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		<title>By: pixel</title>
		<link>http://atheists.org/blog/2006/04/15/greetings_from_the_convention/comment-page-1#comment-32915</link>
		<dc:creator>pixel</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Yee-haw!  I get to be the first to post!  Hope y&#039;all are having fun in Texas.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yee-haw!  I get to be the first to post!  Hope y&#8217;all are having fun in Texas.</p>
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		<title>By: Dangerman</title>
		<link>http://atheists.org/blog/2006/04/15/greetings_from_the_convention/comment-page-1#comment-32922</link>
		<dc:creator>Dangerman</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;m sorry the confrence is in Texas, it&#039;s way too hot for anyone&#039;s good there in the summer. Sorry for the ignorance, but what is the confrence about anyways? I&#039;m a little confused about what&#039;s actually going on. Good luck with...whatever it is...lol</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m sorry the confrence is in Texas, it&#8217;s way too hot for anyone&#8217;s good there in the summer. Sorry for the ignorance, but what is the confrence about anyways? I&#8217;m a little confused about what&#8217;s actually going on. Good luck with&#8230;whatever it is&#8230;lol</p>
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		<title>By: udonman</title>
		<link>http://atheists.org/blog/2006/04/15/greetings_from_the_convention/comment-page-1#comment-32926</link>
		<dc:creator>udonman</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>state director i know iowa needs one just wish i had the time to do the job </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>state director i know iowa needs one just wish i had the time to do the job</p>
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		<title>By: ForensicAtheist</title>
		<link>http://atheists.org/blog/2006/04/15/greetings_from_the_convention/comment-page-1#comment-32932</link>
		<dc:creator>ForensicAtheist</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Does AA have a website or a list of candidates for senate/HoR that it endorses? I&#039;d really like to know if they support certain candidates or at least if they have an idea of which candidates are more on our side.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Does AA have a website or a list of candidates for senate/HoR that it endorses? I&#8217;d really like to know if they support certain candidates or at least if they have an idea of which candidates are more on our side.</p>
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		<title>By: mxracer652</title>
		<link>http://atheists.org/blog/2006/04/15/greetings_from_the_convention/comment-page-1#comment-32936</link>
		<dc:creator>mxracer652</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>FA, &lt;br /&gt;
gampac.org is the political faction of AA.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>FA, <br />
gampac.org is the political faction of AA.</p>
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		<title>By: phreedm</title>
		<link>http://atheists.org/blog/2006/04/15/greetings_from_the_convention/comment-page-1#comment-32937</link>
		<dc:creator>phreedm</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;American Atheists is a nonprofit 501c3 Educational organization that does not endorse political candidates or parties.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;blockquote&gt;But since you&#039;re not, check out the web page for Anna Nevenic, who is running for Congress as a progressive Democrat and is here at the convention. She also has published a short and concise book entitled Hidden Agenda.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Hmmmm...sure sounds like an endorsement to me.  I wonder if everyone would sit by quietly if a preacher told their church members to check out a conservative republican and read &quot;The Marketing of Evil&quot;?&lt;br /&gt;
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Actually, no they wouldn&#039;t...&lt;br /&gt;
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http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=49761  &lt;br /&gt;
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Dave, I look forward to your request that we go read Senator Santorums book &quot;It Takes a Family: Conservative and the Common Good&quot;.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>American Atheists is a nonprofit 501c3 Educational organization that does not endorse political candidates or parties.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>But since you&#8217;re not, check out the web page for Anna Nevenic, who is running for Congress as a progressive Democrat and is here at the convention. She also has published a short and concise book entitled Hidden Agenda.</p></blockquote>
<p>Hmmmm&#8230;sure sounds like an endorsement to me.  I wonder if everyone would sit by quietly if a preacher told their church members to check out a conservative republican and read &#8220;The Marketing of Evil&#8221;?</p>
<p>Actually, no they wouldn&#8217;t&#8230;</p>
<p><a href="http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=49761" rel="nofollow">http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=49761</a>  </p>
<p>Dave, I look forward to your request that we go read Senator Santorums book &#8220;It Takes a Family: Conservative and the Common Good&#8221;.</p>
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		<title>By: rainbows4dinosaurs</title>
		<link>http://atheists.org/blog/2006/04/15/greetings_from_the_convention/comment-page-1#comment-32944</link>
		<dc:creator>rainbows4dinosaurs</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Phreedm, &lt;br /&gt;
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Have a feeling the reason Dave&#039;s promoting Anna Nevenic is mainly because she&#039;s an atheist. That&#039;s just an assumption on my part, but she is at the convention after all. &lt;br /&gt;
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As for that book by the worldnut guy, &lt;br /&gt;
EEEWWWWwwwwwwww yuck&lt;br /&gt;
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Oh, and I resent my wife being called &#039;evil.&#039; &lt;br /&gt;
