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	<title>Barb's Blog</title>
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		<title>Silas Wants to Go Too</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/09/02/silas-wants-to-go-too/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:58:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[australia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems Silas wants to go with us to Australia too.
He sat down and said, &#8220;Nana, I am going to miss you. I want to go to Australia!&#8221;
&#8220;But you can&#8217;t Silas, you don&#8217;t have a ticket.&#8221;
Silas, not stopping exclaimed, &#8220;Well, I will get a ticket!&#8221;
&#8220;But it cost a lot of money.&#8221;
&#8220;I will get a whole bunch of money!&#8221; he persisted.
&#8220;How does a person get money, Silas?&#8221; I asked him.
&#8220;I don&#8217;t know,&#8221; he finally slowed down on that one.
&#8220;You need a job.&#8221; I quickly told him.
&#8220;I will get a job, and I will get money, and I will buy a ticket, and I will go to Australia!&#8221;  he concluded excitedly, and then he looked at John on the webcam as if everything was resolved and said to him, pointing, &#8220;I am going to YOUR house!&#8221;
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With some explanation, I think we made Silas realize that it can&#8217;t happen like ...]]></description>
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		<title>Perth Australia</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/09/01/perth-australia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 03:41:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hurricane earl]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[perth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pinnacles]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tomorrow, if all goes to plan, Laura and I will head out for a vacation that we have waited on, to Perth, Australia.

We are almost weary before we begin, as the 5 hours from Baltimore to LA, the 15 and a half hours from LA to Melbourne, and then the 5 hours wait there, add to that 5 more hours from Melbourne to Perth has us wishing we could cross our arms and &#8220;blink&#8221; to our destination!
It should be an adventure just the travel part, but while there, and just to highlight a few things, we plan to see the monolith Wave Rock to the east,  The Pinnacles to the north, and a cape to cape tour of Austalia&#8217;s South West, where we hope to see more than a few wildflowers.
Now if Hurricane Earl can stay out of our flight path at take off&#8230;

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		<title>John Cusack&#8217;s Satanic Threats</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/09/01/john-cusacks-satanic-threats/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 11:01:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News Items]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fox news]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[john cusack]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I will never understand how some liberals get away with such ugly talk when they speak of conservatives, as if they are the only ones who feel the &#8216;other&#8217; side is evil. But for sure these same delusional liberals think they are OK to make threats and talk this way as if words didn&#8217;t mean anything. If I were Fox News, I&#8217;d treat this seriously and as something to report to the authorities.
Specifically I am speaking of John Cusack&#8217;s latest twitter posts:

Actor John Cusack went on a caustic Twitter  rampage Sunday evening, attacking former House Majority Leader Dick  Armey, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Fox News.
“I AM FOR A SATANIC DEATH CULT CENTER AT FOX  NEWS HQ AND OUTSIDE THE OFFICES ORDICK ARMEYAND NEWT GINGRICH-and all  the GOP WELFARE FREAKS,” Cusack tweeted.
Cusack has long been outspoken about  politics. He supported Barack Obama in the ...]]></description>
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		<title>U. S. Capitol Tour</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/08/31/u-s-capitol-tour/</link>
		<comments>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/08/31/u-s-capitol-tour/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 23:38:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bible]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Capitol tour]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[congress]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We often hear about the &#8220;Separation of church and State&#8221; from the onset of our Founding Fathers ideals, yet, this tour proves otherwise.
Did you know that the first Bible printed in English in America today, was first printed by Congress for use in our schools?
Did you know Thomas Jefferson sent missionaries to evangelize the Indians using federal funds to do so?
Did you know that out of the 56 signers of the Declaration, 29 had seminary or Bible School degrees?

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		<title>Daniel&#8217;s Birthday</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/08/28/daniels-birthday/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Aug 2010 00:31:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[aiden]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[belly flop]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bikes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[birthday]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cake]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[connor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[daniel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ice cream]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[miquel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[miranda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rubí]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Silas]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today we celebrated Daniel&#8217;s birthday.

With some fun at the pool&#8230;



Miranda walks baby Rubí around the pool&#8230;

&#8230;while Aiden does a dive belly flop into the water.

Silas preferred to try out a new bike that Connor and Aiden brought.

Bikes going down the hill seemed like a fun idea&#8230;.


Miquel waited around for the birthday party to start.

Next, to the tire swing!



Then we had party time!



Silas loves cake and ice cream!

Yaya helps Silas with the last bite!

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		<title>Spider and Silas</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/08/28/spider-and-silas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Aug 2010 21:47:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s not unusual for me to announce, &#8220;Nice light on some mushrooms outside&#8221; or &#8220;Spider on the side of the house.&#8221; while rushing into the house grabbing my camera gear, and Laura doing the same.
Today we had a spider, he was quite large.

Well, Silas must be learning by example as I found him grabbing HIS camera (an old cell phone that he is allowed to play with) to take a photo of the spider.

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		<title>Buying Shrimp, Eating Lobster, and Avoiding Realities</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/08/27/buying-shrimp-eating-lobster-and-avoiding-realities/</link>
		<comments>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/08/27/buying-shrimp-eating-lobster-and-avoiding-realities/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 16:36:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;It is also true that the growth of public debt has been driven by a  dramatic diminution of tax receipts due to the recession, the extra  spending to avoid sinking into a self-perpetuating depression, and all  those billions we invested to save the financial sectors from their  sins.&#8221;  Mort Zuckerman
*              *                  *                       *                 *

&#8220;We&#8217;re buying shrimp, guys,” he said, smiling. “Come on.&#8221;
That was President Obama&#8217;s reply to someone asking a serious policy question while he was on his 9th vacation.
I watched the video, the president WENT to the crowd himself, shaking hands, he was fine with  small talk, but to the casual observer, don&#8217;t even touch a certain subject, he won&#8217;t be bothered. He will blow you off.
But is &#8220;we&#8217;re buying shrimp&#8221; in these hard times the right answer for a president ?
Let&#8217;s consider that he told ALL of us that sacrifice was as a nation ...]]></description>
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		<title>Oak Tree Struck by Lightning</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/08/26/oak-tree-struck-by-lightning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 11:07:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I went to Lake Waterford the other day, and my son Enric pulled me aside to show me a tree that had been struck by lightning and was completely stripped of its bark:



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		<title>Jenny and Miquel Engagement Photos</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/08/25/jenny-and-miquel-engagement-photos/</link>
		<comments>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/08/25/jenny-and-miquel-engagement-photos/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 21:40:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[engagement]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I took Jenny and Miquel&#8217;s engagement photos.
Lake Waterford provided a great, lush, natural background for their photos. We all had fun.

The rest are here » Jenny and Miquel
See more of my portraits here » Barb&#8217;s Portraits
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		<title>Nothing Is Too Hard for God</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/08/25/nothing-is-too-hard-for-god/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:28:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Enric is preaching a series &#8220;God&#8217;s Chosen People from Minority to Multitude&#8221; and about the faith that goes along with these chosen people.
He has started with Abraham and he continues with him in this sermon. He preached this July 28th on a Wednesday night service.
This particular sermon could be called, &#8220;Nothing is Too Hard for God.&#8221;
If you get a chance to listen, I encourage you to download the MP3 » HERE
&#8230;We are able to be used by God and he is not limited by how well or poorly we perform on  a daily basis. He uses us in spite of us.
God is not limited by our inadequacies, our shortcomings, the problems that we have. Is it not said, &#8216;in our weakness, He is strong?&#8217;
We tend to be frustrated by our weaknesses, but we ought to glory in them. As His strength is made manifest through our lives.
&#8230;limiting God by gauging ...]]></description>
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		<title>Rubi Likes to Suck Her Thumb</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/08/24/rubi-likes-to-suck-her-thumb/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 19:32:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know that people think it&#8217;s a nasty habit, but Rubí looks so CUTE when she sucks her thumb!



Rubí does other things too, like, sticks out her tongue, hehe!

She&#8217;s cutest when she&#8217;s smiling!


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		<title>Failed Stimulus Program Cost More Than the Iraq War</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/08/24/failed-stimulus-program-cost-more-than-the-iraq-war/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 13:15:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not sure I liked Bush, not sure the Iraq War was the way to go. Having said that, seeing that we will be hearing a lot about both in the upcoming elections, here is some perspective that made me stop and think&#8230;
From the Washington Examiner:
Expect to hear a lot about how much the Iraq war cost in the days ahead from Democrats worried about voter wrath against their unprecedented spending excesses.
The meme is simple: The economy is in a shambles because of Bush&#8217;s economic policies and his war in Iraq. As American Thinker&#8217;s Randall Hoven points out, that&#8217;s the message being peddled by lefties as diverse as former Clinton political strategist James Carville, economist Joseph Stiglitz, and The Nation&#8217;s Washington editor, Christopher Hayes.
The key point in the mantra is an alleged $3 trillion cost for the war. Well, it was expensive to be sure, in both blood and treasure, but, ...]]></description>
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		<title>ACORN: Business as Usual</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/08/24/acorn-business-as-usual/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 13:02:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It just has another set of names.
Fraud, corruption, intimidation, all words that one can easily associate with ACORN. Why have there been no consequences and what does this mean to our next election?
From Heritage.org
ACORN might have disbanded, but the risk of vote fraud in the November 2010 elections is still real.
“Desperate men and women will do desperate things to maintain power when the public threatens to take that power away from them,” said David Keene, chairman of the American Conservative Union. “That means that, more so than in other years, [some candidates] are going to be relying on whatever kind of assistance they can get from whatever quarter that assistance might come.”
That assistance will come from ACORN-like groups, Keene explained at yesterday’s Bloggers Briefing at Heritage. Keene said the people who were a part of ACORN and who used that organization to mobilize on behalf of their favorite politicians “aren’t ...]]></description>
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		<title>New Jersey Obamacare</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/08/23/new-jersey-obamacare/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 19:18:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obamacare is confusing. When does it start? 2014?
So in New Jersey there is an article wondering why only two people bothered to sign up for coverage:
Just two people in New Jersey will begin receiving coverage Monday under new plans created by federal health care reforms.NJ  Protect plans are available to those who have been without insurance  for at least six months and submit evidence of pre-existing health  conditions.
The state will receive $141 million in federal subsidies to cover claims that exceed the premiums paid by the beneficiaries.
Horizon Blue Cross and Blue Shield of New Jersey spokesman Tom Vincz expects more people will enroll in the coming weeks.
Vincz  says more than 600 applications were downloaded and 268 information  kits were sent out following the program&#8217;s announcement on Aug. 1.
Two policies are available, with premiums ranging from $212 to $768 monthly, depending on age.
Let me ask, would ...]]></description>
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		<title>Oh No I&#8217;ve Said Too Much</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/08/23/oh-no-ive-said-too-much/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 12:09:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s a line from the song, Losing My Religion from REM.
These days, there seems to be some confusion as to what religion Obama is faithful to.
Perhaps that&#8217;s because over the few years of his candidacy and presidency he has sent the us some mixed messages.

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		<title>Philly Requirring Bloggers to Pay $300</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/08/22/philly-requirring-bloggers-to-pay-300/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 01:32:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you blog, pay attention to this one. I mean, even if you&#8217;re not in Philadelphia, this could interest other cities needing revenue, and your city could be next.

Between her blog and infrequent contributions to  ehow.com, over the last few  years she says she’s made about $50. To  [Marilyn] Bess, her website is a hobby. To  the city of Philadelphia,  it’s a potential moneymaker, and the city  wants its cut.
In May, the city sent Bess a letter demanding that she pay $300, the  price of a business privilege license.
“The real kick in the pants is that I don’t even have a full-time   job, so for the city to tell me to pony up $300 for a business privilege   license, pay wage tax, business privilege tax, net profits tax on a   handful of money is outrageous,” Bess says.
It ...]]></description>
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		<title>Patuxent Wildlife Refuge</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/08/21/patuxent-wildlife-refuge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Aug 2010 22:49:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, Laura and I decided to visit the Patuxent Wildlife Refuge. I had seen the signs for it many times while traveling on 295 going to Washington D.C., but had never visited it.
We decided to take the Cash Lake Trail, which once we started we had to back up and take a detour.

None of the trails are super long, so I assume one could do them all in one day if they have the time. We didn&#8217;t have the time, but given the heat and humidity, the one trail plus detour was enough for us for today.
The visitor center had many exhibits, but we didn&#8217;t tour them. Laura wasn&#8217;t impressed, and I think she just couldn&#8217;t combine in her mind a place that focuses on preserving wildlife with the many stuffed animals around the place.
So we were off to the Cash Trail&#8230;
We could see the lake and were anxious to ...]]></description>
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		<title>Christian Persecution</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/08/20/christian-persecution/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 23:31:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Persecution against Christians still exists today. A sobering video.

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		<title>Obama and Jobs and Vacations</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/08/20/obama-and-jobs-and-vacations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 20:21:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[democrats]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apparently Obama isn&#8217;t blaming George Bush (who has been cited as more popular than Obama in T-shirt sales on Martha&#8217;s Vineyard) about the loss of jobs&#8230;.
Recently he was heard speaking about some jobs bill and even though he didn&#8217;t directly name democrats, he blamed congress, and that&#8217;s who is in control of congress.
Obama, before heading off to his 9th vacation was quoted as saying:
From Red State
The jobs bill that is stalled in Congress would completely eliminate  taxes on key investments in small businesses. It would allow small  business owners to write off more expenses. And it would make it easier  for community banks to do more lending to small businesses, while  allowing small firms to take out larger SBA loans with fewer fees, which  countless entrepreneurs have told me would make a big difference in  their companies. I’d also like to point out this ...]]></description>
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		<title>Didgeridoo and Flugelhorn</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/08/19/didgeridoo-and-flugelhorn/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 03:17:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[becca]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[craig]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[didgeridoo]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[After the bubbles, we all gathered inside.
Silas tried out the didgeridoo&#8230;.


Becca and Silas look at the artwork on the didgeridoo.

Craig brought out his flugelhorn&#8230;.

He teaches Silas how to use it.

Silas is a bit shy to try it, so Miranda gives him an extra lesson.

Which allowed Craig to try the didgeridoo.

Silas finally tries&#8230;.

He gets a strong sound! Yay! Look at those cheeks!

Becca and Jared give it a try, too!


More from Silas. 

Some babies get lullabies, Rubí&#8217;s daddy plays her the didgeridoo!

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		<title>Bubbles</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/08/19/bubbles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 02:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Craig and Leanna and their children were here today, and after feeding them Tortilla de Patatas and Ensaladilla Rusa for dinner, Leanna and Miranda took the children out to play bubbles&#8230;.




Ok, by the time I got out there to take photos, Silas sort of went off on his own with all the big sticks in the yard. Outside fun for all!

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		<title>If The Mosque Goes Up, I Want My Mangers and Merry Christmas Back!</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/08/18/if-the-mosque-goes-up-i-want-my-mangers-and-merry-christmas-back/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 20:33:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There has been a lot of controversy over the mosque being built near ground zero. From what I can tell, before this takes place, it seems an investigation should be going on as to the financing of it, and where the money is coming from, and who is behind it. It&#8217;s not about religious liberty&#8230;do we still have that? I mean, remember mangers coming down in town squares and retail workers scared to death to say, &#8220;Merry Christmas&#8221;??
The president claims it&#8217;s about religious liberties. I don&#8217;t think the objectors have a thing against religious liberties, it&#8217;s more than that behind the controversy.
But what IS at stake? Perhaps our freedom of speech, because now, NANNY NAZI PELOSI is after those who object to the mosque, she wants objectors investigated.
American people learn that the State Department will be &#8220;footing the bill for Feisal  Abdul Rauf, the imam behind the controversial ground ...]]></description>
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		<title>Transparency</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/08/14/transparency/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Aug 2010 18:41:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember Obama&#8217;s transparency promise? It&#8217;s was broke during the health care bill, writing that in closed door secret sessions.

But now it&#8217;s officially over: From the Washington Examiner
President Obama has abolished the position in his White House  dedicated to transparency and shunted those duties into the portfolio of  a partisan ex-lobbyist who is openly antagonistic to the notion of  disclosure by government and politicians.
Obama transferred &#8220;ethics czar&#8221; Norm Eisen to the Czech Republic to  serve as U.S. ambassador. Some of Eisen&#8217;s duties will be handed to  Domestic Policy Council member Steven Croley, but most of them, it  appears, will shift over to the already-full docket of White House  Counsel Bob Bauer.
Bauer is renowned as a &#8220;lawyer&#8217;s lawyer&#8221; and a legal expert. His  resume, however, reads more &#8220;partisan advocate&#8221; than &#8220;good-government  crusader.&#8221; Bauer came to the White House from the law firm Perkins ...]]></description>
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		<title>Nice Bum Shot</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/08/14/nice-bum-shot/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Aug 2010 14:41:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[bugs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Caterpillar]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, my son Enric brought in a caterpillar and then later Miquel came in to tell me get the camera ready, there was a stick bug on his car.  Later and very enthusiastically I showed John my photos. His comment? &#8220;Nice bum shot.&#8221;
I didn&#8217;t know that on the stick bug, I didn&#8217;t shoot the correct end. 
And to be honest, it took me awhile to figure which end was which on the caterpillar.
It&#8217;s not easy sometimes!
Anyway, after those two critters yesterday, today I woke up to a centipede!!!! Yikes!
John&#8217;s response to me hopping on the chair was laughter.
I got pics. Caterpillar, stick bug, and the centipede, which is STILL at large!




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		<title>Three Months Old</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/08/12/three-months-old/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 22:53:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rubí is growing so fast!




