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		By: neo-neocon		</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Richard Saunders:

Trump is even more obsessed with money than Hillary, and has been for much much longer.  He has few other interests, except golf, women, reality TV, politics, and himself.

Yes, he loves this country. I once listed that as one of his very very very few good traits. But that doesn&#039;t mean he will do any better at Hillary in doing good things for it.  Do you think most tyrants don&#039;t love their countries? I can assure you that most of them do.

He is also highly highly obsessed with power. This is the part that I&#039;m puzzled that more people don&#039;t see.  He&#039;s every bit as obsessed with it as she. He praises the naked exercise of power (Tienanmen Square, for example).  He is less familiar with, and in my opinion most likely cares even less about, constitutional restraints on power than she.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Richard Saunders:</p>
<p>Trump is even more obsessed with money than Hillary, and has been for much much longer.  He has few other interests, except golf, women, reality TV, politics, and himself.</p>
<p>Yes, he loves this country. I once listed that as one of his very very very few good traits. But that doesn&#8217;t mean he will do any better at Hillary in doing good things for it.  Do you think most tyrants don&#8217;t love their countries? I can assure you that most of them do.</p>
<p>He is also highly highly obsessed with power. This is the part that I&#8217;m puzzled that more people don&#8217;t see.  He&#8217;s every bit as obsessed with it as she. He praises the naked exercise of power (Tienanmen Square, for example).  He is less familiar with, and in my opinion most likely cares even less about, constitutional restraints on power than she.</p>
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		By: Richard Saunders		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Richard Saunders]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2016 01:01:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Black is not a color, nor a cultural heritage (c.f. Barak Hussein Obama) nor even an ancestry, it is a political position.  Clarence Thomas is not Black,  Neither are Alan West, Herman Cain, Ben Carson, Tim Scott, Thomas Sowell, Walter Williams, Mia Love, Star Parker, and a host of others.  Rachel Dolezal, on the other hand, is Black.

Get it?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Black is not a color, nor a cultural heritage (c.f. Barak Hussein Obama) nor even an ancestry, it is a political position.  Clarence Thomas is not Black,  Neither are Alan West, Herman Cain, Ben Carson, Tim Scott, Thomas Sowell, Walter Williams, Mia Love, Star Parker, and a host of others.  Rachel Dolezal, on the other hand, is Black.</p>
<p>Get it?</p>
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		By: Richard Saunders		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Richard Saunders]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2016 00:53:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[There are a few differences between the Donald and the Evil Empress.  Donald likes his dough, but I get the distinct impression he&#039;s not as obsessed with grabbing more and more of it, as Hillary is.  I think he genuinely loves this country and will not seek to destroy it.  I disagree with Neo on this aspect of the Evil Empress -- she cares for nothing except herself and would happily do anything, including but not limited to trashing the Constitution, to give herself more power.

Donald, the assh*le, will, like a broken clock, be right twice a day.  Hillary?  Never!]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There are a few differences between the Donald and the Evil Empress.  Donald likes his dough, but I get the distinct impression he&#8217;s not as obsessed with grabbing more and more of it, as Hillary is.  I think he genuinely loves this country and will not seek to destroy it.  I disagree with Neo on this aspect of the Evil Empress &#8212; she cares for nothing except herself and would happily do anything, including but not limited to trashing the Constitution, to give herself more power.</p>
<p>Donald, the assh*le, will, like a broken clock, be right twice a day.  Hillary?  Never!</p>
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		By: daniel obrien		</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2016 23:54:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Doesn&#039;t count. Panton is not a Black Black.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Doesn&#8217;t count. Panton is not a Black Black.</p>
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		By: Ymarsakar		</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2016 22:36:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Beldar, I&#039;m reminded of all the little girls the Left sold out to black thugs, Islamic rapists, and Planned Profit bio tech profit schemes with that last line.

