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		By: csimon		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[csimon]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:11:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Does anyone else find this EGREGIOUS intimidation of the lickspittle press OUTRAGEOUS? And SCARY?


Scary is right!  Not unbelievable, not a surprise, but pretty scary nonetheless.  Is this White House following example set by Hugo?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Does anyone else find this EGREGIOUS intimidation of the lickspittle press OUTRAGEOUS? And SCARY?</p>
<p>Scary is right!  Not unbelievable, not a surprise, but pretty scary nonetheless.  Is this White House following example set by Hugo?</p>
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		By: Occam's Beard		</title>
		<link>https://thenewneo.com/2010/02/02/promises-are-meant-to-be-broken-budget-includes-back-door-taxes-for-middle-class/#comment-144016</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Occam's Beard]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:53:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&lt;i&gt;While he may be so smart that he can play 3-d chess while the rest of us play checkers&lt;/i&gt;

In his dreams. In fact, we&#039;re playing chess, he&#039;s playing tic-tac-toe. And losing consistently.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>While he may be so smart that he can play 3-d chess while the rest of us play checkers</i></p>
<p>In his dreams. In fact, we&#8217;re playing chess, he&#8217;s playing tic-tac-toe. And losing consistently.</p>
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		By: Occam's Beard		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Occam's Beard]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:52:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Barry has never figured out that essential truth expressed half a millennium ago by Nicolo Machiavelli: gratitude is the least strongly felt human emotion. Humans are emotionally asymmetric; they&#039;re more pissed off at people who wrong them than they are affectionate toward those who please them. 

His failure to grasp that led him into the &quot;Flip-flopper&#039;s Conundrum,&quot; that by working both sides of the street he doesn&#039;t ingratiate himself with both sides, but rather &lt;i&gt;alienates&lt;/i&gt; both sides.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Barry has never figured out that essential truth expressed half a millennium ago by Nicolo Machiavelli: gratitude is the least strongly felt human emotion. Humans are emotionally asymmetric; they&#8217;re more pissed off at people who wrong them than they are affectionate toward those who please them. </p>
<p>His failure to grasp that led him into the &#8220;Flip-flopper&#8217;s Conundrum,&#8221; that by working both sides of the street he doesn&#8217;t ingratiate himself with both sides, but rather <i>alienates</i> both sides.</p>
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		By: Gray		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gray]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 05:50:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&lt;i&gt;While he may be so smart that he can play 3-d chess while the rest of us play checkers, it doesn’t help you win a game of checkers and you look foolish trying to put your rook 2 feet above a checker board.&lt;/i&gt;

Great point and imagery!  It works fine if you never let go of it  Then instead of a genius at 3d chess, you just look like a dope.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>While he may be so smart that he can play 3-d chess while the rest of us play checkers, it doesn’t help you win a game of checkers and you look foolish trying to put your rook 2 feet above a checker board.</i></p>
<p>Great point and imagery!  It works fine if you never let go of it  Then instead of a genius at 3d chess, you just look like a dope.</p>
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		By: strcpy		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[strcpy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 05:47:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[An amusing thing here is that Obama backed himself into another corner. One of his campaign promises to the lefties was letting the Bush tax cuts expire - for whatever reason that is a big thing to them (never understood that), but oh well. 

The idea all along is that even though you will be paying more this isn&#039;t a tax increase, it is simply returning to the level you were supposed to pay. Therefore he could get away with saying that no increased taxes.

Of course, reality is starting to bite and he can&#039;t really do that can he? I can assure you that there are already many people angry of his so called &quot;tax break&quot; wherin you basically can keep more at payday but owe it later (very amusing - one of my co-workers dismissed that as right wing raving trying to bring Obama down - owes 1000 dollars instead of getting back. He stills figures it was right wing raving but there was &quot;some truth in there&quot;).

So, at this point he is trying to save a sinking ship - this is, or rather has, ticked a great deal of his base off. It is just Bush under a different name. He has lost any support from conservatives that had gone with him enough that they just shrug and say &quot;About time he didn&#039;t something right&quot;. Independents mostly do not keep up with politics that close so it is a non-issue (though it would have been a real one if two years running they got a nice big tax bill).

