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	<pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 12:30:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Sullivan: What Brits think of Palin</title>
		<link>http://www.cloudsoup.com/weblog/2008/09/07/sullivan-what-brits-think-of-palin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 11:08:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Politics and Opinion]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA["Andrew Sullivan"]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Andrew Sullivan&#8217;s mad collapse continues. Today, he writes:

Here&#8217;s a fascinating glimpse into how the rest of the world is reacting to the Sarah Palin selection. It&#8217;s from a classic and peerless British weekly radio panel discussion show, called &#8220;Any Questions.&#8221;
Bea Campbell:
Let&#8217;s imagine that governor Palin was indeed a man. He wouldn&#8217;t be interesting. He&#8217;d be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama and Sweetie Palin</title>
		<link>http://www.cloudsoup.com/weblog/2008/09/07/obama-and-sweetie-palin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 00:54:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Politics and Opinion]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Obama sexist Palin 2008]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Back in May, visiting Allentown PA, Barack Obama called  WXYZ network reporter Peggy Agar, sweetie. Now, in a petulant response to Sarah Palin&#8217;s barnstorming speech at the RNC, he&#8217;s said that he assumes that
wants to be treated same way guys want to be treated, which means their records are under scrutinty

Excellent assumption there. Nobody [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s Left</title>
		<link>http://www.cloudsoup.com/weblog/2008/09/06/whats-left/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2008 19:32:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Politics and Opinion]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[election]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Palin]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[USA]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Where if you support Israel you are called anti-Semitic, where promoting sharia law means you support cultural diversity, where you attack a successful working mother and a pregnant teenage mother and you call yourself a feminist and where you degrade an infant with special needs and are convinced this means you care.

Ghost of a Flea, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Power off at the NYT</title>
		<link>http://www.cloudsoup.com/weblog/2008/09/06/power-off-at-the-nyt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2008 11:48:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Politics and Opinion]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[USA Election Palin NYT]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Draft one, as originally published:
the potential power of Ms. Palin&#8217;s electrifying speech
Draft two, as later revised without explanation:
the potential power of Ms. Palin&#8217;s speech
Must be bad at the New York Times. Apparently they have to ration their use of electricity
Ace of Spades, NYT Times Now Dowdifying Itself
]]></description>
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		<title>The difference</title>
		<link>http://www.cloudsoup.com/weblog/2008/09/05/the-difference/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 15:57:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Politics and Opinion]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA["Sarah Palin"]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[election]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Palin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[“What&#8217;s the difference between Sarah Palin and Barack Obama?”
“One is a well turned-out, good-looking, and let&#8217;s be honest, pretty sexy piece of eye-candy. The other kills her own food.” 

Notice, though, that the joke relies on the comparison being made between the Democratic Presidential nominee and the Republican Vice-Presidential nominee.
Well, exactly.
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		<title>Marta Andreasen</title>
		<link>http://www.cloudsoup.com/weblog/2008/09/05/marta-andreasen/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cloudsoup.com/weblog/2008/09/05/marta-andreasen/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 12:03:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Politics and Opinion]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From Tim Worstall, I see that Marta Adreasen is attempting to stand for election to the European Parliament.
If you&#8217;d like to know a little more about the disgraceful treatment by Europe of Marta Adreasen, start with her entry on Wikipedia.
]]></description>
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		<title>Andrew Sullivan&#8217;s Citizenship</title>
		<link>http://www.cloudsoup.com/weblog/2008/09/05/andrew-sullivans-citizenship/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cloudsoup.com/weblog/2008/09/05/andrew-sullivans-citizenship/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 10:12:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Politics and Opinion]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA["Andrew Sullivan"]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[HIV]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Is it true that Sullivan can&#8217;t become a US citizen just because he&#8217;s HIV positive? If so, that&#8217;s absolutely disgraceful. Some knee-jerk twattery that accidentally made it into law. Repeal it.
Might explain why he wants the Dems to win.
]]></description>
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		<title>Andrew Sullivan&#8217;s Decline and Fall</title>
		<link>http://www.cloudsoup.com/weblog/2008/09/05/andrew-sullivans-decline-and-fall/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cloudsoup.com/weblog/2008/09/05/andrew-sullivans-decline-and-fall/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 07:57:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Politics and Opinion]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA["Andrew Sullivan"]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA["Sarah Palin"]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Election 08]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Election 2008]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[US]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[USA]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s put aside for the moment Sullivan&#8217;s recent hurricane of innuendo. Let&#8217;s look just at his weirdness today:
[John] Edwards was a national figure &#8230;Palin has been several time zones away in the Alaskan wilderness

Andrew Sullivan at The Atlantic, A New Paradigm?
Is Andy really trying to insinuate Palin&#8217;s unreadiness because of geography? Such an early adopter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Metro Hotel</title>
		<link>http://www.cloudsoup.com/weblog/2008/09/04/boycott-the-metro-hotel-woking/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cloudsoup.com/weblog/2008/09/04/boycott-the-metro-hotel-woking/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 11:51:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Politics and Opinion]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Metro Hotel]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[soldier]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Woking]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A soldier home on leave after being injured in Afghanistan was refused a room by a hotel when he showed his military ID card at reception.
Corporal Tomos Stringer, 23, from Gwynedd, was visiting a wounded colleague in Surrey when he was turned away from the Metro Hotel in Woking.
He spent the night in his car [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Parrotting nonsense</title>
		<link>http://www.cloudsoup.com/weblog/2008/09/04/parrotting-nonsense/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cloudsoup.com/weblog/2008/09/04/parrotting-nonsense/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 10:03:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Politics and Opinion]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Christianity]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Islam]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Kathy Shadle repeats the question:
why do Muslims read or memorize the Qur’an without understanding it? &#8230; This leads not only the illiterate and poor Muslims, but also the highly educated and rich Muslims to read the Qur’an in Arabic without trying to understand what they are reading or reciting in their prayer. 

Kathy Shadle, Five [...]]]></description>
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