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		<title>The Great Fail Argument</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Jan 2011 19:46:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Davin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While randomly enjoying some random intertubes, a friend linked me this with a comment that this guy should be put in his place. I agree, but I don't think that I have the ability nor position to do so, I just thought I'd run a little commentary on this nasty... I guess technically "article" is the descriptor.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>While randomly enjoying some random intertubes, a friend linked me this with a comment that this guy should be put in his place. I agree, but I don&#8217;t think that I have the ability nor position to do so, I just thought I&#8217;d run a little commentary on this nasty&#8230; I guess technically &#8220;article&#8221; is the descriptor.</p>
<p><strong>This year will go down in history as the beginning of The Great  Collapse Awakening. We have two great opposing forces, never seen before  on this planet occurring at the same exact time. On the one hand we  have a deepening global great depression, which is in reality a  dismantling, or collapsing in disguise. On the other hand, we have at  the same time, a great awakening, not only politically, but of the  entire human potential emotionally, and spiritually. For the first time  in history, humanity is waking up, in mass, to their enslavement by the  international banking families. A monumental time in the history of  mankind where fundamental choices of how we live will be made on both  the international and individual level, by every single person. You will  be forced to decide whether you will live in LOVE, or live in FEAR…????</strong></p>
<p>Actually  on one hand right now and for the last year, we have a recovering  global economy, not a deepening one. The economy always fluctuates, this  is normal. I completely disregard this false dichotomy and make the  choice to live neither by love or fear but to live by rationality.</p>
<p><strong>Whether  you look at small towns, or large cities, across this nation, and  around the world, people are waking up to their manipulation by  government and corporate entities. One of the top political strategists  for the Obama administration, Zbigniew Brezinski, in a 2010 speech  before the world elite, said that for the first time in human history  mankind is politically awake. I would agree with him, and I would also  say that not only are people politically awake, but more and more people  are becoming emotionally, and spiritually awake.</strong></p>
<p>What  does emotionally and spiritually awake mean? I&#8217;m sure it sounds good to  some people, but it&#8217;s very meaningless without a definition. Does it  mean that people can now experience their emotions? I hadn&#8217;t known that  that had been a problem.</p>
<p><strong>Are  you trying to maintain a positive attitude on the inside while all  around you your world is crashing down around you? There IS a reason  that this generation is the first generation, in recent memory, that  could have less than the previous one. The truth is you have been lied  to, manipulated, and set up, your entire life. The game was set up way  before you were even born. Your parents were lied to also, and their  parents before them. While they toiled under these lies, it is only now,  in this generation, that ignorance of this system will lead to total  disaster. For the power elite that run the game are calling in their  cards. This is the pivotal point in history that everything will change.  You must wake up. You can regain your vision by learning how to see  around their lies. You can be free from those who seek to control you!<br />
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<p>Yes,  you have been lied to, manipulated and set up by people you&#8217;re entire  life, so why stop now? Become manipulated and lied to by this douche bag  too! Or maybe exclusively if that&#8217;s your thing. This is an appeal to  fear, which one must remember as it will be important later when this  idiot tries to claim that he&#8217;s all about love and not persuasion by  fear.</p>
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<p><strong>Since the dawn of time  there has been an ongoing epic battle between the forces of all that is  good, loving, and light; and the dark forces, which feed on fear,  avarice and evil in men. I have long since chosen which I would stand  with. Being on the side of light my heart is often filled with love and a  desire to help others who have lost their way. I know, however, that  there is an opposing force out there that works in the shadows, plots,  and schemes to gather ever more power and control over others.</strong></p>
<p>Such  a bold claim should be backed by some heavy evidence, because it&#8217;s not a  brute fact. Remember the previous sentence where I pointed out the  appeal to fear? Well now this guy is putting himself on the &#8220;dark  forces&#8221; side due to his &#8220;feed[ing] on fear.&#8221; So now he&#8217;s clearly against  people who feed on fear, while he himself is feeding on fear&#8230;</p>
<p><strong>The  main objective of those on the darkside is power. The main tool of the  darkside is money, not just weapons, and land acquisitions. They are  only what money purchases them. You will soon see, if you don’t already  know, that these people have long ago acquired all the money they or  their families would ever need. Through out history the wealthiest  people have been the people who control the money, originally called  money changers. It was not long before they amassed greater sums of  money than even kings and queens.</strong></p>
