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		<title>By: SteveG</title>
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		<dc:creator>SteveG</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2008 04:24:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Llama sez: &lt;i&gt;It’s called Satire. You know, like Stewart and Colbert.&lt;/i&gt;

No, I don&#039;t think so .. satire is usually funny, or at least witty. Your posts have none of that.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Llama sez: <i>It’s called Satire. You know, like Stewart and Colbert.</i></p>
<p>No, I don&#8217;t think so .. satire is usually funny, or at least witty. Your posts have none of that.
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		<title>By: llama</title>
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		<dc:creator>llama</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 18:15:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hey Lumpy,

It&#039;s called Satire.  You know, like Stewart and Colbert.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey Lumpy,</p>
<p>It&#8217;s called Satire.  You know, like Stewart and Colbert.
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		<title>By: Peter L</title>
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		<dc:creator>Peter L</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:44:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Designergirl: Thank you for clarifying.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Designergirl: Thank you for clarifying.
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		<title>By: DesignerGirl</title>
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		<dc:creator>DesignerGirl</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 14:28:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Peter L - that was my response you were disappointed in.  I don&#039;t believe it was sentimental at all.  I think it&#039;s realistic.  Of course, seeing and being in God&#039;s presence is most important.  But, this world is fallen.  God gave us wonderful foods, families and friends, the capacity to love and enjoy each other.  All of that has been screwed up by sin.  I SO look forward to the time when I can enjoy all of what God created for us - without the shadow of sin hanging over everything!  How wonderful, not to have sick children any more.  How wonderful to be able to eat at the banquet He prepares for us, and not worry about food allergies.  How wonderful to enjoy the fellowship of other believers and of God, without the distractions that come with this world - worries about money or health or grief of missing loved ones.  God made this world for us - I cannot WAIT to be able to enjoy it the way He intended.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Peter L &#8211; that was my response you were disappointed in.  I don&#8217;t believe it was sentimental at all.  I think it&#8217;s realistic.  Of course, seeing and being in God&#8217;s presence is most important.  But, this world is fallen.  God gave us wonderful foods, families and friends, the capacity to love and enjoy each other.  All of that has been screwed up by sin.  I SO look forward to the time when I can enjoy all of what God created for us &#8211; without the shadow of sin hanging over everything!  How wonderful, not to have sick children any more.  How wonderful to be able to eat at the banquet He prepares for us, and not worry about food allergies.  How wonderful to enjoy the fellowship of other believers and of God, without the distractions that come with this world &#8211; worries about money or health or grief of missing loved ones.  God made this world for us &#8211; I cannot WAIT to be able to enjoy it the way He intended.
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		<title>By: GodLumps</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 05:49:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thomas-

I hadn&#039;t seen that but will save and add to it. It misses many of the absurdities and upsidedownisms in the McBush campaign narrative.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thomas-</p>
<p>I hadn&#8217;t seen that but will save and add to it. It misses many of the absurdities and upsidedownisms in the McBush campaign narrative.
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		<title>By: Thomas</title>
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		<dc:creator>Thomas</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 04:59:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Got this from a friend of  friend:


If your name is Barack you&#039;re a radical, unpatriotic Muslim.

Name your kids Willow, Trig and Track, you&#039;re a maverick.

Graduate from Harvard law School and you are unstable.
Attend 5 different small colleges before graduating, you&#039;re well grounded.

If you spend 3 years as a community organizer, become the
first black President of the Harvard Law Review, create a voter
registration drive that registers 150,000 new voters, spend 12 years as
a Const itutional Law professor, spend 8 years as a State Senator
representing a district with over 750,000 people, become chairman of the
state Senate&#039;s Health and Human Services committee, spend 4 years in the
United States Senate representing a state of 13 million people while
sponsoring 131 bills and serving on the Foreign Affairs, Environment
and Public Works and Veteran&#039;s Affairs committees, you don&#039;t have any
real leadership experience.

If your total resume is: local weather girl, 4 years on the
city council and 6 years as the mayor of a town with less than 7,000
people, 20 months as the governor of a state with only 650,000 people,
then you&#039;re qualified to become the country&#039;s second highest ranking
executive.

