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	<title>Veterans Today &#187; Bob Higgins</title>
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		<title>BOB HIGGINS: “On Wisconsin,” Sarah Palin Calls for Sacrifice From Working People</title>
		<link>http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/02/19/%e2%80%9con-wisconsin%e2%80%9d-sarah-palin-calls-for-sacrifice-from-working-people/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=%25e2%2580%259con-wisconsin%25e2%2580%259d-sarah-palin-calls-for-sacrifice-from-working-people</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Feb 2011 16:55:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Higgins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Egypt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Labor protest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Libya]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Madison]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Plutocrats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sarah palin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tunisia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wisconsin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Working class]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The widening gulf between those who hold all the wealth in our various societies, those who manipulate the strings of power and the mass of people who produce that wealth with their sweat and labor, has widened to a point that has become intolerable even among the normally complaisant.]]></description>
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		<title>In Houston, Rep. Giffords Could Receive Brain Injury Treatment Thousands of Troops Do Not</title>
		<link>http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/01/26/in-houston-rep-giffords-could-receive-brain-injury-treatment-thousands-of-troops-do-not/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=in-houston-rep-giffords-could-receive-brain-injury-treatment-thousands-of-troops-do-not</link>
		<comments>http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/01/26/in-houston-rep-giffords-could-receive-brain-injury-treatment-thousands-of-troops-do-not/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jan 2011 22:25:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Higgins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gabrielle Giffords]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[traumatic brain injury]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tri Care]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.veteranstoday.com/?p=76410</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If Giffords does end up receiving it, she’ll be getting a treatment that many troops don’t. As we’ve reported [7], the Pentagon’s health program, Tricare, has refused to cover [8] cognitive rehabilitation therapy for the tens of thousands of service members who have suffered brain injuries in the line of duty. Tricare, which provides insurance-style coverage to troops and many veterans, does cover speech and occupational therapy, which are often part of cognitive rehabilitation.]]></description>
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		<title>The State of the Union Is On, Pass the Remote</title>
		<link>http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/01/25/the-state-of-the-union-is-on-pass-the-remote/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-state-of-the-union-is-on-pass-the-remote</link>
		<comments>http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/01/25/the-state-of-the-union-is-on-pass-the-remote/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jan 2011 23:47:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Higgins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alfalfa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bill Clinton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Buckwheat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George H.W. Bush]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George Washington]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gerald Ford]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hal Roach]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jimmy Carter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[john adams]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Our Gang]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard Nixon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ronald Reagan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spanky]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[State of the Union]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Woodrow Wilson]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.veteranstoday.com/?p=76075</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It wasn't always this way. Although not required to report to congress in person, George Washington set the precedent by inflicting a speech. Taciturn by nature, John Adams' address was less than 2000 words but Jefferson had the good grace and gentle mercy to deliver his address to the congress in writing. That method was deemed adequate by every subsequent president until Wilson resumed the inhumane practice of formal speechifying with which we are mutually afflicted every January.]]></description>
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		<title>A Day Of Guns, A Day In America</title>
		<link>http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/01/15/a-day-of-guns-a-day-in-america/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=a-day-of-guns-a-day-in-america</link>
		<comments>http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/01/15/a-day-of-guns-a-day-in-america/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jan 2011 14:59:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Higgins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Living]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arizona murders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christina Taylor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christopher Bizilj]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elayne Boosler]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gun control]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gun violence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NRA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[second amendment]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.veteranstoday.com/?p=73333</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Once again a country that experiences more violent gun deaths than any other country on Earth has been shocked by a maliciously motivated madman with a gun. The talk all week from the various electronic chatterboxes has been guns, their control, their abuse, the somehow sacred right  to possess them…guns.]]></description>
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		<title>America And Her God Of Violence</title>
		<link>http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/01/11/72530/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=72530</link>
		<comments>http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/01/11/72530/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2011 18:08:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Higgins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arizona]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[assassination]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gabrielle Giffords]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jared loughnor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sarah palin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[violence]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.veteranstoday.com/?p=72530</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the pantheon of America's gods, none is more powerful or worshiped with greater fervor than the god of violence. Its colleagues or brother gods of greed, sex, touchdown, slam dunk and bacon cheeseburg­ers all genuflect and grovel before the god of violence.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Tea Party: “Is There a Difference Between Cinco de Mayo and Chinese New Year?”</title>
