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	<description>Straight Comment on North American Politics</description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 16:13:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>I Give &#8220;Props&#8221; to the Canadian Government For One Thing.</title>
		<link>http://ballounpost.com/2010/01/07/i-give-props-to-the-canadian-government-for-one-thing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 04:19:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roland Balloun</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Canadian Politics]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[auto industry bailout]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Canadian Flag]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[give props]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[high five]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Industry Minister]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[James Flaherty]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Minister of Finance]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Tony Clement]]></category>

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To give props is to say, &#8220;good job&#8221; - high five and all that.
I&#8217;m saying good on you to the Canadian government for responding to a citizen&#8217;s inquiry.  My inquiry to be specific.  I actually received a response&#8211;not a form letter.  Hey, all you American citizens, write Secretary Clinton or someone else in the U.S. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Afghanistan is a Shell Game.</title>
		<link>http://ballounpost.com/2009/12/18/obamas-afghanistan-is-a-shell-game/</link>
		<comments>http://ballounpost.com/2009/12/18/obamas-afghanistan-is-a-shell-game/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 00:27:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roland Balloun</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[American Politics]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Kazari]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Kucinich]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Pelosi]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[shell game]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[shills]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[troop deployment]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[troop withdrawal]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ Obama would probably have more success with some of his foreign policy if his own party did not control both the House and Senate.  The country is no longer teetering on the precipice of total leadership failure--it is already there.]]></description>
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		<title>Are Great Waves of Political Bounty Coming?</title>
		<link>http://ballounpost.com/2009/12/09/are-great-waves-of-political-bounty-coming/</link>
		<comments>http://ballounpost.com/2009/12/09/are-great-waves-of-political-bounty-coming/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 03:34:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roland Balloun</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[American Politics]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Chamber of Commerce]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Going Rouge]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Harry Reid]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Michael Steele]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Nancy Pelosi]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[political bounty]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[RNC]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Sarah Palin]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Tom Donohue]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[U.S. politics]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Velvet Revolution]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Zeese]]></category>

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New Political Hard-Ball Begins.
Did you seen this &#8220;Wanted Poster&#8221; referencing Chamber of Commerce President Tom Donohue?  Outrageous.  A liberal activist group, called Velvet Revolution (cute eh?) has put a de facto bounty of $200,000 on Tom Donohue.  The offer is real and it seeks to flush out any criminal wrong doing in Donohue&#8217;s past.  The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Five Reasons You Care About Murray v. Geithner  (click here)</title>
		<link>http://ballounpost.com/2009/05/12/five-reasons-you-care-about-murray-v-geithner-click-here/</link>
		<comments>http://ballounpost.com/2009/05/12/five-reasons-you-care-about-murray-v-geithner-click-here/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 22:35:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roland Balloun</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[American Politics]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[AIG]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[bailout]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[EESA of 2008]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Establishment Clause]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[First Amendment]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Flast v. Cohen]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Free Exercise Clause]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Geithner]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[infidel]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Islamic Law]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Judge Zatkoff]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Kevin J. Murray]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Legal standing]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Made on a Mac]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Magistrate Majzoub]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Shariah compliant]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Shariah Law]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Washtenaw County]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ ]]></description>
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		<title>STV and B.C. Electoral Reform?  What?   (click here)</title>
		<link>http://ballounpost.com/2009/05/01/stv-and-bc-electoral-reform-what-click-here/</link>
		<comments>http://ballounpost.com/2009/05/01/stv-and-bc-electoral-reform-what-click-here/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 20:10:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roland Balloun</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Canadian Politics]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[BC Elections]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[FPTP]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Ireland Elections]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Malta Elections]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[NoSTV]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[STV]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[STV Join]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Tasmania elections]]></category>

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Tasmania, Malta, and Ireland have one thing in common.
These countries use a voting system referred to as STV (Single Transferrable Vote).  For the second time in less than a decade, the proponents of STV here in British Columbia have been successful in getting a Referendum on the ballot.  There are less than 11 days remaining [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Should Obama Be Charged With Wire Fraud, or RICO Violations?</title>
		<link>http://ballounpost.com/2009/04/02/should-obama-be-charged-with-wire-fraud-or-rico-violations/</link>
		<comments>http://ballounpost.com/2009/04/02/should-obama-be-charged-with-wire-fraud-or-rico-violations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 02:06:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roland Balloun</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[2008 Election]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[American Politics]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[election fraud]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[fraud on the factum]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[mail fraud]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Obama liar]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[politicians]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Presidential election]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[RICO]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[voter fraud]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[wire fraud]]></category>

