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	<title type="text">The Stone Street Press</title>
	<subtitle type="text">Handmade books by Malachi McCormick</subtitle>

	<updated>2012-05-04T08:02:25Z</updated>
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			<name>Malachi</name>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Dear Mr. Lloyd Blankfein: Are you ready for &#8220;OCCUPY GOLDMAN SACHS&#8221;? [GS --who refers to us all as &quot;Muppets&quot; has just started a gauzy PR campaign on TV]]]></title>
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		<id>http://stonestreetpress.com/?p=1927</id>
		<updated>2012-05-04T08:02:25Z</updated>
		<published>2012-05-04T08:02:25Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://stonestreetpress.com" term="Updates" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[[Today's New York Times has a piece on the frontpage about Goldman Sachs new TV campaign, after it came out this week that GS referred to its suckers as "Muppets"]
My letter should appear in the Comments Section at the end of the article, later today.]
Here in the meantime is the complete text:
&#8220;Thank you for your [...]]]></summary>
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			<name>Malachi</name>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Exhilaration –a brief reflection (Thanks to Jon Stewart and his good-humored but relentlessly cutting sendup of FOX News’s ongoing use of ‘talking points’ as demonstrated on this evening’s Dail Show (2.28.2012) [This is Part Two of two parts.]]]></title>
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		<id>http://stonestreetpress.com/?p=1925</id>
		<updated>2012-02-29T10:09:33Z</updated>
		<published>2012-02-29T10:09:33Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://stonestreetpress.com" term="Updates" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[When I watched the Jon Stewart show this evening (&#8211;as described in the foregoing post) I laughed pretty hard, I can tell you. In a few short minutes I was feeling a sort of exhilartion that is &#8211;sad to say&#8211; simply too rare.
Exhilaration! I had no doubt &#8211;that was The Correct Word for it. 
Not [...]]]></summary>
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			<name>Malachi</name>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Exhilaration &#8211;a brief reflection (Thanks to Jon Stewart and his good-humored but relentlessly cutting sendup of FOX News&#8217;s ongoing use of &#8216;talking points&#8217; as demonstrated on this evening&#8217;s Dail Show (2.28.2012) [This is Part One of two parts.]]]></title>
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		<id>http://stonestreetpress.com/?p=1923</id>
		<updated>2012-02-29T09:00:56Z</updated>
		<published>2012-02-29T09:00:56Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://stonestreetpress.com" term="Updates" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Tonight&#8217;s Daily Show showed off the great powers of satirist Jon Stewart. Clearly he is one who follows not just the news but the extraordinary partisanship with which it is almost always presented.
Trying to follow &#8220;the news&#8221; on ANY channel, but especially on Fox News, in this political season of Exalted Polarization can be deeply [...]]]></summary>
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			<name>Malachi</name>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[The Republicans and The Conservatives: all dedicated angry, victimized, blamers of President Obama. The latest effort &#8211;the C-PAC convention over the weekend was the latest &#8211;and shrillest&#8211; demonstration of this syndrome. (Everybody has yet to discover that their own best interests are not served with partisan divides, but with people-power &#8211;99% power.]]></title>
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		<id>http://stonestreetpress.com/?p=1921</id>
		<updated>2012-02-13T06:58:31Z</updated>
		<published>2012-02-13T06:58:31Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://stonestreetpress.com" term="Updates" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Conservatives blame Republicans.
Republicans blame Conservatives.
