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		<title>Panic in The Street</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I wrote to AARP asking why the letter they asked us to sign, which supported the massive bailout of Wall Street, was not able to be edited. I got a response explaining why AARP supports the bailout; in part, it reads:
“The financial turmoil we have been experiencing has negatively
affected the retirement savings, home equity, employment [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.speakingofcement.com/?p=50</link>
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		<title>Annie, Get Your Gun</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Pulling into the restaurant parking lot, I saw the big white pickup truck emblazoned with perhaps a half dozen bumper stickers. Stopping to read them, I found they were mostly somehow related to the issue of guns, in the vein of Charlton Heston’s posturing of “They can have my gun when they pry it out [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.speakingofcement.com/?p=48</link>
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		<title>Widows and orphans</title>
		<description><![CDATA[They all want to say it, but they know how it would sound. So they have to find someone willing to say it out loud, to act as the lightning rod, to make the statement that, if enough people buy into it, would cut a strong leg out from under their opposition. 
Enter Ann Coulter, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.speakingofcement.com/?p=47</link>
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		<title>Extra, Extra, Read all about it</title>
		<description><![CDATA[it looks like the Bush administration is imploding.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.speakingofcement.com/?p=46</link>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t mess with me!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Self-defense class as metaphor for life? ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.speakingofcement.com/?p=45</link>
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		<title>They&#8217;d better turn the hot lights on him</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I'm not sure we can expect anything better from the Little Weasel and I don't know enough about Roberts to voice opposition]]></description>
		<link>http://www.speakingofcement.com/?p=44</link>
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		<title>A Brief Synopsis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[He went … golfing … and

Played a guitar … and
Promoted his drug plan in El Mirage]]></description>
		<link>http://www.speakingofcement.com/?p=43</link>
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		<title>He was my last hope</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I almost wish there was a hell just so they'd all get justice in the end. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.speakingofcement.com/?p=42</link>
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		<title>Designer&#8217;s Choice</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The problem that occurs when <em>everything</em> looks designed is how would we distinguish something that wasn’t?]]></description>
		<link>http://www.speakingofcement.com/?p=38</link>
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		<title>I&#8217;m Baaack&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In between paint jobs, I've kept busy writing letters to assorted editors:]]></description>
		<link>http://www.speakingofcement.com/?p=37</link>
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