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		<title>By: Shiloh Walker</title>
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		<dc:creator>Shiloh Walker</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 14:03:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;Fencing original Indiana people in first, of course…now THERE’S a good use of Apartheid!&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Uh... you know, some of us that live in Indiana might not much like that.

The idiot actions of a few aren&#039;t indicative of the whole.  Because if there were, we wouldn&#039;t have too many states worth living in.  You hear about fools from California, Alabama, Kansas, Ohio, Illinois, New York...and the list goes on.

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their airborne mercury rates are through the roof…wait, maybe that is why their I.Q.s seem so low…its a vicious cycle…maybe that is what is wrong with Indiana…&lt;/blockquote&gt;

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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>Fencing original Indiana people in first, of course…now THERE’S a good use of Apartheid!</p></blockquote>
<p>Uh&#8230; you know, some of us that live in Indiana might not much like that.</p>
<p>The idiot actions of a few aren&#8217;t indicative of the whole.  Because if there were, we wouldn&#8217;t have too many states worth living in.  You hear about fools from California, Alabama, Kansas, Ohio, Illinois, New York&#8230;and the list goes on.</p>
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their airborne mercury rates are through the roof…wait, maybe that is why their I.Q.s seem so low…its a vicious cycle…maybe that is what is wrong with Indiana…</p></blockquote>
<p>This isn&#8217;t even worth responding to.</p>
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		<title>By: Liz</title>
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		<dc:creator>Liz</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 12:09:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Wow, having lived in Indiana for 58 years, I&#039;ve never known a &quot;nutjob&quot; like Mr. Zirkle, nor any other nutjobs who would want to fence the rest of us up. If that&#039;s an example of how others feel, I guess I&#039;d just as soon be left alone here. Where, you know, I like it. I pay my taxes, I vote how I like, and I don&#039;t feel compelled to write insulting things about other people.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wow, having lived in Indiana for 58 years, I&#8217;ve never known a &#8220;nutjob&#8221; like Mr. Zirkle, nor any other nutjobs who would want to fence the rest of us up. If that&#8217;s an example of how others feel, I guess I&#8217;d just as soon be left alone here. Where, you know, I like it. I pay my taxes, I vote how I like, and I don&#8217;t feel compelled to write insulting things about other people.</p>
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		<title>By: cjs</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 20:25:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Corrine has it right--what is NOT wrong with Indiana?  Obama&#039;s campaigners were chased by dogs, had racial epithets screamed at them, and exposed to other blatant signs of ignorance.  It&#039;s no wonder they can&#039;t get a decent state economy going.  And now they want to allow ANOTHER BP refinery on the shore of Lake Michigan--SANS pollution controls!  The neighboring states are enraged, and even Canadians who share the lake are half-kiddingly pondering invasion of Indiana.  The crap they put in the water and the air....their airborne mercury rates are through the roof...wait, maybe that is why their I.Q.s seem so low...its a vicious cycle...maybe that is what is wrong with Indiana...I think we should divide the state up and have neighboring states absorb it.  Fencing original Indiana people in first, of course...now THERE&#039;S a good use of Apartheid!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Corrine has it right&#8211;what is NOT wrong with Indiana?  Obama&#8217;s campaigners were chased by dogs, had racial epithets screamed at them, and exposed to other blatant signs of ignorance.  It&#8217;s no wonder they can&#8217;t get a decent state economy going.  And now they want to allow ANOTHER BP refinery on the shore of Lake Michigan&#8211;SANS pollution controls!  The neighboring states are enraged, and even Canadians who share the lake are half-kiddingly pondering invasion of Indiana.  The crap they put in the water and the air&#8230;.their airborne mercury rates are through the roof&#8230;wait, maybe that is why their I.Q.s seem so low&#8230;its a vicious cycle&#8230;maybe that is what is wrong with Indiana&#8230;I think we should divide the state up and have neighboring states absorb it.  Fencing original Indiana people in first, of course&#8230;now THERE&#8217;S a good use of Apartheid!</p>
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		<title>By: Leah</title>
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		<dc:creator>Leah</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 19:10:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I livein Indiana and I feel compelled to say--we&#039;re not all like that! In fact, I have lived here all my life, and I have never met such a nutjob as Mr Zirkle.  Indiana has grown increasingly diverse in the past 40 years; even the dinky little town we just spent 3 yrs in had a growing Hispanic, East Asian, and African-American pop.  We now live in a small city which is a geographic hub.  My kids&#039;elementary and preschool is like a mini-UN.  I grew up in a biracial family in the 60-80s, when we got lots of stares and coemments (many not very nice). I had a Sudanese boyfriend for 5 yrs, when interracial relationships were considered ill-advised.  Now, even here in red-state Indiana, most people don&#039;t give either situation a second thought or glance.  Those who do are liable to be elderly.

