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	<description>Who lied and told you life would EVER be fair?</description>
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		<title>An American Citizen&#8217;s Response</title>
		<link>http://www.benched42.net/2012/01/18/an-american-citizens-response/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:17:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BillH</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Barack Obama during his Cairo speech, of June 4, 2009, said: &#8220;I know, too, that Islam has always been a part of America&#8217;s story.&#8221; AN AMERICAN CITIZEN&#8217;S RESPONSE: Dear Mr. Obama: Were those Muslims that were in America when the Pilgrims first landed? Funny, I thought they were Native American Indians. Were those Muslims that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wages</title>
		<link>http://www.benched42.net/2011/10/31/wages/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 12:24:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BillH</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Salary of retired US Presidents &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.$450,000 FOR LIFE Salary of House/Senate members &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;. $174,000 FOR LIFE Salary of Speaker of the House &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;. $223,500 FOR LIFE Salary of Majority/Minority Leaders &#8230;&#8230;$193,400 FOR LIFE Average salary of a soldier deployed in Afghanistan &#8211; $38,000 Average income for seniors on Social Security &#8211; $12,000 I think we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Protesters Demands</title>
		<link>http://www.benched42.net/2011/10/04/protesters-demands/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 01:03:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BillH</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oh My God! Are these fools for real? The &#8220;Occupy Wall Street&#8221; protest group (or should I say loony left gathering?) has published thirteen &#8220;demands&#8221;. Here&#8217;s the list of &#8220;demands&#8221;. This post is going to be somewhat longer than most of my posts as I&#8217;m going to go through and critique each of their &#8220;demands&#8221;. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Put Me In Charge</title>
		<link>http://www.benched42.net/2011/08/05/put-me-in-charge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2011 12:35:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BillH</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This was in the Waco Tribune Herald, Waco, TX Nov 18, 2010. Here&#8217;s the link to the original story, but you need a subscription. Put me in charge of food stamps. I&#8217;d get rid of Lone Star cards; no cash for Ding Dongs or Ho Ho&#8217;s, just money for 50-pound bags of rice and beans, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reelection?</title>
		<link>http://www.benched42.net/2011/06/21/reelection/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2011 15:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BillH</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SOME OF YOU MAY APPRECIATE THIS AND SOME OF YOU MAY NOT If any other of our presidents had: doubled the national debt in one year, which had taken more than two centuries to accumulate, would you have approved? then proposed to double the debt again within 10 years, would you have approved? criticized a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m Tired&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.benched42.net/2011/04/26/im-tired/</link>
		<comments>http://www.benched42.net/2011/04/26/im-tired/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2011 12:24:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BillH</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I&#8217;m 63 and I&#8217;m Tired&#8221; by Robert A. Hall (Robert A. Hall is a Marine Vietnam veteran who served five terms in the Massachusetts State Senate.) I&#8217;m 63. Except for one semester in college when jobs were scarce and a six-month period when I was between jobs, but job-hunting every day, I&#8217;ve worked hard since [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why? Really&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://www.benched42.net/2011/03/28/why-really/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Mar 2011 22:02:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BillH</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I want to preface this before asking this question. I do not smoke. It&#8217;s a choice I made after trying it many years ago and I stick to that choice. I&#8217;m not against anyone else smoking. Hey, if someone wants to smoke who am I to tell them &#8220;NO&#8221;? I have a hard enough time [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Immigration Laws</title>
		<link>http://www.benched42.net/2010/05/27/new-immigration-laws/</link>
		<comments>http://www.benched42.net/2010/05/27/new-immigration-laws/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 12:26:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BillH</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is are a few points I&#8217;d like to see in new immigration laws that SHOULD be passed by our Congress. Read the entire post before you pass judgment. (Thanks, Ron!) There will be no special bilingual programs in the schools. All ballots will be in this nation&#8217;s language. All government business will be conducted [...]]]></description>
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