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		<title>Laughing With God &#8211; Regina Spektor</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:56:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Watch&#8230;&#8230;.Listen&#8230;&#8230;.Think&#8230;&#8230;.Pray&#8230;&#8230;. Laughing With By Regina Spektor No one laughs at God in a hospital; No one laughs at God in a war. No one’s laughing at God when they’re starving or freezing or so very poor. No one laughs at God when the doctor calls after some routine tests. No one’s laughing at God when [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=richardabanes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1526722&amp;post=841&amp;subd=richardabanes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Muslim Demographics &#8211; A Christian Response</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 00:51:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[N]othing burns me up more than being presented with information so thoroughly false, so completely stripped from its context, that it can be considered an outright lie. A lie presented for the sole purpose of manipulating the way I think, what I believe, or how I behave. The video has an agenda. And it pushes [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=richardabanes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1526722&amp;post=812&amp;subd=richardabanes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Obama: A Dream Fulfilled Indeed</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 19:26:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has been alleged by some that Martin Luther King&#8217;s &#8220;dream&#8221; for America and equality in the U.S. has not been fulfilled in Barack Obama. But this view  stems from an unfortunate misunderstanding and a kind of Christianization of King&#8217;s message. MLK, in his famous &#8220;dream&#8221; speech, was not talking about spiritual completion in Christ. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=richardabanes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1526722&amp;post=502&amp;subd=richardabanes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Obama, History, MLK&#8217;s Dream Fulfilled</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 16:54:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Martin Luther King, Jr. (August 28, 1963) I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: &#8220;We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.&#8221; I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=richardabanes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1526722&amp;post=495&amp;subd=richardabanes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cult Tragedy Anniversary &#8211; Jonestown Remembered</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:17:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today a memorial was unveiled in Oakland, California in remembrance of those who lost their lives thirty years ago at Jonestown, Guyana. It was there, under the cult leadership of a madman named Jim Jones, that nearly 1,000 souls died. Although most of the victims committed suicide in a deluded state of obedience and/or resignation [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=richardabanes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1526722&amp;post=457&amp;subd=richardabanes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>THANK YOU VETERANS!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:48:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Veterans, This is your day. I want to say, &#8220;thank you.&#8221; I love the United States. I love my freedom. And I love the many blessings I enjoy each day in this great land of ours: opportunity, safety, unrestricted travel, access to the Internet, a church to attend, friends with whom I can gather [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=richardabanes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1526722&amp;post=436&amp;subd=richardabanes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reply to Shelby Steele &#8211; Los Angeles Times &#8211; Obama</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Nov 2008 17:12:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Regarding the article &#8220;Obama&#8217;s post-racial promise&#8221; by Shelby Steele (a self-described Black Conservative) that appeared in the Los Angeles Times as an Op-Ed piece on Nov. 5, 2008, I have the following remarks: __________ STEELE: Barack Obama seduced whites with a vision of their racial innocence precisely to coerce them into acting out of a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=richardabanes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1526722&amp;post=421&amp;subd=richardabanes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>President Obama! History Is Made!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 15:28:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have all just become a part of history. Congratulations! Each of us can say to future generations: &#8220;I was there when the United States elected its first African-American president. I saw it happen. I participated in making history.&#8221; Whether you love Obama, or whether hate Obama, this is a great day in America. We [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=richardabanes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1526722&amp;post=384&amp;subd=richardabanes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Obama/Biden vs. McCain/Palin</title>
		<link>http://richardabanes.wordpress.com/2008/09/01/obamabiden-vs-mccainpalin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 17:27:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, my friends, the race is on. . . . McCain/Palin vs. Obama/Biden Hold on to your hats. Buckle up your belt. And make sure your shoe laces are knotted up tightly because it&#8217;s gonna be a quite a competition. - How should Christians respond to the debates about to take place? - Who should [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=richardabanes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1526722&amp;post=332&amp;subd=richardabanes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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