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		<title>conservatives lying about health care plan call voluntary planning sessions &#8220;death care&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 02:52:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The new health care plan proposed by Democrats would pay once every 5 years for voluntary sessions for seniors to discuss living wills and end-of-life arrangements (life support, etc) with their doctors.
Conservative politicians are lying to their constituents, and radio/tv/internet pundits are lying to their audience, saying that the health care plan would require end-of-life [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=markbaland.wordpress.com&blog=5085872&post=645&subd=markbaland&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>YouTube &#8211; Tea-Bagging, Texas Secession, and Swine Flu</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 07:04:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[
 Binky The Clown (my friend Alan Conn) reports on some more things that are &#8220;Clown Shoes&#8221; (ridiculous) in this second edition of the report. I did the voice of Governor Rick Perry.
Posted in alternative energy, change, choice, comedy, conservative, democrat, energy, humor, liberal, opinion, parody, patriotism, politics, pollution, racism, republican, satire, society, solar, truth [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=markbaland.wordpress.com&blog=5085872&post=639&subd=markbaland&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Senate shows us they represent lobbyists and not citizens</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 03:23:11 +0000</pubDate>
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The American Dream is over folks. This shows that the Liberal Democrats are just as paid off by corporations as Conservative Republicans, and have just as little desire to represent the people. Maybe now more of you will join me in voting third party (independent, green, libertarian, etc) in the mid-term congressional elections in 2010 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=markbaland.wordpress.com&blog=5085872&post=634&subd=markbaland&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[It's not a problem caused by just Democrats or just Republicans; it's symptomatic of corporate influence over our elected officials through lobbying and other means.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=markbaland.wordpress.com&blog=5085872&post=628&subd=markbaland&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Tax Day / Tea Party Day: An MSNBC Video Tribute to Fox News and the TeaBaggers</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 07:54:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[YouTube video: MSNBC's David Schuster: If You're Planning Tea Bagging Across The Country, 'You're Going To Need A Dick Armey'
 - This is pretty damned funny! He uses most, if not all, of the innuendo I've already heard floating around...<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=markbaland.wordpress.com&blog=5085872&post=619&subd=markbaland&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Republican Mantra: Our Children and Grandchildren</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 03:10:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It makes me so angry when I hear Republicans (mostly) talking about how &#8220;our children and grandchildren are going to have to pay for this&#8221; as an argument against President Obama&#8217;s plans for alternative energy, education, and health care.
I think if my children and grandchildren could grow up in a country where they could breathe, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=markbaland.wordpress.com&blog=5085872&post=613&subd=markbaland&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I Think We Should Abolish The Stock Market</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 06:26:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think we should abolish the stock market.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=markbaland.wordpress.com&blog=5085872&post=605&subd=markbaland&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An Energy / Financial / Environmental Crisis Survey, by Me</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 05:48:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Follow this link to take my survey, hosted on PollDaddy.com: SURVEY


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		<title>The Boy Scouts of America and Homosexuality</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 03:48:21 +0000</pubDate>
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I recently came across a blog entry with scanned pages from the 1965 Boy Scout handbook. Some of those commenting mentioned that the book has a chapter concerning masturbation. One commenter included a quotation of one section of this chapter, which reads as follows:
At times the glands discharge part of their secretions through the sex [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=markbaland.wordpress.com&blog=5085872&post=597&subd=markbaland&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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