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	<title>The Exquisite Contrarian</title>
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	<description>Smelling the funk of politics and other communicable diseases.</description>
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		<title>Everybody loves Dicky!</title>
		<link>http://excontra.com/2011/08/everybody-loves-dicky/</link>
		<comments>http://excontra.com/2011/08/everybody-loves-dicky/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 01:08:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Appanage</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Colin Powell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Condoleeza Rice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dick Cheney]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George W Bush]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lawrence Wilkerson]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The lines have been drawn.  On this side we have the well-respected Bush 43 Secretary of State Colin Powell, his chief of staff and decades-long Cheney colleague Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, and Powell&#8217;s replacement at State, Condoleeza Rice. And on the other side we have, weighing in at God-only-knows-what, Dick &#8220;The Heartless One&#8221; Cheney. (We&#8217;d have Bush [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dylan Ratigan asks America, &#8220;Do you know what the hell a corporatist is, or do I have to shove this pencil up your a&#8211;&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://excontra.com/2011/08/dylan-ratigan-asks-america-do-you-know-what-the-hell-a-corporatist-is-or-do-i-have-to-shove-this-pencil-up-your-a/</link>
		<comments>http://excontra.com/2011/08/dylan-ratigan-asks-america-do-you-know-what-the-hell-a-corporatist-is-or-do-i-have-to-shove-this-pencil-up-your-a/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 00:34:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Appanage</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dylan Ratigan,corporatism,financial sector,congress,President]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://excontra.com/?p=282</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, OK, that&#8217;s not what he said.  Not even close.  But he was that kind of angry, and he was pointing the finger at the last two decades of cozying between those who lead government and want to control our money and those who don&#8217;t and already do control our money, or as we around [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Witnessing a catastrophe that basically wasn&#8217;t.</title>
		<link>http://excontra.com/2011/08/witnessing-a-catastrophe-that-basically-wasnt/</link>
		<comments>http://excontra.com/2011/08/witnessing-a-catastrophe-that-basically-wasnt/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2011 18:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Appanage</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hurricane]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Irene]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NPR]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Weather Channel]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://excontra.com/?p=272</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Why would someone watch 14 hours of hurricane coverage?  That&#8217;s easy.  We love train wrecks and we gravitate towards anything that will heighten our emotions &#8211; particularly fear.  In other words, the &#8216;emotional hit&#8217; we obviously lack in our routine day to day. It&#8217;s just a shame the media panders to our weakest feelings, like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guvnuh Perry Launches This Here Internet Bucks Thingy</title>
		<link>http://excontra.com/2011/08/guvnuh-perry-launches-this-here-internet-bucks-thingy/</link>
		<comments>http://excontra.com/2011/08/guvnuh-perry-launches-this-here-internet-bucks-thingy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Aug 2011 20:54:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Appanage</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rick Perry]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://excontra.com/?p=269</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[From the guvnah: &#8220;I hates me some DC but man that Capital dome thingy sure does look purdy behind my Planet of the Apes hairdo!&#8221;]]></description>
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		<title>In case you&#8217;re on MSNBC&#8217;s website wondering what the he** a w&#8212;- is, we have an answer.</title>
		<link>http://excontra.com/2010/10/in-case-youre-on-msnbcs-website-wondering-what-the-he-a-w-is-we-have-an-answer/</link>
		<comments>http://excontra.com/2010/10/in-case-youre-on-msnbcs-website-wondering-what-the-he-a-w-is-we-have-an-answer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Oct 2010 15:17:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Appanage</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jerry Brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Meg Whitman]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://excontra.com/?p=264</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What's a w----?  Thanks for censoring this one, MSNBC.  No what is this report about?]]></description>
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		<title>AZ Senator Jon Kyl says President Obama told him he&#8217;s holding off securing border for political gain.</title>
		<link>http://excontra.com/2010/06/az-senator-jon-kyl-says-president-obama-told-him-hes-holding-off-securing-border-for-political-gain/</link>
		<comments>http://excontra.com/2010/06/az-senator-jon-kyl-says-president-obama-told-him-hes-holding-off-securing-border-for-political-gain/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 14:43:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Appanage</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[border control]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[border patrol]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[immigration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[immigration reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Kyl]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://excontra.com/?p=261</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[While attending a Tea Party town hall meeting in North Tempe, Arizona Republican Senator Jon Kyl told the audience at a that during a private, one-on-one meeting with President Obama in the Oval Office, Obama and he discussed securing the Mexican Border. Kyle quoted the president as claiming as problematic “If we secure the border, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Take comfort in knowing BP cares about “the small people”.</title>
		<link>http://excontra.com/2010/06/take-comfort-in-knowing-bp-cares-about-%e2%80%9cthe-small-people%e2%80%9d/</link>
		<comments>http://excontra.com/2010/06/take-comfort-in-knowing-bp-cares-about-%e2%80%9cthe-small-people%e2%80%9d/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 20:35:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Appanage</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[golf oil spill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[White House]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://excontra.com/?p=259</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Did the BP chairman really say this?  Wow, they really don&#8217;t get it, do they?]]></description>
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		<title>Obama, Gingrich, Carlson, the gulf oil crisis address, and the use of God in the speech.</title>
		<link>http://excontra.com/2010/06/obama-gingrich-carlson-the-gulf-oil-crisis-address-and-the-use-of-god-in-the-speech/</link>
		<comments>http://excontra.com/2010/06/obama-gingrich-carlson-the-gulf-oil-crisis-address-and-the-use-of-god-in-the-speech/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 19:24:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Appanage</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fox and Friends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fox News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gretchen Carlson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gulf oil spill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Newt Gingrich]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://excontra.com/?p=257</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Gretchen Carlson of Fox thinks it&#8217;s &#8220;disingenuous&#8221; when the President references God in a speech when he doesn&#8217;t go to church every week. We think it&#8217;s disingenuous when Gretchen Carlson decides her Fox and Friends role entitles to play God by judging the actions of others while brainwashing her TV followers. More from Mediaite.]]></description>
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		<title>Gay marriage: another reason Elena Kagan&#8217;s left right wingers with no line of attack.</title>
		<link>http://excontra.com/2010/06/gay-marriage-another-reason-elena-kagans-left-ring-wingers-with-no-line-of-attack/</link>
		<comments>http://excontra.com/2010/06/gay-marriage-another-reason-elena-kagans-left-ring-wingers-with-no-line-of-attack/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jun 2010 15:01:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Appanage</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[confirmation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elena Kagan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[same sex marriage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SCOTUS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Supreme Court]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://excontra.com/?p=254</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re really enjoying the Elena Kagan interview process.  It&#8217;s almost like getting interrogated by hundreds of overly confident questioners for a crime you didn&#8217;t commit (and frankly for a crime which doesn&#8217;t exist.  Each member seems to think they&#8217;re going to be the one blowing the doors open to some new revelation that makes Kagan [...]]]></description>
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		<title>President Obama pleads for $50 billion in state and local aid.</title>
		<link>http://excontra.com/2010/06/president-obama-pleads-for-50-billion-in-state-and-local-aid/</link>
		<comments>http://excontra.com/2010/06/president-obama-pleads-for-50-billion-in-state-and-local-aid/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jun 2010 14:28:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Appanage</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[federal aid]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://excontra.com/?p=252</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is the fundamental difference between how Republicans and Democrats view the world.  Republicans generally go to the people who need the police for money while the Democrats prefer to collect and distribute it way up at the federal level.  Logical?]]></description>
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