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	<title>Waldo's Virginia Political Blogroll &#187; CG2</title>
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	<description>A totally biased and unreasonable list of blogs that I think you might enjoy reading.</description>
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		<title>McDonnell and Cuccinelli at Odds Over 14th Amendment Protection for GLBT People?</title>
		<link>http://changeservant.blogspot.com/2010/06/mcdonnell-and-cuccinelli-at-odds-over.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jun 2010 14:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Governor McDonnell issued his executive directive prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation, he said that GLBT people are protected by the 14th amendment to the United States Constitution:
The Equal Protection Clause of the United Sta...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[When Governor McDonnell issued his executive directive prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation, he said that GLBT people are protected by the 14th amendment to the United States Constitution:
The Equal Protection Clause of the United States Constitution
prohibits discrimination without a rational basis against any class of persons. Discrimination based on factors such as one’s ]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Bob Marshall &#8212; More Labeling and Stereotypes</title>
		<link>http://changeservant.blogspot.com/2010/03/bob-marshall-more-labeling-and.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 13:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to a willingness to label and stereotype to serve his cause, Bob Marshall appears to have no limits. Casting aside his penchant for papering over his personal agenda with cites to peer reviewed studies and research, Marshall shot from the...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[When it comes to a willingness to label and stereotype to serve his cause, Bob Marshall appears to have no limits. Casting aside his penchant for papering over his personal agenda with cites to peer reviewed studies and research, Marshall shot from the lip again yesterday in an AP story by Bob Lewis about Equality Virginia's legislation to protect state workers from discrimination. This time his ]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Video Coverage of Equality Virginia&#8217;s Press Conference  on SB 66, March 1, 2010</title>
		<link>http://changeservant.blogspot.com/2010/03/video-coverage-of-equality-virginias.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to Rick Sincere of the Republican Liberty Caucus you can watch video of Equality Virginia's press conference today focused on the need to pass SB 66, the bill that would codify protections against discrimination for all Virginia state employees....]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Thanks to Rick Sincere of the Republican Liberty Caucus you can watch video of Equality Virginia's press conference today focused on the need to pass SB 66, the bill that would codify protections against discrimination for all Virginia state employees.Watch Viola Baskerville, former Secretary of Administration in the Kaine Administration; Equality Virginia CEO, Jon Blair; Glen Pond on behalf of ]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>The &quot;Natural Consequences&quot; of Hate</title>
		<link>http://changeservant.blogspot.com/2010/03/natural-consequences-of-hate.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 15:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Christina got this exactly right.  Once you let &#34;hate&#34; define your views (even if it is just to &#34;hate the sin&#34;), you can't control how it eats away at your soul and undermines your humanity.  (See, Keeping it Civil re: hate as the language of politics).Bob is a friend whose inability to accept responsibility for the natural consequences of his own actions and choices erodes his credibility as a]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Christina got this exactly right.  Once you let "hate" define your views (even if it is just to "hate the sin"), you can't control how it eats away at your soul and undermines your humanity.  (See, Keeping it Civil re: hate as the language of politics).Bob is a friend whose inability to accept responsibility for the natural consequences of his own actions and choices erodes his credibility as a ]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>House of Delegates Refuses to Protect State Workers From Being Fired Because They Are Gay</title>
		<link>http://changeservant.blogspot.com/2010/02/house-of-delegates-refuses-to-protect.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 00:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, the Virginia House of Delegates refused even to vote on a proposal to protect state workers from being fired for being gay, or black, or Latino, or disabled, or a veteran, or a person with genetic markers for breast cancer, or old ... .Delegate ...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Today, the Virginia House of Delegates refused even to vote on a proposal to protect state workers from being fired for being gay, or black, or Latino, or disabled, or a veteran, or a person with genetic markers for breast cancer, or old ... .Delegate Adam Ebbin proposed an amendment to the budget (which will require lay offs and job cuts across the state workforce) that said:No employee of the ]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Time to Do the Right Thing</title>
