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	<title>Surrounded By Clowns</title>
	<link>http://www.surroundedbyclowns.com</link>
	<description>If you are surrounded by clowns, this is your place. Get heated.</description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2007 06:06:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Digg Melts Down</title>
		<link>http://www.surroundedbyclowns.com/law/2007/05/02/292/</link>
		<comments>http://www.surroundedbyclowns.com/law/2007/05/02/292/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2007 05:30:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>axiom</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[UPDATE: No access to custom areas of the site&#8230;
Digg will be down for a brief period, while we make some changes.
While not digging, the digg crew recommends&#8230;
Has anyone been watching the situation at Digg?
For those not in the know, the HD-DVD crack recently became public.  A significant number of Digg users are aghast that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>+1 for Democrats ?</title>
		<link>http://www.surroundedbyclowns.com/poker-chips/2007/04/25/291/</link>
		<comments>http://www.surroundedbyclowns.com/poker-chips/2007/04/25/291/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2007 16:46:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Last Man Standing</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070425/pl_nm/congress_gambling_internet_dc;_ylt=AnnjUo5QJz2vX_LzmHe3YtgjtBAF
Is this a ploy to garner support?  Will this go anywhere? 
 Do you agree with the ruling against online gambling?
 Should there be a regulatory commission to watchdog the code used by these sites to deal cards to players?
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		<title>So what are we supposed to believe here?</title>
		<link>http://www.surroundedbyclowns.com/politics/2007/03/29/290/</link>
		<comments>http://www.surroundedbyclowns.com/politics/2007/03/29/290/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2007 19:44:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Midnight</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The fact is that the Attorney General and White House Counsel (Harriet Miers - you remember the FOGW Bush nominated to be a Supreme Court Justice) figured out which US Attorneys to fire for both performance and political reasons.
Are we to believe that The Administration knew nothing of this? That high ranking officials managed to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The monkey menace</title>
		<link>http://www.surroundedbyclowns.com/politics/2006/12/08/289/</link>
		<comments>http://www.surroundedbyclowns.com/politics/2006/12/08/289/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Dec 2006 14:45:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Last Man Standing</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Story Link
What can they do?  With their belief system completely contradicting the safety of the populace.  Is it the start of the Monkey rebellion?  Perhaps they should let loose larger animals into the streets to kill the monkeys.  That&#8217;s the ticket&#8230;
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		<title>Dear Iran&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.surroundedbyclowns.com/politics/2006/11/30/288/</link>
		<comments>http://www.surroundedbyclowns.com/politics/2006/11/30/288/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Nov 2006 14:46:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Last Man Standing</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15952309/
This is the absolute height of idiocy.  He built his entire little oil empire on doing the worst to his fellow Man.  Is he hoping to sway the press with his bullshit?  Hoping to cause a shitstorm of knee jerk passivism so he can continue to threaten the world with his one bullet gun? 
 Does he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The brainwashing of our youth</title>
		<link>http://www.surroundedbyclowns.com/entertainment/2006/11/15/287/</link>
		<comments>http://www.surroundedbyclowns.com/entertainment/2006/11/15/287/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Nov 2006 19:05:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Last Man Standing</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I saw this &#8220;piece&#8221; the other day :
http://www.aintitcool.com/node/30704
 
(I know, Aint it cool sucks but stay with me for a sec)  In this review it describes Happy Feet as a subliminally political and Leftist slanted movie.  It got me thinking.  How long has &#8220;children&#8217;s&#8221; movies been used as a training video for left wing thinking.   Or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SBC is dead.</title>
		<link>http://www.surroundedbyclowns.com/politics/2006/10/31/286/</link>
		<comments>http://www.surroundedbyclowns.com/politics/2006/10/31/286/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Nov 2006 03:03:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Midnight</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Long live SBC?
-Midnight
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		<title>Service Guarantees Citizenship</title>
		<link>http://www.surroundedbyclowns.com/politics/2006/10/17/285/</link>
		<comments>http://www.surroundedbyclowns.com/politics/2006/10/17/285/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Oct 2006 01:40:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>angryjester</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Heinlein would be proud.

(See comments for story)
And after thinking about it, so am I. I think it&#8217;s more than fair; if an immigrant wants to serve in the military, then they should definitely be fasttracked for citizenship. Does anyone have a problem or criticism of/with this? Heinlein wasn&#8217;t crazy; powersuit armor is in it&#8217;s first [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You&#8217;re a G for Gonad.</title>
		<link>http://www.surroundedbyclowns.com/funny/2006/10/14/283/</link>
		<comments>http://www.surroundedbyclowns.com/funny/2006/10/14/283/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Oct 2006 15:45:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Midnight</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[


