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		<title>Harry G-Reid-y&#8217;s Public Option</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:06:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, October 26th at around 3:30 in the afternoon, Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) spoke out at a scheduled press conference.  In his remarks, he announced that the Senate version of health care reform would include a public option.  As conservatives sighed and liberals rejoiced, it is pretty easy to see how both sides can see [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theamalgamate.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10072320&amp;post=63&amp;subd=theamalgamate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Twisted Logic</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:33:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I saw this originally on Drudge Report.  The Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, Scott Johnson, makes several sizable leaps in logic to claim that &#8220;Barack Obama is the most powerful writer since Julius Caesar.&#8221;  The logic is absolutely ridiculous.  I&#8217;m sure (and at the very least hope) that the comment was not [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theamalgamate.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10072320&amp;post=68&amp;subd=theamalgamate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>2009 Season: Pats @ Bucs Post Game Evaluation</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 21:01:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It goes without saying that New England won in Jolly Old England this afternoon by the score of .  It was a well-played game overall.  Tampa Bay kept themselves in it until the third quarter when the Patriots began to run away with it. The Good: Brandon Meriweather (2 Tackles, 2 INTs): In the first [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theamalgamate.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10072320&amp;post=59&amp;subd=theamalgamate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>2009 Season: Pats @ Bucs Preview</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 15:18:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After last week&#8217;s game against the Titans, I don&#8217;t know what more the Patriots can do.  I actually have a pretty good idea, but last week&#8217;s game was so good on all fronts that the Boston Globe&#8217;s Patriots Blog did not post any downs in their weekly Ups and Downs Post-Game coverage. Areas of Improvement [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theamalgamate.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10072320&amp;post=54&amp;subd=theamalgamate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Babies-&#8217;R&#039;-Us</title>
		<link>http://theamalgamate.wordpress.com/2009/10/25/babys-r-us/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 14:43:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night, I saw Law Abiding Citizen.  According to the Motion Picture Association of American (MPAA), the film is rated R for &#8220;strong, bloody, brutal violence and torture, a scene of rape, and pervasive language.&#8221;  That sounds pretty bad; much worse than strong language and nudity, for example.  Having seen the movie, the phrasing by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theamalgamate.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10072320&amp;post=44&amp;subd=theamalgamate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s All in the Name</title>
		<link>http://theamalgamate.wordpress.com/2009/10/25/its-all-in-the-name/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 14:14:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From reading my blog, you may have noticed that every section has its own cleverly (and sometimes self-deprecating) title.  You can consider them parts of my personality.  After an experience last night at the movie theater, I am ready to add yet another to the site.  The Peripatetic will be a journal of my reactions [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theamalgamate.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10072320&amp;post=43&amp;subd=theamalgamate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Film Review: Law Abiding Citizen</title>
		<link>http://theamalgamate.wordpress.com/2009/10/25/film-review-law-abiding-citizen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 04:57:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just returned from seeing Law Abiding Citizen. Brief Summary: Gerard Butler, the victim of a home invasion that killed his wife and child, seeks his own justice for their deaths after the DA&#8217;s office of Philadelphia cops a plea with the mastermind behind the attack. It must be fate that I saw this movie after [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theamalgamate.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10072320&amp;post=36&amp;subd=theamalgamate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: The Lost Symbol</title>
		<link>http://theamalgamate.wordpress.com/2009/10/24/review-the-lost-symbol/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 03:48:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I do not plan on giving away any details of the plot, but I feel that reading this review would ruin the experience before ever reading the book. **SPOILER ALERT: DO NOT READ AHEAD IF YOU PLAN ON TRYING TO READ THIS BOOK AND ENJOY IT** I must disclaim that prior to reading The Lost [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theamalgamate.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10072320&amp;post=26&amp;subd=theamalgamate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Film Review: Boondock Saints</title>
		<link>http://theamalgamate.wordpress.com/2009/10/24/review-boondock-saints/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 03:11:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just finished watching Boondock Saints. Brief Summary: Two Irish brothers in Boston get involved in some illicit activities that they shouldn&#8217;t be.  Instead of rejecting it and running from it, they embrace it and run with it. I must say, I was surprised at how good the movie was.  From beginning to end it was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theamalgamate.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10072320&amp;post=23&amp;subd=theamalgamate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Going Forward</title>
		<link>http://theamalgamate.wordpress.com/2009/10/24/going-forward/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 00:18:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009, I was shocked.  I needed a forum to express what I felt when I heard the news.  I hope to use The Moderate as that forum.  I will post my reaction and commentary on events occurring in politics.  I may end up adding a current [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theamalgamate.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10072320&amp;post=19&amp;subd=theamalgamate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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