		<link>http://changeservant.blogspot.com/2010/01/time-to-do-right-thing.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 03:17:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, Equality Virginia, the AARP, the AAUP, the Virginia Education Association, the Virginia Governmental Employees Association, the Virginia AFL-CIO, and the Virginia Coalition of Latino Organizations stood together in support of SB 66, a bill that ...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Today, Equality Virginia, the AARP, the AAUP, the Virginia Education Association, the Virginia Governmental Employees Association, the Virginia AFL-CIO, and the Virginia Coalition of Latino Organizations stood together in support of SB 66, a bill that would, for the first time, codify protections against discrimination for Virginia's hard-working and underpaid state employees.In 1970, Governor ]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Controlling the Headline (or not)</title>
		<link>http://changeservant.blogspot.com/2009/11/controlling-headline-or-not.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, prompted by the recent active inclusion of state employees in political ads during the recent campaign cycle, I set out to write a piece that would provoke debate on a simple question -- should Virginia have a state level Hatch Act that would prote...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[So, prompted by the recent active inclusion of state employees in political ads during the recent campaign cycle, I set out to write a piece that would provoke debate on a simple question -- should Virginia have a state level Hatch Act that would protect state employees from pressure to engage in partisan political activities?  And, I thought I'd managed to focus the piece on the issue rather ]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Gay Republicans Praise McDonnell, Dis Cooch</title>
		<link>http://changeservant.blogspot.com/2009/10/gay-republicans-praise-mcdonnell-dis.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:17:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Lampo and other members of the Log Cabin Republican Club of Virginia have been active the last couple of days ... first complimenting gubernatorial candidate Bob McDonnell for his recent statements affirming his view that government should not di...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[David Lampo and other members of the Log Cabin Republican Club of Virginia have been active the last couple of days ... first complimenting gubernatorial candidate Bob McDonnell for his recent statements affirming his view that government should not discrimination against people based on sexual orientation and, then, blasting Cooch in an oped in the Augusta Free Press for his promise to ]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Choosing the People’s Lawyer: Questions to Ask Candidates for Virginia Attorney General</title>
		<link>http://changeservant.blogspot.com/2009/10/choosing-peoples-lawyer-questions-to.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 16:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is an update of a blog entry I wrote before the 2005 elections regarding the role of the Attorney General and the scope of the power we afford the person we elect to this too little discussed, &#34;down ballot&#34; race. I hope that you will find it helpful.Choosing the People's Lawyer: Questions to Ask Candidates for Virginia Attorney GeneralThe Virginia Attorney General is the people’s lawyer]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[This is an update of a blog entry I wrote before the 2005 elections regarding the role of the Attorney General and the scope of the power we afford the person we elect to this too little discussed, "down ballot" race. I hope that you will find it helpful.Choosing the People's Lawyer: Questions to Ask Candidates for Virginia Attorney GeneralThe Virginia Attorney General is the people’s lawyer ]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Save Lives Save Money</title>
		<link>http://changeservant.blogspot.com/2009/07/save-lives-save-money.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[100,000 Lives Lost Each Year; $45 Billion WastedA critical issue that must be a part of any health care reform initiative is patient safety. Reducing hospital acquired infections and preventing in-facility accidents and medical mistakes will save lives...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[100,000 Lives Lost Each Year; $45 Billion WastedA critical issue that must be a part of any health care reform initiative is patient safety. Reducing hospital acquired infections and preventing in-facility accidents and medical mistakes will save lives and money.Consumers Union reports that hospital acquired infections and other preventable medical injuries continue each year to kill 100,000 ]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>ChangeServant 2009-06-17 23:24:00</title>
		<link>http://changeservant.blogspot.com/2009/06/i-saw-this-moving-quote-from-walt.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 03:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I saw this moving quote from a Walt Whitman poem , The Wound Dresser, on the wall of the north entrance to the Dupont Circle Metro Station in DC today:Thus in silence in dreams' projections,Returning, resuming, I thread my way through the hospitals, Th...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I saw this moving quote from a Walt Whitman poem , The Wound Dresser, on the wall of the north entrance to the Dupont Circle Metro Station in DC today:Thus in silence in dreams' projections,Returning, resuming, I thread my way through the hospitals, The hurt and wounded I pacify with soothing hand, I sit by the restless all the dark night, some are so young, Some suffer so much, I recall the ]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Death of a Retired General Officer</title>