There was no winning scenario here for him and that should have been seen from the beginning. But then again that has been situation normal for this most genius of men, one so smart that we can not even fathom his ability. While he may be so smart that he can play 3-d chess while the rest of us play checkers, it doesn&#039;t help you win a game of checkers and you look foolish trying to put your rook 2 feet above a checker board.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>An amusing thing here is that Obama backed himself into another corner. One of his campaign promises to the lefties was letting the Bush tax cuts expire &#8211; for whatever reason that is a big thing to them (never understood that), but oh well. </p>
<p>The idea all along is that even though you will be paying more this isn&#8217;t a tax increase, it is simply returning to the level you were supposed to pay. Therefore he could get away with saying that no increased taxes.</p>
<p>Of course, reality is starting to bite and he can&#8217;t really do that can he? I can assure you that there are already many people angry of his so called &#8220;tax break&#8221; wherin you basically can keep more at payday but owe it later (very amusing &#8211; one of my co-workers dismissed that as right wing raving trying to bring Obama down &#8211; owes 1000 dollars instead of getting back. He stills figures it was right wing raving but there was &#8220;some truth in there&#8221;).</p>
<p>So, at this point he is trying to save a sinking ship &#8211; this is, or rather has, ticked a great deal of his base off. It is just Bush under a different name. He has lost any support from conservatives that had gone with him enough that they just shrug and say &#8220;About time he didn&#8217;t something right&#8221;. Independents mostly do not keep up with politics that close so it is a non-issue (though it would have been a real one if two years running they got a nice big tax bill).</p>
<p>There was no winning scenario here for him and that should have been seen from the beginning. But then again that has been situation normal for this most genius of men, one so smart that we can not even fathom his ability. While he may be so smart that he can play 3-d chess while the rest of us play checkers, it doesn&#8217;t help you win a game of checkers and you look foolish trying to put your rook 2 feet above a checker board.</p>
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		By: Gray		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gray]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 04:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&lt;i&gt;The employees in metal shop where I work- who get most of their buisiness from supporting the oil and gas industry- are not making anywhere near $250,000 a year. Neither are my six cousins who work in the industry.&lt;/i&gt;

Yet, oddly enough, they are still going to get boned (economically speaking) like I would bone one of those blue Avatar supermodel cat-girls.

I pledged not to mention that again, but some stray supermodel cat-girls snuck in and may have violated that pledge.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>The employees in metal shop where I work- who get most of their buisiness from supporting the oil and gas industry- are not making anywhere near $250,000 a year. Neither are my six cousins who work in the industry.</i></p>
<p>Yet, oddly enough, they are still going to get boned (economically speaking) like I would bone one of those blue Avatar supermodel cat-girls.</p>
<p>I pledged not to mention that again, but some stray supermodel cat-girls snuck in and may have violated that pledge.</p>
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		By: Gray		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gray]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 03:57:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Oh, it&#039;s all horseshit!  Of course Obama pledged the extension of those tax provisions for households earning less than $250,000.

&quot;If you look at the package that we’ve presented – and there’s some stray cats and dogs that got in there that we were eliminating, we were in the process of eliminating. For example, we said from the start that we pledged to extend those tax provisions for households earning less than $250,000. And I think that some of the provisions that got snuck in might have violated that pledge.&quot;

See how that works?

There will be &lt;b&gt;no&lt;/b&gt; substitute story.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Oh, it&#8217;s all horseshit!  Of course Obama pledged the extension of those tax provisions for households earning less than $250,000.</p>
<p>&#8220;If you look at the package that we’ve presented – and there’s some stray cats and dogs that got in there that we were eliminating, we were in the process of eliminating. For example, we said from the start that we pledged to extend those tax provisions for households earning less than $250,000. And I think that some of the provisions that got snuck in might have violated that pledge.&#8221;</p>
<p>See how that works?</p>
<p>There will be <b>no</b> substitute story.</p>
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		By: rickl		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[rickl]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 03:44:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Anyone who still doesn&#039;t believe that Obama isn&#039;t deliberately targeting the private economy and the middle class for destruction has some splainin&#039; to do.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Anyone who still doesn&#8217;t believe that Obama isn&#8217;t deliberately targeting the private economy and the middle class for destruction has some splainin&#8217; to do.</p>
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		By: Occam's Beard		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Occam's Beard]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 03:05:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I know this is now beyond a cliche, but nevertheless relevant: consider if Bush had called Reuters to complain about a story that made him look bad (Reuters would never publish such, of course, but bear with me). Imagine the uproar, the indignation, and the heated allegations that would ensue.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I know this is now beyond a cliche, but nevertheless relevant: consider if Bush had called Reuters to complain about a story that made him look bad (Reuters would never publish such, of course, but bear with me). Imagine the uproar, the indignation, and the heated allegations that would ensue.</p>
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		By: JR Dogman		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[JR Dogman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 02:06:38 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Wild stuff:

http://video.foxnews.com/#/v/3999151/the-one-thing-22/?playlist_id=87249]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wild stuff:</p>
<p><a href="http://video.foxnews.com/#/v/3999151/the-one-thing-22/?playlist_id=87249" rel="nofollow ugc">http://video.foxnews.com/#/v/3999151/the-one-thing-22/?playlist_id=87249</a></p>
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