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		<title>California voters increasingly tolerant</title>
		<link>http://payam.minoofar.com/2010/03/15/california-voters-increasingly-tolerant/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:58:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[California voters increasingly tolerant There is a lot of speculation about how the Republican Party will do in the upcoming elections in California. If there is any truth in the above cited poll of Californians, then the extreme positions that the GOP has taken in California have almost certainly guaranteed its demise and decline into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We Aren&#8217;t Ready for Some Football, but They&#8217;re Gonna Give It to Us Anyway</title>
		<link>http://payam.minoofar.com/2009/10/23/we-arent-ready-for-some-football-but-theyre-gonna-give-it-to-us-anyway/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:10:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Payam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Environmental exemptions OKd for football stadium in City of Industry &#124; latimes.com It is tough to love Los Angeles. It is an exceptionally large city ruined by the diminutive thinking of its residents and especially that of its politicians. Among the great signs of civilization in the city was the distinct absence of a football [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Perceptions</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 18:38:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Payam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[CIF America &#124; Comment is free &#124; guardian.co.uk About this time last year, the Guardian (UK), ran a very unscientific poll of the perceptions of its readers of the net results of the McCain-Obama debates. As unscientific as this poll may be, it is impossible to dispute the prevalent choice in the UK. Though it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iranian Irony</title>
		<link>http://payam.minoofar.com/2009/07/11/iranian-irony/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2009 06:54:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Payam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thousands protest in Iran, defying crackdown vow &#8211; washingtonpost.com. Ahead of the protests, Tehran&#8217;s governor Morteza Tamaddon accused &#8220;foreign counterrevolutionary networks&#8221; of plotting new marches. &#8220;If some individuals plan to carry out any anti-security actions by listening to (protest) calls &#8230; they will be smashed under the feet of our aware people,&#8221; he said late [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saddam&#8217;s WMD Story</title>
		<link>http://payam.minoofar.com/2009/07/02/saddams-wmd-story/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:20:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Payam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Saddam Hussein Said WMD Talk Helped Him Look Strong to Iran &#8211; washingtonpost.com. It was what many among us had suspected all along, principally among them Harry Shearer, who said just as much in one of his Le Show broadcasts back in 2003 or 2004. Perhaps we need more real comedians in politics, instead of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>End of Education in California?</title>
		<link>http://payam.minoofar.com/2009/06/09/end-of-education-in-california/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 14:42:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Payam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[BBC NEWS &#124; Americas &#124; California &#8216;to scrap textbooks&#8217; This doesn&#8217;t mean that California school children won&#8217;t be educated. The ones with computers and an internet connection will manage. The ones who cannot afford the technology required for electronic textbooks will make Arnold Schwarzenegger sound educated. This economic slump has an infinite upside for Schwarzenegger. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Republican Core Values</title>
		<link>http://payam.minoofar.com/2009/06/05/republican-core-values/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 17:16:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Payam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Senate GOP leader: Party must explain core values Yes, Mr. McConnell is right. The GOP must explain its core values to everyone because after 12 years of exercising nearly absolute power in the United States government, not a soul among America&#8217;s nearly 300 million people can discern anything that may conform to the denotation or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When Politics Gets Personal</title>
		<link>http://payam.minoofar.com/2009/06/03/when-politics-gets-personal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 17:32:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Payam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[BBC NEWS &#124; Africa &#124; Kenyan sues over sex ban &#8216;stress&#8217; Perhaps if pro-life women were thus to protest abortion rights, the problem would go away. [ad]]]></description>
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		<title>Bush &amp; Republican Ineffectiveness, Uselessness</title>
		<link>http://payam.minoofar.com/2009/05/28/bush-republican-ineffectiveness-uselessness/</link>
		<comments>http://payam.minoofar.com/2009/05/28/bush-republican-ineffectiveness-uselessness/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 23:13:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Payam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[CIA, intel director locked in spy turf battle &#8211; Yahoo! News Ah, yes, isn&#8217;t it nice to know that nearly six years after the 911 commission called for the major intelligence agencies to share relevant information more freely in order to facilitate the process of foiling terrorist attacks the major intelligence agencies have not changed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eat a Seal&#8217;s Heart to Protest Europe</title>
		<link>http://payam.minoofar.com/2009/05/27/eat-a-seals-heart-to-protest-europe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 14:44:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Payam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Canada&#8217;s governor general eats seal heart &#8211; Yahoo! News Apparently bothered by the European Union&#8217;s ban on the import and sale of all seal products from Canada, Canada&#8217;s Governor General elected to gut a seal puppy, tear its heart out and swallow the heart as a form of protest. Asked later if her actions were [...]]]></description>
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