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		<title>By: IVAN3MAN</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/11/27/abode-not-in-the-truth/comment-page-1/#comment-172879</link>
		<dc:creator>IVAN3MAN</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 20:51:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@ Todd W.,

I&#039;ve tried that bullet (HTML tag) business myself; it doesn&#039;t work here for some reason. :&#124;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@ Todd W.,</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve tried that bullet (HTML tag) business myself; it doesn&#8217;t work here for some reason. <img src='http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_neutral.gif' alt=':|' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: Todd W.</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/11/27/abode-not-in-the-truth/comment-page-1/#comment-172876</link>
		<dc:creator>Todd W.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 20:32:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Test two of bullet list
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&lt;li&gt;This is bullet 1&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;This is bullet 2&lt;/li&gt;
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<p>Bullet list is closed?</p>
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		<title>By: Todd W.</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/11/27/abode-not-in-the-truth/comment-page-1/#comment-172874</link>
		<dc:creator>Todd W.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 20:30:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Testing bulleted lists
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&lt;li&gt;Testing list 1
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<p>List should be closed&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: Ian</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/11/27/abode-not-in-the-truth/comment-page-1/#comment-57213</link>
		<dc:creator>Ian</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Dec 2007 15:51:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>And you are going to be posting a similarly scathing article about Morrison&#039;s behavior when?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>And you are going to be posting a similarly scathing article about Morrison&#8217;s behavior when?</p>
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		<title>By: Rift</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/11/27/abode-not-in-the-truth/comment-page-1/#comment-57212</link>
		<dc:creator>Rift</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2007 10:37:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Forgot to mention that best and worst state site doesn&#039;t even mention Kansas it their &quot;f latest roads&quot; list...

Delaware, Louisiana, Illinois, and Florida are all flatter...  Kansas starts at 580 feet and goes to 4000 feet, how is that flat???  pfffft.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Forgot to mention that best and worst state site doesn&#8217;t even mention Kansas it their &#8220;f latest roads&#8221; list&#8230;</p>
<p>Delaware, Louisiana, Illinois, and Florida are all flatter&#8230;  Kansas starts at 580 feet and goes to 4000 feet, how is that flat???  pfffft.</p>
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		<title>By: Rift</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/11/27/abode-not-in-the-truth/comment-page-1/#comment-57211</link>
		<dc:creator>Rift</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2007 10:29:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Which is also a urban myth, Illinois is flatter then Kansas...

And no I won&#039;t lighten up, it&#039;s not YOU that&#039;s being vilified and being called a bunch of idiots when ID hasn&#039;t even had to go to court here and waste taxpayers money.

And congratulations for falling for another urban myth, the mathematically proven to be topologically flatter then a pancake...

http://www.delsjourney.com/close-ups/us/best_worst/best_and_worst_states.htm
http://www.geotimes.org/oct03/NN_pancake.html

&quot;â€œEverything on Earth is flatter than the pancake as they measured it,â€ says Lee Allison, head of the Kansas Geological Survey â€” including the Rocky Mountains, the Marianas Trench, Mt. Everest and the Tibetan Plateau. The team, Allison says, measured a â€œpancake plateauâ€ that included the sides of the pancake.&quot;

You are on a roll, want to claim that Kansas is Black and White now?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Which is also a urban myth, Illinois is flatter then Kansas&#8230;</p>
<p>And no I won&#8217;t lighten up, it&#8217;s not YOU that&#8217;s being vilified and being called a bunch of idiots when ID hasn&#8217;t even had to go to court here and waste taxpayers money.</p>
<p>And congratulations for falling for another urban myth, the mathematically proven to be topologically flatter then a pancake&#8230;</p>
<p><a href="http://www.delsjourney.com/close-ups/us/best_worst/best_and_worst_states.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.delsjourney.com/close-ups/us/best_worst/best_and_worst_states.htm</a><br />
<a href="http://www.geotimes.org/oct03/NN_pancake.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.geotimes.org/oct03/NN_pancake.html</a></p>
<p>&#8220;â€œEverything on Earth is flatter than the pancake as they measured it,â€ says Lee Allison, head of the Kansas Geological Survey â€” including the Rocky Mountains, the Marianas Trench, Mt. Everest and the Tibetan Plateau. The team, Allison says, measured a â€œpancake plateauâ€ that included the sides of the pancake.&#8221;</p>
<p>You are on a roll, want to claim that Kansas is Black and White now?</p>
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		<title>By: The Centipede</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/11/27/abode-not-in-the-truth/comment-page-1/#comment-57210</link>
		<dc:creator>The Centipede</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2007 20:21:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Geez, lighten up.

