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		<title>Suzanna Gratia-Hupp Speaks on the Second Amendment</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:27:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is quite a few years old, sometime in the mid nineties (I think), but it is worth watching again if you have already seen it. Texas state representative, Suzanna Gratia-Hupp, whose parents were killed by a gunman while her gun was out in the car, gives very moving and bold testimony about the REAL [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is quite a few years old, sometime in the mid nineties (I think), but it is worth watching again if you have already seen it.</p>
<p>Texas state representative, Suzanna Gratia-Hupp, whose parents were killed by a gunman while her gun was out in the car, gives very moving and bold testimony about the REAL reason that the second amendment was designed to protect our right to keep and bear arms.</p>
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		<title>Trojan Horse Known As Emergency</title>
		<link>http://www.subtlerantings.com/2009/07/07/trojan-horse-known-as-emergency/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:52:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Every collectivist movement rides in on a Trojan Horse of &#8216;emergency&#8217;. It was a tactic of Lenin, Hitler and Mussolini.&#8221; &#8211; Herbert Hoover, Memoirs: The Great Depression (1951)]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;Every collectivist movement rides in on a Trojan Horse of &#8216;emergency&#8217;. It was a tactic of Lenin, Hitler and Mussolini.&#8221;</em> &#8211; Herbert Hoover, Memoirs: The Great Depression (1951)</p></blockquote>
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		<title>You Scare Me</title>
		<link>http://www.subtlerantings.com/2009/06/22/you-scare-me/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:46:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The author of this letter, Lou Pritchett, is a well-known public speaker who retired after a successful 36-year career as the VP World Sales for Proctor and Gamble. I&#8217;d love to hear the counter arguments to the points made below. AN OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT OBAMA Dear President Obama: You are the thirteenth President under [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The author of this letter, Lou Pritchett, is a well-known public speaker who retired after a successful 36-year career as the VP World Sales for Proctor and Gamble. I&#8217;d love to hear the counter arguments to the points made below.</p>
<p>AN OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT OBAMA</p>
<p>Dear President Obama:</p>
<p>You are the thirteenth President under whom I have lived and unlike any of the others, you truly scare me.  </p>
<p>You scare me because:</p>
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<li>after months of exposure, I know nothing about you.</li>
<li>I do not know how you paid for your expensive Ivy League education and your upscale lifestyle and housing with no visible signs of support.</li>
<li>you did not spend the formative years of youth growing up in America and culturally you are not an American.</li>
<li>you have never run a company or met a payroll.</li>
<li>you have never had military experience, thus don&#8217;t understand it at its core.</li>
<li>you lack humility  and &#8216;class&#8217;, always  blaming others.</li>
<li>for over half your life you have aligned yourself with radical extremists who hate America and you refuse to publicly denounce these radicals who wish to see America fail.</li>
<li>You scare me because you are a cheerleader for the &#8216;blame America &#8216; crowd and deliver this message abroad.</li>
<li> you want to change America to a European style country where the government sector dominates instead of the private sector.</li>
<li>you want to replace our health care system with a government controlled one.</li>
<li>you prefer &#8216;wind mills&#8217; to responsibly capitalizing on our own vast oil, coal and shale reserves.</li>
<li>you want to kill the American capitalist goose that lays the golden egg which provides the highest standard of living in the world.</li>
<li>you have begun to use &#8216;extortion&#8217; tactics against certain banks and corporations.</li>
<li>your own political party shrinks from challenging you on your wild and irresponsible spending proposals.</li>
<li>you will not openly listen to or even consider opposing points of view from intelligent people.</li>
<li>you falsely believe that you are both omnipotent and omniscient.</li>
<li>the media gives you a free pass on everything you do.</li>
<li>you demonize and want to silence the Limbaughs, Hannitys, O&#8217;Relllys and Becks who offer opposing, conservative  points of view.</li>
<li>you prefer controlling over governing. </ul>
<p>Finally, you scare me because if you serve a second term I will probably not feel safe in writing a similar letter in 8 years.     </p>
<p>Lou Pritchett </p>
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		<title>Oregon Firefighters Fired For Speaking English</title>
		<link>http://www.subtlerantings.com/2009/06/03/oregon-firefighters-fired-for-speaking-english/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 18:33:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan</dc:creator>
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		<title>Patriotism</title>
		<link>http://www.subtlerantings.com/2009/06/02/patriotism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 03:37:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.&#8221; &#8211; Mark Twain]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.&#8221;</em> &#8211; Mark Twain</p></blockquote>
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		<title>50 Year Old Cartoon That Applies Today</title>
		<link>http://www.subtlerantings.com/2009/06/01/50-year-old-cartoon-that-applies-today/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 19:42:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The foresight seen in this 50 year old cartoon is startling. We&#8217;ve already started down the path depicted in this video.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The foresight seen in this 50 year old cartoon is startling. We&#8217;ve already started down the path depicted in this video.</p>
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		<title>NOTICE &#8211; NORAD Flight Exercise Over DC</title>
		<link>http://www.subtlerantings.com/2009/05/13/notice-norad-flight-exercise-over-dc/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 16:24:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Listen up all you DC/VA residents! Don&#8217;t panic if you see planes flying over head on May 15th and 19th. No. 039-09 May 13, 2009 NORAD Flight Exercise Planned for Washington, D.C. &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; The North American Aerospace Defense Command and its geographical component, the Continental United States NORAD Region, will conduct exercise Falcon Virgo 09-07, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Listen up all you DC/VA residents!  Don&#8217;t panic if you see planes flying over head on May 15th and 19th.</p>
<p><strong>No. 039-09</strong>
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<div>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The North American Aerospace Defense Command and its geographical component, the Continental United States NORAD Region, will conduct exercise Falcon Virgo 09-07, on May 15 and 19 between midnight and 6:00 a.m. in the National Capital Region (NCR), Washington, D.C.
