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    <title>Frank Lynch&#039;s Blog</title>
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            <title>Frank Lynch Calls Upon President Obama To Ban Burkas</title>
            <description>Frank Lynch hereby calls upon President Barack Obama to make it illegal to wear burkas in America. &lt;br /&gt;
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We must immediately stop issuing drivers licenses, passports, immigration papers of any sort, or any government identification or registration instruments to any person who even partially covers their face.&lt;br /&gt;
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Further, under the hate crime laws, it should be a felony punishable by five years imprisonment at hard labor to refuse to shake hands because a person is a woman.&lt;br /&gt;
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It is time for our government to stop all this ridiculous political correctness of not wanting to offend muslims. We must grow a spine and stand up to extremists. All people are equal, and we cannot and must not tolerate any practices that demean women in any way.&lt;br /&gt;
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I am disappointed in our President that European countries are taking action to recognize the sanctity of womanhood before our own President does.&lt;br /&gt;
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President Obama, please exercise leadership in banning the burka, banning the refusal to shake hands with women, and all other extremist traditions that demean women.&lt;br /&gt;
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Further, all non-profits must be required to ban burkas from their officers, employees, Boards of Directors or Trustees.&lt;br /&gt;
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Eveery educational institution, from preschool through graduate school, must ban burkas from their premises.&lt;br /&gt;
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President Nicolas Sarkozydeclared Monday that the Islamic burqa is not welcome in France, branding the face-covering, body-length gown as a symbol of subservience that suppresses women&#039;s identities and turns them into &quot;prisoners behind a screen.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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But there was a mixed message in the tough words: an admission that the country&#039;s long-held principle of ethnic assimilation -- which insists that newcomers shed their traditions and adapt to French culture -- is failing because it doesn&#039;t give immigrants and their French-born children a fair chance.&lt;br /&gt;
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In a high-profile speech to lawmakers in the historic chateau at Versailles, Sarkozy said the head-to-toe Muslim body coverings were in disaccord with French values -- some of the strongest language against burqas from a European leader at a time when some Western officials have been seeking to ease tensions with the Muslim world.&lt;br /&gt;
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&quot;In our country, we cannot accept that women be prisoners behind a screen, cut off from all social life, deprived of all identity,&quot; Sarkozy said to extended applause of the lawmakers gathered where French kings once held court.&lt;br /&gt;
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&quot;The burqa is not a religious sign, it&#039;s a sign of subservience, a sign of debasement -- I want to say it solemnly,&quot; he said. &quot;It will not be welcome on the territory of the French Republic.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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The Netherlands is about to ban burkas. The country&#039;s hardline Integration Minister, Rita Verdonk, known as the Iron Lady for her series of tough anti-immigration measures, told Parliament that she was going to investigate where and when the burka should be banned. The burka, traditional clothing in some Islamic societies, covers a woman&#039;s face and body, leaving only a strip of gauze for the eyes.&lt;br /&gt;
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Mrs Verdonk gave warning that the &quot;time of cosy tea-drinking&quot; with Muslim groups had passed and that natives and immigrants should have the courage to be critical of each other.&lt;br /&gt;
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She recently cancelled a meeting with Muslim leaders who refused to shake her hand because she was a woman. Great lady!&lt;br /&gt;
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Although Netherlands has the same inane freedom of expression laws passed in America, she plans to make it a matter of public safety.</description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 10:20:21 EDT</pubDate>
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            <title>Frank Lynch Plug-In Car Battery Initiative Takes Hold</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;In July 2007 I was the first Presidential candidate whose website called for plug in electric cars.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;Made In USA All Electric Plug In Car Available NOW!!! &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;All the world&amp;rsquo;s auto makers wallow in oil based obsolescence and incompetency, begging for government handouts to enable them to make vehicles that destroy our economy and national security. A silicon valley based American venture capital firm named Tesla, after the Serbian immigrant who made Thomas Edison obsolete by inventing alternating current (you know, AC voltage like is in your house), is building the Tesla plug in electric car that uses absolutely no oil.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;Tesla did this for a few hundred million, starting from an empty garage, starting from scratch, at the same time that GM geniuses burned up tens of billions of taxpayer money for pure garbage. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Learn about&amp;nbsp;our made in the USA all electric, no oil car at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.teslamotors.com/&quot;&gt;http://www.teslamotors.com/&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;view a home made video on a test drive&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7U3W7sDZxY &lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 11:29:20 EST</pubDate>