<p>This is a very extraordinary claim, that requires extraordinary evidence.</p>
<p><strong>Thus  what we have occurring is an ongoing battle, or ( at a deeper level )  dance, between the forces of light and the forces of darkness. By your  actions, or in actions, you will aid one of these forces. The forces of  darkness hope you will choose to be silent. They hope to discourage you,  or out right scare you into acquiescence. They make it fineable or even  criminal to speak out against them.</strong></p>
<p>Yes, that is why this guy is now behind bars and fined into the poor house&#8230; because the evil forces won&#8217;t let anyone speak out against them&#8230;</p>
<p><strong>The events of this year clearly outline this dance between the forces of light and darkness</strong></p>
<p><strong>The  Great Collapse is a force being set in motion by the international  banking families. It is an attack they are launching on the masses. It  is aimed at destroying us physically, mentally, and monetarily. What  they call the Great Culling is at the foundation of the strategy. This  is their incremental, but purposeful lowering of the world population by  80% &#8211; 90%, down to 500 million people. They believe that they can most  efficiently control this number of people. Right now, they believe that  our numbers are too high, and that eventually would get out of hand, and  they would lose any control they might achieve.</strong></p>
<p>Seriously,  this is far too many extraordinary claims with no supporting evidence.  The economy is getting better showing that the Great Collapse is not  working. The banks lowered interest rates down to no gain for a while to  help the economy recover, showing that the banks are willing to  sacrifice temporary profit for long term stability&#8230; which hardly  matches the evil doom inspired conspiracy banks as portrayed here.  Unless the banks are so amazing that they hide their evil nature by  helping and preventing exactly what this douche bag is claiming that  they want. Don&#8217;t you see it? The very existence of opposing evidence is  the evidence that the evidence should lead to the opposite of where the  evidence actually leads.</p>
<p><strong>They  are carrying out attacks on us at many different levels. Biological  attacks are being carried out through the use of vaccines, and the  poisoning of our air, food, and water. Vaccines have had limited  success, because they are voluntary, however the elite, like Bill Gates,  are financing the development of vaccines that can be sprayed in the  air, put inside mosquitoes, and inside of food. They will even be sold  to people through the pharmaceutical industry as replacements for the  costs of continually having to pop pills.</strong></p>
<p>What was  that about the &#8220;evil&#8221; and/or &#8220;bad&#8221; side using fear? Vaccines have saved  billions of lives, to propose that they are being used to kill people is  another one of those &#8220;evidence that opposes my conclusion is evidence  for my conclusion&#8221; retarded, bullshit mess of nasty. The poisoning of  the air is not from some massive global conspiracy, it&#8217;s from normal  everyday things like eating, driving and wearing clothes. Bill Gates has  donated millions of dollars to prevent the diseases that mosquitoes  carry, again more opposite evidence.</p>
<p><strong>Aerial  spraying of aluminum, barium, corexit, and many other known toxins are  being purposely sprayed on us. Genetically Modified Organisms ( GMO’s)  are used in our food supply, often along with known carcinogens. The  passage of the so called Food Safety Act will be used to tell us what we  can and cannot eat, grow, and sell. It is part of a worldwide plan  called Codex Alimentarius, which is part of Agenda 21, which is a UN  plan to control the world. If the UN was truly a benevolent body of  countries truly seeking to peacefully coexist, it might be one thing,  but instead it was developed by a private group of international banking  families, meant to centralize their power over the world, to push their  agenda for their own interests.</strong></p>
<p>What was that about the bad guys using fear&#8230; &#8220;[...]<strong>and the dark forces, which feed on fear</strong>[...]&#8221;  So he is part of the dark forces trying to feed on fear, don&#8217;t trust  him. The UN is very far being powerful let alone the one world power.</p>
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		<title>What is Reasonable Evidence for Your Eternal Soul?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 18:50:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Davin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The amount and understanding of evidence goes up as the level of risk from the claim goes up. If it requires so much evidence just to put a good amount of your money down, imagine how much evidence it would take to believe someone about an eternal soul and eternal damnation. So I&#8217;m sorry, but [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The amount and understanding of  evidence  goes up  as the level of risk from the claim goes up. If it  requires so  much  evidence just to put a good amount of your money  down, imagine how  much  evidence it would take to believe someone about  an eternal soul and   eternal damnation. So I&#8217;m sorry, but as level of  risk involved with   being wrong about something increases, the amount  and accuracy required   of the evidence also increases. Pascal had his  wager backwards.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re going to risk your eternal soul, eternal suffering eternal magic man in the sky ass kissing&#8230; then you should require the as close to absolute proof as possible. Unfortunately the more you get into definitions for a creator, the farther you get from reasonable evidence.</p>