There is one Phil Kline.

There is one Phelps Family.

There are therefore two dozen intelligent Kansasese, using the 12:1 ratio developed by someone other than me.

It&#039;s a combination of a ratio joke and a semantics joke, not a dig on Kansas.  If I wanted to dig on Kansas, I&#039;d bring up how it&#039;s been mathematically proven to be topologically flatter than a pancake.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Geez, lighten up.</p>
<p>There is one Phil Kline.</p>
<p>There is one Phelps Family.</p>
<p>There are therefore two dozen intelligent Kansasese, using the 12:1 ratio developed by someone other than me.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s a combination of a ratio joke and a semantics joke, not a dig on Kansas.  If I wanted to dig on Kansas, I&#8217;d bring up how it&#8217;s been mathematically proven to be topologically flatter than a pancake.</p>
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		<title>By: Rift</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/11/27/abode-not-in-the-truth/comment-page-1/#comment-57209</link>
		<dc:creator>Rift</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Dec 2007 14:45:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&gt; For what itâ€™s worth, for every Phil Kline/Phelps family, there are about a dozen intelligent Kansans floating around out here.

&gt;So thereâ€™s about two dozen intelligent Kansans (Kansasians? Kansasi? &gt;Kansasese?) in total? :P


I am so tired of this Kansas bashing.  We got rid of the creationism crap in the Board of Education not once, but TWICE.  It didn&#039;t have to go to trial like in Dover, it didn&#039;t cost millions of tax payers dollars.  All it took were elections and we ousted the morons.  Sure they will sneak in again, but we Kansans will drum them out again as sure as the wheat and corn grow here..

We got rid of Kline (I still have the &quot;Vote for Morrison&quot; sign in my garage) and fortunately don&#039;t live in Johnson county.

Kansans should be congratulated not vilified, Centipede.  I don&#039;t understand why we are still stereotyped as idiots, and places like  Pennsylvania, with Dover and all, aren&#039;t.  I&#039;m tired of this &quot;even in Kansas&quot; crap when we have cut down the creationist at every turn.  Who followed Klien to see where he lived?  Californians???

I am not embarrassed of my state, but damn proud of it.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&gt; For what itâ€™s worth, for every Phil Kline/Phelps family, there are about a dozen intelligent Kansans floating around out here.</p>
<p>&gt;So thereâ€™s about two dozen intelligent Kansans (Kansasians? Kansasi? &gt;Kansasese?) in total? <img src='http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_razz.gif' alt=':P' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>I am so tired of this Kansas bashing.  We got rid of the creationism crap in the Board of Education not once, but TWICE.  It didn&#8217;t have to go to trial like in Dover, it didn&#8217;t cost millions of tax payers dollars.  All it took were elections and we ousted the morons.  Sure they will sneak in again, but we Kansans will drum them out again as sure as the wheat and corn grow here..</p>
<p>We got rid of Kline (I still have the &#8220;Vote for Morrison&#8221; sign in my garage) and fortunately don&#8217;t live in Johnson county.</p>
<p>Kansans should be congratulated not vilified, Centipede.  I don&#8217;t understand why we are still stereotyped as idiots, and places like  Pennsylvania, with Dover and all, aren&#8217;t.  I&#8217;m tired of this &#8220;even in Kansas&#8221; crap when we have cut down the creationist at every turn.  Who followed Klien to see where he lived?  Californians???</p>
<p>I am not embarrassed of my state, but damn proud of it.</p>
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		<title>By: Quiet_Desperation</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/11/27/abode-not-in-the-truth/comment-page-1/#comment-57208</link>
		<dc:creator>Quiet_Desperation</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2007 16:52:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Or rather &quot;war ON Christmas&quot; controversy.

