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		<title>By: djemi</title>
		<link>http://www.redstate.com/gamecock/2009/03/30/susannahs/comment-page-1/#comment-4212</link>
		<dc:creator>djemi</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 12:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Susannah</title>
		<link>http://www.redstate.com/gamecock/2009/03/30/susannahs/comment-page-1/#comment-4204</link>
		<dc:creator>Susannah</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 01:27:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You won&#039;t be the only adult there--I&#039;ll definitely be there.  I just loved that book.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You won&#8217;t be the only adult there&#8211;I&#8217;ll definitely be there.  I just loved that book.</p>
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		<title>By: Kate_Shanahan</title>
		<link>http://www.redstate.com/gamecock/2009/03/30/susannahs/comment-page-1/#comment-4203</link>
		<dc:creator>Kate_Shanahan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 01:23:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>From what I&#039;ve seen, the warriors are a wimpy lot.  I&#039;m more comfortable with Reagan Democrats, or people like Evan Bayh and and couple of other Indiana politicians, or Sam Nunn, Zell Miller.  That&#039;s the kind of Republican value system that needs to be revived.  

I  realize the 2010 elections are important, but rebuilding the conservative movement and attracting people who are good street fighters, who aren&#039;t afraid of what their friends or the country club will think of them is more important in a fight like this.  This is no longer simple electioneering.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>From what I&#8217;ve seen, the warriors are a wimpy lot.  I&#8217;m more comfortable with Reagan Democrats, or people like Evan Bayh and and couple of other Indiana politicians, or Sam Nunn, Zell Miller.  That&#8217;s the kind of Republican value system that needs to be revived.  </p>
<p>I  realize the 2010 elections are important, but rebuilding the conservative movement and attracting people who are good street fighters, who aren&#8217;t afraid of what their friends or the country club will think of them is more important in a fight like this.  This is no longer simple electioneering.</p>
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		<title>By: Kate_Shanahan</title>
		<link>http://www.redstate.com/gamecock/2009/03/30/susannahs/comment-page-1/#comment-4202</link>
		<dc:creator>Kate_Shanahan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 01:13:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I can&#039;t wait.  I read the book to my kids incessantly.  Funny how some things trigger a soaring feeling.

I&#039;ll probably be the oldest person at the movie.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I can&#8217;t wait.  I read the book to my kids incessantly.  Funny how some things trigger a soaring feeling.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ll probably be the oldest person at the movie.</p>
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		<title>By: Susannah</title>
		<link>http://www.redstate.com/gamecock/2009/03/30/susannahs/comment-page-1/#comment-4201</link>
		<dc:creator>Susannah</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 00:53:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;m glad that you like it.  :-)</description>
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		<title>By: Mike gamecock DeVine</title>
		<link>http://www.redstate.com/gamecock/2009/03/30/susannahs/comment-page-1/#comment-4198</link>
		<dc:creator>Mike gamecock DeVine</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 00:43:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>unless they use profanity</description>
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		<title>By: Susannah</title>
		<link>http://www.redstate.com/gamecock/2009/03/30/susannahs/comment-page-1/#comment-4196</link>
		<dc:creator>Susannah</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 23:38:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Since this is a semi-open thread, I thought that people might find this interesting.  It is the trailer to &quot;Where the Wild Things Are&quot;.  It looks like a cool movie.  I loved the book as a child.  I posted this trailer in the comments section of my open thread on The Minority Report the other day, but I thought that some of you here might be interested in seeing it as well.

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OK--we can now go back to discussing cigarrette bans and the Mexican drug war.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Since this is a semi-open thread, I thought that people might find this interesting.  It is the trailer to &#8220;Where the Wild Things Are&#8221;.  It looks like a cool movie.  I loved the book as a child.  I posted this trailer in the comments section of my open thread on The Minority Report the other day, but I thought that some of you here might be interested in seeing it as well.</p>
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<p>OK&#8211;we can now go back to discussing cigarrette bans and the Mexican drug war.</p>
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		<title>By: djemi</title>
		<link>http://www.redstate.com/gamecock/2009/03/30/susannahs/comment-page-1/#comment-4194</link>
		<dc:creator>djemi</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:38:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200903u/netanyahu

But I have to say I&#039;m not surprised</description>
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<p>But I have to say I&#8217;m not surprised</p>
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		<title>By: batmasters0n</title>
		<link>http://www.redstate.com/gamecock/2009/03/30/susannahs/comment-page-1/#comment-4193</link>
		<dc:creator>batmasters0n</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 21:42:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Drug cartels can afford any type of advanced weaponry they choose American , Russian , French , Israeli whatever one cartel guy made Forbes list now it&#039;s absurd to even consider the dope kingpin not being able to get any armament on earth with that much cash

 in JAcksons own article LINK below he mentions UZIS and AK47 neither of which are American made.

