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	<title>OverSpun</title>
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	<description>I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death.</description>
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		<title>Fredo Gone</title>
		<link>http://www.overspun.com/?p=1868</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2007 14:40:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>McLusky</dc:creator>
		
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		<title>I Read The News Today, Oh Boy&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.overspun.com/?p=1866</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2007 02:03:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>McLusky</dc:creator>
		
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WASHINGTON (AP) A U.S. official says a draft report on the Iraq war will conclude that the U.S.-backed government in Iraq has met none of its targets.
If we&#8217;d started withdrawal a year (or three) ago it wouldn&#8217;t need to be &#8220;precipitous&#8221; - it would have been the magic word the Republicans are suddenly warming up [...]]]></description>
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WASHINGTON (AP) A U.S. official says a draft report on the Iraq war will conclude that the U.S.-backed government in Iraq has met none of its targets.</p></blockquote>
<p>If we&#8217;d started withdrawal a year (or three) ago it wouldn&#8217;t need to be &#8220;precipitous&#8221; - it would have been the magic word the Republicans are suddenly warming up to- &#8220;gradual.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>Resign.</title>
		<link>http://www.overspun.com/?p=1864</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jul 2007 13:02:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>McLusky</dc:creator>
		
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		<title>So………..</title>
		<link>http://www.overspun.com/?p=1861</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jun 2007 01:25:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>McLusky</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[What&#8217;s new?
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What&#8217;s new?</p>
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		<title>Vonnegut</title>
		<link>http://www.overspun.com/?p=1856</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2007 03:50:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>McLusky</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[RIP
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/12/books/12vonnegut.html?hp">RIP</a></p>
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		<title>DOWN GOES SCOOTER! DOWN GOES SCOOTER!</title>
		<link>http://www.overspun.com/?p=1854</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2007 18:08:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>McLusky</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s a start.
Yet to come:
Judge: &#8220;Mr. Libby- you are hereby sentenced to 20 years in federal pound-you-in-the-ass prison.&#8221;
Libby: &#8220;Pardon me?&#8221;
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/06/washington/06cnd-libby.html?hp">That&#8217;s a start.</a></p>
<p>Yet to come:</p>
<p>Judge: &#8220;Mr. Libby- you are hereby sentenced to 20 years in federal pound-you-in-the-ass prison.&#8221;</p>
<p>Libby: &#8220;Pardon me?&#8221;</p>
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		<title>The Ignorance Is Breathtaking&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.overspun.com/?p=1853</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jan 2007 07:52:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>McLusky</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not sure why I&#8217;m surprised anymore&#8230; but this shit is fuuuuucked.
I learned in third grade that there were three equal branches of our government.  Turns out, this fucking retard hasn&#8217;t gotten the memo.
On second thought, this isn&#8217;t ignorance, it&#8217;s treason.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m not sure why I&#8217;m surprised anymore&#8230; but <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id//16668110/">this shit is fuuuuucked</a>.</p>
<p>I learned in third grade that there were three equal branches of our government.  Turns out, <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/government/gonzales-bio.html">this fucking retard</a> hasn&#8217;t gotten the memo.</p>
<p>On second thought, this isn&#8217;t ignorance, it&#8217;s treason.</p>
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		<title>Dubya Wept  (Alternate Title: Tears Of A Clown)</title>
		<link>http://www.overspun.com/?p=1851</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jan 2007 02:48:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>McLusky</dc:creator>
		