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            <title>The Auto Companies Must Be Destroyed</title>
            <description>The system of Corporate Governance in America is broken. We must destroy the auto companies as the only way to fix the problem. read more at &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.franklynch.org/2008/12/03/we-must-nationalize-the-auto-companies-because-sneaky-auto-executives-cheating-on-bailout/&quot;&gt;http://blog.franklynch.org/2008/12/03/we-must-nationalize-the-auto-companies-because-sneaky-auto-executives-cheating-on-bailout/&lt;/a&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 12:11:27 EST</pubDate>
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            <title>Bonus Time in Detroit: How Many Hundred of Millions Will the CEOs Pay Themselves After Destroying Their Companies ?</title>
            <description>Notice the rush of the Big Three Auto companies&#039; executives to collect the bailout from Congress in time for them to pay themselves hundreds of millions in bonus for Christmas!!&lt;br /&gt;
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Barack Obama must require that none of the auto companies&#039; executives receive any bonus this year.&lt;br /&gt;
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Further, Barack must require that they all work for $1.00, One Dollar annual salary in 2009.&lt;br /&gt;
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Anything else is a total rape not just of the taxpayers, but a rape of all America.</description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 22:41:51 EST</pubDate>
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            <title>Mortgage Bailout Plan Is All Wrong</title>
            <description>The plan, regardless of whose changes are applied to it, is still a short term reaction to a long term problem.&lt;br /&gt;
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Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac must be liquidated. Government caused the problem. Throwing tax dollars down the toilet fixes othing.&lt;br /&gt;
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This plan will destroy what is left of our economy.&lt;br /&gt;
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We need a totally different long term plan to cure our totally messed up economy.</description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 11:11:18 EDT</pubDate>
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            <title>Japan Collusion with Morgan Stanley to Defraud US Taxpayers</title>
            <description>Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Japan&#039;s largest bank, said on Monday it planned to take a stake of up to one-fifth in U.S. investment bank Morgan Stanley as part of a strategic alliance.&lt;br /&gt;
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Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) said in a statement on Monday it would buy 10-20 percent of the common stock of Morgan Stanley. It said it would decide on the amount it would pay after carrying out due diligence.&lt;br /&gt;
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Buying 20 percent of Morgan Stanley would cost MUFG about $6 billion based on its total market value of $30 billion.&lt;br /&gt;
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Morgan Stanley has chnaged into a commercial bank so that it is eligible for greater financial aid, ie more taxpayer bailouts from Paulson, and Japan wants part of the bailout.&lt;br /&gt;
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Morgan Stanley has been under pressure to raise capital amid a sharp fall in its share price.&lt;br /&gt;
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What international banking conspiracy?&lt;br /&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 10:29:37 EDT</pubDate>
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            <title>The Level of Risk in Our Financial System is Being Increased</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;In the final destruction of all the wonderful laws passed by a thoughtful Congress and Franklin Delano Roosevelt to protect the American people from the excesses and corruption that caused the Great Depression, your totally incompetent governmenthas &amp;nbsp;taken the final steps to maximize the corruption of our financial system. The last two major independent investment banking/ stock brokerage houses have now officially become commercial banks. Don&amp;rsquo;t believe me? See: &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://federalreserve.gov/newsevents/press/bcreg/20080921a.htm&quot;&gt;http://federalreserve.gov/newsevents/press/bcreg/20080921a.htm&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;My parents told me about the abuses of the Great Depression and how the stock brokers owned by the commercial banks robbed people of their life savings by having people buy stocks in failing companies, and that money was then used to pay back the bad loans to the bank that owned the stockbrokers.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Bush is destroying our nation.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 21 Sep 2008 23:27:39 EDT</pubDate>