They think violence and drugs will evaporate if we hand in our guns to uncle sam the left mentality on guns is almost childlike



Big guns making drug war tougher

http://www.suntimes.com/news/jackson/1502974,CST-EDT-jesse31.article</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Drug cartels can afford any type of advanced weaponry they choose American , Russian , French , Israeli whatever one cartel guy made Forbes list now it&#8217;s absurd to even consider the dope kingpin not being able to get any armament on earth with that much cash</p>
<p> in JAcksons own article LINK below he mentions UZIS and AK47 neither of which are American made.</p>
<p>They think violence and drugs will evaporate if we hand in our guns to uncle sam the left mentality on guns is almost childlike</p>
<p>Big guns making drug war tougher</p>
<p>http://www.suntimes.com/news/jackson/1502974,CST-EDT-jesse31.article</p>
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		<title>By: Susannah</title>
		<link>http://www.redstate.com/gamecock/2009/03/30/susannahs/comment-page-1/#comment-4192</link>
		<dc:creator>Susannah</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 21:17:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>....while out in college, but, then again,  I&#039;m pretty short (around 5&#039;3).  

I remember one time at a football game when I was in college, there was this guy with our group of friends (I didn&#039;t know him--he was a friend of a friend).  Well, he got drunk and burned some small child in the face accidentally with his cigarette.  Needless to say, the kid&#039;s dad was pissed and we had to run out of there in a hurry.  To say that I was not entertained with that dufus would be the understatement of the century.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8230;.while out in college, but, then again,  I&#8217;m pretty short (around 5&#8217;3).  </p>
<p>I remember one time at a football game when I was in college, there was this guy with our group of friends (I didn&#8217;t know him&#8211;he was a friend of a friend).  Well, he got drunk and burned some small child in the face accidentally with his cigarette.  Needless to say, the kid&#8217;s dad was pissed and we had to run out of there in a hurry.  To say that I was not entertained with that dufus would be the understatement of the century.</p>
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		<title>By: Gyorc Nacain</title>
		<link>http://www.redstate.com/gamecock/2009/03/30/susannahs/comment-page-1/#comment-4191</link>
		<dc:creator>Gyorc Nacain</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 21:06:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>...apparently, smoking on the street is illegal in Tokyo.  Not due to health reasons, but because the streets are crowded enough that people being burned by careless people throwing away butts is a problem.  Especially for children, who are less likely to be seen, and more likely to be burned in the face (shudder) due to their low height.

Then again, this might be an urban legend or something.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8230;apparently, smoking on the street is illegal in Tokyo.  Not due to health reasons, but because the streets are crowded enough that people being burned by careless people throwing away butts is a problem.  Especially for children, who are less likely to be seen, and more likely to be burned in the face (shudder) due to their low height.</p>
<p>Then again, this might be an urban legend or something.</p>
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		<title>By: Gyorc Nacain</title>
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		<dc:creator>Gyorc Nacain</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 21:03:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I agree that the reason &quot;sin taxes&quot; are passed is because it is easy.  Same way places have tourism taxes of various sorts - it doesn&#039;t affect the people who actually vote for them.  But it doesn&#039;t make them wrong.  I think most Economists would agree that taxing cigarettes lowers their use...in an extreme example, if you taxed them until they cost $2 million then nobody would buy them.  It may not have a huge effect, but it has one.  And I think there is a justification in having such a tax.  They strain health care resources, and are annoying/harmful to people in the vicinity, when they&#039;re on public space, and etc.  I mean, for example you can believe in freedom and also believe there should be laws to keep some guy from opening up a toxic waste dump next to your house.  Same idea here, but less so.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I agree that the reason &#8220;sin taxes&#8221; are passed is because it is easy.  Same way places have tourism taxes of various sorts &#8211; it doesn&#8217;t affect the people who actually vote for them.  But it doesn&#8217;t make them wrong.  I think most Economists would agree that taxing cigarettes lowers their use&#8230;in an extreme example, if you taxed them until they cost $2 million then nobody would buy them.  It may not have a huge effect, but it has one.  And I think there is a justification in having such a tax.  They strain health care resources, and are annoying/harmful to people in the vicinity, when they&#8217;re on public space, and etc.  I mean, for example you can believe in freedom and also believe there should be laws to keep some guy from opening up a toxic waste dump next to your house.  Same idea here, but less so.</p>
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		<title>By: Susannah</title>
		<link>http://www.redstate.com/gamecock/2009/03/30/susannahs/comment-page-1/#comment-4189</link>
		<dc:creator>Susannah</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 20:18:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;m with Huckabee and Brownback on this one--in other words, I&#039;m for them.  And, not because I am a future doctor, but because of my own rights as a patient with severe allergies to cigarette smoke (I have allergies to dust, pollen, smoke and must use a nasal steroid spray at night and take Allegra during the day).  If I go into a restaurant with people smoking, I, literally, have to leave because my eyes will water, my nose will become extremely congested, I will get a bad headache, I will cough, have trouble breathing, and just be all around miserable.  One time, when I was in a smokey Mexican restaurant during Happy Hour, I had to go to the ER, because I had an asthma-like reaction where I couldn&#039;t breathe (I don&#039;t actually have asthma, though, because that&#039;s the only time where I actually wheezed and experienced chest tightness due to smoke--that place was so smokey that it was like a fog).