Watch your favorite Fox News affiliate for details. :)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Or rather &#8220;war ON Christmas&#8221; controversy.</p>
<p>Watch your favorite Fox News affiliate for details. <img src='http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: Quiet_Desperation</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/11/27/abode-not-in-the-truth/comment-page-1/#comment-57207</link>
		<dc:creator>Quiet_Desperation</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2007 16:51:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&gt;&quot;Sandy Berger committed a crime and got away with it, therefore Democrats are as corrupt as Republicans! QED, mfâ€™er! Way to represent the Logic Army!&quot;

and

&gt;&quot;Roughly sixty seconds* of reflection will tell you this report says nothing about the demographics of Democratic vs. Republican voters, contributors, party members, or leadership.&quot;

Can&#039;t you tell I was just trying to yank the guy&#039;s chain? Geez. One way to tweak those that traffic in logical fallacies is to drop bigger, better logical fallacies on them.

Cheer up, folks. The holidays are nearly upon us, and we have the whole &quot;war of Christmas&quot; controversy to laugh at. :)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&gt;&#8221;Sandy Berger committed a crime and got away with it, therefore Democrats are as corrupt as Republicans! QED, mfâ€™er! Way to represent the Logic Army!&#8221;</p>
<p>and</p>
<p>&gt;&#8221;Roughly sixty seconds* of reflection will tell you this report says nothing about the demographics of Democratic vs. Republican voters, contributors, party members, or leadership.&#8221;</p>
<p>Can&#8217;t you tell I was just trying to yank the guy&#8217;s chain? Geez. One way to tweak those that traffic in logical fallacies is to drop bigger, better logical fallacies on them.</p>
<p>Cheer up, folks. The holidays are nearly upon us, and we have the whole &#8220;war of Christmas&#8221; controversy to laugh at. <img src='http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: Lugosi</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/11/27/abode-not-in-the-truth/comment-page-1/#comment-57206</link>
		<dc:creator>Lugosi</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2007 20:54:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Seems like Kline&#039;s plan wasn&#039;t very &#039;intelligently designed.&#039;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Seems like Kline&#8217;s plan wasn&#8217;t very &#8216;intelligently designed.&#8217;</p>
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		<title>By: The Centipede</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/11/27/abode-not-in-the-truth/comment-page-1/#comment-57205</link>
		<dc:creator>The Centipede</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2007 20:46:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&gt; As the Onion once pointed out, the stickers should probably just read â€œDo Not Burn.â€

Well, they probably have stickers like that here in Leftcoastistan.  &quot;Do Not Burn: By Proposition 69, The Publishers must Disclose that this Book Contains Materials that have been Found by the State of California to Cause Cancer.&quot;

Which, going by the number of P69 signs, is nigh everything.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&gt; As the Onion once pointed out, the stickers should probably just read â€œDo Not Burn.â€</p>
<p>Well, they probably have stickers like that here in Leftcoastistan.  &#8220;Do Not Burn: By Proposition 69, The Publishers must Disclose that this Book Contains Materials that have been Found by the State of California to Cause Cancer.&#8221;</p>
<p>Which, going by the number of P69 signs, is nigh everything.</p>
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		<title>By: Yossarian</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/11/27/abode-not-in-the-truth/comment-page-1/#comment-57204</link>
		<dc:creator>Yossarian</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2007 20:15:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>As the Onion once pointed out, the stickers should probably just read &quot;Do Not Burn.&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As the Onion once pointed out, the stickers should probably just read &#8220;Do Not Burn.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: Aaron</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/11/27/abode-not-in-the-truth/comment-page-1/#comment-57203</link>
		<dc:creator>Aaron</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2007 19:34:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The irony of the election was the bizzarre exchange of jobs between Paul Morrison (former Johnson County DA) and Klien.

Within a couple months of taking office as Johnson County DA, Klien dismissed all the top lawers due to their affiliation with Morrison (of course he wont admit thats the real reason).

KCTV5&#039;s investigative reporting was good but it&#039;s hard to imagine anything coming out of this.

Klien is a slimeball plain and simple.