		<link>http://changeservant.blogspot.com/2009/06/death-of-retired-general-officer.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 02:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This message went out from General George General W. Casey, Jr., Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army, today:DEATH OF A RETIRED GENERAL OFFICER 17 JUN 09. &#34;It is with deep regret that the Secretary of the Army and I inform you of the death of General John R. Guthrie, United States Army, Retired. He passed away on 25 May 2009 in Washington, DC.  As a mark of respect to the memory of General John R.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[This message went out from General George General W. Casey, Jr., Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army, today:DEATH OF A RETIRED GENERAL OFFICER 17 JUN 09. "It is with deep regret that the Secretary of the Army and I inform you of the death of General John R. Guthrie, United States Army, Retired. He passed away on 25 May 2009 in Washington, DC.  As a mark of respect to the memory of General John R. ]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Senator John Ensign</title>
		<link>http://changeservant.blogspot.com/2009/06/senator-john-ensign.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am more than tired of sanctimonious holier than thou politicians who undermine &#34;traditional marriage&#34; by their own actions while denying full marriage equality to those who only want the chance to make the deep and lasting commitment that these folks seem unable to keep.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I am more than tired of sanctimonious holier than thou politicians who undermine "traditional marriage" by their own actions while denying full marriage equality to those who only want the chance to make the deep and lasting commitment that these folks seem unable to keep.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>General John R. Guthrie (USA Ret.) &#8212; 39 Years in the Nation&#8217;s Service</title>
		<link>http://changeservant.blogspot.com/2009/05/general-john-r-guthrie-usa-ret-39-years.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2009 17:43:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[General John Reiley Guthrie (USA Ret.), died peacefully at Walter Reed Army Medical Center on Memorial Day, May 25, 2009, with his loving family at his bedside. He was 87. Born in Phillipsburg, New Jersey, Gen. Guthrie graduated with honors in History ...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[General John Reiley Guthrie (USA Ret.), died peacefully at Walter Reed Army Medical Center on Memorial Day, May 25, 2009, with his loving family at his bedside. He was 87. Born in Phillipsburg, New Jersey, Gen. Guthrie graduated with honors in History from Princeton University in 1942, receiving his commission as a 2nd Lieutenant out of Princeton’s ROTC program, ultimately becoming the program's ]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>National Day of Silence &#8230; Help Stop Bullying</title>
		<link>http://changeservant.blogspot.com/2009/04/national-day-of-silence-help-stop.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 19:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network's (GLSEN)  national day of silence which focuses attention on anti-GLBT bullying in our schools.Words can kill.'nuff said.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Today is the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network's (GLSEN)  national day of silence which focuses attention on anti-GLBT bullying in our schools.Words can kill.'nuff said.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>20 OUTstanding Virginians</title>
		<link>http://changeservant.blogspot.com/2009/04/20-outstanding-virginians.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 18:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Saturday night, Equality Virginia honored 20 OUTstanding Virginians ... GLBT people, living and dead, who have excelled in their fields and forged new paths for others to walk.Get to know these people, learn about their accomplishments, honor their achievements, and understand why each of us is diminished when any of us is held back, considered &#34;less than,&#34; deprived of full equality, or]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Last Saturday night, Equality Virginia honored 20 OUTstanding Virginians ... GLBT people, living and dead, who have excelled in their fields and forged new paths for others to walk.Get to know these people, learn about their accomplishments, honor their achievements, and understand why each of us is diminished when any of us is held back, considered "less than," deprived of full equality, or ]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Inquiring Minds Want to Know</title>
		<link>http://changeservant.blogspot.com/2009/02/inquiring-minds-want-to-know.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2009 03:13:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why is it that Delegate Mark Cole didn't want to answer questions about why he pulled a resolution honoring Equality Virginia on its 20th anniversary from the uncontested block? This isn't the first time he's taken steps to be sure that no one could ac...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Why is it that Delegate Mark Cole didn't want to answer questions about why he pulled a resolution honoring Equality Virginia on its 20th anniversary from the uncontested block? This isn't the first time he's taken steps to be sure that no one could accuse him of saying anything nice about a GLBT organization. Last year, he pulled a resolution honoring the Gay Community Center of Virginia from ]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Unintended Consequences</title>
