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	<description>It rankles me when somebody tries to tell somebody what to do.</description>
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		<title>By: albatross</title>
		<link>http://www.theagitator.com/2009/01/13/random-links-5/comment-page-1/#comment-230807</link>
		<dc:creator>albatross</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 22:28:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Person #11:

Perhaps we could also suggest that he find a nice, clean-cut, loving young man and try to settle down, you know, see if he can beat his unnatural compulsion to sleep with and fall in love with women.  Why am I skeptical about the success of this?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Person #11:</p>
<p>Perhaps we could also suggest that he find a nice, clean-cut, loving young man and try to settle down, you know, see if he can beat his unnatural compulsion to sleep with and fall in love with women.  Why am I skeptical about the success of this?</p>
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		<title>By: smurfy</title>
		<link>http://www.theagitator.com/2009/01/13/random-links-5/comment-page-1/#comment-230773</link>
		<dc:creator>smurfy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 20:09:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;m fortunate enough to live in Nevada where I can place sports bets, and then sit and watch the game while enjoying my &#039;dog and a draught for a buck and a half.&#039;

Being more a fan of playing sports that watching them, betting is pretty much the only thing that keeps me interested. Unless i&#039;ve got some superbowl squares, I&#039;m just watching the commercials. I agree with Dan as to what the league&#039;s unofficial policy should be, but remeber they already have congress sticking their noses in where they don&#039;t belong so no big surprise that their offical policy toes the line.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m fortunate enough to live in Nevada where I can place sports bets, and then sit and watch the game while enjoying my &#8216;dog and a draught for a buck and a half.&#8217;</p>
<p>Being more a fan of playing sports that watching them, betting is pretty much the only thing that keeps me interested. Unless i&#8217;ve got some superbowl squares, I&#8217;m just watching the commercials. I agree with Dan as to what the league&#8217;s unofficial policy should be, but remeber they already have congress sticking their noses in where they don&#8217;t belong so no big surprise that their offical policy toes the line.</p>
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		<title>By: Dan</title>
		<link>http://www.theagitator.com/2009/01/13/random-links-5/comment-page-1/#comment-230584</link>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 23:44:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Radley,
I don&#039;t believe for a second that pro sports leagues are really against gambling, unless they are stupid.  For sure they don&#039;t want the players gambling or fixing the games, but if there was no gambling their ratings would plummet, most people would watch their home teams and elite games only.  It&#039;s the gamblers who watch all the games.  I don&#039;t gamble but I have friends that are lunatics about it.  They even bet Ivy league basketball!  Why is the NFL so meticulous about injury reports?  How about the direct TV monopoly?  That is the gambling channel.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Radley,<br />
I don&#8217;t believe for a second that pro sports leagues are really against gambling, unless they are stupid.  For sure they don&#8217;t want the players gambling or fixing the games, but if there was no gambling their ratings would plummet, most people would watch their home teams and elite games only.  It&#8217;s the gamblers who watch all the games.  I don&#8217;t gamble but I have friends that are lunatics about it.  They even bet Ivy league basketball!  Why is the NFL so meticulous about injury reports?  How about the direct TV monopoly?  That is the gambling channel.</p>
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		<title>By: Getting sexual</title>
		<link>http://www.theagitator.com/2009/01/13/random-links-5/comment-page-1/#comment-230556</link>
		<dc:creator>Getting sexual</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 23:21:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Not only can sexual desires be restrained, (every one of us does every day of our life), if one seriously reflects on the the root causes of sexual desires, the directions of those sexual desires can be influenced, (assuming the person desires changes in that directions).

Fluidity of sexual attraction has been long since researched and documented.  (It is reported more common in females but occurs frequently in males as well).</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Not only can sexual desires be restrained, (every one of us does every day of our life), if one seriously reflects on the the root causes of sexual desires, the directions of those sexual desires can be influenced, (assuming the person desires changes in that directions).</p>
<p>Fluidity of sexual attraction has been long since researched and documented.  (It is reported more common in females but occurs frequently in males as well).</p>
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		<title>By: Ride Fast</title>
		<link>http://www.theagitator.com/2009/01/13/random-links-5/comment-page-1/#comment-230344</link>
		<dc:creator>Ride Fast</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 15:58:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;Joe the Plumber Journalist to the Middle East has been a cynical, embarrassing train wreck.&quot;

I watched the video and still don&#039;t get why you think the above. I would like to know your thoughts. Please share with us somewhere in the many venues you are published in.