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		<title>Democrats: Spending for Dummies</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/08/12/democrats-spending-for-dummies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 21:17:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There  are just too many accounts on how our economy is failing out there to keep track of. I decided to provide a place for the top headlines of today:
Democrats: “Spending For Dummies” Or: &#8220;How to waste someone else&#8217;s money for profit and pleasure&#8221;
We’ve seen it splattered all across the front pages; more spending  for jobs, more spending for bailouts, more spending for Unemployment,  more spending for Teachers and Unions and special interests.  We’ve also  seen deficits rise and the National debt reach numbers that don’t fit on WalMart calculators.
America is bankrupt and they (the ruling Political class) don’t even know it…or they don’t seem to care anyway&#8230;. Read More HERE
DEFICIT ADDS $165,040,000,000.00 &#8212; IN ONE MONTH!
The U.S. government spent itself deeper into the red last month, paying nearly $20 billion in interest on debt and an additional $9.8 billion to help unemployed Americans.
Federal spending eclipsed ...]]></description>
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		<title>Real Bridge to Nowhere in New Hampshire</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/08/12/real-bridge-to-nowhere-in-new-hampshire/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 20:45:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[More idiotic spending in Stimulus funds&#8230;While more than 700 bridges declared unsafe in New Hampshire, this &#8220;bridge&#8221; got the stimulus work:

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		<title>Why No One Is Hiring</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/08/11/why-no-one-is-hiring/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 23:31:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News Items]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health insurance]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps the following gives us some insight as to why no one is hiring:

By MICHAEL P. FLEISCHER
 from the Wall Street Journal
With  unemployment just under 10% and companies sitting on their cash, you  would think that sooner or later job growth would take off. I think it&#8217;s  going to be later—much later. Here&#8217;s why.
Meet Sally (not her  real name; details changed to preserve privacy). Sally is a terrific  employee, and she happens to be the median person in terms of base pay  among the 83 people at my little company in New Jersey, where we provide  audio systems for use in educational, commercial and industrial  settings. She&#8217;s been with us for over 15 years. She&#8217;s a high school  graduate with some specialized training. She makes $59,000 a year—on  paper. In reality, she makes only $44,000 a year because $15,000 is ...]]></description>
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		<title>Rob Peter to Pay Paul?</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/08/11/rob-peter-to-pay-paul/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 16:04:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When you&#8217;re a democrat and you&#8217;re running out of money, how do you fund a new program? You take away from one to pay for the other.
The new bill to rehire teachers, had to paid for somehow.
From Fox News:
Some Democrats are upset and advocacy groups  are outraged over the raiding of the food-stamp cupboard to fund a  state-aid bailout that some call a gift to teachers and government union  workers.
House members convened Tuesday and passed  the multibillion-dollar bailout bill for cash-strapped states that  provides $10 billion to school districts to rehire laid-off teachers or  ensure that more teachers won&#8217;t be let go before the new school year  begins, keeping more than 160,000 teachers on the job, the Obama  administration says.
But the bill also requires that $12 billion  be stripped from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, commonly  known as food stamps, ...]]></description>
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		<title>Gangsterism</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/08/11/gangsterism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 15:44:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Democrats are gangsters and communists, says Howard Stern, who also says he&#8217;s never voting democrat again.

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		<title>Kiss and Wipe</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/08/10/kiss-and-wipe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 00:36:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ah your first kiss&#8230;sweet, isn&#8217;t it?

In Miquel&#8217;s case, it was hard to tell, as he did the old KISS and WIPE it off!
 

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		<title>Obamanomics: Fail</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/08/10/obamanomics-fail/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 23:40:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“A nameless bill for a hopeless cause is a fitting metaphor for a  Democratic Congress that refuses to listen to the American people and  abandon its job-killing agenda,” said House Republican Leader John  Boehner (Ohio).
Seems our democratic legislators in all their (ahem) wisdom, are considering another bailout. It yet has a name.
Republicans have some idea names:
“union-boss bailout” bill:
&#8211; Save Our ‘Stimulus’ (SOS) Act
&#8211; ‘Recovery Summer’ Bailout Act (Cash for Flunkers)
&#8211; Delivering Unions a Major Boost (DUMB) Act
&#8211; Helping Election Expenditures, Hurting American Workers (HEEHAW) Act
&#8211; Democracy is Strengthened by Clearly Leveraging and Optimizing Special-Interests’ Effectiveness (DISCLOSE) Act
&#8211; Holding Union Bosses Over Until Card Check Act
&#8211; Rescuing Incumbent Democrats Is Costly (RIDIC) Act
&#8211; Summertime Cash for Union Bosses Instead of Spending Cuts for Taxpayers Act
&#8211; Frivolous Act of Ineffective Largesse (FAIL) Act
&#8211; Naming These Things Hasn’t Gotten Us Anywhere, So Why Bother? Act
Republicans specifically object to what they ...]]></description>
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		<title>A Visit to Baltimore Harbor</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/08/09/a-visit-to-baltimore-harbor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 01:24:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today Chris and I with our girls and Cammy went to Baltimore Harbor to pick up some souvenirs to take to Australia.
I noticed when we were upstairs in the Pavilion that we had no view of the Harbor, only  something big and gray. I figured it had to be a great sized ship. Wow, when I got outside, I finally saw how BIG! Apparently the Brazilian Navy was in town with their U27 docked in Baltimore&#8217;s Harbor!






It was a hot summer&#8217;s day, the flowers around the cafés were lovely.


Our girls pose.

Cameron was a good boy, so he got to drive the hot dog truck!

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		<title>New Shirt</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/08/09/new-shirt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:34:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[aquarium]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Uncle Meek and Jenny went to the Baltimore Aquarium and got Silas this neat t-shirt!
Not Star Wars, but SEA Wars!

I think Silas likes it!
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		<title>Toy Airplane</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/08/09/toy-airplane/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2010 22:14:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While out at the store this weekend, I picked up a toy airplane for Silas.

He was a little confused at first how to make it work.


But Daddy soon showed him how&#8230;



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		<title>Laura Lopez Photography</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/08/09/laura-lopez-photography/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2010 13:29:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am blessed with talented children.
Recently Laura started her photography portfolio at my suggestion, she is just getting so good! I&#8217;d like to think some of it is my influence, and yet the truth is, she has some very unique approaches to taking photographs. I hope she will add more and more images, showing off something she really likes to do of late.
Please visit Laura Lopez Photography!

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		<title>Noise in the Basement</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/08/09/noise-in-the-basement/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2010 11:07:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[98 rock]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Apparently, every Sunday 11pm to Midnight Matt Davis from 98 Rock, interviews    local/unsigned artists from the Baltimore/DC music scene on the radio.
Last night, he interviewed several bands, one of which was Embers for Ashes, my son Miquel sings in that band.
I thought Matt was a talented interviewer, and that the band did well also.
Embers for Ashes plays tonight at Bourbon Street.
I so remember, even in my day, 98 Rock being the &#8220;cool&#8221; station to listen to, how cool is it that my son was interviewed there last night!
I was able to grab some images from 98 Rock&#8217;s Web Cam broadcast, while they were on the air:
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		<title>Talking With Rubi</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/08/08/talking-with-rubi/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2010 01:26:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nana Sandy Alert!

Lately, Rubí has a lot of things to say. This evening, I caught her chatting with her daddy on my cell phone&#8217;s video recorder.

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		<title>Montserrat 1995</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/08/07/montserrat-1995/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Aug 2010 02:42:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[38   KM from Barcelona, appears from flat plains, what seems to be a freak of nature, the mountain range of Montserrat, 1,236 meters above sea level. It&#8217;s beauty is rare, and every day it shows you something new.

Montserrat is also home to one of the most popular pilgrimage destinations in Spain: the Shrine of Our Lady of Montserrat. Since the 12th century, pilgrims have been drawn to the mountain to  venerate the miraculous statue of the Black Madonna (La Moreneta). In  1996, the year after our trip, 2.6 million visitors came to Montserrat.
We were not pilgrims, we were there to enjoy its beauty, its uniqueness, and the nature that is Montserrat. On this occasion to visit, when we got almost to the top, we could see  the burned wood on the trees, evidence of set fires that made me so sad  to see. (You ...]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Know Why I Didn&#8217;t Get One Earlier!</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/08/07/dont-know-why-i-didnt-get-one-earlier/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Aug 2010 19:18:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Looking for an easier way to carry camera gear for our upcoming trip,  and I decided on a Lowepro &#8211; Pro Runner 200 AW. For whatever reason, I  didn&#8217;t buy one when I first bought my camera. I was so silly not to get a  backpack for carrying my camera gear! The shoulder back I purchased was good for the camera and lenses, but hard on my back and shoulders!
Today, Laura and I went  out to Kinder Park, and I got to try the Pro Runner 200 AW out. I LOVE  it. It was perfect for what I needed!
My camera lenses fit in there so nice, and they are so protected. Believe it or not, I looked at a Canon backpack at Best Buy, and it was sorely missing padding for protection, right in the camera area, too! This is not the case with the ...]]></description>
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		<title>An Evening in Baltimore</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/08/06/an-evening-in-baltimore/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010 23:15:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After visiting the ships at the Harbor, we strolled around Baltimore Harbor in the evening&#8230;.

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		<title>Las Caravellas in 1992</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/08/06/las-caravellas-in-1992/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010 22:24:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
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The Santa Maria was a small nao, about 70 feet long, used as the flagship for the expedition for Christopher Columbus in 1492. She carried 40 men.
Interest in reconstructing the Taylor Santa María started in the 1890s for the 400th anniversary of Columbus&#8217;s voyage. The 1892 reconstruction depicted the ship as a nao. A subsequent replica built in the 20th century depicts the Santa María as a caravel.
Commissioned as part of the 500th Anniversary Jubillee of the Voyage of Christopher Columbus, in 1992, we got to see &#8220;the Caravellas&#8221; when they came to Baltimore.
The first thing you think when you see the Santa Maria, The Niña, and the Pinta, is &#8220;they crossed the ocean in THAT?&#8221;
We enjoyed seeing them, after all we already saw the Santa Maria replica in Barcelona, Spain.

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		<title>Video Tour of the Baltimore Aquarium</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/08/06/video-tour-of-the-baltimore-aquarium/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010 21:33:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While going over our home movies, I found this clip I thought would work well for a small video tour of Baltimore&#8217;s Aquarium.
It truly is a wonderful aquarium, but the video only shows a small part of it.
Since this was created in 1992, they&#8217;ve added so much to the place, like an Australian section!
The National Aquarium in Baltimore is a public aquarium located at 501 E Pratt St. in the Inner Harbor area of Baltimore, Maryland, USA.  It was opened in 1981 and was constructed during Baltimore&#8217;s urban  renewal period. The aquarium has an annual attendance of 1.6 million to  see its collection of 16,500 specimens of 660 different species. Particular attractions include the dolphin display, rooftop rainforest, and central ray pool, and multiple-story shark tank. The National Aquarium in Baltimore is widely considered to be one of the best in the United States, if not the ...]]></description>
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		<title>Baltimore Harbor and The Science Center</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/08/05/baltimore-harbor-and-the-science-center/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010 01:56:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
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On my birthday 1992, we went to the Baltimore Harbor and the Science center. Here is a clip of video of our day.
Enric and Miquel were so young!

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		<title>Sacrifice, Not for the Elite</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/08/05/sacrifice-not-for-the-elite/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2010 21:52:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember Obama&#8217;s speech on sacrifice?
Apparently that was for the &#8216;rest of us&#8217;, not them.
From New York Daily News:
Sacrifice is something that many Americans are becoming all too  familiar with during this economic downturn. It was a key theme in President Obama&#8217;s  inaugural address to the nation, and he&#8217;s referenced it numerous times  when lecturing the country on how to get back on its feet.
But while most of the country is pinching pennies and downsizing   summer sojourns &#8211; or forgoing them altogether &#8211; the Obamas don&#8217;t seem to  be heeding their own advice. While many of us are struggling, the First  Lady is spending the next few days in a five-star hotel on the chic  Costa del Sol in southern Spain with 40 of her &#8220;closest friends.&#8221; According to CNN,  the group is expected to occupy 60 to 70 rooms, more than a ...]]></description>
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		<title>Little Miquel and Arsenio</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/08/04/little-miquel-and-arsenio/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2010 01:55:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For weeks and months I tried to establish a bedtime for Miquel. He wouldn&#8217;t have it. He busted out of his crib (literally), he tried everything he could. He wouldn&#8217;t even THINK of sleeping until he got to watch the late night talk show starring Arsenio Hall.
Finally I had to give up and let him watch the show with me. Even though I would have loved to have some peace and quiet time, often, it became &#8220;our time&#8221; together. We&#8217;d watch it all cuddles, and then he&#8217;d go to bed like a little angel.
In the video that follows, you can see Miquel as the late night news is ending. Before the Arsenio Hall show even begins, he hears the music that announces the end of the news and he KNOWS, Arsenio will be on. From that point on, Miquel does the &#8216;barking&#8217; and fist pumping in the air that Arsenio ...]]></description>
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		<title>Ants Talk and High Monkeys</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2010 17:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
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Now if you are an ant photographer, and you&#8217;re interested in the stimulus money to &#8216;create or save jobs,&#8217;  you&#8217;re in luck.
From Redstate: Ants Talk
The California Academy of Sciences is receiving nearly $2 million to  send researchers to the Southwest Indian Ocean Islands and east Africa,  to capture, photograph, and analyze thousands of exotic ants. The  photographs of the ants – over 3,000 species’ worth, according to the  grant proposal – will be posted on AntWeb, a website devoted to organizing and displaying pictures and information on the world’s thousands of ant species.
The project’s goals are, to the lay person, both laudable and arcane:  In addition to “foster[ing]…a large pool of ant taxonomists,” it also  strives to document “the vast majority of ant species known from  [Africa].” “[Ants] give us back the most data on the environment than  any other group. Their ...]]></description>
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		<title>Ethics Violations</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/08/03/ethics-violations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Aug 2010 18:18:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well when Pelosi boasted she would head the &#8216;most ethical congress in history&#8221;, I knew that was a bucket of bogus (a catchy phrase created by Cameron that really works well for Politics).  Now with two democrats under investigation, it goes kinda wider&#8230; It&#8217;s about the money Rangel&#8217;s democrat friends is holding on to.  From the Washington Examiner&#8230;

Rangel, who stepped down from the committee chairmanship in March,  faces 13 complaints of ethical wrongdoing filed by the House Committee  on Standards of Official Conduct. He is accused of using his  congressional authority to solicit donations and to enrich himself  personally.
He was also formally admonished by the ethics committee for accepting  trips to the Caribbean paid for in part by interests with business  before the Ways and Means Committee.
Considering the seriousness of the extensive charges against Rangel,  congressional ethics experts see little justification for members ...]]></description>
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		<title>The Baltimore Years</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Aug 2010 02:35:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I grew up from ages 0-7 in East Baltimore on North Milton Avenue.
We had the best neighbors, the Sovines and the Metzgers.
We enjoyed a lot of memorable times together. Some were filmed, and I have a few clips, not in any kind of order, of our times living in the city.
Things to watch for: Cliffy as a baby, my legs going crazy while I played piano&#8230; and keep in mind there wasn&#8217;t sound in home movies back then. Also, for some reason, they found it necessary to put 4 bright lights on the camera back then, so if you see small children squinting and hiding, it was because it was TOO bright!

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		<title>Obama Strips All Gifted and Talented and Advanced Placement Education Funding.</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/08/02/obama-strips-all-gifted-and-talented-and-advanced-placement-education-funding/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 18:59:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Indeed what is next?
I guess you have to pay for mandatory health-care somehow besides fines.
From The Examiner:
First, The Obama Administration totally stripped the only funding for  gifted and talented education that primarily funded underprivileged but  gifted children&#8217;s education. This was the 37 year old $7.5 million Javits Grant for Gifted and Talented Students.
Next, Obama eliminated the $45.8 million Advanced Placement grant funds  to states. This was not to fund the high ability gifted, but the above  average student.
Next he scraped the $40 million Arts in Education fund followed by the  $42 million Byrd Honors Scholarships. That&#8217;s a total of $93.3 million  stripped from the education programs of all above average students.
With what is the Obama Administration going to replace this $93.3 million &#8220;savings&#8221;. A $4 billion Race to the Top (RttT) program. Yes, that&#8217;s billion with a B. In other words it would take ...]]></description>
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		<title>East St. Louis: The Criminals Are Going to Run Wild</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 18:51:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From StlToday 
Friday, people learned at a City Council meeting where plans  to lay off close to 30 percent of the city&#8217;s police force were  finalized.
Hope and change, baby.


EAST ST. LOUIS • The Rev. Joseph Tracy said he’s tired of going to funerals. And now, he suspects he’ll be going to more of them.
&#8220;It’s open field day now,&#8221; said Tracy, the pastor of Straightway Baptist Church here. &#8220;The criminals are going to run wild.&#8221;
Gang activity. Drug dealing. Cold-blooded killing. Tracy worries that a decision to shrink the police force by almost 30 percent will bring more of everything.
The pastor voiced his concern on Friday at a raucous special City Council meeting at which East St. Louis Mayor Alvin Parks announced that the city will layoff 37 employees, including 19 of its 62 police officers, 11 firefighters, four public works employees, and three administrators. The layoffs take effect on ...]]></description>
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		<title>Silas at Fort Smallwood Park</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 02:13:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, Laura and I took Silas to Fort Smallwood Park. We knew he would enjoy it there, I don&#8217;t think we know HOW much!


Silas learned he could throw wood in the water, and that became the order of the day. Throw wood in the water&#8230;

Run along the beach to get some more wood.





Climbing on Rocks was also fun!


Back to the wood? A big one!

