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  <pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2012 19:35:52 UT</pubDate>
  <title>3,2,1....PFFFT!</title>
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  <dc:creator>Steveb</dc:creator>
  <description><![CDATA[NASA did a fabulous job putting the program together from 1958 on.  While literally thousands of contractors did the manufacturing, the specs were so exact that it all fit together on the launch pad.  There was a terrific team of scientists and engineers doing the design work.  Now SpaceX is at the point where NASA was in 1959.  Yes there a few things the government does so well that they shouldn't have meddled with it.  I don't know what was on in Charles Bolden's head, or Obama's for that matter, except possibly dollar signs.  Still I  don't want to see the effort fail, even though I think they're going in the wrong direction.  The US needs to be heavily involved in space rather than sucking hind tit off the Russians, Europeans and Asians]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2012 18:10:19 UT</pubDate>
  <title>STAND YOUR GROUND murder</title>
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  <dc:creator>Charmin (DOLORESW)</dc:creator>
  <description><![CDATA[At one time they made him head of MSNBC and he changed things around.  I think he's kind of smarmy!!!!]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2012 17:33:34 UT</pubDate>
  <title>Life is Good!</title>
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  <dc:creator>FreeIreland</dc:creator>
  <description><![CDATA[Sometimes I have the luck of the Irish, and sometimes it's even good.  Two families on the next block up had their yard sales last weekend, just after I'd spent all my play money for the month already.  (How'd it happen so fast?)  I happened to be pedaling my trusty bike down the street just as they started carting out leftovers to the curb.  One treasure was a slightly older model DVR with a 5-disc CD changer, and a little 5&#34; analog color tv that will work fine with one of the 2 adapters I bought a couple years ago when they switched to digital.  I don't turn my nose up at slightly outdated technology, especially not when it's free.  They're nice people so I trust when they say both items work well. 

The second family runs an upholstery business out of their home; apparently they'd just done a big job somewhere because there was a nice big box of clean foam rubber pieces and big scraps of beautiful upholstery material.  Now my 5 wrought iron peacock chairs (from an auction) on the front porch look very snazzy, and they're a lot more comfortable too.  I don't care about 'show'; nobody much will see them except me, since with the shade cloth nobody can tell what's on the porch.  When all my landscaping fully matures, you'll hardly be able to see the bottom storey of the house from the street.
&#160; 
One time I happened by just as someone set out an unwanted gift at the curb, a full set of stainless steel cookware because they didn't like cooking anyway and had just switched to teflon!  I took that all home too but gave most of it away because I already have enough stainless steel to run a small restaurant, and it never wears out like (yecchhhh) teflon.
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  <pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2012 16:58:52 UT</pubDate>
  <title>Our Sibyl</title>
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  <dc:creator>FreeIreland</dc:creator>
  <description><![CDATA['Grand Lady' is right!  Think how much more awful I'd be without her civilizing influence.  My ambition is to grow up someday to be more like her.  Even though it probably won't work, because old ways die hard.  But it's always good to have a high mark to aim for.
.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2012 16:39:07 UT</pubDate>
  <title>Weather</title>
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  <dc:creator>FreeIreland</dc:creator>
  <description><![CDATA[Odds are the weather's cooperating for the wedding -probably quite a few going on today.  

But since the whole world's about me anyway, I decided to have fun as well.  Our afternoons are climbing into the 80's lately but the mornings so far have been cool and breezy.  Even though one of my poor  dogs stayed wakeful all night and I didn't get much sleep, I went out at 8:30 a.m. and completely did my 15'x15' backyard raised rose/strawberry garden.  Took me over 2 hours, but I staggered back in crowing with glee because I could still do it.  Time will come before too many years when I can't, so I enjoy it now.

I raise everything organic, y'know.  Even the rose petals and hips are edible.  About 3 years ago I started that garden with 7 tiny bushes which reach at least 6 feet apiece now, and they love all the leaf mulch I kept dumping in there. Pretty soon I threw in some everbearing strawberries to fight it out with the creeping charlie.  

I know it sounds mad, but my system works.  The strawberries are a match for the charlie, and I only need to pull the latter about twice a year.  It comes up easily when you thoroughly soak the ground the night before.  I started yesterday when I walked by and saw a lot of ripe berries waving at me in plain sight.  Probably gobbled a dozen or more; certainly never made it back in the house with any.  