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This is actually really touching- at a ceremony honoring a fallen hero in Iraq, President Bush shed a tear.
White House sources indicate that after the ceremony Mr. Bush returned to the White House residence and washed his vagina.
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<p>This is actually really touching- at a ceremony honoring a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Dunham">fallen hero</a> in Iraq, President Bush shed a tear.</p>
<p>White House sources indicate that after the ceremony Mr. Bush returned to the White House residence and washed his vagina.</p>
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		<title>Noted.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Dec 2006 05:15:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>McLusky</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[So&#8230; it seems to me it&#8217;s important to remember this back and forth between White House mouthpiece Tony Snow and an anonymous reporter last week:
Q Is it possible that the President does not want to announce the deployment of thousands of more U.S. troops to Iraq before the holidays?
MR. SNOW: No, it has nothing to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So&#8230; it seems to me it&#8217;s important to remember this back and forth between White House mouthpiece Tony Snow and an anonymous reporter last week:</p>
<blockquote><p>Q Is it possible that the President does not want to announce the deployment of thousands of more U.S. troops to Iraq before the holidays?</p>
<p>MR. SNOW: No, it has nothing to do with that. <strong>Cynical, but false.</strong></p></blockquote>
<p>Let&#8217;s see how that squares with Bush&#8217;s actions next month when he declares &#8220;Time to surge!&#8221; and witness all the death, destruction and continued failure that follows.</p>
<p>Hey, at least he&#8217;s not wrecking Jebus&#8217;s birthday for our troops&#8230; that&#8217;s mighty Christian of him.</p>
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		<title>Happy Thanksgiving</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Nov 2006 07:35:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>McLusky</dc:creator>
		
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		<title>Fox News Paid $2 Million To Terrorists</title>
		<link>http://www.overspun.com/?p=1847</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Nov 2006 07:34:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>McLusky</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s not good.  If you pay the terrorists millions of dollars&#8230; the terrorists win.
&#8216;Course the source is WorldNetDaily- they shovel even more horseshit than FOX&#8230;
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://americablog.blogspot.com/2006/11/someone-allegedly-paid-terrorist.html">That&#8217;s not good.</a>  If you pay the terrorists millions of dollars&#8230; the terrorists win.</p>
<p>&#8216;Course the source is WorldNetDaily- they shovel even more horseshit than FOX&#8230;</p>
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		<title>Dems Win, Rumsfeld Fired</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Nov 2006 17:55:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>McLusky</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is a good day.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Today is a good day.</p>
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		<title>VOTE</title>
		<link>http://www.overspun.com/?p=1845</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Nov 2006 17:16:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>McLusky</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ll be honest, I&#8217;m kind of sad it&#8217;s going to take two more years to catch Osama&#8230;  I was sure they were gonna whip him out this morning.
Guess they&#8217;re saving him for the presidency&#8230; they&#8217;re gonna need him.  Again.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ll be honest, I&#8217;m kind of sad it&#8217;s going to take two more years to catch Osama&#8230;  I was sure they were gonna whip him out this morning.</p>
<p>Guess they&#8217;re saving him for the presidency&#8230; they&#8217;re gonna need him.  <em>Again</em>.</p>
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		<title>Hacking Democracy</title>
		<link>http://www.overspun.com/?p=1844</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Nov 2006 06:22:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>McLusky</dc:creator>
		
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		<title>Let&#8217;s Sentence Him Before The Verdict Is In!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Nov 2006 18:30:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>McLusky</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Quite a legal system we&#8217;ve concocted over there in Iraq&#8230; Judge, Jury, and Executioner.
I suppose this is another of those grand Republican experiments they were all excited about when invading yet another country&#8230; perhaps an effort to tell those evil activist judges enforcing our constitution that they are expendable?
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Quite a legal system we&#8217;ve concocted over there in Iraq&#8230; <strike>Judge, Jury, and</strike> <a href="http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/010851.php">Executioner</a>.</p>
<p>I suppose this is another of those grand Republican experiments they were all excited about when invading yet another country&#8230; perhaps an effort to tell those evil activist judges enforcing our constitution that they are expendable?</p>
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		<title>Bush Lost The War.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Nov 2006 06:57:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>McLusky</dc:creator>
		
