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	<title>For Want of a Nail &#187; Barack Obama</title>
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		<title>Go Team, GO!</title>
		<link>http://forwantofanail.com/2011/10/go-team-go/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2011 16:55:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>fwoan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was raised in a sports family. My childhood bedroom had an entire wall painted with the logo of the family&#8217;s favorite college football team, done by my father. I was taken to games for hockey, football, baseball, et al. One summer I remember, I was sent to a tennis camp. The only problem was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wherein He Demands the Return of Profligate Sons</title>
		<link>http://forwantofanail.com/2011/05/wherein-he-demands-the-return-of-profligate-sons/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2011 19:33:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>fwoan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Middle-East governments long empowered by the U.S. government in order to maintain a carefully orchestrated status-quo are being clawed at and in several wonderful instances, have been torn down. Obama, now wants to give Tunisia and Egypt a shit-ton of money because they are the &#8220;best positioned countries to serve as role models for democratic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8230;The Second as Farce</title>
		<link>http://forwantofanail.com/2011/05/the-second-as-farce/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2011 21:23:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>fwoan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Terrorism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ugh, the news of Osama bin Laden&#8217;s death has brought forth a cavalcade of jingoism I have not seen since&#8230; possibly the news of Saddam Hussein&#8217;s capture. We are a culture of grave dancers, are we not? Nothing like a little death to those who would challenge us to really get us in good spirits. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Greatest Purveyors of Violence to the Rescue</title>
		<link>http://forwantofanail.com/2011/03/the-greatest-purveyors-of-violence-to-the-rescue/</link>
		<comments>http://forwantofanail.com/2011/03/the-greatest-purveyors-of-violence-to-the-rescue/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2011 20:30:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>fwoan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Muammar al-Gaddafi]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rather than see the revolution stagnate into a protracted civil war, the United States and its proxies in the United Nations have decided to usurp the struggles of the Libyan people to ensure a result favorable for the capitalist world order. After watching their puppet dictators failing time and again around the Middle-East, Uncle Sam [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We Didn&#8217;t Start the Fire</title>
		<link>http://forwantofanail.com/2011/03/we-didnt-start-the-fire/</link>
		<comments>http://forwantofanail.com/2011/03/we-didnt-start-the-fire/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 21:10:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>fwoan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Capitalism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The unions have been busted. Scott Walker, with the helping hand of the establishment, has stripped public unions of their collective bargaining rights. The rights of unions in this country have been won inch by inch with the blood of thousands of workers, and to see them stripped so easily from us speaks to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Winning the Future (a Life Sentence in Guantanamo Bay)</title>
		<link>http://forwantofanail.com/2011/03/winning-the-future-life-in-guantanamo/</link>
		<comments>http://forwantofanail.com/2011/03/winning-the-future-life-in-guantanamo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2011 22:47:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>fwoan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The president (elected on a campaign of &#8220;hope&#8221; and &#8220;change&#8221;) has just announced he will resume military tribunals and sign an executive order that provides for indefinite detention of prisoners in Guantanamo Bay (the prison he vowed to close years ago). Like the worker&#8217;s rights issues he campaigned on during the election and now ignores in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Those Look Like Comfortable Shoes</title>
		<link>http://forwantofanail.com/2011/03/those-look-like-comfortable-shoes/</link>
		<comments>http://forwantofanail.com/2011/03/those-look-like-comfortable-shoes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 21:30:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>fwoan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Capitalism]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://forwantofanail.com/?p=1301</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;And understand this: If American workers are being denied their right to organize and collectively bargain when I’m in the White House, I’ll put on a put on a comfortable pair of shoes myself. I’ll walk on that picket line with you as president of the United States.” Barack Obama, 2007 Could this be any [...]]]></description>
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		<title>And He Says, &#8220;I Dare You.&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://forwantofanail.com/2011/02/and-he-says-i-dare-you/</link>
		<comments>http://forwantofanail.com/2011/02/and-he-says-i-dare-you/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Feb 2011 23:11:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>fwoan</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://forwantofanail.com/?p=1267</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[2011 is shaping up to be the beginning of a period of revolution and redefinition for the Middle-East. Governments that defined themselves by decades of inhuman cruelty to the most vulnerable of their citizens are seeing those very people rise-up and chasing them out of their palaces. The beginnings of these revolutions are being sparked [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It Would Look the Same Here</title>
		<link>http://forwantofanail.com/2011/02/it-would-look-the-same/</link>
		<comments>http://forwantofanail.com/2011/02/it-would-look-the-same/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Feb 2011 20:33:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>fwoan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Celebrity award shows and Superbowl parties are helping to force the mass uprisings in Egypt from the American consciousness, where even today thousands gather to protest the Mubarak dictatorship. As the popular revolt fades from the news, our government officials are free to drop the facade they wore last week to pretend solidarity with those [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Hard to Watch Your Speech When Our Power Has Been Disconnected, Sir.</title>
		<link>http://forwantofanail.com/2011/01/its-hard-to-watch/</link>
		<comments>http://forwantofanail.com/2011/01/its-hard-to-watch/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jan 2011 22:43:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>fwoan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obama&#8217;s state of the union address last night was simply another monologue singing the praises of the &#8220;capital of conservatism&#8220; and meant to assure Americans (who even bothered to listen) that the status quo is alright, there are no problems with the system as is. Obama&#8217;s ability to speak as an intelligent person may contrast with his [...]]]></description>
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