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	<title>lolife &#187; Politics</title>
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		<title>Hate begets violence</title>
		<link>http://www.lolife.com/2011/01/hate-begets-violence/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lolife.com/2011/01/hate-begets-violence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jan 2011 06:58:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lolife</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[shooting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tucson]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.lolife.com/?p=1135</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the wake of the assassination attempt of a United States congresswoman we must reflect on what separates the United States from places like Iraq and Columbia, to name just a couple, that cross the line from politics to violence. The difference of course it that we don&#8217;t kill each other or each other&#8217;s representatives [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Geithner nails it</title>
		<link>http://www.lolife.com/2010/09/geithner-nails-it/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lolife.com/2010/09/geithner-nails-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2010 21:32:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lolife</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[obama]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.lolife.com/?p=1125</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[How short the memories of the electorate. When the president took office, the American economy, the envy of the world, was falling off the cliff. Growth was declining at an annual rate of about 6 percent. We were losing three-quarters-of-a-million jobs every month. The American financial system was in freefall. People were wondering whether they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A rejection of extremes</title>
		<link>http://www.lolife.com/2010/02/a-rejection-of-extremes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lolife.com/2010/02/a-rejection-of-extremes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 02:57:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lolife</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[leadership]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.lolife.com/?p=1083</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It is an amazing thing to watch your generation take over the world. The President of the United States is 4 years older than me. The positions of power in industry, government and culture are being occupied by people my age. It makes you think &#8212; what are our responsibilities to future generations. What are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Lolife Podcast No. 76</title>
		<link>http://www.lolife.com/2009/08/the-lolife-podcast-no-76/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lolife.com/2009/08/the-lolife-podcast-no-76/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 04:24:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lolife</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Podcast]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.lolife.com/?p=1044</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Hell froze, pigs flew and I recorded a new podcast! You can listen to it here or perhaps you want to subscribe (or iTunes)? It&#8217;s my usual profanity-ridden chatter about politics. It&#8217;s called Taxes and the Nanny State. Take a listen and post a comment with your thoughts.]]></description>
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		<title>What is a racist?</title>
		<link>http://www.lolife.com/2009/05/what-is-a-racist/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lolife.com/2009/05/what-is-a-racist/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2009 23:54:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lolife</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.lolife.com/?p=1001</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There is a lot of attention being given to this quote by Sonia Sotomayor: A wise Latina woman with the richness of her experience would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn&#8217;t lived that life. Do you think this is a racist quote? What is your definition of [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Norm Coleman is a piece of shit</title>
		<link>http://www.lolife.com/2008/11/norm-coleman-is-a-piece-of-shit/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lolife.com/2008/11/norm-coleman-is-a-piece-of-shit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 18:31:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lolife</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[coleman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[shit]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.lolife.com/blog/?p=800</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[And you can quote me on that. He apparently thinks if he claims victory somehow it is his to lose. No, Norm, an automatic recount has been triggered and YOU ARE NOT THE WINNER YET. I personally hope we send you back home to reinvent yourself into a kinder, gentler piece of shit. Maybe you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WTF California, Florida and Arizona</title>
		<link>http://www.lolife.com/2008/11/wtf-california-florida-and-arizona/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lolife.com/2008/11/wtf-california-florida-and-arizona/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 05:46:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lolife</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[same sex marriage]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.lolife.com/blog/?p=797</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[You homophobes are ridiculous. No one is harmed by same-sex marriage. It is not required that you be comfortable with the choices made around you by your free fellow citizens. I don&#8217;t approve of half the shit you do, believe me. I think it is a dying viewpoint &#8212; that same-sex marriage is &#8220;bad&#8221;&#8211; and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Righties &#8212; lighten up</title>
		<link>http://www.lolife.com/2008/11/righties-lighten-up/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lolife.com/2008/11/righties-lighten-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 19:35:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lolife</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.lolife.com/blog/?p=795</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[First let me say that I think most people who didn&#8217;t vote for Obama are being gracious and hopeful that we will live in good times in the coming years. It&#8217;s funny to me, though, that the general sentiment I&#8217;m sensing from the disappointed Right is that they need to hold on to their checkbook. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>God Bless America</title>
		<link>http://www.lolife.com/2008/11/god-bless-america/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lolife.com/2008/11/god-bless-america/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 04:14:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lolife</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[obama]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.lolife.com/blog/?p=793</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I often say &#8220;bless you&#8221; to people, like when they bring me a cold frosty Summit Extra Pale Ale. I like the phrase, even though I&#8217;m an atheist. But I just want to take a moment to say THANK YOU JESUS! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! The United States of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Obama meant when he said &#8220;share the wealth&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.lolife.com/2008/10/what-obama-meant-when-he-said-share-the-wealth/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lolife.com/2008/10/what-obama-meant-when-he-said-share-the-wealth/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 02:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lolife</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[obama]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.lolife.com/blog/?p=780</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We can look at this in terms of moral ideals or we can look at it in greedy terms of pure capitalism and either way we come to the same answer: we all do better when we all do better. Financially, it&#8217;s just obvious: you get a better standard of living and a bigger GDP [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Palin and McCain continue to be dumb</title>
