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		<link>http://donklephant.com/2005/07/12/215/comment-page-1/#comment-4056</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2005 23:31:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi there

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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi there</p>
<p>I have been given the task of getting links for our websites that have good page rank on the links directories.<br />
In addition we have many categories so your site will be place on an appropriate page.<br />
If you would like to trade links please send me your website linking details.<br />
Our apologies if you do not wish to take part in a link exchange.</p>
<p>Best Regards, </p>
<p>Mariana Snider</p>
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		<title>By: Ratatosk, Squirrel of Discord</title>
		<link>http://donklephant.com/2005/07/12/215/comment-page-1/#comment-331</link>
		<dc:creator>Ratatosk, Squirrel of Discord</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2005 20:57:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>*applause*

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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>*applause*</p>
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		<title>By: GM Roper</title>
		<link>http://donklephant.com/2005/07/12/215/comment-page-1/#comment-240</link>
		<dc:creator>GM Roper</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2005 01:51:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Don&#039;t know that I fully agree with everything you said, but I damn sure like the way you said it.  Michael Totten was right ~ you write good! I&#039;ll be back for more!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Don&#8217;t know that I fully agree with everything you said, but I damn sure like the way you said it.  Michael Totten was right ~ you write good! I&#8217;ll be back for more!</p>
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		<title>By: Callimachus</title>
		<link>http://donklephant.com/2005/07/12/215/comment-page-1/#comment-183</link>
		<dc:creator>Callimachus</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jul 2005 02:39:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>How could I forget Fabrizio Quattrocchi? His last words ought to be engraved on a stele in Rome. But I don&#039;t know how much of Italy is interested in living up to his example.

By the way, for the most overlooked and under-rated &quot;Americans at war&quot; movie, my vote goes to &quot;Battleground.&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>How could I forget Fabrizio Quattrocchi? His last words ought to be engraved on a stele in Rome. But I don&#8217;t know how much of Italy is interested in living up to his example.</p>
<p>By the way, for the most overlooked and under-rated &#8220;Americans at war&#8221; movie, my vote goes to &#8220;Battleground.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: JG</title>
		<link>http://donklephant.com/2005/07/12/215/comment-page-1/#comment-182</link>
		<dc:creator>JG</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jul 2005 02:17:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The Magnificent Seven - the first Special Forces movie.  Josie Wales is one of the greatest movies ever.  For many years, and maybe still, it was Eastwood&#039;s favorite.

And sometimes, just plain folks are greater than the movies - Remember Fabrizio Quattrocchi!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Magnificent Seven &#8211; the first Special Forces movie.  Josie Wales is one of the greatest movies ever.  For many years, and maybe still, it was Eastwood&#8217;s favorite.</p>
<p>And sometimes, just plain folks are greater than the movies &#8211; Remember Fabrizio Quattrocchi!</p>
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		<title>By: Scipio</title>
		<link>http://donklephant.com/2005/07/12/215/comment-page-1/#comment-140</link>
		<dc:creator>Scipio</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2005 14:12:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;ve always been partial to the Magnificent Seven, especially when Calvera comes back to town after the Seven first arrive:

Calvera: Somehow I don&#039;t think you&#039;ve solved my problem. 
Chris: Solving your problems isn&#039;t our line. 
Vin:  We deal in lead, friend.

