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	<title>Speaking of Cement</title>
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		<title>Panic in The Street</title>
		<link>http://www.speakingofcement.com/?p=50</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 04:06:12 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>Miscellaneous</category>
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		<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>
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		<title>Annie, Get Your Gun</title>
		<link>http://www.speakingofcement.com/?p=48</link>
		<comments>http://www.speakingofcement.com/?p=48#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Dec 2007 06:07:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<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>
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		<title>Widows and orphans</title>
		<link>http://www.speakingofcement.com/?p=47</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jun 2006 05:32:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
		
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		<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>
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		<title>Extra, Extra, Read all about it</title>
		<link>http://www.speakingofcement.com/?p=46</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2005 05:28:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marlena</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Miscellaneous</category>
	<category>Politics</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[it looks like the Bush administration is imploding.]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t mess with me!</title>
		<link>http://www.speakingofcement.com/?p=45</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2005 20:21:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marlena</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Miscellaneous</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Self-defense class as metaphor for life? ]]></description>
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		<title>They&#8217;d better turn the hot lights on him</title>
		<link>http://www.speakingofcement.com/?p=44</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2005 06:28:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marlena</dc:creator>
		
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	<category>Politics</category>
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		<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>
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		<title>A Brief Synopsis</title>
		<link>http://www.speakingofcement.com/?p=43</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2005 02:10:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marlena</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Politics</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[He went … golfing … and

Played a guitar … and
Promoted his drug plan in El Mirage]]></description>
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		<title>He was my last hope</title>
		<link>http://www.speakingofcement.com/?p=42</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2005 02:03:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marlena</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Politics</category>
	<category>Human Rights</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I almost wish there was a hell just so they'd all get justice in the end. ]]></description>
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		<title>Designer&#8217;s Choice</title>
		<link>http://www.speakingofcement.com/?p=38</link>
		<comments>http://www.speakingofcement.com/?p=38#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Aug 2005 04:32:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marlena</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Philosophy and Critical Thinking</category>
	<category>Religion</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The problem that occurs when <em>everything</em> looks designed is how would we distinguish something that wasn’t?]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m Baaack&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.speakingofcement.com/?p=37</link>
		<comments>http://www.speakingofcement.com/?p=37#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2005 07:26:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marlena</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Politics</category>
	<category>Religion</category>
	<category>Human Rights</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In between paint jobs, I've kept busy writing letters to assorted editors:]]></description>
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