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Phreedm, </p>
<p>Have a feeling the reason Dave&#8217;s promoting Anna Nevenic is mainly because she&#8217;s an atheist. That&#8217;s just an assumption on my part, but she is at the convention after all. </p>
<p>As for that book by the worldnut guy, <br />
EEEWWWWwwwwwwww yuck</p>
<p>Oh, and I resent my wife being called &#8216;evil.&#8217; </p>
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		<title>By: udonman</title>
		<link>http://atheists.org/blog/2006/04/15/greetings_from_the_convention/comment-page-1#comment-32950</link>
		<dc:creator>udonman</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>phreedm &lt;br /&gt;
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NoGodBlog.com&lt;br /&gt;
American Atheists is a nonprofit 501c3 Educational organization that does not endorse political candidates or parties. Dave&#039;s opinions are not always the opinions of American Atheists, Inc. &lt;br /&gt;
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look at the rest of the paragraph </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>phreedm </p>
<p>NoGodBlog.com<br />
American Atheists is a nonprofit 501c3 Educational organization that does not endorse political candidates or parties. Dave&#8217;s opinions are not always the opinions of American Atheists, Inc. </p>
<p>look at the rest of the paragraph</p>
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		<title>By: reluctantatheist</title>
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		<dc:creator>reluctantatheist</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>phreedm:&lt;br /&gt;
You never fail to deliver outrageousness.&lt;br /&gt;
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&quot;By David Kupelian&lt;br /&gt;
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Americans have come to tolerate, embrace and even champion many things that would have horrified their parents&#039; generation ? from easy divorce and &lt;b&gt;unrestricted abortion-on-demand&lt;/b&gt; to &lt;b&gt;extreme body piercing&lt;/b&gt; and teaching homosexuality to grade-schoolers. Does that mean today&#039;s Americans are inherently more morally confused and depraved than previous generations? Of course not, says veteran journalist David Kupelian. But they have fallen victim to some of the most stunningly brilliant and compelling marketing campaigns in modern history.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&quot;The Marketing of Evil&quot; reveals how much of what Americans once almost universally abhorred has been packaged, perfumed, gift-wrapped and sold to them as though it had great value. Highly skilled marketers, playing on our deeply felt national values of fairness, generosity and &lt;b&gt;tolerance&lt;/b&gt;, have persuaded us to embrace as enlightened and noble that which all previous generations since America?s founding regarded as grossly self-destructive ? in a word, &lt;strong&gt;evil&lt;/strong&gt;. &quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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I&#039;m assuming that I can find the &#039;Marketing of Evil&#039; somewhere in the humor section, between Dilbert &amp; Garfield?&lt;br /&gt;
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&#039;Cause honestly, this &#039;us vs. them&#039; mentality is so...cartoonish.&lt;br /&gt;
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Or, to paraphrase Ned Flanders, &quot;I long for the good old days, which only exist in my head.&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>phreedm:<br />
You never fail to deliver outrageousness.</p>
<p>&#8220;By David Kupelian</p>
<p>Americans have come to tolerate, embrace and even champion many things that would have horrified their parents&#8217; generation ? from easy divorce and <b>unrestricted abortion-on-demand</b> to <b>extreme body piercing</b> and teaching homosexuality to grade-schoolers. Does that mean today&#8217;s Americans are inherently more morally confused and depraved than previous generations? Of course not, says veteran journalist David Kupelian. But they have fallen victim to some of the most stunningly brilliant and compelling marketing campaigns in modern history.</p>
<p>&#8220;The Marketing of Evil&#8221; reveals how much of what Americans once almost universally abhorred has been packaged, perfumed, gift-wrapped and sold to them as though it had great value. Highly skilled marketers, playing on our deeply felt national values of fairness, generosity and <b>tolerance</b>, have persuaded us to embrace as enlightened and noble that which all previous generations since America?s founding regarded as grossly self-destructive ? in a word, <strong>evil</strong>. &#8220;</p>
<p>I&#8217;m assuming that I can find the &#8216;Marketing of Evil&#8217; somewhere in the humor section, between Dilbert &amp; Garfield?</p>
<p>&#8216;Cause honestly, this &#8216;us vs. them&#8217; mentality is so&#8230;cartoonish.</p>
<p>Or, to paraphrase Ned Flanders, &#8220;I long for the good old days, which only exist in my head.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: Deadly Doomham</title>
		<link>http://atheists.org/blog/2006/04/15/greetings_from_the_convention/comment-page-1#comment-32956</link>
		<dc:creator>Deadly Doomham</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Reluctant,&lt;br /&gt;
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Great Flanders line. Ever see the episode where Homer gets really smart and writes a paper which completely disproves god? Flanders rips it up and says &quot;Let&#039;s just make sure nobody ever sees this!&quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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Sadly, I&#039;m sure there are a lot of religious folk who would rather hide behind a pleasant lie than face a bittersweet reality.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Reluctant,</p>
<p>Great Flanders line. Ever see the episode where Homer gets really smart and writes a paper which completely disproves god? Flanders rips it up and says &#8220;Let&#8217;s just make sure nobody ever sees this!&#8221;</p>
<p>Sadly, I&#8217;m sure there are a lot of religious folk who would rather hide behind a pleasant lie than face a bittersweet reality.</p>
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