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		<title>By: FrankC</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2013/09/19/well-i-think-its-an-improvement/#comment-26905</link>
		<dc:creator>FrankC</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Sep 2013 22:39:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hey, blame the generator, not me. But, I do love mumpish.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey, blame the generator, not me. But, I do love mumpish.</p>
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		<title>By: Jody</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2013/09/19/well-i-think-its-an-improvement/#comment-26904</link>
		<dc:creator>Jody</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Sep 2013 22:04:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Don&#039;t make me get out my ninja dictionary!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Don&#8217;t make me get out my ninja dictionary!</p>
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		<title>By: TB</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2013/09/19/well-i-think-its-an-improvement/#comment-26903</link>
		<dc:creator>TB</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Sep 2013 21:58:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Aha!&lt;/p&gt;

I think I&#039;ve figured out how ER manages his prolific output level.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Aha!</p>
<p>I think I&#8217;ve figured out how ER manages his prolific output level.</p>
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		<title>By: FrankC</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2013/09/19/well-i-think-its-an-improvement/#comment-26900</link>
		<dc:creator>FrankC</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Sep 2013 20:51:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I have had enough of the Republican Party! As this letter will make clear, I can&#039;t understand why the Republican Party has to be so mumpish. Maybe a dybbuk has taken up residence inside the Republican Party&#039;s head and is making it capitalize on our needs and vulnerabilities. It&#039;s a bit more likely, however, that after hearing about its patronizing attempts to doctor evidence and classification systems and make purblind generalizations to support parvanimous, preconceived views, I was saddened. I was saddened that it has lowered itself to this level. To be quite frank, if the Republican Party were to get its greasy hands on the levers of power it&#039;d immediately rob Peter to pay Paul. If you don&#039;t believe me then consider that you may make the comment, &quot;What does this have to do with unrealistic, ill-natured Luddites?&quot; Well, once you begin to see the light you&#039;ll realize that if I had my druthers, it would never have had the opportunity to inspire a recrudescence of conceited fatuity. As it stands, the Republican Party likes effecting complete and total control over every human being on the planet, which puts it somewhere between an iconoclastic kleptocrat and an amateurish, tyrannical slanderer on the narcissism org chart.

Tell me something: Do the Republican Party&#039;s casus belli appear reasonable to anyone other than hopeless slicksters? You see, the Republican Party always puts a fugleman in charge of ushering in the rule of the Antichrist and the apocalyptic end times. That way, the Republican Party can feign innocence, as it wasn&#039;t the one who did anything wrong. In fact, it can easily deny that statements like, &quot;Its comments should be recorded and studied for as long as human life exists on Earth as an example of what happens when a society lets one of its members destroy our sense of safety in the places we ordinarily imagine we can flee to&quot; accurately express the feelings of most of us here. In my observations upon isolationism, I have expressed no opinion thus far of the mode of its extinguishment or melioration. I will note, however, though I still have nothing to propose, that I would be grateful if the Republican Party would take a little time from its rigorous schedule to oppose evil wherever it rears its chauvinistic head. Of course, pigs will grow wings and fly before that ever happens.

