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		<title>Saint of the Day Quote:  Saint Justus of Canterbury</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2026 09:45:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#8220;In the meantime, Archbishop Justus was taken up to the heavenly kingdom, on the 10th of November, and Honorius, who was elected to the see in his stead, came to Paulinus to be ordained, and meeting him at Lincoln was there consecrated the fifth prelate of the Church of Canterbury from Augustine.&#8221; Ecclesiastical History of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>LeoWatch:  Comrade Bob</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Donald R. McClarey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2026 09:30:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[How heavily dependent is the Pope on speech writers?  I assume he is fluent in Spanish, although I have been told that Argentinian Spanish is quite different from, say, Spanish spoken in Peru.  This is not a defense, since he is still responsible for content, but how much is this papacy like too many politicians [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Happy 251st Birthday to the Corps!</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Donald R. McClarey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2026 09:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; You cannot exaggerate about the Marines. They are convinced, to the point of arrogance, that they are the most ferocious fighters on earth – and the amusing thing about it is that they are…You should see the group about me as I write- dirty, bearded, their clothing food-spattered and filthy- they look like the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Our Country Is In the Very Best of Hands</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Donald R. McClarey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2026 07:29:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[26 million dollars stolen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Country's in the very best of hands.]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; Go here to read the story.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Too Bad We Can&#8217;t Run the President of El Salvador Here For President in 2028</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Donald R. McClarey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2026 07:18:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>November 9, 1989:  Thirty-Seven Years Since the Fall of the Berlin Wall</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Donald R. McClarey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2026 10:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Thirty-seven years ago today my bride and I arrived home from buying software for our Commodore 64  (Yeah, it is that long ago.) and watched stunned, after we turned on the TV, as we saw East Germans dancing on top of the Berlin War, tearing into it with sledge hammers.   It is hard to convey [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Saint of the Day Quote:  Saint Theodore Tyro</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Donald R. McClarey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2026 09:45:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I am a Christian. It is Christ alone that I love. He is the King whom I serve, and to Him alone that I want to offer a sacrifice!&#8221;&#8220;He is the King whom I serve, and to Him only am I willing to offer sacrifice! A Roman army recruit, Saint Theodore Tyro said this shortly [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Remember, Not One Thin Dime</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Donald R. McClarey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2026 09:45:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Thought for the Day</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Donald R. McClarey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2026 07:41:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>The Benny Hill Theme Should Be Playing as Background Music on the Video</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Donald R. McClarey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2026 07:39:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160;]]></description>
		
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		<title>Truth With the Bark On</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Donald R. McClarey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2026 07:04:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ahab]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[16 But the king said to him: I adjure thee again and again, that thou tell me nothing but that which is true in the name of the Lord.  17 And he said: I saw all Israel scattered upon the hills, like sheep that have no shepherd: and the Lord said: These have no master: let every [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Saint of the Day Quote:  Blessed Maria Crucified Satellico</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Donald R. McClarey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2026 09:45:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I want to become a nun and, if I succeed, I want to become a saint. Blessed Maria Crucified Satellico]]></description>
		
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