If you have been married to the same woman for 19 years while
raising 2 beautiful daughters, all within Protestant churches, you&#039;re
not a real Christian.

If you cheated on your first wife with a rich heiress, and left your
disfigured wife and married the heiress the next month, you&#039;re a good
Christian.

If you teach responsible, age appropriate sex education,
including the proper use of birth control, you are eroding the fiber of
society.

But, if , while governor, you staunchly advocate abstinence only, with
no other option in sex education in your state&#039;s school system while
your unwed teen daughter ends up pregnant , you&#039;re very responsible.

If your wife is a Harvard graduate lawyer who gave up a
position in a prestigious law firm to work for the betterment of her
inner city community, then gave that up to raise a family, your
family&#039;s values don&#039;t represent America&#039;s.

If you&#039;re husband is nicknamed &#039;First Dude&#039;, with at least
one DWI conviction and no college education, who didn&#039;t register to
vote until age 25 and once was a member of a group that advocated the
secession of Alaska from the USA, your family is extremely admirable.

OK, much clearer now</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Got this from a friend of  friend:</p>
<p>If your name is Barack you&#8217;re a radical, unpatriotic Muslim.</p>
<p>Name your kids Willow, Trig and Track, you&#8217;re a maverick.</p>
<p>Graduate from Harvard law School and you are unstable.<br />
Attend 5 different small colleges before graduating, you&#8217;re well grounded.</p>
<p>If you spend 3 years as a community organizer, become the<br />
first black President of the Harvard Law Review, create a voter<br />
registration drive that registers 150,000 new voters, spend 12 years as<br />
a Const itutional Law professor, spend 8 years as a State Senator<br />
representing a district with over 750,000 people, become chairman of the<br />
state Senate&#8217;s Health and Human Services committee, spend 4 years in the<br />
United States Senate representing a state of 13 million people while<br />
sponsoring 131 bills and serving on the Foreign Affairs, Environment<br />
and Public Works and Veteran&#8217;s Affairs committees, you don&#8217;t have any<br />
real leadership experience.</p>
<p>If your total resume is: local weather girl, 4 years on the<br />
city council and 6 years as the mayor of a town with less than 7,000<br />
people, 20 months as the governor of a state with only 650,000 people,<br />
then you&#8217;re qualified to become the country&#8217;s second highest ranking<br />
executive.</p>
<p>If you have been married to the same woman for 19 years while<br />
raising 2 beautiful daughters, all within Protestant churches, you&#8217;re<br />
not a real Christian.</p>
<p>If you cheated on your first wife with a rich heiress, and left your<br />
disfigured wife and married the heiress the next month, you&#8217;re a good<br />
Christian.</p>
<p>If you teach responsible, age appropriate sex education,<br />
including the proper use of birth control, you are eroding the fiber of<br />
society.</p>
<p>But, if , while governor, you staunchly advocate abstinence only, with<br />
no other option in sex education in your state&#8217;s school system while<br />
your unwed teen daughter ends up pregnant , you&#8217;re very responsible.</p>
<p>If your wife is a Harvard graduate lawyer who gave up a<br />
position in a prestigious law firm to work for the betterment of her<br />
inner city community, then gave that up to raise a family, your<br />
family&#8217;s values don&#8217;t represent America&#8217;s.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re husband is nicknamed &#8216;First Dude&#8217;, with at least<br />
one DWI conviction and no college education, who didn&#8217;t register to<br />
vote until age 25 and once was a member of a group that advocated the<br />
secession of Alaska from the USA, your family is extremely admirable.</p>
<p>OK, much clearer now
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		<title>By: Peter L</title>
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		<dc:creator>Peter L</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 03:01:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Llama #118: &lt;i&gt;It looks like the highest ranking woman democrat on the planet is also the most bigoted, anti woman and women discriminator on the planet as well.&lt;/i&gt;