I&#039;d say the ratio of intelligent Kansans is about the same as anywhere else - roughly 10% of the population.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The irony of the election was the bizzarre exchange of jobs between Paul Morrison (former Johnson County DA) and Klien.</p>
<p>Within a couple months of taking office as Johnson County DA, Klien dismissed all the top lawers due to their affiliation with Morrison (of course he wont admit thats the real reason).</p>
<p>KCTV5&#8242;s investigative reporting was good but it&#8217;s hard to imagine anything coming out of this.</p>
<p>Klien is a slimeball plain and simple.</p>
<p>I&#8217;d say the ratio of intelligent Kansans is about the same as anywhere else &#8211; roughly 10% of the population.</p>
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		<title>By: jackd</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/11/27/abode-not-in-the-truth/comment-page-1/#comment-57202</link>
		<dc:creator>jackd</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2007 19:24:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The nut of Quiet_Desperation&#039;s Heritage Foundation article is this: &quot;Democrats represent areas with a high concentration of wealthy households. &quot;

Roughly sixty seconds* of reflection will tell you this report says nothing about the demographics of Democratic vs. Republican voters, contributors, party members, or leadership.

*I&#039;m being generous.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The nut of Quiet_Desperation&#8217;s Heritage Foundation article is this: &#8220;Democrats represent areas with a high concentration of wealthy households. &#8221;</p>
<p>Roughly sixty seconds* of reflection will tell you this report says nothing about the demographics of Democratic vs. Republican voters, contributors, party members, or leadership.</p>
<p>*I&#8217;m being generous.</p>
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		<title>By: MH</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/11/27/abode-not-in-the-truth/comment-page-1/#comment-57201</link>
		<dc:creator>MH</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2007 18:33:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Sandy Berger committed a crime and got away with it, therefore Democrats are as corrupt as Republicans! QED, mf&#039;er! Way to represent the Logic Army!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sandy Berger committed a crime and got away with it, therefore Democrats are as corrupt as Republicans! QED, mf&#8217;er! Way to represent the Logic Army!</p>
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		<title>By: Quiet_Desperation</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/11/27/abode-not-in-the-truth/comment-page-1/#comment-57200</link>
		<dc:creator>Quiet_Desperation</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2007 18:06:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&gt;&quot;Laws only apply to Democrats.&quot;

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA! Oh, to live in such a simple and monochromatic virtual universe. So uncluttered by shades of gray, nuance, substance and basic reality. *sigh*

&gt;&quot;...rich Republicans...&quot;

http://www.heritage.org/Press/Commentary/ed110607a.cfm

&gt;&quot;Just how many Republicans are actually doing time for their transgressions? I can only think of one.&quot;

Therefore none others exist!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/19/AR2007011900162.html

Took all of seven seconds with google. Fun fact: Robert Ney is sharing cell space with Ritchard Hatch of &quot;Survivor&quot; fame.

As for Democrats, I have a security clearance, and if I did what Sandy Berger did, *I&#039;d* get a fine AND prison time. *HE* gets to work for the Hillary Clinton campaign (which does not speak well for her judgment, BTW).

You people who try to claim some major difference in the corruption levels of the two major parties amuse me to no end.

&gt;&quot;I could describe this process in more detail, but my wife gets upset when I send my blood-pressure soaring like that.&quot;

So don&#039;t take it all so seriously. It&#039;s not like you can do anything about any of it.

&gt;&quot;Iâ€™m too close to a stroke already.&quot;