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		<title>What is Reasonable Evidence for High Risk and High Rewards?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 18:47:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Davin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s say for some reason you&#8217;re playing poker and for some reason you put not only all the money you have and all the money from selling your assets on the table for this one hand, you also will end up owing a bookie your life or $10 million. You have no idea what is [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Let&#8217;s say for some reason you&#8217;re playing poker and for some reason you   put not only all the money you have and all the money from selling your   assets on the table for this one hand, you also will end up owing a   bookie your life or $10 million. You have no idea what is in your hand,   and no idea what is in anyone elses hands. One of the people put all   in, if you put all in you&#8217;re risking your life and everything you have,   for the chance to at least double your money. Given that you have no   evidence at all that you will win or even have a chance to win, do you   go all in? Probably not. However if you had four kings the decision   might be a little more difficult because the chances that someone can   beat that hand is extremely low. There is evidence that shows that   getting a getting four of a kind are extremely low. Let alone that even   if someone else has four of a kind, they still won&#8217;t likely beat four   kings. I think the decision would be difficult, but the odds of you   losing a hand in a fair game with four kings is lower than the chances   you&#8217;ll die in a car crash. You don&#8217;t base your evidence on that someone   just said that the odds are extremely good, you base you evidence on   what can be mathematically proven, and though you&#8217;re playing the odds,   in the case of four kings, your odds are almost sure, as close as 99.9%.   So: if you&#8217;re putting your own life on the line, you don&#8217;t trust   anyone, you make sure you understand the risks completely and make sure   the evidence is as accurate and sure as possible.</p>
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		<title>What is Reasonable Evidence for Costly Investments?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 18:45:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Davin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s get serious now. If you had to put a good portion of your monthly income and/or your life&#8217;s savings at risk, would you still trust your friend without much question? With this kind of value at risk, trust isn&#8217;t near enough evidence to be considered reasonable. It doesn&#8217;t matter if the person you&#8217;re trusting [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Let&#8217;s get serious now. If you had to put a good portion of your monthly  income and/or your life&#8217;s savings at risk, would you still trust your  friend without much question? With this kind of value at risk, trust  isn&#8217;t near enough evidence to be considered reasonable. It doesn&#8217;t  matter if the person you&#8217;re trusting isn&#8217;t lying, they could be wrong.  Are you willing to risk all that money on the trust that not only your  friend isn&#8217;t lying but that also he/she is correct? I doubt it. With  this level of harm at risk, I would hope you would ask for reasonable  evidence. You would need to know how the money would be spent, who is  going to be in control, who you could talk to in case you have any  questions, the experience of the people in charge&#8230; getting to the  point: When the risk of a claim being wrong (or right) will cause  significant harm, a good amount of evidence is required to support the  claim.</p>
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		<title>What is Reasonable Evidence for Minor Annoyences?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 18:45:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Davin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s say you&#8217;re looking for something that has a moderate value, you would probably require moderate evidence. Say you&#8217;re asking your nerd buddy whether you should install Linux or not. Now if your friend is lying is to you, this will cause some minor irritation so instead of no evidence, you should ask for at [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Let&#8217;s say you&#8217;re looking for something that has a moderate value, you would probably require moderate evidence. Say you&#8217;re asking your nerd buddy whether you should install Linux or not. Now if your friend is lying is to you, this will cause some minor irritation so instead of no evidence, you should ask for at least some kind of evidence. So your friend goes on and on about how awesome Linux is and how some versions are easier for newbs and you can even play most Windows games easily in Linux&#8230; blah, blah, blah. You take him at his word because you trust him. I think that with this level of importance, trust is a perfectly decent level of evidence. Because: 1) if your friend is lying, it does little harm, maybe a day of wasted time and 2) your friend is usually right when it comes to computers. Anyway: trust is only a good enough form of evidence if the trust in the claim will likely only cause a little bit of harm.</p>
