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		<title>Lesbian teen sues to force school to hold prom</title>
		<description><![CDATA[JACKSON, Miss. – A lesbian student who wanted to take her girlfriend to her senior prom is asking a federal judge to force her Mississippi school district to reinstate the dance it canceled.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Mississippi on Thursday filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Oxford on behalf of 18-year-old Constance]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brokencountry.com/index.php/2010/03/12/lesbian-teen-sues-to-force-school-to-hold-prom/</link>
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		<title>Los Angeles Driver plunges off bridge, barely alive</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A 24-year-old woman was in critical condition after being pulled from the murky water of the Los Angeles River, where witnesses say her vehicle plunged some 40 feet off a northbound Long Beach Freeway bridge Thursday.
Lizeth Pimentel was in &#8220;very critical condition,&#8221; unconscious and on a ventilator, hospital officials said.
&#8220;She&#8217;s very sick. The next 72]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brokencountry.com/index.php/2010/03/12/los-angeles-driver-plunges-off-bridge-barely-alive/</link>
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		<title>Nurse in bar brutally beaten after rejecting mans advances</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A savage thug followed a nurse into a Hell&#8217;s Kitchen bar bathroom early yesterday and brutally beat her in a stall after she rejected his advances on the dance floor, authorities said.
The 29-year-old victim, whose name is being withheld by The Post, suffered fractures to her eye socket, skull and nose, and needed surgery and]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brokencountry.com/index.php/2010/03/12/nurse-in-bar-brutally-beaten-after-rejecting-mans-advances/</link>
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		<title>Woman, Rose Mankos fatally struck by train after jumping on tracks to retrieve bag</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A woman dropped her gym bag on the tracks of a crowded Upper East Side subway station yesterday — then made the fatal decision to jump after it as screaming straphangers watched in horror.
The 48-year-old victim, identified as Rose Mankos, was crushed by a northbound No. 6 train barreling into the 77th Street Station below]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brokencountry.com/index.php/2010/03/12/woman-rose-mankos-fatally-struck-by-train-after-jumping-on-tracks-to-retrieve-bag/</link>
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		<title>Woman arrested as authorities seize 60 dogs from small home</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ LAKESIDE, Calif. &#8212;  A woman who &#8220;had the best of intentions&#8221; was in custody Wednesday after animal control officers seized 60 dogs in crates inside her small two-bedroom home east of San Diego.
Alice Via, 65, was arrested for investigation of animal cruelty and neglect. She ran what she called the San Diego Boxer]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brokencountry.com/index.php/2010/03/11/woman-arrested-as-authorities-seize-60-dogs-from-small-home/</link>
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		<title>Pelosi&#8217;s Office in the Loop on Massa Months Ago, Sexual Allegations Persist</title>
		<description><![CDATA[House Speaker Nancy Pelosi&#8217;s aides knew about concerns over ex-Rep. Eric Massa&#8217;s behavior as far back as October, Fox News has learned, raising the possibility that the scandal could dog Democratic leaders even though Massa is now out of office. 
On top of that, a slew of outrageous reports and first-hand accounts of Massa&#8217;s sexual]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brokencountry.com/index.php/2010/03/11/pelosis-office-in-the-loop-on-massa-months-ago-sexual-allegations-persist/</link>
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		<title>Strong Earthquakes Rock Chile as Pinera Takes Office</title>
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The thing that no one seems to mention is that most of the country of Chile is located in the Andes Mountains.   These mountains were formed by earthquakes.   
Two strong earthquakes shook Chile Thursday as Sebastian Pinera prepared to take office as the country&#8217;s new president.
The U.S. Geological Survey measured a]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brokencountry.com/index.php/2010/03/11/strong-earthquakes-rock-chile-as-pinera-takes-office/</link>
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		<title>Merlin Olsen dead at 69</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Pro Football Hall of Famer Merlin Olsen has died at 69 after a bout with cancer.  Olsen was a Pro Bowler 14 times in a 15-year career.
The Rams announced the sad news on Twitter. Olsen had been fighting mesothelioma.