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		<title>Showdown with Iran</title>
		<link>http://www.surroundedbyclowns.com/politics/2006/09/14/282/</link>
		<comments>http://www.surroundedbyclowns.com/politics/2006/09/14/282/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Sep 2006 03:42:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>axiom</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Below the viewing threshhold of this post, you will see Charles Krauthammer&#8217;s latest op-ed on Iran.
I hadn&#8217;t considered the situation quite this dire.  But then again, I hadn&#8217;t considered the full calculus.
It&#8217;s worth a read and reflect.  We had discussed this topic several times in the past and, according to das Kraut, the showdown is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review:  the Valerie Plame Leak</title>
		<link>http://www.surroundedbyclowns.com/politics/2006/09/07/281/</link>
		<comments>http://www.surroundedbyclowns.com/politics/2006/09/07/281/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Sep 2006 14:21:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>axiom</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[We burned a lot of cycles on this story, and while nearly everything asserted by liberal media, including a Rove conspiracy and all sorts of nefariousness on the part of the White House, turned out to be false.
I think this is a small, but significant, lesson on conspiracy theories.  Since it is usually the out-of-power [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Save the Newspapers!</title>
		<link>http://www.surroundedbyclowns.com/politics/2006/08/21/280/</link>
		<comments>http://www.surroundedbyclowns.com/politics/2006/08/21/280/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Aug 2006 15:34:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Last Man Standing</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[http://www.drudgereport.com/flashbg.htm
BILL GATES &#8216;CHARITY&#8217; FOUNDATION FINANCES NEWSPAPER PURCHASES
The BILL &#038; MELINDA GATES FOUNDATION declares its noble mission is to bring &#8220;innovations in health and learning to the global community.&#8221;
But the world&#8217;s largest philanthropic organization also is among the organizations that collectively loaned nearly $400 million to MEDIANEWS GROUP INC. &#8212; for the acquisition of newspapers in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Better Safe Than Sorry</title>
		<link>http://www.surroundedbyclowns.com/politics/2006/08/17/279/</link>
		<comments>http://www.surroundedbyclowns.com/politics/2006/08/17/279/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Aug 2006 00:01:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>axiom</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The other day I went out for lunch. I walked down to my favorite burrito place and, on the way through the doors, I was accosted by a mob of folks who challenged me to a battle&#8230;.A FREESTYLE RAP BATTLE.
Good thing I had read this:
http://www.wikihow.com/Survive-a-Freestyle-Rap-Battle
I did a lot of spitting that day, my friends!
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		<title>Wiretapping ruled unconstitutional</title>
		<link>http://www.surroundedbyclowns.com/law/2006/08/17/278/</link>
		<comments>http://www.surroundedbyclowns.com/law/2006/08/17/278/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Aug 2006 20:17:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Last Man Standing</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060817/ap_on_go_pr_wh/warrantless_surveillance
A federal judge has ruled the NSA&#8217;s wiretappings to be illegal and issued a cease and desist to the Justice department.  I believe we discussed this before but I was curious to see how this ruling affects our convictions of the case. 
 Does anyone think this will get upheld in the higher courts?  Do you think [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Juwanna championship?</title>
		<link>http://www.surroundedbyclowns.com/sports/2006/08/17/277/</link>
		<comments>http://www.surroundedbyclowns.com/sports/2006/08/17/277/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Aug 2006 20:02:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Last Man Standing</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[http://deadspin.com/sports/cycling/were-only-99-44100ths-percent-pure-ourselves-194679.php
 
Does he/she deserve to be champ?  Does being a man/woman mean more than having the appropriate appendage? 
When becoming a woman, from a man do you lose the inherent bone structure, body fat indexes and muscle striata that make men different from women?  Or is the definition of a man&#8217;s sport v woman&#8217;s sport based on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cultural Rot, Societal Decay, and Racism</title>
		<link>http://www.surroundedbyclowns.com/politics/2006/08/07/276/</link>
		<comments>http://www.surroundedbyclowns.com/politics/2006/08/07/276/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Aug 2006 16:28:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>axiom</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I want to first preface this discussion with a word on the First Amendment.  I am staunchly pro-free speech.  If you want to put videos of your smutscapades on the internet, or you want to spit gangsta shit over some homemade beats (like Puff Daddy), then be my guest.
I care not to tell others what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pamela Anderson-Lee-Ritchie/Rock</title>
		<link>http://www.surroundedbyclowns.com/entertainment/2006/07/27/275/</link>
		<comments>http://www.surroundedbyclowns.com/entertainment/2006/07/27/275/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jul 2006 16:55:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>axiom</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[She married Bob Ritchie (aka Kid Rock) recently.  From Fox News:
Asked how she&#8217;s coping with her nerves before the big event, she replied: &#8220;I have two words for you: champagne.&#8221;
Good thing she was having a good math day when she got those implants.  That would have looked pretty awkward.
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		<title>Followup: Katrina Gun Debate</title>
		<link>http://www.surroundedbyclowns.com/politics/2006/07/26/274/</link>
		<comments>http://www.surroundedbyclowns.com/politics/2006/07/26/274/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jul 2006 15:38:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>inciteful</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I saw this on Fark today.  Thought those of you who were involved in the Katrina gun debate a while back would be interested.  Based on that previous thread, I don&#8217;t think anyone would argue against this law. 
 House votes to block police from seizing legal guns in disasters WASHINGTON &#8212; The House voted Tuesday to prevent law [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Belated Happy Birthday to Surrounded By Clowns!</title>
		<link>http://www.surroundedbyclowns.com/politics/2006/07/25/273/</link>
		<comments>http://www.surroundedbyclowns.com/politics/2006/07/25/273/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jul 2006 18:15:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>axiom</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[For those of you that missed it, SBC turned 1 in June.  Cheers to everyone for their contributions.
I hope to have some sort of a retrospective post soon &#8212; in the same vain as the 6-month milestone.
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		<title>2 Steps Back</title>
		<link>http://www.surroundedbyclowns.com/politics/2006/07/21/272/</link>
		<comments>http://www.surroundedbyclowns.com/politics/2006/07/21/272/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Jul 2006 02:09:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>axiom</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Krauthammer&#8217;s article says it all, in my opinion.
To boot, I think this more than ever states the case for two things that I have long argued.  Terrorists, their affiliates, sympathizers, and sponsors simply cannot be trusted to stay true to their word.  What good does diplomacy do?  Secondly, it shows how crucial it is to [...]]]></description>
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