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		<title>Michael Graham: Gas Prices &#8220;Unexpectedly&#8221; High</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This caller&#8217;s ignorance is pure comedy gold! From YouTube: Uploaded by SDAMatt2a on Feb 10, 2012 (Hat Tip: Robert @ SDA) Michael Graham of 96.9 Boston Talks radio gets a call from Bill.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p><span style="color:#3000ff; font-size:120%; font-style:italic">This caller&#8217;s ignorance is pure comedy gold!</span></p>
<h3><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxVs57topBA">From YouTube:</a></h3>
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		<title>Caturday: Cat Interrupts Liverpool-Tottenham Soccer Match</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Business Insider: Cat On The Field! Tony Manfred&#124;February 06, 2012 Some cat interrupted the Liverpool-Tottenham game today. The best part of this video is ESPN announcer Ian Darke pointing out, &#8220;There was a fox once.&#8221; Here&#8217;s the video: From Yahoo News: In this video, an either brazen or oblivious cat walks out onto the field [...]]]></description>
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<blockquote><p>Tony Manfred|February 06, 2012<br />
Some cat interrupted the Liverpool-Tottenham game today.<br />
The best part of this video is ESPN announcer Ian Darke pointing out, &#8220;There was a fox once.&#8221;<br />
Here&#8217;s the video:</p></blockquote>
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<h3><a>From Yahoo News:</a></h3>
<blockquote><p>In <a href="http://www.globalnews.ca/video/cat+interrupts+liverpool+soccer+game/video.html?v=2193568273#sports">this video</a>, an either brazen or oblivious cat walks out onto the field of a live Liverpool-Tottenham English Premier League soccer match.</p>
<p>The crowd cheers in delight and even the coaches can&#8217;t help laughing as the cat scurries across the field, stopping about 20 seconds into the video to take a brief rest next to Tottenham goalie Brad Friedel.</p>
<p>Live soccer matches are <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/everton/9053340/Everton-fan-handcuffs-himself-to-goalpost-during-1-0-victory-over-Manchester-City.html">no stranger to overly enthusiastic fans taking to the field</a>. Though as the announcer notes, &#8220;I don&#8217;t think that cat is going to handcuff himself to the goalpost, as we saw recently.&#8221;</p>
<p>After about half a minute on the field, the cat then trots off &#8220;of its own volition&#8221; before being gently scooped up over the field barrier by part of the stadium&#8217;s security team.</p>
<p>Back in December, a fox was spotted running onto the field during a local Dallas high-school football game. You can watch video of that encounter <a href="http://www.dallasnews.com/sports/high-schools/football-news/headlines/20111210-silver-fox-swag-animal-runs-on-smu-s-field-after-carroll-s-winning-td.ece">here</a>.</p></blockquote>
<h3><em>More here:</em></h3>
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<li><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-16933102">Liverpool&#8217;s Anfield cat becomes Twitter star</a></li>
<li><a href="http://offthebench.nbcsports.com/2012/02/07/hello-kitty-cat-that-invaded-anfield-soccer-pitch-has-35000-twitter-followers/">Hello Kitty: Cat that invaded Anfield soccer pitch now has 35,000 Twitter followers</a></li>
<li><a href="http://soccerprose.com/epl/cat-appears-on-pitch-at-anfield-during-match-livens-up-snoozefest/">Cat Appears on Pitch at Anfield During Match…Livens Up Snoozefest</a></li>
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<h3>Completely Unrelated Snow Leopard Photo from Gramfan:</h3>
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		<title>LTC Daniel L. Davis Breaks Ranks, Tells The Truth from Afghanistan</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Coldwarrior has the story on 2.0: The Blogmocracy (Reposted with permission) This report does not look good. Frankly, he is highlighting what we are already hearing and have suspected from reading various other reports and hearing from on the ground from people in our own lives. Please check out the LTC’s website linked here. He [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><h3><a href="http://www.theblogmocracy.com/2012/02/06/ltc-breaks-ranks-the-truth-from-afghanistan/">Coldwarrior has the story on 2.0: The Blogmocracy</a></h3>
<p><em>(Reposted with permission)</em></p>
<p>This report does not look good. Frankly, he is highlighting what we are already hearing and have suspected from reading various other reports and hearing from on the ground from people in our own lives.</p>
<p>Please <a title="Link will open in new window" href="http://www.afghanreport.com/">check out the LTC’s website linked here</a>. He knows this will wreck his career by not going along. We need more leaders like him, not like the current batch of ‘leaders’.</p>
<p>Here is the article in full from Armed Forces Journal:</p>
<p><strong>BREAKING:</strong></p>
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<a title="Link will open in new window" href="http://armedforcesjournal.com/2012/02/8904030">Truth, lies and Afghanistan: How military leaders have let us down</a><br />
<strong>By LT. COL. DANIEL L. DAVIS</strong></p>
<p id="0">I spent last year in Afghanistan, visiting and talking with U.S. troops and their Afghan partners. My duties with the Army’s Rapid Equipping Force took me into every significant area where our soldiers engage the enemy. Over the course of 12 months, I covered more than 9,000 miles and talked, traveled and patrolled with troops in Kandahar, Kunar, Ghazni, Khost, Paktika, Kunduz, Balkh, Nangarhar and other provinces.</p>
<p id="1">What I saw bore no resemblance to rosy official statements by U.S. military leaders about conditions on the ground.</p>
<p id="2">Entering this deployment, I was sincerely hoping to learn that the claims were true: that conditions in Afghanistan were improving, that the local government and military were progressing toward self-sufficiency. I did not need to witness dramatic improvements to be reassured, but merely hoped to see evidence of positive trends, to see companies or battalions produce even minimal but sustainable progress.</p>
<p id="3">Instead, I witnessed the absence of success on virtually every level.</p>
<p id="4">My arrival in country in late 2010 marked the start of my fourth combat deployment, and my second in Afghanistan. A Regular Army officer in the Armor Branch, I served in Operation Desert Storm, in Afghanistan in 2005-06 and in Iraq in 2008-09. In the middle of my career, I spent eight years in the U.S. Army Reserve and held a number of civilian jobs — among them, legislative correspondent for defense and foreign affairs for Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas.</p>
<p id="5">As a representative for the Rapid Equipping Force, I set out to talk to our troops about their needs and their circumstances. Along the way, I conducted mounted and dismounted combat patrols, spending time with conventional and Special Forces troops. I interviewed or had conversations with more than 250 soldiers in the field, from the lowest-ranking 19-year-old private to division commanders and staff members at every echelon. I spoke at length with Afghan security officials, Afghan civilians and a few village elders.</p>