Contrary to what you apparently think, the &#039;why&#039; of your opinion is not always obvious.

Thanks.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Joe the Plumber Journalist to the Middle East has been a cynical, embarrassing train wreck.&#8221;</p>
<p>I watched the video and still don&#8217;t get why you think the above. I would like to know your thoughts. Please share with us somewhere in the many venues you are published in.</p>
<p>Contrary to what you apparently think, the &#8216;why&#8217; of your opinion is not always obvious.</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
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		<title>By: Big Chief</title>
		<link>http://www.theagitator.com/2009/01/13/random-links-5/comment-page-1/#comment-230217</link>
		<dc:creator>Big Chief</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 07:53:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Wow.  I had to do a doubletake on the Blackwell story.  I can&#039;t believe the GOP is even considering him, having lived in Ohio and watched him completely discredit the Sec of State office with his BS.

That said, I don&#039;t disagree with his assertion that gays CAN choose to restrain.  Everyone should be expected to be able to control their sexual desires.  But why are they supposed to?  Radley, do you have anything about why this was being discussed and in what context?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wow.  I had to do a doubletake on the Blackwell story.  I can&#8217;t believe the GOP is even considering him, having lived in Ohio and watched him completely discredit the Sec of State office with his BS.</p>
<p>That said, I don&#8217;t disagree with his assertion that gays CAN choose to restrain.  Everyone should be expected to be able to control their sexual desires.  But why are they supposed to?  Radley, do you have anything about why this was being discussed and in what context?</p>
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		<title>By: Highway</title>
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		<dc:creator>Highway</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 05:40:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>They just need a good Peace Anthem in Palestine...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UO6YlkYNJQ</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>They just need a good Peace Anthem in Palestine&#8230;</p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UO6YlkYNJQ" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UO6YlkYNJQ</a></p>
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		<title>By: Todd</title>
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		<dc:creator>Todd</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 05:08:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hehe...the pot farm is in Oxford, and IIRC its on Ole Miss&#039;s campus.  Kinda looks like Parchman Prison with razor wire and towers.  It was cool the first time I saw it in high school...after that meh.  Damn shame they can&#039;t grow the good stuff.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hehe&#8230;the pot farm is in Oxford, and IIRC its on Ole Miss&#8217;s campus.  Kinda looks like Parchman Prison with razor wire and towers.  It was cool the first time I saw it in high school&#8230;after that meh.  Damn shame they can&#8217;t grow the good stuff.</p>
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		<title>By: adam</title>
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		<dc:creator>adam</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 04:03:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It is an embarrassment that our government can&#039;t grow any decent weed.  They have plenty of experts in prison.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It is an embarrassment that our government can&#8217;t grow any decent weed.  They have plenty of experts in prison.</p>
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		<title>By: Andrew Williams</title>
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		<dc:creator>Andrew Williams</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 03:39:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Huh-huh, you said &#039;kibosh.&#039; Huh-huh.
Yeah, heh-heh. Kibosh Rules!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Huh-huh, you said &#8216;kibosh.&#8217; Huh-huh.<br />
Yeah, heh-heh. Kibosh Rules!</p>
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		<title>By: John Payne</title>
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		<dc:creator>John Payne</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 03:04:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Bushism 4 was uttered in Poplar Bluff, MO, my hometown.  My parents and many other people I knew were there.  Of course, none of them mentioned that part; it wasn&#039;t until some time later I found out about that.  I wonder how long it will be before we stop being remembered as the place where Bush said one of the dumbest things of his life (a pretty tall order).  We used to be the meth capital of the country, but that&#039;s kind of died down, so I guess that&#039;s out.  I guess we&#039;ll just have to go with being the hometown of Tyler Hansbrough.  Meh.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Bushism 4 was uttered in Poplar Bluff, MO, my hometown.  My parents and many other people I knew were there.  Of course, none of them mentioned that part; it wasn&#8217;t until some time later I found out about that.  I wonder how long it will be before we stop being remembered as the place where Bush said one of the dumbest things of his life (a pretty tall order).  We used to be the meth capital of the country, but that&#8217;s kind of died down, so I guess that&#8217;s out.  I guess we&#8217;ll just have to go with being the hometown of Tyler Hansbrough.  Meh.</p>
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		<title>By: Helmut O' Hooligan</title>
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		<dc:creator>Helmut O' Hooligan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 02:47:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>RE:  Joe &quot;the self-aggrandizing, know-nothing plumber&quot;

I completely agree Radley.  We are watching the slow, agonizing death of the statist Right, and instead of getting angry at their antics, I think I&#039;ll try to enjoy the show.  

