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		<title>Comment on Crashing Sound of Shattered Dreams As Another Small Business Bites the Dust by swampie</title>
		<link>http://swampie.wordpress.com/2009/11/18/crashing-sound-of-shattered-dreams-as-another-small-business-bites-the-dust/#comment-5432</link>
		<dc:creator>swampie</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 03:31:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Heh.  Vacuum packing them into smaller containers.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Heh.  Vacuum packing them into smaller containers.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Crashing Sound of Shattered Dreams As Another Small Business Bites the Dust by Paco</title>
		<link>http://swampie.wordpress.com/2009/11/18/crashing-sound-of-shattered-dreams-as-another-small-business-bites-the-dust/#comment-5431</link>
		<dc:creator>Paco</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 03:25:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>50-pound bags of sugar and rice? What are you doing, running a saki still?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>50-pound bags of sugar and rice? What are you doing, running a saki still?</p>
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		<title>Comment on Some Questions That Somebody SHOULD Be Asking Obama by Robert D</title>
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		<dc:creator>Robert D</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:19:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>swampie, did you notice NBC pulled the video? Guess it was too close to the truth for them. President Thin-Skin must have got his feelings hurt again.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>swampie, did you notice NBC pulled the video? Guess it was too close to the truth for them. President Thin-Skin must have got his feelings hurt again.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Parents File Lawsuit Against State of Florida Schools by swampie</title>
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		<dc:creator>swampie</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:11:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>True, true.  Reminiscent of Robert Heinlein:

&lt;blockquote&gt;A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Apparently we&#039;re just a bunch of insects now.  Only people with &quot;journalism degrees&quot; can interpret the events of the day for the yokels who might otherwise be tempted to draw quite different conclusions based on the facts (so the facts must be omitted or edited).  Only people with MBAs can run a business (into the ground). Alleged &quot;scientists&quot; take hundreds of millions of dollars in &quot;grants&quot; to &quot;prove&quot; global warming by falsifying data when anybody that actually goes outside and checks a thermometer (or grows oranges) would know it&#039;s bullshit.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>True, true.  Reminiscent of Robert Heinlein:</p>
<blockquote><p>A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.</p></blockquote>
<p>Apparently we&#8217;re just a bunch of insects now.  Only people with &#8220;journalism degrees&#8221; can interpret the events of the day for the yokels who might otherwise be tempted to draw quite different conclusions based on the facts (so the facts must be omitted or edited).  Only people with MBAs can run a business (into the ground). Alleged &#8220;scientists&#8221; take hundreds of millions of dollars in &#8220;grants&#8221; to &#8220;prove&#8221; global warming by falsifying data when anybody that actually goes outside and checks a thermometer (or grows oranges) would know it&#8217;s bullshit.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Parents File Lawsuit Against State of Florida Schools by Dr Patricia Porter</title>
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		<dc:creator>Dr Patricia Porter</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:36:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I just HATE it when legal issues get in the way of good educational practice!  You can&#039;t legislate for learning, all you can legislate for is teaching and it seems to e that these children get he same teaching.

There may be an issue with different learning styles and I do believe that it is the teacher&#039;s responsibility to meet all learning styles.  But now, more than ever, i believe in the power of parents to help their children learn and succeed in school.

Over the years teachers have disempowered parents and parents have let them.  The result - parents who expect the school system to fix all problems and teachers who are overworked and defensive.  A recipe for disaster - ad that is what i think is happening to education. - a disaster is in progress.

Here, in Canada, we have a parent getting a legal agreement with a school about not giving his child any homework, a LEGAL agreement! Since when did parents and teachers start to be on different sides?

Time to start working together  for the sake of the kids, before it is way too late.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I just HATE it when legal issues get in the way of good educational practice!  You can&#8217;t legislate for learning, all you can legislate for is teaching and it seems to e that these children get he same teaching.</p>
<p>There may be an issue with different learning styles and I do believe that it is the teacher&#8217;s responsibility to meet all learning styles.  But now, more than ever, i believe in the power of parents to help their children learn and succeed in school.</p>
<p>Over the years teachers have disempowered parents and parents have let them.  The result &#8211; parents who expect the school system to fix all problems and teachers who are overworked and defensive.  A recipe for disaster &#8211; ad that is what i think is happening to education. &#8211; a disaster is in progress.</p>
<p>Here, in Canada, we have a parent getting a legal agreement with a school about not giving his child any homework, a LEGAL agreement! Since when did parents and teachers start to be on different sides?</p>
<p>Time to start working together  for the sake of the kids, before it is way too late.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Parents File Lawsuit Against State of Florida Schools by kcduffy</title>
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		<dc:creator>kcduffy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:13:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It seems to me that too many Americans are victims of specialization. By this, I mean they believe only certain people, who have special training and certifications and advanced degrees from Institutions of Higher Learning can teach the crumb-crunchers and yard apes to read, write, and do some simple arithmetic. 