<p id="6">I saw the incredible difficulties any military force would have to pacify even a single area of any of those provinces; I heard many stories of how insurgents controlled virtually every piece of land beyond eyeshot of a U.S. or International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) base.</p>
<p id="7">I saw little to no evidence the local governments were able to provide for the basic needs of the people. Some of the Afghan civilians I talked with said the people didn’t want to be connected to a predatory or incapable local government.</p>
<p id="8">From time to time, I observed Afghan Security forces collude with the insurgency.</p>
<p id="9"><strong>From Bad to Abysmal</strong></p>
<p id="10">Much of what I saw during my deployment, let alone read or wrote in official reports, I can’t talk about; the information remains classified. But I can say that such reports — mine and others’ — serve to illuminate the gulf between conditions on the ground and official statements of progress.</p>
<p id="11">And I can relate a few representative experiences, of the kind that I observed all over the country.</p>
<p id="12">In January 2011, I made my first trip into the mountains of Kunar province near the Pakistan border to visit the troops of 1st Squadron, 32nd Cavalry. On a patrol to the northernmost U.S. position in eastern Afghanistan, we arrived at an Afghan National Police (ANP) station that had reported being attacked by the Taliban 2½ hours earlier.</p>
<p id="13">Through the interpreter, I asked the police captain where the attack had originated, and he pointed to the side of a nearby mountain.</p>
<p id="14">“What are your normal procedures in situations like these?” I asked. “Do you form up a squad and go after them? Do you periodically send out harassing patrols? What do you do?”</p>
<p id="15">As the interpreter conveyed my questions, the captain’s head wheeled around, looking first at the interpreter and turning to me with an incredulous expression. Then he laughed.</p>
<p id="16">“No! We don’t go after them,” he said. “That would be dangerous!”</p>
<p id="17">According to the cavalry troopers, the Afghan policemen rarely leave the cover of the checkpoints. In that part of the province, the Taliban literally run free.</p>
<p id="18">In June, I was in the Zharay district of Kandahar province, returning to a base from a dismounted patrol. Gunshots were audible as the Taliban attacked a U.S. checkpoint about one mile away.</p>
<p id="19">As I entered the unit’s command post, the commander and his staff were watching a live video feed of the battle. Two ANP vehicles were blocking the main road leading to the site of the attack. The fire was coming from behind a haystack. We watched as two Afghan men emerged, mounted a motorcycle and began moving toward the Afghan policemen in their vehicles.</p>
<p id="20">The U.S. commander turned around and told the Afghan radio operator to make sure the policemen halted the men. The radio operator shouted into the radio repeatedly, but got no answer.</p>
<p id="21">On the screen, we watched as the two men slowly motored past the ANP vehicles. The policemen neither got out to stop the two men nor answered the radio — until the motorcycle was out of sight.</p>
<p id="22">To a man, the U.S. officers in that unit told me they had nothing but contempt for the Afghan troops in their area — and that was before the above incident occurred.</p>
<p id="23">In August, I went on a dismounted patrol with troops in the Panjwai district of Kandahar province. Several troops from the unit had recently been killed in action, one of whom was a very popular and experienced soldier. One of the unit’s senior officers rhetorically asked me, “How do I look these men in the eye and ask them to go out day after day on these missions? What’s harder: How do I look [my soldier’s] wife in the eye when I get back and tell her that her husband died for something meaningful? How do I do that?”</p>
<p id="24">One of the senior enlisted leaders added, “Guys are saying, ‘I hope I live so I can at least get home to R&amp;R leave before I get it,’ or ‘I hope I only lose a foot.’ Sometimes they even say which limb it might be: ‘Maybe it’ll only be my left foot.’ They don’t have a lot of confidence that the leadership two levels up really understands what they’re living here, what the situation really is.”</p>
<p id="25">On Sept. 11, the 10th anniversary of the infamous attack on the U.S., I visited another unit in Kunar province, this one near the town of Asmar. I talked with the local official who served as the cultural adviser to the U.S. commander. Here’s how the conversation went:</p>
<p id="26">Davis: “Here you have many units of the Afghan National Security Forces [ANSF]. Will they be able to hold out against the Taliban when U.S. troops leave this area?”</p>
<p id="27">Adviser: “No. They are definitely not capable. Already all across this region [many elements of] the security forces have made deals with the Taliban. [The ANSF] won’t shoot at the Taliban, and the Taliban won’t shoot them.</p>
<p id="28">“Also, when a Taliban member is arrested, he is soon released with no action taken against him. So when the Taliban returns [when the Americans leave after 2014], so too go the jobs, especially for everyone like me who has worked with the coalition.</p>
<p id="29">“Recently, I got a cellphone call from a Talib who had captured a friend of mine. While I could hear, he began to beat him, telling me I’d better quit working for the Americans. I could hear my friend crying out in pain. [The Talib] said the next time they would kidnap my sons and do the same to them. Because of the direct threats, I’ve had to take my children out of school just to keep them safe.</p>
<p id="30">“And last night, right on that mountain there [he pointed to a ridge overlooking the U.S. base, about 700 meters distant], a member of the ANP was murdered. The Taliban came and called him out, kidnapped him in front of his parents, and took him away and murdered him. He was a member of the ANP from another province and had come back to visit his parents. He was only 27 years old. The people are not safe anywhere.”</p>
<p id="31">That murder took place within view of the U.S. base, a post nominally responsible for the security of an area of hundreds of square kilometers. Imagine how insecure the population is beyond visual range. And yet that conversation was representative of what I saw in many regions of Afghanistan.</p>
<p id="32">In all of the places I visited, the tactical situation was bad to abysmal. If the events I have described — and many, many more I could mention — had been in the first year of war, or even the third or fourth, one might be willing to believe that Afghanistan was just a hard fight, and we should stick it out. Yet these incidents all happened in the 10th year of war.</p>
<p id="33">As the numbers depicting casualties and enemy violence indicate the absence of progress, so too did my observations of the tactical situation all over Afghanistan.</p>
<p id="34"><strong>Credibility Gap</strong></p>
<p id="35">I’m hardly the only one who has noted the discrepancy between official statements and the truth on the ground.</p>