Silas got very excited about the Fort.


Later, Silas enjoyed the playground with Tia Laura.


We bribed him away with a promise of a snowball.
He fell right asleep a few seconds after we drove out of the park.
But when he woke, he remembered his snowball. His nana got him one of her favorites, Skylite. Mmmmm.
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		<title>Obama Says His Father Served in WWII</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 01:03:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why would Obama lie and say his father served in WWII?

Barack  Hussein Obama Sr. (Obama’s father)
Born  4/4/36
Died  11/24/82 at the age of 46
He was  3 years old when WW 2 started, and 9 years old when it ended.
Lolo  Soetoro (Obama’s step father)
Born  1935
Died  3/2/87 at the age of 52
He was  4 years old when WW 2 started, and 10 years old when it ended.
The media said nothing because nobody seemed to care about all the holes in  Obama&#8217;s bio.
Something to ponder then. If someone lies about the &#8216;little&#8217; things, will they lie about anything?
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		<title>New Evidence Shows Ruling of AZ Judge Illegal</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2010 19:37:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From an Article in the Canada Free Press and the Baltimore Examiner:

&#8220;Does anyone read the U.S. Constitution these days? American  lawyers don’t read it. Federal Judge Susan R. Bolton apparently has  never read it. Same goes for our illustrious Attorney General Eric  Holder. But this lawyer has read it and she is going to show you  something in Our Constitution which is as plain as the nose on your  face.
&#8220;Article III, Sec. 2, clause 2 says:
&#8220;In  all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls,  and those in which a State shall be Party, the supreme Court shall have  original Jurisdiction. In all the other Cases before mentioned, the  supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction.&#8221;
In  other words, the Judge in the Arizona case has absolutely no  Constitutional jurisdiction over the matter upon which she ruled.  As  the Constitution ...]]></description>
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		<title>Tell Me A Story</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/07/31/tell-me-a-story/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jul 2010 19:42:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t know how I got on the subject of my friend Kiko to John Fieck, who stayed in our home this weekend, but I next heard Miranda ask, &#8220;Who is Kiko? I never heard you mention him before.&#8221;
So the next thing I know, I am telling her of Kiko. It was fun trying to remember everything.
One of my Spanish students dared me to enter a chat room in Yahoo, not just any chat room, a Spanish chat room. I wasn&#8217;t really interested, but one day while waiting for Petra to come online, I thought I might try my conversational skills and finally tell that student I had done it. I chose a screen name and I was off. Turns out my conversational skills aren&#8217;t bad, but I did feel challenged in writing and thinking fast with the keyboard. I soon came to know a few people in the Barcelona ...]]></description>
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		<title>Left-wing Activist Says Race Attacks on Tea Party Are Bogus But Effective</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/07/30/left-wing-activist-says-race-attacks-on-tea-party-are-bogus-but-effective/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 19:55:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am not sure what a Tea Party person is. I don&#8217;t know if I am one. I&#8217;ve never been to a Tea Party rally, but from what I&#8217;ve seen, I can sure support their right to assemble. I know I am not a Democrat, and I am pretty sure the word Republican doesn&#8217;t represent me either. I guess I am an Independent. It&#8217;s hard to find anyone in Washington D.C. that represents me.
With that said, the Tea Party rallies seem to be gaining the interest of many, and I think the Left are afraid of them. Instead of flashing brilliance to respond to Tea Partiers, they come up with bogus claims of racism, they&#8217;ve got nothing better than that.
And now one of the left&#8217;s leaders admit it.
From NewsBusters: What will it take for the media to acknowledge that the Tea Party is  not a racist movement, and that ...]]></description>
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		<title>OMB Nominee Got $900,000 After Citigroup Bailout</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 13:53:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember the outrage when executives got big bonuses after their companies received government bailouts?
Here is a reminder:
From MSNBC: Pressure grows on AIG to return bonuses &#8211; Talking tougher by the hour, livid Democrats confronted beleaguered  insurance giant AIG with an ultimatum Tuesday: Give back $165 million in  post-bailout bonuses or watch Congress tax it away with emergency  legislation.
From Politics Daily: Bailed-Out Firms Overpaid Executives, Pay Czar Says
From the Washington Post: Congress Moves to Slap Heavy Tax on Bonuses - &#8220;Let&#8217;s take a step and say we want our money back,&#8221;  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said moments before the vote. &#8220;Here&#8217;s one way to get it.&#8221;
So WHY is Jacob Lew, the fellow that Obama chooses to be the Chief Budget Officer one of those bonus recipients?
From the Washington Times:
President Obama&#8217;s choice to be the government&#8217;s chief budget officer received a bonus of more than $900,000 from ...]]></description>
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		<title>Hanging Out With Uncle Meek</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/07/29/hanging-out-with-uncle-meek/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 02:25:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Miquel is very busy. Work, band practice, gigs, errands, dates with Jenny&#8230;.
So when he is actually HOME, and that is rare, he gets to hang out with his nephew and niece.




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		<title>Watch Out for Those Cash Register Receipts</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/07/29/watch-out-for-those-cash-register-receipts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:31:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This morning on Fox News I heard a portion of a health alert, and one of them items mentions was BPA (bisphenol A).
Since I didn&#8217;t grab the whole story, I looked it up on Environmental Working Group.
In animal tests, scientists have produced evidence that BPA can induce abnormal reproductive system development, diminished intellectual  capacity and behavioral abnormalities and can set the stage for other  serious conditions, such as reproductive system cancer, obesity,  diabetes, early puberty, resistance to chemotherapy, asthma and  cardiovascular system disorders. It has caused epigenetic changes,  meaning alterations in the way genes switch off and on and genetic  changes that can be passed on to the next generations.
One of the places listed that you can find BPA is on cash register receipts!
The plastic component bisphenol A (BPA) has been in the headlines  nonstop as scientists, health experts and consumers press for ...]]></description>
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		<title>Dee Snider Gets a Laugh on Gore</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/07/29/dee-snider-gets-a-laugh-on-gore/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:26:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ok, this was my giggle for the morning.
Remember so many years ago, the Gores, mostly Tipper, wanting restrictions on music and petitioned for labels? Remember how the music community opposed them so?
Dee Snider had a comeback for them. From Politico:

&#8216;Twenty-five years ago, Parents Music Resource  Center founder Tipper Gore listed a song by the band Twisted Sister on  her &#8220;Filthy Fifteen&#8221; list of offensive songs. But the band&#8217;s frontman  got the last word on the ancient debate on Wednesday&#8217;s episode of &#8220;The  Wendy Williams Show.&#8221;
On the program, Dee Snider brought up how Gore&#8217;s listing of his group&#8217;s  song &#8220;We&#8217;re Not Gonna Take It&#8221; had made him the &#8220;poster boy for  everything wrong in society.&#8221; To get some revenge, he took a moment to  compare himself to Gore&#8217;s family.
&#8220;Let&#8217;s cut to 25 years later. I&#8217;m still married, none of my kids have  been ...]]></description>
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		<title>A Visitor</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/07/28/a-visitor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 01:27:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We had a lovely visitor to our front yard this evening&#8230;

It just wanted some dinner.

Needless to say Laura and I were thrilled!
I took these photos from a spot  through the window. So not the best photos, but I didn&#8217;t want to scare it and have it run into the road!
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		<title>Virtuous Filibuster</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/07/28/virtuous-filibuster/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 21:14:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You say the word filibuster, and you get a negative vibe.
According to the Wall Street Journal, we had a Virtuous Filibuster on Free Speech yesterday.
Sometimes this filibuster power can be abused, but yesterday’s  legislation is the kind it was made for. House and Senate Democrats,  egged on by President Obama, want to limit what corporations can spend  on political campaigns, while not imposing similar limits on their union  friends. Previous campaign finance reforms, however misguided, have at  least waited an election cycle to take effect. But Democrats want to  give unions a leg up this year, as they scramble to maintain their  majorities in the face of rising voter anger against liberal policies.
In Another related article:
Republicans said the bill would impose greater limits on  corporations, discouraging them from taking steps on behalf of GOP  candidates. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., ...]]></description>
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		<title>Did Obama Back the Release of the Lockerbie Bomber?</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/07/27/did-obama-back-the-release-of-the-lockerbie-bomber/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 19:20:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those who don&#8217;t remember this story:
Pan Am Flight 103 was Pan American World Airways&#8217; third daily scheduled transatlantic flight from London Heathrow Airport to New York&#8217;s John F. Kennedy International Airport. On Wednesday 21 December 1988, the aircraft flying this route—a Boeing 747-121 named Clipper Maid of the Seas—was destroyed by a bomb, killing all 243 passengers and 16 crew members. Eleven people in Lockerbie, southern Scotland, were killed as large sections of the plane fell in and around the town, bringing total fatalities to 270. As a result, the event has been named by the media as the Lockerbie Bombing.
All 243 passengers and 16 crew members were killed. Eleven residents of Lockerbie also died. Of the total of 270 fatalities, 190 were American citizens. The 270 victims of the bombing came from 21 countries.
On 3 May 2000, the trial of the two Libyans, Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi ...]]></description>
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		<title>Obamas Show The Misery Index with Vacations?</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/07/26/obamas-show-the-misery-index-with-vacations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 01:44:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now the president would have us believe that he understands what it&#8217;s like to be so hard hit (with the economy).

He says he and first lady Michelle Obama took a hit like  everybody else when the economy nearly collapsed, telling ABC that a  college fund for daughters Malia and Sasha has gone “up and down” with  the stock market.
Obama says the first couple is “not that far removed from what most Americans are going through.”

I just don&#8217;t know what to say about that when I read about all his recent vacations, and those planned:
For example, the First Lady can reserve 30 rooms at a five-star hotel in Spain next month&#8230;
Michelle Obama has reserved about 30 rooms for herself and her daughter,  their friends and bodyguards at a five-star hotel in Benahavis near  Marbella, hotel sources said.
Thirty rooms! And having been to Spain, I have heard ...]]></description>
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		<title>Can I Live</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/07/26/can-i-live/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 00:31:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t know Nick Cannon. I rarely watch TV or films, nor have I listened to rap music.
So I know nothing about this young man.
Recently I learned about a song he sings, and a thanks he gave his mother, for not aborting him. Apparently she was 17  and pregnant, and she first thought to have an abortion, and then didn&#8217;t.
He thanked her. At the rate abortions go, those of us alive, perhaps all should thank our mothers.
The words to his song touched me:
&#8220;Can I Live&#8221;
(feat. Anthony Hamilton)
[Talking]
Talking Ma
I know the Situation is Personal
But it something that has to be told
As I was making this beat
You was all I could think about you heard my voice
[Verse 1]
Yeah Just think Just Think
What if you could Just
Just blink your self away..
Just Just wait just pause for a second
Let me plead my case
It&#8217;s the late 70&#8217;s Huh
You Seventeen huh
And having me that will ruin ...]]></description>
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		<title>Why Did the Auto Dealerships Close?</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/07/26/why-did-the-auto-dealerships-close/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:36:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The United States of America, as I see it, is becoming the United States of Obama.
Liberals control Congress and the White House. They&#8217;ve taken over health care.  They&#8217;ve nationalized large blocks of the auto industry, the insurance industry,  the banking industry. Once they finish with the oil and gas industry, what&#8217;s  left?
That&#8217;s an important question to ask yourself, as you look at these industries and think to yourself, yes, they&#8217;re hit, but not me. It won&#8217;t happen to me. Think again. This is Obama we&#8217;re talking about and the NEW nation he is forming.
Another important question to ask, is HOW did they GET control?
Well an interesting bit of old news was sent to me today regarding the AUTO Industry, and it proves true, and I will add more to it from my research.
This is what was sent to me:
Why was there neither rhyme nor reason as to ...]]></description>
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		<title>Rubi&#8217;s First Baby Shower</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/07/25/rubis-first-baby-shower/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jul 2010 18:40:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, Rubí attended her very first baby shower!
She looked very spiffy for the event.

It was a sweet day with lovely ladies of all ages. Two pastor&#8217;s wives in our church will have new additions to their families very soon!
PHOTOS of the Double Baby Shower HERE
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		<title>Enric&#8217;s 9th Birthday</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/07/25/enrics-9th-birthday/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jul 2010 18:29:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is  a special birthday clip. Enric was turning 9 and we chose a 5o&#8217;s theme for the occasion. A lot of music preparation went into this day.
We didn&#8217;t have the children dress up, but the decorations were 50&#8217;s theme and we even had a jukebox piñata.
In this clip there are a lot of neighborhood children, Tamisha, Anthony, Chucky, Brett, Cj, and Corey just to name a few. Family was there too. Donna was there with her boys. We had a special friend filming the event, Manel, and his wife, Teresa, and daughter, Jessica, are here too.

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		<title>An Act of War?</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/07/24/an-act-of-war/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jul 2010 02:04:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I believe this has now been confirmed:
In what could be deemed an act of war against the sovereign borders of  the United States, Mexican drug cartels have seized control of at least  two American ranches inside the U.S. territory near Laredo, Texas.
Two sources inside the Laredo Police Department confirmed the incident  is unfolding and they would continue to coordinate with U.S. Border  Patrol today. “We consider this an act of war,” said one police officer  on the ground near the scene. There is a news blackout of this incident  at this time and the sources inside Laredo PD spoke on the condition of  anonymity.
Word broke late last night that Laredo police have requested help from  the federal government regarding the incursion by the Los Zetas. It  appears that the ranch owners have escaped without incident but their  ranches remain in ...]]></description>
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		<title>Biden Says Economic Meltdown Avoided</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/07/23/biden-says-economic-meltdown-avoided/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jul 2010 02:19:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t think some feel that way.

So on The Hill it reports that Joe Biden made a comment at a fundraiser, &#8220;the heavy lifting is over, now we can go make our case.&#8221;
Which is the equivalent to &#8220;We&#8217;re done for the year, let the campaigning start!&#8221;
Then he goes into a rant practically breaking his arm patting himself on the back&#8230;
&#8220;We stabilized the financial system,” Biden said. We were on the brink  of a depression &#8230; We avoided a total economic meltdown,&#8221; he said.  “There are 3 million [more] Americans working today than there were  before we took office.
“Barack and I are realists,&#8221; the vice  president added. &#8220;Government is not the answer. But we also know we can  plant seeds. These seeds that have been planted have generated whole new  industries.”
Whole new industries?
Such as a BLOATED government?
 Can he explain how new claims of  ...]]></description>
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		<title>Bailout BP, Hugo Chavez&#8217;s Citgo, and China&#8217;s CNOOC ?</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/07/23/bailout-bp-hugo-chavezs-citgo-and-chinas-cnooc/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 23:19:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ is America&#8217;s independent, non-partisan advocate for overburdened taxpayers.
National Taxpayers Union reports:
Radio buys and print ads are part of a major effort the  362,000-member National Taxpayers Union (NTU) unveiled today to combat  newly proposed energy taxes which, according to the nonpartisan citizen  group, would harm American consumers and hand a competitive advantage to  foreign oil and gas firms.&#8221;This is as perverse as it gets.  The U.S. Congress is proposing  tax hikes that would punish American energy companies, raise the price  of oil to consumers, and effectively reward foreign-owned firms,&#8221; NTU  Executive Vice President Pete Sepp said.  &#8220;At a time when our economy  most needs a jobs-based recovery, this short-sighted policy makes the  least sense.&#8221;
Elements of the NTU campaign include: Major radio advertising on  five national talk shows (including Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity),  print ads in key publications, and ...]]></description>
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		<title>Tax Tsunami</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/07/22/tax-tsunami/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 20:47:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Investors.com
Many voters are looking forward to 2011, hoping a new Congress will  put the country back on the right track. But unless something&#8217;s done  soon, the new year will also come with a raft of tax hikes — including a  return of the death tax — that will be real killers.Through the end of this year, the federal estate tax rate is zero —  thanks to the package of broad-based tax cuts that President Bush pushed  through to get the economy going earlier in the decade.
Resurrection of the death tax, however, isn&#8217;t the only tax problem  that will be ushered in Jan. 1. Many other cuts from the Bush  administration are set to disappear and a new set of taxes will  materialize. And it&#8217;s not just the rich who will pay.
The lowest bracket for the personal income tax, for instance, moves ...]]></description>
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		<title>No Recession in the Halls of Congress</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/07/22/no-recession-in-the-halls-of-congress/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 13:05:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[They&#8217;re spending like drunken sailors.
From AOL News:
Congress requires a lot of stuff to keep itself running. Like coffee. And plane tickets. And student loan payments.
Together, the Sunlight Foundation&#8217;s three databases of this internal  congressional spending &#8212; prepared in coordination with the Capitol Hill  newspaper Roll Call &#8212; show what the House spent on itself in the last six months of 2009  and first three months of 2010. The files provide an unprecedented  window on what legislators buy themselves with your money, and AOL News  wanted to know what kinds of eye-opening details they might contain.  After combing through the info, we found plenty, from the House&#8217;s bill  for bottled water purchases to what it coughed up for new drapes.
So what is the grand total Congress spent on itself?

The Grand Totals
$1,013,162,955
the report&#8217;s tally of congressional spending between June 2009 and March 2010
$674
million 
What the ...]]></description>
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		<title>Deep in the Health Care Bill&#8230;A New Tax</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/07/22/deep-in-the-health-care-bill-a-new-tax/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 12:01:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From ABC NEWS Money:
Those already outraged by the president&#8217;s health care legislation now  have a new bone of contention &#8212; a scarcely noticed tack-on provision to  the law that puts gold coin buyers and sellers under closer government  scrutiny.
Section 9006 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will  amend the Internal Revenue Code to expand the scope of Form 1099.  Currently, 1099 forms are used to track and report the miscellaneous  income associated with services rendered by independent contractors or  self-employed individuals.
Starting Jan. 1, 2012, Form 1099s will become a means of reporting to  the Internal Revenue Service the purchases of all goods and services  by  small businesses and self-employed people that exceed $600 during a  calendar year. Precious metals such as coins and bullion fall into this  category and coin dealers have been among those most ...]]></description>
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		<title>Rubi Sits Up</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/07/21/rubi-sits-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 19:52:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday&#8230;.So Laura lays Rubí down on the pillow, and the next time we look, she is sitting straight up!
They grow up so fast!

