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	<title>Smart Remarks</title>
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		<title>Wonderporpoise</title>
		<link>http://blogs.lancasteronline.com/smartremarks/2009/11/06/wonderporpoise/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Very cool. This would be the Wondermints - L.A. band which, if you&#8217;ve ever heard of them at all, you might know from their contribution to the Austin Powers soundtrack. But the band also has served as part of Brian Wilson&#8217;s backup band on some of his recent solo tours, including the &#8220;SMiLE&#8221; tour - [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Very cool. This would be the <a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wondermints">Wondermints</a> - L.A. band which, if you&#8217;ve ever heard of them at all, you might know from their contribution to the Austin Powers soundtrack. But the band also has served as part of Brian Wilson&#8217;s backup band on some of his recent solo tours, including the &#8220;SMiLE&#8221; tour - and as such I&#8217;ve seen them twice, and they&#8217;re unbelievable musicians. This is a cover of the Monkees&#8217; &#8220;<a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porpoise_Song_(Theme_from_Head)">The Porpoise Song</a>&#8221; (written by Goffin-King!) from the prefab four&#8217;s movie &#8220;<a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_(The_Monkees_album)">Head</a>.&#8221; Good stuff all the way around.</p>
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		<title>Bagged</title>
		<link>http://blogs.lancasteronline.com/smartremarks/2009/11/06/bagged/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:49:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vid of the week is up.


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		<title>The opposite of fail</title>
		<link>http://blogs.lancasteronline.com/smartremarks/2009/11/06/the-opposite-of-fail/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:13:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via MeFi - you&#8217;ve heard of the Failblog. But how about the Succeedblog?
I find it hard to believe that this isn&#8217;t a Pepsi commercial, actually. But amusing nonetheless.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8T6df9m6dZM

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Via <a target="_blank" href="http://www.metafilter.com/">MeFi</a> - you&#8217;ve heard of the <a target="_blank" href="http://failblog.org/">Failblog</a>. But how about the <a target="_blank" href="http://succeedblog.org/">Succeedblog</a>?</p>
<p>I find it hard to believe that this isn&#8217;t a Pepsi commercial, actually. But amusing nonetheless.</p>
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		<title>Ride the tiger</title>
		<link>http://blogs.lancasteronline.com/smartremarks/2009/11/06/ride-the-tiger/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:39:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Teabaggery]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sullivan links to a Politics Daily story describing yesterday&#8217;s teabaggery:
The angry folks at the protest &#8212; which attracted several thousand conservatives &#8212; held up signs with messages of hate: &#8220;Get the Red Out of the White House,&#8221; &#8220;Waterboard Congress,&#8221; &#8220;Ken-ya Trust Obama?&#8221; One called the president a &#8220;Traitor to the U.S. Constitution.&#8221; Another sign showed [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://blogs.lancasteronline.com/smartremarks/files/2009/11/dachau.jpg" title="dachau.jpg"></a>Sullivan links to a <a target="_blank" href="http://www.politicsdaily.com/2009/11/06/i/">Politics Daily story</a> describing yesterday&#8217;s teabaggery:</p>
<blockquote><p>The angry folks at the protest &#8212; which attracted several thousand conservatives &#8212; held up signs with messages of hate: &#8220;Get the Red Out of the White House,&#8221; &#8220;Waterboard Congress,&#8221; &#8220;Ken-ya Trust Obama?&#8221; One called the president a &#8220;Traitor to the U.S. Constitution.&#8221; Another sign showed pictures of dead bodies at the Dachau concentration camp and compared health care reform to the Holocaust. A different placard depicted Obama as Sambo. Yes, Sambo. Another read, &#8220;Obama takes his orders from the Rothchilds&#8221; &#8212; a reference to the anti-Semitic conspiracy theory holding that one evil Jewish family has manipulated events around the globe for decades.</p></blockquote>
<p>Little Black Sambo!</p>
<p>But I bet the guy holding it would be <strong><em>OUTRAGED!!!</em></strong> at anyone suggesting he might be racist!</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s that Holocaust sign, by the way:</p>
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<p>Dachau = Health care reform.</p>
<p>Right. So then after posting this, Sullivan goes on to say:</p>
<blockquote><p>This kind of rhetoric - on the same day that the Fort Hood massacre took place - is gasoline on a fire of atavistic hate. Someone in the GOP leadership needs to call it out - before its logic propels us toward more violence and social division.</p></blockquote>
<p>Hahahahahaha.</p>
<p>The GOP is attempting to ride that social division - and the violence it must create - back to power. It&#8217;s their only path <em>to</em> power.</p>
<p>I said this back in the video &#8220;<a target="_blank" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S46_UUBiQRo">Teabag Hippies</a>&#8221; - what we&#8217;re seeing here are the remnants of a once-dominant political sentiment reduced to minority status. And they resent it, and the extremism flows from that. Just as the Weathermen grew out of the Students for a Democratic Society, just as Stokely Carmichael emerged from the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, so too do radical right-wingers now emerge from once mainstream, or more mainstream, conservative Republican constituencies.</p>
<p>And for the very same reason: They&#8217;re not being listened to! The Weathermen went on their &#8220;Days of Rage&#8221; rampage because the establishment wasn&#8217;t listening to its demands that the U.S. get out of Vietnam. And so the only way to <em>make</em> the establishment listen was to get violent.</p>
<p>Is there anyone who&#8217;s going to seriously deny that the teabag right has the exact same attitude now? Of course it does; it must. Nancy Pelosi won&#8217;t listen! Nancy Pelosi must be <em>made</em> to listen; and if you can&#8217;t dislodge her via the ballot box, and the teabag protests don&#8217;t do it - what will?</p>
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		<title>Vaccinate the bankers first</title>
		<link>http://blogs.lancasteronline.com/smartremarks/2009/11/06/vaccinate-the-bankers-first/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:08:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Simply unbelievable.
Employees of Goldman, the Fed, Citigroup, and other banks are getting H1N1 vaccine allotments out of proportion to what can be justified from a public health standpoint. In particular, Goldman has gotten more than Lenox HIll hospital, which needs it not just for the sick but more important, for workers
Update: More, from Reuters:
New York City [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2009/11/goldman-fed-citi-getting-preferential-allotments-of-h1n1-vaccine.html">Simply unbelievable</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>Employees of Goldman, the Fed, Citigroup, and other banks are getting H1N1 vaccine allotments out of proportion to what can be justified from a public health standpoint. In particular, Goldman has gotten more than Lenox HIll hospital, which needs it not just for the sick but more important, for workers</p></blockquote>
<p><strong>Update:</strong> <a target="_blank" href="http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE5A44QI20091105?sp=true">More, from Reuters</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>New York City health officials scrambled to explain themselves on Thursday in the wake of media reports about bankers who got scarce <a href="http://www.reuters.com/news/globalcoverage/swineflu" title="Full coverage of the H1N1 story">H1N1</a> flu vaccines through their employers.<span></span></p>
<p>Members of Congress fired off letters demanding immediate explanations and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reminded state and city health officers of the need to make sure the most vulnerable people get shots first.</p>
<p><span></span>&#8220;I am concerned that the distribution of the vaccine is resulting in favored treatment for the privileged,&#8221; New Jersey Democratic Representative Frank Pallone said.</p></blockquote>
<p>Favored treatment for the priveleged? Isn&#8217;t that the American way?</p>
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		<title>It&#8217;s not easy being white</title>
		<link>http://blogs.lancasteronline.com/smartremarks/2009/11/06/its-not-easy-being-white/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:20:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You know who the real oppressed minority is in this country? Southern white male judges, that&#8217;s who.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You know who the real oppressed minority is in this country? <a target="_blank" href="http://www.prospect.org/csnc/blogs/tapped_archive?month=11&amp;year=2009&amp;base_name=conservatives_complain_about_t">Southern white male judges</a>, that&#8217;s who.</p>
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		<title>Jon Stewart as Glenn Beck</title>
		<link>http://blogs.lancasteronline.com/smartremarks/2009/11/06/jon-stewart-as-glenn-beck/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:35:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hilarious