<p id="36">A January 2011 report by the Afghan NGO Security Office noted that public statements made by U.S. and ISAF leaders at the end of 2010 were “sharply divergent from IMF, [international military forces, NGO-speak for ISAF] ‘strategic communication’ messages suggesting improvements. We encourage [nongovernment organization personnel] to recognize that no matter how authoritative the source of any such claim, messages of the nature are solely intended to influence American and European public opinion ahead of the withdrawal, and are not intended to offer an accurate portrayal of the situation for those who live and work here.”</p>
<p id="37">The following month, Anthony Cordesman, on behalf of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, wrote that ISAF and the U.S. leadership failed to report accurately on the reality of the situation in Afghanistan.</p>
<p id="38">“Since June 2010, the unclassified reporting the U.S. does provide has steadily shrunk in content, effectively ‘spinning’ the road to victory by eliminating content that illustrates the full scale of the challenges ahead,” Cordesman wrote. “They also, however, were driven by political decisions to ignore or understate Taliban and insurgent gains from 2002 to 2009, to ignore the problems caused by weak and corrupt Afghan governance, to understate the risks posed by sanctuaries in Pakistan, and to ‘spin’ the value of tactical ISAF victories while ignoring the steady growth of Taliban influence and control.”</p>
<p id="39">How many more men must die in support of a mission that is not succeeding and behind an array of more than seven years of optimistic statements by U.S. senior leaders in Afghanistan? No one expects our leaders to always have a successful plan. But we do expect — and the men who do the living, fighting and dying deserve — to have our leaders tell us the truth about what’s going on.</p>
<p id="40">I first encountered senior-level equivocation during a 1997 division-level “experiment” that turned out to be far more setpiece than experiment. Over dinner at Fort Hood, Texas, Training and Doctrine Command leaders told me that the Advanced Warfighter Experiment (AWE) had shown that a “digital division” with fewer troops and more gear could be far more effective than current divisions. The next day, our congressional staff delegation observed the demonstration firsthand, and it didn’t take long to realize there was little substance to the claims. Virtually no legitimate experimentation was actually conducted. All parameters were carefully scripted. All events had a preordained sequence and outcome. The AWE was simply an expensive show, couched in the language of scientific experimentation and presented in glowing press releases and public statements, intended to persuade Congress to fund the Army’s preference. Citing the AWE’s “results,” Army leaders proceeded to eliminate one maneuver company per combat battalion. But the loss of fighting systems was never offset by a commensurate rise in killing capability.</p>
<p id="41">A decade later, in the summer of 2007, I was assigned to the Future Combat Systems (FCS) organization at Fort Bliss, Texas. It didn’t take long to discover that the same thing the Army had done with a single division at Fort Hood in 1997 was now being done on a significantly larger scale with FCS. Year after year, the congressionally mandated reports from the Government Accountability Office revealed significant problems and warned that the system was in danger of failing. Each year, the Army’s senior leaders told members of Congress at hearings that GAO didn’t really understand the full picture and that to the contrary, the program was on schedule, on budget, and headed for success. Ultimately, of course, the program was canceled, with little but spinoffs to show for $18 billion spent.</p>
<p id="42">If Americans were able to compare the public statements many of our leaders have made with classified data, this credibility gulf would be immediately observable. Naturally, I am not authorized to divulge classified material to the public. But I am legally able to share it with members of Congress. I have accordingly provided a much fuller accounting in a classified report to several members of Congress, both Democrats and Republicans, senators and House members.</p>
<p id="43">A nonclassified version is available at www.afghanreport.com. [Editor’s note: At press time, Army public affairs had not yet ruled on whether Davis could post this longer version.]</p>
<p id="44"><strong>Tell The Truth</strong></p>
<p id="45">When it comes to deciding what matters are worth plunging our nation into war and which are not, our senior leaders owe it to the nation and to the uniformed members to be candid — graphically, if necessary — in telling them what’s at stake and how expensive potential success is likely to be. U.S. citizens and their elected representatives can decide if the risk to blood and treasure is worth it.</p>
<p id="46">Likewise when having to decide whether to continue a war, alter its aims or to close off a campaign that cannot be won at an acceptable price, our senior leaders have an obligation to tell Congress and American people the unvarnished truth and let the people decide what course of action to choose. That is the very essence of civilian control of the military. The American people deserve better than what they’ve gotten from their senior uniformed leaders over the last number of years. Simply telling the truth would be a good start. AFJ</p>
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<p><strong>Please visit <a href="http://www.afghanreport.com/">afghanreport.com</a>.</strong></p>
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<h3>Remarks from 1389:</h3>
<p>Relying on &#8220;local troops&#8221; is insane, all the more so when those &#8220;local troops&#8221; are Muslim.</p>
<p>Peace never comes from peace conferences, peace studies, peacekeeping, Nobel Peace Prizes, or anything like that. It comes only from defeating our enemies so thoroughly that they can trouble us no more.</p>
<p><strong><em>If we cannot let our warriors be warriors, we will be defeated every time.</em></strong></p>
<h3><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PQ6335puOc">Conan, what is best in life?</a></h3>
<p><em>(h/t: <a href="http://www.theblogmocracy.com/2012/02/06/ltc-breaks-ranks-the-truth-from-afghanistan/#comment-973337">mfhorn</a>)</em>:</p>
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		<title>Inmate adds pig image to Vermont police cruiser decals</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[PoliceOne.com has the story: MONTPELIER, Vt. — A Vermont prison inmate who makes stationery and license plates has gotten the best of the state police by adding the image of a pig to the state decal on their cruisers. One of the spots on the cow in the state crest has been changed to the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><h3><a href="http://www.policeone.com/bizarre/articles/5016846-Inmate-adds-pig-image-to-Vt-police-cruiser-decals/">PoliceOne.com has the story:</a></h3>
<blockquote><p>MONTPELIER, Vt. — A Vermont prison inmate who makes stationery and license plates has gotten the best of the state police by adding the image of a pig to the state decal on their cruisers.<br />