		<link>http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/10/22/tea-party-is-there-a-diference-between-cinco-de-mayo-and-chinese-new-year/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=tea-party-is-there-a-diference-between-cinco-de-mayo-and-chinese-new-year</link>
		<comments>http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/10/22/tea-party-is-there-a-diference-between-cinco-de-mayo-and-chinese-new-year/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Oct 2010 14:44:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Higgins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Advertising]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christine O'Donnell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Citizens United]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Separation of Church and state]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sharon angle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Supreme court]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.veteranstoday.com/?p=55780</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The mid term elections of 2010 have been memorable for sheer goofiness as well as for the corporate funded blanket of ugly, false and misleading advertising that has been lowered over the public airwaves. With the addition of a mountainous heap of money provided by greedy plutocrats, election cycles have become national holidays from reason and sanity that fall between their mates, Halloween and Thanksgiving.]]></description>
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		<title>Citizens United: Before, After, What’s Next?</title>
		<link>http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/10/21/citizens-united-before-after-what%e2%80%99s-next/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=citizens-united-before-after-what%25e2%2580%2599s-next</link>
		<comments>http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/10/21/citizens-united-before-after-what%e2%80%99s-next/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Oct 2010 18:04:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Higgins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Citizens United]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DISCLOSE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Outside spending]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Super PACs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[third party spending]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.veteranstoday.com/?p=55516</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Citizens United case was a game changer in terms of money being spent by outside groups on the 2010 elections—but the question is, how much? This primer (included below) provides a detailed explanation of the before and after, and also includes Sunlight’s policy recommendations for new disclosures needed to ensure that that the midterms don’t become a practice run for even more massive spending in 2012. ]]></description>
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		<title>Chicken Hawks, Carry Home My Seabag, The Heavy One</title>
		<link>http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/09/22/50735/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=50735</link>
		<comments>http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/09/22/50735/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Sep 2010 12:51:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Higgins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Military]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chicken Hawk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[iraq]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Korea]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Ware]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PTSD]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Veterans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vietnam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[war]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WW2]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.veteranstoday.com/?p=50735</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Thousands of our kids are returning from Iraq and Afghanistan carrying the enormous weight of the emotional baggage picked up during their experience of war.  This is nothing new, we brought back the same cargo from Vietnam, Korea and WW2. All wars provide their participants with a dismal tide of dark memories, the material of a lifetime of tortured nightmares.]]></description>
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		<title>PG&amp;E Uses Rate Increases for Bonuses While Suburbs Burn</title>
		<link>http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/09/16/49543/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=49543</link>
		<comments>http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/09/16/49543/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:56:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Higgins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[California]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PG&E]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pipeline explosion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[San Bruno]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.veteranstoday.com/?p=49543</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[PG&#038;E, the merry folks who recently blew up a quiet residential neighborhood in San Bruno, California have, for years, like public utilities everywhere, requested money from state regulators for repairs and maintenance on infrastructure in the form of rate increases.]]></description>
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		<title>The Mosque: Courage, Truth and the Law</title>
		<link>http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/08/17/the-mosque-courage-truth-and-the-law/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-mosque-courage-truth-and-the-law</link>
		<comments>http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/08/17/the-mosque-courage-truth-and-the-law/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 14:22:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Higgins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[al-qaeda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gingrich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ground zero]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gulf of Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mosque]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NYC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[palin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sasha Obama]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.veteranstoday.com/?p=45306</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The current hoo-hah over President Obama's public statement of the obvious, that Muslims have the same rights as everyone else, to worship, to speak, to petition the government for redress, to get jiggy, and just about whatever, Dude, has had the media, the Republicans and a few chicken shit Democrats obsessing through the weekend and deep into today, with no end in sight.]]></description>
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		<title>Sharron Angle: Remaking America on the Pinochet Model</title>
		<link>http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/08/14/44929/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=44929</link>