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		<title>Limbaugh&#8217;s Comments on Michael J. Fox</title>
		<link>http://www.overspun.com/?p=1839</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Oct 2006 08:56:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>McLusky</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[So Limbaugh&#8217;s saying Marty McFly is faking his Parkinson&#8217;s disease.
Wow.  What a despicable moron.
He attacks a guy like Fox, but leaves a real crazy faker like Stephen Hawking alone&#8230; (c&#8217;mon Stephen, admit it, it&#8217;s just an act- we accept your wacky theories, no need for all the horse-shit theatrics.)
Seriously- this shit is indefensible.  He&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/24/AR2006102400691.html">Limbaugh&#8217;s saying Marty McFly is faking his Parkinson&#8217;s disease</a>.</p>
<p>Wow.  What a despicable moron.</p>
<p>He attacks a guy like Fox, but leaves a <em>real</em> crazy faker like Stephen Hawking alone&#8230; (c&#8217;mon Stephen, admit it, it&#8217;s just an act- we accept your wacky theories, no need for all the horse-shit theatrics.)</p>
<p>Seriously- this shit is indefensible.  He&#8217;s over now.</p>
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		<title>Deusches</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Oct 2006 01:46:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AppleJack</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Jeff Suppan/Kurt Warner/the mom from Everybody Loves Raymond opposes stem cells? Well shit.
And, Green Day&#8217;s &#8220;American Idiot&#8221; was a stunt? Maybe. But it&#8217;s a helluva lot less of a stunt than playing the patriotism card by calling out a vastly more successful band. Who am to judge? It got &#8216;em on Drudge.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Jeff Suppan/Kurt Warner/the mom from Everybody Loves Raymond <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nguJQ_dRPXw">opposes stem cells</a>? Well shit.</p>
<p>And, Green Day&#8217;s &#8220;American Idiot&#8221; was a <a href="http://www.nme.com/news/the-killers/24702">stunt</a>? Maybe. But it&#8217;s a helluva lot less of a stunt than playing the patriotism card by calling out a vastly more successful band. Who am to judge? It got &#8216;em on Drudge.</p>
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		<title>Just realized &#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Oct 2006 13:12:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AppleJack</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been on a posting frenzy lately, and I&#8217;m not sure why. McLusky and I had basically ignored Overspun for months, and certainly had no where near the interest we did leading up to the 2004 presidential election. Then Kerry lost, Bush got even worse, the Iraq war turned quagmire and I just lost interest/hope. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve been on a posting frenzy lately, and I&#8217;m not sure why. McLusky and I had basically ignored Overspun for months, and certainly had no where near the interest we did leading up to the 2004 presidential election. Then Kerry lost, Bush got even worse, the Iraq war turned quagmire and I just lost interest/hope. But two years later, with Bush and Co. about to get smacked in the face, I&#8217;m excited again. Sure, it&#8217;s fair-weather fandom at its worst, but I think a lot of people are getting reenergized. That&#8217;s a good sign for Democrats. If it was just another same-old year, I wouldn&#8217;t be writing this post. But with change swirling (not monumental change, but at least change) here I am &#8230; and you are. Of course, reading blogs doesn&#8217;t translate to votes, so insert here obligatory get and vote and take your girlfriend/boyfriend/husband/hot neighbor to the polls with you (kudos if you can land all four of those).</p>
<p>Now, what can we do to get McLusky to work on some of the videos he used to post here? I know, I know &#8230; You Tube changed everything. But isn&#8217;t there something worth spending an anxiety-ridden computer-fighting 15 hours putting together?</p>
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		<title>Great post</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Oct 2006 12:59:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[That Josh Marshall has a future in this Internet blogging thing. Here&#8217;s a post on the CW that Democrats are only anti-Bush with no positions of their own. Turns out, that&#8217;s how it always is &#8230;
So, while Democrats look poised to take back at least one house of Congress, we all know that this is [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>That Josh Marshall has a future in this Internet blogging thing. Here&#8217;s a post on the CW that Democrats are only anti-Bush with no positions of their own. Turns out, that&#8217;s how it always is &#8230;</p>
<blockquote><p><span class="smallcaps">So, while Democrats</span> look poised to take back at least one house of Congress, we all know that this is in spite of the fact that they&#8217;re relying on opposition to President Bush rather than on putting forward a positive program of their own, right?</p>
<p>Please.</p>
<p>Seldom has Washington conventional wisdom been a more obedient handmaiden to historical illiteracy.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s say this once and for all, after a deep breath and for the record: In US politics, in off-year elections with unpopular incumbents it is <u>always that way</u>.  Always.  Hear it again, always that way.</p>
<p>Consider a few examples: the 1946 (Truman), 1974 (Nixon) and 1994 (Clinton) mid-terms. There are a few others that come close. But these are the three big wave elections of the New Deal and post-New Deal eras. In each case, the winning party ran overwhelmingly and almost exclusively on opposition to the sitting president of the opposite party and &#8212; in two of the three cases &#8212; the congressional leadership.</p></blockquote>
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