<img src="http://1389blog.com/pix/pig-decal-285x245.jpg" style="margin:10px 10px 0 0; float:left;" alt="Detail of Vermont State Police decal" title="Detail of Vermont State Police decal" /><br />
One of the spots on the cow in the state crest has been changed to the shape of a pig, a derogatory term for police. The 16-inch car door decals are made by prisoners in Windsor.</p>
<p>State police discovered the pig images Wednesday. They say they believe the decals have been added to about 30 cruisers in the past year.</p>
<p>Who made the modification and when is being reviewed by the Department of Corrections. Corrections Commissioner Andy Pallito said Thursday new decals will be made by Monday for about $800.</p>
<p>The Burlington Free Press newspaper first reported the pig decals.</p>
<p><strong><em><a href="http://www.policeone.com/bizarre/articles/5016846-Inmate-adds-pig-image-to-Vt-police-cruiser-decals/">Read all of the comments here.</a></em></strong></p></blockquote>
<p>Says commenter <strong>djbadback</strong>: </p>
<blockquote><p>30 decals for $800? That&#8217;s the crime, someone is stealing from the state!</p></blockquote>
<p>Is THAT ever the truth!</p>
<p>Evidently, silhouette images of pigs aren&#8217;t <em>halal.</em> <img src='http://1389blog.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_lol.gif' alt=':lol:' class='wp-smiley' />  </p>
<p>Too bad the officialdom of the State of Vermont can&#8217;t take a harmless joke. Many of the cops on the above forum think it&#8217;s funny and advocate keeping the stickers with the pig image.</p>
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		<title>Now this is disgusting!</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the past few days, a whole list of things have made me want to hold my nose. Just for starters: Toilet texting on the rise Neal Augenstein, wtop.com WASHINGTON &#8212; With today&#8217;s smartphones, more people are taking their work and personal lives wherever they go &#8212; even to the toilet. A new study of [...]]]></description>
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<span style="color: #3000ff; font-size: 120%; font-style: italic;">In the past few days, a whole list of things have made me want to hold my nose. Just for starters:</span></p>
<h3><a href="http://www.wtop.com/?nid=41&amp;sid=2730118">Toilet texting on the rise</a></h3>
<blockquote><p><a href="http://www.wtop.com/?nid=635&amp;sid=598726">Neal Augenstein</a>, wtop.com</p>
<p>WASHINGTON &#8212; With today&#8217;s smartphones, more people are taking their work and personal lives wherever they go &#8212; even to the toilet.</p>
<p>A new study of mobile phone habits shows 75 percent of people have texted, emailed, used apps or surfed the web while nature calls.</p>
<p>More than 90 percent of people between 28 and 35 will return a call or text while sitting on the toilet.</p>
<p>One in five men joined a conference call while sitting on the toilet, despite the possibility of people on the other end hearing noises or accidentally hitting the FaceTime video conferencing button&#8230;</p></blockquote>
<p><span style="color: #3000ff"><strong>How about leaving your cell phone in your pocket or, better yet, at your desk?</strong><br />If you use your cell phone on the toilet, you will most likely contaminate the phone. (All the more so if you DROP the phone.) Suppose you wash your hands, then pick up that phone again. You&#8217;ve just gotten the germs back on your hands.</span></p>
<h3><a href="http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/01/26/mcdonalds-drops-use-of-pink-slime-in-u-s-meat/">McDonald’s drops use of ‘pink slime’ ammonium hydroxide in hamburger meat</a></h3>
<blockquote><p><a title="View all posts by Kristin Annable" href="http://news.nationalpost.com/author/kristinannable/" rel="author">Kristin Annable</a>  Jan 26, 2012 – 9:24 PM ET | Last Updated: Jan 27, 2012 11:13 AM ET<br />
<img style="margin: 5px 0 0 5px; float: right;" title="Ammonium hydroxide: This stinks, too!" src="http://1389blog.com/pix/bottle-of-ammonium-hydroxide.gif" alt="Janitorial strength ammonium hydroxide" /><br />
Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver can claim one more victory in his food revolution after McDonald’s stopped using what he called “pink slime” in its burgers.</p>
<p>On Thursday, McDonald’s USA announced it was discontinuing the use of ammonium hydroxide in its beef.</p>
<p>The Naked Chef had publicly denounced the use of the additive on his show, Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution. He questioned how the U.S. Food and Drug Administration could allow the compound to be used in foods.</p>
<p>Ammonium hydroxide is made of water and ammonia and is used to kill bacteria. Typically it is used in household cleaning products.</p>
<p>On one episode of his show, Mr. Oliver said that beef producers take beef “trimmings” that would normally go to dog food and wash it with the compound until it is fit for human consumption.</p>
<p>“Imagine how happy an accountant is, you just turned dog food into what can potentially be your kids’ food,” he said on the episode&#8230;</p></blockquote>
<p><span style="color: #3000ff"><strong>Yep, ammonium hydroxide is household ammonia &#8211; the stuff you use to clean windows, and janitors use to clean floors.</strong> It isn&#8217;t McDonald&#8217;s decision to <em>stop</em> using the ammonia &#8220;meat makeover&#8221; treatment that bothers me, but rather, the fact that they sold adulterated food to begin with. All of that nanny-state &#8220;nutritional labeling&#8221; has proven to be useless, when we aren&#8217;t even told the truth about what the <em>ingredients</em> are. How many people would buy a burger if the label disclosed that it contained meat scraps treated with ammonia?</span></p>
<p><strong><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/mcdonald-confirms-no-longer-using-pink-slime-chemicals-171209662.html">More details from Yahoo News.</a></strong></p>
<h3><a href="http://www.breitbart.tv/hate-talk-radio-host-refuses-to-shake-hand-of-black-republican/">Breitbart: Hate Radio Host Berates And Belittles Black Republican</a></h3>
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<blockquote><p>Memphis talk radio host Thaddeus Matthews insulted and humiliated Republican congressional candidate Charlotte Bergmann during a recent interview. He ended the interview by saying, &#8220;get your stupid, ignorant ass up out of my studio.&#8221; As Bergmann was leaving the studio she extended her hand to the host and Matthews refused to shake hands because he didn&#8217;t want the &#8220;whiteness&#8221; to &#8220;rub off&#8221; on him.</p>
<p>Note: The video of the incident was clearly made by someone who doesn&#8217;t favor Republicans or members of the Tea Party.</p></blockquote>
<p>Commenter <a href="http://www.breitbart.tv/hate-talk-radio-host-refuses-to-shake-hand-of-black-republican/#IDComment280703815">claspur</a> links to <strong><a href="http://thewholetruth-i.blogspot.com/2009/10/thaddeous-matthews-arrest-records.html">Thaddeus Matthews&#8217; rap sheet</a></strong>. </p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/radio-host-loses-it-with-female-gop-candidate-get-your-stupid-a-out-im-scared-your-whiteness-might-rub-off-on-me/">Further details at The Blaze.</a></strong> See comments for contact information. <em>(h/t: Sara Dipindy)</em></p>
