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    <pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 23:43:54 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Celebrity Deaths of 2009</title>
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      <description>Several people did this year. Many of them died within days of each other. The ones who come to my mind are Farrah Fawcett, Michael Jackson, and Bill Mays. Also let us not forget Walter Cronkite. . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 23:04:45 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Terry M.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-12-29T23:04:45Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Year End Writing Wrap-up</title>
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      <description>Just giving everyone a end-of-the-year summary of my writing activities for 2009: 
 
 January/February/March: I spent those months marketing my horror novella,   Chronicles of the Undead   and did my . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 23:02:35 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>A. F. Stewart</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-12-29T23:02:35Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Why Avatar Is A Propaganda Piece For The Radical Environmental Movement</title>
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      <description>This is the second part of our series about the battle between the radical Left and Right for the hearts and minds of Westerners! 
 Today's article is from;  Save The Environment. Help Us Save The Environment . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 18:31:48 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Allan Janssen</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-12-29T18:31:48Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Descending Notes</title>
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      <description>  
   
   
 
 Descending Notes 
 
   
   
 
 The hidden place - 
 
 
 Where I lick cinnamon, 
 
 
 White hot darkness, 
 
 
 Un-gated. 
 
   
 
 Gated.  Juggle my life . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 12:34:33 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Barbary Chaapel</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-12-29T12:34:33Z</dc:date>
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      <title>11 More Points to Cash-out!</title>
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      <description>Yeah!  I currently have 614 points and I am only 11 points away from the $10 PayPal cash reward!  There are 3 more days to the end of year and I think I have a pretty good chance to be able . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 06:31:18 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977966633&amp;grpId=3659174697251507&amp;nav=Groupspace</guid>
      <dc:creator>Selene N.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-12-29T06:31:18Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Conservatives really are Liberals in disguise! the stats show it anyway!</title>
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      <description> They must not even know what they are!! 
   
 It may come as a surprise, but most Americans, when asked about specific 
 questions, agree with clearly liberal political positions, even though . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 05:26:31 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Georgiana S.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-12-29T05:26:31Z</dc:date>
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      <title>It's Midnight Already!</title>
      <link>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977966537&amp;grpId=3659174697251507&amp;nav=Groupspace</link>
      <description>I was/am feeling pretty sick all day long and I had told myself that I would need to go to bed early today (and I still have to get up early tomorrow because we have an appointment with a kidney specialist . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 05:05:52 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Selene N.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-12-29T05:05:52Z</dc:date>
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      <title>2009 Christmas Trip to Illinois - Christmas Day, Part X</title>
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      <description>Continuing with the gift opening...    
 
 
 I got a set of Cold Stone ice cream flavored lip balms. Grandpa got something but I can't remember what it was. 
 
 
   
 
 
 Now this.  It . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 04:59:26 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977966496&amp;grpId=3659174697251507&amp;nav=Groupspace</guid>
      <dc:creator>Selene N.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-12-29T04:59:26Z</dc:date>
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      <title>2009 Christmas Trip to Illinois - Christmas Day, Part IX</title>
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      <description>Continuing with the gift opening...    
 
 
 "Wow! What's this?" 
 
 
   
 
 
 The next gift Kyleigh got was a construction worker's hat and tool set. 
 
 
   
 
 
 Now Kyleigh has her own . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 03:47:18 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Selene N.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-12-29T03:47:18Z</dc:date>
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      <title>2009 Christmas Trip to Illinois - Christmas Day, Part VIII</title>
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      <description>Continuing with the gift opening...  Aunt R got a set of cute Snowman salt and pepper shakers.  I got a similar set as well. 
 