I&#039;d like to feel more sorry for this woman and her little flock than I do. She&#039;s obviously under the impression - reinforced by Reverend Al, Jesse, Corinne, and many other Community Organizers in many other communities - that she and her charges are purposely excluded from the same wonderful teaching that goes on in the &#039;rich&#039; communities. Not having been to a &#039;rich&#039; school, but still having learned my colours and letters and numbers before I was 4, and how to read and do &#039;rithmetic in 1st grade (no kindergarten in a one-room school, ten kids in grades 1-6), I can&#039;t speak to this woman&#039;s exact experience.

What I do know is this - in small towns all over America, children of every race and religion get taught out of the same textbooks by the same teachers. Guess what the dividing line is between those who drop out and fail and those who go on to more adult purposes? You know it - it&#039;s what kind of people they have AT HOME.

She&#039;s perpetuating the exact thing that put her and her little ones in this situation in the first place - the idea that they&#039;re different and less capable and it&#039;s someone else&#039;s fault. 

Bull, Lady. God gave you a brain, use it for the good of those children you &quot;guard.&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It seems to me that too many Americans are victims of specialization. By this, I mean they believe only certain people, who have special training and certifications and advanced degrees from Institutions of Higher Learning can teach the crumb-crunchers and yard apes to read, write, and do some simple arithmetic. </p>
<p>I&#8217;d like to feel more sorry for this woman and her little flock than I do. She&#8217;s obviously under the impression &#8211; reinforced by Reverend Al, Jesse, Corinne, and many other Community Organizers in many other communities &#8211; that she and her charges are purposely excluded from the same wonderful teaching that goes on in the &#8216;rich&#8217; communities. Not having been to a &#8216;rich&#8217; school, but still having learned my colours and letters and numbers before I was 4, and how to read and do &#8216;rithmetic in 1st grade (no kindergarten in a one-room school, ten kids in grades 1-6), I can&#8217;t speak to this woman&#8217;s exact experience.</p>
<p>What I do know is this &#8211; in small towns all over America, children of every race and religion get taught out of the same textbooks by the same teachers. Guess what the dividing line is between those who drop out and fail and those who go on to more adult purposes? You know it &#8211; it&#8217;s what kind of people they have AT HOME.</p>
<p>She&#8217;s perpetuating the exact thing that put her and her little ones in this situation in the first place &#8211; the idea that they&#8217;re different and less capable and it&#8217;s someone else&#8217;s fault. </p>
<p>Bull, Lady. God gave you a brain, use it for the good of those children you &#8220;guard.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>Comment on Crashing Sound of Shattered Dreams As Another Small Business Bites the Dust by SwampWoman</title>
		<link>http://swampie.wordpress.com/2009/11/18/crashing-sound-of-shattered-dreams-as-another-small-business-bites-the-dust/#comment-5424</link>
		<dc:creator>SwampWoman</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:18:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Yep, I agree.  The Plantation on Amelia Island filed for bankruptcy.  Lots of shopping centers here have had tenants folding and no new ones to replace them.  Whoever is holding the paper on those is going to lose a lot of money unless this thing turns around very fast, and I don&#039;t see that happening with Obama, the Congress, and the Senate having declared war on business.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yep, I agree.  The Plantation on Amelia Island filed for bankruptcy.  Lots of shopping centers here have had tenants folding and no new ones to replace them.  Whoever is holding the paper on those is going to lose a lot of money unless this thing turns around very fast, and I don&#8217;t see that happening with Obama, the Congress, and the Senate having declared war on business.</p>
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		<title>Comment on More Illegal Immigrants Choose to Leave U.S., Go Home by kathy</title>
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		<dc:creator>kathy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:35:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Businesses that hire illegals should be closed perminently!!! and the business owners should be forced to pay for every thing the illegals have stolen in taxes and lost wages that should have gone to American tax payers that are jobless!!!!  