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		<title>Miquel and Ice Cream</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/07/21/miquel-and-ice-cream/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 19:36:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Miquel has been the &#8217;star&#8217; of the latest posts putting excerpts of our home videos on the web, but I thought to share the three I know of him that were food related, kind of together.
So here is another Miquel moment, eating ice cream, or what he calls &#8220;eye cam&#8221;. (He was close!)
Seen here also are my mom and dad. Miquel had to be forceful early on, as mom is hard to tell NO regarding food, and she was insisting he eat the cone as well as the ice cream.
The best part to me is, the MESS, a child can make eating an ice cream on the back of a hot deck.
So cute!

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		<title>Overpaid Mayor in California</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/07/20/overpaid-mayor-in-california/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 03:22:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last I remember hearing, California was broke, right?
Items like the following in Bloomberg could be a partial reason, if this is how they run government there:
Hundreds of residents of one of the poorest municipalities in Los Angeles County shouted in protest last night as tensions rose over a report that the city’s manager earns an annual salary of almost $800,000.
An overflow crowd packed a City Council meeting in Bell, a mostly Hispanic city of 38,000 about 10 miles (16 kilometers) southeast of Los Angeles, to call for the resignation of Mayor Oscar Hernandez and other city officials.  Residents left standing outside the chamber banged on the doors and shouted “fuera,” or “get out” in Spanish.
It was the first council meeting since the Los Angeles Times reported July 15 that Chief Administrative Officer Robert Rizzo earns $787,637 &#8212; with annual 12 percent raises &#8212; and that Bell pays its police ...]]></description>
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		<title>Miquel amb Formatge</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/07/20/miquel-amb-formatge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 02:47:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So a few days ago, I blogged an old home movie about a young Miquel and his love affair with food. The video showed his struggles as he tried to eat a bowl of potatoes.
The video that follows, he is about the same age and we are at a friend&#8217;s house, who before the main meal, put an assortment of snacks on their living room coffee table.
While I am taping, I am already chuckling because I could see what is on his mind to do. To stab a BIG chunk of cheese (formatge) and eat it.
Well the cheese was huge in his mouth, and the funny part was how he took a bite, could hardly close his mouth, and as if to further show us how BIG the cheese was, collapsed to the floor, as if the weight of the cheese pulled him down.
It was very funny.
Enjoy! I still laugh ...]]></description>
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		<title>Silas Home</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/07/20/silas-home/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 02:04:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Silas is home and resting. We are thanking the Lord that his surgery went well!

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		<title>The Prize Doesn&#8217;t Always Go to the Most Deserving</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/07/20/the-prize-doesnt-always-go-to-the-most-deserving/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 13:49:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Every child saved with my help is the justification of my existence on  this Earth, and not a title to glory.&#8221;
One of the things that irks me about this story is this is the first I have ever heard of it, what else irks me comes later.
First as written in Wikipedia:
Irena Sendler (née Krzyżanowska, in Poland commonly referred to as Irena Sendlerowa, 15  February 1910 – 12 May 2008)[1] was a Polish Catholic social worker who served in the Polish Underground and the Żegota resistance organization in German-occupied Warsaw during World War II. Assisted by some two dozen other Żegota  members, Sendler saved 2,500 Jewish children by smuggling them  out of the Warsaw Ghetto, providing them with false  documents, and sheltering them in individual and group children&#8217;s homes  outside the Ghetto.
And now the story that arrived to my email today:
There  recently was a ...]]></description>
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		<title>First Summer in Our House</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/07/19/first-summer-in-our-house/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 03:09:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Taking another trip down memory lane&#8230;.
Well, still looking at home movies.
Only this time it was my sister&#8217;s home movies!
This came to be because one year for Christmas, I did a lot of homemade gifts. I found my sister&#8217;s old home movies, you know, the kind that requires a projector and a screen to view?
I took my video camera, recorded her movies that was being projected on the wall, set it to music, and gave her this for her present. She was surprised, and liked it, as this way she could watch her precious memories with music I had selected, without setting up a projector and screen.
Looking at the copies I kept for the first time, I am the one who got the surprise. I got to see our old &#8220;new&#8221; house so many years ago, filled with Kimmy as a baby, Roger so young, and our old neighbors from Baltimore, ...]]></description>
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		<title>Carbon Pawprints</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/07/19/carbon-pawprints/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 22:03:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There were some odd bits of news today&#8230;.
Maybe you&#8217;re aware how the Obama&#8217;s went to Maine for their vacation? (Even though they told everyone else to go to the gulf?) Did you know their dog Bo was flown to Maine in its own plane?
The president was the first to walk onto the tarmac,  dressed casually in a pale blue Oxford shirt and khakis. A few minutes  later, the first lady, dressed in black capris, a tank-top and sandals,  walked onto the runway. Shortly afterward, Malia and Sasha joined their  parents. [...]
Arriving in a small jet before the Obamas was the  first dog, Bo, a Portuguese water dog given as a present by the late  U.S. Sen Ted Kennedy, D-Mass.


Hope and change baby, dogs fly solo! Why discuss that pesky unemployment situation? We&#8217;re in Recovery Summer [as they call it!]

In other odd news&#8230;From Tom Gross ...]]></description>
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		<title>Unemployment Rates</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/07/18/unemployment-rates/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jul 2010 23:20:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to the U.S. Department of Labor&#8217;s Bureau of Labor Statistics,  there are nearly 31 million people currently unemployed &#8212; that&#8217;s  including those involuntarily working parttime and those who want a job,  but have given up on trying to find one. In the face of the worst  economic upheaval since the Great Depression, millions of Americans are  hurting.
If the following map doesn&#8217;t scare you a little&#8230;

&#8220;The Decline: The Geography of a Recession,&#8221; as created by  labor writer LaToya Egwuekwe, serves as a vivid representation of just  how much. Watch the deteriorating transformation of the U.S. economy  from January 2007 &#8212; approximately one year before the start of the  recession &#8212; to the most recent unemployment data available today.  Original link: www.latoyaegwuekwe.com/geographyofarecession.html

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		<title>NOW They Call it a Tax!</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/07/17/now-they-call-it-a-tax/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jul 2010 02:20:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the New York Times:
When Congress required most Americans to obtain health insurance or pay a  penalty, Democrats denied that they were creating a new tax. But in  court, the Obama administration and its allies now defend the  requirement as an exercise of the government’s “power to lay and collect  taxes.”And that power, they say, is even more sweeping than the federal power  to regulate interstate commerce.
Administration officials say the tax argument is a linchpin of their  legal case in defense of the health care overhaul and its individual  mandate, now being challenged in court by more than 20 states and  several private organizations.
Under the legislation signed by President  Obama in March, most Americans will have to maintain “minimum  essential coverage” starting in 2014. Many people will be eligible for  federal subsidies to help them pay premiums.
In a brief ...]]></description>
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		<title>Impeachable Offense</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/07/17/impeachable-offense/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jul 2010 01:58:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some people are complaining about Obama&#8217;s amounts of golf, or the timing or the whereabouts of his vacations and getaways&#8230;
In his defense, one of his strategist puts it this way, &#8220;Barack Obama is  working as hard as any president that we&#8217;ve had in recent history and  certainly harder than the most immediate previous president.&#8221;
Working hard at WHAT should be our worry!
From ImpeachObama
A Congressman says the Obama administration is engaging in illegal  funding of Pro-Abortion and Pro-Sharia Kenyan Constitution using taxpayer  dollars, in direct conflict with U.S. law. Despite denials by the  offices of VP Joe Biden and the U.S. embassy in  Kenya, Rep. Chris Smith says there is proof that the White House is  funding the Yes Campaign to get the Constitution approved next month.
According to LifeNews.com:
“There is no doubt that the Obama Administration is  funding the ‘yes’ campaign in Kenya,” [Rep. ...]]></description>
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		<title>BP Paying Off Universities And Gulf Scientists In Mass To Hide Oil Spill Research Data</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jul 2010 00:29:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If the people of the Gulf have had one advocate throughout the BP  Gulf Oil Spill it has been the scientific community.
They have not been afraid to step and challenge BP and The Federal  Government over the existence of underwater  plumes, the dangers  of the dispersants BP is using, or the safety  of Gulf waters.
The scientific community has  sounded  the alarm on skyrocketing arsenic levels in the Gulf while  the Government has kept quiet and has exposed the improper  BP cleanup practices that are contaminating Gulf beaches.
Scientist have come forward to reveal  the real location of the oil spill, exposed the lies  about oil and methane plumes, and have alerted the public  to severely  low-balled flow rates.
The list goes on and on.
However those days may soon becoming to an end.
A startling new report from the Alabama Register ...]]></description>
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		<title>Tatas</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jul 2010 18:36:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve added a new category to the blog, &#8220;Memories,&#8221; as I am in the process of trying to preserve home movies of our family. Today&#8217;s memory is of Miquel eating a bowl of potatoes.

Every since I can remember, Miquel has had a love affair with food.
From the day he was born, I swear he would watch us chew and swallow and smack his lips, aching for a taste. Here,
I think I might have boiled some potatoes for him. I often  taught him English and Spanish. In Spanish the word for potatoes is  patatas, he managed to say &#8220;Tatas&#8221;.
In the video that follows, perhaps we have a clue how he can like food as much as he does, and stay so thin.
  
Love you Miquel.
Isn&#8217;t he sweet?

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		<title>Silas and Rubi Growing</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/07/15/silas-and-rubi-growing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 00:38:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Each day reminds me how fast Silas and Rubí are growing up.
I was quite surprised to see Silas playing video games with his daddy&#8230;

Then, later today, his mama acquired a very reasonable priced Sandbox from Craigslist for Silas.

And here is Rubí, constantly amazing me with her strength, doing one of her favorite activities, standing!

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		<title>Not Working</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 23:30:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The man Europe wished on us, they couldn&#8217;t wait for us to vote for a socialist, now are having second thoughts.
Europe&#8217;s disappointment with President  Barack Obama&#8217;s presidency was laid bare Thursday as the EU’s most senior  figure called for a dramatic effort to revive transatlantic relations.
The president of the European Commission  said the new era at the White House  was in danger of becoming a “missed  opportunity” for Europe.
José Manuel Barroso said the EU-U.S.  relationship was not living up to its potential. The criticism follows a  series of fundamental disagreements on how to deal with the economic  crisis, climate change and trade reform.
The feelings of a deepening rift are mutual.  Senior U.S. figures said Obama could never live up to Europe’s sky-high  expectations.
It has been a fractious few months for  EU-U.S. relations, culminating in a fundamental clash of ideas ...]]></description>
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		<title>Finance Bill Favors Interests of Unions and Activists</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 21:33:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well so far, Washington and Obama&#8217;s administration, can&#8217;t seem to do anything right unless he owes you for something, then it might be a little different.
From the Washington Times:
The financial reform bill expected to clear Congress this  week is chock-full of provisions that have little to do with the  financial crisis but cater to the long-standing agendas of labor unions  and other Democratic interest groups.
Principal among them is a  measure to make it easier for unions, environmental groups and other  activist organizations that hold shares to put their representatives on  the boards of directors of every corporation in the United  States.
The so-called &#8220;proxy access&#8221; provision, which  activist groups say they will use to try to improve oversight of  corporate financial practices, has provoked a backlash from the Business  Roundtable, U.S.  Chamber of Commerce and other major non-Wall Street business ...]]></description>
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		<title>One Industry Not Hurting, the Sign Industry</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 13:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Signs Signs, Everywhere Signs. Political in nature? Maybe. Waste of money? I think so.
As the midterm election season approaches, new road signs are popping up  everywhere – millions of dollars worth of signs touting &#8220;The American  Reinvestment and Recovery Act&#8221; and reminding passers-by that the program  is &#8220;Putting America Back to Work.&#8221;

From ABC News
On the road leading to Dulles Airport outside Washington, DC there&#8217;s a  10&#8242; x 11&#8242; road sign touting a runway improvement project funded by the  federal stimulus. The project cost nearly $15 million and has created 17  jobs, according to recovery.gov.
However, there&#8217;s another number that caught the eye of ABC News:  $10,000. That&#8217;s how much money the Washington Airports Authority tells  ABC News it spent to make and install the sign – a single sign –  announcing that the project is &#8220;Funded by The American Reinvestment and  ...]]></description>
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		<title>Jo From Florida</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/07/14/jo-from-florida/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 20:36:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A sound file was sent to me today and I quickly went to look it up on YouTube.
Well I am speechless after hearing Jo from Florida.
I know nothing about the show&#8217;s host, and I don&#8217;t like the way he talked to the woman, but I can understand his frustration.
The subject matter was illegal immigration, and from what I can gather, he takes calls of all views, and this lady had the opposite view from the previous caller. She called to say open the borders, have no borders, let everyone in. To which the talk show host, Michael Savage, asked her a few simple questions. Her answers were&#8230;surprising.
First she calls the matter of having borders, is racist. That just seems to be the favorite word to apply to ANYTHING conservative these days, doesn&#8217;t it? It&#8217;s getting old liberals, it really is. There is no country you can name that doesn&#8217;t have ...]]></description>
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		<title>Which Came First?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 13:47:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From CBS NEWS
Chicken Came Before the Egg: &#8220;Scientific Proof&#8221;


British scientists claim to have solved one of the great mysteries of life, the universe and everything in it: The chicken came before the egg, they say, and they&#8217;re not mincing words. &#8220;It had long been suspected that the egg came first, but now we have the scientific proof that shows that in fact the chicken came first,&#8221; Sheffield University&#8217;s Dr Colin Freeman, according to a report in the Metro . Researchers from Scotland and England used a supercomputer called HECToR to look in such detail at a chicken eggshell that they were able to determine the vital role of a protein used to kick-start the egg&#8217;s formation. That protein is only found, wait for it&#8230; inside a chicken. Freeman, who worked on HECToR with counterparts at Edinburgh&#8217;s Warwick University, said the protein had been identified earlier by scientists and was known ...]]></description>
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		<title>I Am America</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/07/13/i-am-america/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 22:17:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to Mort Zuckerman (who apparently is a media mogul, wrote one of Obama&#8217;s speeches), a year and a half ago, Obama was walking on water, and these days, he is barely treading water.
The hope that fired up the election of Barack Obama has flickered out,  leaving a national mood of despair and disappointment. Americans are  dispirited over how wrong things are and uncertain they can be made  right again. Hope may have been a quick breakfast, but it has proved a  poor supper. A year and a half ago Obama was walking on water. Today he  is barely treading water. Then, his soaring rhetoric enraptured the  nation. Today, his speeches cannot lift him past a 45 percent approval  rating.
There are so many who don&#8217;t agree with Obama&#8217;s policies, and Obama doesn&#8217;t care. His agenda is the only thing he cares about, and ...]]></description>
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		<title>Rubi Two Months</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 01:40:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, our little Rubí is two months old!
She is growing, eating well, sleeping nicely for her mama, and she absolutely loves to get exercise. She loves to grab your fingers and pull herself up, she smiles a lot, and she loves to practice standing on her feet.
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		<title>In The Beginning</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 00:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
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Silas is learning Bible verses, why not start at the beginning?

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		<title>Mattress Economy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 15:30:20 +0000</pubDate>
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According to Senior Political Analyst Michael Barone, the Obama economy is sending Americans to their mattresses.
He puts it this way:
People seem to be following this investment strategy. Step one: Go to  Mattress Discounters and buy the biggest mattress you can find. Step  two: Take it home and stuff all your money in it. Step three: Lie down  and get some rest.
He gives some good reasons for this investment strategy:
Home mortgage interest rates are the lowest in history, but house  sales are plunging. Banks can make money easily because of the Federal  Reserve&#8217;s low interest rates, but they&#8217;re not making many loans. Major  corporations are sitting on something like $2 trillion in cash, but  they&#8217;re not investing.
Unemployment is running at 10 percent, rounded off, for the 11th  straight month, but few employers are hiring and a million people have  stopped looking for ...]]></description>
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		<title>Illinois Bankrupt, Gives Raises to Staff Anyway</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 11:51:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The state of Illinois is nearly bankrupt.  For years, the state has spent beyond its  means and ignored its unpaid bills and obligations.  Illinois currently  faces a budget deficit of $14-15 Billion and total debt of around $140  Billion.
Paralyzed by the worst deficit in its history, the state has fallen  months behind in paying what it owes to businesses and organizations,  pushing some of them to the edge of bankruptcy.
Illinois isn&#8217;t bothering with the formality of issuing IOUs, as  California did last year. It simply doesn&#8217;t pay.
Plenty of states face major deficits as the recession continues.  They&#8217;re cutting services or raising taxes or expanding gambling to close  the gap. But Illinois is taking the extra step of ignoring bills.
Right now, $4.4 billion worth of bills, some dating back to October,  are sitting in the Illinois comptroller&#8217;s office waiting to ...]]></description>
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		<title>The Fiscal Burden of Illegal Immigration</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 15:43:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[First to say, I support immigration. LEGAL immigration. We are a nation of immigrants.
There is a cost of illegals to our nation though that perhaps in these economically strained times is not wise, we need to investigate more.
KEY FINDINGS
* Illegal immigration costs U.S. taxpayers about $113 billion a year at the federal, state and
local level. The bulk of the costs — some $84.2 billion — are absorbed by state and local
governments.
* The annual outlay that illegal aliens cost U.S. taxpayers is an average amount per nativeheaded
household of $1,117. The fiscal impact per household varies considerably because
the greatest share of the burden falls on state and local taxpayers whose burden depends on
the size of the illegal alien population in that locality
* Education for the children of illegal aliens constitutes the single largest cost to taxpayers, at
an annual price tag of nearly $52 billion. Nearly all of those costs are absorbed by ...]]></description>
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		<title>Tanning Salons Burned</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/07/07/tanning-salons-burned/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 15:24:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When the tax on tanning salons came about, I felt a little indifferent about it. I neither use them nor think they are healthy. However the tanning salon industry isn&#8217;t too happy:
From the Washington Post
&#8230;.Anxiety over the fate of the Arlington tanning salon has been running  high ever since a &#8220;tan tax&#8221; took effect Thursday.
One of the less publicized measures in the new health-care law, the tax  imposes a 10 percent surcharge on the use of ultraviolet indoor tanning  beds.
Supporters &#8212; including the Obama administration, congressional  Democrats and dermatologists &#8212; have argued that the tax will raise an  estimated $2.7 billion toward the cost of expanding health coverage to  the uninsured, while discouraging a practice that increases the risk of  skin cancer by as much as threefold in frequent users, according to  scientific research.
But outraged tanning salon owners worry that the levy ...]]></description>
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		<title>Flavio Visits with His Boys</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/07/05/flavio-visits-with-his-boys/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 22:21:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After way too many years, Flavio stopped by for a quick visit with Lucas and Ryan.
In typical 90+ degrees Maryland summer heat, the natural thing to do was to invite them for a swim. The boys jumped right in.



