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		<title>Support Net Neutrality</title>
		<link>http://www.marusin.com/2006/08/04/support-net-neutrality/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Aug 2006 13:54:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mr. Durbin and Mr. Obama got letters from me recently&#8230;]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://durbin.senate.gov/">Mr. Durbin</a> and <a href="http://obama.senate.gov/">Mr. Obama</a> got letters from me recently&#8230;</p>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Get Me Started</title>
		<link>http://www.marusin.com/2005/09/02/dont-get-me-started/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Sep 2005 04:23:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jenn pointed out a great transcript from an interview with the mayor of New Orleans&#8230; NAGIN: Well, did the tsunami victims request? Did it go through a formal process to request? You know, did the Iraqi people request that we go in there? Did they ask us to go in there? What is more important? [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://milkring.com/2005/09/02/shame/">Jenn pointed out</a> a great <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/02/nagin.transcript/index.html">transcript from an interview with the mayor of New Orleans</a>&#8230;</p>
<blockquote><p>NAGIN: Well, did the tsunami victims request? Did it go through a formal process to request?</p>
<p>You know, <strong>did the Iraqi people request that we go in there</strong>? Did they ask us to go in there? What is more important?</p>
<p>And I&#8217;ll tell you, man, I&#8217;m probably going get in a whole bunch of trouble. I&#8217;m probably going to get in so much trouble it ain&#8217;t even funny. You probably won&#8217;t even want to deal with me after this interview is over.</p>
<p>WWL: You and I will be in the funny place together.</p>
<p>NAGIN: But we authorized $8 billion to go to Iraq lickety-quick. After 9/11, we gave the president unprecedented powers lickety-quick to take care of New York and other places.</p>
<p>Now, you mean to tell me that a place where most of your oil is coming through, a place that is so unique when you mention New Orleans anywhere around the world, everybody&#8217;s eyes light up &#8212; you mean to tell me that a place where you probably have thousands of people that have died and thousands more that are dying every day, that we can&#8217;t figure out a way to authorize the resources that we need? Come on, man.</p>
<p>You know, I&#8217;m not one of those drug addicts. I am thinking very clearly.</p>
<p>And I don&#8217;t know whose problem it is. I don&#8217;t know whether it&#8217;s the governor&#8217;s problem. I don&#8217;t know whether it&#8217;s the president&#8217;s problem, but <strong>somebody needs to get their ass on a plane and sit down, the two of them, and figure this out right now</strong>.</p></blockquote>
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		<title>SorryEverybody / ApologiesAccepted</title>
		<link>http://www.marusin.com/2004/11/15/sorryeverybody-apologiesaccepted/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Nov 2004 20:12:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[sorryeverybody.com Some of us â€” hopefully most of us â€” are trying to understand and appreciate the effect our recent election will have on you, the citizens of the rest of the world. As our so-called leaders redouble their efforts to screw you over, please remember that some of us â€” hopefully most of us [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.sorryeverybody.com/">sorryeverybody.com</a></p>
<blockquote><p>Some of us â€” hopefully most of us â€” are trying to understand and appreciate the effect our recent election will have on you, the citizens of the rest of the world. As our so-called leaders redouble their efforts to screw you over, please remember that some of us â€” hopefully most of us â€” are truly, truly sorry. And we&#8217;ll say we&#8217;re sorry, even on the behalf of the ones who aren&#8217;t.</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://www.apologiesaccepted.com/">apologiesaccepted.com</a></p>
<blockquote><p>(So) let&#8217;s answer to these cries by telling the Americans it&#8217;s okay. It is mostly them who have to live with the monkey after all. Anyway, think up for yourself what you would like to say to the American People, take a photo and submit it on this website.</p></blockquote>
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		<title>I Did My Part</title>
		<link>http://www.marusin.com/2004/11/02/i-did-my-part/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Nov 2004 19:19:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, we all know that today is November 2nd and it&#8217;s every American&#8217;s privilege to go out and vote. Now all I can do is cross my fingers and hope that my fellow voters (specifically those in Ohio, Wisconsin, Iowa and Florida thanks to the Electoral system) were thinking along the same lines that I [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well, we all know that today is November 2nd and it&#8217;s every American&#8217;s privilege to go out and vote.  </p>
<p>Now all I can do is cross my fingers and hope that my fellow voters (specifically those in Ohio, Wisconsin, Iowa and Florida thanks to the Electoral system) were thinking <a href="http://www.johnkerry.com/">along the same lines that I was</a>.  </p>
<p>Part of me is going to miss the <a href="http://truthaboutkeyes.blogspot.com/">crazy things that has come out of Alan Keyes mouth</a> since he&#8217;ll be back in Baltimore tonight after <a href="http://www.obamaforillinois.com/">Barack Obama</a> crushes him.  </p>
<p>I have a feeling we&#8217;ll be seeing Obama in a <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/">higher office</a> down the road.  There seems to be a <a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&#038;q=%22barack+obama++for+president%22&#038;btnG=Google+Search">whole lot of other people that feel the same way</a>.</p>
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		<title>Re-Entry</title>
		<link>http://www.marusin.com/2004/07/28/re-entry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2004 03:21:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just got back from a good couple day streak of no cell phones, no computers, no newspapers and very very little tv up in northern Wisconsin&#8230; Nice to hear the Barack Obama speech from the DNC just as we started picking up Chicago radio stations&#8230; There&#8217;s not a black America and white America and Latino [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Just got back from a good couple day streak of no cell phones, no computers, no newspapers and very very little tv up in northern Wisconsin&#8230;</p>
<p>Nice to hear the <a href="http://www.obamaforillinois.com/index.asp?Type=B_PR&#038;SEC={4C624248-27E9-4F67-A685-921F17AEFF00}&#038;DE={FFC97208-2B20-4DFC-9346-39A933A3C66D}">Barack Obama speech from the DNC</a> just as we started picking up Chicago radio stations&#8230;</p>
<blockquote><p>There&#8217;s not a black America and white America and Latino America and Asian America; there&#8217;s the United States of America. The pundits like to slice-and-dice our country into Red States and Blue States; Red States for Republicans, Blue States for Democrats. But I&#8217;ve got news for them, too. We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don&#8217;t like federal agents poking around our libraries in the Red States. We coach Little League in the Blue States and have gay friends in the Red States.</p></blockquote>
<p>It&#8217;s nice to be able to be from Illinois where we can have the pleasure of <a href="http://www.obamablog.com/index.php">voting for him</a>&#8230;</p>
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