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		<title>Our inner Einsatzgruppen</title>
		<link>http://blogs.lancasteronline.com/smartremarks/2009/11/06/our-inner-einsatzgruppen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:16:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Local right-winger (one of my many winger correspondents) always copies me on stuff he sends to Glenn Beck, Rush, etc. Here&#8217;s what shows up in my in-box this morning, referencing yesterday&#8217;s shooting at Fort Hood:
Another *^&#38;  #%$^ Muslim murders Americans and the &#8220;news&#8221; people say he might have been depressed because he was picked on [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Local right-winger (one of my many winger correspondents) always copies me on stuff he sends to Glenn Beck, Rush, etc. Here&#8217;s what shows up in my in-box this morning, referencing yesterday&#8217;s shooting at Fort Hood:</p>
<blockquote><p>Another *^&amp;  #%$^ Muslim murders Americans and the &#8220;news&#8221; people say he might have been depressed because he was picked on for being Muslim.</p>
<p>Yahoo disabled comments on the story and said it may be because of technical difficulties or violation of posting rules. I think it the latter because Americans posted what they think should be done with a certain segment of this country&#8217;s population.</p></blockquote>
<p>Concentration camp?</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einsatzgruppen">Einsatzgruppen</a> take them out and shoot them?</p>
<p>You begin to understand why this country interned Japanese-Americans during WWII. You&#8217;re amazed, sometimes, that we didn&#8217;t do worse.</p>
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		<title>Shootings at Fort Hood</title>
		<link>http://blogs.lancasteronline.com/smartremarks/2009/11/05/shootings-at-fort-hood/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:08:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seven dead, 20 wounded, the base has been shut down.
More here.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a target="_blank" href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_fort_hood_shooting">Seven dead, 20 wounded, the base has been shut down</a>.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33678801/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/">More here</a>.</p>
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		<title>Cross of gold</title>
		<link>http://blogs.lancasteronline.com/smartremarks/2009/11/05/cross-of-gold/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:18:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Greed is love, and taking is sharing.
And Jesus would have loved Goldman Sachs!
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Greed is love, and taking is sharing.</p>
<p>And <a target="_blank" href="http://trueslant.com/matttaibbi/2009/11/04/goldman-one-ups-gordon-gekko-says-jesus-embraced-greed/">Jesus would have loved Goldman Sachs!</a></p>
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