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		<title>By: typos_R_us</title>
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		<dc:creator>typos_R_us</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 09:32:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;Prove to me that what has been done cannot be undone.&quot;

What would you consider proof?  Are you here;
http://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/fre/index.html

Or would any plausible scenario do?
Democratic control of both houses as well as most states allows the 22 Amendment to be repealed.  That removes the 2 term limit on POTUS.  Then he rigs some more elections and presto, we have a President for life.  FDR was old and crippled.  The Usurper isn&#039;t.  10 or 12 terms isn&#039;t impossible with a little help from ACORN and the right Diabold machines.

Think the election wasn&#039;t rigged?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNygQMIj3TA

And if you have a problem with that, these guys will come and see you;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcGI9OTtnjg&amp;feature=related

As Bugs would say, &quot;What a bunch of Bozo&#039;s!&quot;  They catch you unarmed and alone and you will have a problem.  Think the Usurper won&#039;t use them?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEnNYN8sKbQ

You may not take the Usurper seriously, but you should.

America has narrowly missed having a Tyrant a few times already.

Burr was on his way until that duel went down.  Booth, Americas greatest Hero, stopped one Tyrant, Old age and Polio got another.  You can&#039;t expect America to get lucky every time.  Don&#039;t know if you would consider any of this evidence. I see it as clues.  I think that the Usurper will not leave the Oval office willfully.  With luck a civil disobedience campaign will remove him.  If it doesn&#039;t, there will be a civil war, which is as ugly as ugly gets.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Prove to me that what has been done cannot be undone.&#8221;</p>
<p>What would you consider proof?  Are you here;<br />
<a href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/fre/index.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/fre/index.html</a></p>
<p>Or would any plausible scenario do?<br />
Democratic control of both houses as well as most states allows the 22 Amendment to be repealed.  That removes the 2 term limit on POTUS.  Then he rigs some more elections and presto, we have a President for life.  FDR was old and crippled.  The Usurper isn&#8217;t.  10 or 12 terms isn&#8217;t impossible with a little help from ACORN and the right Diabold machines.</p>
<p>Think the election wasn&#8217;t rigged?<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNygQMIj3TA" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNygQMIj3TA</a></p>
<p>And if you have a problem with that, these guys will come and see you;<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcGI9OTtnjg&amp;feature=related" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcGI9OTtnjg&amp;feature=related</a></p>
<p>As Bugs would say, &#8220;What a bunch of Bozo&#8217;s!&#8221;  They catch you unarmed and alone and you will have a problem.  Think the Usurper won&#8217;t use them?<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEnNYN8sKbQ" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEnNYN8sKbQ</a></p>
<p>You may not take the Usurper seriously, but you should.</p>
<p>America has narrowly missed having a Tyrant a few times already.</p>
<p>Burr was on his way until that duel went down.  Booth, Americas greatest Hero, stopped one Tyrant, Old age and Polio got another.  You can&#8217;t expect America to get lucky every time.  Don&#8217;t know if you would consider any of this evidence. I see it as clues.  I think that the Usurper will not leave the Oval office willfully.  With luck a civil disobedience campaign will remove him.  If it doesn&#8217;t, there will be a civil war, which is as ugly as ugly gets.</p>
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		<title>By: Gene Lalor</title>
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		<dc:creator>Gene Lalor</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 21:26:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>How To Catch Wild Pigs: A Parable for Our Time
                                           “You catch wild pigs by finding a suitable place in the woods and putting corn on the ground. The pigs find it and begin to come everyday to eat the free corn. When they are used to coming every day, you put a fence down one side of the place. 

When they get used to the fence, they begin to eat the corn again and you put up another side of the fence. They get used to that and start to eat again. You continue until you have all four sides of the fence up with a gate in the last side. The pigs, who are used to the free corn, start to come through the gate to eat.  You slam the gate on them and catch the whole herd. 

Suddenly, the wild pigs have lost their freedom. They run around and around inside the fence, but they are caught. Soon they go back to eating the free corn. They are so used to it that they have forgotten how to forage in the woods for themselves so they accept their captivity. 

That is exactly what is happening to America. . . .