Flavio avoids being decapitated as Silas &#8220;cleans&#8221; the pool.

Water games were next.




Lucas played Enric&#8217;s guitar after lunch.

Flavio and Ryan take turns holding Baby Rubí


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		<title>Happy 4th!</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/07/05/happy-4th/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 05:20:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like last year, we went to the Baltimore Harbor for fireworks. This year had some differences, we had Enric, Miranda, Silas and baby Rubí with us!

However, this year, Miquel had to work, and no Jenny either.
On Chrissy&#8217;s side, we had Jim, Johnny, Britney, Adam, Sophia, and Cameron&#8230;but no Heather.
It&#8217;s always fun to just &#8216;arrive&#8217; at the Harbor and look around&#8230;

Making fudge&#8230;

Buying Fudge&#8230;Maple fudge AND cookies and cream!

Blue tongues after eating blue snow cones!

Cameron with Jimmy

We found a good place to watch the fireworks, Jimmy said it was the same lampost as last year.


Rubí makes some exercise while she waits&#8230;

Almost nightfall&#8230;


Then the fireworks began&#8230;
What was unfair was that the fireworks were in two different places. It was hard to know where to put your eyes and where to point your camera!
(The small size for the blog doesn&#8217;t do the photos justice. I will post some larger ones on my photography site ...]]></description>
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		<title>Jobs. Health. Gulf. Immigration</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/07/02/jobs-health-gulf-immigration/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2010 19:04:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is just a lot going on in our country of late. The state of the Union? A mess&#8230;.
JOBS
 JUNE UNEMPLOYMENT 9.5%...  125,000 JOBS LOST... 
Rate  dips as 652,000 give up job search...
Depressing...


Pelosi:  Unemployment Checks Fastest Way to Create Jobs...
Dems  reject GOP compromise on unemployment benefits, go on vacation...

Schwarzenegger  puts 200,000 workers on minimum wage...


 White House pays staff $38,796,207...


HEALTH

70%  of Texas schoolchildren flunk state's physical fitness test!

Health  overhaul may mean longer ER waits, crowding...
Obamacare  may not cover sick deemed high-risk...



GULF

Why  Is the Gulf Cleanup So Slow?...
Feds  taking the holiday weekend off?...
Containment  cap 'bouncing'...
Oil  found in crabs raises new food chain fears...


IMMIGRATION

21  Die in Mexican Gun Battle, 12 Miles From U.S. Border...
Obama  calls AZ immigration law 'unenforceable'...
Assumes  Latinos are 'natural-born Democrats'...
Being  American is 'not a matter of blood or birth'...
ACLU  urges tourists to ...]]></description>
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		<title>The School of Faith &#8211; Abraham</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/07/01/the-school-of-faith-abraham/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2010 01:19:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Sunday night my son Enric preached another sermon in his series. I was touched as his mom, how the Bible has helped him as he teaches the Word, and gives examples in his own life, about faith.
Listen to his Sermon HERE
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		<title>Bogus Claims on the Obama Resume</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/07/01/bogus-claims-on-the-obama-resume/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 14:29:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Out of all the presidents, we know the least about Obama; we can&#8217;t seem to find or SEE his birth certificate, nor can we even know what his grades were in Kindergarden. Other presidents didn&#8217;t have this luxury that Obama enjoys. Or at least enjoys for now. People talk. Things get leaked out&#8230;
Like this Article from The Examiner:
Obama has made sure that all of his records are sealed tight.  And apart  from the courageous souls at the various educational institutions who  dared to speak the truth, the schools Obama claimed to attend  unanimously refuse to release transcripts, records, or other bits of  evidence concerning Obama&#8217;s presence in their institutions.
In what is being called &#8216;the biggest hustle in human history,&#8217; a special  investigation has discovered numerous bogus claims on Barack Obama&#8217;s  resume, including the outright lie that he was a &#8216;Constitutional scholar  and professor.&#8217;The ...]]></description>
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		<title>Danger: Colorful Food</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/07/01/danger-colorful-food/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 13:25:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Colors in our food, why do we need them? More important, are they safe?
A little investigation into these dyes, and one starts to wonder if  &#8220;they&#8221; aren&#8217;t trying to kill us slowly&#8230;.
From SlashFood
&#8220;Dyes add no benefits whatsoever to foods, other than making them more  &#8216;eye-catching&#8217; to increase sales,&#8221; says James Huff, the associate  director for chemical carcinogenesis at the National Institute of  Environmental Health Sciences&#8217; National Toxicology Program. &#8220;CSPI&#8217;s  scientifically detailed report on possible health effects of food dyes  raises many questions about their safety. Their continued use presents  unnecessary risks to humans, especially young children.&#8221;
But are the risks real? Blue 1, Red 40, Yellow 5, and Yellow 6 have long  been known to cause allergic reactions in some people. CSPI says that  while those reactions are not common, they can be serious. Numerous  studies have shown that dyes can cause ...]]></description>
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		<title>VA Hospital May Have Infected Veterans with HIV</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/07/01/va-hospital-may-have-infected-veterans-with-hiv/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 11:37:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From CNN
A Missouri VA hospital is under fire because it may have exposed more  than 1,800 veterans to life-threatening diseases such as hepatitis and  HIV. John Cochran VA Medical Center in St. Louis has recently  mailed letters to 1,812 veterans telling them they could contract  hepatitis B, hepatitis C and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) after  visiting the medical center for dental work, said Rep. Russ Carnahan.
Carnahan said Tuesday he is calling for a investigation into the  issue and has sent a letter to President Obama about it.
&#8220;This is  absolutely unacceptable,&#8221; said Carnahan, a Democrat from Missouri. &#8220;No  veteran who has served and risked their life for this great nation  should have to worry about their personal safety when receiving much  needed healthcare services from a Veterans Administration hospital.&#8221;
The issue stems from a failure to clean dental instruments properly,  the ...]]></description>
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		<title>Park Snapshots</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/06/30/park-snapshots/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 02:03:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today the heat and humidity left Pasadena, and we decided it was a good day for the park.
Silas at his usual fun slide&#8230;

The static this slide creates! Every time we touched we had sparks!
Next, was Rubí&#8217;s turn at a slide&#8230;mind you, she was asleep, but it was her first time on a slide!


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		<title>MANY More Jobs Lost &#8211; Learn From Spain</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/06/30/many-more-jobs-lost-learn-from-spain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 17:48:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Note:
When you elect a radical Marxist subversive who thinks America is the  root of all evil, you are going to get bombarded with policies meant to  decimate its power and prosperity. ~Baltimore Examiner

From the Washington Examiner:
More than half a million jobs could be lost by 2015 if Congress  approves the cap-and-trade portion of the Kerry-Lieberman anti-global  warming bill, according to an independent analysis to be made public  tomorrow by the Institute for Energy Research.
The study was done by Chamberlain Economics LLC at IER&#8217;s request of  the measure &#8211; officially known as the American Power Act &#8211; being  sponsored by Sen. John Kerry, D-MA, and Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-CN.
Besides the 522,000 jobs lost within five years, the measure if  approved would destroy an estimated 5.1 million jobs by 2050. Other  findings of the Chamberlain study include:
*       ...]]></description>
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		<title>Oil Spill Timeline</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/06/30/oil-spill-timeline/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 17:21:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What was really surprising in this video, is the amount of criticism of Obama from his normal main stream media supporters.

Oil Spill Timeline from RightChange on Vimeo.
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		<title>We Legals Show Our ID and That Is No Joke</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/06/29/we-legals-show-our-id-and-that-is-no-joke/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 02:44:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m a legal American citizen and I must show my ID when:

Pulled over by the police.
Making purchases on my department store credit card.
When I show up for a doctor&#8217;s appointment.
When filling out a credit card or loan application.
When applying for or renewing a driver&#8217;s license or passport.
When applying for any kind of insurance.
When filling out college applications.
When donating blood.
When obtaining certain prescription drugs.
When making some debit purchases, especially
if I&#8217;m out of state.
When collecting a boarding pass for airline or train travel.

I&#8217;m sure there are more instances, but the point is that we citizens of the USA are required to prove who we are nearly every day!
Why should people in this country illegally, be exempt??
(Thanks Joe, for the above).
So why is Obama declaring war on Arizona?
The Obama administration has a lot of fights on its hands. Putting  aside real wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, there&#8217;s the battle against  leaking ...]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s About Time</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/06/29/its-about-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 02:08:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s Day 70 of the Oil Spill Crisis:
Finally we are taking  help!

From AP
The United States is accepting help from 12 countries and  international organizations in dealing with the massive oil spill in the  Gulf of Mexico.The State Department said in a statement Tuesday  that the U.S. is working out the particulars of the help that&#8217;s been  accepted.
The identities of all 12 countries and international  organizations were not immediately announced. One country was cited in  the State Department statement &#8212; Japan, which is providing two  high-speed skimmers and fire containment boom.
More than 30  countries and international organizations have offered to help with the  spill. The State Department hasn&#8217;t indicated why some offers have been  accepted and others have not.
It&#8217;s about time.
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		<title>That&#8217;s My King</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/06/26/thats-my-king/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jun 2010 02:26:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
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		<title>Can&#8217;t Recover</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/06/26/cant-recover/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jun 2010 00:24:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apparently Joe Biden went to Wisconsin and had some bad news:
Vice President Joe Biden gave a stark assessment of the economy  today, telling an audience of supporters, &#8220;there&#8217;s no possibility to  restore 8 million jobs lost in the Great Recession.&#8221;
Appearing  at a fundraiser with Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wisc.) in Milwaukee, the  vice president remarked that by the time he and President Obama took  office in 2008, the gross domestic product had shrunk and hundreds of  thousands of jobs had been lost.
That&#8217;s pretty bad news.
So then Biden goes to a Milkwaukee Custard Shop, gets a custard, asks the owner what is owed, and the owner says, &#8220;It&#8217;s on us&#8230;Lower our taxes and we&#8217;ll call it even.&#8221;
Well Biden didn&#8217;t like that and replied something like, &#8220;Why couldn&#8217;t you say something nice instead of being a smarta**.&#8221;
(Video here)
Well later,  Biden was quick to laugh it off , ...]]></description>
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		<title>Friends Don&#8217;t Count</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/06/25/friends-dont-count/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 22:09:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to the Washington Examiner, White House and Google are violating the lobbying pledge.
Maybe a $150 billion company with 21,000 employees and 20 percent  profit margins doesn&#8217;t count as big business or a special interest if it  talks about &#8220;changing the world from the bottom up, not from the top  down,&#8221; as President Obama put it.
Maybe a millionaire who spends his days leaning on policymakers to  benefit his company isn&#8217;t a lobbyist if he calls himself an &#8220;Internet  evangelist.&#8221;
Or maybe Google&#8217;s cozy relationship with the White House &#8212; exposed  more clearly by e-mails recently made public through the Freedom of  Information Act &#8212; is just one more instance of the administration&#8217;s  actions contradicting Obama&#8217;s reformer rhetoric about battling the  special interests and freeing Washington from lobbyist influence.
Consumer Watchdog, a liberal nonprofit, used FOIA to obtain e-mails  between White House Deputy ...]]></description>
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		<title>Paul McCartney Compares Global Warming Skeptics to Holocaust Deniers</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/06/25/paul-mccartney-compares-global-warming-skeptics-to-holocaust-deniers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 14:37:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I once read a book written by a minister who mentions a brief story on how once, he was asked to speak of the deceased, which he agreed to do. He got up and spoke many praises of this person he once knew. Later, he was made aware of a good many wrong and shameful things this person did in secret. There was great scandal. He just never knew. From that point on, he decided to handle funerals differently.
What I learned from that part of the book, was to well remember, we don&#8217;t really know anyone. This minister, a man of God, you would think be equipped with a certain radar for character, was totally fooled, and so can we all be fooled.
So when I read this latest article where Paul McCartney sings Obama&#8217;s praises, I had to wonder if one day, he doesn&#8217;t eat those words.
The Beatles legend said: ...]]></description>
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		<title>Xerraire Headquarters</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/06/24/xerraire-headquarters/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 02:13:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The house is busy and full of people. Often times my room is the location people flock to. When found that I needed another computer, it left me with three computers and one desk.
Which is a problem.
I have looked at countless sites for desks and even thought of ideas on making my own, but each plan seemed expensive for my budget right now.
Enter Miranda. She found two FREE desks on Craigslist which took my sons and I to the house of the nicest lady, and we picked them up before the rains and the dark on the same day.
I love how I can spread out now! The desks are in great shape and they also have drawers that work!


We also were given two chairs and a filing cabinet too!
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		<title>Obama Isn&#8217;t Listening</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/06/24/obama-isnt-listening/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 17:58:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While the Wall Street Journal tells us that confidence is waning in Obama, The Washington Examiner is telling us that Obama listens to no one, he just rolls on with his agenda. One headline might have everything to do with the other.

Will Obama listen to anybody?
Examiner Editorial
June 24, 2010

There is a disturbing passage in federal Judge Martin Feldman&#8217;s Tuesday  decision overturning President Obama&#8217;s six-month moratorium on oil and  natural gas drilling in all waters more than 500 feet deep. &#8220;The  [Interior] Secretary&#8217;s determination that a six-month moratorium on  issuance of new permits and on drilling by the 33 rigs is necessary does  not seem to be fact-specific and refuses to take into measure the  safety records of those others in the Gulf. 
There is no evidence  presented indicating that the Secretary balanced the concern for  environmental safety with the policy of making ...]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Mortgage Program</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/06/22/obama-mortgage-program/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 13:26:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After reading the Yahoo Article, I think the last quote sums the whole thing up in an interesting way, but gee, one wonders what is really going on with this administration.
&#8220;It&#8217;s sad that they didn&#8217;t put the same amount of resources into  helping families avoid foreclosure as they did helping banks.&#8221;
Moving on to the article:
The Obama administration&#8217;s flagship effort to help people in danger  of losing their homes is falling flat.More than a third of the  1.24 million borrowers who have enrolled in the $75 billion mortgage  modification program have dropped out. That exceeds the number of people  who have managed to have their loan payments reduced to help them keep  their homes.
Last month alone,155,000 borrowers left the program  &#8212; bringing the total to 436,000 who have dropped out since it began in  March 2009.
About 340,000 homeowners have received permanent loan  ...]]></description>
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		<title>Clearly</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/06/21/clearly/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 02:56:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apparently Obama (some 63 days later) has put together a panel to investigate to oil spill in the Gulf of  Mexico. What I have noticed and what people are talking about is how few experts are on the panel, and how many are just like Obama in his energy policies.
From Yahoo News
The panel appointed by President Barack Obama to investigate the Gulf of Mexico oil spill is short on technical expertise but long on talking publicly about &#8220;America&#8217;s addiction to oil.&#8221; One member has blogged about it regularly.
Only one of the seven commissioners, the dean of Harvard&#8217;s engineering and applied sciences school, has a prominent engineering background — but it&#8217;s in optics and physics. Another is an environmental scientist with expertise in coastal areas and the after-effects of oil spills. Both are praised by other scientists.
The five other commissioners are experts in policy and management.
The White House said the commission ...]]></description>
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		<title>Dribbling Silas</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/06/21/dribbling-silas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 01:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our 2 year old Silas must have a little World Cup Fever!

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		<title>Sim City Societies: Lakewood</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/06/21/sim-city-societies-lakewood/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 21:25:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now that my new computer is set up, I have installed Sim City Societies and over the weekend, I enjoyed creating Lakewood




A fire in the town&#8230;.