<p><span style="color: #3000ff"><strong>Jesus said, <em>&#8220;Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.&#8221;</em></strong> (<a href="http://bible.cc/matthew/15-11.htm">Matthew 15:11 KJV</a>) Indeed, Thaddeus Matthews defiled not only himself and his talk show guest, but also the entire citizenry of Memphis. I question the judgment and common sense of anybody who would advertise on Matthews&#8217; show or even listen to it more than once.</span></p>
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		<title>Willard &#8220;Mitt&#8221; Romney:&#8220;They Call Him Flipper&#8221;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Viral Video: Flipper&#8217;s Greatest Flops Starring Mitt Romney &#038; Friends (h/t: Bumr50) Uploaded by EnHaleCentral on Jan 30, 2012 Says Breitbart: This new musical parody explores the many position &#8220;flip-flops&#8221; of Mitt Romney and his supporters. WARNING: Good luck getting the darn song out of your head the rest of the day! Mitt Romney is [...]]]></description>
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<p><em>(h/t: <a href="http://www.theblogmocracy.com/2012/01/30/the-rise-of-multi-drug-resistant-bacteria/#comment-968825">Bumr50</a>)</em><br />
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<blockquote><p>Uploaded by <a dir="ltr" href="http://www.youtube.com/user/EnHaleCentral" rel="author">EnHaleCentral</a> on Jan 30, 2012</p></blockquote>
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This new musical parody explores the many position &#8220;flip-flops&#8221; of Mitt Romney and his supporters.</p>
<p>WARNING: Good luck getting the darn song out of your head the rest of the day!</p></blockquote>
<p><strong>Mitt Romney is completely amoral and will say and do anything to get and keep money and power.</strong> It is just as important to defeat Mitt Romney as it is to defeat Barack Hussein Obama. In all too many respects, they are one and the same.</p>
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		<title>No Halal at Hillbilly Heaven</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Does this look like a halal joint to you? Hillbilly Heaven is a barbeque-only restaurant that serves pulled pork. But at least one ignoramus actually asked whether they serve halal food, while others kept asking about all manner of other foods that aren&#8217;t on the menu. So two years ago, Cameron Bailey began posting funny [...]]]></description>
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<span style="color: #3000ff; font-size: 180%;">Does this look like a halal joint to you?</span><br />
Hillbilly Heaven is a barbeque-only restaurant that serves <em>pulled pork</em>. But at least one ignoramus actually asked whether they serve halal food, while others kept asking about all manner of other foods that aren&#8217;t on the menu. So two years ago, Cameron Bailey began posting funny signs listing foods that the restaurant does not serve, and only now have those signs caused a brouhaha.</p>
<h3><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z86Sd7pfB48">Brian Lilley with Hillbilly Heaven&#8217;s Cameron Bailey </a></h3>
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<blockquote><p>Uploaded by <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/SDAMatt2a">SDAMatt2a</a> on Jan 28, 2012</p>
<p>Inclusivity mavens have a habit of saying very odd, overreaching things in denouncing words and actions of which they disapprove. Evelyn Myrie, who is executive director of the Centre for Civic Inclusion in Hamilton, Ont., provides us with a classic of the genre in today&#8217;s Spectator: &#8220;He has the right to sell his goods but doesn&#8217;t have the right to trash other foods that are culturally driven.&#8221;</p>
<p>The &#8220;he&#8221; in that sentence is one Cameron Bailey, proprietor of Hillbilly Heaven, a local barbecue joint. The issue here is some attempts at institutional humour Mr. Bailey has displayed around his store. On a list of &#8220;things we DON&#8217;T HAVE and never will,&#8221; we find ethnic items such as &#8220;halal,&#8221; &#8220;shawarma,&#8221; &#8220;kabob&#8221; and &#8220;Mexican,&#8221; along with ethnic-to-other-people items such as &#8220;fries,&#8221; &#8220;wings,&#8221; &#8220;1/4 chicken&#8221; and &#8220;burgers.&#8221;</p>
<p>Another sign reads, &#8220;To better serve you, our staff speaks: ENGLISH.&#8221; Another asks: &#8220;What would make you think this was a Korean BBQ? Do you see any f&#8217;n ducks in the window?&#8221;</p>
<p>All of this is perfectly in keeping with the hillbilly persona you&#8217;ll find answering supposedly frequently asked questions on the Hillbilly Heaven website. And Mr. Bailey says most are in response to specific questions about his menu, which he believes were ridiculous. But Ms. Myrie demands he remove the signs and apologize.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s have a look at her objections.</p>
<p>1. Does Mr. Bailey &#8220;trash&#8221; foods that he does not sell? Objectively, he does not. Here&#8217;s what trashing food might look like: Shawarma sucks, smells like feet. Ditto Mexican food, which makes you fart and is disgusting and for all I know might be full of donkey meat. Hanging dead ducks in a restaurant window is sick. The Australians&#8217; love of Vegemite is evidence of widespread mental defect.</p>
<p>As it happens, I only believe the last of those things. But it hardly matters. I do indeed have the &#8220;right&#8221; to trash &#8220;culturally driven&#8221; foods. I will face no sanction for the preceding paragraph, and neither would Mr. Bailey — if he was, in fact, trashing anyone&#8217;s food. Which he isn&#8217;t.</p>
<p>2. What the hell is a &#8220;culturally driven food,&#8221; anyway? Or put it another way: What&#8217;s a non-culturally driven food? Catching a fish and putting it straight in your mouth?</p>
<p>3. &#8220;Why would he go and attack the people who eat those kinds of foods? He&#8217;s ignoring a great deal of the population.&#8221; That&#8217;s Ms. Myrie again, prefacing her novel interpretation of Mr. Bailey&#8217;s rights with a novel interpretation of what&#8217;s her damn business. But we can answer her question quite definitively: He&#8217;s doing what he&#8217;s doing because he wants to, and nobody, not even the Hamilton Centre for Civic Inclusion, has any bloody right to stop him from doing it.</p>
<p>That, and free advertising.</p>
<p>- <a href="http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2012/01/25/chris-selley-on-hillbillies-busybodies-and-free-speech/">National Post</a></p>
<p>Chris Selley: <em>• <a href="mailto:cselley@nationalpost.com">cselley@nationalpost.com</a></em></p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://www.citytv.com/toronto/citynews/news/local/article/183116--hamilton-diner-serves-up-controversy"><img class="aligncenter" title="Confederate flag on wall of Hillbilly Heaven in Hamilton, Ontario" src="http://1389blog.com/pix/Hillbilly-Heaven-Dixie-Flag.jpg" alt="Confederate flag on wall of Hillbilly Heaven in Hamilton, Ontario" /></a></p>
<h3><a href="http://hillbillyheaven.com/cgi-bin/p/awtp-newsletter.cgi?d=hillbilly-heaven-bbq">Are We Foodists?</a></h3>