In many ways, if the Republican Party would abandon its name-calling and false dichotomies it would be much easier for me to encourage the ethos of exchange value over use value. If my own experience has taught me anything, it&#039;s that some people have said that to ignore this issue is to deliver an additional blow to dignity and self-worth. Maybe. But I&#039;m more inclined to believe that I have often maintained that reasonable people can reasonably disagree. Unfortunately, when dealing with the Republican Party and its compatriots in elitism, that claim assumes facts not in evidence. So let me claim instead that I am aware that many people may object to the severity of my language. But is there no cause for severity? Naturally, I contend that there is because the Republican Party extricates itself from difficulty by intrigue, by chicanery, by dissimulation, by trimming, by an untruth, by an injustice. I wouldn&#039;t waste my time trying to free people from the fetters of recidivism&#039;s poisonous embrace if the Republican Party&#039;s ebullition weren&#039;t parroted by so many sex-crazed present-day robber barons. And that&#039;s the honest truth.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have had enough of the Republican Party! As this letter will make clear, I can&#8217;t understand why the Republican Party has to be so mumpish. Maybe a dybbuk has taken up residence inside the Republican Party&#8217;s head and is making it capitalize on our needs and vulnerabilities. It&#8217;s a bit more likely, however, that after hearing about its patronizing attempts to doctor evidence and classification systems and make purblind generalizations to support parvanimous, preconceived views, I was saddened. I was saddened that it has lowered itself to this level. To be quite frank, if the Republican Party were to get its greasy hands on the levers of power it&#8217;d immediately rob Peter to pay Paul. If you don&#8217;t believe me then consider that you may make the comment, &#8220;What does this have to do with unrealistic, ill-natured Luddites?&#8221; Well, once you begin to see the light you&#8217;ll realize that if I had my druthers, it would never have had the opportunity to inspire a recrudescence of conceited fatuity. As it stands, the Republican Party likes effecting complete and total control over every human being on the planet, which puts it somewhere between an iconoclastic kleptocrat and an amateurish, tyrannical slanderer on the narcissism org chart.</p>
<p>Tell me something: Do the Republican Party&#8217;s casus belli appear reasonable to anyone other than hopeless slicksters? You see, the Republican Party always puts a fugleman in charge of ushering in the rule of the Antichrist and the apocalyptic end times. That way, the Republican Party can feign innocence, as it wasn&#8217;t the one who did anything wrong. In fact, it can easily deny that statements like, &#8220;Its comments should be recorded and studied for as long as human life exists on Earth as an example of what happens when a society lets one of its members destroy our sense of safety in the places we ordinarily imagine we can flee to&#8221; accurately express the feelings of most of us here. In my observations upon isolationism, I have expressed no opinion thus far of the mode of its extinguishment or melioration. I will note, however, though I still have nothing to propose, that I would be grateful if the Republican Party would take a little time from its rigorous schedule to oppose evil wherever it rears its chauvinistic head. Of course, pigs will grow wings and fly before that ever happens.</p>
<p>In many ways, if the Republican Party would abandon its name-calling and false dichotomies it would be much easier for me to encourage the ethos of exchange value over use value. If my own experience has taught me anything, it&#8217;s that some people have said that to ignore this issue is to deliver an additional blow to dignity and self-worth. Maybe. But I&#8217;m more inclined to believe that I have often maintained that reasonable people can reasonably disagree. Unfortunately, when dealing with the Republican Party and its compatriots in elitism, that claim assumes facts not in evidence. So let me claim instead that I am aware that many people may object to the severity of my language. But is there no cause for severity? Naturally, I contend that there is because the Republican Party extricates itself from difficulty by intrigue, by chicanery, by dissimulation, by trimming, by an untruth, by an injustice. I wouldn&#8217;t waste my time trying to free people from the fetters of recidivism&#8217;s poisonous embrace if the Republican Party&#8217;s ebullition weren&#8217;t parroted by so many sex-crazed present-day robber barons. And that&#8217;s the honest truth.</p>
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		<title>By: FrankC</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2013/09/19/well-i-think-its-an-improvement/#comment-26898</link>
		<dc:creator>FrankC</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Sep 2013 20:12:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pakin.org/complaint/&quot; =&quot;nofollow&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Scott Pakin&#039;s automatic complaint generator,&lt;/a&gt; it&#039;s a hoot to me. It has been around for at least 10-12 years and I forget about it until something reminds me of it.

Here are a couple of examples,

Organization complaint:

Gather round, kids. Settle down now. And no hitting. I&#039;m going to tell you a story about the way that Obama administration seems to have trouble constructing a grammatically correct sentence. Before examining the present situation, however, it is important that I fight on the battleground of ideas for our inalienable individual rights.

Worst of all, our children&#039;s children would never forgive us for letting Obama administration focus too much on one side of the equation and not enough on the broader perspective of things. To change the topic slightly, Obama administration&#039;s favorite buzzword these days is &quot;crisis&quot;. It likes to tell us that we have a crisis on our hands. It then argues that the only reasonable approach to combat this crisis is for it to represent Heaven as Hell and, conversely, the most wretched life as paradise. In my opinion, the real crisis is the dearth of people who understand that Obama administration favors awarding &quot;get out of jail free&quot; cards to convicted traitors (as long as they happen to be members of Obama administration&#039;s brown-nosing junta). Why do I tell you this? Because these days, no one else has the guts to. Having reached this letter&#039;s desition, I just want to leave you with the thought that Obama administration places its indelible imprimatur upon a form of serfism that is fundamentally, pervasively, and inescapably lascivious.

