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		<title>McCain-Palin Donate to Charity for &#8220;Real Americans&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 05:13:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nicolle Wallace, a top adviser to Mr. McCain, described the clothes as a wardrobe necessary for an extraordinary circumstance and said the clothing would be given to charity at the conclusion of the campaign.
I wonder if the high-end &#8220;fashionable-but-sensible on-the-go working mother&#8221; clothes would be donated to the Support Ex-Investment Bankers charity fund. Afterall the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=arguendos.wordpress.com&blog=5052846&post=93&subd=arguendos&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What a shame</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 18:56:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am not Christian but I know enough that no where in its doctrines does Christianity promote such abysmal lack of tolerance.
Hat-tip to Andrew Sullivan of The Daily Dish
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		<title>Never a better rally song</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 16:47:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[hip hop]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[MC Yogi sings it the way it should!
Hat-tip to Andrew Sullivan @ The Daily Dish
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		<title>In the free market for humor, these guys are invaluable</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 19:02:19 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[comedy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A friend sent one of these clips of two comedians from across the pond satirizing the financial industry and the subprime crisis. A wonderful reminder of just how great Brit humor has always been.
The Subprime Crisis
The Finance Industry
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		<title>US Role In The Emerging Global Order</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 02:59:46 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Global Affairs]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday&#8217;s NYT has an interesting op-ed from Roger Cohen. I was surprised to perceive residual cold-war mentality, and a prevailing sense of America&#8217;s role as safe-keeping democracy. The following paragraph in particular jumped out at me:
But Zapatero’s more concerned about “certain gestures that may provoke Russian nationalism.” He seems to buy into Vladimir Putin’s nonsense [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=arguendos.wordpress.com&blog=5052846&post=65&subd=arguendos&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Interesting discussion from Alaskans about Governor Palin</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 01:13:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I encountered this interesting post about Governor Palin when logging into my wordpress account. The author and several commentators are Alaskans and provide an enlightening insight into the state&#8217;s politics.
http://mudflats.wordpress.com/2008/10/08/the-palins-imperfect-union/
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		<title>Why is Stanley Fish confused?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 03:46:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s entry on religion and politics from Stanley&#8217;s blog Think Again at the NYT.
Perhaps Stanley needs to think again. The Constitution was so crafted precisely to avoid the conundrum that he refers when he says &#8220;there is no way for Lynn and Stanley really to speak to one another because each begins with a different [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=arguendos.wordpress.com&blog=5052846&post=36&subd=arguendos&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Have we thought enough about all the bailout options?</title>
		<link>http://arguendos.wordpress.com/2008/09/25/pause-on-bailout-options/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 17:10:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You Must Act Now!
There is a sense of urgency in enacting the bailout proposal that has caught the pols in between the devil and the deep blue sea. Damned if they dont act as “the economy will meltdown” (a.k.a the wolf is coming; George, IBDEditorials and Warren) and damned if they do (“NO BAILOUT, I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=arguendos.wordpress.com&blog=5052846&post=43&subd=arguendos&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>We should be careful in supporting the bailout proposal</title>
		<link>http://arguendos.wordpress.com/2008/09/22/the-bailout-proposal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 22:39:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I rarely read Paul Krugman&#8217;s op-eds in the NYT but after reading today&#8217;s since it is on the bailout, I am very concerned about the interest of taxpayers being lost in the anxiety to avoid the &#8220;impending meltdown&#8221;. If the bailout&#8217;s goal is to address investor confidence (to avoid precipitating market losses) by providing the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=arguendos.wordpress.com&blog=5052846&post=39&subd=arguendos&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome to yab</title>
		<link>http://arguendos.wordpress.com/2008/09/21/welcome/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Sep 2008 22:16:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to Arguendo, yet-another-blog in this broadly and deeply discourse-ful(?) medium that I personally cannot live without. I could even claim to have contributed some ridiculously small percentage to its explosive, post-creation growth as a software engineer, system designer and product marketer at a number of telecom equipment companies. The Internet, of course, is what [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=arguendos.wordpress.com&blog=5052846&post=1&subd=arguendos&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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