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	<description>. . . no-one ever collided with the sky.</description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 23:29:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>The other man from Wales</title>
		<link>http://puffinsplace.com/blog/2008/11/14/293/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 23:20:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Book Reviews]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Next to having a terrific new president, one of the nicest things is to find a cell phone salesman from Wales who has a gorgeous voice and is appreciated by the Britain&#8217;s Got Talent audience and judges.
Check this out. Paul Potts.

What do you think?
Follow his career here.
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		<title>Can you believe it!</title>
		<link>http://puffinsplace.com/blog/2008/11/13/can-you-believe-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 22:15:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[general]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[• Some of those &#8220;failed&#8221; firms to which we taxpayers have given billions are, in turn, handing millions over as bonuses to departing administrators? I guess the appropriate mantra is: where Congress lacks the foresight to impose restraint, shame is inoperative.
• The media is treating Sarah Palin as if she is the oracle at Delphi! [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What I expect of President Obama</title>
		<link>http://puffinsplace.com/blog/2008/11/13/what-i-expect-of-president-obama/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 22:05:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[expectations of president]]></category>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://puffinsplace.com/blog/?p=288</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There were days in the past two years that I thought never to be able to write that header.
I expect to know every day and every week that Obama is telling us as much as it is legitimate for us to know. I expect to never wonder what theft-of-freedom is going on at the Naval [...]]]></description>
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		<title>change.gov</title>
		<link>http://puffinsplace.com/blog/2008/11/10/changegov/</link>
		<comments>http://puffinsplace.com/blog/2008/11/10/changegov/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:36:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Presidential election 2008]]></category>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://puffinsplace.com/blog/?p=285</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ve not yet visited our President-elect&#8217;s new website, change.gov, take a look.
How astonishing is it that we have an incoming pres that has an actual interest in keeping the public informed! There is a place to tell your story in relation to the new administration, apply for a job, read a blog about events, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thought from Boston</title>
		<link>http://puffinsplace.com/blog/2008/11/07/thought-from-boston/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 16:15:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://puffinsplace.com/blog/?p=283</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Fabo news from the election, One of the many admirable things about Obama&#8217;s campaign is that he ran as a man with a vision, not a Black man or Straight man or whatever. The media is busily undoing this leap forward with its endless self-congratulation that we have an African-American president.
If ever the &#8220;news&#8221; was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vote. As though your country&#8217;s life depended on it.</title>
		<link>http://puffinsplace.com/blog/2008/11/04/vote-as-though-your-countrys-life-depended-on-it/</link>
		<comments>http://puffinsplace.com/blog/2008/11/04/vote-as-though-your-countrys-life-depended-on-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 21:42:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Ideas]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://puffinsplace.com/blog/?p=281</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
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		<title>How about we practice being friends?</title>
		<link>http://puffinsplace.com/blog/2008/10/30/how-about-we-practice-being-friends/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 18:36:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[bully]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[leadership]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Robert Kagan]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[US role in world]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Washington Post]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://puffinsplace.com/blog/?p=277</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Remember the old story about the eager boy scout who drags the old lady across the street in his frenzy to do a good deed?
I&#8217;m thinking these days that the US might want to be a better friend to other countries than insisting on being the leader of the free world.&#8221;
The thought came to me [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aw, jeez . . . .</title>
		<link>http://puffinsplace.com/blog/2008/10/29/aw-jeez/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 22:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://puffinsplace.com/blog/?p=273</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Just heard Elizabeth Dole&#8217;s ad calling her competition &#8220;godless.&#8221; I am a North Carolinian, and Elizabeth Dole is beyond a cipher. She is something like 93rd on the list of  competent senators. She is the most empty of the &#8220;southern woman&#8221; stereotypes, and except for the raised brake light in cars from long ago [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This &#8216;n That</title>
		<link>http://puffinsplace.com/blog/2008/10/29/this-n-that/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 22:25:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[frakenstein]]></category>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://puffinsplace.com/blog/?p=271</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[These days, I am so hyper about the election and fear that Obama will not win thanks to last-minute voter maneuvers by the Repubs&#8211;skilled after 8 years of it. Can not really gather a complete thought that is fresh. But must give a nod of regard and thanks to the Clintons for their support of [...]]]></description>
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		<link>http://puffinsplace.com/blog/2008/10/25/270/</link>
		<comments>http://puffinsplace.com/blog/2008/10/25/270/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Oct 2008 23:14:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[
(With thanks to Beth Morgan for the heads-up.)
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