		<link>http://changeservant.blogspot.com/2009/02/unintended-consequences.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2009 15:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As reported in today's Washington Post, in Catholic France, there's increasing recognition that it is a social &#34;good&#34; to provide a legal structure in addition to traditional marriage that helps stabilize relationships and provide financial security. Offered grudgingly as a &#34;less than marriage&#34; alternative for GLBT people, civil unions are fast becoming the first choice of straight couples who]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[As reported in today's Washington Post, in Catholic France, there's increasing recognition that it is a social "good" to provide a legal structure in addition to traditional marriage that helps stabilize relationships and provide financial security. Offered grudgingly as a "less than marriage" alternative for GLBT people, civil unions are fast becoming the first choice of straight couples who ]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>HRC State of the Workplace Report</title>
		<link>http://changeservant.blogspot.com/2009/02/hrc-state-of-workplace-report.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 18:16:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[State Of The Workplace 2007-2008View more presentations from hrcworkplace. (tags: benefits discrimination)]]></description>
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		<title>Sarah Palin in her own words &#8230; lest we forget</title>
		<link>http://changeservant.blogspot.com/2008/11/sarah-palin-in-her-own-words-lest-we.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 13:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Put some rhythm in your step and a add a melody to your memory as you think about what might have been and vow not to allow it ever to be.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Put some rhythm in your step and a add a melody to your memory as you think about what might have been and vow not to allow it ever to be.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>In politics, as in life &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://changeservant.blogspot.com/2008/11/in-politics-as-in-life.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 06:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Love conquers.But, love didn't conquer all today.My heart goes out to my friends in the GLBT community who learned again today that too many Americans continue to practice the politics of exclusion denying them full equality and writing their second cl...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Love conquers.But, love didn't conquer all today.My heart goes out to my friends in the GLBT community who learned again today that too many Americans continue to practice the politics of exclusion denying them full equality and writing their second class citizenship into state constitutions.Tears of sadness commingled freely with tears of joy tonight.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Will &quot;Love&quot; Triumph?</title>
		<link>http://changeservant.blogspot.com/2008/11/will-love-triumph.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 12:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a theory about &#34;love&#34; and &#34;hate&#34; on the campaign trail that will be tested today.Four years ago, Democrats grudgingly chose John Kerry, a candidate that they &#34;thought&#34; could win, to vie against George W. Bush, a &#34;hated&#34; rival, who was then, and to some extent remains even now, fiercely &#34;loved&#34; by the base voters of his party.  Regardless of  whether you believe, as I do, that &#34;hate&#34; is too]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I have a theory about "love" and "hate" on the campaign trail that will be tested today.Four years ago, Democrats grudgingly chose John Kerry, a candidate that they "thought" could win, to vie against George W. Bush, a "hated" rival, who was then, and to some extent remains even now, fiercely "loved" by the base voters of his party.  Regardless of  whether you believe, as I do, that "hate" is too]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>The Manchurian Candidate 2008 Remake</title>
		<link>http://changeservant.blogspot.com/2008/10/manchurian-candidate-2008-remake.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 03:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is mounting evidence that John Sidney McCain is a real life &#34;Manchurian Candidate&#34; brainwashed by the Chinese controlled North Vietnamese during his captivity in Viet Nam and carefully prepared to turn over the United States to China after his election as President of the United States. Let's start with the fact that McCain refers to his time in prison as his stay at the Hanoi Hilton.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[There is mounting evidence that John Sidney McCain is a real life "Manchurian Candidate" brainwashed by the Chinese controlled North Vietnamese during his captivity in Viet Nam and carefully prepared to turn over the United States to China after his election as President of the United States. Let's start with the fact that McCain refers to his time in prison as his stay at the Hanoi Hilton. ]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Governor Sarah Palin &#8230; to reform means to &quot;re-form&quot;</title>