Get your facts straight.  Nancy Pelosi is the highest ranking Democratic woman ever. Remember, she is second in line after Dick Cheney to be President right now, and if the Dems keep the House in November, she will continue to be #2 in line.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Llama #118: <i>It looks like the highest ranking woman democrat on the planet is also the most bigoted, anti woman and women discriminator on the planet as well.</i></p>
<p>Get your facts straight.  Nancy Pelosi is the highest ranking Democratic woman ever. Remember, she is second in line after Dick Cheney to be President right now, and if the Dems keep the House in November, she will continue to be #2 in line.
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		<title>By: Peter L</title>
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		<dc:creator>Peter L</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 02:56:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Sorry it is so late.  Most of you responded how I had hoped you would about what you desire in heaven-- that being with Jesus/God was most important.  I am reminded of the song with the line, “Jesus will be what makes it heaven for me.”  As Christians, Jesus should be the center of our lives.  Everything we do should have pleasing God as its goal.  If we don’t look forward to being forever with the Lord of glory, then we should be searching our souls to see if we indeed are His children.

Some were a little disappointing to me, such as this response:   &lt;i&gt;As for heaven - I too look forward to wonderful food. All the chocolate I can eat! :) And I most look forward to no more sickness, sadness and death. I can finally be with my family and loved ones without all these nasty distractions!&lt;/i&gt; I hope these are secondary reasons.    
Sentimentality is prevalent in our society, and all too many Christians have such reasons for looking forward to eternity.  I just wonder if we will even realize who is there, once we will most likely be worshiping at the throne, focusing our attention on the One who died for us.

Footnote: Thank you to all who replied.  I figure if unbelievers like Random and Anlir can ask questions of the WMB community, perhaps we Christians should do the same.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sorry it is so late.  Most of you responded how I had hoped you would about what you desire in heaven&#8211; that being with Jesus/God was most important.  I am reminded of the song with the line, “Jesus will be what makes it heaven for me.”  As Christians, Jesus should be the center of our lives.  Everything we do should have pleasing God as its goal.  If we don’t look forward to being forever with the Lord of glory, then we should be searching our souls to see if we indeed are His children.</p>
<p>Some were a little disappointing to me, such as this response:   <i>As for heaven &#8211; I too look forward to wonderful food. All the chocolate I can eat! <img src='http://online.worldmag.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' />  And I most look forward to no more sickness, sadness and death. I can finally be with my family and loved ones without all these nasty distractions!</i> I hope these are secondary reasons.<br />
Sentimentality is prevalent in our society, and all too many Christians have such reasons for looking forward to eternity.  I just wonder if we will even realize who is there, once we will most likely be worshiping at the throne, focusing our attention on the One who died for us.</p>
<p>Footnote: Thank you to all who replied.  I figure if unbelievers like Random and Anlir can ask questions of the WMB community, perhaps we Christians should do the same.
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		<title>By: momoffour</title>
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		<dc:creator>momoffour</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 02:47:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Heaven question--besides the obvious of actually seeing the Lord (which I can&#039;t even fathom...) I think it is the relief of not fighting my sin nature anymore.  I&#039;m tired of the constant battle.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Heaven question&#8211;besides the obvious of actually seeing the Lord (which I can&#8217;t even fathom&#8230;) I think it is the relief of not fighting my sin nature anymore.  I&#8217;m tired of the constant battle.
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		<title>By: GodLumps</title>
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		<dc:creator>GodLumps</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 02:42:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>More great news!

Peter Leavitt&#039;s most trusted source of polling is inTrade.com, and today the numbers have swung a total of 3.3 points further in favor of Barrack Obama as the next President of the United States of America! 

woo-hoo! 

McCain: down 1.1 points to 46.9

Obama: up 2.2 points to 53.0

Investors are saying Thanks, but no thanks, to John McSame and his deregulation flip flop.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>More great news!</p>
<p>Peter Leavitt&#8217;s most trusted source of polling is inTrade.com, and today the numbers have swung a total of 3.3 points further in favor of Barrack Obama as the next President of the United States of America! </p>
<p>woo-hoo! </p>
<p>McCain: down 1.1 points to 46.9</p>
<p>Obama: up 2.2 points to 53.0</p>
<p>Investors are saying Thanks, but no thanks, to John McSame and his deregulation flip flop.
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