<blockquote><p>January 26, 2012 : Cameron Bailey</p>
<p>I am sure that most of you might have heard about the accusations and controversy brought by Evelyn Myrie of Hamilton&#8217;s Centre For Civic Inclusion. If you are not aware, I have posted a copy of the Spectator article to our site.</p>
<p>Over the past two days, we have had camera crews from CHCH, Global TV and CITYTV in the store. In addition I have been on seven radio interviews answering for what Ms. Myrie has deemed offensive signage and menu.</p>
<p>While I respect Ms. Myrie&#8217;s position with her group, the mandate of her group is as follows:</p>
<p>* Community-based civic resource centre, committed to working as a catalyst for anti-racist change across Hamilton.</p>
<p>* HCCI initiates and supports transformative processes that promote equality and create racism-free and inclusive environments in all areas of civic life</p>
<p>* HCCI develops and shares training and education resources</p>
<p>* HCCI is a source of support and information to newcomer immigrant and refugee communities, diverse ethno-racial and ethno-cultural groups and First Nations communities</p>
<p>* HCCI helps build community leadership and enable productive dialogues and partnerships between marginalized and &#8216;centralized&#8217; communities, organizations and institutions</p>
<p>* Hate Crimes Prevention Program aims to fill the deficit of support for victims of hate crimes in Hamilton who are vulnerable and unable to access counselling services</p>
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<p>Given her mandate, I believe that Ms. Myrie has overstepped her bounds and, through that, made our business appear to be racist in nature. No such racism exists and there has never be a claim made prior to Tuesday&#8217;s edition of the paper.</p>
<p>After phone calls and two emails, finally a suggestion potential of legal action caused Ms. Myrie to return my call. I asked her to apologize and she suggested that I deal with her through my lawyer.</p>
<p>Prior to taking that step, I thought it best to bring this to the attention of our customers &#8211; perhaps a call or two from concerned citizens may give Ms. Myrie a clearer picture of our community and what weight her accusations carry.</p>
<p>She can be reached at:</p>
<p>Hamilton&#8217;s Centre For Civic Inclusion<br />
Evelyn Myrie, Executive Director;<br />
Phone: 905-297-4694   ext 106<br />
Email: <a href="mailto:emyrie@hcci.ca">emyrie@hcci.ca</a></p>
<p>As always I appreciate your support &#8211; especially those who wrote and visited during this period.</p>
<p>Cameron Bailey<br />
905 538 4525<br />
<a href="mailto:bbq@hillbillyheaven.com">bbq@hillbillyheaven.com</a></p></blockquote>
<h3>Where to find Hillbilly Heaven?</h3>
<p>Hamilton, Ontario is not far from Niagara Falls.<br />
<strong><a href="http://hillbillyheaven.com/">http://hillbillyheaven.com/</a></strong></p>
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647 Upper James Street<br />
Hamilton Ontario L9C2Y9<br />
905 538 4525<br />
<a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Hillbilly-Heaven/101278153269285">Facebook Page</a></p></blockquote>
<h3>Mr. Bailey&#8217;s signage inspired us to create this &#8220;No Halal&#8221; sign.<br />
Feel free to use it!</h3>
<p><img class="aligncenter" title="No Halal Sign" src="http://1389blog.com/pix/No-Halal-Sign-300.png" alt="No Halal Sign" /></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Simon&#8217;s Cat in &#8216;Double Trouble&#8217; Uploaded by simonscat on Oct 7, 2011 http://www.simonscat.com A new arrival causes chaos. It doesn&#8217;t get any better than this. With simple line drawings, graphic artist Simon Tofield has revived the humor and the visual genius of the early days of hand-drawn cartoon animation.]]></description>
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<p>It doesn&#8217;t get any better than this. With simple line drawings, graphic artist <a href="http://www.simonscat.com/" target="_blank">Simon Tofield</a> has revived the humor and the visual genius of the early days of hand-drawn cartoon animation. </p>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the 1389 Blog mailbox: Subject: halal being shoved down Canadians&#8217; throats at movie theatres across Canada Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2012 12:18:08 -0500 At the movie theatre, check the yogurt before ordering a yogurt smoothie&#8230; I asked about the packages they were using, not because I ever dreamed it might be halal, but because [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><h3>From the 1389 Blog mailbox:</h3>
<p><strong>Subject:</strong> halal being shoved down Canadians&#8217; throats at movie theatres across Canada<br />
<strong>Date:</strong> Thu, 5 Jan 2012 12:18:08 -0500<br />
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<blockquote><p>At the movie theatre, check the yogurt before ordering a yogurt smoothie&#8230;</p>
<p>I asked about the packages they were using, not because I ever dreamed it might be halal, but because I thought if I got the name of the producer of the frozen yogurt packages, I could get some myself at Costco or another wholesale outlet and use them to make my own smoothies.</p>
<p>Anyway, the package shows the halal safe product, and when I politely declined the smoothie, and explained why, the girl got upset and asked the other server to call the manager. When he came over, I explained that I refused to eat halal products and asked if he knew what the slaughter process was all about, and he explained yes, they had two other muslim managers and they had explained it all to him.</p>
<p>Eat up all you ignorant fools as sharia compliant products fill the market and this sharia just keeps on creeping, With absolutely no public awareness.</p>
<p>It makes me sooooooooooooooo angry&#8230;</p></blockquote>
<h3>Here&#8217;s a follow-up:</h3>
<p>Sent: Friday, January 6, 2012 3:02 AM<br />
Subject: RE: halal being shoved down Canadians throats at movie theatres across canada</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8230;This one has several aspects to it.</p>
<p>I contacted <a href="http://cor.ca/contact.html">COR</a>, as this yogurt company (<a href="http://www.yogenfruz.com/home/en/contact">Yogen Früz</a>) also has the COR label as well as Halal.</p>
<p><a href="http://cor.ca/">COR (Kashruth Council of Canada)</a> is an regulatory organization in Toronto that makes sure products are Kosher and thus authenticates them as such for Jewish people.</p>
<p>The shocking thing is that these products carry both authentications.</p>
<p>I hope some strong outspoken Jewish people will contact the yogurt company (<a href="http://www.yogenfruz.com/home/en/contact">Yogen Früz</a>) about aligning Kosher with Halal.</p>
<p>This kind of makes me sick. These creepy Muslims&#8230;</p>
<p>Jewish people have never ever tried to deceive the public about eating kosher products, but now the Muslims are not only trying to deceive everyone, they are trying to align themselves with the Jewish Kosher products so people won&#8217;t object. There are more and more restaurants and franchises opening up where Muslims are the owners, and where they serve the public with halal meat products and do not tell the public.</p>
