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		<title>Senator Barbara Boxer Calls Foul on General&#8217;s Protocol</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:23:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>simon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bloggers from the right have gotten their collective knickers in a twist over a moment from Wednesday's Environment and Public Works committee hearing in which California Senator Barbara Boxer interrupted testimony by Brigadier General Michael Walsh to request he not refer to her as "ma'am." Boxer: You know, do me a favor. Could say 'senator' instead [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Exclusive: Note left by Bush for New Prez Obama</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 09:21:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>simon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In his first official statement Wednesday morning, the new White House press secretary, Robert Gibbs revealed this schedule of Obama's day: At 8:35 AM, the President arrived in the Oval Office and spent 10 minutes alone in the office. He read the note left to him by President Bush that was in an envelope marked [...]]]></description>
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		<title>McPainin Ticket Courts Average Joes</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 01:58:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>simon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a bid to retain some relevance with middle America, the Republican ticket-- led by that two-headed beast McPainin-- has discovered a long-overlooked demographic that they're now mining for votes: Average Joes. So far, Sarah has spoken frequenty of her being a "normal Joe Sixpack American", while John has found his new BFF, Joe the Plumber, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Economic woes hit restaurant row:Bennigans, Steak &amp; Ale shut down</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 20:54:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>simon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The "fern bar and random crap on walls" concept was dealt a blow today, as corporate-owned Bennigans shut its doors, when parent S&#38;A Restaurant Group filed Chapter 7.  Bennigans has been struggling in the face of stiff competition from the T.G.I. Friday's® juggernaut, who for years has been been making new discoveries in "flair" research-- [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sexing up politics &#8211; BarelyPolitical.com</title>
		<link>http://www.up-load.com/current-affairs/sexing-up-politics-barelypoliticalcom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2007 18:29:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>simon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Launched last month with the "I Got a Crush on Obama" viral video, BarelyPolitical.com has staked out a space that no one has yet dared (or thought about) getting into: hot chicks pretending they care about the electoral process.Their latest entry pits Obama Girl (Amber Lee Ettinger) against an equally attractive Guiliani supporter. It's "Debate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>About Me</title>
		<link>http://www.up-load.com/current-affairs/me/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Sep 2006 01:30:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>simon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Up-Load.com is about the vagaries of life, in all its complex and nuanced-- nah, stuff that: like so many irregularly maintained blogs, it's whatever nonsense that comes to me, whenever I can get motivated to put fingers to keyboard. Sometimes it'll be deep, but generally, it'll be...well, general: the stuff that I consider odd, entertaining, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Osama Still Alive</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Sep 2006 05:58:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>simon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So sayeth the counter-rumors. Here's the thing: bin Laden exists in the Heisenberg state of being simultaneously both dead and alive. No one knows for sure -- or rather those who do know aren't talking. So long as news about him can pop up when needed, he serves as a symbol to both "sides": a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Conspiracy theory du jour: Wagging the dog</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Sep 2006 17:06:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>simon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The news-sphere is abuzz with reports of a "leak" from French intelligence that Osama bin Laden died last month due to typhoid. It's time to reveal my own personal conspiracy theory: Yes, Osama is dead; but he died five years ago, after the initial US invasion into Afganistan, at the attack on the Tora Bora [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NYT Business: No Wikipedia, Please</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2005 16:57:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>simon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a further sign of Wikipedia's deteriorating status in the press, journalists in the New York Times Business section are not to use Wikipedia to do fact checking, according to a memo posted on Poynter.org: 12/7/2005 10:22:30 AM From: [New York Times business editor] Larry Ingrassia To: [Business staff] Subject: wiki-whatdia? Colleagues, You probably saw [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wikipedia Backlash Begins</title>
		<link>http://www.up-load.com/current-affairs/wikipedia-backlash-begins/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2005 17:29:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>simon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For going on two years, I've been a regular contributor to one of the greatest experiments in shared knowledge: the Wikipedia. When I first wrote about the site back in February 2004, I posited: ...the greatest danger to the Wikipedia's success will be its success. Once the nerdy core of intelligent and generally well-meaning wikians [...]]]></description>
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