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		<title>radio silence.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Nov 2010 18:30:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think I&#8217;m burned out from the news. Too much salt, not enough sweet. I&#8217;m trying to catch up yet find myself sinking deep into a malaise, my eyes flood with too much information. It&#8217;s difficult for me to focus on a single item long enough to concentrate. I read somewhere that the internet is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bellewetherstate.com&#038;blog=8733293&#038;post=1134&#038;subd=thebellewetherstate&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>what narcissism means to me&#8230; a mixtape.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Nov 2010 14:47:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Syreeta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[1. Clip from taped interview with George W. Bush for Matt Lauer Reports: MATT LAUER: Well, what he said, &#8220;George Bush doesn&#8217;t care about black people.&#8221; PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH: That&#8217;s &#8211; &#8220;he&#8217;s a racist.&#8221; And I didn&#8217;t appreciate it then. I don&#8217;t appreciate it now. It&#8217;s one thing to say, &#8220;I don&#8217;t appreciate the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bellewetherstate.com&#038;blog=8733293&#038;post=1099&#038;subd=thebellewetherstate&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;bless his heart, i ain&#8217;t never done nothing to&#8230;&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://bellewetherstate.com/2010/09/24/bless-his-heart-i-aint-never-done-nothing-to/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Sep 2010 16:26:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Syreeta</dc:creator>
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		<title>the art of storytelling part 1.</title>
		<link>http://bellewetherstate.com/2010/04/26/the-art-of-storytelling-part-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 22:07:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Syreeta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Confession: I love Auditorium. Here&#8217;s the thing: I&#8217;m not really a hip-hop head. I don&#8217;t have a vast encyclopedia of knowledge of beats, rhymes and tracks of everything produce over the past 30 years. I know certain songs from memory because the beat was so sick it moved me, or the lyricism was so ill [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bellewetherstate.com&#038;blog=8733293&#038;post=770&#038;subd=thebellewetherstate&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ballots, bullets and bombs in Afghanistan &#8211; The Big Picture.</title>
		<link>http://bellewetherstate.com/2009/10/13/ballots-bullets-and-bombs-in-afghanistan-the-big-picture/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:05:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Syreeta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[via boston.com All eyes on Afghanistan. Obama has authorized deployment of 13,000 more troops. Although I haven&#8217;t seen the film yet, I plan to see Rethink Afghanistan as soon as I get a free moment. It has been said that wars are necessary to secure a lasting peace, eight years in, I&#8217;ve got too many [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bellewetherstate.com&#038;blog=8733293&#038;post=451&#038;subd=thebellewetherstate&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In The Shadow of No Towers.</title>
		<link>http://bellewetherstate.com/2009/09/11/in-the-shadow-of-no-towers-911/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 14:06:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Syreeta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m talking here about being a child of my time. When I think of September 11th, 2001, I am thinking more of the days just before it. I am remembering Sunday, September 9th. It was a light Sunday afternoon where Lynne, Bassey, Seed and I met up in Fort Greene, had brunch and then not [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bellewetherstate.com&#038;blog=8733293&#038;post=376&#038;subd=thebellewetherstate&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Disambiguation</title>
		<link>http://bellewetherstate.com/2009/05/22/disambiguation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 16:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Syreeta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the ongoing debate about torture versus the rule of law, constitutional values, and American identity and values, the media seemed to miss the mark, not surprisingly again. Jon Stewart still wins. The Daily Show With Jon Stewart M &#8211; Th 11p / 10c American Idealogues thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Economic Crisis Political Humor<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bellewetherstate.com&#038;blog=8733293&#038;post=186&#038;subd=thebellewetherstate&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mirror Error</title>
		<link>http://bellewetherstate.com/2009/05/08/mirror-error/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 15:54:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Syreeta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some other thoughts on the &#8216;T&#8217; word from Andrew Sullivan and blogger Hussein Rashid. Literature has often been a teacher of humanity for me. As this subject is debated over various outlets, my memory takes me back to IB English in 11th grade. Our reading list included Arthur Koestler&#8217;s Darkness at Noon. For those of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bellewetherstate.com&#038;blog=8733293&#038;post=183&#038;subd=thebellewetherstate&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Not In Our Name</title>
		<link>http://bellewetherstate.com/2009/04/27/not-in-our-name/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 14:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Syreeta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.&#8217; &#8211; Martin Luther King I&#8217;m not sure if enough people are talking about this. I&#8217;ve been avoiding it myself. Looking at the issue straight in the eye. See the character of the American people through the actions of our leaders. Honestly, I don&#8217;t want to. But much [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bellewetherstate.com&#038;blog=8733293&#038;post=182&#038;subd=thebellewetherstate&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fellowship of the Ex-Presidents</title>
		<link>http://bellewetherstate.com/2009/01/08/fellowship-of-the-ex-presidents/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 22:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Syreeta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oh, to be a fly on that wall for that conversation&#8230; But my absolute favorite is sitting president W&#8217;s excitement in counting himself as a member of the ex-president&#8217;s club. But body language says a lot. I&#8217;m not sure why Obama and W. were centered the way they were. Carter the furthest away from Clinton [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bellewetherstate.com&#038;blog=8733293&#038;post=131&#038;subd=thebellewetherstate&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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