<p>There has to be a market for all the 20 to 25 percent of halal slaughtered meat in Alberta&#8230;If that isn&#8217;t sickening&#8230;</p>
<p>The killing of meat in halal is very different from anything the Jewish people do.</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Obama: Debt Man Walking</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Fox News: Obama says adding $4 trillion to debt is unpatriotic. Uploaded by maywhitley31 on Aug 23, 2011 On July 3, 2008 &#8212; the day before Independence Day &#8212; Barack Obama said that adding $4 trillion in debt was irresponsible and &#8220;unpatriotic. Obama: The problem is, is that the way Bush has done it [...]]]></description>
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<h3><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kuTG19Cu_Q">Obama says adding $4 trillion to debt is unpatriotic.</a></h3>
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<blockquote><p>Uploaded by <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/maywhitley31">maywhitley31</a> on Aug 23, 2011</p>
<p>On July 3, 2008 &#8212; the day before Independence Day &#8212; Barack Obama said that adding $4 trillion in debt was irresponsible and &#8220;unpatriotic.</p>
<p>Obama: The problem is, is that the way Bush has done it over the last eight years is to take out a credit card from the Bank of China in the name of our children, driving up our national debt from $5 trillion for the first 42 presidents &#8211; #43 added $4 trillion by his lonesome, so that we now have over $9 trillion of debt that we are going to have to pay back &#8212; $30,000 for every man, woman and child. That&#8217;s irresponsible. It&#8217;s unpatriotic.</p></blockquote>
<h3><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/12/27/obama-to-seek-third-debt-ceiling-increase-since-summer-deal/">Obama to Seek Third Debt Ceiling Increase Since Summer Deal</a></h3>
<blockquote><p>The Obama administration will ask Congress to raise the nation&#8217;s borrowing limit by $1.2 trillion this week, marking the third and final increase from a deal negotiated over summer.</p>
<p>Treasury officials say the increase will boost the nation&#8217;s borrowing limit to $16.4 trillion. Treasury officials say the increase is necessary because the nation will be within $100 billion of the current limit by Friday.</p>
<p>In August, Congress and the administration agreed to raise the borrowing limit by $2.1 trillion in three steps. The parties also agreed to cut more than $2 trillion from the deficit over the next 10 years.</p>
<p>Congress can reject the increase, though Obama can then veto their objection. If Congress doesn&#8217;t act by Jan. 14, the increase will take place automatically.
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<h3><em>Such stuff as nightmares are made on…</em></h3>
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<li><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/topics/politics/possible-new-federal-debt-limit.htm">It&#8217;s All Your Money: Possible New Federal Debt Limit</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/topics/politics/debt-ceiling.htm">Fox: Debt Ceiling News and Video</a></li>
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		<title>Christmas with Jeff Dunham, Peanut, Bubba J, and Achmed</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Dec 2011 19:32:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Peanut&#8217;s &#8216;Twas the Night Before Christmas &#8211; Jeff Dunham Uploaded by jeffdunham on Dec 5, 2011 Season&#8217;s Greetings! This is the first video in our series of extended clips from Jeff&#8217;s Very Special Christmas Special. Christmas with Bubba J &#8211; Jeff Dunham Uploaded by jeffdunham on Dec 6, 2011 This is the second video in [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><h3><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifK-k8Ii8Xw">Peanut&#8217;s &#8216;Twas the Night Before Christmas &#8211; Jeff Dunham</a></h3>
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<blockquote><p>Uploaded by <a href="/user/jeffdunham" rel="author"> jeffdunham </a> on Dec 5, 2011<br />
Season&#8217;s Greetings! This is the first video in our series of extended clips from Jeff&#8217;s Very Special Christmas Special.</p></blockquote>
<h3><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaDG4VD7S8A">Christmas with Bubba J &#8211; Jeff Dunham</a></h3>
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<blockquote><p>Uploaded by <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/jeffdunham">jeffdunham</a> on Dec 6, 2011<br />
This is the second video in our series of extended clips from Jeff Dunham&#8217;s Very Special Christmas Special. This one features lovable red-neck Bubba J talking about Christmas at home and his latest encounter with Santa.</p></blockquote>
<h3><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3L8fIrWnXRA">Achmed is Santa &#8211; Jeff Dunham</a></h3>
<p><a href="http://1389blog.com/2011/12/25/christmas-with-jeff-dunham-peanut-bubba-j-and-achmed/"><em>Click here to view the embedded video.</em></a></p>
<blockquote><p>Uploaded by <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/jeffdunham">jeffdunham</a> on Dec 7, 2011<br />
The third and final video in our series of extended clips from Jeff Dunham&#8217;s Very Special Christmas Special. This one features Achmed the Dead Terrorist&#8230;disguised as Santa Claus. </p>
<p>Jeff&#8217;s latest stand-up special Controlled Chaos: <a href="http://amzn.to/ugXn4r" target="_blank">http://amzn.to/ugXn4r</a><br />
Controlled Chaos Tour Dates: <a href="http://www.jeffdunham.com" target="_blank">www.jeffdunham.com</a><br />
Jeff&#8217;s Very Special Christmas Special: <a href="http://amzn.to/vl153t" target="_blank">http://amzn.to/vl153t</a><br />
Twitter: <a href="http://www.twitter.com/jeffdunham" target="_blank">www.twitter.com/jeffdunham</a><br />
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Store: <a href="http://www.jeffdunham.com/shop" target="_blank">www.jeffdunham.com/shop</a></p></blockquote>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Dec 2011 04:52:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From YouTube: Uploaded by lilcompeau on Nov 4, 2011 More at Alaskan Songs.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><h3><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuuCG4izC1g">From YouTube:</a></h3>
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<blockquote><p>Uploaded by <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/lilcompeau">lilcompeau</a> on Nov 4, 2011</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Christmas Videos</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[With thanks to our friends and colleagues at 2.0: The Blogmocracy. Visit Blazing Cat Fur for even more videos! Walking Christmas Tree at the Staten Island Ferry Terminal Merry Christmas from David and Sam Uploaded by Acts17Apologetics on Dec 24, 2011 http://www.answeringmuslims.com/ Christmas in Eurabia Uploaded by LatmaTV on Dec 22, 2011 A White House [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p><em>With thanks to our friends and colleagues at <strong><a href="http://www.theblogmocracy.com/2011/12/24/caturday-christmas-eve-edition/" target="_blank">2.0: The Blogmocracy</a></strong>.</em><br />
