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	<title>Karl Klockars &#187; Politics</title>
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		<title>Things the President Should Do Now that Health Care Has Passed.</title>
		<link>http://www.karlklockars.com/2010/03/23/things-the-president-should-do-now-that-health-care-has-passed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 20:33:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karl</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[America]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re like me, you spent more time watching C-span on Sunday than you&#8217;ve ever spent cumulatively in your entire life.*  If you spent that afternoon and evening flipping back and forth between C-span and ABC Family&#8217;s marathon of Harry Potter films, then I&#8217;ll thank you to get out of my living room and kindly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dear Crazies: Rules For Manifesto Writing.</title>
		<link>http://www.karlklockars.com/2010/03/11/dear-crazies-rules-for-manifesto-writing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.karlklockars.com/2010/03/11/dear-crazies-rules-for-manifesto-writing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:34:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the wake of things like &#8220;crazy guy flies into IRS offices&#8221; and the like, I&#8217;ve been thinking about how the internet has empowered the lunatics among us to feel like the whole world owes them a few thousand unique viewers or pageviews when they go and do whatever lunacy they&#8217;re gonna do. Considering the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rewriting History: Thompson &amp; KSM If The Right Had Won</title>
		<link>http://www.karlklockars.com/2010/03/08/rewriting-history-thompson-ksm-if-the-right-had-won/</link>
		<comments>http://www.karlklockars.com/2010/03/08/rewriting-history-thompson-ksm-if-the-right-had-won/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:02:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karl</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chicago]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.karlklockars.com/?p=1940</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Between the transfer of Guantanamo Prisoners to the prison in Thompson, Illinois, and conversation today about Khalid Sheikh Mohammed possibly being tried there, I&#8217;ve had to endure a lot of handwringing and general, for lack of a better word, terror about what it would mean to have this guy &#8220;right in our back yard&#8221; as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aldermania!  Apply Now, Kids, and Be Your Own Councilmember!</title>
		<link>http://www.karlklockars.com/2010/03/02/aldermania-apply-now-kids-and-be-your-own-councilmember/</link>
		<comments>http://www.karlklockars.com/2010/03/02/aldermania-apply-now-kids-and-be-your-own-councilmember/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:35:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karl</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chicago]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.karlklockars.com/?p=1930</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been thinking a lot about this whole &#8220;apply to be an alderman&#8221; thing that the Mayor threw out there a while back.  I mean, yes, I&#8217;ve been continually (yet very quietly) organizing my campaign for about the last 4 or 5 years.  I think maybe a dozen people know about it at this point.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In Which I Flesh Out My Future Run For Office.</title>
		<link>http://www.karlklockars.com/2010/02/02/in-which-i-flesh-out-my-future-run-for-office/</link>
		<comments>http://www.karlklockars.com/2010/02/02/in-which-i-flesh-out-my-future-run-for-office/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 04:24:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karl</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[America]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.karlklockars.com/?p=1895</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For about the last month or so, we&#8217;ve been wall-to-wall with flyers and commercials and ads and interviews and volunteers shoving pieces of paper in front of us at our El stops which are quickly balled up and thrown away.  People have been shaking babies and kissing asses and &#8211; well, something like that.  You [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What We&#8217;re Not Talking About from Today&#8217;s Blago Esquire Piece.</title>
		<link>http://www.karlklockars.com/2010/01/11/what-were-not-talking-about-from-todays-blago-esquire-piece/</link>
		<comments>http://www.karlklockars.com/2010/01/11/what-were-not-talking-about-from-todays-blago-esquire-piece/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 23:29:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karl</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chicago]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s release of an Esquire article featuring Ravenswood&#8217;s favorite citizen, Rod Blagojevich, has everyone talking because race makes people freak out in this country like nothing else.  And we&#8217;ll probably be talking about it all week &#8211; or until Blago says something else with foot firmly ensconced in mouth. But it&#8217;s what we&#8217;re not talking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Full Body Screeners and Why You Should Calm The Hell Down.</title>
		<link>http://www.karlklockars.com/2010/01/08/full-body-screeners-and-why-you-should-calm-the-hell-down/</link>
		<comments>http://www.karlklockars.com/2010/01/08/full-body-screeners-and-why-you-should-calm-the-hell-down/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 23:33:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karl</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[America]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.karlklockars.com/?p=1865</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Before we begin, do I have to explain the whole full-body screening thing to anyone?  Yes?  Over there, in the back, with your hand raised?  You haven&#8217;t heard?  Fine.  We&#8217;ll give you a cliffs notes.  A couple weeks ago some guy did something bad on an airplane and almost blew it up and now we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why We Should Be Thanking The White House Crashers.</title>
		<link>http://www.karlklockars.com/2009/12/02/why-we-should-be-thanking-the-white-house-crashers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.karlklockars.com/2009/12/02/why-we-should-be-thanking-the-white-house-crashers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 18:53:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karl</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[America]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Vice]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.karlklockars.com/?p=1809</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Considering it&#8217;s been a really slow news week &#8211; where&#8217;s a balloon boy when you need him? &#8211; the White House Crashers, the Salahis, have pretty much been wall to wall for the past few days.  When there&#8217;s not new updates about what Tiger Woods may or may not have said about ruining Thanksgiving to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Conspiracy Theory I Can Almost Support.</title>
		<link>http://www.karlklockars.com/2009/11/24/a-conspiracy-theory-i-can-almost-support/</link>
		<comments>http://www.karlklockars.com/2009/11/24/a-conspiracy-theory-i-can-almost-support/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:32:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karl</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[America]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.karlklockars.com/?p=1803</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Preface:  I don&#8217;t actually believe in all the loopy &#8220;second gunman on the grassy knoll&#8221; or &#8220;9/11 was an inside job&#8221; beliefs out there, lest anyone get confused.  I&#8217;ve written about the Truthers plenty before this but I&#8217;m sure the following hunk of text might imply I could believe the rantings of crazy folks.  Untrue.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>So, Did Something Happen In DC This Weekend?</title>
		<link>http://www.karlklockars.com/2009/09/14/so-did-something-happen-in-dc-this-weekend/</link>
		<comments>http://www.karlklockars.com/2009/09/14/so-did-something-happen-in-dc-this-weekend/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 22:21:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karl</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Entertainment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.karlklockars.com/?p=1647</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Since I&#8217;m stuck on the inside of the Conservative Radio Behemoth, I&#8217;ve spent my day listening to hour after hour of back-patting for thousands of people showing up in Washington DC for a Tea Party protest that you probably didn&#8217;t hear anything about. Naturally, because of this I&#8217;ve been listening to more hours of &#8220;liberal [...]]]></description>
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