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<div>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The exercise comprises a series of training flights held in coordination with the Federal Aviation Administration, the National Capital Region Command Center, the Joint Air Defense Operations Center, the Continental U.S. NORAD Region (CONR), Civil Air Patrol, U.S. Coast &nbsp;Guard and CONR&#8217;s Western Air Defense Sector.
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<div>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Exercise Falcon Virgo is designed to hone NORAD&#8217;s intercept and identification operations, as well as procedural tests of the NCR Visual Warning System.&nbsp;Two Civil Air Patrol Cessna aircraft, two Air Force F-16s and one Coast Guard HH-65 Dolphin helicopter will participate in the exercise. &nbsp;Residents may see these aircraft approaching and flying in the vicinity of the Washington D.C. area as part of this exercise during the late night and early morning hours from midnight through 6:00 a.m.&nbsp;on May 15<sup>th</sup> and the 19<sup>th </sup>.
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<p>U.S. Department of Defense<br />
  <br />Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Public Affairs) </p>
<p>On the Web: <a title="http://www.defenselink.mil/Advisories/" href="http://www.defenselink.mil/Advisories/" target="_blank">http://www.defenselink.mil/<wbr>Advisories/</a> </p>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s NYC Flyover &#8211; Why Did It Happen?</title>
		<link>http://www.subtlerantings.com/2009/05/09/obamas-nyc-flyover-why-did-it-happen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2009 12:16:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I do like a good conspiracy theory every now and then. I think sometimes they can be more accurate than people like to admit or realize. Here&#8217;s a doozy of one for you about Obama&#8217;s NYC Flyover that caused so much panic last week. NYC Flyover and the Tuskegee Airmen? Again, we report, you decide.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I do like a good conspiracy theory every now and then. I think sometimes they can be more accurate than people like to admit or realize. Here&#8217;s a doozy of one for you about Obama&#8217;s NYC Flyover that caused so much panic last week.</p>
<p><a href="http://thisainthell.us/blog/?p=10429">NYC Flyover and the Tuskegee Airmen?</a></p>
<p>Again, we report, you decide. </p>
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		<title>A New Swine Flu Perspective</title>
		<link>http://www.subtlerantings.com/2009/05/05/a-new-swine-flu-perspective/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 19:54:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wish this had gotten more exposure a week ago: &#8220;Reminds me of 1976&#8230;we had a vote on the swine flu. Back then there was a panic on the swine flu and they said that is was going to sweep the nation and they rapidly came up with some flu shots and the government was going [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wish this had gotten more exposure a week ago:</p>
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<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;Reminds me of 1976&#8230;we had a vote on the swine flu. Back then there was a panic on the swine flu and they said that is was going to sweep the nation and they rapidly came up with some flu shots and the government was going to inoculate everybody and save the world from this &#8216;disaster&#8217;&#8221;</em></p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;The flu came, the flu went and one person died. Except for those individuals <strong>who died from getting the flu vaccine</strong> and over 25 people died just from getting the vaccine and many got ill from it, until they had to suspend the whole program.&#8221;</em></p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;Government shouldn&#8217;t be in the medical business making these medical decisions.&#8221;</em></p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;How did the Department of Homeland Security get into the medical business, you know it&#8217;s just totally out of control.&#8221;</em></p></blockquote>
<p>There were 13,000 Turberculosis cases in 2008. In 2006, the last year they recorded deaths of TB, there were 644 deaths. THAT is a serious disease.</p>
<p>I have my own theories as to why this Swine flu was so heavily publicized.</p>
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		<title>In Memoriam &#8211; 63 Years Later</title>
		<link>http://www.subtlerantings.com/2009/04/29/in-memoriam-63-years-later/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:33:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From an email I received: It is now more than 60 years after the Second World War in Europe ended. This e-mail is being sent as a reminder, in memory of the six million Jews, 20 million Russians, 10 million Christians and 1,900 Catholic priests who were murdered, massacred, raped, burned, starved and humiliated, with [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.subtlerantings.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/image002.jpg" alt="In Memoriam - Holocaust" title="Non Sequitur" width="398" height="1610" class="size-full wp-image-241" /></p>
<p>From an email I received:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>It is now more than 60 years after the Second World War in Europe ended. This e-mail is being sent as a reminder, in memory of the six million Jews, 20 million Russians, 10 million Christians and 1,900 Catholic priests who were murdered, massacred, raped, burned, starved and humiliated, with the German and Russian peoples looking the other way!</p>
<p>Now, more than ever, with Iraq, Iran, and others, claiming the Holocaust to be &#8216;a myth,&#8217; it&#8217;s imperative to make sure the world never forgets, because there are others who would like to do it again.</p>
<p>Is it going to happen in South Africa with government saying there are too many Christian Holidays and considering removing Easter and Christmas from the calendar (Ascension day has already gone!)</em></p></blockquote>
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