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		<title>monopoly game in real life</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 18:10:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve all played monopoly, and the system the banks work on is similar. The game they play is basically moving money from one tycoon to another and its all about gaining property, whether intellectual or not. The difference is that the government and regular people are the only ones who actually pay. And big banks [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We&#8217;ve all played monopoly, and the system the banks work on is similar. The game they play is basically moving money from one tycoon to another and its all about gaining property, whether intellectual or not. The difference is that the government and regular people are the only ones who actually pay. And big banks are the player in charge of the bank/imf/national bank and there&#8217;s a screen in front of them so noone knows if the banks are playing fair.</p>
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		<title>What is Reasonable Evidence for No Risk and No Claims?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 20:13:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The burden of proof is essentially the responsibility of the party that claims something to be true to provide the evidence that led to that conclusion. It is also often said that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. I think we can give a quick judgment as to whether the evidence satisfies the requirement by just evaluating how much the claim is useful to us.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The burden of proof is essentially the responsibility of the party that claims something to be true to provide the evidence that led to that conclusion. It is also often said that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. I think we can give a quick judgment as to whether the evidence satisfies the requirement by just evaluating how much the claim is useful to us.</p>
<p>On the low value end the burden and evidence requirements are almost unnecessary. If some one comes up to you and tells you that they had a tuna sandwich for lunch, you wouldn&#8217;t require evidence of any kind. Why not? Because it&#8217;s not important or useful. Even if the person were lying, it doesn&#8217;t affect you at all. Maybe a tiny bit if just the mention of the sandwich gives you a little craving for one. The point is: if the claim has little to no use to you, you require little to no evidence.</p>
<p>If someone comes up to you and says I don&#8217;t believe in unicorns, it doesn&#8217;t matter at all to you because whether the person believes in a mythological creature or not doesn&#8217;t affect your life. It affects it even less of the person doesn&#8217;t believe. It requires no evidence at all to say that you don&#8217;t hold a claim. The thing is that there are those that will try to claim that the lack of belief in a certain god (the one they irrationally believe in), causes harm and therefore should be fixed. The claim that no belief in something causes harm is a positive claim that requires evidence, while just saying that you don&#8217;t believe somethings requires no evidence.</p>
<p>Of course in the end, I have no problems and don&#8217;t demand any evidence of those that keep their beliefs to themselves. If I go around telling people they should believe in any god, you&#8217;d be damned sure that I&#8217;m going to be bringing in evidence and logic to the conversation, just as I demand of those that go around telling me that I need to believe in a god.</p>
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		<title>Muslim Violence and Threats of Violence</title>
		<link>http://blog.chubbynickel.com/politricks/muslim-violence-and-threats-of-violence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 07:38:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Davin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been having discussion about how we as a free society should handle the thinly veiled threats and violence coming from Muslim extremists. I've heard people say we should respond with violence, that we should start an effort to remove them from the free world and in extreme nutters, to remove them from the world. Well fuck those intolerant assholes. Not just the intolerant Muslims, but the others as well.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have been having discussion about how we as a free society should handle the thinly veiled threats and violence coming from Muslim extremists. I&#8217;ve heard people say we should respond with violence, that we should start an effort to remove them from the free world and in extreme nutters, to remove them from the world. Well fuck those intolerant assholes. Not just the intolerant Muslims, but the anti-Muslims as well.</p>
<p><a href="http://chubbynickel.com/Blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/fairrington.gif"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-563" title="fairrington" src="http://chubbynickel.com/Blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/fairrington-300x225.gif" alt="Muhammad Cartoon" width="300" height="225" /></a></p>
<p>The Muslim extremists want violence, they want threats, it&#8217;s the best way for them to recruit and rally members. The extremists are telling their followers that the outside world wants to destroy them, the very best way to ensure that people will keep listening to the idiot, fear mongers is to show them violence. Think of it from your perspective, would you follow someone saying &#8220;they&#8217;re making fun of us, let&#8217;s go kill them&#8221; or &#8220;they&#8217;re killing us, let&#8217;s defend ourselves?&#8221;</p>
<p>I will not stand by and just let these religious Muslim idiots silence free speech with fear, but I&#8217;m a long way from going out and attacking someone because they&#8217;re afraid I&#8217;m going to attack them. Take away the extremists tool of fear and their followers will eventually stop listening to them. But if you&#8217;re go and do exactly what these extremists say we will do&#8230; well then they will continue to listen to the the extremist fucks.</p>
