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		<title>Beach Closings: Cruise Ships Dumping Human Waste</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 08:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>C. Rich</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[All summer long we have had beach closings due to bacteria up and down the east coast of America. When their news reports hit the airwaves, they just tell you that it is a Bacteria alert and don&#8217;t swim. What they do not tell you is that it is human fecal matter in our ocean [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Labor Day Celebrated Across the U.S.A.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 08:05:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>KB</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is Labor Day weekend here in the United States &#8212; a national holiday dating back more than 100 years. It is meant to honor the more than 155 million workers in the United States, and for most, it is a day of play. VOA&#8217;s Paul Sisco tells us about it. Related Posts: Labor Not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Tea Party &#8220;Is&#8221; The Religious Right</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 08:16:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>C. Rich</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For so long, many people would ask what is The Tea Party and who are these people. They had no real leader and it was this beautiful grass roots movement that just sprung up over the summer of 2010. The movement seemed to be concerned about government spending and, from a distance, it looked like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poetry: Let’s Talk # 47</title>
		<link>http://americaspeaksink.com/2010/09/poetry-lets-talk-47/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 08:15:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>C. Rich</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a child behind those eyes Stifled by the men and their disguise Have you ever seen something so sad Hidden is the lies behind the truth The stupidity and the astute The sagacity that is fad Missing in the heart of the soul Is the visionaries that are bold Those of us that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Government Tyranny: Long Walk Back To The Founders</title>
		<link>http://americaspeaksink.com/2010/09/government-tyranny-long-walk-back-to-the-founders/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 08:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>C. Rich</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chris Matthews of MSNBC has had a hard time coming to terms that the tingle going up his leg is an electric volt of tyranny. The man over and over displays his ignorance when he asks, &#8220;take our government back from who?” The man with the unusual large head can&#8217;t seem to find room to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Many Faces Of Tyranny</title>
		<link>http://americaspeaksink.com/2010/08/the-many-faces-of-tyranny/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 08:01:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>C. Rich</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tyranny comes in many faces in America&#8217;s twenty first century. #1- The Federal Conspiracy Law &#8211; A law that makes speech a crime. You can just talk about something and it is a conspiracy. With this law, you don&#8217;t have to commit a crime. The act of a crime in itself is not required, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cindy Anthony: A Class Act</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 07:21:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>C. Rich</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have all heard the statement about not judging someone until we walk in their shoes. Well who among us would want to slip into Cindy Anthony&#8217;s shoes? What this lady has been through is unthinkable. However, many people in the public and the so-called Christians do just that. They judge this woman and claim [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poetry: Let&#8217;s Talk # 46</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 08:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>C. Rich</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Through the free fall of my life And all that didn&#8217;t go right Behold my bottle of rain Seduced by the timeless temptation Caught somewhere in my salvation And a touch of life&#8217;s pain Through the loneliness of the crowd And all that made me feel proud For all that is left to see The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Michelle Obama Is Not Marie Antoinette</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 08:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>C. Rich</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michelle Obama is not telling us to eat cake like Marie Antoinette. In fact she has been projecting a message of healthy eating and fighting obesity. Now I know the famous statement &#8220;Let Them Eat Cake&#8221; has nothing to do with overeating or obesity, but it just sounds strange to tag Michelle with this cake [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Twin Towers &amp; The Mosque: It Is Time To Rebuild&#8230; Something</title>
		<link>http://americaspeaksink.com/2010/08/twin-towers-the-mosque-it-is-time-to-rebuild-something/</link>
		<comments>http://americaspeaksink.com/2010/08/twin-towers-the-mosque-it-is-time-to-rebuild-something/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 08:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>K. Waters</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At first, I just thought it was in bad taste to even think of building the center in the shadows of ground zero. This topic would be voted against and just go away. Now it is the topic of the month in the mainstream media. It went from just an idea, to a political foundation, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Casey Anthony Case: Did George Do It?</title>
		<link>http://americaspeaksink.com/2010/08/casey-anthony-case-did-george-do-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 08:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>C. Rich</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Casey defense team or what is left of it, is now investigating George Anthony and his role if any, in all this. After Cindy dropped the bombshell that she never smelled a dead body in the trunk, but it was something George said and she was just relaying to 911 his opinion, the case [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Horrific Death Of Haleigh Cummings</title>
		<link>http://americaspeaksink.com/2010/08/the-horrific-death-of-haleigh-cummings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 08:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>C. Rich</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Listening to the latest story from this gang of urchins from Palatka, Florida on how Haleigh Cummings died is heart wrenching. It is hard to know what is true. This group of white trash and river rats couldn&#8217;t tell the truth if their life depended on it. My wish is that their lives did depend [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poetry: Let’s Talk # 45</title>
		<link>http://americaspeaksink.com/2010/08/poetry-lets-talk-45/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 08:02:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>C. Rich</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For all the sins upon the world I did For all the people I hurt Going back to when I was a kid Hell, probably from my birth For all the people I betrayed For all the pain I caused My heart went astray I certainly earned no applause For what I have done To [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tea Party Road Map: Volume 1</title>
		<link>http://americaspeaksink.com/2010/08/tea-party-road-map-volume-1/</link>
		<comments>http://americaspeaksink.com/2010/08/tea-party-road-map-volume-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 07:17:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>C. Rich</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If the Tea Party does not move to define itself, others will define it for them. The theme of The Tea Party has to be Anti-Bankruptcy. Everything is how we word it and using the vernacular &#8220;spending&#8221; is just too dated. The tax code is so involved to say you’re about taxes, that could mean [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ground Zero Tour: Muslim Mosque, Gay Bars &amp; Pork Factories</title>
		<link>http://americaspeaksink.com/2010/08/ground-zero-tour-muslim-mosquegay-bars-pork-factory/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 07:33:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>C. Rich</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not quite sure how this whole ordeal with the Muslim Cultural Center and Mosque became a left/right thing, but here I must split with my friends on the left. I have heard every conceivable argument for and against a Muslim Mosque being built so close to ground zero. All the arguments on the left [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dr. Laura Said A Bad Word</title>
		<link>http://americaspeaksink.com/2010/08/dr-laura-said-a-bad-word/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 07:20:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>C. Rich</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[White people are not allowed to say the word nigger. Dr. Laura Schlessinger has now learned this the hard way. Dr. Laura has been forced to walk her statements back under pressure from the politically correct class and their hypocritical attacks on her advertisers. The left, who make more racist statements than the right, get [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anthony In Wonderland</title>
		<link>http://americaspeaksink.com/2010/08/anthony-in-wonderland/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 07:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Payne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the summer of 2008, when the Casey Anthony drama first revealed itself, people started paying attention from the start. A young, unwedded mother fails to report her toddler missing for 31 days. This raised eyebrows throughout the country, most likely evoking the very same thought I had. Thinking that something is just not right [...]]]></description>
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