Now that&#039;s America.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve always been partial to the Magnificent Seven, especially when Calvera comes back to town after the Seven first arrive:</p>
<p>Calvera: Somehow I don&#8217;t think you&#8217;ve solved my problem.<br />
Chris: Solving your problems isn&#8217;t our line.<br />
Vin:  We deal in lead, friend.</p>
<p>Now that&#8217;s America.</p>
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		<title>By: richf</title>
		<link>http://donklephant.com/2005/07/12/215/comment-page-1/#comment-138</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2005 13:28:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I think the exchange in the movie that best highlihgts our current situation in the world today goes like this .....Wales says something like....&quot;I notice that it seems as soon as I start liking people they ain&#039;t around much anymore&quot;....and Wati says back....&quot;I notice as soon as you start disliking people they ain&#039;t around much anymore, neither...&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think the exchange in the movie that best highlihgts our current situation in the world today goes like this &#8230;..Wales says something like&#8230;.&#8221;I notice that it seems as soon as I start liking people they ain&#8217;t around much anymore&#8221;&#8230;.and Wati says back&#8230;.&#8221;I notice as soon as you start disliking people they ain&#8217;t around much anymore, neither&#8230;&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: Commonwealth Conservative &#187; My kind of analysis</title>
		<link>http://donklephant.com/2005/07/12/215/comment-page-1/#comment-112</link>
		<dc:creator>Commonwealth Conservative &#187; My kind of analysis</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2005 04:02:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Pop culture by John Behan&#160;@ 12:02 am  	I don&#8217;t know that I entirely agree with this analysis, but I encourage all political blogs to make their points using Clint Eastwood movies as exa [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] Pop culture by John Behan&nbsp;@ 12:02 am<br />
 	I don&#8217;t know that I entirely agree with this analysis, but I encourage all political blogs to make their points using Clint Eastwood movies as exa [...]</p>
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		<title>By: goy</title>
		<link>http://donklephant.com/2005/07/12/215/comment-page-1/#comment-109</link>
		<dc:creator>goy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2005 03:13:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>There&#039;s also the confounding factor of media magnification of an issue, just for the sake of magnification.  When a local issue can be (artificially) made to appear national, or global, in scope, then coverage becomes much more saleable, generating advertising revenue and in some cases influence, in the process.  I have my doubts whether the feds would have jumped into Schiavo, for instance, if the media feeding frenzy over the issue had never happened.

Conversely, when an issue is truly of national importance, then it&#039;s hard to say the feds shouldn&#039;t get involved - especially if they perceive and can demonstrate that the locals may not be playing by the rules.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There&#8217;s also the confounding factor of media magnification of an issue, just for the sake of magnification.  When a local issue can be (artificially) made to appear national, or global, in scope, then coverage becomes much more saleable, generating advertising revenue and in some cases influence, in the process.  I have my doubts whether the feds would have jumped into Schiavo, for instance, if the media feeding frenzy over the issue had never happened.</p>
<p>Conversely, when an issue is truly of national importance, then it&#8217;s hard to say the feds shouldn&#8217;t get involved &#8211; especially if they perceive and can demonstrate that the locals may not be playing by the rules.</p>
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		<title>By: Callimachus</title>
		<link>http://donklephant.com/2005/07/12/215/comment-page-1/#comment-105</link>
		<dc:creator>Callimachus</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2005 02:49:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>LOL, Stuart. But there&#039;s a haunting quality to &quot;Doin&#039; right ain&#039;t got no end.&quot; It taps into one of our national weaknesses.

And when I am flipping through the Internet and come across another picture of the melting towers of 9/11, and the smug celebration of Osama and friends, sometimes I hear this:
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;i&gt;Now remember, things look bad and it looks like you&#039;re not gonna make it, then you gotta get mean. I mean plumb, mad-dog mean. &#039;Cause if you lose your head and you give up then you neither live nor win. That&#039;s just the way it is.&lt;/i&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;
And yet, just a few scenes before: &quot;I ain&#039;t promising you nothing extra. I&#039;m just giving you life and you&#039;re giving me life. And I&#039;m saying that men can live together without butchering one another.&quot;

And after that, and after the ferryman&#039;s &quot;You know in my line of work, you gotta be able either to sing &#039;The Battle Hymn Of The Republic&#039; or &#039;Dixie&#039; with equal enthusiasm,&quot; the end comes:
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Fletcher&lt;/b&gt;: I think I&#039;ll try to tell him the war is over. What do you say, Mr. Wilson?

&lt;b&gt;Josey Wales&lt;/b&gt;: I reckon so. I guess we all died a little in that damn war.&lt;/i&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt; 
Like I said, American history on the couch, disguised as Hollywood.