Then today I ate at least a dozen again before getting a grip and picking a huge bunch to bring in.  You wouldn't believe how many strawberry babies are waiting to grow a few more weeks.  The roses always bloom well before berry season starts, so I severely prune them just before the first picking and weeding to keep from getting stabbed to death.  It's more than enough work for one old lady.  But life is still good.
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  <pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2012 11:42:39 UT</pubDate>
  <title>WHAT IS EVERYONE READING?</title>
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  <dc:creator>spinner (SPINNERDUDE)</dc:creator>
  <description><![CDATA[Harvey..I just finished The Informant this morning and it was a thriller..especially toward the end. Lots of killing, since the lead character is a supposedly retired hit man for the Mafia. Have you read Thomas Perry? If not, I think you'd probably like him.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2012 11:12:19 UT</pubDate>
  <title>Psychology, Monkeys, and Congress</title>
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  <dc:creator>Steveb</dc:creator>
  <description><![CDATA[This was sent to me as a joke but it has such a strong measure of truth I put it here.


If you start with a cage containing five monkeys and inside the cage, hang a banana on a string from the top and then you place a set of stairs under the banana, before long a monkey will go to the stairs and climb toward the banana. 
As soon as he touches the stairs, you spray all the other monkeys with cold water. 
After a while another monkey makes an attempt with same result ... all the other monkeys are sprayed with cold water. Pretty soon when another monkey tries to climb the stairs, the other monkeys will try to prevent it.
Now, put the cold water away.
Remove one monkey from the cage and replace it with a new one. 
The new monkey sees the banana and attempts to climb the stairs. To his shock, all of the other monkeys beat the crap out of him. After another attempt and attack, he knows that if he tries to climb the stairs he will be assaulted. 
Next, remove another of the original five monkeys, replacing it with a new one. 
The newcomer goes to the stairs and is attacked. The previous newcomer takes part in the punishment...... with enthusiasm. 
Then, replace a third original monkey with a new one, followed by the fourth, then the fifth. Every time the newest monkey takes to the stairs he is attacked. 
Now, the monkeys that are beating him up have no idea why they were not permitted to climb the stairs. 
Neither do they know why they are participating in the beating of the newest monkey. 
Finally, having replaced all of the original monkeys, none of the remaining monkeys will have ever been sprayed with cold water. 
Nevertheless, not one of the monkeys will try to climb the stairway for the banana. 
Why, you ask? Because in their minds...that is the way it has always been!
This, my friends, is how Congress operates... and this is why, from time to time: 
ALL of the monkeys need to be REPLACED AT THE SAME TIME.
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  <pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2012 09:51:29 UT</pubDate>
  <title>Donations to Scott Walker, Potential fraud</title>
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  <dc:creator>Steveb</dc:creator>
  <description><![CDATA[As long as we have the electoral circus that has developed since the early 60s we'll have this kind of thing.  The perceived necessity to conduct long campaigns with millions of dollars spent on TV advertising has spawned some of the worst abuse possible.  We can already see our predictions concerning Citizens' United coming to pass.  Since it's not in the congress's interests to reform campaigning, we'll see no improvements, and probably more fraud in the future.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2012 07:16:02 UT</pubDate>
  <title>SIMPLE TRUTHS</title>
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  <dc:creator>Sibyl (SIBYLMK)</dc:creator>
  <description><![CDATA[Thanks Charmin-Dolores, that was a humdinger.  =))  Am up kind of late tonight because I lay down after the news and ended up sleeping over two hours.  But I better get to bed and that was a good way to end the evening.

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  <pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2012 07:03:42 UT</pubDate>
  <title>Craig's List Ad</title>
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  <dc:creator>Sibyl (SIBYLMK)</dc:creator>
  <description><![CDATA[Good grief Charmin-Dolores could that actually be true?!!  It has to be a joke or an excellent lesson to be taken very seriously.  That Marine sure thought of everything if it really is a true story.  LOL  Thanks!!