CSpan televised the whole depressing C-PAC show. One panel of five young &#8216;tea-partiers&#8217; hurled a high-school level of nyah-nyah-nyah invective at Occupy Wall Street &#8211;which has been extraordinarily effective (I have in the past quoted the OWS examples of getting people &#8211;650,000 of them&#8211; to move their accounts, worth $4.5 billion, [...]]]></summary>
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			<name>Malachi</name>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Chris Christie: Savior of The Nation? Or just Governor of New Jersey?]]></title>
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		<id>http://stonestreetpress.com/?p=1906</id>
		<updated>2012-02-13T06:37:56Z</updated>
		<published>2012-02-13T06:37:56Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://stonestreetpress.com" term="Updates" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[[NOTE: I drafted this short piece about NJ Governor Chris Christie a short while ago. Now I will only note here --as I publish it-- that Christie, who attacks President Obama for his alleged "destruction of the nation....and his toxic effects on it" is a member of that small elite group of A-Team Republican (definitely [...]]]></summary>
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			<name>Malachi</name>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[&#8220;We need a Second Party&#8230;.the 2012 crop of GOP candidates is like a Scrabble rack of all vowels,&#8221; writes Thomas Friedman in Sundays New York Times.]]></title>
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		<id>http://stonestreetpress.com/?p=1918</id>
		<updated>2012-02-13T06:19:58Z</updated>
		<published>2012-02-13T06:19:58Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://stonestreetpress.com" term="Updates" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Friedman&#8217;s column today was a strong one. Some quotes from it, just to give you the flavor.
&#8220;Watching the Republican Party struggling to agree on a presidential candidate, one wonders whether the GOP shouldn&#8217;t just sit this election out &#8211;just give 2012 a pass&#8230;.&#8221;
&#8220;&#8230;the party has let itself become the captive of conflicting ideological bases: anti-abortion [...]]]></summary>
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			<name>Malachi</name>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Saul Alinsky&#8217;s &#8220;flatulent blitzkrieg&#8221; &#8211;his own account of his famous fart-in, taking on Eastman Kodak in Rochester &#8211;and winning!]]></title>
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		<id>http://stonestreetpress.com/?p=1916</id>
		<updated>2012-02-10T20:21:53Z</updated>
		<published>2012-02-10T20:21:53Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://stonestreetpress.com" term="Updates" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[In 1972 Saul Alinsky did a long interview with with Playboy magazine. (If you would like to read the whole thing, go to &#8220;Wiki Saul Alinsky&#8221; and you will find the link in the bibliography at the end.) One of his many Community Organizer exploits is the following story of how he bested Eastman Kodak [...]]]></summary>
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			<name>Malachi</name>
						<uri>http://stonestreetpress.com</uri>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[The next time the right-wing mindlessly attacks Saul Alinsky &#8211;ask them WHY!!! What are the facts? Tell them that Saul Alinsky was a good man&#8230;..]]></title>
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		<id>http://stonestreetpress.com/?p=1914</id>
		<updated>2012-02-09T02:15:48Z</updated>
		<published>2012-02-09T02:15:48Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://stonestreetpress.com" term="Updates" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just read a very long interview that Saul Alinsky did with Playboy Magazine did in 1972, just a few months before he died that June. My assessment? I want to read more, but &#8211;on the basis of what I&#8217;ve just read&#8211; Saul Alinsky was a Great American who dedicated his life to helping the [...]]]></summary>
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			<name>Malachi</name>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Who is Saul Alinsky? And why is he the Bete-Noire of Newt Gingrich, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and Mark Levin?]]></title>
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		<id>http://stonestreetpress.com/?p=1910</id>
		<updated>2012-02-08T04:29:02Z</updated>
		<published>2012-02-08T04:29:02Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://stonestreetpress.com" term="Updates" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I&#8217;v been watching the new Bill Moyers series on CH21, and wrote this recommendation recently in two entries on Facebook.
ENTRY #1
&#8220;A Recommendation:
I&#8217;ve been watching Bill Moyers&#8217;s new interview program on CH21 and recommend it highly. It comes on late-ish (11-ish) and is often repeated (again, late-ish) through the week. There is an accompanying website www.BillMoyers.com [...]]]></summary>
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		<author>
			<name>Malachi</name>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Can you believe it! Now, Occupy Wall Street comes to the New York Republican Women&#8217;s Club]]></title>
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		<id>http://stonestreetpress.com/?p=1904</id>
		<updated>2012-01-09T09:24:10Z</updated>
		<published>2012-01-09T09:24:10Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://stonestreetpress.com" term="Updates" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I mentioned in my previous post, the talk I saw on CSpan delivered by Catherine Crier at the NYRW Club. She is an attractive woman with a razor-sharp non-partisan intelligence &#8211;a think-for-herself intelligence that was distinguished by an utter absence of blame!
I&#8217;m sure the matrons of the NY Republican Women&#8217;s Club are right now holding [...]]]></summary>
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