Oh, and on a side note, I was at a Halloween party one year that was held in a bar where I dressed up like Elvira (it was a rented costume).  Well then, some drunken idiot burned a whole in my costume with his cigarette (and burned me as well), so I wound up having to Elvira every year for the next ten years for Halloween, because I had to buy the stupid costume (due to the damage done by the idiot&#039;s cigarette).

Oh, and not to mention, every time that I where a nice outfit out to an establishment that allows smoking (which I try to avoid, if at all possible), I ALWAYS have to get it dry-cleaned the next day (because the outfit stinks of cigarette smoke).  And, the offending smoker who got my new outfit smelly in the first place is never around to pay my cleaning bill.

So, in conclusion, I don&#039;t think that I should be forced to undergo a painful allergy attack (or worse, that an asthmatic child should have to undergo an asthma attack and wind up in the hospital), or have to be Elvira every year for Halloween, all because some irresponsible jerk can&#039;t take personal responsibility and  go outside to smoke his cigarette.  Being considerate of others should be a conservative talking point, in my humble opinion.

OK, now, I have to go study.  Great debate, though.  :-)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m with Huckabee and Brownback on this one&#8211;in other words, I&#8217;m for them.  And, not because I am a future doctor, but because of my own rights as a patient with severe allergies to cigarette smoke (I have allergies to dust, pollen, smoke and must use a nasal steroid spray at night and take Allegra during the day).  If I go into a restaurant with people smoking, I, literally, have to leave because my eyes will water, my nose will become extremely congested, I will get a bad headache, I will cough, have trouble breathing, and just be all around miserable.  One time, when I was in a smokey Mexican restaurant during Happy Hour, I had to go to the ER, because I had an asthma-like reaction where I couldn&#8217;t breathe (I don&#8217;t actually have asthma, though, because that&#8217;s the only time where I actually wheezed and experienced chest tightness due to smoke&#8211;that place was so smokey that it was like a fog).</p>
<p>Oh, and on a side note, I was at a Halloween party one year that was held in a bar where I dressed up like Elvira (it was a rented costume).  Well then, some drunken idiot burned a whole in my costume with his cigarette (and burned me as well), so I wound up having to Elvira every year for the next ten years for Halloween, because I had to buy the stupid costume (due to the damage done by the idiot&#8217;s cigarette).</p>
<p>Oh, and not to mention, every time that I where a nice outfit out to an establishment that allows smoking (which I try to avoid, if at all possible), I ALWAYS have to get it dry-cleaned the next day (because the outfit stinks of cigarette smoke).  And, the offending smoker who got my new outfit smelly in the first place is never around to pay my cleaning bill.</p>
<p>So, in conclusion, I don&#8217;t think that I should be forced to undergo a painful allergy attack (or worse, that an asthmatic child should have to undergo an asthma attack and wind up in the hospital), or have to be Elvira every year for Halloween, all because some irresponsible jerk can&#8217;t take personal responsibility and  go outside to smoke his cigarette.  Being considerate of others should be a conservative talking point, in my humble opinion.</p>
<p>OK, now, I have to go study.  Great debate, though.  <img src='http://www.redstate.com/gamecock/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: Mike gamecock DeVine</title>
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		<dc:creator>Mike gamecock DeVine</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 19:47:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Susannah</title>
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		<dc:creator>Susannah</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 19:45:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I was what you&#039;d call a moderate/&quot;Hillary&quot; Democrat.  I guess (to quote Gamecock), I had sort of a &quot;conservative epiphany&quot; during the last election (brought about, in a large part, by the tactics of the far-left)--although I&#039;m probably still not as conservative a lot of the people on RS are.  However, that&#039;s OK--RS is a big-tent and we have a kinds here.  Anyway, I hope that answers your question.  :-)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I was what you&#8217;d call a moderate/&#8221;Hillary&#8221; Democrat.  I guess (to quote Gamecock), I had sort of a &#8220;conservative epiphany&#8221; during the last election (brought about, in a large part, by the tactics of the far-left)&#8211;although I&#8217;m probably still not as conservative a lot of the people on RS are.  However, that&#8217;s OK&#8211;RS is a big-tent and we have a kinds here.  Anyway, I hope that answers your question.  <img src='http://www.redstate.com/gamecock/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: Alberta</title>
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		<dc:creator>Alberta</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:15:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I think its that simple. Our culture allows people the ability to never grow up; Our institutions have been hijacked, and now they try to make Daddy Government seem like a natural condition. Responsibility has been made vile. 

