversy&#8221; It&#8217;s titled: &#8220;The politically incorrect guide&#8230;&#8221;, blah blah blah&#8230;..as though it was just some oversensitive minorities creating the whole dust up in the first place. His attempt to make the argument that there were some &#8220;profiteers&#8221; just looking to &#8220;make a buck&#8221; was the most comical I&#8217;ve ever seen.</p>
<p>The Army&#8217;s plan is keenly diabolical: Who&#8217;s going to feel bad about the troops getting killed, when they know they were &#8220;just some kind of criminals anyway&#8221;. Cheney must&#8217;ve come up with that one.</p>
<p>Some research is indicated on the political matchmaking site. I&#8217;d wager the #&#8217;s of women on the rightie site is WAY below the # of women on the lefty site (no wonder those wingers are so cranky all the time). We could also post odds on which site will first produce a stalking case&#8230;&#8230;give ya one guess where my money is.<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=1742817', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Raven</title>
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		<dc:creator>Raven</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Feb 2007 16:39:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Listening to it live now, RUC, on NPR.
 Don&#039;t listen on an empty stomach, have some Pepto Bismol handy....</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Listening to it live now, RUC, on NPR.<br />
 Don&#8217;t listen on an empty stomach, have some Pepto Bismol handy&#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=1742588', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: RUCerious</title>
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		<dc:creator>RUCerious</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Feb 2007 16:36:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>On a more serious note, where&#039;s the story on the Bush press conference?
He holds so few of these, it would seem to be good fodder for discussion!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>On a more serious note, where&#8217;s the story on the Bush press conference?<br />
He holds so few of these, it would seem to be good fodder for discussion!<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=1742565', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: RUCerious</title>
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		<dc:creator>RUCerious</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Feb 2007 16:35:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Happy Valentine&#039;s day Tu U All!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Happy Valentine&#8217;s day Tu U All!<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=1742553', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Raven</title>
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		<dc:creator>Raven</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Feb 2007 16:13:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Ah, Vermont.....
 I have fond memories of the annual town meeting and the sugar on snow party which followed.....
 Democracy in its essence</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ah, Vermont&#8230;..<br />
 I have fond memories of the annual town meeting and the sugar on snow party which followed&#8230;..<br />
 Democracy in its essence<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=1742417', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Manhattanite</title>
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		<dc:creator>Manhattanite</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Feb 2007 16:07:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;... aggravated assault, burglary, robbery and vehicular homicide ... &quot;

But gays need not apply.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;&#8230; aggravated assault, burglary, robbery and vehicular homicide &#8230; &#8221;</p>
<p>But gays need not apply.<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=1742390', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: klyde</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/02/14/thinkfast-february-14-2007/comment-page-1/#comment-1742380</link>
		<dc:creator>klyde</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Feb 2007 16:03:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>According to Democracy Now both houses of  the Vermont Legislature have passed a resolution: condemning the escalation, calling for congress to begin an immediate orderly withdrawl of US troops from Iraq and calling on Vermont&#039;s Governor to request that the national governors group do the same.

Take that left coasters;).</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>According to Democracy Now both houses of  the Vermont Legislature have passed a resolution: condemning the escalation, calling for congress to begin an immediate orderly withdrawl of US troops from Iraq and calling on Vermont&#8217;s Governor to request that the national governors group do the same.</p>
<p>Take that left coasters;).<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=1742380', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Cernig</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/02/14/thinkfast-february-14-2007/comment-page-1/#comment-1742286</link>
		<dc:creator>Cernig</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Feb 2007 15:40:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Remember the &quot;Smoking Guns&quot; from Iran story the right were so gleeful about yesterday?

&lt;a href=&quot;http://cernigsnewshog.blogspot.com/2007/02/on-smoking-guns-and-neocon-shills.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;There&#039;s something funny about that story&lt;/a&gt;.

Notice that every other version of the story cites the original Daily Telegraph report?

The important thing to notice about the DT story is that it is very unclear where the report is sourced. It says &quot;The Daily Telegraph has learned&quot; and leaves you to assume that it learned from a credible source, say the US Centcom command.

But US Centcom command has nothing on any raid discovering 100 sniper rifles from Iran at the time I write this, even though you would think it would be major Centcom news, given the Sunday briefing of US &quot;evidence&quot; against Iran.

Then further down the page, it says &quot;Over the last six months American forces have found small caches of the Â£10,000 rifles but in the last 24 hours a raid in Baghdad brought the total to more than 100, US defence sources reported.&quot;

Which sources, if not Centcom?

Everyone is simply assuming that the Daily Telegraph is a reliable reporter, a dangerous assumption. But if these weapons were really found by US forces, why has no-one asked the Austrian company that makes them to verify any serial numbers?