Don&#039;t worry! The Democrats will save you!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&gt;&#8221;Laws only apply to Democrats.&#8221;</p>
<p>HA HA HA HA HA HA HA! Oh, to live in such a simple and monochromatic virtual universe. So uncluttered by shades of gray, nuance, substance and basic reality. *sigh*</p>
<p>&gt;&#8221;&#8230;rich Republicans&#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p><a href="http://www.heritage.org/Press/Commentary/ed110607a.cfm" rel="nofollow">http://www.heritage.org/Press/Commentary/ed110607a.cfm</a></p>
<p>&gt;&#8221;Just how many Republicans are actually doing time for their transgressions? I can only think of one.&#8221;</p>
<p>Therefore none others exist!</p>
<p><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/19/AR2007011900162.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/19/AR2007011900162.html</a></p>
<p>Took all of seven seconds with google. Fun fact: Robert Ney is sharing cell space with Ritchard Hatch of &#8220;Survivor&#8221; fame.</p>
<p>As for Democrats, I have a security clearance, and if I did what Sandy Berger did, *I&#8217;d* get a fine AND prison time. *HE* gets to work for the Hillary Clinton campaign (which does not speak well for her judgment, BTW).</p>
<p>You people who try to claim some major difference in the corruption levels of the two major parties amuse me to no end.</p>
<p>&gt;&#8221;I could describe this process in more detail, but my wife gets upset when I send my blood-pressure soaring like that.&#8221;</p>
<p>So don&#8217;t take it all so seriously. It&#8217;s not like you can do anything about any of it.</p>
<p>&gt;&#8221;Iâ€™m too close to a stroke already.&#8221;</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t worry! The Democrats will save you!</p>
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		<title>By: Peptron</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/11/27/abode-not-in-the-truth/comment-page-1/#comment-57199</link>
		<dc:creator>Peptron</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2007 17:57:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Something funny is that theory in that sense essencially means &quot;explanation of a fact&quot;.

So they should say that the theory of evolution isn&#039;t a fact, but an explanation of a fact. Or that the theory of evolution isn&#039;t evolution, but an explanation of evolution.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Something funny is that theory in that sense essencially means &#8220;explanation of a fact&#8221;.</p>
<p>So they should say that the theory of evolution isn&#8217;t a fact, but an explanation of a fact. Or that the theory of evolution isn&#8217;t evolution, but an explanation of evolution.</p>
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		<title>By: The Centipede</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/11/27/abode-not-in-the-truth/comment-page-1/#comment-57198</link>
		<dc:creator>The Centipede</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2007 17:51:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&gt; For what itâ€™s worth, for every Phil Kline/Phelps family, there are about a dozen intelligent Kansans floating around out here.

So there&#039;s about two dozen intelligent Kansans (Kansasians?  Kansasi?  Kansasese?) in total? :P</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&gt; For what itâ€™s worth, for every Phil Kline/Phelps family, there are about a dozen intelligent Kansans floating around out here.</p>
<p>So there&#8217;s about two dozen intelligent Kansans (Kansasians?  Kansasi?  Kansasese?) in total? <img src='http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_razz.gif' alt=':P' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: Steve</title>
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		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2007 16:13:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I am sooooooo ashamed of my home state.  For what it&#039;s worth, for every Phil Kline/Phelps family, there are about a dozen intelligent Kansans floating around out here.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am sooooooo ashamed of my home state.  For what it&#8217;s worth, for every Phil Kline/Phelps family, there are about a dozen intelligent Kansans floating around out here.</p>
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		<title>By: owlbear1</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/11/27/abode-not-in-the-truth/comment-page-1/#comment-57196</link>
		<dc:creator>owlbear1</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2007 11:35:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>And then they get new jobs in right-wing â€œthink-tanksâ€, effectively living on the charity of rich Republicans.
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No doubt a portion of the $8 Billion+ missing from Iraq are certainly helping the effort.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>And then they get new jobs in right-wing â€œthink-tanksâ€, effectively living on the charity of rich Republicans.<br />
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No doubt a portion of the $8 Billion+ missing from Iraq are certainly helping the effort.</p>
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		<title>By: Stuart</title>
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		<dc:creator>Stuart</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2007 08:29:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Law, shmaw.

Laws only apply to Democrats.

Just how many Republicans are actually doing time for their transgressions?

I can only think of one (Randall Cunningham).  The rest just resign or they get pardoned before setting foot in prison.

And then they get new jobs in right-wing &quot;think-tanks&quot;, effectively living on the charity of rich Republicans.

