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		<title>Quote/Video Of The Day</title>
		<link>http://hayride.wordpress.com/2009/11/27/quotevideo-of-the-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 19:11:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Climategate has finally given us the chance to express openly what many of us secretly felt all along: &#8220;AGW is about raising taxes; increasing state control; about a few canny hucksters who&#8217;ve leapt on the bandwagon fleecing us rotten with their taxpayer subsidised windfarms and their carbon-trading; about the sour, anti-capitalist impulses of sandal-wearing vegans [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hayride.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10688904&amp;post=93&amp;subd=hayride&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Obama: Happy Eid-ul-Adha!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:36:51 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Islam]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From our president today&#8230; &#8220;Michelle and I would like to send our best wishes to all those performing Hajj this year, and to Muslims in America and around the world who are celebrating Eid-ul-Adha. The rituals of Hajj and Eid-ul-Adha both serve as reminders of the shared Abrahamic roots of three of the world’s major [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hayride.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10688904&amp;post=83&amp;subd=hayride&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>This Being Thanksgiving&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://hayride.wordpress.com/2009/11/26/hello-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 15:37:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whereas it is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favor – and Whereas both Houses of Congress have by their joint Committee requested me “to recommend to the People of the United [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hayride.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10688904&amp;post=1&amp;subd=hayride&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Since Everybody Is Talking About LSU Football&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://hayride.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/since-everybody-is-talking-about-lsu-football/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:47:23 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Sports]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;I guess it qualifies as news and as such probably rates a mention in here. Those among the Hayride&#8217;s readership who have followed my writing for years know that I&#8217;ve had a hand in a couple of journalistic ventures where LSU sports was concerned. The first one was Purple &#38; Gold Magazine, which I published [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hayride.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10688904&amp;post=32&amp;subd=hayride&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Recalling Mary Landrieu?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:08:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>macaoidh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Elections]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In light of yesterday&#8217;s display of political prostitution by U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-Storyville), which is being dubbed The Louisiana Purchase by some in the media, one wonders whether this isn&#8217;t the perfect time to launch a recall effort. Most of the time, a recall is a lousy idea. The time and effort it takes [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hayride.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10688904&amp;post=40&amp;subd=hayride&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Anthropogenic Global Warming Hacked to Death?</title>
		<link>http://hayride.wordpress.com/2009/11/20/anthropogenic-global-warming-hacked-to-death/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:53:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>macaoidh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is a story just leaking out, but it&#8217;s possible the hacking of the Hadley Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in Britain might end up being the largest worldwide news event of the year. If the preliminary indications of the take from this hack &#8211; which might actually be an inside [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hayride.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10688904&amp;post=35&amp;subd=hayride&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Louisiana Democrats Are Out To Get Us, Too</title>
		<link>http://hayride.wordpress.com/2009/11/19/louisiana-democrats-are-out-to-get-us-too/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:09:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>macaoidh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Democrats]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of items stand out amongst a host of outrages today. First, it appears that Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu has, as better than 75 percent of the public figured, begun to cave in and will apparently in two days vote for cloture on Harry Reid&#8217;s disastrous socialized medicine bill. Landrieu not too long ago [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hayride.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10688904&amp;post=42&amp;subd=hayride&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Well-Deserved Drubbing At The Polls</title>
		<link>http://hayride.wordpress.com/2009/11/15/a-well-deserved-drubbing-at-the-polls/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 20:10:05 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Baton Rouge]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last night, East Baton Rouge Mayor-President Kip Holden&#8217;s $901 million bond proposal was crushed by the voters by 20,000 votes out of just over 70,000 cast. The final percentages were 64.02 percent against and only 34.98 percent for. The prevailing narrative before yesterday&#8217;s vote was that it would be a near-run thing and it could [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hayride.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10688904&amp;post=44&amp;subd=hayride&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Veterans&#8217; Day Crotch Salute</title>
		<link>http://hayride.wordpress.com/2009/11/14/veterans-day-crotch-salute/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 20:21:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>macaoidh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Left]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From our friends at RedState.com, and along the lines of last night&#8217;s post questioning whether the president is actually on the side of the American people, we present this: Throughout the Bush years, the Left routinely became unhinged at the idea conservatives would question their patriotism, forcing Republican political candidates to contort themselves into pretzels [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hayride.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10688904&amp;post=53&amp;subd=hayride&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>If They Were Out To Get Us, What Would They Do Differently?</title>
		<link>http://hayride.wordpress.com/2009/11/13/if-they-were-out-to-get-us-what-would-they-do-differently/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 20:23:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>macaoidh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Left]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Consider three events over the past few days: On Monday, Barack Obama was quoted as saying the following: Obama told Reuters in an interview that the United States had made more progress toward global nuclear non-proliferation in the last several months than in the past several years. “But it is going to take time, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hayride.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10688904&amp;post=55&amp;subd=hayride&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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