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		<title>Smitty&#8217;s Out!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 01:54:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RSmitty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Delaware Blogs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Delaware GOP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National GOP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Frank Sinatra]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.delawarepolitics.net/?p=4418</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[First, thank you to Dave Burris for bringing me along with him way back in the First State Politics days.  I am not 100%, but I believe I may have been his first &#8220;signee&#8221; back at the launch.  Also, thanks for listening to ideas and dealing with my rebellious-to-the-party behavior at times, both on and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A (Late) Father&#8217;s Day Post</title>
		<link>http://www.delawarepolitics.net/a-late-fathers-day-post/</link>
		<comments>http://www.delawarepolitics.net/a-late-fathers-day-post/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 03:05:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RSmitty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Stuff]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dads]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.delawarepolitics.net/?p=4406</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I had a great day on Father&#8217;s Day with my kids and my wife.  So great it was, that I completely forgot&#8230;about my own father.  So danged typical of me, too.  I didn&#8217;t mean to, I never do, but the fact is, I did.  It wasn&#8217;t until 9PM that I remembered.  I am the youngest [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>Series of Emails &#8211; See the State Senator Pose and Posture</title>
		<link>http://www.delawarepolitics.net/series-of-emails-see-the-gop-state-senator-pose-and-posture/</link>
		<comments>http://www.delawarepolitics.net/series-of-emails-see-the-gop-state-senator-pose-and-posture/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:20:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RSmitty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Stuff]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Delaware Budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Delaware Legislature]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.delawarepolitics.net/?p=4358</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week, I received from Jud Bennett&#8217;s Coastal Network email distribution an opinion from a Delaware citizen who claims that the state Legislature is intending to remove the senior citizen school tax exemption credit.  This opinion was written in a way that this was already a done deal and the Legislature was going to sneak [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>23</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Budget &#8220;SHOWDOWN&#8221; &#8211; Cathcart and Markell Both Working it Correctly</title>
		<link>http://www.delawarepolitics.net/the-budget-showdown-cathcart-and-markell-both-working-it-correctly/</link>
		<comments>http://www.delawarepolitics.net/the-budget-showdown-cathcart-and-markell-both-working-it-correctly/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:16:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RSmitty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Budget]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jack Markell]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.delawarepolitics.net/?p=4336</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For the record, I am happy we have Dick Cathcart and Jack Markell, I really am.  These two are absolutely hardballers and having them in opposition right now over the budget is a great thing.  There should be fighting over this.  Never would I want to see happy bandwagoners supporting something as drastic as this [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Question on North &#8220;We Got Nukes&#8221; Korea</title>
		<link>http://www.delawarepolitics.net/question-on-north-we-got-nukes-korea/</link>
		<comments>http://www.delawarepolitics.net/question-on-north-we-got-nukes-korea/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 12:45:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RSmitty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Armed Forces]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.delawarepolitics.net/?p=4334</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Reports are coming fast and furious that North Korea intends to do an ocean launch of a test-nuclear missle aimed dead-on at Hawaii.  The PRESUMPTION, because we all should agree that anything that government puts out is propoganda (stealing their term), is that this is intended to fall well short of the Island-State, but the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guest Opinion: Joanne Christian on HB117</title>
		<link>http://www.delawarepolitics.net/guest-opinion-joanne-christian-on-hb117/</link>
		<comments>http://www.delawarepolitics.net/guest-opinion-joanne-christian-on-hb117/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 02:53:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RSmitty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cathcart]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Appoquinimink School Board]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[School Board Election]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.delawarepolitics.net/?p=4284</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[smitty-note: bumped this post up to give it a chance in the sun, rapid posting caused it to get pushed down on the page rather quickly PSSST&#8230;.Dover&#8230;you passed an Onion not an Apple by Joanne Christian Let me applaud the 17 Representatives who &#8220;got it&#8221; in their decision to vote &#8220;NO&#8221; to HB 117. HB [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>14</slash:comments>
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		<title>Exposing Hate &#8211; One Fraudulent Fool At A Time</title>
		<link>http://www.delawarepolitics.net/exposing-hate-one-fraudulant-fool-at-a-time/</link>
		<comments>http://www.delawarepolitics.net/exposing-hate-one-fraudulant-fool-at-a-time/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:22:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RSmitty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hate Crimes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hate Speech]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.delawarepolitics.net/?p=4244</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[First, big h/t to Pandora for including this on her post, pondering if hate talk can lead to murder (YES, IT CAN). Rev. Wiley Drake, pastor of the First Southern Baptist Church of Buena Park, Calif., is praying for the death of the president. It is important to note that the Southern Baptist Convention has [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>12</slash:comments>
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		<title>Litigation Specialist Suing Over Gender Discrmination at a Breast Cancer Awareness Event</title>
		<link>http://www.delawarepolitics.net/litigation-specialist-suing-over-gender-discrmination-at-a-breast-cancer-awareness-event/</link>
		<comments>http://www.delawarepolitics.net/litigation-specialist-suing-over-gender-discrmination-at-a-breast-cancer-awareness-event/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:46:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RSmitty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Litigation]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.delawarepolitics.net/?p=4215</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I am not kidding. A male attorney makes a hundreds-of-miles trip to purposely put himself into a womens&#8217;-geared promotion for Breast Cancer Awareness and turns around and sues for gender discrmination. Apparently he&#8217;s close to a half-million+ dollar settlement. My wife was almost was killed in 2005 by a negligent *itch who passed people on [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>Comment Rescue: JC on HB117 House Passage</title>
		<link>http://www.delawarepolitics.net/comment-rescue-jc-on-hb117-house-passage/</link>
		<comments>http://www.delawarepolitics.net/comment-rescue-jc-on-hb117-house-passage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 12:33:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RSmitty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HB117]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.delawarepolitics.net/?p=4189</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Friend and commenter, Joanne Christian, dropped a comment on Delaware Liberal in reference to the shocking and seemingly ignorant passage of HB117 in the house yesterday. 17 wise and well-thought-out Representatives voted no on this bad piece of Longhurst legislation. My focus being on Appoquinimink, I&#8217;d like to thank Rep Dick Cathcart for his no [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Name The Source of the Quote(s)</title>
		<link>http://www.delawarepolitics.net/name-that-source/</link>
		<comments>http://www.delawarepolitics.net/name-that-source/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 04:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RSmitty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Stuff]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.delawarepolitics.net/?p=4169</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Time for a new game I am trying out here. You win nothing, so we will call that the Seinfeld prize, in honor of the show about nothing. It&#8217;s all about your pride. Oh, and that you may actually learn something you didn&#8217;t know. The inaugural question&#8230;. Who said the following: Do not associate my [...]]]></description>
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