America is based on revolution to uphold our constitution and belief system.  We are the reason this country is great.  We set up the system for prosperity.  NO foreigner or foreign nation has done this,  NONE at all!!    WE the American people have done this through hard work.. We are immigrants BUT!!!  We became citizens first before ANYTHING!!!!!   And this sets us light years apart from the la raza and mecha scum that fight for illegal amnesty and the illegal ideology. 

Being an American Citizen is a privilege and an honor..  Assimilation into the American culture is a privilege and an honor..   Hanging on to a country that enslaved and burdened the people that came here is fools gold, purely stupid and moronic.  Where ever this illegal ideology of la raza\mecha came from is totally non American and extremly racist against the white majority of this country.   We are at war with these leaches.   They work for cash, sell drugs on the side after work, steal, rob and rape, drive drunk and traffic other illegals to undermine and destroy this country..  All of this is FACTUAL!!!!   The crimes against Americans by illegals is staggering..  19,000 Americans are killed every year by illegal mexican invaders, check your FBI and Police reports, it doesn&#039;t take much research.  

The hispanic caucus is at war with America as well.  They do not care about America, they only care about illegal labor dollars that fill their coffers..  We should vote out all members of la raza in government and education to stop the poison  and never allow them to hold any public office in this country PERIOD!!!   If they have an illegal agenda they should be considered military enemies of the US and arrested immediately!!  This means you Louis Gutierrez of Illinois!!  You have turned the south side of chicago into a illegal\gang infested war zone..   Thanks for tanking my property values into the toilet..   You are a criminal and so is your father for the illegal ID scandal at back of the yards..   I don&#039;t know how you got away with blaming a mexican gang for the ID scam but all of us that were on the ground in chicago at the time in the 80&#039;s and 90&#039;s know for a fact it was you and your father.

You bastard!!!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Businesses that hire illegals should be closed perminently!!! and the business owners should be forced to pay for every thing the illegals have stolen in taxes and lost wages that should have gone to American tax payers that are jobless!!!!  </p>
<p>America is based on revolution to uphold our constitution and belief system.  We are the reason this country is great.  We set up the system for prosperity.  NO foreigner or foreign nation has done this,  NONE at all!!    WE the American people have done this through hard work.. We are immigrants BUT!!!  We became citizens first before ANYTHING!!!!!   And this sets us light years apart from the la raza and mecha scum that fight for illegal amnesty and the illegal ideology. </p>
<p>Being an American Citizen is a privilege and an honor..  Assimilation into the American culture is a privilege and an honor..   Hanging on to a country that enslaved and burdened the people that came here is fools gold, purely stupid and moronic.  Where ever this illegal ideology of la raza\mecha came from is totally non American and extremly racist against the white majority of this country.   We are at war with these leaches.   They work for cash, sell drugs on the side after work, steal, rob and rape, drive drunk and traffic other illegals to undermine and destroy this country..  All of this is FACTUAL!!!!   The crimes against Americans by illegals is staggering..  19,000 Americans are killed every year by illegal mexican invaders, check your FBI and Police reports, it doesn&#8217;t take much research.  </p>
<p>The hispanic caucus is at war with America as well.  They do not care about America, they only care about illegal labor dollars that fill their coffers..  We should vote out all members of la raza in government and education to stop the poison  and never allow them to hold any public office in this country PERIOD!!!   If they have an illegal agenda they should be considered military enemies of the US and arrested immediately!!  This means you Louis Gutierrez of Illinois!!  You have turned the south side of chicago into a illegal\gang infested war zone..   Thanks for tanking my property values into the toilet..   You are a criminal and so is your father for the illegal ID scandal at back of the yards..   I don&#8217;t know how you got away with blaming a mexican gang for the ID scam but all of us that were on the ground in chicago at the time in the 80&#8217;s and 90&#8217;s know for a fact it was you and your father.</p>
<p>You bastard!!!</p>
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		<title>Comment on &#8220;Free&#8221; Groceries?  Not Hardly! by bonz</title>
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		<dc:creator>bonz</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:04:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>One of the reasons I moved south is frostbite never goes away. I used to spend 6 months a year with numb fingers and toes. Too cool to worry about frostbite when I worked outside when it was -17</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One of the reasons I moved south is frostbite never goes away. I used to spend 6 months a year with numb fingers and toes. Too cool to worry about frostbite when I worked outside when it was -17</p>
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		<title>Comment on Crashing Sound of Shattered Dreams As Another Small Business Bites the Dust by bonz</title>
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		<dc:creator>bonz</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Commercial real estate is next. We have malls that are empty. Found a sandwich shop I thought was great. Lasted 60 days.</description>
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