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		<title>Live Vote: Give President Obama a grade</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 15:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Live Vote: Give President Obama a grade Found this via a Facebook comment from SJ Rozan. The teabaggers are giving Obama an F grade. (Currently 44% &#8211; F) Want to leaven the results? Vote!]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29493093/">Live Vote: Give President Obama a grade</a></p>
<p>Found this via a Facebook comment from <a href="http://sjrozan.com/">SJ Rozan</a>.</p>
<p>The teabaggers are giving Obama an F grade. (Currently 44% &#8211; F)</p>
<p>Want to leaven the results? Vote!</p>
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		<title>Obama vs. The Fear</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 17:41:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obama vs. The Fear / Grin and be enthralled, or tremble and stuff dollar bills into your mattress? [...] This seems to be the bottom line, at least for now. We have, for the first time in just about forever, an enormously ambitious, confident, risk-taking president so full of grand and even borderline radical ideas [&#8230;]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2009/02/27/notes022709.DTL">Obama vs. The Fear / Grin and be enthralled, or tremble and stuff dollar bills into your mattress?</a></p>
<p>[...]</p>
<p><em>This seems to be the bottom line, at least for now. We have, for the first time in just about forever, an enormously ambitious, confident, risk-taking president so full of grand and even borderline radical ideas they barely fit into a single generation, much less a single speech, and we have him at a time when we need, well, someone exactly like that.</p>
<p>That he just so happens to be tremendously intelligent, progressive, serene as an oak tree and utterly magnetizing? I guess you just call that a bonus.</em></p>
<p>What he (&#8220;he&#8221; being Mark Morford) said.</p>
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		<title>Schwarzenegger Declares California Drought Emergency</title>
		<link>http://towse.com/wordpress/2009/02/28/schwarzenegger-declares-california-drought-emergency/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2009 22:54:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Schwarzenegger Declares California Drought Emergency Some more rain is arriving tonight, if the weather mavens are to be believed, and carry over for a few days, but things aren&#8217;t looking good. Step one: encourage farmers who suck up water to raise crops like cotton and rice to move their operations to places that are better [&#8230;]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/27/schwarzenegger-declares-c_n_170693.html">Schwarzenegger Declares California Drought Emergency</a></p>
<p>Some more rain is arriving tonight, if the weather mavens are to be believed, and carry over for a few days, but things aren&#8217;t looking good.</p>
<p>Step one: encourage farmers who suck up water to raise crops like cotton and rice to move their operations to places that are better suited for water-guzzling crops.</p>
<p>Step two: encourage folks who plant golf courses in deserts to transform them into something else and/or let the land lapse back into sand dunes.</p>
<p>Step three: see where steps one and two take you.</p>
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		<title>FY2010 Federal budget (USA)</title>
		<link>http://towse.com/wordpress/2009/02/26/fy2010-federal-budget-usa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 21:52:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The proposed FY 2010 budget in 146pp of detail. This is a narrative take on the budget, not pages and pages of income/outgo numbers. Take a look. [PDF]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The proposed FY 2010 budget in 146pp of detail. This is a narrative take on the budget, not pages and pages of income/outgo numbers.</p>
<p><a href="http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2009/images/02/26/fy10.budget.pdf">Take a look.</a> [PDF]</p>
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