This guy argues against the idea of war correspondents even as he &quot;reports&quot; from a war zone. Without irony, for fuck&#039;s sake!  Oh yeah, Joe the Plumber and the people who enable him don&#039;t know what irony is. 

Hey Joe, here&#039;s an idea, go over to one of them thar refugee camps in Gaza and try to spread the message of Jesus and Sarah Palin.  And don&#039;t forget to write.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>RE:  Joe &#8220;the self-aggrandizing, know-nothing plumber&#8221;</p>
<p>I completely agree Radley.  We are watching the slow, agonizing death of the statist Right, and instead of getting angry at their antics, I think I&#8217;ll try to enjoy the show.  </p>
<p>This guy argues against the idea of war correspondents even as he &#8220;reports&#8221; from a war zone. Without irony, for fuck&#8217;s sake!  Oh yeah, Joe the Plumber and the people who enable him don&#8217;t know what irony is. </p>
<p>Hey Joe, here&#8217;s an idea, go over to one of them thar refugee camps in Gaza and try to spread the message of Jesus and Sarah Palin.  And don&#8217;t forget to write.</p>
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		<title>By: Marty</title>
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		<dc:creator>Marty</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 02:43:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I felt sorry for the author of the DEA article when he said, &#039;I depend on good advice and honest information from government agencies in the daily conduct of my work.&#039;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I felt sorry for the author of the DEA article when he said, &#8216;I depend on good advice and honest information from government agencies in the daily conduct of my work.&#8217;</p>
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		<title>By: Z</title>
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		<dc:creator>Z</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 00:54:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I am pretty sure that if Mexican terrorists used Tijuana as a base to fire missles into San Diego, and demanded the return of California, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and Utah in exchange for &quot;peace&quot;, we would tell them suck a rock and vaporize them.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am pretty sure that if Mexican terrorists used Tijuana as a base to fire missles into San Diego, and demanded the return of California, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and Utah in exchange for &#8220;peace&#8221;, we would tell them suck a rock and vaporize them.</p>
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		<title>By: C. S. P. Schofield</title>
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		<dc:creator>C. S. P. Schofield</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 00:43:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>So, what you are saying is that Joe is no better than the professional reporters, whose work vis a vis Israel has been an ongoing embarrassing, cynical (not to mention mendacious, idiotic, malodorous, and deranged) train wreck for several decades now......</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So, what you are saying is that Joe is no better than the professional reporters, whose work vis a vis Israel has been an ongoing embarrassing, cynical (not to mention mendacious, idiotic, malodorous, and deranged) train wreck for several decades now&#8230;&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: Will</title>
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		<dc:creator>Will</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 00:30:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>did they send joe the smuck to discredit online journalist and bloggers?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>did they send joe the smuck to discredit online journalist and bloggers?</p>
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		<title>By: JJH2</title>
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		<dc:creator>JJH2</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 00:30:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>#6: 

To anyone not trying to avoid the obvious context in which Blackwell&#039;s comments take place, the message is clear: Heterosexuals have an orientation, homosexuals have a &quot;compulsion.&quot; These comments fit neatly into the genre of homophobic argument that homosexuality is a psychological disorder.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>#6: </p>
<p>To anyone not trying to avoid the obvious context in which Blackwell&#8217;s comments take place, the message is clear: Heterosexuals have an orientation, homosexuals have a &#8220;compulsion.&#8221; These comments fit neatly into the genre of homophobic argument that homosexuality is a psychological disorder.</p>
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		<title>By: Comrade Dread</title>
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		<dc:creator>Comrade Dread</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 00:16:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>My Middle East peace plan: Build the Palestinians a bunch of casinos. Set the tax rates lower than Israel and encourage Israelis to come and gamble and shop.</description>
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		<title>By: PersonFromPorlock</title>
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		<dc:creator>PersonFromPorlock</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 23:57:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I think someone needs to suggest that Mr. Blackwell volunteer to restrain his heterosexuality (i.e., go without sex) for the rest of his life. That, after, is what he&#039;s proposing for gays.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think someone needs to suggest that Mr. Blackwell volunteer to restrain his heterosexuality (i.e., go without sex) for the rest of his life. That, after, is what he&#8217;s proposing for gays.</p>
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		<title>By: Brock</title>
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		<dc:creator>Brock</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 23:46:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>How does fish and humans living in peace not make the list?</description>
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