As far as our primaries go--municipal politics tend to be dirty.  Dems often win locally, Republicans, nationally.  Primaries are pretty boring. This year&#039;s attention is SO exciting--we&#039;ll never see it again in my lifetime.  But if Obama loses this state,it won&#039;t be because of his race.  It will be because people worry that he&#039;s just a feel-good speaker and that Hillary has more of the political exposure and influence needed to get things done.  I myself planned to vote for Obama, but as the day approaches, I am seriously considering Hillary because her healthcare plan is better.

Some areas of Indiana--Kokomo, Elwood, Martinsville, and even Muncie,where I grew up, had a reputation, in the 1st half of the 20t cy, for being a hotbed of KKK and similar actvity.  The State Historical Soc. (in the early 90&#039;s, at least) kept the membership rolls of that org. sealed to presumably protect ex-members and relatives. But Indiana, like the rest of the country, keeps growing and changing, hopefully for the better</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I livein Indiana and I feel compelled to say&#8211;we&#8217;re not all like that! In fact, I have lived here all my life, and I have never met such a nutjob as Mr Zirkle.  Indiana has grown increasingly diverse in the past 40 years; even the dinky little town we just spent 3 yrs in had a growing Hispanic, East Asian, and African-American pop.  We now live in a small city which is a geographic hub.  My kids&#8217;elementary and preschool is like a mini-UN.  I grew up in a biracial family in the 60-80s, when we got lots of stares and coemments (many not very nice). I had a Sudanese boyfriend for 5 yrs, when interracial relationships were considered ill-advised.  Now, even here in red-state Indiana, most people don&#8217;t give either situation a second thought or glance.  Those who do are liable to be elderly.</p>
<p>As far as our primaries go&#8211;municipal politics tend to be dirty.  Dems often win locally, Republicans, nationally.  Primaries are pretty boring. This year&#8217;s attention is SO exciting&#8211;we&#8217;ll never see it again in my lifetime.  But if Obama loses this state,it won&#8217;t be because of his race.  It will be because people worry that he&#8217;s just a feel-good speaker and that Hillary has more of the political exposure and influence needed to get things done.  I myself planned to vote for Obama, but as the day approaches, I am seriously considering Hillary because her healthcare plan is better.</p>
<p>Some areas of Indiana&#8211;Kokomo, Elwood, Martinsville, and even Muncie,where I grew up, had a reputation, in the 1st half of the 20t cy, for being a hotbed of KKK and similar actvity.  The State Historical Soc. (in the early 90&#8217;s, at least) kept the membership rolls of that org. sealed to presumably protect ex-members and relatives. But Indiana, like the rest of the country, keeps growing and changing, hopefully for the better</p>
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		<title>By: Ann Bruce</title>
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		<dc:creator>Ann Bruce</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 18:53:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It&#039;s scary that he&#039;s spouting this trash and believes it. It&#039;s scarier that there are people who will vote for him.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s scary that he&#8217;s spouting this trash and believes it. It&#8217;s scarier that there are people who will vote for him.</p>
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		<title>By: Corrine E. Lagacy</title>
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		<dc:creator>Corrine E. Lagacy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 18:41:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;&quot;What&#039;s wrong with Indiana?&quot;&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Have you ever &lt;em&gt;been&lt;/em&gt; to Indiana? What&#039;s not wrong with it would be a more apt question. Speaking as someone who lives just beyond the IL-IN border, I vote we relinquish Indiana to... well, pretty much anywhere. Not that I don&#039;t have friends who live there --- living so close, it&#039;s impossible not to, but as a collective whole... not the best portrait of the Midwestern American.</description>
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<p>Have you ever <em>been</em> to Indiana? What&#8217;s not wrong with it would be a more apt question. Speaking as someone who lives just beyond the IL-IN border, I vote we relinquish Indiana to&#8230; well, pretty much anywhere. Not that I don&#8217;t have friends who live there &#8212; living so close, it&#8217;s impossible not to, but as a collective whole&#8230; not the best portrait of the Midwestern American.</p>
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		<title>By: Rebecca</title>
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		<dc:creator>Rebecca</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 18:13:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>He says even more.  A Fox news article quotes him:


&lt;blockquote&gt;The personal-injury lawyer says he’s running for Congress to combat &quot;the genocide of the white race&quot; that pornography is causing — an &quot;unholy pornocaust&quot; against white Christian women.

&quot;We now have a small army of male black porn stars that are sifting through five, ten, fifteen thousand women,&quot; he said. &quot;One man can now genocide the wombs of thousands of women,&quot; infecting them with sexually transmitted diseases that leave them barren.

