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		<title>Homophobic Mississippi School District Cancels Prom out of Spite</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:28:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Captain Optimistic</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Straightforward story.  The little  school district that could discriminate but couldn&#8217;t handle queer folk at a school prom decided to just cancel it.  Here is the story.  I found the comments section to be rather fun: I am sick to death of these &#8220;special individuals&#8221;, with &#8220;special needs&#8221; keep ruining it for the rest of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=plotsandthoughts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10516968&amp;post=162&amp;subd=plotsandthoughts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ubuntu 9.10 Brief Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:02:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Captain Optimistic</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been running an ancient version of Kubuntu (grudingly updated to the more recent 9.04, but with the electronic bones of the past still sticking up past the new ground floor).  Quicktime didn&#8217;t work, neither did fullscreen flash.  That&#8217;s right, no fullscreen hulu!  Rather than do a normal upgrade, I decided to install Ubuntu 9.10 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=plotsandthoughts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10516968&amp;post=159&amp;subd=plotsandthoughts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>1 in 7 People Live in a Slum</title>
		<link>http://plotsandthoughts.wordpress.com/2010/02/28/1-in-7-people-live-in-a-slum/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 21:17:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Captain Optimistic</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are nearly 7 billion people in the world (us census world population clock).  Nearly 1 billion currently live in slums (Guardian).  That is 1 in 7 people.  That number is expected to turn into 1 in 3 within the next 30 years (Guardian). We need to be thinking about how to tackles poverty in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=plotsandthoughts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10516968&amp;post=154&amp;subd=plotsandthoughts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>English Libel Law &#8211; Shaming the Bullies</title>
		<link>http://plotsandthoughts.wordpress.com/2010/02/24/english-libel-law-shaming-the-bullies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 21:30:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Captain Optimistic</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The British Chiropractic Association sued Simon Singh for writing a science column in which he called their claims &#8220;bogus&#8221;.  A judge ruled against him and he is currently appealing.  As the Libel Reform Campaign observes, their libel law is a global disgrace: ﻿John Kampfner, the CEO of Index on Censorship: If we don&#8217;t act we&#8217;re [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=plotsandthoughts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10516968&amp;post=144&amp;subd=plotsandthoughts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Letters to God &#8211; A Christian Insult</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 21:19:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Billed as a Christian movie, the trailer reaches down and touches something primal with me. &#8220;Hope is Contagious&#8221; is the tagline.  Hope?  HOPE? I&#8217;m sorry, does the 8 year old live and beat his cancer?  Does God get the fuck off his cloud and decide to spare a young child a slow and torturous death [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=plotsandthoughts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10516968&amp;post=146&amp;subd=plotsandthoughts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Toyota Loses Their Brand (Deservedly)</title>
		<link>http://plotsandthoughts.wordpress.com/2010/02/21/toyota-loses-their-brand-deservedly/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 03:57:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Captain Optimistic</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A newly released internal memo from Toyota crows about saving millions of dollars by delaying and obstructing safety regulations and measures. Toyota said in a statement: &#8220;Our first priority is the safety of our customers and to conclude otherwise on the basis of one internal presentation is wrong. Our values have always been to put [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=plotsandthoughts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10516968&amp;post=135&amp;subd=plotsandthoughts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Democrats Are Failing &#8211; Pay Attention Republicans</title>
		<link>http://plotsandthoughts.wordpress.com/2010/02/19/why-democrats-are-failing-pay-attention-republicans/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 19:59:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Captain Optimistic</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Memo to delusional conservatives who view anything left of Glenn Beck as socialist: you are ignoring why the Democrats are failing: Nor are the Democrats having trouble because things have become “too partisan” – or have they forgot how they behaved towards Bush? There’s a simple reason why their agenda is failing – it’s the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=plotsandthoughts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10516968&amp;post=131&amp;subd=plotsandthoughts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Palin vs Family Guy: Conservatives Are SUPER OBSERVANT</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 19:49:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is just sad.  A conservative blogger trying to make sense of the searing burn Andrea Friedman dealt Sarah Palin: My mother did not carry me around under her arm like a loaf of French bread the way former Governor Palin carries her son Trig around looking for sympathy and votes. Did the creators of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=plotsandthoughts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10516968&amp;post=128&amp;subd=plotsandthoughts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>ACORN Pimp Video a Deliberate Fake</title>
		<link>http://plotsandthoughts.wordpress.com/2010/02/18/acorn-pimp-video-a-deliberate-fake/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 00:04:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just in case you all missed this, have a read: While O&#8217;Keefe is a whackjob and should be in jail, the greater absurdity here is how the media pushed and then defended this story, which anyone who has shame now has to accept was a carefully-edited YouTube propaganda piece reported by every single network as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=plotsandthoughts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10516968&amp;post=124&amp;subd=plotsandthoughts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Linux Action Hour!</title>
		<link>http://plotsandthoughts.wordpress.com/2010/02/18/the-linux-action-hour/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 23:58:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I saw this headline for a Linux Action Show, and couldn&#8217;t help but come up with my own plot: Try to watch flash in fullscreen, then give up rapidly! Listen to howls of frustration as a distribution upgrade inexplicably removes support for your onboard video. Join the crowd of users who can&#8217;t get quicktime to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=plotsandthoughts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10516968&amp;post=122&amp;subd=plotsandthoughts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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