Olsen was a member of the Rams&#8217; &#8220;Fearsome Foursome&#8221; with Deacon Jones, Roosevelt Grier and Lamar]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brokencountry.com/index.php/2010/03/11/merlin-olsen-dead-at-69/</link>
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		<title>Drug deal gone bad: Buyer badly beaten by dealer trying to buy dope with Monopoly money</title>
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Maybe he should have thrown in Park Place, too.    We here at the BrokenCountry don&#8217;t get it.  Politicians spend our money like its Monopoly money all day long.  Perhaps this guy intended to run for office.
A man discovered bleeding from the head at a routine traffic stop in Witchita, Kansas, told police he was the]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brokencountry.com/index.php/2010/03/11/drug-deal-gone-bad-buyer-badly-beaten-by-dealer-trying-to-buy-dope-with-monopoly-money/</link>
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		<title>Graphic Video of Dustin Michaels, gay porn star choking on bag of weed after cops tazer him</title>
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A simple early morning disturbance call ended with the death of a gay-porn actor.
And it was all captured on video.
Deputies with the Bay County Sheriff’s Department in Florida arrived at the Executive Inn after Andrew Grande (known professionally as Dustin Michaels), 23, allegedly got into a fight with a female friend, according to Panama City]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brokencountry.com/index.php/2010/03/11/graphic-video-of-dustin-michaels-gay-porn-choking-on-bag-of-weed-after-cops-tazer-him/</link>
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		<title>Two people stabbed by High schoolers in subway</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Two people were stabbed outside a midtown subway station Wednesday when they were attacked by two high school students, cops said.
Devon Baldwin, 18, of the Bronx, was stabbed twice in the torso, and Kalimah Tresdale, 20, was slashed in the hand in the 3p.m. incident in the underground walkway of the Columbus Circle subway station, cops]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brokencountry.com/index.php/2010/03/11/two-people-stabbed-by-high-schoolers-in-subway/</link>
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		<title>Girlicious band member Natalie Mejia arrested for Cocaine Possesion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[GLENDALE, CA &#8211; Police say a member of the pop group Girlicious was arrested after Glendale officers found more than a dozen plastic bags of cocaine in her Gucci purse during a traffic stop.
Police Sgt. Tom Lorenz says 21-year-old Natalie Mejia was being held Wednesday in jail in the Los Angeles suburb on suspicion of]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brokencountry.com/index.php/2010/03/11/girlicious-band-member-natalie-mejia-arrested-for-cocaine-possesion/</link>
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		<title>Randy Kwasniewski Hard Rock President Found Dead in Las Vegas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Hard Rock&#8217;s president and chief operating officer, was found dead inside his northwest Las Vegas home Tuesday of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. 
In a statement, Hard Rock officials say they were quote, &#8220;extremely saddened by the loss of Randy, and our hearts and prayers go out to the family.&#8221; 
Authorities are still investigating]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brokencountry.com/index.php/2010/03/10/randy-kwasniewski-hard-rock-president-found-dead-in-las-vegas/</link>
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		<title>Corey Feldman Statement on Death of Corey Haim</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was awakened at 8:30 this morning by my brother and sister knocking on my bedroom door. They informed me of the loss of my brother Corey Haim. My eyes weren’t even open all the way when the tears started streaming down my face.
 I am so sorry for Corey, his mother Judy, his family,]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brokencountry.com/index.php/2010/03/10/corey-feldman-statement-on-death-of-corey-haim/</link>
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		<title>Popular LA sushi restaurant &#8216;The Hump&#8217; serves whale meat</title>
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The team who made The Cove, a film about Japanese dolphin hunting which won best documentary at this weekend&#8217;s Academy Awards, employed its covert camera techniques on a visit to The Hump in Santa Monica, one of California&#8217;s most highly-regarded sushi restaurants.
Whale meat, or kujira, is often available in Japanese fish markets but is illegal]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brokencountry.com/index.php/2010/03/10/popular-la-sushi-restaurant-the-hump-serves-whale-meat/</link>
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		<title>Woman at moivies stabbed in the neck with meat thermometer for talking on cell phone</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lancaster CA- First of all,  for those of you that don&#8217;t know it,  Lancaster is the new Compton of Southern California.  Its a desert community in Los Angeles County,  and it has a rather large criminal element that moved from south central Los Angeles after the Rodney King riots.