<p>The best way to handle the threats of violence and acts of violence is stand tall and respond with non-violent, non-threatening, fearless resolve. Don&#8217;t stop practicing your free speech by never criticizing their beliefs, but don&#8217;t go around threatening and attacking them.</p>
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		<title>Everybody Draw Mohammed Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 08:21:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Davin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[No one's beliefs should be protected from criticism and/or satire. If some comedian starts telling people how ridiculous my "Belief" in gravity is, I have no problem with that. They can make fun of gravity till bovine meander back to their place of living and I won't care a lick. Why then is it not ok to make fun of or criticize ones belief in god?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>No one&#8217;s beliefs should be protected from criticism and/or satire.  If some comedian starts telling people how ridiculous my &#8220;Belief&#8221; in  gravity is, I have no problem with that. They can make fun of gravity  till bovine meander back to their place of living and I won&#8217;t care a  lick. Why then is it not ok to make fun of or criticize ones belief in  god?</p>
<p>Maybe that&#8217;s not in the same line of reasoning, as drawing  and mocking Mohamed is more of a rule than just the belief in something.  So if someone comes up and tells me how silly it is to practice free  speech or just to criticize it, I don&#8217;t care. I won&#8217;t force others to  practice free speech, they can if they want to. Why then is it ok to  limit my ability to make fun of something I see as an irrational belief?  I make fun of people that think that the world is flat (yes, some of  them are still around). I make fun of people that think that a space  ship is hiding behind a comet and that they must kill themselves in  order to hitch a ride (because they forgot their towels?).</p>
<p>Now an  example switched to my point of view: When I was very young I had the  belief that atom bombs were called mushroom bombs because they used  mushrooms and that the use of the mushrooms is what caused the shape of  the explosion. So when some jerk started making fun of me, it deeply  offended and hurt me. But after that I realized that if any idea I had  could not stand up to scrutiny and satire, then I had no right in  believing it in the first place.</p>
<p>If someone gets offended by  anything I say, draw or type then they have that right, what they don&#8217;t  have a right to do is to prevent me from saying, drawing or typing it by  means of intimidation, making it a law or killing me. The point is, no  idea should beyond the limits of satire and criticism. There is no  sacred cow in the realm of free speech.</p>
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		<title>Chubby Nickel Audio Vlog &#8211; Episode 7ish</title>
		<link>http://blog.chubbynickel.com/politricks/chubby-nickel-audio-vlog-episode-7ish/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 16:30:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Chubby Nickel Audio Vlog</strong></p>
<p><em>Recorded: 2010-04-30</em></p>
<p>Aaron: <a href="http://www.wapt.com/weather/23254518/detail.html" target="_blank">Deadly Tornado Kills 10 in Miss.</a><br />
Aaron: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Weekend/dying-homeless-man-stopped-mugging-sidewalk/story?id=10471047&amp;page=2" target="_blank">Good Samaritan Left for Dead on City Sidewalk</a><br />
Aaron: <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/2010-04-27-1Amillfaith27_ST_N.htm" target="_blank">Survey: 72% of Millennials &#8216;more spiritual than religious&#8217;</a><br />
Aaron: <a href="http://www.azfamily.com/news/local/Swastikas-painted-with-beans-found-on-Capitol-grounds-92091314.html" target="_blank">Swastikas Smeared in Beans Found on Capitol Grounds</a><em></em><br />
Aaron: <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/28/birthers-plan-to-storm-wa_n_555137.html" target="_blank">Birthers Plan To Storm Washington</a><em></em><br />
Aaron: <a href="http://www.ktvu.com/news/23284711/detail.html" target="_blank">SF Officials Ban City Worker Travel To Arizona</a><em></em><br />
Aaron: <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/7639728/Suntanned-women-to-be-arrested-under-Islamic-dress-code.html" target="_blank">Suntanned women to be arrested under Islamic dress code</a><em></em><br />
Aaron: <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2010-04-26-arizona-immigration_N.htm" target="_blank">Arizona agency seeks federal help on immigration law</a><em></em><br />
Nicole: <a href="http://forums.hannity.com/showthread.php?t=1931571" target="_blank">AZ Residents Planning Counter Boycott</a><br />
Nicole: <a href="http://j-walkblog.com/index.php?/weblog/posts/man_doesnt_eat_or_drink/" target="_blank">Man Doesn’t Eat Or Drink</a><br />
Aaron: <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/doug-lansky/the-9-countries-with-the_b_551683.html#s84673" target="_blank">&#8220;America is #1.&#8221;</a><br />
Aaron: <a href="http://consumerist.com/2010/04/faa-to-airlines-no-more-minesweeper-solitaire-for-pilots.html" target="_blank">FAA To Airlines: No More&#8230;</a><br />
Aaron: <a href="http://www.aolnews.com/nation/article/philly-punk-nightclub-crowd-attacks-three-men-in-nazi-garb/19455732" target="_blank">Men in Nazi Garb</a><br />
Aaron: <a href="http://bostonherald.com/news/regional/view.bg?articleid=1250042" target="_blank">How Rude!</a><br />
Aaron: <a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-20000681-1.html?tag=mncol;title" target="_blank">Floating Prison&#8230;</a></p>
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