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		<title>Why Obama Gets Away with it</title>
		<link>http://javadave.wordpress.com/2008/08/04/why-obama-get-away-with-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 00:53:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Barack Obama is being touted as a new kind of politicians.  How true &#8211; but for reasons different than most people think.  The Hope of Obama is that he would be authentic &#8211; genuinely working both sides of the aisle to get practical solutions for the American people.  He wanted to move [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=javadave.wordpress.com&blog=2971333&post=39&subd=javadave&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Obama vs. McCain (complex vs. simple)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:48:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[They say the best explanation is often the simplest one.  If so, what does the candidates explanation of the surge say about who&#8217;s telling the truth?
MCCAIN: War going bad, needed surge, got surge, all better.
OBAMA: I was against the war from the beginning which shows my superior judgment.  My superior judgment was confirmed when the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=javadave.wordpress.com&blog=2971333&post=37&subd=javadave&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Gas Prices are High</title>
		<link>http://javadave.wordpress.com/2008/06/18/why-gas-prices-are-high/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 03:56:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>javadave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay&#8230; I&#8217;m not an economist, but here&#8217;s what I think is happening, and yep&#8230; idiot politicians are to blame.
Here&#8217;s why&#8230;
Gas prices are determined by the old fashioned laws of supply and demand, right?  Here&#8217;s the problem.  Demand is rising about 6 percent worldwide per year.  But if my calculations are correct, the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=javadave.wordpress.com&blog=2971333&post=35&subd=javadave&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>R.I.P. Tim Russert</title>
		<link>http://javadave.wordpress.com/2008/06/13/rip-tim-russert/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 22:17:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>javadave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Unbelievable&#8230;
Unbelievable that the the fourth branch of American politics is dead. Unbelievable that the one LAST hard edged, balanced journalist left in Washington is dead.  In the past two years, my Sunday&#8217;s have been centered around two people: Jesus Christ and Tim Russert.  Jesus centers me in my spiritual life and Tim [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=javadave.wordpress.com&blog=2971333&post=33&subd=javadave&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Servant Leadership</title>
		<link>http://javadave.wordpress.com/2008/06/04/servant-leadership/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:31:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>javadave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I yield the great influence of this blog to my brother, Brandon, who has penned this excellent piece&#8230;
I recently saw the movie &#8220;300&#8243; about a band of elite Spartan forces determined to fight, to the death if necessary, to defend the City-States of Greece from the invading Persian forces led by Xerxes.
The mythical million man [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=javadave.wordpress.com&blog=2971333&post=32&subd=javadave&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Global Warming is the Perfect Liberal Issue</title>
		<link>http://javadave.wordpress.com/2008/05/23/why-global-warming-is-the-perfect-liberal-issue/</link>
		<comments>http://javadave.wordpress.com/2008/05/23/why-global-warming-is-the-perfect-liberal-issue/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 May 2008 01:16:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>javadave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Warming is the perfect issue for liberals.  Here are few reasons.
1.  It&#8217;s a &#8220;can&#8217;t lose&#8221; argument.  Global warming (ehem&#8230; &#8220;Climate change.&#8221;  Excuse me.) can&#8217;t be defeated.  Ever heard &#8220;if we don&#8217;t change NOW, our planet will be destroyed in (ehem) 100 years&#8221;?  None of them will ever be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=javadave.wordpress.com&blog=2971333&post=31&subd=javadave&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Kind of Politics?  I&#8217;ll pass</title>
		<link>http://javadave.wordpress.com/2008/05/20/new-kind-of-politics-ill-pass/</link>
		<comments>http://javadave.wordpress.com/2008/05/20/new-kind-of-politics-ill-pass/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 02:42:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>javadave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Barack says he&#8217;ll change Washington with a new kind of politics.  Yet he continues to say he&#8217;ll meet with Aquavelvajad &#8220;without condition&#8221;  within the first 100 days of his presidency.  This is foolish.  No president has ever made this kind of step towards a thug so infamous.  All the comparisons [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=javadave.wordpress.com&blog=2971333&post=30&subd=javadave&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What Kind of America?</title>
		<link>http://javadave.wordpress.com/2008/05/14/what-kind-of-america/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 13:49:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>javadave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[McCain gave a speech a few days ago to a group of concerned citizens of Portland, Oregon about the hazards of global warming and it&#8217;s affect on the planet.  He vowed to put the government into action to force businesses to help prevent this from getting worse.  He sides with changing America for the sake [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=javadave.wordpress.com&blog=2971333&post=29&subd=javadave&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Guns and Bibles</title>
		<link>http://javadave.wordpress.com/2008/04/20/guns-and-bibles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 00:22:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>javadave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An Obama supporter knocked on my door today to give me an Obama flyer.  A great sense of frustration had been overwhelming me &#8211; a bitterness, really &#8211; and I found myself greeting him with a gun in one hand and a Bible in the other, asking him if he would keep any immigrants [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=javadave.wordpress.com&blog=2971333&post=27&subd=javadave&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Environmental Religionism</title>
		<link>http://javadave.wordpress.com/2008/04/20/environmental-religionism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Apr 2008 13:17:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>javadave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I took my son last week to see the IMAX film &#8220;Grand Canyon.&#8221;  Once again, I found myself entrenched in a propaganda film.  Instead of getting to enjoy the incredible beauty of the Grand Canyon (there were surprisingly few of the stunning shots we come to expect), the filmographer followed a family of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=javadave.wordpress.com&blog=2971333&post=26&subd=javadave&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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