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            <title>Wave of Tent Cities</title>
            <description>RENO, Nev. â�&quot;  A few tents cropped up hard by the railroad tracks, pitched by men left with nowhere to go once the emergency winter shelter closed for the summer.&lt;br /&gt;
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Then others appeared â�&quot; people who had lost their jobs to the ailing economy, or newcomers who had moved to Reno for work and discovered no one was hiring.&lt;br /&gt;
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Within weeks, more than 150 people were living in tents big and small, barely a foot apart in a patch of dirt slated to be a parking lot for a campus of shelters Reno is building for its homeless population. Like many other cities, Reno has found itself with a &quot;tent city&quot; â�&quot; an encampment of people who had nowhere else to go.&lt;br /&gt;
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From Seattle to Athens, Ga., homeless advocacy groups and city agencies are reporting the most visible rise in homeless encampments in a generation.&lt;br /&gt;
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Nearly 61 percent of local and state homeless coalitions say they&#039;ve experienced a rise in homelessness since the foreclosure crisis began in 2007, according to a report by the National Coalition for the Homeless. The group says the problem has worsened since the report&#039;s release in April, with foreclosures mounting, gas and food prices rising and the job market tightening.</description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2008 07:17:15 EDT</pubDate>
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            <title>OO NOO</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;have you seen this?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/election_20082/2008_presidential_election/favorable_ratings_for_presidential_candidates&quot;&gt;http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/election_20082/2008_presidential_election/favorable_ratings_for_presidential_candidates&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;We have a lot of work to do&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;everybody pitch in because America needs&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;CHANGE!!!&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 11:31:24 EDT</pubDate>
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            <title>Will Everyone Who Bot Fannie Mae Stock Sue Merrill Lynch?</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;link&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.franklynch.org/2008/09/08/will-everyone-who-bot-fannie-mae-stock-sue-merrill-lynch/&quot;&gt;http://blog.franklynch.org/2008/09/08/will-everyone-who-bot-fannie-mae-stock-sue-merrill-lynch/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 11:06:26 EDT</pubDate>
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            <title>Taxpayers Pay for banks Profits</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.franklynch.org/&quot;&gt;http://blog.franklynch.org/&lt;/a&gt; or see comment for clickable link&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 09:53:46 EDT</pubDate>
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            <title>Watch our broken government make</title>
            <description>the Wall Street speculators rich.&lt;br /&gt;
They will come up with some goofy plan for Fannie and Freddie that will leave serious invesstors wondering how it will affect the stock price&lt;br /&gt;
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But the insiders will know beforehand and get rich ahead of us.&lt;br /&gt;
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They should stop trading the stock and have a true takeover just like with the banks where the stock is wiped out forever&lt;br /&gt;
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But the Wall Street insiders will get rich and you and I will probably pay $10,000 per person in taxes for the bailout&lt;br /&gt;
I want to hear barack saying we will not bail out the insiders</description>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 17:15:44 EDT</pubDate>
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            <title>You Ain&#039;t Seen Nothing Yet</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;A few days ago I criticized the Repub for defrauding investors for permiting trading in the stocks of Fannie mae and Freddie Mac. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.democrats.org/page/community/post/franklynch/CxMV&quot;&gt;http://www.democrats.org/page/community/post/franklynch/CxMV&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Today its was announced that 9 percent of mortgages are late or delinquent. Astoundingly, One of eleven mortgages are bad. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;When those people become homeless, things will get much worse. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The cost to the economy and to us taxpayers for all the bank bailouts that will follow will place the US on the verge of bankruptcy. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Homeprices are going to continue to decline, which means more mortgages will be upsidedown (where the mortgage is larger than the home value). That will result in even more people walking away from their mortages, and HOME PRICES WILL DECLINE EVEN FURTHER &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;for years. . . . &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;and revene from property taxes will continue to decline, robbing our already short-changed &amp;nbsp;schools of much needed revenue, so our children will pay the price of government lack of regulation&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2008 10:23:35 EDT</pubDate>