I suppose for Leftists, none of that matters until the victims are someone they care about.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Beldar, I&#8217;m reminded of all the little girls the Left sold out to black thugs, Islamic rapists, and Planned Profit bio tech profit schemes with that last line.</p>
<p>I suppose for Leftists, none of that matters until the victims are someone they care about.</p>
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		By: Beldar		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Beldar]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2016 22:09:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[around the end of February, the spouse of a former colleague of mine, over dinner at another friend/colleague’s birthday party, told me about her family&#039;s personal encounter with Ted Cruz. These friends are articulate and passionate life-long Democrats whose hearts were for Bernie but who’ll bite the bitter pill and vote for Hillary. We argue politics with passionate respect, which is part of why they&#039;re dear friends. For convenience, I’ll call my friends Agnes and Larry for purposes of this re-told tale.

Agnes &#038; Larry have a very bright, accomplished, and politically conscious daughter who’s a sophomore at an eastern (non-Ivy, but good) university. But when she was a senior in high school, she was their town’s representative at Girl’s Nation in Washington, as part of which the students get to meet and shake hands and get photographed with the POTUS (Bill Clinton got his photo with JFK that way), and they also get to meet their home-state Senators and home-district Congressmen. Cruz had just come to the Senate, so Agnes &#038; Larry’s daughter, whom I’ll call Zoe, was part of the group waiting to meet &#038; greet Sen. Cruz in some Capitol conference room.

But Cruz was already something of a celebrity on the Hill, and so there were also a lot of other Girl’s Nation delegates from other states who’d come to meet Cruz. And in the press of the crowd, Zoe never quite got close enough to speak to Cruz, and (sez Agnes, relaying Zoe’s story) Cruz, trailing staff, was literally walking out the door to his next appointment when Zoe piped up: “Hey, I’m from Texas, and I didn’t get to meet you, Sen. Cruz!” 

Whereupon Cruz executed a sharp about-face and went directly to Zoe, and then sat down across from her. He gave her 15 minutes of his undivided attention. Zoe said they agreed on nothing of substance, but she was nevertheless extremely taken with how focused he was, what a good listener he was, how what he was saying to her responded to what she’d said to him (rather than being a campaign speech).

“It terrifies me to think he might win,” Agnes told me, “But it’s impossible to hate him when he’s been that magnificent to your little girl.”]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>around the end of February, the spouse of a former colleague of mine, over dinner at another friend/colleague’s birthday party, told me about her family&#8217;s personal encounter with Ted Cruz. These friends are articulate and passionate life-long Democrats whose hearts were for Bernie but who’ll bite the bitter pill and vote for Hillary. We argue politics with passionate respect, which is part of why they&#8217;re dear friends. For convenience, I’ll call my friends Agnes and Larry for purposes of this re-told tale.</p>
<p>Agnes &amp; Larry have a very bright, accomplished, and politically conscious daughter who’s a sophomore at an eastern (non-Ivy, but good) university. But when she was a senior in high school, she was their town’s representative at Girl’s Nation in Washington, as part of which the students get to meet and shake hands and get photographed with the POTUS (Bill Clinton got his photo with JFK that way), and they also get to meet their home-state Senators and home-district Congressmen. Cruz had just come to the Senate, so Agnes &amp; Larry’s daughter, whom I’ll call Zoe, was part of the group waiting to meet &amp; greet Sen. Cruz in some Capitol conference room.</p>
<p>But Cruz was already something of a celebrity on the Hill, and so there were also a lot of other Girl’s Nation delegates from other states who’d come to meet Cruz. And in the press of the crowd, Zoe never quite got close enough to speak to Cruz, and (sez Agnes, relaying Zoe’s story) Cruz, trailing staff, was literally walking out the door to his next appointment when Zoe piped up: “Hey, I’m from Texas, and I didn’t get to meet you, Sen. Cruz!” </p>
<p>Whereupon Cruz executed a sharp about-face and went directly to Zoe, and then sat down across from her. He gave her 15 minutes of his undivided attention. Zoe said they agreed on nothing of substance, but she was nevertheless extremely taken with how focused he was, what a good listener he was, how what he was saying to her responded to what she’d said to him (rather than being a campaign speech).</p>
<p>“It terrifies me to think he might win,” Agnes told me, “But it’s impossible to hate him when he’s been that magnificent to your little girl.”</p>
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		By: &#8220;A Ted Cruz Friendship that Should Be Publicized&#8221; &#124; The Locker Room		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[&#8220;A Ted Cruz Friendship that Should Be Publicized&#8221; &#124; The Locker Room]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2016 19:16:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[[&#8230;] the title of a recent post by Neo-neocon. The friendship she has in mind is the one between the Republican presidential candidate and a [&#8230;]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[&#8230;] the title of a recent post by Neo-neocon. The friendship she has in mind is the one between the Republican presidential candidate and a [&#8230;]</p>
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		By: Ymarsakar		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ymarsakar]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2016 15:37:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[brdavis9 Quite right. Lots of scriptures cover why the Christian God scattered the Jewish clans of the House of Ishmael. Or was that Israel, damn Hebrew.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>brdavis9 Quite right. Lots of scriptures cover why the Christian God scattered the Jewish clans of the House of Ishmael. Or was that Israel, damn Hebrew.</p>
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		By: Ymarsakar		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ymarsakar]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2016 15:34:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&lt;b&gt;J.S. Bridges- um.. Don’t take this the wrong way, but… have you considered therapy?&lt;/b&gt;

