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		<title>Texas Traded to Venezuela</title>
		<link>http://pith.net/pith/observations/humor/texas-traded-to-venezuela</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 14:13:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>joesmith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a bold sign of thawing relations between the countries, Presidents Barack Obama and Hugo Chavez announced today that the state of Texas would be traded to Venezuela for Jesus Moronta, a slick-fielding, hard-hitting 14-yr-old shortstop phenomenon, cash considerations and an undisclosed amount of raw, premium coca.]]></description>
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		<title>The Return of Cool</title>
		<link>http://pith.net/pith/observations/essays/the-return-of-cool</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 15:35:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FuriousXor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Times are hard, money is short, things seem to be spinning out of control. The new President is trying to fix things but these solutions may be too little too late. There is something the President has brought to the table that has been lacking&#8230;.a sense of cool. Look back to the old Hollywood movies [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Address to Congress</title>
		<link>http://pith.net/pith/observations/humor/obama-tonight</link>
		<comments>http://pith.net/pith/observations/humor/obama-tonight#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 15:27:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>joesmith</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://pith.net/pith/?p=733</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In an effort to conserve scarce resources in trying economic times, President Obama has issued an executive order to alter the centuries-old tradition of addressing a joint session of Congress. Both branches of Congress will, instead, be issued only one-hit bongs, marking the first time the joint session has been changed since Theodore Roosevelt&#8217;s hookah [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jefferson Must be Cringing in his Grave</title>
		<link>http://pith.net/pith/observations/essays/jefferson-must-be-cringing-in-his-grave</link>
		<comments>http://pith.net/pith/observations/essays/jefferson-must-be-cringing-in-his-grave#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 20:23:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Benishek</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://pith.net/pith/?p=448</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Over 200 years ago, in 1802, Thomas Jefferson made a prophetically inferential statement apropos the US banking system. As we see our banks faltering, our credit lines freezing, our housing markets crumbling, and enough corporate greed to pass out $18 billion worth of bonuses with government allocated funds, we should review Jefferson’s ethics on our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No Matter What You Think Personally About the Stimulus Bill, the Republicans are Being Hypocrites:  A Reflection on 2/6/09</title>
		<link>http://pith.net/pith/writers/jeremy-benishek-columnists/no-matter-what-you-think-personally-about-the-stimulus-bill-the-republicans-are-being-hypocrites-a-reflection-on-2609</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2009 23:51:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Benishek</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://pith.net/pith/?p=418</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For George W. Bush’s $700 billion economic bailout plan, the republicans had no problem bailing out Wall Street, with the house voting 263 to 171 in favor of the bill (with 91 of 199 republicans voting for it). So the question now: Why are House republicans putting up such a fight when it comes to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bush is (finally) Gone</title>
		<link>http://pith.net/pith/observations/politics/bush-is-finally-gone</link>
		<comments>http://pith.net/pith/observations/politics/bush-is-finally-gone#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 01:12:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>timfluhr</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://pith.net/pith/?p=434</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If only we could get rid of&#8230; hipsters single speed bikes mayonnaise condoms the new york yankees big cars sean hannity bigots liars knuckle tattoos and acne We&#8217;re allowed to dream again, aren&#8217;t we? Sorry for the cross post. I play by my own rules.]]></description>
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		<title>The Cuban Revolution and Fidel Castro, 50 Years Later:  A Reflection</title>
		<link>http://pith.net/pith/writers/jeremy-benishek-columnists/the-cuban-revolution-and-fidel-castro-50-years-later-a-reflection</link>
		<comments>http://pith.net/pith/writers/jeremy-benishek-columnists/the-cuban-revolution-and-fidel-castro-50-years-later-a-reflection#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2009 15:07:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Benishek</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://pith.net/pith/?p=331</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As a third generation Cuban American, I have mixed emotions on the Cuban Revolution. To see the footage of Fidel Castro parading through the streets of Havana with overwhelming approval on January 1, 1959, is bittersweet. I suspect I, like many Cuban Americans, have a love/hate relationship with Castro and his Revolution. On one side, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tales from the Front</title>
		<link>http://pith.net/pith/observations/politics/tales-from-the-front</link>
		<comments>http://pith.net/pith/observations/politics/tales-from-the-front#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 03:51:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kent Mueller</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://pith.net/pith/?p=320</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Just finished the first day of canvassing for Barack and wish I’d started sooner. Worked with a three-person team on several blocks in the area of 30th and Juneau, 30th and Vliet. About 60 percent black, on some blocks literally every house had an Obama sign. Even in the drizzle it was too easy. I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Palin &#8211; Taste, Travel &amp; Reform</title>
		<link>http://pith.net/pith/writers/joesmith-columnists/palin-taste-travel</link>
		<comments>http://pith.net/pith/writers/joesmith-columnists/palin-taste-travel#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 01:05:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>joesmith</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://pith.net/pith/?p=284</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Sarah Palin sure DOES dress nice, but, Jesus, this RNC bill seems a bit much for such a regular person, real American, G droppin&#8217; Hockey Mom, don&#8217;t you think? Read the full story. I guess it was the RNC who wanted to spruce her up? I&#8217;m sure she wouldn&#8217;t ask for such a pricey wardrobe [...]]]></description>
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		<title>McCain&#8217;s Low Road to an Electoral Vote Win?</title>
		<link>http://pith.net/pith/writers/joesmith-columnists/mccains-narrow-strategy-to-an-electoral-vote-win</link>
		<comments>http://pith.net/pith/writers/joesmith-columnists/mccains-narrow-strategy-to-an-electoral-vote-win#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 18:16:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>joesmith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday&#8217;s report on CNN&#8217;s Political Ticker points toward the McCain campaign&#8217;s narrowing electoral strategy, with one anonymous source writing off Iowa, New Mexico and Colorado: &#8220;&#8216;Gone,&#8217; was the word one top McCain insider used to describe those three states.&#8221; Given the state-by-state electoral vote map two weeks before the election, this is a pragmatic approach. [...]]]></description>
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