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            <title>Today Is A Very Special Day for Me</title>
            <description>see why http:www.fluni.com</description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 18:20:24 EDT</pubDate>
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            <title>Another Reason We Need Change</title>
            <description>One of our Party Builders, Robert Brooks, has written an excellent article on his blog at http://thewildernessvoice.blogspot.com/&lt;br /&gt;
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I am not duplicating his excellent article, but making a major correction. As shocking as his article is, and with great respect to Mr. Brooks, he understates the problem.&lt;br /&gt;
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He uses the example of the year 1967 for his computations that the dollar has lost 80 percent of its value in forty years, compared, among other things to the price of gold.&lt;br /&gt;
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I beg to argue that the two most relevant benchmarks are the price of oil, and the median homeprice, since those two items determine the price of almost everything else we spend our money on.&lt;br /&gt;
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In 1967 a barrel of oil was $2.90 a barrel. Today, Sept. 2, 2008 oil closed at a five year low of $105, which indicates a loss of 97 percent in the value of a dollar.&lt;br /&gt;
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National figures on median home prices are subject to manipulation, so I will use my home.&lt;br /&gt;
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My home was built in 1967, coincidentally the same base year used as a base by Mr. Brooks. &lt;br /&gt;
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The current market value of my home indicates a 92 percent loss in the value of the dollar. People are mistaken when they think they have made money when a homeprice goes up. What you are really seeing is inflation: it takes more dollars to buy the same thing.&lt;br /&gt;
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In the 39 or 40 years since 1967, Republicans have controlled the White House most of the time, but there is plenty of blame to go around for both parties.&lt;br /&gt;
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What this really means is that our government has stolen 92 to 97 percent of the life savings that people had in 1967.&lt;br /&gt;
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And every year they are stealing more of our life savings. Greenspan is a traitor who belongs in jail, because the statutory job of the Federal Reserve is to preserve a sound dollar.&lt;br /&gt;
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Greenspan only missed the mark by 95 percent.&lt;br /&gt;
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We need CHANGE&lt;br /&gt;
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In case I did not state it clearly,  WE NEED CHANGE</description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 18:04:27 EDT</pubDate>
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            <title>Sarah Palin Is A False Target</title>
            <description>Everybody is ranting about Sara Bara Cuda misusing her power to get her brother in law fired. Problem is, there are reports he had been caught driving his Police Car while drunk.&lt;br /&gt;
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Do not underestimate the Republicans. They will try very hard to find a way to use this to generate sympathy for Palin as defending the health and safety of her poor little sister.&lt;br /&gt;
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It is much safer for us to attack on the issues, and attack McCain.&lt;br /&gt;
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Palin is a false target the Republicans set up to distract us.&lt;br /&gt;
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It is entirely possible that the only reason they chose her is purely as a way to distract us. &lt;br /&gt;
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And it is working. She is all we talk about.&lt;br /&gt;
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It is as though Barack disappeared from the face of the earth.&lt;br /&gt;
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Get the focus on our strength: BARACK&lt;br /&gt;
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 Attack where we have the most strength: on the issues of universal healthcare, free college, extending education, plug-in cars etc&lt;br /&gt;
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Always attack from strength (our superior issues) instead of attacking a woman who can claim she is defending her family, thereby creating resentment of us. &lt;br /&gt;
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McCain/Bush and the issues are our strength, use them and forget the distraction.</description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 13:48:07 EDT</pubDate>
