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		<title>Everything we thought was true was not true</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2008 22:56:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Downs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everything we thought was true was not true. Everything we thought was right was wrong. The leaders whom we idolized were madmen, Mass murderers, whose crimes we helped along. We were the volunteers for genocide, The dupes who gave out leaflets for the devil, For whom obscene dictatorships were good And our own democracies were [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=artisticthoughts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2403836&amp;post=28&amp;subd=artisticthoughts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Memorial Day Poem</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2008 16:07:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>artsytobasco</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following poem is a tribute to our veterans on Memorial Day. It was discovered on the Moment of Remembrance website. To listen to a MP3 version, click here. “ Last Monday in May”© &#160;&#160;&#160;By John T. Bird We pause to remember those who die With so much courage, so much pride They’ll never come [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=artisticthoughts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2403836&amp;post=26&amp;subd=artisticthoughts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>American Income</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 15:31:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Downs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The survey says all groups can make more money if they lose weight except black men&#8230;men of other colors and women of all colors have more gold, but black men are the summary of weight, a lead thick thing on the scales, meters spinning until they ring off the end of the numbering of accumulation, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=artisticthoughts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2403836&amp;post=24&amp;subd=artisticthoughts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>XII Mon. February [1746] hath xxviii days</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 15:21:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Downs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Benjamin Franklin Man’s rich with little, were his Judgment true, Nature is frugal, and her Wants are few; Those few Wants answer’d, bring sincere Delights, But Fools create themselves new Appetites. Fancy and Pride seek Things at vast Expence, Which relish not to Reason nor to Sense Like Cats in Airpumps, to subsist we [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=artisticthoughts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2403836&amp;post=23&amp;subd=artisticthoughts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In Kingdom Celebrating Easter</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2008 00:10:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oh, God, descend upon this unworthy life, cleanse my soul by your Son&#8217;s holy sacrifice. Let my mind comprehend his Cross and blood, the terrible price Jesus paid for my moral crime. Thank you for your unending love and grace. Please, God, complete my soul with your glorious presence enabling me to live like your [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=artisticthoughts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2403836&amp;post=22&amp;subd=artisticthoughts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>We&#8217;re All in the Telephone Book</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 18:15:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re all in the telephone book, Folks from everywhere on earth&#8211; Anderson to Zabowski, It&#8217;s a record of America&#8217;s worth. We&#8217;re all in the telephone book, There&#8217;s no priority&#8211; A millionaire like Rockefeller Is likely to be behind me. For generations men have dreamed Of nations united as one. Just look in your telephone book [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=artisticthoughts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2403836&amp;post=21&amp;subd=artisticthoughts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The First Atlantic Telegraph</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 17:50:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>artsytobasco</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With outward signs, as well as inward life, The world is hastening onward to its end! With higher purpose our Age is rife, Than those to which with groveling mind&#8217;s we tend. For lo! beneath the Atlantic&#8217;s stormy breast Is laid, from shore to shore, the Electric wire; And words, with speed of thought, from [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=artisticthoughts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2403836&amp;post=20&amp;subd=artisticthoughts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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