What I want]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brokencountry.com/index.php/2010/03/10/woman-at-moivies-stabbed-in-the-neck-with-meat-thermometer-for-talking-on-cell-phone/</link>
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		<title>Sara Dale,  English Cancer Nurse Sleeping with Cancer Patients Husbands</title>
		<description><![CDATA[SHAMED Macmillan nurse Sara Dale cared for cancer-stricken wives &#8211; then bedded their husbands after they died.
The attractive divorcee, 39, has been fired by hospital bosses over allegations she had THREE such romances.
And she has been &#8220;debadged&#8221; by the Macmillan cancer support charity.
Dale, who worked as a community Macmillan nurse for nearly 13 years, met]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brokencountry.com/index.php/2010/03/10/sara-dale-english-cancer-nurse-sleeping-with-cancer-patients-husbands/</link>
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		<title>Jihad Jane&#8217;s ex-boyfriend: &#8216;The whole thing is crazy&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[KURT GORMAN had no idea that his Texas girlfriend of four years was on the Internet calling herself JihadJane.
Colleen R. LaRose, whom he met in Ennis, Texas, left the couple&#8217;s Montgomery County apartment Aug. 23, the day after his father&#8217;s funeral, without telling him, he said.
&#8220;I came home and she&#8217;s gone. She packed up and]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brokencountry.com/index.php/2010/03/10/jihad-janes-ex-boyfriend-the-whole-thing-is-crazy/</link>
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		<title>Corey Haim Dies at 38 UPDATE</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Canadian actor Corey Haim, known best for his role in the 1987 hit &#8220;The Lost Boys&#8221; has died, Los Angeles police confirmed Wednesday.
Officials say that they believe that drugs were involved and Haim may have died from an overdose.  
Officials said his death appears to have been accidental. Celebrity news Web site TMZ reports]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brokencountry.com/index.php/2010/03/10/corey-haim-dies-at-38-update/</link>
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		<title>Corey Haim Dead at 38</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LOS ANGELES &#8212; Actor Corey Haim has died at the age of 38, the Los Angeles Police Department has confirmed to KTLA.
Haim died at 3:30 a.m. Wednesday of an apparent accidental overdose, according to the LAPD&#8217;s North Hollywood Division.
He was found unresponsive at an Oakwood apartment, near Burbank, police said.
His mother was at the home]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brokencountry.com/index.php/2010/03/10/corey-haim-dead-at-38/</link>
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		<title>Women allege trauma after being exposed to naked man during &#8216;Dr. Phil&#8217; filming</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Two women suing Dr. Phil McGraw and CBS Television alleging they suffered trauma when they were exposed to a naked man during an episode of the television psychologist&#8217;s program can move forward with their suit, a judge ruled today.
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Elizabeth Allen White rejected a motion by attorneys for &#8220;Dr. Phil&#8221; McGraw]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brokencountry.com/index.php/2010/03/10/women-allege-trauma-after-being-exposed-to-naked-man-during-dr-phil-filming/</link>
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		<title>Amy V. Beck, Teacher at Burbank Middle School admits to sex with student</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ BURBANK &#8211; A Burbank middle school teacher who turned herself in to authorities after feeling guilty about an alleged sexual relationship with a 14-year-old student will be arraigned today in Burbank Superior Court.
Amy V. Beck, 33, a sixth-grade English and social sciences teacher at David Starr Jordan Middle School, will be arraigned on four]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brokencountry.com/index.php/2010/03/10/amy-v-beck-teacher-at-burbank-middle-school-admits-to-sex-with-student/</link>
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		<title>Willie Davis, Former Dodger outfielder found dead</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Former Dodgers general manager Buzzie Bavasi once said of center fielder Willie Davis: &#8220;There was nothing more exciting than to watch Willie run out a triple.&#8221;
Bavasi would then finish the statement: &#8220;He could have been a Hall of Famer, but he had million-dollar legs and a 10-cent head.&#8221;
Davis, one of the fastest, flashiest and]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brokencountry.com/index.php/2010/03/10/willie-davis-former-dodger-outfielder-found-dead/</link>
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		<title>Jihad Jane&#8217;s Arrest Makes Threat of Domestic Terrorists Real</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Is the FBI sure about this?  To me Jihad Jane looks like a back woods bumkin who is so busy drinking the moonshine that she makes in her backyard still that she forgets to sell it for money to make more moonshine.  