Personal complaint:

Over the past few weeks, I&#039;ve learned to look past FrankC&#039;s homicidal conclusions. I&#039;ve learned to look past some of the meddlesome things FrankC has said. I&#039;ve even learned to look past his attempts to do exactly the things he accuses conniving maniacs of doing. But I cannot stay silent about FrankC&#039;s incomprehensible and unforgivable audacity regarding a specific event that recently occurred. Those readers of brittle disposition might do well to await a ride on the next emotionally indulgent transport; this one is scheduled nonstop over rocky roads. As soon as you&#039;re strapped in I&#039;ll announce something to the effect of how mass anxiety is the equivalent of steroids for FrankC. If we feel helpless, FrankC is energized and ramps up his efforts to intensify race hatred. Now for some parting advice: Look at the facts. Analyze the arguments. Think about the motives of the people who are telling you that collectivism resonates with the body&#039;s natural alpha waves. And have confidence in yourself. Remember, the people with the smallest minds always have the biggest mouths.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.pakin.org/complaint/" ="nofollow" rel="nofollow">Scott Pakin&#8217;s automatic complaint generator,</a> it&#8217;s a hoot to me. It has been around for at least 10-12 years and I forget about it until something reminds me of it.</p>
<p>Here are a couple of examples,</p>
<p>Organization complaint:</p>
<p>Gather round, kids. Settle down now. And no hitting. I&#8217;m going to tell you a story about the way that Obama administration seems to have trouble constructing a grammatically correct sentence. Before examining the present situation, however, it is important that I fight on the battleground of ideas for our inalienable individual rights.</p>
<p>Worst of all, our children&#8217;s children would never forgive us for letting Obama administration focus too much on one side of the equation and not enough on the broader perspective of things. To change the topic slightly, Obama administration&#8217;s favorite buzzword these days is &#8220;crisis&#8221;. It likes to tell us that we have a crisis on our hands. It then argues that the only reasonable approach to combat this crisis is for it to represent Heaven as Hell and, conversely, the most wretched life as paradise. In my opinion, the real crisis is the dearth of people who understand that Obama administration favors awarding &#8220;get out of jail free&#8221; cards to convicted traitors (as long as they happen to be members of Obama administration&#8217;s brown-nosing junta). Why do I tell you this? Because these days, no one else has the guts to. Having reached this letter&#8217;s desition, I just want to leave you with the thought that Obama administration places its indelible imprimatur upon a form of serfism that is fundamentally, pervasively, and inescapably lascivious.</p>
<p>Personal complaint:</p>
<p>Over the past few weeks, I&#8217;ve learned to look past FrankC&#8217;s homicidal conclusions. I&#8217;ve learned to look past some of the meddlesome things FrankC has said. I&#8217;ve even learned to look past his attempts to do exactly the things he accuses conniving maniacs of doing. But I cannot stay silent about FrankC&#8217;s incomprehensible and unforgivable audacity regarding a specific event that recently occurred. Those readers of brittle disposition might do well to await a ride on the next emotionally indulgent transport; this one is scheduled nonstop over rocky roads. As soon as you&#8217;re strapped in I&#8217;ll announce something to the effect of how mass anxiety is the equivalent of steroids for FrankC. If we feel helpless, FrankC is energized and ramps up his efforts to intensify race hatred. Now for some parting advice: Look at the facts. Analyze the arguments. Think about the motives of the people who are telling you that collectivism resonates with the body&#8217;s natural alpha waves. And have confidence in yourself. Remember, the people with the smallest minds always have the biggest mouths.</p>
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		<title>By: TB</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2013/09/19/well-i-think-its-an-improvement/#comment-26879</link>
		<dc:creator>TB</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Sep 2013 03:02:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;I now have the power to destroy.  :)&lt;/p&gt;

Just take any one of the typical long-winded demagoguery dumps around here, copy it, run it through &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gizoogle.net/textilizer.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the translator,&lt;/a&gt; and post it as a response.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I now have the power to destroy.  <img src='https://habitablezone.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>Just take any one of the typical long-winded demagoguery dumps around here, copy it, run it through <a href="http://www.gizoogle.net/textilizer.php" rel="nofollow">the translator,</a> and post it as a response.</p>
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		<title>By: Jody</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2013/09/19/well-i-think-its-an-improvement/#comment-26878</link>
		<dc:creator>Jody</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Sep 2013 02:38:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I sure as hell couldn&#039;t Flame anyone with this. I can&#039;t even take myself seriously.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I sure as hell couldn&#8217;t Flame anyone with this. I can&#8217;t even take myself seriously.</p>
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