<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14908492.post2651310577405997199..comments</id><updated>2011-08-24T05:22:26.847-04:00</updated><category term='snipers'/><category term='Windows XP'/><category term='Conrad'/><category term='China'/><category term='Oprah'/><category term='death'/><category term='James Fallows Jim Lerher'/><category term='elections'/><category term='Rita Katz'/><category term='Maureen Dowd'/><category term='credit rating agencies'/><category term='bureau of mines and mineral'/><category term='legal duty'/><category term='CIA.'/><category term='Gail Collins'/><category term='Huffington Post. 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Sebald'/><category term='s'/><category term='Bill Clinton'/><category term='Great Urban Weekend'/><category term='Memorial day'/><category term='automobile manufacturers'/><category term='insurance coops'/><category term='University of Miami'/><category term='Black'/><category term='George W. Bush'/><category term='spiritual warrior'/><category term='monks'/><category term='financial crisis'/><category term='torture bill'/><category term='war criminals'/><category term='Bob Herbert'/><category term='wrought iron'/><category term='Damascus'/><category term='legal mandate'/><category term='Clintonoids'/><category term='MIT'/><category term='liberation theology'/><category term='cloned meat'/><category term='economic meltdown'/><category term='hybrid vehicle'/><category term='Jeff Bingaman'/><category term='ethnic cleansing'/><category term='Iran'/><category term='Medicare expansion'/><category term='family valuese'/><category term='The Hague'/><category term='&quot; Iraq'/><category term='besiege'/><category term='World Trade Center'/><category term='Harry Reid'/><category term='Frank Rich'/><category term='al Qaeda'/><category term='gambling'/><category term='failed leader'/><category term='lunacy'/><category term='revolution'/><category term='Southest Asia'/><category term='eejits'/><category term='Senate'/><category term='nationall health care coverage'/><category term='bounce'/><category term='Caucasus'/><category term='U.S.'/><category term='Sarah Palin'/><category term='Hillary Cllinton'/><title type='text'>Comments on DOG BYTES: Betraying Democracy</title><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mbdog.markderr.com/feeds/2651310577405997199/comments/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14908492/2651310577405997199/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mbdog.markderr.com/2011/08/i-had-thought-that-political.html'/><author><name>Mark Derr</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02422648888198441442</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-D9-cih7WAG4/Tj03VyPrb_I/AAAAAAAAAiY/YBdLyxW76wM/s220/mbd_1a.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>1</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14908492.post-4085740064151336127</id><published>2011-08-22T17:07:22.603-04:00</published><updated>2011-08-22T17:07:22.603-04:00</updated><title type='text'>It is great that the idealist I got to know as we ...</title><content type='html'>It is great that the idealist I got to know as we ran those many miles together when I attended law school in Baltimore and you were working at Hopkins back when Democracy beat the hated Communist world for the Golf medal in hockey has not changed. The problem as I see it Mark is that removing them may break the scab but it doesn&amp;#39;t fix the wound. They are all part of the problem and I am not a conspiracist but it is evident to  me that they are all in it together and that this is all just a piece of a bigger plan....and perhaps a reverse of what happened in 1980.</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14908492/2651310577405997199/comments/default/4085740064151336127'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14908492/2651310577405997199/comments/default/4085740064151336127'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mbdog.markderr.com/2011/08/i-had-thought-that-political.html?showComment=1314047242603#c4085740064151336127' title=''/><author><name>Sach</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02068969134446311414</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='http://mbdog.markderr.com/2011/08/i-had-thought-that-political.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14908492.post-2651310577405997199' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14908492/posts/default/2651310577405997199' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='blogger.itemClass' value='pid-1586244526'/></entry></feed>