The arrest of a suburban Pennsylvania woman known by the alias]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brokencountry.com/index.php/2010/03/10/jihad-janes-arrest-makes-threat-of-domestic-terrorists-real/</link>
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		<title>Video Toyota Prius accelerator stuck in San Diego</title>
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	Tags: accelerator, California, California man says Prius accelerated out of control, gas pedal, san diego county sheriff, Toyota stuck
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		<link>http://www.brokencountry.com/index.php/2010/03/10/video-toyota-prius-accelerator-stuck-in-san-diego/</link>
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		<title>Jihad Jane uses Internet to Recruit Terrorists From U.S.</title>
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American Colleen R. LaRose, 46, is accused of using the Internet to recruit and assist Muslim terrorist operations in Europe and Asia.
Using e-mail, YouTube videos, phony travel documents and a burning desire to kill &#8220;or die trying,&#8221; a middle-aged American woman from Pennsylvania helped recruit a network for suicide attacks and other terrorist strikes in]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brokencountry.com/index.php/2010/03/09/jihad-jane-uses-internet-to-recruit-terrorists-from-u-s/</link>
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		<title>1 in 6 Americans infected with herpes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[About 16 percent of Americans between the ages of 14 and 49 are infected with genital herpes, making it one of the most common sexually transmitted diseases, U.S. health officials said on Tuesday.
Black women had the highest rate of infection at 48 percent and women were nearly twice likely as men to be infected, according]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brokencountry.com/index.php/2010/03/09/1-in-6-americans-infected-with-herpes/</link>
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		<title>Sean Penn Wants Reporters Jailed for Calling Chavez &#8216;Dictator&#8217;</title>
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First Amendment be damned . . . If Oscar-winning actor Sean Penn had his way, any journalist who called Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez a dictator would quickly find himself behind bars.
Penn, appearing on HBO&#8217;s &#8220;Real Time with Bill Maher&#8221; on Friday, defended Chavez during a segment in which he detailed his work with the JP]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brokencountry.com/index.php/2010/03/09/sean-penn-wants-reporters-jailed-for-calling-chavez-dictator/</link>
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		<title>Rep. Eric Massa under investigation for allegedly groping male staffers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It just keeps getting better.  This is what Massa gets for dissing Obama.  He should have just played the game, been a good little Obamatron and voted yes on health care reform.   But no.   Massa had to be a rebel.   
The allegations surrounding the New York Democrat]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brokencountry.com/index.php/2010/03/09/rep-eric-massa-under-investigation-for-allegedly-groping-male-staffers/</link>
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		<title>Black Barbie Sold for Less Than White Barbie at Walmart Store</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Walmart is raising eyebrows after cutting the price of a black Barbie doll to nearly half of that of the doll&#8217;s white counterpart at one store and possibly others.
Famous 1940s test used dolls and kids to gain insight into race perspectives.
A photo first posted to the humor Web site FunnyJunk.com and later to the Latino]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brokencountry.com/index.php/2010/03/09/black-barbie-sold-for-less-than-white-barbie-at-walmart-store/</link>
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		<title>Natalie Wood,  Sister, yacht captain want Natalie Wood case reopened</title>
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Natalie Wood once said in a televised interview that her greatest fear was of dark seawater. Later, in November 1981, she drowned in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Catalina Island, California.
The star&#8217;s drowning death is one of Hollywood&#8217;s most enduring mysteries. Although the Los Angeles County Coroner&#8217;s Office ruled that Wood&#8217;s death was]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brokencountry.com/index.php/2010/03/08/natalie-wood-sister-yacht-captain-want-natalie-wood-case-reopened/</link>
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		<title>California Sen. Roy Ashburn Says He Is Gay, Defends Anti-Gay Votes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So let me get this straight.   Senator Roy Ashburn (appropriate name for a gay senator) is a gay drunk that goes to gay bars,  probably has sex with multiple gay men,  drives home hammered out of his gourd and gets arrested  . . .   why is he still]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brokencountry.com/index.php/2010/03/08/california-sen-roy-ashburn-says-he-is-gay-defends-anti-gay-votes/</link>
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		<title>Billionaire Pepe Fanjul Robbed at Oscar Hotel</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Billionaire Pepe Fanjul was robbed at his suite at the Beverly Hills Four Seasons Hotel at the height of Oscar week. The Cuban-born sugar baron &#8212; one of the world&#8217;s richest men &#8212; and his wife, Emilia, were robbed by a man posing as a hotel worker Friday night. 