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Shouldn&#8217;t Presidential Candidates be held to the same conduct standard you are held to?
Why do we allow Presidential candidates and other politicians to make promises that we the voters &#8220;rely&#8221; on and then simply ignore the fact that they do not fulfill their promises?  Not only do they not fulfill their promises&#8211;they often show a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama’s Executive Orders Suck No. 3 (click here)</title>
		<link>http://ballounpost.com/2009/03/29/obama%e2%80%99s-executive-orders-suck-no-3-click-here/</link>
		<comments>http://ballounpost.com/2009/03/29/obama%e2%80%99s-executive-orders-suck-no-3-click-here/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2009 17:51:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roland Balloun</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[American Politics]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[2009 Executive Order]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Davis-Bacon]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Executive Order 13202]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Executive Orders]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[February 9]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[federal construction projects]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[federal funds]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[OMB]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[President Bush]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[U.S. politics]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Union Wages]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ballounpost.com/?p=1052</guid>
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With all the attention by the media on the economy, the corruption, the spendulous, budget crisis, Obama, Turbo Tax Cheat Geithner, and billions of taxpayer money being wasted, there is very little time to absorb much more of the information that we are all bombarded with daily.  However, behind the scenes much is always going [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Lewenza &amp; The CAW Are Misleading Canadians (click here)</title>
		<link>http://ballounpost.com/2009/03/18/how-lewenza-the-caw-is-misleading-canadians/</link>
		<comments>http://ballounpost.com/2009/03/18/how-lewenza-the-caw-is-misleading-canadians/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 19:56:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roland Balloun</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Canadian Politics]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Big Three]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Canada government loans]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[CAW]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Chrysler]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Flaherty]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[GM]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[hyundai workers]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[kia workers]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[labor costs]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Lewenza]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Tom LaSorda]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Tony Clement]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[wage cuts]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[



 
CAW President Lewenza &#8212; Here we go again with the &#8220;I&#8217;m angry&#8221; thing.
On December 9, 2008, I wrote an article here that quotes the Canadian Auto Workers&#8217; Union President, Ken Lewenza as saying that he was pissed off.  Now, according to an article quoting Lewenza in the Toronto Sun on March 17th, he &#8220;. . . [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are You In Favor Of Sending $900 Million To Gaza? (click here)</title>
		<link>http://ballounpost.com/2009/03/08/taxpayers-are-you-in-favor-of-sending-900-million-to-gaza/</link>
		<comments>http://ballounpost.com/2009/03/08/taxpayers-are-you-in-favor-of-sending-900-million-to-gaza/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2009 20:19:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roland Balloun</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[American Politics]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[CNN-Responses]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Clinton]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Democratic Underground]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Executive Memorandum]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Fahad]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Hamas]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[League of Arab States]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Palestinian Authority]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[rocket attacks]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[U.S. Aid]]></category>

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We Already Gave $20.3 Million in February!  Executive Memorandums Suck.
Using one of those highly publicized Presidential memorandums&#8211;a simple stroke of his pen, Obama sent $20.3 million of your tax dollars to Hamas!  The February memorandum states that the money is for urgent migration need for the people living in Gaza&#8211;which is controlled and governed by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Even Jayhawkers Are Against Obama &#8220;Spendulus&#8221; Stimulus (click here)</title>
		<link>http://ballounpost.com/2009/02/25/even-jayhawkers-are-against-obama-spendulus-stimulus/</link>
		<comments>http://ballounpost.com/2009/02/25/even-jayhawkers-are-against-obama-spendulus-stimulus/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 02:13:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roland Balloun</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[American Politics]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[children's financial future]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Jayhawker]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Kansas]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Ron Paul]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Senator Brownback]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Senator Roberts]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[spendulus]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[stimulus]]></category>

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Okay, I admit it.  I was born in Kansas!
However, when I say Jayhawkers are against the Obama stimulus package, I am not just referring to myself.  If you&#8217;re really not that familiar with Kansas and its politics; here&#8217;s some &#8220;cliffsnotes&#8221; on the topic.  First, lets identify what the hec a &#8220;Jayhawker&#8221; is.   By the [...]]]></description>
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