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		<title>Merry Christmas</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2011 18:37:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alex</dc:creator>
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		<title>If House Fails to Act, Our Taxes Go Up</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 15:03:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alex</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If Congress doesn't act, your taxes will go up. Find out how much more you'll pay.]]></description>
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		<title>Stop Calling It Bullying, Says Fugelsang</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 14:36:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alex</dc:creator>
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		<title>Puncturing The Logic of The &#8220;War on Christmas&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2011 16:26:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alex</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jon Stewart punctures the logic of the "War on Christmas", a trumped-up non-issue that gives people yet another reason to act like jerks.]]></description>
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		<title>How Republicans Are Told to Talk about Occupy Wall Street</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2011 16:17:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alex</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["If you talk about 'compromise,' they'll say you're selling out. Your side doesn't want you to 'compromise.' What you use in that to replace it with is 'cooperation.' It means the same thing. But cooperation means you stick to your principles but still get the job done. Compromise says that you're selling out those principles."]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Frank Luntz gives GOP members the 411 on how to trash the Occupy movement.</p>
<p>Here are a few of the top ten &#8220;suggestions&#8221;&#8230;excerpted from <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/republicans-being-taught-talk-occupy-wall-street-133707949.html">this article on Yahoo News (click over to read the entire depressing article):</a></p>
<p>10 do&#8217;s and don&#8217;ts from Luntz covering how Republicans should fight back by changing the way they discuss the movement.</p>
<p><strong>1. Don&#8217;t say &#8216;capitalism.&#8217;</strong></p>
<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m trying to get that word removed and we&#8217;re replacing it with either &#8216;economic freedom&#8217; or &#8216;free market,&#8217; &#8221; Luntz said. &#8220;The public . . . still prefers capitalism to socialism, but they think capitalism is immoral. And if we&#8217;re seen as defenders of quote, Wall Street, end quote, we&#8217;ve got a problem.&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>2. Don&#8217;t say that the government &#8216;taxes the rich.&#8217; Instead, tell them that the government &#8216;takes from the rich.&#8217;</strong></p>
<p>&#8220;If you talk about raising taxes on the rich,&#8221; the public responds favorably, Luntz cautioned. But  &#8221;if you talk about government <em>taking</em> the money from <em>hardworking Americans,</em> the public says no. <em>Taxing</em>, the public will say yes.&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>3. Republicans should forget about winning the battle over the &#8216;middle class.&#8217; Call them &#8216;hardworking taxpayers.&#8217;<br />
</strong></p>
<p>&#8220;They cannot win if the fight is on hardworking taxpayers. We can say we defend the &#8216;middle class&#8217; and the public will say, I&#8217;m not sure about that. But defending &#8216;hardworking taxpayers&#8217; and Republicans have the advantage.&#8221;</p>
<p>[...]</p>
<p><strong>5. Don&#8217;t say &#8216;government spending.&#8217; Call it &#8216;waste.&#8217;</strong></p>
<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not about &#8216;government spending.&#8217; It&#8217;s about &#8216;waste.&#8217; That&#8217;s what makes people angry.&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>6. Don&#8217;t ever say you&#8217;re willing to &#8216;compromise.&#8217;</strong></p>
<p>&#8220;If you talk about &#8216;compromise,&#8217; they&#8217;ll say you&#8217;re selling out. Your side doesn&#8217;t want you to &#8216;compromise.&#8217; What you use in that to replace it with is &#8216;cooperation.&#8217; It means the same thing. But cooperation means you stick to your principles but still get the job done. Compromise says that you&#8217;re selling out those principles.&#8221;</p>
<p>[...]</p>
<p><strong>8. Out: &#8216;Entrepreneur.&#8217; In: &#8216;Job creator.&#8217;<br />
</strong></p>
<p>Use the phrases &#8220;small business owners&#8221; and &#8220;job creators&#8221; instead of &#8220;entrepreneurs&#8221; and &#8220;innovators.&#8221;</p>
<p>[...]</p>
<p><strong>10. Always blame Washington.</strong></p>
<p>Tell them, &#8220;You shouldn&#8217;t be occupying Wall Street, you should be occupying Washington. You should occupy the White House because it&#8217;s the policies over the past few years that have created this problem.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>What to Do If Another Blogger Posts an Excerpt of Your Work</title>
		<link>http://www.simonsgroove.com/2011/11/25/what-to-do-if-another-blogger-posts-an-excerpt-of-your-work/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 18:30:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alex</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If a fellow blogger is interested enough in what you have written to excerpt it (with attribution) on his/her blog, the appropriate response is not &#8220;Take that down.&#8221; The response is &#8220;thank you.&#8221;]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If a fellow blogger is interested enough in what you have written to excerpt it (with attribution) on his/her blog, the appropriate response is not &#8220;Take that down.&#8221;</p>
<p>The response is &#8220;thank you.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>Bill Maher on Wall Street</title>
		<link>http://www.simonsgroove.com/2011/11/23/bill-maher-on-wall-street/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 15:45:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alex</dc:creator>
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		<title>Bill Moyers on Plutonomy</title>
		<link>http://www.simonsgroove.com/2011/11/22/bill-moyers-on-plutonomy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 15:41:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alex</dc:creator>
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		<title>Our Broken System: Countdown with Keith Olbermann</title>
		<link>http://www.simonsgroove.com/2011/11/06/our-broken-system-countdown-with-keith-olbermann/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Nov 2011 23:14:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alex</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We must act.]]></description>
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		<title>Tea Party Member Lashes Out at Elizabeth Warren</title>
		<link>http://www.simonsgroove.com/2011/11/03/tea-party-member-lashes-out-at-elizabeth-warren/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 19:52:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alex</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Man makes idiot of self. Check it out.]]></description>
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