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	<description>''You can never step in the same river twice.''  --Heraclitus</description>
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		<title>Not all Hollywood People are Liberals</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At least, not on all issues.
Here&#8217;s Angelina Jolie on the Second Amendment:

&#8220;If anybody comes into my home and tries to hurt my kids, I&#8217;ve no problem shooting them.&#8221; That&#8217;s Angelina Jolie, revealing her up-with-the-Second-Amendment maternal instincts to Britain&#8217;s Mail on Sunday.
And, as an added warning, the protective mom of Maddox, 6, Pax, 4, Zahara, 3, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://differentriver.com/archives/2008/06/19/not-all-hollywood-people-are-liberals/</link>
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		<title>Why is the price of gas so high?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Part of the reason for the increase in the price of gas is increased demand from China and India, and supply problems in Nigeria, Venezuela, and Mexico.  But the demand increases have developed over many years, and the supply problems over several months &#8212; so why the rapid increases on a week-to-week basis?
One reason [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://differentriver.com/archives/2008/06/19/why-is-the-price-of-gas-so-high/</link>
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		<title>Pringles Can as a Coffin?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[No, this isn&#8217;t a diatribe against eating high-fat foods.  It&#8217;s a news story.

Pringles Can Designer Dies, Buried In a Pringles Can
n3hat sends along an item from the Cincinnati Enquirer:
&#8220;Dr. Fredric J. Baur was so proud of having designed the container for Pringles&#8230; that he asked his family to bury him in one. His children [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://differentriver.com/archives/2008/06/02/pringles-can-as-a-coffin/</link>
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		<title>Retribution is swift and sure&#8230;</title>
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Motorcyclist flipped bird, popped wheelie, crashed
May 5 03:13 PM US/Eastern
COPIAGUE, N.Y. (AP) - A Long Island man who flipped his finger at a police cruiser and then popped a wheelie on his motorcycle is recovering from injuries after crashing.
Suffolk County Police said Frank Patti, 26, of West Islip, rode by the police car at a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://differentriver.com/archives/2008/05/23/retribution-is-swift-and-sure/</link>
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		<title>High Oil Prices?  Blame Enron!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Two Democrats in the Senate have now found our why gas prices are so high:  It&#8217;s Enron&#8217;s fault!
The article is here.  The claim is that:

what lawmakers have called the &#8220;Enron loophole,&#8221; which was created in 2000 largely at the request of Enron Corp[,] &#8230; exempted electronic markets for large traders from government oversight.
The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://differentriver.com/archives/2008/05/16/high-oil-prices-blame-enron/</link>
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		<title>The &#8220;Missing Child&#8221; Poster Experiment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Do those &#8220;missing child&#8221; posters actually work?  I&#8217;ve heard some stories about kids with pictures on milk cartons and the like being found (or not), but the question in my mind has always been, what is the chance that someone who sees the child will actually see the poster &#8212; within enough time to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://differentriver.com/archives/2008/05/14/the-missing-child-poster-experiment/</link>
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		<title>Some Perspective &#8230; Hopefully!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dave Barry asks &#8220;And how was your day?&#8221; with a link to this story:

Driver gets in wreck, sees his home catch fire, gets ticket
Fri May 9 [2008], 5:27 PM ET
ROCK ISLAND, Tenn. - One moment, Justin Hill was turning into his driveway. Minutes later he was being flown to a hospital as his home went [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://differentriver.com/archives/2008/05/14/some-perspective-hopefully/</link>
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		<title>On Stage, but Not Acting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So in my last post, I noted that real life seemed to be imitating a famous play.  Apparently, sometimes the mix-up goes the other way.

Actor collapses on stage for real during heart attack scene
May 3 2008  By Kevan Christie
A SICK actor collapsed on stage - at the same time as his character was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://differentriver.com/archives/2008/05/13/on-stage-but-not-acting/</link>
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		<title>The Crucible in Florida</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;d thought this sort of thing went out with the Salem witch trials, but I guess not:

Fla. Teacher Accused Of Wizardry
Man Made Toothpick Vanish In Class
POSTED: 10:15 pm EDT May 5, 2008
UPDATED: 12:39 pm EDT May 7, 2008
LAND &#8216;O LAKES, Fla. &#8212; A substitute teacher in Pasco County has lost his job after being accused [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://differentriver.com/archives/2008/05/13/the-crucible-in-florida/</link>
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		<title>Clinton Blaming Bush for Clinton</title>
		<description><![CDATA[See if you can follow this without a scorecard:

 INDIANAPOLIS — Hillary Clinton loves to tell the story about how the Chinese government bought a good American company in Indiana, laid off all its workers and moved its critical defense technology work to China.
It’s a story with a dramatic, political ending. Republican President George W. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://differentriver.com/archives/2008/05/13/clinton-blaming-bush-for-clinton/</link>
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		<title>Rev. Wright and Immigration:  Two problems, one solution</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In all the uproar over Rev. Jeremiah Wright and his &#8220;God D&#8211;n America!&#8221; speeches, everyone seems to missing the obvious solution this gives us to the immigration issue.
It&#8217;s really simply:  Everybody in America who hates America that much should go live somewhere else, and give up their spot in America two one of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://differentriver.com/archives/2008/05/05/rev-wright-and-immigration-two-problems-one-solution/</link>
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		<title>Dept. of &#8220;Not so bad&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have eczema.  It&#8217;s annoying, and sometimes painful, and hard to treat.  But it is not nearly this bad.
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		<link>http://differentriver.com/archives/2008/04/14/dept-of-not-so-bad/</link>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Time Machine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An inspiring passage from Barack Obama&#8217;s speech on March 4, commemorating the Selma march and crediting it for his very existence:

What happened in Selma, Alabama and Birmingham also stirred the conscience of the nation. It worried folks in the White House who said, &#8220;You know, we&#8217;re battling Communism. How are we going to win hearts [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://differentriver.com/archives/2008/03/26/obamas-time-machine/</link>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Grandmother &#8212; and His Non-Uncle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I normally don&#8217;t quote Ann Coulter, since she&#8217;s way to strident even for me, but she makes some good points here:

Imagine a white pastor saying: &#8220;Racism is the American way. Racism is how this country was founded, and how this country is still run. &#8230; We believe in white supremacy and black inferiority. And believe [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://differentriver.com/archives/2008/03/21/obamas-grandmother-and-his-non-uncle/</link>
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		<title>Hillary Clinton&#8217;s Racist Supporters</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Greg Pierce reported in The Washington Times:

Nationally, a quarter of those who back Clinton say they&#8217;d vote for John McCain if Obama won the nomination (while just 10 percent of Obama supporters would do the if he lost).

(Note that this was published March 17, and thus reflects polling from BEFORE the Jeremiah Wright controversy.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://differentriver.com/archives/2008/03/20/hillary-clintons-racist-supporters/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;15-, 16-year-old guys lying on the floor with their Bibles in their hands, all dead on the floor&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From the BBC:

Eight people have been killed an nine wounded by a Palestinian gunman who infiltrated a Jewish seminary in West [sic] Jerusalem, Israeli officials say [sic].
&#8230;
The Palestinian Islamist group, Hamas, praised the attack, calling it &#8220;heroic&#8221;, but did not claim responsibility. There was also celebratory gunfire in Gaza.

In the world of diplomacy, this is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://differentriver.com/archives/2008/03/06/15-16-year-old-guys-lying-on-the-floor-with-their-bibles-in-their-hands-all-dead-on-the-floor/</link>
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		<title>William F. Buckley Jr. (1925-2008)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kathryn Jean Lopez writes:

I’m devastated to report that our dear friend, mentor, leader, and founder William F. Buckley Jr., died this morning in his study in Stamford, Connecticut.
He died while at work; if he had been given a choice on how to depart this world, I suspect that would have been exactly it. At home, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://differentriver.com/archives/2008/02/27/william-f-buckley-jr-1925-2008/</link>
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		<title>New from Cuba</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Less than 24 hours after Fidel Castro&#8217;s resignation was announced, Hillary Clinton won the Havana primary with 98.65% of the vote.
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		<link>http://differentriver.com/archives/2008/02/20/new-from-cuba/</link>
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		<title>How could that shooting possibly have happened?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;ve probably heard the news of the shooting at Northern Illinois University, in which a former student got up on the stage of a lecture hall with a shotgun and two or three handguns, and shot 22 people, five fatally, then killed himself.
The question is, how could that possibly have happened?  In Illinois, it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://differentriver.com/archives/2008/02/15/how-could-that-shooting-possibly-have-happened/</link>
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		<title>Before Hitler, There Were&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Crusades, and Chmielnicki.  Rabbi Yonason Goldson writes in &#8220;This Week in Jewish History&#8221;:

n 1096, a mere three months into the First Crusade, the ragtag army of Urban II obliterated Jewish communities up and down Germany&#8217;s Rhine River, communities guilty of nothing other than lying in the path of Crusaders who sought distraction from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://differentriver.com/archives/2008/02/15/before-hitler-there-were-2/</link>
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