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            <title>New Orleans Hurricane</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;Yesterday, watching those poor people lining up for buses to yet again flee a hurricane, my heart broke. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;With all our riches how can there still be people in America who are so obviously so impoverished and helpless? &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, it is because our system of education is broken, failed, shameful. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;How can any politician believe that property taxes from impoverished areas can pay for world class schools and world class teachers?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;A factor in our broken system of education is that first, teachers are underpaid so that schools for teachers &amp;quot;sometimes&amp;quot; fail to attract the most talented people.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Second, the curricula are not teaching prospective teachers how to really teach.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I want every teacher in America to receive the same starting pay as computer programmers and engineeers.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I want better curicula for preparing teachers.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;And I want 3,000,000 more, high paid, talented, dedicated teachers who are fully prepared to teach THE LOVE OF medicine, bioscience, math and engineering, starting in the first grade.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Let us all work for an America where everey child has absolutely equal and excellent education, so that in the future no American is so unprepared for life that they end up helplessly standing in line for buses to flee for their lives.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Please donate, tax deductible,&amp;nbsp;to these goals at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fluni.com/&quot;&gt;http://www.fluni.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I cannot think of anything more consistent with the core values of our Democratic Party.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 11:15:44 EDT</pubDate>
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            <title>Michelle&#039;s First Date</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;This vignette touched my heart, because it has such relevant symbolism.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;In the clips last night, Michelle Obama spoke of finally giving in to Barack&#039;s request for a date. She had been refusing his advances because she was very proper in the top law firm of Sidley &amp;amp; Austin, where she was a full fledged attorney and Barack was just a summer intern.&amp;nbsp;Barack surprised Michelle when he&amp;nbsp;took her, not to a fancy restaurant, but &amp;nbsp;to a church basement where he gave a speech to steelworkers who were laid off when the local steel mill closed.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;Michelle said Barack riveted everyone in the basement with a magnificent speech about how America actually was, and how America should be.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The clip showed a picture of the burly white steelworkers raptly listening to the young African American orator, demonstrating that the races were cooperating even back then.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I grew up in the same neighborhood as Michelle Robinson Obama, actually in between her house&amp;nbsp; and Rev. Wright&#039;s church. I&amp;nbsp;personally knew many of the steelworkers who forever lost high paying jobs to the slave labor wages of Indian and Chinese steelmills, and feel quite strongly about fair trade instead of free trade.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Those hard working men&amp;nbsp;never, ever got jobs with pay&amp;nbsp;remotely near what they earned in the mill, for very hard work.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Micehlle felt the same thing I did, and said that speech in the church basement made it all over, the end! She was in love with Barack.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;A symbolic lesson for us all, united.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 10:57:41 EDT</pubDate>
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            <title>Proud To Be A Democrat</title>
            <description>While I shall continue to post about how to improve our &lt;br /&gt;
Democtratic party and uplift the issues of our candidates, my heart burst with pride as I watched our great Democratic Party make history as the first major party to nominate an African American for President of the United States of America.&lt;br /&gt;
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On the Fourth of July, 2007, I signed the papers to register as a Democrat and abandoned my life long membership in the Republican Party. What a great day!&lt;br /&gt;
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May God Bless America, and God Bless our Democratic Party!</description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 05:03:44 EDT</pubDate>
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            <title>Who Is Crazy?</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;Who is crazy?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Comments on previous posts have stooped to the politics of personal destruction, ad hominem attacks, and calling people &amp;quot;crazy.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Did you know that shortly after Frank filed with the FEC there was a staff post, since deleted, on Daily Kos, asking if Kos should support Frank instead of Obama? So the Kos staff was taking him seriously.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tell me, who is crazy?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Frank Lynch is creating a new university http://www.fluni.com to train teachers of science, math, medicine and engineering to help treat our national shortage of science teachers and had the audacity to name the university after his father, who died at home in his arms.