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	<description>Stupidity got us into this mess; stupidity will get us out!</description>
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		<title>News Flash: Al Qaeda Really Mean!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:04:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now they&#8217;ve done it!
In a new video, purportedly of Ayman al-Zawahiri, Al Qaeda used racially charged language to attack President-elect Obama &#8212; they called him a &#8220;house slave&#8221; (or a &#8220;house Negro&#8220;, depending on your translation).
Plus, they called him a bad Muslim.
This is going to have a seismic effect among the American Left.  It&#8217;s one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don’t Just Do Something - Stand There!</title>
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		<comments>http://mindscalpel.com/2008/11/17/dont-just-do-something-stand-there/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 03:01:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Man, I turn my back for three short months to work on my meson cannon, and look what they&#8217;ve done &#8212; the world&#8217;s hardly worth taking over anymore.  Drives me crazy.
But I must say, the several trillion dollars the world economy has &#8220;lost&#8221; will all be worth it, if only to prove the prescience of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Best!  Congress!  Ever!</title>
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		<comments>http://mindscalpel.com/2008/08/21/best-congress-ever/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:42:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay, so, the Wall Street Journal reported that &#8220;[i]n two decades of record keeping, no sitting Congress has passed fewer public laws at this point in the session &#8212; 294 so far &#8212; than this one.&#8221;
To which I can only say, &#8220;Excelsior!&#8221;
When did it become a benchmark of productivity or success for a legislative body [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Olympics News Flash: Chinese Gymnasts Are 16, Just Starving</title>
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		<comments>http://mindscalpel.com/2008/08/14/olympics-news-flash-chinese-gymnasts-are-16-just-starving/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:52:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite substantial suggestions that some of China&#8217;s female Olympic gymnasts are younger than the required 16 years of age, Chinese apparatchi - uh - spokespeople insist that previous Chinese state-controlled news reports that showed them as being younger were erroneous.
According to the Associated Press:
Just nine months before the Beijing Olympics, the Chinese government&#8217;s news agency, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When All You’ve Got Is 7,000 Howitzers, Everything Starts Looking Like Fluffy Clouds That Must Be Killed</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 00:43:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mindscalpel.com/?p=64</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So were our good friends the Chinese Communists satisfied with stealing our gambling profits?  Can they rest, now that they&#8217;ve attempted to co-opt the world&#8217;s venality?
Of course not!  Instead, they&#8217;ve moved on to actions based on their idiosyncratic mistranslation of a popular Western song, as they set to work in their Army-ant-like way [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Secret Cabal’s Farm League</title>
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		<comments>http://mindscalpel.com/2008/07/20/my-secret-cabals-farm-league/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jul 2008 14:56:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I can&#8217;t believe it!  Neil Patrick Harris applied for membership in the Evil League of Evil, which is the farm league for my Secret Cabal Bent on Global Domination!
See his original video here&#8230;.
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		<title>Maybe You Should Have Just Kept It On The Radio…</title>
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		<comments>http://mindscalpel.com/2008/07/18/maybe-you-should-have-just-kept-it-on-the-radio/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 03:30:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Insensitivity alert!
So a July 16 &#8220;All Things Considered&#8221; story was quite sympathetic to an Ohio family who were in such dire financial straits that they couldn&#8217;t even afford meat anymore.  The NPR story went on for five minutes, essentially indicting the economy and painting a portrait of misery.
This is a case where less would, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hair-Trigger Reflexes — Not What They Used To Be</title>
		<link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MindScalpel/~3/319021125/</link>
		<comments>http://mindscalpel.com/2008/06/24/hair-trigger-reflexes-not-what-they-used-to-be/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:58:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is it just me, or do others notice that the Israelis lately seem to be losing a little bit of that finely-honed combat instinct they&#8217;re famous for?
Today, for example, an Israeli policeman apparently committed suicide while on detail at Ben Gurion Airport, guarding the departure ceremony for French President Nicolas Sarkozy.
Now, a guy putting a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CNN’s News Innovation: Stupid Headline T-Shirts</title>
		<link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MindScalpel/~3/301283189/</link>
		<comments>http://mindscalpel.com/2008/05/30/cnns-news-innovation-stupid-headline-t-shirts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 14:12:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Having never been a fan of CNN&#8217;s headline-writing nonability, it&#8217;s truly amazing to me that someone thought that people would like any headline on CNN.com enough to put it on a freakin&#8217; t-shirt.  If you go to the CNN.com home page, several story headlines have a tiny little t-shirt graphic next to them &#8212; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mars Lander Touches Down, Immediately Takes Picture of Foot</title>
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		<comments>http://mindscalpel.com/2008/05/27/mars-lander-touches-down-immediately-takes-picture-of-foot/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 17:43:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, it&#8217;s comforting to know that we can send a spacecraft across the cold vastness of radiation-filled space, program it to land autonomously on a nigh-airless planet, and have it immediately replicate all the technological acuity of a clueless father vacationing at Disneyworld by taking a picture of its foot:

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