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		<title>The State is a Poor and Corrupt Administrator</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/06/19/the-state-is-a-poor-and-corrupt-administrator/</link>
		<comments>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/06/19/the-state-is-a-poor-and-corrupt-administrator/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jun 2010 23:35:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you can&#8217;t see how our new government is mimicking Venezuela&#8217;s Hugo Chavez, you&#8217;re not paying close enough attention. When the government wants control over everything, look out.
From CNBC:
Mountains of rotting food found at a government warehouse, soaring  prices and soldiers raiding wholesalers accused of hoarding: Food supply  is the latest battle in President Hugo Chavez&#8217;s socialist revolution.
Venezuelan army soldiers swept through the  working class, pro-Chavez neighborhood of Catia in Caracas last week,  seizing 120 tons of rice along with coffee and powdered milk that  officials said was to be sold above regulated prices.
&#8220;The battle for food is a  matter of national security,&#8221; said a red-shirted official from the Food  Ministry, resting his arm on a pallet laden with bags of coffee.
It is also the latest  issue to divide the Latin American country where Chavez has nationalized a  wide swathe of ...]]></description>
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		<title>When The Going Gets Tough</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/06/19/when-the-going-gets-tough/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jun 2010 22:47:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The tough goes golfing and yachting.
Or so does Obama and and BP&#8217;s CEO.
From The Hill
President Barack Obama hit the golf course Saturday with Vice  President Joe Biden.
The White House pool report noted that Obama  left at about 1 p.m. for the course at Andrews Air Force base, and his  golfing parters included White House Trip Director Marvin Nicholson and  photographer David Katz.
Nicholson and Katz, along with  Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, joined Obama for four  hours of golf last weekend. The Republican National Committee released an ad soon afterward taking aim at Obama&#8217;s golfing during the ongoing BP oil  spill crisis in the Gulf of Mexico.
The temperatures in the  Washington, D.C., area Saturday were similar to last weekend, in the low  90s and humid.
Obama attended the Washington Nationals game  Friday night wearing a cap for his hometown Chicago White Sox. Sources ...]]></description>
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		<title>World Sees Obama as Incompetent</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/06/19/world-sees-obama-as-incompetent/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jun 2010 13:40:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An Opinion Piece from US News and World Report:
President Obama came into office as the heir to a great foreign  policy legacy enjoyed by every recent U.S. president. Why? Because the  United States stands on top of the power ladder, not necessarily as the  dominant power, but certainly as the leading one. As such we are the  sole nation capable of exercising global leadership on a whole range of  international issues from security, trade
, and climate to counterterrorism.  We also benefit from the fact that most countries distrust the United  States far less than they distrust one another, so we uniquely have the  power to build coalitions. As a result, most of the world still looks to  Washington for help in their region and protection against potential  regional threats.
Yet, the Iraq war lingers; Afghanistan continues to be immersed in an ...]]></description>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Ohio Trip Cost Taxpayers $500,000 and $1 Million</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/06/18/obamas-ohio-trip-cost-taxpayers-500000-and-1-million/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jun 2010 00:17:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When are these politicians going to learn that if you keep dipping into the treasury for bailouts, stimulus, and other nonsense, that sooner or later the treasury runs dry? Hasn&#8217;t anyone learned anything from Europe right now?
From CBS News:
The White House staged the event here in the political battleground  of Ohio, where Democrats face tough congressional races this fall,  including a fight to win the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by the  retiring Republican George Voinovich.
Flanked by  construction workers in helmets and yellow safety vests, Mr. Obama tried  to score political points via the many jobs programs funded by the  Recovery Act.
&#8220;More than 100,000 Ohioans are at work  today as a result of these steps,&#8221; he said.
Oh he loves a show doesn&#8217;t he? Remember when he paraded the doctors out in front of the cameras and insisted they wear white coats, and even ...]]></description>
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		<title>Foul!</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/06/18/foul/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 19:58:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Disclaimer: For the record, I not only am upset when the unfairness is directed the U.S.,  but also to the other teams and countries represented as well. Unfairness  seems to exist at these events, and if you aren&#8217;t one of  the favorites, you can count on bad officiating.
I&#8217;ve been watching World Cups for awhile. Repeatedly what happens to me in the Olympics, also happens in The World Cup. These events just become politics just like everything else, and it becomes less enjoyable.
One thing is bad calls and the officials stick to their reasons. Today it happened and no reason was given.
Simply put, the U.S. scored a third goal, and the official took it away. This picture shows no foul, no off-sides, if anything, the opposing team had fouls and possible fouls:

The Americans scored a third goal as well, but it was inexplicably ruled  out by Malian referee ...]]></description>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Oil Spill Speech</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/06/18/obamas-oil-spill-speech/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 14:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Broken up it looked like this:

Obama spoke close to  2,700 words in his  first Oval Office address, which can be separated  into four broad  themes: an update the oil spill and clean up efforts;  the impact on the  Gulf region; a history of regulatory ineffectiveness  (Bush bashing);  and the case for his “green energy” agenda.
Here is how the  sections breakdown in  words spoken on each:
• 345 words blaming  Bush
•  418 words  on the impact to Gulf region
• 778 words on the oil spill and   cleanup efforts
• 863 words on Obama’s “green energy” agenda

What is interesting is how Obama&#8217;s admirers are not even able to defend his actions.

The thrill that  Obamian rhetoric once  sent up the leg of MSNBC commentator Chris  Matthews is apparently gone.  Obama&#8217;s repeated references to Energy  Secretary ...]]></description>
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		<title>Stop Sucking Up That Oil</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/06/17/stop-sucking-up-that-oil/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 03:16:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From ABC News
Eight days ago, Louisiana  Gov. Bobby Jindal ordered barges to begin vacuuming crude oil out  of his state&#8217;s oil-soaked waters.  Today, against the governor&#8217;s wishes,  those barges sat idle, even as more oil flowed toward the Louisiana  shore.
&#8220;It&#8217;s the most frustrating thing,&#8221; the Republican governor said today in Buras, La. &#8220;Literally, yesterday morning  we found out that they were halting all of these barges.&#8221;
Sixteen barges sat stationary today, although they were sucking up thousands of gallons of BP&#8217;s oil as  recently as Tuesday.  Workers in hazmat suits and gas masks pumped  the oil out of the Louisiana waters and into steel tanks.  It was a  homegrown idea that seemed to be effective at collecting the thick gunk.
&#8220;These barges work.  You&#8217;ve seen them work.  You&#8217;ve seen them suck oil  out of the water,&#8221; said Jindal&#8230; ...]]></description>
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		<title>Own Backyard</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/06/17/own-backyard/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 23:20:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes to experience the wonders of life and nature, one doesn&#8217;t have to go further than ones own backyard. Today was such a day.
Starting with the hummingbird getting nectar deep in a flower&#8230;

or finding a mystery bug outside the house&#8230;(we think it&#8217;s a kind of Katydid nymph).

Our yard used to see a lot of toads, so it was nice to see one again.

Silas thought so too.

We finished our backyard &#8220;safari&#8221; with a snail.

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		<title>Life Is About the Choices You Make</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/06/17/life-is-about-the-choices-you-make/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 22:18:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Never underestimate the power of a smile.  . .do not allow  yourself or others to be defined by your limitations but rather your  abilities.&#8221;  Eric Duquette
A short story of parents that didn&#8217;t give up,  their son who beat the odds, and who listened to his parents about how  &#8220;life is about the choices you make.&#8221;




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		<title>Rubi Rolls!</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/06/16/rubi-rolls/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 02:29:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, Rubí (0ne month old) rolled over (from tummy to back) three times!
I didn&#8217;t think to video the first two, this third time, she was a tad grumpy, but I captured her with my cell phone quick-like.

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		<title>What Obama Could Have Done But Didn&#8217;t</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/06/16/what-obama-could-have-done-but-didnt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 02:03:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Wednesday
24% of the nation&#8217;s voters Strongly Approve of the way that  Barack Obama is performing his role as president.
Forty-four percent  (44%) Strongly Disapprove, giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index  rating of -20
From Human Events:
Since Obama&#8217;s strategy dealing with the spill seems lacking thus far,  Redstate editor Erick Erickson has compiled a Top 10 list of things to  alleviate the disaster that Obama could have done but didn’t.
1. Accepted help from the Netherlands when they offered it shortly after  the accident.  The Dutch, experienced in the oil business, offered  prompt help for oil skimming booms and plans to create barriers to stop  the oil from infiltrating into wetland areas.
2. Suspended the Jones Act, as President Bush did after Katrina, to allow  foreign vessels into American waters to assist with recovery without  having to ...]]></description>
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		<title>Louisiana Poll</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/06/15/louisiana-poll/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 01:50:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Public Policy Polling:
Our new Louisiana poll has a lot of data points to show how unhappy  voters in the state are with Barack Obama&#8217;s handling of the oil spill  but one perhaps sums it up better than anything else- a majority of  voters there think George W. Bush did a better job with Katrina than  Obama&#8217;s done dealing with the spill.
50% of voters in the state,  even including 31% of Democrats, give Bush higher marks on that question  compared to 35% who pick Obama.
Overall only 32% of Louisianans  approve of how Obama has handled the spill to 62% who disapprove.  34%  of those polled say they approved of how Bush dealt with Katrina to 58%  who disapproved.
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Katrina</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/06/14/obamas-katrina/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 11:03:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just heard about this on Fox News this morning:
Three days after the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf  of Mexico, the Dutch government offered to help.It was willing to provide ships outfitted with oil-skimming booms,  and it proposed a plan for building sand barriers to protect sensitive  marshlands.
The response from the Obama administration and BP, which are  coordinating the cleanup: “The embassy got a nice letter from the  administration that said, ‘Thanks, but no thanks,’” said Geert Visser,  consul general for the Netherlands in Houston.
Now, almost seven weeks later, as the oil spewing from the battered  well spreads across the Gulf and soils pristine beaches and coastline,  BP and our government have reconsidered.
…
Federal law has also hampered the assistance. The Jones Act, the  maritime law that requires all goods be carried in U.S. waters by  U.S.-flagged ships, has ...]]></description>
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		<title>Buggy Day</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/06/13/buggy-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jun 2010 23:59:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before today started, I decided I needed a day off, to relax. The plans were to go to church, come home, have some time by the pool, and then watch the Germany-Australia match.
All went to plan until it was pool time. Before swimming, I usually bump the pool and clean out the basket. Upon lifting the lid of the basket, I found a very very big spider. I called to Enric who was on the deck fixing a tire on Laura&#8217;s bike. The spider was in the water and I thought dead. I looked closer and found many baby spiders in the water with it. Then I saw the spider move, it was still alive! As it moved in a circle, it collected it&#8217;s babies on its back. Enric was there soon and said, &#8220;Well, where do you want it, I know you don&#8217;t want me to kill it.&#8221;
We decided ...]]></description>
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		<title>Rubi, One Month Old</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/06/12/rubi-one-month-old/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jun 2010 22:21:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Doesn&#8217;t seem possible, but Rubí is now one month old!


She&#8217;s already being cheeky with her bother!

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		<title>Failure of the Regulatory Process</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/06/09/failure-of-the-regulatory-process/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 20:13:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a lot of blame going on with the BP oil spill mess.
I was interested on what Dick Morris had to say; he actually starts the blame with Clinton, but it ends with Obama.
We are not facing an earthquake like that which rocked Haiti or a  volcano such as spewed its lava and pollution high above Iceland.  This  Gulf oil spill is man made and off shore oil drilling is one of the most  heavily government regulated activities of commercial capitalism.  The  rigs are regularly inspected.  Drilling is impossible without multiple  permits.  Each step, each piece of equipment, each procedure must be  specifically approved by the U.S. Department of the Interior.
To blame BP for this spill and the failure to clean it up is, of  course, reasonable.  It is, of course, their malfeasance which caused  the ...]]></description>
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		<title>This is Not Leadership</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/06/09/this-is-not-leadership/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 16:15:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I guess  being a community organizer doesn&#8217;t make you a leader.
We are now familiar with Obama&#8217;s statement regarding the oil crisis:
“I don’t sit around just talking to experts because this is a college  seminar.  We talk to these folks because they potentially have the best  answers so I know whose ass to kick.”
To think that talking to &#8216;experts&#8217; to know who to blame/punish, is not leadership.
According to RedState
There is one well leaking caused by the collapse of one platform  owned by one company.
Not only has Barack Obama not once talked to the CEO of that  company, his big donor British Petroleum, he overreacted and shut down  every company’s offshore drilling — every single one. He put,  effective immediately, tens of thousands of people on the unemployment  line.
More interesting and related reading, as there is quite a bit out there why Obama and ...]]></description>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Tough Talk Means Little</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/06/08/obamas-tough-talk-means-little/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 12:44:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
 
Obama: &#8220;I don&#8217;t sit around just talking to experts because this is a college  seminar, we talk to these folks because they potentially have the best  answers, so I know whose ass to kick.&#8221;
Interesting words, and even more so after reading the RedState email in my inbox this morning.


This past  week, the Gulf States who hoped Barack Obama would actually do something to help  them were stunned when he imposed a ban on deep water offshore drilling.
It is no  exaggeration to say that as much as shrimping is part of the way of life in the  Gulf Coast area, oil drilling is too. Barack Obama, with the stroke of a pen,  put tens of thousands of men and women on the unemployment line.
That was no  act of moderation. That was an overreaction &#8211; a desire by Obama to move the ...]]></description>
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		<title>Rubi&#8217;s First Park Day</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/06/08/rubis-first-park-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 12:10:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[miranda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[park]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rubí]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[see-saw]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday the weather was great and it was a perfect day to go to the park. Silas at this point, is an old pro at the park. But this was Rubí&#8217;s first day!

Her first see-saw.

Her first swing&#8230;
Silas wanted to push mommy and baby sister!

Silas is a cute big brother!
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		<title>Silas Getting Braver at the Pool</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/06/07/silas-getting-braver-at-the-pool/</link>
		<comments>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/06/07/silas-getting-braver-at-the-pool/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 02:51:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fear]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Silas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[swimming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[swimming pool]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Silas has been a bit timid in the pool so far. Now, some of that could be the frigid mountain water temperatures that yaya likes to keep the water, but some was fear as he would hold on to his daddy very tightly each swim.
This day, he finally let go and enjoy it!

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		<title>Peterson and Lamont Wedding</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/06/06/peterson-and-lamont-wedding/</link>
		<comments>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/06/06/peterson-and-lamont-wedding/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 01:18:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bagpipes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gresham farm]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[janelle]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[laura]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lisa moore]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[peterson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rubí]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Silas]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[wedding]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[With threatening skies and a tornado warning on weather.com, we came home from church, ate a quick lunch and headed out to Gresham Farm to see Chad and Janelle get married.
As we drove there, I was really starting to worry that rain was going to come in time for wedding!
Once we parked and trekked through the woods to the lovely place they set up for the ceremony, we could hear thunder in the distance&#8230;
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		<title>The Government Takeover of Our Children</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/06/05/the-government-takeover-of-our-children/</link>
		<comments>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/06/05/the-government-takeover-of-our-children/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jun 2010 23:52:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News Items]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[children]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CMA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[parents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reared]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[senate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[society]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[teens]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From One News Now:
The Senate is expected to take up the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child.
The effort is a dangerous treaty for the family, according to pediatrician Rosemary Stein of Burlington, North Carolina, and a spokesperson for the Christian Medical Association (CMA).
&#8220;It takes away the parents&#8217; rights to rear their child and gives it to the government,&#8221; she explains. &#8220;The government becomes the caretaker and the guardian, and the parent becomes the babysitter. Another way to define it would be &#8216;the government takeover of our children.&#8217;&#8221;
If the contract is enforced, the government would have the right to intercede or supersede if officials believe the parents are doing something that is not in the best interest of the child. An example of this comes from Germany, where the government has passed laws that ban parents from homeschooling their children.
&#8220;I didn&#8217;t know that it was this insidious, and at ...]]></description>
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		<title>Elena Rubi Three Weeks Old</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/06/03/elena-rubi-three-weeks-old/</link>
		<comments>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/06/03/elena-rubi-three-weeks-old/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 19:10:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[elena rubi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[movie]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[three weeks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[you tube]]></category>

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		<title>This is How We Roll</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/06/02/this-is-how-we-roll/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 01:54:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[basement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[enric]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[flooded]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[forecast]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[miquel]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[rain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Silas]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Now it isn&#8217;t that we don&#8217;t want to play the Rack-O game sitting in the table, or even a round of Scrabble, but of late, &#8220;fun&#8221; in our household has taken a new turn.
Like the three times since the baby was born, bailing out the two inches of rain in the basement.
We usually have a theory why it is happening, then we discover next rainfall that we were wrong.
Yesterday&#8217;s rain made for a flash flood, a bunch of us bailing, and Enric running outside underneath buckets of rain at once.
In the end, the only thing we could do during and after the  chaos, was laugh and make jokes.
Today after a hard days work, my sons were on the roof, looking yet for another possible reason we are seeing inches of rain in our very saturated basement.
Without knowing if any correction is made, we face our weather forecast&#8230;.

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		<title>Let Him Be</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/06/02/let-him-be/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 14:52:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News Items]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[critics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dick morris]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[paul mccartney]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[According to NBC Washington Entertainment news,
Paul  McCartney would like President  Obama&#8217;s critics to let him be.
“I’m a big fan, he’s a great  guy. So lay off him, he’s doing great,” the British songsmith said on  Tuesday.
Now Mr. McCartney didn&#8217;t list anything that makes the case of why he is such a &#8220;great guy&#8221;,  but there you have it.
On the other hand, Dick Morris has a different opinion, with a list to create his case.
The sight of his blithering and blustering while the most massive oil  spill in history moves closer to America’s beaches not only reminds one  of Bush’s terrible performance during Katrina, but calls to mind Jimmy  Carter’s incompetence in the face of the hostage crisis.America  is watching the president alternate between wringing his hands in  helplessness and pointing his finger in blame when he should be solving  the ...]]></description>
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		<title>Foreign Banks Have Lobbying Power in D.C.</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/06/01/foreign-banks-have-lobbying-power-in-d-c/</link>
		<comments>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/06/01/foreign-banks-have-lobbying-power-in-d-c/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 18:33:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News Items]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[banks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[D.C.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dick bove]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[foreign]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lobbying]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[An interesting piece from Politico. In spite of Obama&#8217;s promises, lobbying is still the name of the game in D.C., but now the influences aren&#8217;t even American based anymore.