A source told us, &#8220;They were]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brokencountry.com/index.php/2010/03/08/billionaire-pepe-fanjul-robbed-at-oscar-hotel/</link>
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		<title>6 women hospitalized after getting butts caulked</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Now here is one I just could not pass on.  Women went to a to an alleged doctor to get ass implants,  and this alleged doctor comes at them with a caulking gun,  and they thought that this was normal?  
Listen ladies,  there are a lot of crazy ways that]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brokencountry.com/index.php/2010/03/08/6-women-hospitalized-for-butt-enhancement-injections-with-bathtub-caulking/</link>
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		<title>MU students apologize for cotton ball incident</title>
		<description><![CDATA[COLUMBIA, MO.  — Two students on Friday apologized for scattering cotton balls outside the black culture center at the University of Missouri in Columbia.
Zachary E. Tucker, 21, who is from the St. Louis area, and Sean D. Fitzgerald, 19, used &#8220;inexcusable judgment,&#8221; according to a joint statement issued by their attorneys.
The incident was part]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brokencountry.com/index.php/2010/03/08/mu-students-apologize-for-cotton-ball-incident/</link>
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		<title>Rep. Eric Massa, &#8220;Rham Emanuel is the Devils Spawn&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A &#8220;salty&#8221; comment made in the company of drunken staff members at a wedding reception on New Year&#8217;s Eve was all the Democratic &#8220;forces that be&#8221; needed to push him out of the House of Representatives and prevent him from possibly casting the vote that would kill health care reform, says outgoing New York Rep.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brokencountry.com/index.php/2010/03/08/rep-eric-massa-rham-emanuel-is-the-devils-spawn/</link>
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		<title>Rep. Eric Massa Says Democratic Party, Health Care Pushed Him to Resign</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rep. Eric Massa, D-N.Y., who announced last week that he will resign this evening, suggested over the weekend that it is his own party, desperate to pass health care legislation, that pushed him out, according to this story in the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle.
&#8220;Now they&#8217;ve gotten rid of me and it will pass,&#8221; said Massa,]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brokencountry.com/index.php/2010/03/08/rep-eric-massa-says-democratic-party-health-care-pushed-him-to-resign/</link>
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		<title>Amber Dubois Body Found  &#8211; Case Possibly Related to Chelsea King</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ESCONDIDO, Calif. — The bones of a 14-year-old Southern California girl who vanished more than a year ago while walking to school were discovered in a rugged, remote area, authorities said Sunday, less than a week after a registered sex offender was charged with murdering another teenage girl who lived nearby.
The search for Amber Dubois]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brokencountry.com/index.php/2010/03/07/amber-dubois-body-found-case-possibly-related-to-chelsea-king/</link>
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		<title>Adam Gadahn, American al Qaeda spokesman arrested in Pakistan</title>
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Adam Gadahn, an American spokesman for al Qaeda, has been arrested in Pakistan, a senior Pakistani government official source told CNN.
The official said Gadahn was arrested Sunday in Karachi.
Several U.S. officials told CNN that they have no indication that Gadahn has been captured.
News of the arrest came hours after Islamist Web sites posted video of]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brokencountry.com/index.php/2010/03/07/adam-gadahn-american-al-qaeda-spokesman-arrested-in-pakistan/</link>
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		<title>Mark Linkous Sparklehorse Frontman Commits Suicide</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mark Linkous, lead singer of the rock group Sparklehorse, has died from what his family has called a suicide.
On Saturday the family of Linkous released a statement to Rolling Stone magazine saying “It is with great sadness that we share the news that our dear friend and family member Mark Linkous took his own life]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brokencountry.com/index.php/2010/03/07/mark-linkous-sparklehorse-frontman-commits-suicide/</link>
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		<title>Kentucky Woman Arrested for Squirting Breast Milk on Police Officer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In what must be one of the weirdest third degree assault charges on an officer in history, a press release by a Kentucky jail calls breast milk a bio-hazard.
