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		<title>My Blue World</title>
		<link>http://www.jrrl.com/2008/11/13/my-blue-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 19:38:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jrrl</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[allegheny county]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[election]]></category>
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yo listen up here&#039;s a story
about a little guy that lives in a blue world
and all day and all night and everything he sees
is just blue like him inside and outside
We won on election day and I am happy about that.  What I am less happy about is the way that geographical regions are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Promise Kept</title>
		<link>http://www.jrrl.com/2008/11/04/a-promise-kept/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 04:35:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jrrl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My mother and I always talked politics. Even when we were supposed to be discussing something else, our discussions inevitably wandered back to whatever was going on in the world. It was our most comfortable topic and we were both passionate about it.
Not every one in my family was of the same mind.  My [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lost Fans for Obama</title>
		<link>http://www.jrrl.com/2008/11/04/lost-fans-for-obama/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jrrl.com/2008/11/04/lost-fans-for-obama/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 17:36:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jrrl</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Entertainment]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[dharma]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay, so this is way late, but it never occurred to me until today.
So, here is a logo for Lost Fans for Obama:

Enjoy.
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		<title>The Yard Sign Feud</title>
		<link>http://www.jrrl.com/2008/10/16/the-yard-sign-feud/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jrrl.com/2008/10/16/the-yard-sign-feud/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 02:17:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jrrl</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[election]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[mccain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[obama]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It started innocently.  A McCain sign and an Obama sign.  Two neighbors exercising their right of free speech.  About as wholesome and American as you can get.
All it took was one of them to add a second sign.  I don&#039;t know who pulled that trigger first, but after that there was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sign of the Times</title>
		<link>http://www.jrrl.com/2008/10/07/sign-of-the-times/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jrrl.com/2008/10/07/sign-of-the-times/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 02:34:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jrrl</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hillary]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.jrrl.com/?p=39</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[During the primaries, especially during the 40 days of nothing-but-PA campaigning, my next door neighbor was a strong Clinton supporter.  After Clinton won the PA primary (but not my district!), she took her Hillary sign down, although I left my Obama sign up.  And then months passed.
So, I was quite pleased a few [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Virtue of a Proportional Response</title>
		<link>http://www.jrrl.com/2008/10/01/the-virtue-of-a-proportional-response/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jrrl.com/2008/10/01/the-virtue-of-a-proportional-response/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 15:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jrrl</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bailout]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Bush/Paulson bailout bill was defeated in the House on Monday, which leaves me somewhat relieved.  My relief comes not from a knee-jerk distrust of government intervention.  Nor does it come from a simpleminded hope that the economic mess will just sort itself out and all will be right in the world.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are The Democrats in Congress Being Set Up?</title>
		<link>http://www.jrrl.com/2008/09/26/are-the-democrats-in-congress-being-set-up/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jrrl.com/2008/09/26/are-the-democrats-in-congress-being-set-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 21:09:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jrrl</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The economy is in shambles and even President Bush and Senator McCain have finally noticed.  The president has proposed his oversightless $700 billion bailout, but McCain and his GOP colleagues at the crisis summit came up with a less-regulation-more-tax-breaks counterproposal.  Let&#039;s look at that again.  The proposal is from Bush and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Open Letter to Congress</title>
		<link>http://www.jrrl.com/2008/09/24/an-open-letter-to-congress/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jrrl.com/2008/09/24/an-open-letter-to-congress/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 01:58:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jrrl</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bailout]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Congressman:
I am writing to you because you are my representative.  However, in the matter of Bush&#039;s bailout plan, I feel I speak for most Americans and therefore I am also addressing your peers in the House as well.
The bailout plan cannot be allowed to pass as currently proposed.  Perhaps there is a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Sarah Palin Decision and 2012</title>
		<link>http://www.jrrl.com/2008/08/29/the-sarah-palin-decision-and-2012/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jrrl.com/2008/08/29/the-sarah-palin-decision-and-2012/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Aug 2008 01:48:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jrrl</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2012]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[clinton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mccain]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.jrrl.com/2008/08/29/the-sarah-palin-decision-and-2012/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So John McCain has picked Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska as his running mate.  The first question most people asked (after &#034;Who is Sarah Palin?&#034;) is why did her pick her.  It was actually a fairly shrewd choice for a variety of reasons, most of which have nothing to do with November 2008. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Beats Clinton in More Places</title>
		<link>http://www.jrrl.com/2008/03/24/obama-beats-clinton-in-more-places/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jrrl.com/2008/03/24/obama-beats-clinton-in-more-places/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2008 14:58:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jrrl</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[clinton]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.jrrl.com/2008/03/24/obama-beats-clinton-in-more-places/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The big story about Obama&#039;s campaign on a national level seems to be the Gallup poll that shows him ahead of Clinton again, after a several week slip behind her.  To be sure, this is welcome news for those of us in the Illinois Senator&#039;s corner, but there is more going on.  You [...]]]></description>
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