		<link>http://www.lolife.com/2008/10/palin-and-mccain-continue-to-be-dumb/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lolife.com/2008/10/palin-and-mccain-continue-to-be-dumb/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 21:24:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lolife</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.lolife.com/blog/?p=778</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[These people clearly can not be trusted with governance in the nation&#8217;s highest office. They&#8217;re too stupid or they hire people that are too stupid and either way, they&#8217;re fucked. She vowed – as she has many times &#8212; that if she and running mate John McCain are elected, they will nix such fat that&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dear Republicans, I&#8217;m sorry your party is anti-science</title>
		<link>http://www.lolife.com/2008/10/dear-republicans-im-sorry-your-party-is-anti-science/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lolife.com/2008/10/dear-republicans-im-sorry-your-party-is-anti-science/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 02:53:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lolife</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.lolife.com/blog/?p=773</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Phil Plait is miffed and I totally understand why. Every time he posts about the latest anti-science bullshit in the news, some dumb shit whines about how Phil should stick to science and leave politics alone. Science IS politics. In the US, the federal government pays for nearly 100% of astronomy research. Further, politics on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Powell sums it up</title>
		<link>http://www.lolife.com/2008/10/powell-sums-it-up/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lolife.com/2008/10/powell-sums-it-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 11:13:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lolife</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mccain]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.lolife.com/blog/?p=756</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Collin Powell, that left-wing socialist un-American loon has done it again. On Palin: I don&#8217;t believe she&#8217;s ready to be president of the United States, which is the job of the vice president On the rat-bastard Republicans: I&#8217;m also troubled by, not what Senator McCain says, but what members of the party say. And it [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Conservatives, if that&#8217;s what you call them, freak out</title>
		<link>http://www.lolife.com/2008/10/conservatives-if-thats-what-you-call-them-freak-out/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lolife.com/2008/10/conservatives-if-thats-what-you-call-them-freak-out/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 07:11:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lolife</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[buckley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[obama]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.lolife.com/blog/?p=754</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is fascinating: Christopher Buckley, son of William F. Buckley, founder of the National Review, resigns from the National Review because he endorsed Obama on a blog: Obama has in him—I think, despite his sometimes airy-fairy “We are the people we have been waiting for” silly rhetoric—the potential to be a good, perhaps even great [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Mad, mad McCain</title>
		<link>http://www.lolife.com/2008/10/mad-mad-mccain/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lolife.com/2008/10/mad-mad-mccain/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 17:43:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lolife</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mccain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[obama]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.lolife.com/blog/?p=747</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.startribune.com/politics/national/president/30624984.html">Study finds that nearly all recent McCain TV ads and one-third of Obama's were negative</a>

McCain thinks he can scumbag his way into office. Norm Coleman apparently thinks the same thing. When will they learn? Those scary ads about how scary the other guy is with wolves howling and facts set aside for sensationalistic lies DO NOT WORK.]]></description>
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		<title>Barack said</title>
		<link>http://www.lolife.com/2008/10/barack-said/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lolife.com/2008/10/barack-said/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 17:08:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lolife</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mccain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[obama]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.lolife.com/blog/?p=734</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[From The Political Animal: If you want the next four years looking just like the last eight, then I am not your candidate. But if you want real change &#8211; if you want an economy that rewards work, and that works for Main Street and Wall Street; if you want tax relief for the middle [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Palin&#8217;s great moment</title>
		<link>http://www.lolife.com/2008/09/palins-great-moment/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lolife.com/2008/09/palins-great-moment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 20:57:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lolife</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mccain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[palin]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.lolife.com/blog/?p=732</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A friend sent me this. We&#8217;ve all seen that Palin clip by now. I think it is maybe the first time that SNL was able to use a quote word for word and have it be absolutely hilarious. Jack is mad and he should be. I would forgive Palin for having one bad moment. We [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Palin is a liability</title>
		<link>http://www.lolife.com/2008/09/palin-is-a-liability/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lolife.com/2008/09/palin-is-a-liability/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:56:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lolife</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mccain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[palin]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.lolife.com/blog/?p=730</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Palin is a liability to McCain and the US of A. She is the intellectual equivalent of George W. Bush. She is not educated, not informed, not intellectually curious, not quick on her feet and completely inappropriate for the job of President. It has nothing to do with her being a woman. I&#8217;m glad that [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Resume</title>
		<link>http://www.lolife.com/2008/09/obamas-resume/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lolife.com/2008/09/obamas-resume/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2008 15:37:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lolife</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[obama]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.lolife.com/blog/?p=726</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Over at 2 Focus Inn there is a post of an email forward comparing Palin and Obama. Look, Righties, we know that Obama is running against McCain. YOU invited the comparison between Palin and Obama because you keep harping on this incorrect notion that Obama is inexperienced. McCain is old and his VP choice has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Republicans are DEAD WRONG about health care</title>
		<link>http://www.lolife.com/2008/09/the-republicans-are-dead-wrong-about-health-care/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lolife.com/2008/09/the-republicans-are-dead-wrong-about-health-care/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 19:54:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lolife</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[medicine]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.lolife.com/blog/?p=724</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A major cause of the health care crisis in America is that millions of dollars are spent every day by health care providers and medical insurance providers arguing. Talk to any doctor. They spend tons of money managing the crushing bureaucracy of insurance companies. The insurance companies do this on purpose because they ultimately have [...]]]></description>
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