The press release was given out by the Daviess County, Kentucky, Detention Center, and it concerns a most unusual assault by an arrested woman on a deputy]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brokencountry.com/index.php/2010/03/07/kentucky-woman-arrested-for-squirting-breast-milk-on-police-officer/</link>
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		<title>VIDEO: Queens woman arrested for brutal beating of bulldog with shovel</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Maria Aguilar, 36, was arrested by the ASPCA and charged with animal cruelty.
The young bulldog, named Spike, had been abused repeatedly over the past few months.
During his short life, Spike has sustained a hip fracture, a broken leg, three broken teeth and injuries to his ears, according to ASPCA Assistant Director Joseph Pentangelo.
The pup, which]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brokencountry.com/index.php/2010/03/07/video-queens-woman-arrested-for-brutal-beating-of-bulldog-with-shovel/</link>
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		<title>DA rejects Johnny Pride case</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Now one should wonder if the charges against Johnny Pride were trumped up by a corrupt city council and police department.  We will see.
Johnny Pride, a Santa Clarita City Council candidate and reality-show contestant who had been arrested for allegedy raping two 14-year-old girls, was released from custody Saturday because of &#8220;insufficient evidence,&#8221; authorities]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Desperate for Legacy, Pushes for Health Care While Americans Worry About Jobs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON &#8212; President Barack Obama&#8217;s furious, final push to get a health care bill passed threatens to shove aside the message he promised would top his list this year: creating jobs.
Even as the White House juggles several enormous issues at once, the public takes its cues about the president&#8217;s chief concern from how he spends]]></description>
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		<title>Overtime pay in California may be putting a dent in state&#8217;s furlough savings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Like pigs feeding from troughs full of money,  the California state employees are once again showing the private sector tax payers why California needs to file for bankruptcy.   
An example of the selfishness is fully displayed in the Los Angeles Times article below.   Nellie Larot,  a prison nurse made]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brokencountry.com/index.php/2010/03/06/overtime-pay-in-california-may-be-putting-a-dent-in-states-furlough-savings/</link>
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		<title>22 year old dying of thirst rang the police to beg for water, America&#8217;s future under Obamacare</title>
		<description><![CDATA[England-A man of 22 died in agony of dehydration after three days in a leading teaching hospital.
Kane Gorny was so desperate for a drink that he rang police to beg for their help.
They arrived on the ward only to be told by doctors that everything was under control. The next day his mother Rita Cronin]]></description>
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		<title>Parker Griffith to Deliver GOP Address</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Parker Griffith is a retired doctor and congressman that switched parties back in December, 2009. 

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		<title>Couple starved real baby while raising virtual baby online</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A South Korea couple were arrested for starving their baby to death, according to CNN.  Gizmodo stated that their premature, three-month-old daughter received powder milk feedings once a day while the parents were taking a break from 12 hour intervals at their local internet cafe.
The couple neglected their own baby, because they were busy]]></description>
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		<title>Ben Roethlisberger Accused of Sexual Assault</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Once again a high profile person like Ben Roethlisberger is accused of something he probably didn&#8217;t do by a woman looking to hit the lottery of life.   If I were a rich and famous person the last place I would go is to some skanky nightclub to hit on women.   What]]></description>
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		<title>Navy Complaints About Female &#8216;Captain Bligh&#8217; Began Early</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is the end result of the Navy trying to cave to politically correct people and promote unqualified women into positions of authority.  Bob
Navy Cmdr. Maurice &#8220;Mo&#8221; Kaprow was stunned to watch then-Cmdr. Holly Graf in action. He saw her for the first time after arriving aboard her ship, the destroyer USS Winston S.]]></description>
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		<title>Congressman Eric Massa to Resign for Sexually Harrassing Male Staffer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I thought that the democrat majority was going to run &#8220;the most ethically honest congress in history&#8221;  and purge Washington of the scandals of the past?   What we have here is a congress who&#8217;s democratic members are dropping like flies, to the point that if Obama doesn&#8217;t pass health care soon, ]]></description>
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		<title>Johnny Pride Arrested for Sex with Minors</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A 26-year-old Santa Clarita City Council candidate was arrested last night in the city&#8217;s Valencia neighborhood for various sexual acts with two 14-year-old girls, according to the Los Angeles Sheriff&#8217;s Department. Johnny Pride is suspected of rape, lewd acts with a minor, sodomy, oral copulation of a minor and contributing to the delinquency of a]]></description>
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		<title>Man Builds House Out of 6 Million Beer Bottles (VIDEO)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Actually,  this idea is nothing new.  There has been a wine bottle house at Knotts Berry Farm in Buena Park California since I was just a boy.  Here is a picture of it.  Still pretty cool though.  


