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		<title>Dear Dove World Outreach Center</title>
		<link>http://blainn.com/?p=719</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 02:06:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just heard about your plan to have a Quran burning event.  I am stunned at the stupidity and hatred you are demonstrating in the name of my master who commanded me to love my enemies.  I would request you suspend said stupidity, and spend your time gaining a better understanding of the message of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thoughts on the Prison System</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Sep 2010 03:58:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a comment I made on Slashdot on a thread titled Building Prisons Without Walls Using GPS Devices, particularly a comment that said  &#8220;How about a compromise? A touchy-feely hippie ultra-authoritarian regime that prevents rape, gang fights, and drug dealing while providing education and therapy.&#8221; A system that prevents rapes, gang fights and drug [...]]]></description>
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		<title>All Forms of Islam Oppress Women?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Aug 2010 00:59:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A response to a column on problems in all categories of Islam due to their treatment of women: An interesting column, but the reasoning gets a little strained in the middle. It conflates, and then condemns, all forms of Islam because they all fail to demand complete equality for women. If we are to condemn [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The &#8220;real&#8221; issue in the Shirley Sherrod case</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:46:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A response to a column by Joan Walsh on the Shirley Sherrod incident: I think there are several important issues that need discussing here, and that those who don&#8217;t want to discuss one will want to accuse those who do of trying to not discuss another. There are problems with race in the country, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Remembering Pam</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 19:44:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Night before last (early 12 July), Pamela Fleetwood (Beaulieu) passed away. I met Pam my second quarter in college, in Bob Winter&#8217;s Introduction to Poetry, both the class and the Honor&#8217;s Seminar attached to it, where we not only studied poetry, but wrote some. The miles and years since then have stretched quite long, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From CNN Belief Blog&#8217;s thread on the Vancouver Temple</title>
		<link>http://blainn.com/?p=696</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 17:42:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some of my comments to this thread, in case I want to use them later.  They also discuss quite a few anti-Mormon claims you may have seen or heard in the wild: 1.  In response to a comment listing a bunch of Mormon &#8220;beliefs&#8217; and &#8220;facts,&#8221; including the abundance of Masonic symbols in this (or, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Not Temple Day in Canada As Planned</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 20:37:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have scheduled my departure for my Temple appointment for 90 minutes before the session starts.  This gives me a 30 minute cushion, since I&#8217;ve found it takes about 60 minutes from the time I pull out of my driveway until I leave the New Name Booth.  Making plans remains a great way to give [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thornton Road Grade Separation Doesn&#8217;t Make Sense</title>
		<link>http://blainn.com/?p=688</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 20:29:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My response to the Ferndale road improvement plan, as discussed on the Bellingham Herald&#8217;s Traffic Blog. Okay, here’s some back of the napkin calculations, based on grossly conservative assumptions about the Thornton grade separation: Assumptions: 1. The maximum distance saved by this project is 1 mile per trip (1.8 miles from the easternmost intersection on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Whining is not an alternative to political parties.</title>
		<link>http://blainn.com/?p=684</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 18:40:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two of my comments on a post on the Bellingham Herald&#8217;s Politics Blog regarding the desire for a &#8220;third party.&#8221; First: Everybody wants another party so they can get something politically viable that doesn’t have the things they don’t want about the real parties that elect people. Here’s the thing: Unless you outwork and outspend [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Temple Day in Canada</title>
		<link>http://blainn.com/?p=680</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 21:50:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, the plan was to be at the 1:30 session I had the appointment for.  I wanted to get some initiatories done for the 17 names I had reserved (the boys).  I wasn&#8217;t sure how this all might work, so I got there a little over an hour early.  I got the cards printed out [...]]]></description>
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