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  <pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2012 05:22:03 UT</pubDate>
  <title>PROTESTORS ---</title>
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  <dc:creator>Bruce (SEABEEWWII)</dc:creator>
  <description><![CDATA[The 99% serving in Chicago right now right message.
&#34;Tom Morello Sings 'Union Song' at National 
Nurses Rally to Heal America and Tax Wall 
Street at Counter-NATO Summit in Chicago

 &#34;For the fired auto workers who were twisted, tricked and robbed / To the 
peasant in Guatemala in a sweatshop got your job / And she can't feed 
her family on the pennies that she makes / Meanwhile the crime 
rate's rising up and down the Great Lake states&#34;
 

http://youtu.be/TaA_e1jUwVY]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 23:23:50 UT</pubDate>
  <title>Donna Summers died, age 63</title>
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  <dc:creator>Charmin (DOLORESW)</dc:creator>
  <description><![CDATA[Big Brother it is.............]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 22:10:58 UT</pubDate>
  <title>The Casualty Count?</title>
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  <dc:creator>Bruce (SEABEEWWII)</dc:creator>
  <description><![CDATA[Jan this is an intelligent discussion of just what our riska are and how we let the fearmongers cause us to waste much of our resources needlessly.

http://youtu.be/-Y9DtZkpOpA]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 21:49:05 UT</pubDate>
  <title>Fuel Efficient Cars Not Allowed in US?</title>
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  <dc:creator>don65078</dc:creator>
  <description><![CDATA[Yes, I have looked at the Volt.  The dealer where we bought our car, WK Chevrolet, in Sedalia, MO., has one, and we looked at it a couple of weeks ago.  It gets infinite gas mileage while on the battery...which will take it between 25 to 50 miles, before the gas engine kicks in.    Once running with the gas engine, it averages slightly over 30MPG.  The gas engine actually does hook up to the drive train so as to give the car highway speeds of up to 100mph.  It's a neat concept, and I'm sure that this technology will eventually catch on....but WK has had this thing sitting on the lot for over 2 months, and so far no takers.  The salesman did offer us a pretty good deal, and with the federal tax credit of $7500, it was tempting, and we are still thinking about it.  

http://www.edmunds.com/chevrolet/volt/2012/?sub=hatchback#fullreview]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 20:35:55 UT</pubDate>
  <title>A SENATOR FIGHTS BACK</title>
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  <dc:creator>Charmin (DOLORESW)</dc:creator>
  <description><![CDATA[I haven't worn a dress in so long I don't even know if I have one that still fits.  LOL

I'm like Hillary; when I dress up I wear a nice pants suit!]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 20:32:59 UT</pubDate>
  <title>Presidential Candidates</title>
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  <dc:creator>harvey1941</dc:creator>
  <description><![CDATA[Hadn't checked his record yet.  But rest assured he will get reminded.  Consider that Langley Research Center (the birth place of NASA) and Wallops Island launch center are both in Virginia, geez.

Trust me, we will talk!]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 20:09:32 UT</pubDate>
  <title>GOP supports big oil? Yeppers</title>
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  <dc:creator>Charmin (DOLORESW)</dc:creator>
  <description><![CDATA[all termites eventually come out of the woodwork....LOL]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 19:10:44 UT</pubDate>
  <title>Congressional Tattoos</title>
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  <dc:creator>Steveb</dc:creator>
  <description><![CDATA[I had quite a time just before I got out of the army.  I worked for the worst Lt in the entire armed forces.  Well I used a deuce and a half to move a load of stuff from one apartment to another down the street.  The Lt found out and filed a Field Grade art 15 against me.  When I talked to the Col I told him that I was the crew chief in charge of that truck and felt that I was justified in using it.  He asked what I would do if one of my people needed it.  I told him that I would drive the truck and help my troop with the move!  Next I saw of that was a five day forfeiture of pay, suspended for five days!  I had no problem behaving for those 5 days as you can imagine, and I made enough copies to distribute to the LT, NCOIC, and his newly promoted E6 buddy, the group I called the drunk coalition.   They were fit to be tied, since they hoped that a Field Grade would cost me a stripe.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 16:12:27 UT</pubDate>
  <title>Bubbas, Bud and Bullets</title>
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  <dc:creator>FreeIreland</dc:creator>
  <description><![CDATA[You pays your money and you takes your chances.  In other words, take reasonable precautions but don't hide under the bed.
.]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 10:41:00 UT</pubDate>
  <title>OCCUPY--on JOBS</title>
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  <dc:creator>JAN (JANICE)</dc:creator>
  <description><![CDATA[quote: He would not recognize any of his family, and pushed everyone away from his old life.  Now that he was rich, he didn't like being around poor.  Ignored the fact that his parents worked their tails off to provide a roof and food.

With his new status he's afraid people might not be so impressed if they were reminded that  he is not a true aristocrat ?      It's his loss ...because those people that knew him before he was rich may be the ones he could always count on to be there for him emotionally anyway.       ]]></description>
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