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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>LOL, Stuart. But there&#8217;s a haunting quality to &#8220;Doin&#8217; right ain&#8217;t got no end.&#8221; It taps into one of our national weaknesses.</p>
<p>And when I am flipping through the Internet and come across another picture of the melting towers of 9/11, and the smug celebration of Osama and friends, sometimes I hear this:</p>
<blockquote><p>
<i>Now remember, things look bad and it looks like you&#8217;re not gonna make it, then you gotta get mean. I mean plumb, mad-dog mean. &#8216;Cause if you lose your head and you give up then you neither live nor win. That&#8217;s just the way it is.</i>
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<p>And yet, just a few scenes before: &#8220;I ain&#8217;t promising you nothing extra. I&#8217;m just giving you life and you&#8217;re giving me life. And I&#8217;m saying that men can live together without butchering one another.&#8221;</p>
<p>And after that, and after the ferryman&#8217;s &#8220;You know in my line of work, you gotta be able either to sing &#8216;The Battle Hymn Of The Republic&#8217; or &#8216;Dixie&#8217; with equal enthusiasm,&#8221; the end comes:</p>
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<i><b>Fletcher</b>: I think I&#8217;ll try to tell him the war is over. What do you say, Mr. Wilson?</p>
<p><b>Josey Wales</b>: I reckon so. I guess we all died a little in that damn war.</i>
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<p>Like I said, American history on the couch, disguised as Hollywood.</p>
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		<title>By: Stuart</title>
		<link>http://donklephant.com/2005/07/12/215/comment-page-1/#comment-104</link>
		<dc:creator>Stuart</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2005 02:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The most quintessentially American line in the movie, though, comes Josey stares down the Union soldier who recognizes him, and says, with his hand full of packages, &quot;Ya gonna pull those pistols, or whistle Dixie?&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The most quintessentially American line in the movie, though, comes Josey stares down the Union soldier who recognizes him, and says, with his hand full of packages, &#8220;Ya gonna pull those pistols, or whistle Dixie?&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: quilly_mammoth</title>
		<link>http://donklephant.com/2005/07/12/215/comment-page-1/#comment-92</link>
		<dc:creator>quilly_mammoth</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2005 23:40:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Some good points, but perhaps the best is somewhat unsaid.  Maybe local matters should just be local matters.  There seems to be an awful lot of hypocrites out there.  Lot&#039;s of people who were, rightly, appalled at the Feds swooping into the Schiavo nightmare are clapping when the ACLU strongarms some little burg into spending the budget replacing all the logos because of that itty-bitty cross.

And weren&#039;t a lot of those people asking Congress to get involved in the Schiavo horror the same ones who got all exercised when the SCOTUS said you can&#039;t ban buggery in the bedroom becuase it&#039;s a privacy issue?  Weren&#039;t those people saying it was a State issue?

I think the most powerful government should be the one down the street from your house.  That&#039;s pretty extreme but we should all take heed that the Federal Government is an equal opportunity screwer.  It&#039;s power needs to be carefully controlled and sparingly used.  Its intervention reserved for the really awful things that local governmetn can&#039;t seem to get past.

Just like the old saying...&quot;Jeez...don&#039;t make a federal case out of it.&quot;...maybe we should try local solutions; but with so many opportunities to take even a Dog Barking violation to the Circuit Court it&#039;s easier said than done.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Some good points, but perhaps the best is somewhat unsaid.  Maybe local matters should just be local matters.  There seems to be an awful lot of hypocrites out there.  Lot&#8217;s of people who were, rightly, appalled at the Feds swooping into the Schiavo nightmare are clapping when the ACLU strongarms some little burg into spending the budget replacing all the logos because of that itty-bitty cross.</p>
<p>And weren&#8217;t a lot of those people asking Congress to get involved in the Schiavo horror the same ones who got all exercised when the SCOTUS said you can&#8217;t ban buggery in the bedroom becuase it&#8217;s a privacy issue?  Weren&#8217;t those people saying it was a State issue?</p>
<p>I think the most powerful government should be the one down the street from your house.  That&#8217;s pretty extreme but we should all take heed that the Federal Government is an equal opportunity screwer.  It&#8217;s power needs to be carefully controlled and sparingly used.  Its intervention reserved for the really awful things that local governmetn can&#8217;t seem to get past.</p>
<p>Just like the old saying&#8230;&#8221;Jeez&#8230;don&#8217;t make a federal case out of it.&#8221;&#8230;maybe we should try local solutions; but with so many opportunities to take even a Dog Barking violation to the Circuit Court it&#8217;s easier said than done.</p>
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		<title>By: Juan Golblado</title>
		<link>http://donklephant.com/2005/07/12/215/comment-page-1/#comment-50</link>
		<dc:creator>Juan Golblado</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2005 21:31:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Great post! Thanks. Going to look for that movie.
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Great post! Thanks. Going to look for that movie.</p>
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