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		<title>CSL of the Week: Unwittingly greenlighting a simulated terrorist attack on NYC, no April Fools.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2009 04:01:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nate V</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those of you hiding under a rock or recovering from the flu, someone in the government hierarchy had the brilliant idea for a top secret photo-op to update the pictures of "Bush's Air Force One" to "Obama's Air Force One" (Like there is a difference...)  To top it all off, the photo-op was to take place a few hundred feet above New York city skyscrapers and the Statue of Liberty, in what would turn out to be a 9/11 flashback for many locals.   One has to wonder what the real reason could be  for such an insensitive operation... perhaps the presidential visitor's brochure or "mug shot" was out of date, or maybe someone thought the Air Force One picture on Whitehouse.gov would look "sweet" with the New York City skyline in the backdrop.  Either way, the bottom line is that the whole thing was a silly idea in the first place.  Surprisingly, polarized blogs HuffingtonPost.com and MichelleMalkin.com both reacted strongly with articles demonstrating how the government could have avoid the 300k+ spent on the photo-op, not to mention the publicity nightmare, by using Photoshop for 5 minutes. (here and here).  And yes, it is possible...]]></description>
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		<title>Extreme Common Sense Loss: Gov Rick Perry and Secession Talk</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2009 06:54:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nate V</dc:creator>
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The Common Sense Loss of the Week Award goes to conservative Texas Governor Rick Perry.  I wont get into the implications of his ridiculous comments about secession, people on both sides of the table have had some good things to say (Kos, Hullabaloo, Hot Air) while others were strangely silent.  Mike Huckabee had some especially [...]]]></description>
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