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		<title>Seventy Years Ago Today</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Nov 2011 02:53:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As you&#8217;ve noticed, we&#8217;ve been gone for longer than ever before. but, we are back today with this reminder: Seventy years ago today, the Japanese fleet with six aircraft carriers sailed from Japan, on its way to attack Pearl Harbor. We&#8217;ll have more in the coming days about those eventful days, including speculation about the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=goldenstate.wordpress.com&amp;blog=698707&amp;post=2308&amp;subd=goldenstate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Copyright v. Facebook</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 23:06:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE 13TH CIRCUIT THOROUGHGOOD, PLAINTIFF v. FACEBOOK, GOOGLE, EXXONMOBIL, AND SIMON LEGREE, DEFENDANTS. Westercreek, Circuit Judge, writing for the court: Marjorie Thoroughgood is the daughter and personal representative of the estate of her mother, Mildred, who sued the three defendant corporations and one individual for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=goldenstate.wordpress.com&amp;blog=698707&amp;post=2292&amp;subd=goldenstate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Debt Ceiling &#8220;Compromise&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2011 13:48:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The House Republicans take the president and the U.S. economy for a drive: Filed under: Current Politics Tagged: debt, dysfunctional government, U.S. economy<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=goldenstate.wordpress.com&amp;blog=698707&amp;post=2288&amp;subd=goldenstate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In the Garden of Beasts</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jul 2011 21:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Ed. : Note to future Historians: this entry contains topical references which we hope will be meaningless in a few short years. We hope.] I&#8217;ve just read a book about the opening days of the Nazi regime takeover of Germany which, of course, followed the days of the Weimar Republic, a government that couldn&#8217;t seem [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=goldenstate.wordpress.com&amp;blog=698707&amp;post=2272&amp;subd=goldenstate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Oldest Living Man Interview</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2011 20:37:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I expect to be the victim of one of those interviews of really, really old people. You know, the kind where the oldest man in the community gets interviewed by a young interviewer trying to learn the secret of such longevity. By then I’ll look like Dustin Hoffman playing Jack Crabbe in Little Big Man. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=goldenstate.wordpress.com&amp;blog=698707&amp;post=2267&amp;subd=goldenstate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Snoot, Part 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jun 2011 21:45:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The folks at the very funny website someecards.com have a card that sums up the snoot&#8217;s thinking about the internet: Filed under: humor Tagged: Grammar, snoot, spelling<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=goldenstate.wordpress.com&amp;blog=698707&amp;post=2263&amp;subd=goldenstate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Snoots</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2011 19:25:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am a snoot. I didn&#8217;t mean to be a snoot when I started out and I&#8217;m not sure how it happened or even when. But I am one, one of “The Few, the Proud, the More or Less Constantly Appalled at Everyone Else.” &#160; No need to wander off in search of a dictionary, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=goldenstate.wordpress.com&amp;blog=698707&amp;post=2249&amp;subd=goldenstate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Federal Judges</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2011 07:22:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Federal judges have a pretty good work life. They work in great majestic rooms and when they enter and leave those rooms, everybody stands up. They can only be fired by the United States Senate and, unless they get caught taking a bribe, that hardly ever happens. Their pay can never be cut. If they [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=goldenstate.wordpress.com&amp;blog=698707&amp;post=2236&amp;subd=goldenstate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bob Dylan and the Law</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2011 07:05:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is Bob Dylan&#8217;s birthday. He is seventy (70) today. Millions of people will no doubt take note. Hundreds of bloggers too will hop on the bandwagon. Much real and electronic ink will be spilled today and why should this blog be any different? I&#8217;ll just tell you that Dylan&#8217;s lyrics are cited in legal [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=goldenstate.wordpress.com&amp;blog=698707&amp;post=2207&amp;subd=goldenstate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Rapture and Garage Sales</title>
		<link>http://goldenstate.wordpress.com/2011/05/21/the-rapture-and-garage-sales/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 May 2011 07:05:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to some Christians, today is The Rapture so we&#8217;re having a garage sale at our house. I wonder exactly what time the Rapture arrives? I plan to spend the day standing next to wealthy Christian men about my size. That way, I can just pick up their wallets and clothes. Filed under: humor, Religion [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=goldenstate.wordpress.com&amp;blog=698707&amp;post=2214&amp;subd=goldenstate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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