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Obviously Lynch is crazy, a loon, an egomanic and should be chased out of town. It goes against the principles of the Democratic Party to advance education and to deal with the teacher shortage. Drive Lynch away from posting, he is dangerous. And he is taking on the monumental, back breaking tsask of creating a non-profit, charitable university, and serving without compensation? What a jerk!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Frank Lynch is creating a public charity devoted to abused children and abused women and to fighting poverty inside of America as opposed to Clinton&#039;s foundation which is mostly outside the USA. http://franklynchfoundation.org also named after his deceased father.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lynch is insane, What a narcissist. Anybody who wants to fight poverty inside America is a Nazi. Shout him down, ban him, ridicule him. And he wants to help abused children and save them from the broken foster care system? He can&#039;t possible be a true Democrat.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lynch is writing books and creating a publishing company to raise money for his charities to help education and fight poverty in America. Criminal! UnAmerican. Anti-Democrat. No Democrat Presidential candidate ever wrote a book? Boo! Go away Frank. It is illegal to write a book.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Frank filed to run for president even though he knew the Democratic Party insiders would not let him on the ballots. Why? As a means of getting the other Presidential candidates to copy the ideas he posted on http://www.franklynch.org and use them in their previously vacant websites previously filled with only empty rhetoric from Jimmy Carter&#039;s 1976 campaign, and we know Carter&#039;s legacy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gee Frank, you reminded Hillary and goaded Barack into helping college students and into adopting Universal Healthcare. Frank, you really are a tin hat wacko loon. Everybody knows that Hillary and Barack adopted universal healthcare AFTER you publicized it and nagged the Chairpersons of all 50 state party organizations about it. What a maroone.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;And by doing so, Frank Lynch changed America. What a terrible person! Pushing for universal healthcare and helping college students. Lock him in jail.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And Frank Lynch filed to run for President without ever serving as a legislator.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now this is a big one. Frank Lynch is going to propose a Constitutional Amenment to forbid anyone who has ever been a US Senator or Representative, or ever graduated from law school, from running for President.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No lawyer ever SUCCESSFULLY managed anything of substance in the entire history of America. No many of you will cite lawyers who were the head of all sorts of things. Yes, ABraham Lincoln, my geatest personal hero, was a lawyer, but he never went to law school. Ha! Try to focus. No lawyer evere SUCCESSFULLY managed anything of substance.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Chew on that! First it is a really big crime how so many Senators do nothing about carrying out their duties to the taxpayers for two whole years while they abandon the Senate to run for President. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Second, the Presidency is EXECUTIVE. Senators and Representatives do nothing but work to get re-elected and collect campaign donations by holding hearing after hearing after hearing after hearing to extort contributions from the victims of their hearings.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Third, have you every watched CSPAN? None of those bums should ever be allowed to be President.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Frank Lynch has expert experience in the areas that determine America&#039;s future: science, national security, finance/economics, and running a business. See http://www.franklynch.name &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In fact, compared to the irrelevant experience of all the other candidates, Lynch is OVERQUALIFIED&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Frank Lynch at age 18 dropped out of college because he thought his professors were stupid. At age 19 he was back as a National Science Foundation researcher studying the effects of early experience on adult biochemical and hormonal reactions to stress.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Since stress is involved in weapons systems, he was recruited as a national security consultant, first on selection of advanced weapons systems, then intellegence, and he co-authored a study that predicted the current MidEast situation, in detail, with 100 percent accuracy, 40 years ago! Current candidates don&#039;t even understand the MidEast today, let alone see the future.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He then spent 10 years as a Corporate Finance Officer on Wall Street, followed by creating a new business from scratch, building it up into a publicly traded company, and selling it to a larger company.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In contrast, both Obama and McCain state they do not understand business, finance or the economy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No other Presidential candidate has these comprehensive, totally relevant, qualifications to deal with the problems facing America today.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Maybe Howard Dean erred by keeping Frank Lynch off the primary ballots? Would it not be interesting if the voters had had the chance to debate this?&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:01:06 EDT</pubDate>
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