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	<title>American Realistan</title>
	<link>http://pessimistplace.blugginout.com</link>
	<description>You don't have to be a pessimist to be a realist</description>
	<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 23:45:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Stifling Dissent In Living Color</title>
		<link>http://pessimistplace.blugginout.com/2008/07/19/stifling-dissent-in-living-color/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 23:40:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Realist</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Politics</category>
	<category>Social Issues</category>
	<category>Bush TWO</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the biggest problems the United States has overseas is the dichotomy between what values we preach versus what values we practice, and one of the most blatant examples demonstrating that we don&#8217;t really walk our talk here in the United States is about to be spewed across television screens all over the world: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Willy&#8217;s Silly Hilly Won&#8217;t Drop Out</title>
		<link>http://pessimistplace.blugginout.com/2008/05/09/willys-silly-hilly-wont-drop-out/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 18:39:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Realist</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Politics</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve caught myself riffing on a tune that took me a while to recall where it came from. I kept hearing &#8220;Hillary won&#8217;t go&#8230; Hillary won&#8217;t go&#8230; Hilly won&#8217;t go &#8230;&#8221;
Then it came to me, and I looked it up. The following lyrics under the fold were adapted from Sweet&#8217;s Little Willie. If you don&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What A Dish, That Katy Fisch!</title>
		<link>http://pessimistplace.blugginout.com/2008/04/09/what-a-dish-that-katy-fisch/</link>
		<comments>http://pessimistplace.blugginout.com/2008/04/09/what-a-dish-that-katy-fisch/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 08:30:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Realist</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Social Issues</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[She had it all - beauty, brains, and a body to die for. She almost did.
All the guys wanted her. One took her.
She had always been the one in control. It only took a disdainful look or a sharp word to keep the boys in their place. She didn&#8217;t recognize that the word &#8220;NO!&#8221; was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mirror, Mirror, On The Wall, &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://pessimistplace.blugginout.com/2008/04/04/mirror-mirror-on-the-wall/</link>
		<comments>http://pessimistplace.blugginout.com/2008/04/04/mirror-mirror-on-the-wall/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2008 12:55:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Realist</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Politics</category>
	<category>Bush TWO</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Honest and aware people should always note the feedback they generate from those around them. It&#8217;s how we make those social corrections necessary to achieve desired goals without causing new problems. Few go to the extent I do to see what the rest of the world is saying about America, and generally, the picture of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Back Where We Were In 1968</title>
		<link>http://pessimistplace.blugginout.com/2008/02/14/back-where-we-were-in-1968/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 08:33:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Realist</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Politics</category>
	<category>Social Issues</category>
	<category>Bush TWO</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not a supporter of Barack Obama. But if, as it now appears, the people select him to be the next president, then he would be a choice I could abide - provided he is saying what he really means.
This has been my problem with Obama since the 2004 Democratic Convention. His keynote address was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Goal Achieved - At Huge Cost</title>
		<link>http://pessimistplace.blugginout.com/2008/01/05/a-goal-achieved-at-huge-cost/</link>
		<comments>http://pessimistplace.blugginout.com/2008/01/05/a-goal-achieved-at-huge-cost/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jan 2008 19:31:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Realist</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Politics</category>
	<category>Economics</category>
	<category>Social Issues</category>
	<category>Bush TWO</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I first began blogging back in July of 2003 on a now-defunct site, one of the reasons I gave for my doing so was that I was already aware that the news media was clearly biased in favor of George W. Bush and the Republicans. I was concerned at the time that the GOP [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wrecking Dr Rec</title>
		<link>http://pessimistplace.blugginout.com/2008/01/02/wrecking-dr-rec/</link>
		<comments>http://pessimistplace.blugginout.com/2008/01/02/wrecking-dr-rec/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2008 10:54:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Realist</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Politics</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m writing this one on the fly, so if it&#8217;s a bit sloppy, [insert famous Steve Martin gag phrase]
Over at Citizens for Legitimate Government, Michael Rectenwald opens up an examination of why concerns over corporate sponsorship of political candidates is nothing to be concerned about:
&#8230;what we mean by        [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Truly A Long Time Gone</title>
		<link>http://pessimistplace.blugginout.com/2007/12/23/truly-a-long-time-gone/</link>
		<comments>http://pessimistplace.blugginout.com/2007/12/23/truly-a-long-time-gone/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Dec 2007 01:20:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Realist</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Politics</category>
	<category>Reader Comment</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been quite remiss in my posting duties due to real-world time constraints. Luckily, I have a few loyal readers who occasionally give me something that I think deserves posting. Such is the case today, an observation concerning the recent claims by Mitt Romney that his father George marched with Martin Luther King. This story [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You Can Always Eat Your Pink Slip</title>
		<link>http://pessimistplace.blugginout.com/2007/11/03/you-can-always-eat-your-pink-slip/</link>
		<comments>http://pessimistplace.blugginout.com/2007/11/03/you-can-always-eat-your-pink-slip/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Nov 2007 18:45:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Realist</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Politics</category>
	<category>Economics</category>
	<category>Social Issues</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I won&#8217;t attempt to defend the sorry record of the Democrats in protecting your economic interests and employment prospects. But can you be sure that the Republicans care a whit about you either?
The North American Free Trade Agreement&#8230; was opposed by 65% of U.S. citizens in 1993. That was just before President Bill Clinton, backed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Throwing It Away When It Grows Too Big</title>
		<link>http://pessimistplace.blugginout.com/2007/10/13/throwing-it-away-when-it-grows-too-big/</link>
		<comments>http://pessimistplace.blugginout.com/2007/10/13/throwing-it-away-when-it-grows-too-big/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Oct 2007 03:37:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Realist</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Social Issues</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve spent much of the day today - the first one I&#8217;ve had to post here for a while now - caring for three two-day-old orphan kittens. I have no idea where their mother is, but my family and I can&#8217;t stand to see these creatures starve to death. There was a fourth, but he [...]]]></description>
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