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		<title>The Hole</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 22:46:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gaius</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[War]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bluecrabboulevard.com/?p=14341</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Mark Steyn:
Thirteen dead and 28 wounded would be a bad day for the U.S. military in Afghanistan and a great victory for the Taliban. When it happens in Texas, in the heart of the biggest military base in the nation, at a processing center for soldiers either returning from or deploying to combat overseas, it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One Step Closer To Tyranny</title>
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		<comments>http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2009/11/08/one-step-closer-to-tyranny/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:45:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gaius</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Democrats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bluecrabboulevard.com/?p=14338</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Nancy Pelosi passed her bill last night. A government takeover of a huge chunk of the economy and an unreal intrusion into the private lives of American citizens. This bill will have Washington bureaucrats &#8211; themselves exempt from the &#8220;benefits&#8221; of ObamaCare &#8211; dictating to the public what they may have in the way of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pelosi’s Monster</title>
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		<comments>http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2009/11/07/pelosis-monster/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:08:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gaius</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Medicine]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bluecrabboulevard.com/?p=14334</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[And what it will mean to you:
• Sec. 202 (p. 91-92) of the bill requires you to enroll in a &#8220;qualified plan.&#8221; If you get your insurance at work, your employer will have a &#8220;grace period&#8221; to switch you to a &#8220;qualified plan,&#8221; meaning a plan designed by the Secretary of Health and Human Services. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>And In Other Cheerful News</title>
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		<comments>http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2009/11/06/and-in-other-cheerful-news/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:45:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gaius</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Unemployment spikes to 10.2%.
The nation&#8217;s unemployment rate rose above 10% for the first time since 1983 in October, a much worse jump than expected as employers continued to trim jobs from payrolls.
The reading, reported by the government Friday, is a sign of the continued weakness in the labor market even though the economy grew in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inappropriate Affect – Again</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:27:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gaius</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Appalling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obamantics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Robert George (from NBC Chicago):
After news broke out of the shooting at the Fort Hood Army post in Texas, the nation watched in horror as the toll of dead and injured climbed. The White House was notified immediately and by late afternoon, word went out that the president would speak about the incident prior to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grim News From Texas</title>
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		<comments>http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2009/11/05/grim-news-from-texas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:54:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gaius</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Appalling]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bluecrabboulevard.com/?p=14323</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Greyhawk:
4:12 CST: ABC News: Shooter: Major Malik Nadal Hasan. ABC does not name a source for this information.
04:31 CST: Independent sources confirm a soldier by that name is stationed at Hood.
News conference, 3:50 CST, Lieutenant General Robert Cone: &#8220;One shooter killed &#8211; he was a soldier. Two other soldiers apprehended, they are suspects. (Eyewitnesses indicate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Or Not</title>
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		<comments>http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2009/11/04/or-not/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:23:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gaius</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bluecrabboulevard.com/?p=14320</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Jay Cost, who I have a great deal of respect for as an honest interpreter of politics, polls and all the assorted bits and pieces that make up the world we political junkies inhabit, cautions about reading too much &#8211; or actually anything at all &#8211; into last night&#8217;s election results. (Consider this a dash [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hearing Footsteps</title>
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		<comments>http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2009/11/04/hearing-footsteps/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:59:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gaius</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bluecrabboulevard.com/?p=14317</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When a quarterback has been sacked one time too many and begins to make mistakes under pressure commentators sometimes say that he is &#8220;hearing footsteps&#8221;. So are a number of Democrats after yesterday&#8217;s drubbing in Virginia and less-lopsided but devastating loss in New Jersey.
Vulnerable House and Senate Democrats want their leaders to skip the party’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christie Wins, Hoffman Loses</title>
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		<comments>http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2009/11/04/christie-wins-hoffman-loses/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 08:27:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gaius</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bluecrabboulevard.com/?p=14314</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Both contested races for governor fell to the Republican candidates, with Christie winning in New Jersey and McDonnell in Virginia. Doug Hoffman lot in NY-23, however. Still, this should be considered a warning to Democrats &#8211; not just because of the wins, but because of the levels of enthusiasm among independents.
Neither gubernatorial election amounted to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One Down</title>
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		<comments>http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2009/11/03/one-down-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:59:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gaius</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bluecrabboulevard.com/?p=14312</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[And it is a clean sweep for Republicans in Virginia. The Politico reports all statewide Republican candidates won office.
Republicans swept Virginia&#8217;s statewide elections Tuesday, with gubernatorial candidate Bob McDonnell leading his party&#8217;s ticket to victory up and down the ballot and scoring an early win for the national GOP.
McDonnell, a former state attorney general, won [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It’s The Intensity, Stupid</title>
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		<comments>http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2009/11/03/its-the-intensity-stupid/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:26:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gaius</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bluecrabboulevard.com/?p=14309</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Watch the intensity today. Not the polls, the intensity.
Polls can measure many things, but one thing they have a hard time getting at is intensity: Yes, people will tell a pollster whom they prefer in a campaign, but do they feel so strongly about their choice that they&#8217;ll actually go out to vote?
Only elections can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quid Pro Quisling</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BlueCrabBoulevard/~3/kMMjFDsutfk/</link>
		<comments>http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2009/11/02/quid-pro-quisling/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:35:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gaius</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Democrats]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bluecrabboulevard.com/?p=14306</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A report in The Politico makes it rather obvious that Dede Scozzafava is not done with her betrayals. Democratic heavyweights all the way up to the White House rather obviously offered her something for her endorsement of the Democrat in NY-23. Politico points out that she appears likely to switch parties and deliver her state [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hi! I’m Not Dead Yet!</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BlueCrabBoulevard/~3/tZbpJ4mrYp4/</link>
		<comments>http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2009/11/01/hi-im-not-dead-yet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 01:53:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gaius</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[World news]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Gordon &#8220;Toast&#8221; Brown and his government, such as it is, released convicted Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Al Megrahi on &#8220;compassionate&#8221; grounds because the bomber had three months to live.
That was in August.
Instead, three months later, Megrahi was just released from the hospital.
The row over the release of the Lockerbie bomber was reignited last night after it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Once Upon A Time</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BlueCrabBoulevard/~3/HbQICrtfnKY/</link>
		<comments>http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2009/11/01/once-upon-a-time-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gaius</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World news]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bluecrabboulevard.com/?p=14301</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;The Western media would have been rolling on the floor laughing at the latest claim from the Chinese. Now, however, the claims of the Chinese government that they made it snow are treated as straight news.
The unusually early snow blanketed the capital from Sunday morning and kept falling for half the day, helped by temperatures [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You Know Those Wonderful Signs That The Economy Is Recovering?</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BlueCrabBoulevard/~3/gTJFfeMNM3E/</link>
		<comments>http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2009/11/01/you-know-those-wonderful-signs-that-the-economy-is-recovering/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 22:50:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gaius</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Just kidding! CIT just filed for bankruptcy. The major source of funding for small business just went under. The major source for short-term loans for wholesalers who supply more than 300,000 retailers just bit the dust.
Analysts have warned that already ailing sectors, like retailers, could be hit especially hard, since CIT serves as the short-term [...]]]></description>
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