 
   
 
 
 It's Daddy's turn again and he got a tomato planter. . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 03:01:07 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Selene N.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-12-29T03:01:07Z</dc:date>
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      <title>2009 Christmas Trip to Illinois - Christmas Day, Part VII</title>
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      <description>Finally it was Christmas Day for the presents everyone had been waiting for. After breakfast, Aunt R called out the names on the tags and Kyleigh distributed them to the recipients. (See related video.)  . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 02:04:34 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Selene N.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-12-29T02:04:34Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Another medicaid caseworker jerk!!</title>
      <link>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977966295&amp;grpId=3659174697251507&amp;nav=Groupspace</link>
      <description>Oh HELL NO!!!  NOT AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 
 
 
 ....I got my medicaid renewal one month early.  But one thing I had tossed out before I got the month early notice. My monthly printed bank statement. . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 00:31:03 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Ed Da Head Toker</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-12-29T00:31:03Z</dc:date>
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      <title>I Feel Miserable Today</title>
      <link>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977966221&amp;grpId=3659174697251507&amp;nav=Groupspace</link>
      <description>I developed a bad headache and nausea during the trip home last night and the symptoms didn't go away even though I took a few Tylenol. I feel crappy all day and it's not going away! 
 I am just . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 23:25:31 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Selene N.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-12-28T23:25:31Z</dc:date>
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      <title>That Headlight Cost Me More Than I Thought</title>
      <link>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977966173&amp;grpId=3659174697251507&amp;nav=Groupspace</link>
      <description>The night before our trip to IL, both of my headlight bulbs burnt out. So today I tried to get them replaced.  I knew I had to take it in to a shop because the driver side lamp is behind the battery . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 22:49:07 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Selene N.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-12-28T22:49:07Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Will The Equality Bill Essentially Outlaw Christianity In The U.K.?</title>
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      <description>The next few weeks, dear readers, we are going to do a series of articles on the battle between the far left and the far right here in the Western World. 
 This week we will look at the propaganda put . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 22:05:27 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977966129&amp;grpId=3659174697251507&amp;nav=Groupspace</guid>
      <dc:creator>Allan Janssen</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-12-28T22:05:27Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Snipper McMoo and the Green Light</title>
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      <description>Snipper, and Boris the Baby Bull, delivered corn to all the donkeys for their help in the race. In the night sky they noticed a small green light. 
 
  It’s Benny!</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 20:52:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Terry M.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-12-28T20:52:00Z</dc:date>
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      <title>We Are Home, Safe and Sound</title>
      <link>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977965939&amp;grpId=3659174697251507&amp;nav=Groupspace</link>
      <description>Just a quick note to let everyone know that we have made it home safe and sound last night.  Most importantly, there is no busted pipes or any other damage in the house!  
 I will be organizing . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 19:25:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Selene N.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-12-28T19:25:00Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Rev. Phelps declares that "God hates Lady Gaga."</title>
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      <description>...The "rev" Fred Phelps, of the Westboro Bapist church, in Kansas; claims that "GOD hates lady gaga." 
 
 
 ...Ok, we have the right to hate whomever we want to. Eh, Eh. 
 
 
 
 ...But why does Phelps . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 09:12:34 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Ed Da Head Toker</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-12-28T09:12:34Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Watch BBC Doctor Who Special "The End of Time" - Download Doctor Who Full Episodes Online on YouTube, Megavideo, etc.</title>
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      <description>Doctor Who , as the longest-running science fiction television show in the world in Guinness World Records, and as the "most successful" science fiction series of all time, premieres latest special . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 08:36:57 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>James Gordon</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-12-28T08:36:57Z</dc:date>
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      <title>my personal health care rant!!!</title>
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      <description>HI my friends. 
 
 
 I debated long and hard about posting this post. 
 
 
 ..2 years ago last February, I had a serious side effect happen with a new "asthma inhaler" interacted with the other medications . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 07:57:45 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Ed Da Head Toker</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-12-28T07:57:45Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Views R Us - Please Help Clear This Content !!!</title>
      <link>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977964908&amp;grpId=3659174697251507&amp;nav=Groupspace</link>
      <description>We are still working on the April archives for the Views R Us group. If you have a few minutes, please help by viewing whatever you can. When the April archives are cleared, I am going to do another . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 27 Dec 2009 23:28:14 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Amy just hangin' out M.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-12-27T23:28:14Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Benny the Bat and Snippetville</title>
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      <description>As Snippetville was enjoying the holiday season, a green bat was falling from outer space. The life of Apple Brewster would never be the same again. 
 