<em>Visit <strong><a href="http://blazingcatfur.blogspot.com/2011/12/silent-night_24.html" target="_blank">Blazing Cat Fur</a></strong> for even more videos!</em></p>
<h3><a href="http://www.9news.com/news/sidetracks/237794/337/Man-creates-walking-Christmas-tree-to-protest-decorations-ban-">Walking Christmas Tree</a> at the Staten Island Ferry Terminal</h3>
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<h3><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPo-fZUhjOE">Merry Christmas from David and Sam</a></h3>
<p><a href="http://1389blog.com/2011/12/24/christmas-eve-videos/"><em>Click here to view the embedded video.</em></a></p>
<blockquote><p>Uploaded by <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/Acts17Apologetics">Acts17Apologetics</a> on Dec 24, 2011<br />
<a href="http://www.answeringmuslims.com/">http://www.answeringmuslims.com/</a></p></blockquote>
<h3><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amQtXtkys6Q">Christmas in Eurabia</a></h3>
<p><a href="http://1389blog.com/2011/12/24/christmas-eve-videos/"><em>Click here to view the embedded video.</em></a></p>
<blockquote><p>Uploaded by <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/LatmaTV">LatmaTV</a> on Dec 22, 2011</p></blockquote>
<h3><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diDIhbMIKkg">A White House Christmas</a></h3>
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<blockquote><p>Uploaded by <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/georgeBinfidel">georgeBinfidel</a> on Dec 19, 2011<br />
funny spoof of Barack Obama Christmas songs parody commercial</p></blockquote>
<h3><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmEo07zy-Wo">2011 &#8211; Mannheim Steamroller &#8211; Celebration</a></h3>
<p><a href="http://1389blog.com/2011/12/24/christmas-eve-videos/"><em>Click here to view the embedded video.</em></a></p>
<blockquote><p>Uploaded by <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/grodq">grodq</a> on Dec 3, 2011<br />
For more information visit <a href="http://www.neverenoughlights.com/">www.NeverEnoughLights.com</a>.<br />
80000 Christmas lights synchronized to Celebration utilizing 224 Light-O-Rama channels.</p></blockquote>
<h3><a href="http://www.metacafe.com/watch/3838681/trans_siberian_orchestra_christmas_eve_sarajevo_12_24/">Trans-Siberian Orchestra &#8211; Christmas Eve Sarajevo &#8211; 12 24</a></h3>
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<h3><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qSlFu4cy3o">Puppy Christmas</a></h3>
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<blockquote style="font-size: 85%;"><p>Uploaded by <a dir="ltr" href="http://www.youtube.com/user/devinsupertramp" rel="author"> devinsupertramp </a> on Dec 18, 2011</p>
<p>The music for this video was composed by my friend <a href="http://www.eltonluz.com/" target="_blank">Elton Luz</a>.<br />
He also did the music for my <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uxUNyQ_c1E" target="_blank">fire knife dance video</a>.</p>
<p>Film was made by Devin Graham. Check out <a href="http://devingraham.blogspot.com/2011/12/puppy-christmas.html">my blog</a> on the making of this video!</p>
<p>My friend Xan Baker donated all 4 of her puppies for the filming of this video! Xan who also owns the puppies has a couple more left for sale. You can contact her at <a href="http://www.youtube.com/fraudfighters">her youtube channel</a>. Just shoot her a message there. She is based in Salt Lake City, Utah. And for those who have asked what kind of puppies they are, the puppies mom was half yorkie, half pomeranian, and the father was full maltese!</p>
<p>My friend Devin Dyer let us use his house for the filming of this, so super thanks to him and his family for helping make that happen.</p>
<p>I also had several friends who came and helped out on the filming of this, they were…<br />
Grant McCarty<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/jonash326" target="_blank">Jordan Nash</a><br />
<a href="http://www.thinktankermeeks.com/" target="_blank">Kyle Meeks</a></p>
<p>My business partner/friend <a href="http://mysterybox.us/" target="_blank">Jacob Schwarz</a> color corrected the video.</p>
<p>On a technical note, we filmed this video with a Canon 5D Mark II and Canon 7D.<br />
As far as lenses we used:<br />
Canon 16-35mm F/2.8 L series lens<br />
Canon 70-200 F/2.8 L series lens<br />
Canon 8-15mm F/4 L series lens</p>
<p>Also as a last friendly reminder, make sure to follow me on <a href="http://twitter.com/devinsupertramp" target="_blank">Twitter</a> and <a href="http://www.facebook.com/devinsupertrampyoutube" target="_blank">Facebook</a>, it&#8217;s the cool thing to do these days <img src='http://1389blog.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>For more info on the making of this video and the rest of my videos, make sure and check out <a href="http://devingraham.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">my blog</a>, and while you&#8217;re at it, you might as well follow that too <img src='http://1389blog.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>Film directed and edited by Devin Graham<br />
For job enquirers ONLY you can contact me at dpdevin@gmail.com (my email I use daily).</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Caturday: Christmas Eve Edition</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2011 05:01:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Christmas Laser Beam Cats Uploaded by klusmanp on Dec 22, 2009 Cats with laser beams shooting out of their eyes. For the holidays. Music is Carol of the Bells purchased from Shockwave-sound.com. Cast: Oscar, Ginger, Darth Zoey, TJ Wingard, and Paul Klusman Special thanks to production assistant Christie Kidd! Christmas Kitty Song Uploaded by stevecash83 [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><h3><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBKjzXuDdjU">Christmas Laser Beam Cats</a></h3>
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<blockquote><p>Uploaded by <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/klusmanp"> klusmanp </a> on Dec 22, 2009<br />
Cats with laser beams shooting out of their eyes. For the holidays. Music is Carol of the Bells purchased from Shockwave-sound.com.<br />
Cast: Oscar, Ginger, Darth Zoey, TJ Wingard, and Paul Klusman<br />
Special thanks to production assistant Christie Kidd!</p></blockquote>
<h3><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhPgIOcDl6k">Christmas Kitty Song</a></h3>
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<blockquote><p>Uploaded by <a dir="ltr" href="/user/stevecash83" rel="author"> stevecash83 </a> on Dec 10, 2010<br />
Download this MP3 free from <a title="http://www.stevecash83.com/download.html" href="http://www.stevecash83.com/download.html" target="_blank">http://www.stevecash83.com/download.html</a><br />
A jingle bell themed song from a kitty cat&#8217;s point of view on Christmas.</p></blockquote>
<p><center><img src="http://www.theblogmocracy.com/wp-content/uploads/ChristmasCaturday150.jpg" height="150" width="150" alt="Christmas Eve Caturday" title="Christmas Eve Caturday" /><br />
<span style="color:#009900; font-size:120%; font-style:italic">Merry Christmas<br />and Happy New Year<br />to you and yours!</span></center></p>
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