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		<title>Happy Anniversary &amp; 200 Posts!!</title>
		<link>http://criticismas.wordpress.com/2009/11/09/happy-anniversary-200-posts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:30:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://criticismas.wordpress.com/?p=1719</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If CAI were a wife then we writers here would be sleeping on the couch.  The one-year anniversary of the launch of this blog occurred on October 23rd, and went sadly unreported.  For those of you who read our blog, we resoundingly thank you for your readership and look forward to another year ahead.
In the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=criticismas.wordpress.com&blog=5399005&post=1719&subd=criticismas&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fair Trade&#8230; For Our Conscience Or Their Benefit?</title>
		<link>http://criticismas.wordpress.com/2009/11/06/fair-trade-for-our-conscience-or-their-benefit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:35:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Belief]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cardus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[coffee]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hernando de Soto]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever talked with people about fair trade, the idea of branding certain commodities that have passed muster as delivering a fair and decent price to its third-world producers?  I have, and they are usually boisterously supportive of it, or at least passively not opposed to it on the grounds of why not?  I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=criticismas.wordpress.com&blog=5399005&post=1713&subd=criticismas&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A year after the election&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://criticismas.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/a-year-after-the-election/</link>
		<comments>http://criticismas.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/a-year-after-the-election/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:50:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elijah</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[approval]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Esquire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gallup]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Richardson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://criticismas.wordpress.com/?p=1708</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It was one year ago today that Barack Obama won the election for the office of the President of the United States.  When he took office in January of this year, President Obama held a nearly 70% approval rating according to the Gallup poll.  As we can observe from the chart below, that approval has [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=criticismas.wordpress.com&blog=5399005&post=1708&subd=criticismas&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Grizzly Bear in Glasgow</title>
		<link>http://criticismas.wordpress.com/2009/11/03/grizzly-bear-in-glasgow/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:04:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elijah</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Music & Film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Glasgow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grizzly Bear]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[O2 ABC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[St. Vincent]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://criticismas.wordpress.com/?p=1693</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What good is an &#8220;international correspondent&#8221; (as I have once been dubbed by Mark) if that correspondent doesn&#8217;t comment on regional happenings?  No good.  So instead of writing about seeing Grizzly Bear, a Brooklyn-based band (whose album Veckatimest is currently my number one pick this year), in America I will briefly comment about their show [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=criticismas.wordpress.com&blog=5399005&post=1693&subd=criticismas&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>This makes me &#8220;laugh&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://criticismas.wordpress.com/2009/11/02/this-makes-me-laugh/</link>
		<comments>http://criticismas.wordpress.com/2009/11/02/this-makes-me-laugh/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 07:41:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sgt. Grumbles</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://criticismas.wordpress.com/?p=1689</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A blog dedicated to documenting unnecessary quotation marks:

&#160;
Posted in Uncategorized       <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=criticismas.wordpress.com&blog=5399005&post=1689&subd=criticismas&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Three Strikes</title>
		<link>http://criticismas.wordpress.com/2009/10/29/three-strikes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:17:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Belief]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[forgiveness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ina Jaffe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mercy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NPR]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Three Strikes Law]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://criticismas.wordpress.com/?p=1681</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[UPDATE: Parts two and three of the series.  Treads similar ground but definitely worth a listen, just about 5 minutes each.
&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;
While the title may lead you to believe this is a baseball post, it is not.  I will leave those inane ramblings about &#8220;the nations pastime&#8221; to Elijah.
Instead. this post is to direct your attention [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=criticismas.wordpress.com&blog=5399005&post=1681&subd=criticismas&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Daniel Smith</title>
		<link>http://criticismas.wordpress.com/2009/10/29/daniel-smith/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:56:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elijah</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Art]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[a Family Movie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bob Dylan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Daniel Smith]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[heroes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jesus Christ]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Gardner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Jersey]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://criticismas.wordpress.com/?p=1674</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In my lifetime I have been blessed with the opportunity to know or at least to be exposed to various people that have a magic in them that necessitate a portion of my devotion &#8211; my heroes.  Among them are people like my father, who taught me the meaning of selflessness, hard work, and patience, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=criticismas.wordpress.com&blog=5399005&post=1674&subd=criticismas&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Andre T. Johnson &#8212; Douchebag</title>
		<link>http://criticismas.wordpress.com/2009/10/26/andre-t-johnson-douchebag/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:26:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sgt. Grumbles</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://criticismas.wordpress.com/?p=1664</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Andre T. Johnson (born August 25, 1973 in Southampton, New York) is a former American football offensive tackle in the National Football League for the Washington Redskins (1996), the Miami Dolphins (1997), and the Detroit Lions (1997-1998).
He played college football at Penn State University and was drafted in the first round of the 1996 NFL [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=criticismas.wordpress.com&blog=5399005&post=1664&subd=criticismas&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Andre Johnson &#8211; Stud</title>
		<link>http://criticismas.wordpress.com/2009/10/20/andre-johnson-stud/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:19:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andre Johnson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[football]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Houston Texans]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://criticismas.wordpress.com/?p=1660</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Hey there sports fans.  As you may know I am a football fan (both of the em!).  And in American football my team is the Houston Texans, currently 3-3 and in 3rd place in the AFC South.  If not for near misses at Arizona and against the Jags we could be sitting pretty just behind [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=criticismas.wordpress.com&blog=5399005&post=1660&subd=criticismas&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My Secret Love Affair with Capitalism</title>
		<link>http://criticismas.wordpress.com/2009/10/16/my-secret-love-affair-with-capitalism/</link>
		<comments>http://criticismas.wordpress.com/2009/10/16/my-secret-love-affair-with-capitalism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:49:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elijah</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[A-Rod]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MLB]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[steroids]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Walmart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yankees]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://criticismas.wordpress.com/?p=1649</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve hinted at this in an earlier post, but I&#8217;ve never made the explicit jump into economics.  Whether a particular American likes it or not, America is primarily possesses a maket-based economy.  The consumer plays a vital role in the market-based economy.  For example, in such a way as to keep a business &#8220;ethical,&#8221; the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=criticismas.wordpress.com&blog=5399005&post=1649&subd=criticismas&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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