Foreign banks are flexing newfound muscle in Washington, spreading  their money and influence while winning government business that’s  off-limits to their politically toxic American cousins.
While Congress and President Barack Obama have been bashing big American  banks as the cause of the nation’s economic troubles, foreign banks  have been quietly increasing their presence in Washington with  unprecedented lobbying and campaign spending.
The foreign companies have found a lucrative niche, essentially acting  as brokers for the federal government’s bailout money. Domestic banks  with the size and expertise for that role are largely banned from  competing for the contracts because they have been recipients of the  emergency funds.
“There is tremendous opportunity for the foreign banks, and it ...]]></description>
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		<title>Memorial Day, Pool is Open</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/05/31/memorial-day-pool-is-open/</link>
		<comments>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/05/31/memorial-day-pool-is-open/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2010 22:07:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[enric]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[laura]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[memorial day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[miranda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rubí]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Silas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[swimming pool]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We had heat and we had humidity, summer feels like it has officially begun.
The pool has been ready for swimming for a few days now, but today most of us got in.
Silas wasn&#8217;t so sure about the pool to start with&#8230;

It didn&#8217;t take long to have fun, with daddy close by.

Reaching for a shark!

Rubí is just one of our bathing beauties poolside. 

Later we will have grilled steaks!
A nice, chill, day to &#8220;open&#8221; summer!
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		<title>The Sestak Affair</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/05/29/the-sestak-affair/</link>
		<comments>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/05/29/the-sestak-affair/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 May 2010 02:09:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[arlen specter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bill clinton]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[larry kane]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[So not much reporting on what is going on with the Obama Administration and the allegation that someone offered senatorial candidate Joseph Sestak a position if he would drop out of the race against Arlen Specter. I can understand keeping this news story quiet until all the evidence is in, after all, if it&#8217;s true, it&#8217;s a crime. If proven, the reported actions of the Obama administration are clear violations of three federal laws.
So what do we know so far? According to Northeast Intelligence Network:
In an attempt to retain as much political control over Congress  during the 2010 midterm elections, White House Chief of Staff Rahm  Emanuel dispatched William Clinton and lawyer Doug Band to meet with  senatorial candidate Joseph Sestak who was running against Arlen Specter  in Pennsylvania. In exchange for dropping out of the race, Sestak was  offered a position with the administration. ...]]></description>
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		<title>Petra, Silas, and Chocolate Cake</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/05/28/petra-silas-and-chocolate-cake/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2010 20:32:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chocolate cake]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[joe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[petra]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Silas]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Petra emailed me about a week ago that she would be coming in for a quick visit. I quickly informed mom on the news and suggested she make a chocolate cake, knowing Petra loves mom&#8217;s homemade cakes.
Silas, who had never met Petra yet, was already considering  her a soul mate. I mean, who is better than the person responsible for getting this chocolate cake baked??
Before she got here, Silas got to watch it getting baked, licked the beaters, bowl, and spatula, and then just sort of waited while it was on display awaiting Petra&#8217;s arrival.
Today the big day arrived!


It&#8217;s hard to say which of them look happiest!
Mom joins Joe and Petra with coffee and cake at the table.
It was a quick visit, but I was so glad to see them even if just a little while!

More on Chocolate Cake!





Chocolate Cake : 0767906071
Michele Urvater is the author of the bestselling Monday-to-Friday/icookbook ...]]></description>
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		<title>25 Questions About the Economic Recovery</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/05/27/25-questions-about-the-economic-recovery/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 14:24:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News Items]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bank]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bankruptcy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[foreclosures]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gallup]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[greece]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mortgages]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[underemployment]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On the news, we keep hearing how we are coming out of our economic woes.
Do people really know and understand what is happening in Greece and Europe and really think it&#8217;s not happening, or couldn&#8217;t happen here?
Not me, and that is why I liked this list of 25 questions.
From 25 Questions To Ask Anyone Who Is Delusional Enough To Believe That  This Economic Recovery Is Real:
#1) In what universe is an economy with 39.68 million Americans on food stamps considered to be a healthy, recovering economy?  In fact, the U.S. Department of Agriculture forecasts that enrollment in the food stamp program will exceed 43 million Americans in 2011.  Is a rapidly increasing number of Americans on food stamps a good sign or a bad sign for the economy?
#2) According to RealtyTrac, foreclosure filings were reported on 367,056 properties in the month of March.  This was an ...]]></description>
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		<title>Rubi Update</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/05/26/rubi-update/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 01:10:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barb]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[miranda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nana]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[photos]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[update]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Miranda took Rubí to the doctors today and she is doing great and gained 14 ounces!
 
Rubí is a good baby, she still sleeps at night, except late nights, when she likes to keep mommy up late.
She still is so strong, and likes to hold her head up and put her feet down!
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		<title>Blue Angels 2010</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/05/26/blue-angels-2010/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 22:05:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[annapolis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blue angels 2010]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cammy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[laura]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I took Laura, Silas and Cammy to Annapolis to see the Blue Angels.
This year, I think they did a lot more things than last year. We all had fun!


More Photos HERE
More photos HERE
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		<title>Census Charade</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/05/26/census-charade/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 15:33:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News Items]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2010]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[census]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[charade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[new york post]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This census year, has had a few headlines for 2010. We got ours in the mail, filled it out, apparently missed one question accidentally, received a call on that, answered it, then didn&#8217;t give it another thought. I mean there were some unsettling mentions in the news regarding hiring people for the census, or if ACORN (the voter fraud kings) was taking it over, and so on. Then today I read this:
From the New York Post
The worker, Naomi Cohn, told The Post that she was  hired and fired a number of times by Census. Each time she was hired  back, it seems, Census was able to report the creation of a new job to  the Labor Department.
Each month Census gives Labor a figure on the number of workers it  has hired. That figure goes into the closely followed monthly employment  report Labor provides. For the ...]]></description>
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		<title>Socialism&#8217;s not in the Bible</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/05/25/socialisms-not-in-the-bible/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 17:47:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bible]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[socialism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ever hear people talk of socialism or communism as a very Jesus/New Testament thing to do?
It&#8217;s interesting how quick they scold the masses to put their Bibles away when discussing politics, but how quick they pull it out in justifying their argument for the redistribution of wealth. Even Obama:
&#8220;My Bible tells me there is nothing wrong with helping other people,&#8221;  said then-Sen. Obama. &#8220;That we want to treat others like we want to be  treated. That I am my brother&#8217;s keeper, and I am my sister&#8217;s keeper. I  believe that.&#8221;
Nothing wrong with that. But there is a difference between what the Bible says and what Obama is pushing down America&#8217;s throats. The Bible gives a person a choice. Obama forces.
I liked the following article:
But Obama, who once dismissed the Bible&#8217;s relevance to politics,  saying, &#8220;People haven&#8217;t been reading their Bibles lately,&#8221; may need to  go ...]]></description>
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		<title>Silas at Bat</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/05/24/silas-at-bat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 02:38:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ball]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[daddy long legs]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve been keeping Silas pretty busy these days.
Today he had great fun with a daddy long legs.

And later, his nana got him a bat and ball, and well, it was a bit confusing to him, but he had fun!



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		<title>Crimson and Clover</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/05/23/crimson-and-clover/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 May 2010 23:27:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[crimson and clover]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[decastilhos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Flavio]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[

Flavio and Margie&#8217;s talented son, Lucas, and his band at St. Francis School.
crimson + clover

Leo &#124; MySpace Video
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		<title>Prom</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/05/22/prom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 May 2010 02:41:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alexis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[boys]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[girls]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gowns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[images]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[photo shoot]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[photography]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, I had the opportunity to do a photo shoot for Alexis and her  friends before the prom.
Here is a sample of the images&#8230;














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		<title>Another Proof the Universe Had a Beginning</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/05/22/another-proof-the-universe-had-a-beginning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 May 2010 19:44:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cobe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cosmology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[george smoot]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nobel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[physics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[prize]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;If you&#8217;re religious, it&#8217;s like looking at God.&#8221; ~ George Smoot, announcing his COBE&#8217;s findings in 1992, and Nobel Prize in Physics Winner
&#8220;The significance of this [discovery] cannot be overstated. They have found the Holy Grail of Cosmology.&#8221; ~ Michael Turner, University of Chicago Astrophysicist
&#8220;&#8230;the most important discover of the century, if not of all time.&#8221; ~ Stephen Hawking, Cambridge Astronomer
What were these men talking about?
George Smoot&#8217;s findings.

After finding the predicted expanding universe and radiation afterglow, scientists turned their attention to another prediction that would confirm the Big Bang. If the Big Bang actually occurred, scientists believed that we should see slight variations (or ripples) in the temperature of the cosmic background radiation that Penzias and Wilson had discovered. These temperature ripples enabled matter to congregate by gravitational attraction into galaxies. If found, they would comprise the fourth line of scientific evidence that the universe had a beginning.
In 1989 the ...]]></description>
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		<title>Chores</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/05/22/chores/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 May 2010 14:41:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chores]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[enric]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[laura]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lawn mower]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not sure how much of it was planned, but yesterday at our house ended up being a bit of a work day.
It started with Laura learning how to work the Enric-restored riding mower.


While Laura was cutting the grass, Silas took it upon himself to gather sticks. (Trees keep falling apart during some past storms).

While they did that, Enric was busy pulling leaves out of the top of the pool cover.
Then I thought to teach Silas how to bring in the empty trash can and recycling bin.
I didn&#8217;t have to tell him a thing! He started to push the big can in without one bit of instruction.


After the trash, Silas took the recycling bin up the steps to the deck, and without even being asked to, he went into the house to gather all the empty bottles that had piled up while the bin was out by the road. He put ...]]></description>
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		<title>One Proof the Universe Had a Beginning</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/05/21/one-proof-the-universe-had-a-beginning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 15:10:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[antenna]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[arno penzias]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[astronomy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bell labs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[echo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[edwin hubble]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[holmdel]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From PBS.org
Bell Labs built a giant antenna in Holmdel, New Jersey, in 1960. It  was part of a very early satellite transmission system called Echo. By  collecting and amplifying weak radio signals bounced off large metallic  balloons high in the atmosphere, it could send signals across long  distances. Within a few years, the Telstar satellite was launched. It  had built-in transponders and made the Echo system obsolete.
Meanwhile, two employees of Bell Labs had had their eye on the  antenna. Arno Penzias (b. 1933), a German-born radio astronomer, joined  Bell Labs in 1958. He had done his PhD on using masers (microwave  amplification by stimulated emission of radiation) to amplify and  measure radio signals from the spaces between galaxies. He knew the  Holmdel antenna would also make a great radio telescope and was dying to  use it to continue his ...]]></description>
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		<title>Polka Dots</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/05/20/polka-dots/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 02:35:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[baby]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[elena]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our little Elena Rubí looked so cute today in her pink polka dots!







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		<title>Nature Walk With Silas</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/05/19/nature-walk-with-silas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 22:28:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[honeysuckle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[laura]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[moutain laurel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Silas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[slide]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[swing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The weather of late has been cloudy, rainy, gray, and chilly.
So today, it was still all those things minus the rain. Since Silas has had precious little outside time, Laura and I took him to the park and it ended up being a little &#8220;Nature walk.&#8221;

Silas liked exploring things, like mysterious holes in trees.

Silas wanted to go deeper into the woods, on an unknown path&#8230;

Fragrant honeysuckle was everywhere.

Mountain laurel was also in some places.

Some of the grasses was taller than Silas!

Of course while at the park it&#8217;s fun to get on the playground equipment.

Having a good giggle with Tia Laura while on the swing.

Being silly while going down the slide.

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		<title>Silas Holding Rubi</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/05/19/silas-holding-rubi/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 19:14:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This morning I went out to the living room to find Silas holding his baby sister so sweet!


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		<title>What Drives Up the Costs of Health Care</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/05/18/what-drives-up-the-costs-of-health-care/</link>
		<comments>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/05/18/what-drives-up-the-costs-of-health-care/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 17:20:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News Items]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[carol plato]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[costs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[florida]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[martin memorial medical center]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Listen and learn some of the elements driving up the costs of health care.
Carol Plato, an executive director of Martin Memorial Medical  Center in Florida, gives a briefing on the specific costs and  liabilities the hospital has incurred while treating illegal immigrants.

After listening to that, makes the next image even more interesting:

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		<title>Indiscipline and Irresponsibility</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/05/18/indiscipline-and-irresponsibility/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 17:08:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[britain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dishonesty]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Another article from George Will:
 Greece represents a perverse aspiration &#8212; a society with (in the words  of Wisconsin Republican Rep. Paul Ryan) &#8220;more takers than makers,&#8221; more  people taking benefits from government than there are people making  goods and services that produce the social surplus that funds  government. By socializing the consequences of Greece&#8217;s misgovernment,  Europe has become the world&#8217;s leading producer of a toxic product &#8212;  moral hazard. The dishonesty and indiscipline of a nation with 2.6  percent of the eurozone&#8217;s economic product have moved nations with the  other 97.4 percent &#8212; and the United States and the International  Monetary Fund &#8212; to say, essentially: The consequences of such vices  cannot be quarantined, so we are all hostages to one another and hence  no nation will be allowed to sink beneath the weight of its  recklessness. ...]]></description>
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		<title>First Bath</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/05/17/first-bath/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 02:07:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Featured]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[bath]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[first]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kisses]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[miranda]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I had my own children, their first bath was a big event. So it went for Rubí&#8230;
I was in my room when Miranda alerted me, in the case I wanted to get my camera, well sure I did!

As you might guess, Silas was rather curious about this process.


Rubí didn&#8217;t like it a lot&#8230;

&#8230;but she settled down quickly when it was over, she was so relaxed.

A kiss from Mommy

Our sweet little Rubí, so awake and so calm, looking us all over.

Silas also gives his little sister an after bath kiss.

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		<title>Irritating</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/05/17/irritating/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 19:05:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind&#8221; ~Albert Einstein
It was 1916 and Albert Einstein didn&#8217;t like where his calculations were leading him. If his theory of General Relativity was true, it meant that the universe was not eternal but had a beginning. Einstein&#8217;s calculations indeed were revealing a definite beginning to all time, all matter, and all space. This flew in the face of his belief that the universe was static and eternal.
Einstein later called his discovery &#8220;irritating.&#8221; He wanted the universe to be self-existent &#8212; not reliant on outside cause&#8211;but the universe appeared to be one giant effect. In fact, Einstein so disliked the implications of General Relativity &#8212; a theory that is now proven accurate to five decimal places&#8211;that he introduced a cosmological constant (which some have since called a &#8220;fudge factor&#8221;) into his equations in order to show that the universe is static and ...]]></description>
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		<title>Five Days Old</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/05/16/five-days-old/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 02:08:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Only five days old, and Rubí already wants to hold her head up!

Silas is a good big brother who wants to love on his baby sister. A kiss from Silas is the best!

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		<title>Daddy&#8217;s Girl</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/05/15/daddys-girl/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 May 2010 01:52:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dads often get pushed aside during all the chaos surrounding a new baby in the house.
So I wanted to share this moment, when Enric was looking so thoughtfully at his daughter&#8230;
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		<title>Aunt Linda Makes a Visit</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/05/14/aunt-linda-makes-a-visit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 May 2010 00:31:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So mom had an appointment with an Ear Nose and Throat doctor and LInda decided to take her. That gave Linda a bonus for her visit, a chance to see our baby girl just three days old!
Laura and I decided that Silas needed a neat &#8220;big brother&#8221; present, and went to the toy store to pick up a Handy  Manny Motorcycle, since his favorite program is 
Handy Manny: Motorcycle Adventure.
Rubí&#8217;s mama is starting to worry about tonight since the little princess has slept a good part of the day!
Order your Handy Manny here!!





Fisher-Price Handy Manny&#8217;s Fix It Motorcycle
Fisher-Price Handy Manny&#8217;s Fix It Motorcycle













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		<title>Learn From Greece</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/05/13/learn-from-greece/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 01:24:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[debt]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the rate we are going, I doubt we can learn from Greece. My feeling is debt is rarely addressed anymore, in any way that is serious. Perhaps the following article helps your understanding of debt in the United States today.
 Too weak to fail 
 By    George Will 
  To understand the pertinence to America of events in Greece, notice  General Motors&#8217; most recent misbehavior. A television commercial  featuring CEO Ed Whitacre demonstrates the institutional murkiness and  intellectual dishonesty that result when the line between public and  private sectors disappears.   In the commercial, Whitacre says GM has &#8220;repaid our government loan in  full.&#8221; Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) noted that GM used government funds to  pay back the government: It &#8220;simply transferred $6.7 billion from one  taxpayer-funded TARP account to another.&#8221; The government still owns 60.8  ...]]></description>
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		<title>Rubi Comes Home!</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/05/13/rubi-comes-home/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 21:51:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[And she received a happy and anxious welcome from us all!

Solutions Fabricating sent a balloon and flowers!

I was so happy to hold and love her!
 
 
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		<title>She&#8217;s Here!</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/05/12/shes-here/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 18:01:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This morning, I got the word that Enric and Miranda was headed to the hospital to have the baby. Not hardly a half hour later, Elena Rubí was born!
They will like her to be called Rubí.