(Read the rest of this parable at http://genelalor.com/.)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>How To Catch Wild Pigs: A Parable for Our Time<br />
                                           “You catch wild pigs by finding a suitable place in the woods and putting corn on the ground. The pigs find it and begin to come everyday to eat the free corn. When they are used to coming every day, you put a fence down one side of the place. </p>
<p>When they get used to the fence, they begin to eat the corn again and you put up another side of the fence. They get used to that and start to eat again. You continue until you have all four sides of the fence up with a gate in the last side. The pigs, who are used to the free corn, start to come through the gate to eat.  You slam the gate on them and catch the whole herd. </p>
<p>Suddenly, the wild pigs have lost their freedom. They run around and around inside the fence, but they are caught. Soon they go back to eating the free corn. They are so used to it that they have forgotten how to forage in the woods for themselves so they accept their captivity. </p>
<p>That is exactly what is happening to America. . . .</p>
<p>(Read the rest of this parable at <a href="http://genelalor.com/.)" rel="nofollow">http://genelalor.com/.)</a></p>
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		<title>By: whyyeseyec</title>
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		<dc:creator>whyyeseyec</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 18:57:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Making America more like France won`t lead to prosperity but it will make us more like France............</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Making America more like France won`t lead to prosperity but it will make us more like France&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: Marie Claude</title>
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		<dc:creator>Marie Claude</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 14:38:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Marc, yes, &quot;I am an arrogant Chick, just sayin, it&#039;s better than being a modest pigeon&quot; :lol:</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Marc, yes, &#8220;I am an arrogant Chick, just sayin, it&#8217;s better than being a modest pigeon&#8221; <img src='http://pajamasmedia.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_lol.gif' alt=':lol:' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: Denis Chazelle est une sombre merde</title>
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		<dc:creator>Denis Chazelle est une sombre merde</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 13:19:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;&quot;class clown

I have lived in France, and speak the language well enough to hear from them firsthand, rather than through the media. There are a lot of wonderful people there, but on the whole, they are a depressed and lost people, who feel cast about by fate and by powers beyond their control, and who know that their future already belongs to the Arab immigrants who hate them.

I love France, but this is the last country in the western world that we want to emulate. In half a generation, they may well no longer even be part of the “western world”.&quot;&quot;


One lie per sentence. Not bad. 
And Newsflash; The US is more socialist than France. 
No 700$ billion of taxpayer&#039;s money bail out plan for France. The bail out plan is only 30$ billion in France.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;&#8221;class clown</p>
<p>I have lived in France, and speak the language well enough to hear from them firsthand, rather than through the media. There are a lot of wonderful people there, but on the whole, they are a depressed and lost people, who feel cast about by fate and by powers beyond their control, and who know that their future already belongs to the Arab immigrants who hate them.</p>
<p>I love France, but this is the last country in the western world that we want to emulate. In half a generation, they may well no longer even be part of the “western world”.&#8221;"</p>
<p>One lie per sentence. Not bad.<br />
And Newsflash; The US is more socialist than France.<br />
No 700$ billion of taxpayer&#8217;s money bail out plan for France. The bail out plan is only 30$ billion in France.</p>
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		<title>By: Marc Malone</title>
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		<dc:creator>Marc Malone</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 10:24:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>#24 Marie Claude - Oh, cherie, are you bragging about your beauty and brains AGAIN?  Humilite, ma petite chou.  Humilite.  ;)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>#24 Marie Claude &#8211; Oh, cherie, are you bragging about your beauty and brains AGAIN?  Humilite, ma petite chou.  Humilite.  <img src='http://pajamasmedia.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: Marie Claude</title>
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		<dc:creator>Marie Claude</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:39:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Jonesy55, 

it&#039;s so unusual that a British is humble :lol:</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Jonesy55, </p>
<p>it&#8217;s so unusual that a British is humble <img src='http://pajamasmedia.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_lol.gif' alt=':lol:' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: Jonesy55</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jonesy55</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 15:01:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>uh, Marie Claude, if I was trying to prove that the &#039;anglo-saxons&#039; were the &#039;winners in the EU&#039;, I would have missed off Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Austria, Ireland, Sweden, Denmark, Belgium and Finland who are all richer than us by those 2007 figures.