The last time I heard somebody in the US, say the army, went for therapy was under Major Hassan of Ft Hood 1.

Remember what happened there?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><b>J.S. Bridges- um.. Don’t take this the wrong way, but… have you considered therapy?</b></p>
<p>The last time I heard somebody in the US, say the army, went for therapy was under Major Hassan of Ft Hood 1.</p>
<p>Remember what happened there?</p>
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		By: Ymarsakar		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ymarsakar]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2016 15:31:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&lt;b&gt;He is every true U.S. patriot’s weapon in achieving just that — and if he can manage to achieve the Rethuglican nomination and then use it to leverage himself successfully into the Presidency, he may well be able to accomplish even more of the necessary wreckage of the ugly, expensive. rotten-through-and-through structure that is National-level politics and “government” in America today. He’s a slightly-dull-edged meat-axe, aimed at just that sort of purpose — and many of us really don’t give a s**t what else he may be…That’s it.&lt;/b&gt;

And if Trump boosts HRC into power instead, if Trump becomes a Tyrant equal to Hussein and orders the liquidation of fellow American patriots, what are you going to do about it?

Because if you don&#039;t fall on your sword as a result of your guilt and mistake/sabotage, there will be people pissed enough in this country that will make you do it. You know this yourself, if you look in your heart and see the depth of emotion there. Do you really believe the rest of us lack that hate or ruthless will power.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><b>He is every true U.S. patriot’s weapon in achieving just that — and if he can manage to achieve the Rethuglican nomination and then use it to leverage himself successfully into the Presidency, he may well be able to accomplish even more of the necessary wreckage of the ugly, expensive. rotten-through-and-through structure that is National-level politics and “government” in America today. He’s a slightly-dull-edged meat-axe, aimed at just that sort of purpose — and many of us really don’t give a s**t what else he may be…That’s it.</b></p>
<p>And if Trump boosts HRC into power instead, if Trump becomes a Tyrant equal to Hussein and orders the liquidation of fellow American patriots, what are you going to do about it?</p>
<p>Because if you don&#8217;t fall on your sword as a result of your guilt and mistake/sabotage, there will be people pissed enough in this country that will make you do it. You know this yourself, if you look in your heart and see the depth of emotion there. Do you really believe the rest of us lack that hate or ruthless will power.</p>
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