Do you know any adults, anybody with the &#039;ancient&#039; notions of Responsibility, Duty, Honour, who agree or believe in the hosts of phantoms and phantasmagories that make up the lefts ideas?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think its that simple. Our culture allows people the ability to never grow up; Our institutions have been hijacked, and now they try to make Daddy Government seem like a natural condition. Responsibility has been made vile. </p>
<p>Do you know any adults, anybody with the &#8216;ancient&#8217; notions of Responsibility, Duty, Honour, who agree or believe in the hosts of phantoms and phantasmagories that make up the lefts ideas?</p>
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		<title>By: Mike gamecock DeVine</title>
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		<dc:creator>Mike gamecock DeVine</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:12:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>http://www.examiner.com/x-1597-Charlotte-Law--Politics-Examiner~topic43192-tobacco?selstate=allcat</description>
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		<title>By: Mike gamecock DeVine</title>
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		<dc:creator>Mike gamecock DeVine</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:11:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I haven&#039;t smoked a cigarette in 28 years.

see prior column below

main points
private property rights and if this was about health, advocates would be for masks for waiters

You make good points on the drug war</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I haven&#8217;t smoked a cigarette in 28 years.</p>
<p>see prior column below</p>
<p>main points<br />
private property rights and if this was about health, advocates would be for masks for waiters</p>
<p>You make good points on the drug war</p>
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		<title>By: Steph C</title>
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		<dc:creator>Steph C</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 14:52:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>decides what sin is. God said, all things in moderation, as did Christ when he enumerated the 10 commandments as the only real law. 

Indeed, the governments around the world now encourage a breaking of the 10 commandments rather than adherence, simply for the money and power it brings to that centralized body. We asuage our sins through taxes much as a Catholic goes to confession to be forgiven. Just as there are Catholics who abuse that system to absolve themselves of their most heinous deeds, there are those who will pay any amount of taxes to assuage their guilt in the Protestant parts of the world.

I know it&#039;s not a popular way of looking at things but I could care less about alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs; whether they should be outlawed. That being said, they should never ever be used as an excuse for breaking one of the 10 commandments, thereby lightening the sentencing should someone be harmed because of another&#039;s usage of any of it. The people doing the harm chose to do these other things in excess to a degree that harm was caused. 

Everything in your list of issues can be brought back to the 10 commandments, even the stem cell research, if you think about it.

I&#039;m waiting for one of you awesome writers to make the argument that we must resist this taxation of everything in order to save government from the deadly sins of greed, envy, and gluttony... well, probably the whole litany of the 7 deadly sins but you get the idea.</description>
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<p>Indeed, the governments around the world now encourage a breaking of the 10 commandments rather than adherence, simply for the money and power it brings to that centralized body. We asuage our sins through taxes much as a Catholic goes to confession to be forgiven. Just as there are Catholics who abuse that system to absolve themselves of their most heinous deeds, there are those who will pay any amount of taxes to assuage their guilt in the Protestant parts of the world.</p>
<p>I know it&#8217;s not a popular way of looking at things but I could care less about alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs; whether they should be outlawed. That being said, they should never ever be used as an excuse for breaking one of the 10 commandments, thereby lightening the sentencing should someone be harmed because of another&#8217;s usage of any of it. The people doing the harm chose to do these other things in excess to a degree that harm was caused. </p>
<p>Everything in your list of issues can be brought back to the 10 commandments, even the stem cell research, if you think about it.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m waiting for one of you awesome writers to make the argument that we must resist this taxation of everything in order to save government from the deadly sins of greed, envy, and gluttony&#8230; well, probably the whole litany of the 7 deadly sins but you get the idea.</p>
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		<title>By: Mike gamecock DeVine</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 14:17:47 +0000</pubDate>
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