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		<title>Ohio doctor Yazeed Essa guilty in wife&#8217;s cyanide death</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A former Ohio emergency room physician was convicted of aggravated murder Friday in the 2005 poisoning death of his wife.
Jurors deliberated about 18 hours over three days before reaching a verdict in the case of Yazeed Essa, who was accused in the cyanide death of his wife, Rosemarie.
The courtroom in Cleveland, Ohio, was packed with]]></description>
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		<title>Spicoli Sean Penn Wants Us to Die Screaming of Rectal Cancer (VIDEO)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Spicoli Sean Penn Wants Us to Die Screaming of Rectal Cancer (VIDEO)
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		<title>California Senator Roy Ashburn a Regular at Gay Bars</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sacramento CA.- New developments in the DUI arrest of California senator after leaving a gay bar.  Senator Roy Ashburn&#8217;s blood-alcohol level was .14 when he was pulled over.
The arrest is raising new question about Ashburn &#8212; an outspoken opponent of gay rights &#8212; who has been spotted frequently at gay bars in Sacramento.
West Sacramento]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brokencountry.com/index.php/2010/03/05/california-senator-roy-ashburn-a-regular-at-gay-bars/</link>
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		<title>Fiery crash claims life drowsy driver in Fontana</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One person has died in a blazing SUV that crashed into the back of a big rig along Interstate 15 in Fontana, according to San Bernardino County Fire Department officials.
The death was confirmed at 6:49 a.m., about 12 minutes after the crash was reported along the freeway&#8217;s southbound lanes at the Duncan Canyon Road overpass.
Southbound]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brokencountry.com/index.php/2010/03/05/fiery-crash-claims-life-drowsy-driver-in-fontana/</link>
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		<title>Burt Reynolds Gets New Hair Helmet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You read it here first.  Burt Reynolds,  who is recovering from heart bypass surgery,  had a new helmet of hair surgically screwed into his skull. 
 That&#8217;s right.  Reynolds figured while in the hospital for bypass surgery, that he may as well lose the &#8220;Coon Skin Cap&#8221; look of that old]]></description>
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		<title>Senator Roy Ashburn, Anti-Gay California Politician Cited for Drunk Driving After Leaving Gay Bar</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An anti-gay California state senator was placed under arrest for drunk driving after leaving a gay bar. A male passenger was in the vehicle along with the lawmaker was not arrested, reported Sacramento CBS affiliate Channel 13.
State Sen. Roy Ashburn was pulled over by the California Highway Patrol at about 2:00 a.m. on March 3]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brokencountry.com/index.php/2010/03/04/senator-roy-ashburn-anti-gay-california-politician-cited-for-drunk-driving-after-leaving-gay-bar/</link>
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		<title>Chelsea King Murder Suspect Investigated for Disappearance of Amber Dubois</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Chelsea King Murder Suspect Investigated for Disappearance of Amber Dubois
SAN DIEGO —  The convicted sex offender charged in San Diego with killing Chelsea King is under investigation in last year&#8217;s disappearance of a 14-year-old girl and an attack on another teen.