		<link>http://changeservant.blogspot.com/2008/09/governor-sarah-palin-to-reform-means-to.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 14:34:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For short time Governor Sarah Palin being a &#34;reformer&#34; simply means that she's a &#34;re-former.&#34;  Someone who &#34;re-forms&#34; or remakes her political positions to fit the politics of the moment and audience.First, Palin was for the so-called &#34;bridge to nowhere&#34; when she was running for governor, and, then, she was against it after she was elected and it became a political liability on the national stage]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[For short time Governor Sarah Palin being a "reformer" simply means that she's a "re-former."  Someone who "re-forms" or remakes her political positions to fit the politics of the moment and audience.First, Palin was for the so-called "bridge to nowhere" when she was running for governor, and, then, she was against it after she was elected and it became a political liability on the national stage]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>The Governor of Alaska &#8230; &#8217;nuff said</title>
		<link>http://changeservant.blogspot.com/2008/08/governor-of-alaska-nuff-said.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 18:54:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#34;I know Hillary Clinton, and Sarah Palin is no Hillary Clinton,&#34; Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) said in a phone interview with NBC.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA["I know Hillary Clinton, and Sarah Palin is no Hillary Clinton," Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) said in a phone interview with NBC.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>perhaps there is hope for the Virginia legislature</title>
		<link>http://changeservant.blogspot.com/2008/07/perhaps-there-is-hope-for-virginia.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps the parties to the legislative impasse should try to be more like the cat the rat and the dog ....]]></description>
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		<title>On Guns &#8212; Welcome to the Land Of Common Sense</title>
		<link>http://changeservant.blogspot.com/2008/06/on-guns-welcome-to-land-of-common-sense.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 12:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday's gun ruling by the United States Supreme Court may be the first to interpret the Second Amendment but calling it historic may be histrionic.The First Amendment and the Second Amendment are part of the bill of rights and define the limits of government relative to the citizens.  Neither confers an absolute affirmative right on individuals.The government cannot ban speech under the First]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Yesterday's gun ruling by the United States Supreme Court may be the first to interpret the Second Amendment but calling it historic may be histrionic.The First Amendment and the Second Amendment are part of the bill of rights and define the limits of government relative to the citizens.  Neither confers an absolute affirmative right on individuals.The government cannot ban speech under the First]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Too Funny &#8212; Great Spoof</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 22:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You could be a candidate, too. ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[You could be a candidate, too. ]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>The Year in Hate &#8212; New Report from the Southern Poverty Law Center</title>
		<link>http://changeservant.blogspot.com/2008/03/year-in-hate-new-report-from-southern.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2008 12:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not surprisingly, the Southern Poverty Law Center's annual report on hate in America documents that anti-immigrant rhetoric is fueling an increase in reported hate crimes and a resurgence in hate groups.Also not surprising is that a leading immigration reduction advocacy organization has made the list of "hate groups" for the first time ...The most prominent of the organizations newly added to ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Not surprisingly, the Southern Poverty Law Center's annual report on hate in America documents that anti-immigrant rhetoric is fueling an increase in reported hate crimes and a resurgence in hate groups.Also not surprising is that a leading immigration reduction advocacy organization has made the list of "hate groups" for the first time ...The most prominent of the organizations newly added to ]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>The RTD to Unilingualist Fulminators &#8230; Get Over It</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2008 14:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today's Richmond Times Dispatch editorial defends Governor Tim Kaine's use of Spanish in greeting the pro-America president of El Salvador, complimenting his "hospitality" and "graciousness" to a foreign visitor and calling the fulminators on the internet and in the blogosphere who are bloviating about the Governor's bilingual greeting and the Spanish translation of his office's press release (an]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Today's Richmond Times Dispatch editorial defends Governor Tim Kaine's use of Spanish in greeting the pro-America president of El Salvador, complimenting his "hospitality" and "graciousness" to a foreign visitor and calling the fulminators on the internet and in the blogosphere who are bloviating about the Governor's bilingual greeting and the Spanish translation of his office's press release (an]]></content:encoded>
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