Elena Rubí




Day of Birth:
May 12, 2010


Time of Birth:
5:37 AM


Weight:
7 lbs, 2 ozs


Length:
18.75 in



Silas already loves baby sister!

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		<title>More Presents!</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/05/12/more-presents/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 17:54:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[birthday]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[canon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[designer doormat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[family dinner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[macro]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, my actual birthday, I had a very relaxing day.
We had a nice family dinner together, ordering take-out from Texas Roadhouse.
I got even more presents!

Petra sent a designer doormat. I know what attracted her to it, the art work is tremendous, and the subject is birds! So me! Only thing is, it&#8217;s a shame to wipe one&#8217;s feet on it.
Enric and Miranda gave me a Bible I had admired for some time now. It&#8217;s going to be great to have a study Bible.
John sent me a macro lens. If only he were here for me to give a sweet thank you!
It&#8217; takes great macros! Hopefully it won&#8217;t take me long to learn how to use it!

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		<title>Presents</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/05/10/presents-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 20:05:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[best buy card]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mother&#8217;s Day and some early birthday presents!
Thanks everyone, I love them all!


A personalized coffee mug! How about that!
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		<title>Happy Mothers Day</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/05/09/happy-mothers-day-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 May 2010 10:53:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
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		<title>National Day of Prayer</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/05/06/national-day-of-prayer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 14:08:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
“Prayer is when you talk to God; meditation is when you listen to God.”
Diana Robinson
“There is a vast difference between saying prayers and praying”


“To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.”
Saint Augustine
“Courage is fear that has said its prayers.”
Dorothy Bernard
“Pray, and let God worry”
Martin Luther
“Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life”
Jonathan Edwards
“Prayer is not an old woman&#8217;s idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart”
Martin Luther
“Many people pray as if God were a big aspirin pill; they come only when they hurt.”
B. Graham Dienert
“I have had prayers answered &#8211; most strangely so ...]]></description>
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		<title>Silas at Lake Waterford</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/05/05/silas-at-lake-waterford/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 00:49:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve been trying to get Silas around a few parks. He&#8217;s been to Jacobsville Park, the &#8220;airplane&#8221; park, Kinder Farm Park, and today we went to Lake Waterford Park.
When we got there, we saw friends, but they were on their way out.
Silas soon wanted to try out the playground equipment.




All smiles&#8230;a good day for Silas!
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		<title>Eekhoorn!</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/05/05/eekhoorn/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 00:24:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For mom&#8217;s birthday, Petra and family sent this adorable little squirrel (eekhoorn, in Dutch) that can be hung, say, in a tree.

Not seen here: Our crazy cat Jasper, having a fight with it and becoming so frustrated that the squirrel didn&#8217;t move.
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		<title>Hedge Funds Donate Big to Democrats</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/05/04/hedge-funds-donate-big-to-democrats/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 23:20:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Hedge fund&#8221; is a general, non-legal term that was originally used to  describe  	a type of private and unregistered investment pool that employed  sophisticated  	hedging and arbitrage techniques to trade in the corporate equity  markets. Hedge  	funds have traditionally been limited to sophisticated, wealthy  investors. Over  	time, the activities of hedge funds broadened into other financial  instruments  	and activities. Today, the term &#8220;hedge fund&#8221; refers not so much to  hedging techniques,  	which hedge funds may or may not employ, as it does to their status as  private  	and unregistered investment pools.
From Big Government:
The world’s top-earning hedge fund managers have bankrolled almost exclusively Democratic campaigns.
The top 10 highest-paid hedge fund managers in 2009 have dished out campaign contributions almost only to Democrats.
Over their lifetimes, those managers have given almost $33 million in campaign contributions to Democrats, according ...]]></description>
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		<title>Comstocks Visit</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/05/03/comstocks-visit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 02:51:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[miranda]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Friends of Enric and Miranda, Craig and Leanna Comstock, stopped in from their busy life to pay a visit. They brought their two sweet children, Rebekah and Jared.
They arrived right at Silas&#8217;s nap time, so Rebekah played&#8230;

Silas woke up eventually though.

Rebekah blows bubbles.


Laura reads the children a Thomas the Tank Engine Story

The boys take turns playing on an old fire truck that used to be Enric&#8217;s.

It was a little rainy, but it stopped for some fun outside in the yard.
First, the tire swing&#8230;





Our cats, Jasper and Dante, watched on as the children played.

Next was playing ball and trampoline.


Back in the house and after a nice ham dinner that Yaya prepared, Leanna let the children play her violin. Silas has been entranced by violins for a while now, so this was a special treat.



Too soon, it was time for them to go.
Craig and Leanna feel that God has called their family ...]]></description>
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		<title>La Paella</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/05/02/la-paella/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 May 2010 17:56:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We were supposed to have Paella last Sunday for Mom&#8217;s birthday, but we were all sick with bad colds.
So today, we celebrated mom&#8217;s birthday a week later.
I was a little nervous about making paella because it had been a few years since I made my last one. It was a success. Everyone enjoyed it!





While living in Spain, I learned that the recipe for paella differed from household to household and from region to region. They can be all seafood, like the one seen here, with chicken and rabbit, also, I have seen sausage and bean paellas, as well as an all vegetable one. My personal favorite is the all seafood.
Here are a few recipes for Paella:
SpanishFiesta.com
Alicante-Spain.com
Recipezaar.com
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		<title>Young Earth?</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/05/01/young-earth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 May 2010 20:18:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Institute for Creation Research:
Institute for Creation Research scientists documented  several clock-like processes in rocks during the groundbreaking  Radioisotopes and the Age of the Earth (RATE) project, confirming an age of  6,000 years. Remarkably, they found helium&#8211;an atom that  diffuses rapidly out of rocks and into the atmosphere&#8211;trapped in  granites, and radiocarbon present in deep diamonds and coal, which  should not be possible if they were formed millions of years ago.
Fossil-containing rocks with original animal material add decisive  evidence for a young earth. Researchers have uncovered biological  molecules like proteins, DNA, and pigments from rocks that are  supposedly millions of years old. Laboratory studies on many of these  materials indicate that they will only survive thousands, not millions,  of years.
DNA is particularly prone to decay, yet ancient fossil &#8220;plants,  bacteria, mammals, Neanderthals, and other archaic humans have ...]]></description>
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		<title>WHY Are They So Anxious to Pass Cap &amp; Trade?</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/04/30/why-are-they-so-anxious-to-pass-cap-trade/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 14:22:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ask yourself, it&#8217;s been 17 months since our financial meltdown and people lost their life&#8217;s savings, their retirement&#8230;why after all this time have they&#8217;re been no arrests? Why after all this time is Goldman Sachs the only bad guy?
Glenn Beck tries to answer:



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		<title>U.N. Elects Iran to Commission on Women&#8217;s Rights</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/04/29/u-n-elects-iran-to-commission-on-womens-rights/</link>
		<comments>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/04/29/u-n-elects-iran-to-commission-on-womens-rights/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 03:40:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[civil rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[women]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you didn&#8217;t think the U.N. was a bucket of bogus before, now this:
Without fanfare, the United Nations this week elected Iran to its  Commission on the Status of Women, handing a four-year seat on the  influential human rights body to a theocratic state in which stoning is  enshrined in law and lashings are required for women judged &#8220;immodest.&#8221;
You know Iran, where words of wisdom about women come from like this?
&#8220;Many women who do not dress modestly &#8230; lead young men astray, corrupt  their chastity and spread adultery in society, which (consequently)  increases earthquakes,&#8221; said the respected cleric, Hojatoleslam Kazem  Sedighi.
Not all Iranis agree with the U.N. decision:
As word of Iran&#8217;s intention to join the women&#8217;s commission came out, a  group of Iranian activists circulated  a petition to the U.N. asking that member states oppose its  election.
&#8220;Iran&#8217;s discriminatory laws demonstrate that ...]]></description>
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		<title>Silas at Hopkins</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/04/29/silas-at-hopkins/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 02:19:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[baltimore]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hospital]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[john hopkins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Silas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stent procedure]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today Miranda and I took Silas into Baltimore to John Hopkins  Hospital for an exam.
This was our second trip into the city this week, and our second hospital, the first was to take mom to Union Memorial for a stent procedure. We sure were amazed at Union Memorial, it was like the red carpet treatment from the first, and they took such good care of mom. She is back home and doing fine.
Here Silas is in the waiting room of Hopkins making new friends and playing with toys. (Taken with my cell phone camera).

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		<title>Enough Money</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/04/29/enough-money/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2010 21:57:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News Items]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[enough]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[money]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oprah]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Real Clear Politics, Obama is quoted as saying&#8230;
&#8220;Now, what we’re doing, I want to be clear, we’re not trying to push  financial reform because we begrudge success that&#8217;s fairly earned. I  mean, I do think at a certain point you&#8217;ve made enough money.&#8221;
With the forced health insurance, rising unemployment and the higher taxes most of us can be expecting, how on earth is he worried about making &#8216;enough money&#8217;.
Well how much is &#8216;enough&#8217;?
The Obamas made $5 million last year, is that enough?
His friend Oprah is worth $1.5  billion, is that enough?
Obama&#8217;s chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel made 16 million in three years as an investment banker. Is that enough?
Obama&#8217;s mentor and preacher retired in a new 10,340 square foot, $1.6  million house in a neighborhood where the median income for a  household in the village was $61,648, and the median income for a  family ...]]></description>
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		<title>Remember When Obama was the Media Darling?</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/04/29/remember-when-obama-was-the-media-darling/</link>
		<comments>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/04/29/remember-when-obama-was-the-media-darling/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2010 15:40:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News Items]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[press]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[talks]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Not as much anymore.
“Most of you covered me. All of you voted for me,” Obama joked  last year at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner.
Well that doesn&#8217;t sound arrogant at all.


But even then, only four months into his presidency, the joke fell flat.  Now, a year later, with another correspondents’ dinner Saturday night  likely to generate the familiar criticism of the press’s cozy  relationship with power, the reality is even more at odds with the  public perception.
Obama and the media actually have a surprisingly hostile  relationship — as contentious on a day-to-day basis as any between  press and president in the past decade, reporters  who cover the White House say.
Reporters say the White House is thin-skinned, controlling, eager to go over  their heads and stingy with  even basic information. All White Houses try to control the message.  But this ...]]></description>
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		<title>Noah&#8217;s Ark Found in Turkey</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/04/27/noahs-ark-found-in-turkey/</link>
		<comments>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/04/27/noahs-ark-found-in-turkey/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 23:01:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[ark]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[noah]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[noah's ark]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the sun]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[turkey]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[According to The Sun:

THE remains of Noah&#8217;s Ark have been discovered 13,000ft up a Turkish  mountain,  it has been claimed.
A group of Chinese and Turkish evangelical explorers say they have found   wooden remains on Mount Ararat in eastern Turkey.
They claim carbon dating proves the relics are 4,800 years old —  around the same time the ark was said to be afloat.

Yeung Wing-Cheung, from the Noah&#8217;s Ark Ministries International research  team,  said: &#8220;It&#8217;s not 100 per cent that it is Noah&#8217;s Ark, but we think it is  99.9  per cent that this is it.&#8221;



Read more: HERE


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		<title>The Stimulus Didn&#8217;t Help</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/04/27/the-stimulus-didnt-help/</link>
		<comments>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/04/27/the-stimulus-didnt-help/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 22:58:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News Items]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cnn money]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fiscal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stimulus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[work]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[According to CNN Money, &#8220;The Stimulus didn&#8217;t help.&#8221;
The recovery is picking up steam as employers boost payrolls, but  economists think the government&#8217;s stimulus package and jobs bill had  little to do with the rebound, according to a survey released Monday.In  latest quarterly survey by the National Association for Business  Economics, the index that measures employment showed job growth for the  first time in two years &#8212; but a majority of respondents felt the fiscal  stimulus had no impact.


More here
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		<title>Race Card and Racist Jokes</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/04/26/race-card-and-racist-jokes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/04/26/race-card-and-racist-jokes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 18:01:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News Items]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[card]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[joke]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[national security adviser]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today on Politico, an article makes the claim that Obama is playing the race card to help in the 2010 elections.
Obama speaks with unusual demographic frankness about his coalition in  his appeal to &#8220;young people, African-Americans, Latinos, and women who  powered our victory in 2008 [to] stand together once again.&#8221;
At first, I didn&#8217;t think much of the article, using  African Americans or Latinos to help him win or keep seats in 2010.
I did think about it AFTER I saw this video, of Obama&#8217;s own National Security Adviser telling a joke about Jews and the Taliban.

I don&#8217;t know, you can&#8217;t play the race card on one side, and tell racist like jokes on the other.
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		<title>Sting Wants Big Government</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/04/26/sting-wants-big-government/</link>
		<comments>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/04/26/sting-wants-big-government/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 17:45:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Love Sting&#8217;s music. I can even agree with his stance on the rainforest. After that, I guess we would part on most other topics.
In a recent interview with Sting and his wife Trudie Styler for Earth Day, he says a few times that the we need Big Government. That it can fix things.
How on earth can anyone who has some sense, scan the headlines on the the state of governments around the world, many are financially broken, one scandal after another, how can it fix anything?
I am with Ronald Reagan, &#8220;Government can&#8217;t fix the problem, government IS the problem.&#8221;
Sting made it seem like most of us can&#8217;t do what government can. To me, that means he gives up on regular people being responsible for our actions. What a low view of humankind he must have.
But oh, to put such faith in government? It&#8217;s sad, really, and then to ask for ...]]></description>
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		<title>The Barber</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/04/26/the-barber/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 15:48:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[barber]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[belief]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[customer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[God]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[story]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is a sweet story that came to my inbox today&#8230;.
A man went to a barbershop to have his hair cut and his beard trimmed.
As the barber began to work, they began to have a good conversation.
They talked about so many things and various subjects.
When they eventually touched on the subject of God, the barber said:
&#8216;I don&#8217;t believe that God exists.&#8217;
&#8216;Why do you say that?&#8217; asked the customer. &#8216;Well, you just have to go out in the street to realize that God doesn&#8217;t exist.
Tell me, if God exists, would there be so many sick people?
Would there be abandoned children?
If God existed, there would be neither suffering nor pain.
I can&#8217;t imagine a loving God who would allow all of these things.&#8217;
The customer thought for a moment, but didn&#8217;t respond because he didn&#8217;t want to start an argument.
The barber finished his job and the customer left the shop.
Just after he left the ...]]></description>
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		<title>Politics and Science</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/04/25/politics-and-science/</link>
		<comments>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/04/25/politics-and-science/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Apr 2010 16:10:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[carnegie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eugenics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[german]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[michael crichton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[politics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[science]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Imagine that there is a new  scientific theory that warns of an impending crisis, and points to a way  out.
This theory quickly draws  support from leading scientists, politicians and celebrities around the  world. Research is funded by distinguished philanthropies, and carried  out at prestigious universities. The crisis is reported frequently in  the media. The science is taught in college and high school classrooms.
Sounds like global warming, doesn&#8217;t it?
Actually the article is referring to a theory in our history.
Its supporters included  Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and Winston Churchill. It was  approved by Supreme Court justices Oliver Wendell Holmes and Louis  Brandeis, who ruled in its favor. The famous names who supported it  included Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone; activist  Margaret Sanger; botanist Luther Burbank; Leland Stanford, founder of  Stanford University; the novelist H. G. Wells; the playwright ...]]></description>
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		<title>Mom&#8217;s Birthday</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/04/24/moms-birthday-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/04/24/moms-birthday-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Apr 2010 04:07:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[80]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[birthday]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[yaya]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[years]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today,  mom,  (Yaya to many) is 80 years old.

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		<title>Facebook Will Own the Internet?</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/04/24/facebook-will-own-the-internet/</link>
		<comments>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/04/24/facebook-will-own-the-internet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Apr 2010 13:19:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News Items]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cnn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[facebook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[internet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jess3]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vimeo]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I was watching CNN this morning, and in fun, it made the mention that soon, Facebook would &#8220;own&#8221; the internet.

When I see how much of our lives are entwined with it these days, I paid attention and listened to the statistics they listed:
People on Facebook


More than 400 million active users
50% of our active users log on to Facebook in any given day
Average user has 130 friends
People spend over 500 billion minutes per month on Facebook


Activity on Facebook



There are over 160 million objects that  people interact with (pages, groups and events)
Average user is connected to 60 pages, groups and events
Average user creates 70 pieces of content each month
More than 25 billion pieces of content (web links, news stories,  blog posts, notes, photo albums, etc.) shared each month.



According to the video below, Facebook serves  260 billion page views per month! (That&#8217;s more than 6 million page views per minute).

JESS3 / ...]]></description>
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		<title>Win a free Corporate Identity Package!</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/04/23/win-a-free-corporate-identity-package/</link>
		<comments>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/04/23/win-a-free-corporate-identity-package/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 17:37:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[corporate identity package]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[win]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ben at hcsquared.com is giving away a FREE corporate identity package!
I am familiar with their work, and it&#8217;s always brilliant.
Enter for your chance to win a free  identity package.
A Winner will be chosen April 30th! The package  includes:

Logo design
Letter head
Business card
Brochure
Basic Website

Website requires a monthly maintenance and hosting fee of $10 and  does not include domain name purchase.



More information and to register please visit HERE
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		<title>His Truth</title>
		<link>http://www.xerraireart.com/blog/2010/04/23/his-truth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 14:11:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xerraire</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[american trilogy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[elvis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[truth marching on]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of my favorite Elvis numbers. I put it on for Silas today. As I listened to the words, it was comforting to remember, that in spite of all the turmoil in the world today and no matter how dirty the politics become, HIS truth is marching on.
Sing it, Elvis.

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