		<comments>http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/08/14/44929/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Aug 2010 14:52:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Higgins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Agosto Pinochet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Harry Reid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nevada]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Political News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Salvador Allende]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sharron Angle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social security]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.veteranstoday.com/?p=44929</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Sharron Angle, the Tea Bagger running against Harry Reid for the Senate in Nevada says that we should use Augusto Pinochet's model of privatization as a guide for reforming our social security system. Yes, Pinochet, the infamous fascist dictator and Nixon/Kissinger ally who engineered the subjugation of Chilean democracy in the 1970s.]]></description>
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		<title>Thousands of Undocumented Aliens Invade New Jersey</title>
		<link>http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/08/13/thousands-of-undocumented-aliens-invade-new-jersey/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=thousands-of-undocumented-aliens-invade-new-jersey</link>
		<comments>http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/08/13/thousands-of-undocumented-aliens-invade-new-jersey/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 12:36:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Higgins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BP oil spill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dead oceans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dead Zones]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[environmental disaster]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fish Kill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Jersey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Snookie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[toxicity]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.veteranstoday.com/?p=44722</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On some level I have a feeling that we've poisoned the oceans to a point that the fish, many of them, have said "the hell with it" and simply decided to move on in a kind of reverse "dust bowl" desperation and to try the landlubber's life.]]></description>
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		<title>10 More Years In Iraq, We Must Stay So We Can Leave</title>
		<link>http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/08/12/10-more-years-in-iraq-we-must-stay-so-we-can-leave/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=10-more-years-in-iraq-we-must-stay-so-we-can-leave</link>
		<comments>http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/08/12/10-more-years-in-iraq-we-must-stay-so-we-can-leave/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 13:13:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Higgins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Military]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Babaker Zerbari]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[generals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[iraq]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Withdrawal]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.veteranstoday.com/?p=44520</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This shocking news came from Lieutenant General Babaker Zerbari and therein lies the crux of the problem.  Zerbari is a Lieutenant General and Iraq's most senior military officer.
We send Lieutenant Generals out for coffee and donuts in the morning. We have Bird Colonels sharpening pencils and Major Generals escorting defense lobbyists to strip clubs.]]></description>
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		<title>Light Sweet Crude&#8230; and Cookies</title>
		<link>http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/08/10/light-sweet-crude-and-cookies/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=light-sweet-crude-and-cookies</link>
		<comments>http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/08/10/light-sweet-crude-and-cookies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 15:42:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Higgins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[ico]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Orwell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Time Warner]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I turned on the news this morning </strong></em>and instantly received my first commercial message of the day. You've probably seen it, it's a pitch from Time Warner which offers up well scrubbed "employees" who spend thirty seconds or so reading a script designed to convince us that they are "Moms," "Dads," and regular working schleps, just like us... pardon that - just like me.

The ad is an attempt to put a face on the faceless, to create the illusion that the giant soulless organization is really warm and fuzzy with a friendly beating heart and smells like fresh baked cookies.]]></description>
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		<title>Disappearing Oil and Gulf Seafood: Passing the Sniff Test</title>
		<link>http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/08/08/disappearing-oil-and-gulf-seafood-passing-the-sniff-test/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=disappearing-oil-and-gulf-seafood-passing-the-sniff-test</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Aug 2010 16:59:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Higgins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[British Petroleum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deepwater horizon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[environmental disaster]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[environmental protection agency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gulf of Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gulf oil spill]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since the Deepwater Horizon exploded and sank on April 20 killing 11 workers the NOAA estimates that 206 million gallons of "light sweet crude" spewed  from BP's Macondo well field, fouling the waters of the Gulf,  shutting down much of the commerce of the surrounding region and creating a giant toxic bouillabaisse in which now swim whatever critters managed to survive poisoning, suffocation,  or being roasted alive.]]></description>
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		<title>US Navy Veterans loses its attorneys and its fundraisers</title>
		<link>http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/07/15/us-navy-veterans-loses-its-attorneys-and-its-fundraisers/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=us-navy-veterans-loses-its-attorneys-and-its-fundraisers</link>
		<comments>http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/07/15/us-navy-veterans-loses-its-attorneys-and-its-fundraisers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 11:22:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Higgins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Vet News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bobby Thompson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fraudulent Charities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Helen Mac Murray]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mac Murray Peterson Law Firm]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US Navy Veterans Association]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The lawyers who have run interference for the U.S. Navy Veterans Association for months now say they can no longer represent the charity because all its directors have quit or disappeared.