  Benny the Bat is Coming Soon!  
 
 
  . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 27 Dec 2009 21:51:47 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Terry M.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-12-27T21:51:47Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Sunday Morning Funnies.</title>
      <link>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977964552&amp;grpId=3659174697251507&amp;nav=Groupspace</link>
      <description>Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend, Common Sense, who has been with us for many years. 
 No one knows for sure how old he was, since his birth records were long ago lost in bureaucratic . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 27 Dec 2009 16:59:27 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Allan Janssen</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-12-27T16:59:27Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Getting Ready to Head Home</title>
      <link>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977964030&amp;grpId=3659174697251507&amp;nav=Groupspace</link>
      <description>Our Christmas vacation is coming to an end.  Tomorrow morning we will start driving.  The weather report says that it will snow the whole way back.  So hopefully we will have a safe drive. . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 27 Dec 2009 02:17:23 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977964030&amp;grpId=3659174697251507&amp;nav=Groupspace</guid>
      <dc:creator>Selene N.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-12-27T02:17:23Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Saturday Morning Confusion.</title>
      <link>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977963918&amp;grpId=3659174697251507&amp;nav=Groupspace</link>
      <description>No wonder nobody knows wether they are comming or going anymore! 
 WALLINGFORD, Pa. By The Associated Press - A suburban Philadelphia teenager was suspended for a day for wearing a Santa Claus suit . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 26 Dec 2009 23:24:17 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977963918&amp;grpId=3659174697251507&amp;nav=Groupspace</guid>
      <dc:creator>Allan Janssen</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-12-26T23:24:17Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Music Break- Playing For Change "Fenlangaye"</title>
      <link>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977963689&amp;grpId=3659174697251507&amp;nav=Groupspace</link>
      <description>Our guys  Playing for Change  are back live and on tour with Felangaye. This is a great number that they did in Los Angeles. As you know Playing for Change posts ALL their music on You Tube for EVERYONE . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 26 Dec 2009 17:48:39 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977963689&amp;grpId=3659174697251507&amp;nav=Groupspace</guid>
      <dc:creator>Brian T.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-12-26T17:48:39Z</dc:date>
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      <title>NORMAL E-ZINE Volume 12 Issue 50 December 24, 2009 norml.org</title>
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      <description>Hi all. 
 
 
 I have permission to repost anything from this organization. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
      Volume 12    Issue 50   December 24, 2009  
 
 
      norml.org   
 
 
 
   . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 26 Dec 2009 08:05:55 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Ed Da Head Toker</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-12-26T08:05:55Z</dc:date>
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      <title>2009 Christmas Trip to Illinois - Mommy's Cooking, Part VI</title>
      <link>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977962860&amp;grpId=3659174697251507&amp;nav=Groupspace</link>
      <description>In the morning of Christmas Eve, 12/24/2009, my husband, his dad, and his sister went on a last-minute shopping trip, and his mom was rushing to finish up a dress she was making for Kyleigh to wear . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 25 Dec 2009 22:41:58 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Selene N.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-12-25T22:41:58Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Merry Christmas to All My Gather Friends!</title>
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      <description>Merry Christmas, my Gather friends! 
 Thank you so much for your readership, no matter when I was bragging about my daughter Kyleigh, or when I was ranting about tiny things. 
 Our trip to IL so far has . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 25 Dec 2009 22:29:05 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977963007&amp;grpId=3659174697251507&amp;nav=Groupspace</guid>
      <dc:creator>Selene N.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2009-12-25T22:29:05Z</dc:date>
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