Regards, Cernig</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Remember the &#8220;Smoking Guns&#8221; from Iran story the right were so gleeful about yesterday?</p>
<p><a href="http://cernigsnewshog.blogspot.com/2007/02/on-smoking-guns-and-neocon-shills.html" rel="nofollow">There&#8217;s something funny about that story</a>.</p>
<p>Notice that every other version of the story cites the original Daily Telegraph report?</p>
<p>The important thing to notice about the DT story is that it is very unclear where the report is sourced. It says &#8220;The Daily Telegraph has learned&#8221; and leaves you to assume that it learned from a credible source, say the US Centcom command.</p>
<p>But US Centcom command has nothing on any raid discovering 100 sniper rifles from Iran at the time I write this, even though you would think it would be major Centcom news, given the Sunday briefing of US &#8220;evidence&#8221; against Iran.</p>
<p>Then further down the page, it says &#8220;Over the last six months American forces have found small caches of the Â£10,000 rifles but in the last 24 hours a raid in Baghdad brought the total to more than 100, US defence sources reported.&#8221;</p>
<p>Which sources, if not Centcom?</p>
<p>Everyone is simply assuming that the Daily Telegraph is a reliable reporter, a dangerous assumption. But if these weapons were really found by US forces, why has no-one asked the Austrian company that makes them to verify any serial numbers?</p>
<p>Regards, Cernig<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=1742286', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Tobey Tall</title>
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		<dc:creator>Tobey Tall</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Feb 2007 15:06:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;strong&gt;American terrorist operations I&#039;ll BET&lt;/strong&gt;


&lt;a href=&quot;http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article2268932.ece&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Explosion kills 18 in Iran &lt;/a&gt;

A car loaded with explosives blew up near a bus carrying members of Iran&#039;s elite Revolutionary Guards in southeastern Iran, killing 18 of them, the state-run news agency reported today. 

The car stopped in front of the bus near Zahedan, the capital of Sistan-Baluchestan Province, the official Islamic Republic News Agency reported. It called the attack a terrorist operation and said the car&#039;s occupants fled on motorbikes seconds before the car exploded.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>American terrorist operations I&#8217;ll BET</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article2268932.ece" rel="nofollow">Explosion kills 18 in Iran </a></p>
<p>A car loaded with explosives blew up near a bus carrying members of Iran&#8217;s elite Revolutionary Guards in southeastern Iran, killing 18 of them, the state-run news agency reported today. </p>
<p>The car stopped in front of the bus near Zahedan, the capital of Sistan-Baluchestan Province, the official Islamic Republic News Agency reported. It called the attack a terrorist operation and said the car&#8217;s occupants fled on motorbikes seconds before the car exploded.<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=1742144', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Raven</title>
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		<dc:creator>Raven</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Feb 2007 15:04:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>To:
 Senator James Inhofe (R) Oklahoma

 Dear Senator
 
 Only briefly will I mention here your complaint that climate controls would be bad for the economy, however, in light of your current castigation of &lt;em&gt;climate profiteers&lt;/em&gt;, I need to acknowledge your complete hypocrisy.
 
 My primary reason for writing you, is to offer you my profuse and heartfelt thanks for coining this term &lt;em&gt;Climate Profiteer&lt;/em&gt;.
 As soon as I finish here, I am going to work on the T-shirt design. 
 You may be assured that by July, you will see millions around the world proudly carrying signs, passing out business cards and putting up new websites.
 Look closely at the crowds attending Al Gores Climate Awareness Concerts this summer, and you&#039;ll see what a stroke of absolute genius your concept of Climate Capitalism has become.
 Again, thank you most sincerely.
 From the wealth I expect to aquire from T-shirt sales, I pledge to donate 10% of after (health care) taxes to the rehabilitation of Oklahoma grasslands.
 Sincerely,
 Raven</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>To:<br />
 Senator James Inhofe (R) Oklahoma</p>
<p> Dear Senator</p>
<p> Only briefly will I mention here your complaint that climate controls would be bad for the economy, however, in light of your current castigation of <em>climate profiteers</em>, I need to acknowledge your complete hypocrisy.</p>
<p> My primary reason for writing you, is to offer you my profuse and heartfelt thanks for coining this term <em>Climate Profiteer</em>.<br />
 As soon as I finish here, I am going to work on the T-shirt design.<br />
 You may be assured that by July, you will see millions around the world proudly carrying signs, passing out business cards and putting up new websites.<br />
 Look closely at the crowds attending Al Gores Climate Awareness Concerts this summer, and you&#8217;ll see what a stroke of absolute genius your concept of Climate Capitalism has become.<br />
 Again, thank you most sincerely.<br />
 From the wealth I expect to aquire from T-shirt sales, I pledge to donate 10% of after (health care) taxes to the rehabilitation of Oklahoma grasslands.<br />
 Sincerely,<br />
 Raven<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=1742113', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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