France recently overtaking us again (an advantage France also had over us from the early 60s until the late 90s) in terms of the total size of our economy (Italy was also bigger for a month or so over Christmas when the pound was worth less than 1.10 Euros) is a product of the 25% decline of sterling over the past 18 months. That&#039;s not what these figures are measuring though, they use Purchasing Power Parity which adjusts for the cost of living in each country and is not affected by currency fluctuations in the same way as nominal figures. They are also per capita figures and France (inc. non-metro France) has 4m more people than the UK

On that measure the UK was (very) slightly ahead of France in 2007; in 2009 it may be different and France may be slightly ahead, I don&#039;t really care as I&#039;m not trying to boast about my country relative to yours, just pointing out that while some European countries have been underperforming recently compared to the USA, others have not and overall Europe is pretty much where it was 15 years ago in terms of a cross-atlantic comparison.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>uh, Marie Claude, if I was trying to prove that the &#8216;anglo-saxons&#8217; were the &#8216;winners in the EU&#8217;, I would have missed off Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Austria, Ireland, Sweden, Denmark, Belgium and Finland who are all richer than us by those 2007 figures.</p>
<p>France recently overtaking us again (an advantage France also had over us from the early 60s until the late 90s) in terms of the total size of our economy (Italy was also bigger for a month or so over Christmas when the pound was worth less than 1.10 Euros) is a product of the 25% decline of sterling over the past 18 months. That&#8217;s not what these figures are measuring though, they use Purchasing Power Parity which adjusts for the cost of living in each country and is not affected by currency fluctuations in the same way as nominal figures. They are also per capita figures and France (inc. non-metro France) has 4m more people than the UK</p>
<p>On that measure the UK was (very) slightly ahead of France in 2007; in 2009 it may be different and France may be slightly ahead, I don&#8217;t really care as I&#8217;m not trying to boast about my country relative to yours, just pointing out that while some European countries have been underperforming recently compared to the USA, others have not and overall Europe is pretty much where it was 15 years ago in terms of a cross-atlantic comparison.</p>
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		<title>By: Marie Claude</title>
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		<dc:creator>Marie Claude</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 14:02:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;rates&quot; are what ones want to see, the fact is that  they differ, they pick different  basis according to what ones want to demonstrate, so evidently, in this topic, French economy is the socialist nightmare</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;rates&#8221; are what ones want to see, the fact is that  they differ, they pick different  basis according to what ones want to demonstrate, so evidently, in this topic, French economy is the socialist nightmare</p>
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		<title>By: Marie Claude</title>
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		<dc:creator>Marie Claude</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 13:51:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>woah, Johnny, it took much of your anglo-saxon &quot;spirit&quot; to demonstrate that you&#039;re still the &quot;w-h-inners in EU :lol:

uh, this article doesn&#039;t say so :

&lt;i&gt;France now £70bn richer than Britain, overtaking us in World rich listBy SIMON McGEE
Last updated at 00:30 13 janvier 2008 

 Add to My Stories Britain has sunk from fifth to sixth place in the &#039;rich list&#039; of world economies - and, to add insult to injury, it is France that has overtaken us.

The often sluggish French economy is now worth £70billion more than the UK&#039;s, following the dramatic fall of sterling against the euro.
It slips into fifth place behind the US, Japan, Germany and China - all had larger outputs than the UK in the final quarter of last year, according to new figures from the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR).
Projections also suggest that France&#039;s gross domestic product (GDP) will grow by 2 per cent in 2008, compared to 1.9 per cent in Britain.
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 The often sluggish French economy is now worth £70billion more than the UK&#039;s
Radical labour reforms proposed by President Nicolas Sarkozy to boost productivity are set to further challenge the UK economy as it struggles with the impact of the &quot;credit crunch&quot; sparked by the American subprime home loans crisis.
Although Britain&#039;s GDP is still marginally larger than France&#039;s, it is the falling value of the pound against the euro that is immediately responsible for the place swap.
Sterling&#039;s fall from an average of ?1.47 in 2006 to around ?1.32 in the past six months means the UK economy has gone from being 6.7 per cent larger than France&#039;s to 4 per cent smaller.
The fall coincided with a fresh assault by Shadow Chancellor George Osborne on Labour&#039;s stewardship of the economy, accusing Prime Minister Gordon Brown of &quot;economic incompetence and fiscal incontinence&quot;.
He said: &quot;The system of financial oversight he personally insisted on left Britain as the only country facing a run on the bank. His taxes and regulations have left the British economy more inflexible and less competitive.&quot;
Labour, however, insisted the Conservatives had a &quot;black hole&quot; in their spending and tax plans.
NIESR director Martin Weale claimed the new figures represented a looming &quot;political economic cataclysm&quot; which would hit incomes first, although he admitted there would be no immediate effect on living standards.&lt;/i&gt;
  