In court papers filed Wednesday in Ohio, attorney Shaun K. Petersen said his firm must withdraw as counsel for the Navy Veterans because the charity's board has dwindled to a single member — founder Bobby Thompson — and he has been impossible to find for more than three weeks. ]]></description>
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		<title>Rats! &#8220;il Vinaio&#8221; No Longer Serves Lion Burgers</title>
		<link>http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/06/29/rats-il-vinaio-no-longer-serves-lion-burgers/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=rats-il-vinaio-no-longer-serves-lion-burgers</link>
		<comments>http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/06/29/rats-il-vinaio-no-longer-serves-lion-burgers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 14:05:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Higgins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Living]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[endangered species]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FDA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[il Vinaio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lion Burgers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MMS]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I read a brief story yesterday from the AP about a restaurant in Phoenix, Mesa actually, .. that's in Arizona ... an upscale Mediterranean eatery, that in celebration of, or as a tribute to the Wold Cup of Football ... that's soccer... began serving Lion Burgers on their Mediterranean menu.]]></description>
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		<title>A Sickening in the Gulf Stream</title>
		<link>http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/06/28/a-sickening-in-the-gulf-stream/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=a-sickening-in-the-gulf-stream</link>
		<comments>http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/06/28/a-sickening-in-the-gulf-stream/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 11:26:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Higgins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Of Interest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bob Higgins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carl Hiaasen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[environmental disaster]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[environmental protection agency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gulf of Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gulf oil spill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pensacola]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sickening? Yes, this oil, this poison brings a sickness of the senses, of sight and touch and smell ... it poisons air and water, killing all it contacts, but it also brings a sickness of the soul, of the heart which many will not survive.]]></description>
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		<title>The Oil Game They&#8217;re Playing In Our Oceans Ain&#8217;t &#8220;Beanbag&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/06/22/the-oil-game-theyre-playing-in-our-oceans-aint-beanbag/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-oil-game-theyre-playing-in-our-oceans-aint-beanbag</link>
		<comments>http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/06/22/the-oil-game-theyre-playing-in-our-oceans-aint-beanbag/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 16:22:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Higgins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Of Interest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[canada]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chevron]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Conoco Phillips]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lona O-55]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mark McLeod]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Newfoundland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Offshore oil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Orphan Basin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Oil giant Chevron, in the wake of one of the world's worst environmental disasters in the Gulf of Mexico is dragging its corporate feet over Canadian requests for increased safety procedures at a deep water well off the coast of Newfoundland. The company's Lona O-55 exploratory well is about 258 miles northeast of St. John's, in the Orphan Basin.]]></description>
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		<title>Tony and &#8216;Bob&#8217;: Sailing, Not Skimming around the Isle of Wight</title>
		<link>http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/06/20/tony-and-bob-sailing-not-skimming-around-the-isle-of-wight/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=tony-and-bob-sailing-not-skimming-around-the-isle-of-wight</link>
		<comments>http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/06/20/tony-and-bob-sailing-not-skimming-around-the-isle-of-wight/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jun 2010 14:50:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Higgins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Of Interest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[52' Farr]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Around the Island]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BOB]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gulf of me]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Isle of Wight]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oil Spill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tony Hayward]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yacht racing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[BP's 'Prince of Public Relations' Tony Hayward left his reluctant witness chair in Washington and headed (by private jet I  assume) for the Isle of Wight for a typical family weekend of ... yachting or more correctly 'yacht racing.']]></description>
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