I could describe this process in more detail, but my wife gets upset when I send my blood-pressure soaring like that.  I&#039;m too close to a stroke already.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Law, shmaw.</p>
<p>Laws only apply to Democrats.</p>
<p>Just how many Republicans are actually doing time for their transgressions?</p>
<p>I can only think of one (Randall Cunningham).  The rest just resign or they get pardoned before setting foot in prison.</p>
<p>And then they get new jobs in right-wing &#8220;think-tanks&#8221;, effectively living on the charity of rich Republicans.</p>
<p>I could describe this process in more detail, but my wife gets upset when I send my blood-pressure soaring like that.  I&#8217;m too close to a stroke already.</p>
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		<title>By: Ad Hominid</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/11/27/abode-not-in-the-truth/comment-page-1/#comment-57195</link>
		<dc:creator>Ad Hominid</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2007 07:25:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>As I mentioned &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.badastronomy.com/bablog/2007/11/23/creation-research/#comment-141054&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;a few days ago,&lt;/a&gt; support for creationism among Republican insiders and candidates is very much a naked emperor cult. They know it is hogwash (they are lawyers and real-world business types after all) but they cannot say so for fear of alienating a sizable chunk of their voter base.

It is not hard to imagine the corrosive effect this pervasive hypocrisy would have on ethics in general.

I really have to wonder about the creationist rank and file as well. At times I have entertained the notion that literally nobody actually believes in it, they just pretend to because everyone else in their social circle does. In truth, some of them probably are serious but my own opinion, and frequent observation, is that the really noisy elements of the religious right have a hidden agenda.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As I mentioned <a href="http://www.badastronomy.com/bablog/2007/11/23/creation-research/#comment-141054" rel="nofollow">a few days ago,</a> support for creationism among Republican insiders and candidates is very much a naked emperor cult. They know it is hogwash (they are lawyers and real-world business types after all) but they cannot say so for fear of alienating a sizable chunk of their voter base.</p>
<p>It is not hard to imagine the corrosive effect this pervasive hypocrisy would have on ethics in general.</p>
<p>I really have to wonder about the creationist rank and file as well. At times I have entertained the notion that literally nobody actually believes in it, they just pretend to because everyone else in their social circle does. In truth, some of them probably are serious but my own opinion, and frequent observation, is that the really noisy elements of the religious right have a hidden agenda.</p>
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		<title>By: LarrySDonald</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/11/27/abode-not-in-the-truth/comment-page-1/#comment-57193</link>
		<dc:creator>LarrySDonald</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I was very happy to see the back of him as AG, living in southern Kansas myself. Not that I can exactly throw my full support (&#039;cos the support of a non-citizen programmer in Kansas menas amazingly much, right?) behind any other candidates in particular, but anything is a step up from that. Then again, it could be he&#039;s doing a round about favor here. If he was around 2/3s as slimey, no one would have noticed. Now they do to a large degree and it looks like future candidates (not just for AG but in general) will have to get used to acting under a little more scrutiny. It&#039;s not quite the good ol&#039; boys club anymore, not all the way through. Meetings are no longer just attended by four people with some sort of reason to speak and some freshman doing a school project. I&#039;m not sure if reporters crying &quot;there&#039;s scandals in them hills&quot; is the best way to solve it but it&#039;s sure better then no one noticing at all so that&#039;ll do fine to start with.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I was very happy to see the back of him as AG, living in southern Kansas myself. Not that I can exactly throw my full support (&#8216;cos the support of a non-citizen programmer in Kansas menas amazingly much, right?) behind any other candidates in particular, but anything is a step up from that. Then again, it could be he&#8217;s doing a round about favor here. If he was around 2/3s as slimey, no one would have noticed. Now they do to a large degree and it looks like future candidates (not just for AG but in general) will have to get used to acting under a little more scrutiny. It&#8217;s not quite the good ol&#8217; boys club anymore, not all the way through. Meetings are no longer just attended by four people with some sort of reason to speak and some freshman doing a school project. I&#8217;m not sure if reporters crying &#8220;there&#8217;s scandals in them hills&#8221; is the best way to solve it but it&#8217;s sure better then no one noticing at all so that&#8217;ll do fine to start with.</p>
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		<title>By: Aerik</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/11/27/abode-not-in-the-truth/comment-page-1/#comment-57192</link>
		<dc:creator>Aerik</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2007 22:52:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Yup, that&#039;s my wacky state!</description>
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