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-507916/France-70bn-richer-Britain-overtaking-World-rich-list.html

Also :

&lt;i&gt;The fact is that the English are constantly in denial about their own identity, and the French show us what we really are - or could be if we let ourselves go. They&#039;re a kind of sibling, cast in the same mould as us, but showing how the same genes can express themselves in alternative ways. 

Given this common background, the English, in spite of themselves, tend to give way to what Freud called &quot;the narcissism of minor differences&quot;. We make a great deal of what distinguishes us from the French, for fear of seeing our prized identity lose its uniqueness by being revealed as just another set of shared human traits&lt;/i&gt;

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/4363962.stm</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>woah, Johnny, it took much of your anglo-saxon &#8220;spirit&#8221; to demonstrate that you&#8217;re still the &#8220;w-h-inners in EU <img src='http://pajamasmedia.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_lol.gif' alt=':lol:' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>uh, this article doesn&#8217;t say so :</p>
<p><i>France now £70bn richer than Britain, overtaking us in World rich listBy SIMON McGEE<br />
Last updated at 00:30 13 janvier 2008 </p>
<p> Add to My Stories Britain has sunk from fifth to sixth place in the &#8216;rich list&#8217; of world economies &#8211; and, to add insult to injury, it is France that has overtaken us.</p>
<p>The often sluggish French economy is now worth £70billion more than the UK&#8217;s, following the dramatic fall of sterling against the euro.<br />
It slips into fifth place behind the US, Japan, Germany and China &#8211; all had larger outputs than the UK in the final quarter of last year, according to new figures from the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR).<br />
Projections also suggest that France&#8217;s gross domestic product (GDP) will grow by 2 per cent in 2008, compared to 1.9 per cent in Britain.<br />
Scroll down for more</p>
<p> The often sluggish French economy is now worth £70billion more than the UK&#8217;s<br />
Radical labour reforms proposed by President Nicolas Sarkozy to boost productivity are set to further challenge the UK economy as it struggles with the impact of the &#8220;credit crunch&#8221; sparked by the American subprime home loans crisis.<br />
Although Britain&#8217;s GDP is still marginally larger than France&#8217;s, it is the falling value of the pound against the euro that is immediately responsible for the place swap.<br />
Sterling&#8217;s fall from an average of ?1.47 in 2006 to around ?1.32 in the past six months means the UK economy has gone from being 6.7 per cent larger than France&#8217;s to 4 per cent smaller.<br />
The fall coincided with a fresh assault by Shadow Chancellor George Osborne on Labour&#8217;s stewardship of the economy, accusing Prime Minister Gordon Brown of &#8220;economic incompetence and fiscal incontinence&#8221;.<br />
He said: &#8220;The system of financial oversight he personally insisted on left Britain as the only country facing a run on the bank. His taxes and regulations have left the British economy more inflexible and less competitive.&#8221;<br />
Labour, however, insisted the Conservatives had a &#8220;black hole&#8221; in their spending and tax plans.<br />
NIESR director Martin Weale claimed the new figures represented a looming &#8220;political economic cataclysm&#8221; which would hit incomes first, although he admitted there would be no immediate effect on living standards.</i></p>
<p><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-507916/France-70bn-richer-Britain-overtaking-World-rich-list.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-507916/France-70bn-richer-Britain-overtaking-World-rich-list.html</a></p>
<p>Also :</p>
<p><i>The fact is that the English are constantly in denial about their own identity, and the French show us what we really are &#8211; or could be if we let ourselves go. They&#8217;re a kind of sibling, cast in the same mould as us, but showing how the same genes can express themselves in alternative ways. </p>
<p>Given this common background, the English, in spite of themselves, tend to give way to what Freud called &#8220;the narcissism of minor differences&#8221;. We make a great deal of what distinguishes us from the French, for fear of seeing our prized identity lose its uniqueness by being revealed as just another set of shared human traits</i></p>
<p><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/4363962.stm" rel="nofollow">http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/4363962.stm</a></p>
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