He calls it &quot;Porn mule womb slaughter . . . the most effective weapon of mass destruction.&quot;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Obviously he doesn&#039;t bother himself with pesky little facts or making sense when he talks.  Why are the white Christian women having sex with black porn stars? Not that they can&#039;t, but usually when politicians start talking about Christian women they mean married, monogamous women. What is going through his mind to come up with this? 

&lt;blockquote&gt;&quot;What most people don’t know about me is that I’m the father of three beautiful Jewish Christian children,&quot; he said, explaining that his wife had converted from Judaism to Christianity. &quot;I’m obviously not going to be out for gassing innocent Jews.&quot;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;

So he won&#039;t kill his wife or daughters,  because they are &quot;innocent jews.&quot;  But if you&#039;re guilty Jews . . . 

&lt;blockquote&gt;Yet he blames Jews for much of the plight of white women in America. &quot;The massive number of Jews in the [pornography] industry basically brag about it,&quot; he said, asserting that &quot;most of the early porn stars were Jewish men.&quot;

Zirkle said he doesn’t expect to win on Tuesday, but &quot;winning is not my primary objective. My primary objective is to educate and inform.&quot;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;

To educate others you need to be educated yourself. 
And yet can someone who&#039;s living in his own little world be educated?

Fox news did report that he&#039;s never been elected, but he did get 30% of the primary vote in a previous election and the Republican party is endorsing the other candidate for this primary.
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>He says even more.  A Fox news article quotes him:</p>
<blockquote><p>The personal-injury lawyer says he’s running for Congress to combat &#8220;the genocide of the white race&#8221; that pornography is causing — an &#8220;unholy pornocaust&#8221; against white Christian women.</p>
<p>&#8220;We now have a small army of male black porn stars that are sifting through five, ten, fifteen thousand women,&#8221; he said. &#8220;One man can now genocide the wombs of thousands of women,&#8221; infecting them with sexually transmitted diseases that leave them barren.</p>
<p>He calls it &#8220;Porn mule womb slaughter . . . the most effective weapon of mass destruction.&#8221;
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<p>Obviously he doesn&#8217;t bother himself with pesky little facts or making sense when he talks.  Why are the white Christian women having sex with black porn stars? Not that they can&#8217;t, but usually when politicians start talking about Christian women they mean married, monogamous women. What is going through his mind to come up with this? </p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;What most people don’t know about me is that I’m the father of three beautiful Jewish Christian children,&#8221; he said, explaining that his wife had converted from Judaism to Christianity. &#8220;I’m obviously not going to be out for gassing innocent Jews.&#8221;
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<p>So he won&#8217;t kill his wife or daughters,  because they are &#8220;innocent jews.&#8221;  But if you&#8217;re guilty Jews . . . </p>
<blockquote><p>Yet he blames Jews for much of the plight of white women in America. &#8220;The massive number of Jews in the [pornography] industry basically brag about it,&#8221; he said, asserting that &#8220;most of the early porn stars were Jewish men.&#8221;</p>
<p>Zirkle said he doesn’t expect to win on Tuesday, but &#8220;winning is not my primary objective. My primary objective is to educate and inform.&#8221;
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<p>To educate others you need to be educated yourself.<br />
And yet can someone who&#8217;s living in his own little world be educated?</p>
<p>Fox news did report that he&#8217;s never been elected, but he did get 30% of the primary vote in a previous election and the Republican party is endorsing the other candidate for this primary.</p>
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		<description>Scary shit. Just scary. As I plan my son&#039;s bar mitzvah, and think that tomorrow is Holocaust remembrance day, knowing that we can possibly elect idiots like this just scares the living daylights out of me.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Scary shit. Just scary. As I plan my son&#8217;s bar mitzvah, and think that tomorrow is Holocaust remembrance day, knowing that we can possibly elect idiots like this just scares the living daylights out of me.</p>
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		<title>By: ジェーン(Jān)</title>
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		<dc:creator>ジェーン(Jān)</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 23:02:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Whey said:
&lt;blockquote&gt;I really, really, &lt;i&gt;really&lt;i&gt; need a good book to read.&lt;/blockquote&gt;

*points down the front page*

Lady Elizabeth&#039;s Comet by Sheila Simonson  :)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Whey said:</p>
<blockquote><p>I really, really, <i>really</i><i> need a good book to read.</i></p></blockquote>
<p>*points down the front page*</p>
<p>Lady Elizabeth&#8217;s Comet by Sheila Simonson  :)</p>
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		<title>By: Sherry Thomas</title>
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		<dc:creator>Sherry Thomas</dc:creator>
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		<description>And I just finished reading City of Shadows, set in Germany between the two great wars, as the Nazis were coming into power.

Wrenching.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>And I just finished reading City of Shadows, set in Germany between the two great wars, as the Nazis were coming into power.</p>
<p>Wrenching.</p>
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