Escondido police say they&#8217;re investigating whether John Albert Gardner III is responsible for]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brokencountry.com/index.php/2010/03/04/chelsea-king-murder-suspect-investigated-for-disappearance-of-amber-dubois/</link>
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		<title>Teachers in trouble after honoring O.J. Simpson, Dennis Rodman and RuPaul for Black History Month</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Teachers in trouble after honoring O.J. Simpson, Dennis Rodman and RuPaul for Black History Month
I don&#8217;t get why these teachers are in trouble.  Didn&#8217;t the black community defend O.J. Simpson and claim he was innocent in the murders of Ron Goldman and Nicole Simpson?   O.J. was portrayed as a hero in the]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brokencountry.com/index.php/2010/03/04/teachers-in-trouble-after-honoring-o-j-simpson-dennis-rodman-and-rupaul-for-black-history-month/</link>
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		<title>Naked Snow Woman</title>
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		<title>Chelsea King Case Demonstrates the complete Breakdown of the California Legal System</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear America,  this is how it works here in California.  You have a bunch of union lackys that are absolutely worthless.  These people cannot survive in the private sector because they are a bunch of excuse making losers that have a reason and an excuse as to why they shouldn&#8217;t have to]]></description>
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		<title>John Albert Gardner to be charged in Chelsea King case</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Charge him try him sentence him to death and fry him in the electric chair.  This is the problem with California justice.  They could have a video tape of Gardner committing the crime,  and the legal system will find the dumbest humans on earth to sit on the jury, and the liberal]]></description>
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		<title>Chelsea King Killing: Police Comb Grave for Clues</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Investigators were searching the shallow grave where the body of San Diego high school student Chelsea King was found Tuesday, trying to gather every bit of evidence that will help put away the sex offender they say killed her.
Body found in shallow grave in San Diego is the missing teen&#8217;s.
King&#8217;s devastated parents attended a vigil]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brokencountry.com/index.php/2010/03/03/chelsea-king-killing-police-comb-grave-for-clues/</link>
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		<title>Cheese shoplifter gets 7 years 8 months in prison</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So let me get this straight.  John Albert Gardner got six years for molesting a 13 year old girl,  but a guy steals a block of cheese from a 7/11,  and he gets 7 years and eleven months.  Only in California is this kind of judicial convolution accepted.  JD 
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		<title>Leno&#8217;s Chin Crushes Letterman in Return to Late Night</title>
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Let the Leno-Letterman jousting resume. Jay Leno’s return to “The Tonight Show” Monday was watched by about 6.6 million viewers, according to early Nielsen ratings, up about 25 percent from his average viewership in the first quarter last year.
David Letterman’s “Late Show” on CBS was watched by 3.8 million, about average for his program. Among]]></description>
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		<title>Chelsea King Update: John Albert Gardner, Psychiatrist recommended 13 year maximum sentence in 2000 molestation case</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Chelsea King Update: John Albert Gardner, Psychiatrist recommended 13 year maximum sentence in 2000 molestation case
The rest of America needs to take a close look at the Chelsea King case here in California.  This is the direct result of a liberal socialist judges and state legislature that remain soft on crime,  even after]]></description>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s New Health Care Reform Makes Doctors Medi-Care Fraud Investigators</title>
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Monday President Obama will soon propose a health care bill that will be &#8220;much smaller&#8221; than the House bill but &#8220;big enough&#8221; to put the country on a &#8220;path&#8221; toward health care reform.
A senior administration official told Fox Obama&#8217;s proposal will be introduced Wednesday.
&#8220;In a matter of days, we will]]></description>
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		<title>Hall and Oates Bass Player Tom &#8220;T-Bone&#8221; Wolk Dies at 58</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LOS ANGELES — Tom &#8220;T-Bone&#8221; Wolk, who performed with scores of musicians but was best known as the longtime bass player for the band led by pop-rock stars Daryl Hall and John Oates, has died. He was 58.
Wolk died Sunday in New York, hours after completing a recording session with Hall, who was working on]]></description>
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		<title>Chelsea King&#8217;s Parents &#8220;Want Baby Back&#8221; (VIDEO)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Chelsea King&#8217;s Parents &#8220;Want Baby Back&#8221; (VIDEO)
The search continues for a missing teenage honor student Chelsea King in Southern California.
Chelsea&#8217;s parents, Brent and Kelly King appeared on &#8220;The Early Show&#8221; from Rancho Bernardo, Calif., with Marc Klaas, president of the Klass Kids Foundation. Klaas became an advocate for missing children after his 12-year-old daughter, Polly,]]></description>
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		<title>Kate Gosselin to be Contestant on Dancing With the Stars</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kate Gosselin to be Contestant on Dancing With the Stars

Camera and media whore Kate Gosselin didn&#8217;t waste any time cashing in the promotional value to her appearance on the new cycle of &#8220;Dancing with the Stars&#8221; that starts March 22. The announcement was made around 10 p.m. on &#8220;The Bachelor,&#8221; and two hours later, she]]></description>
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		<title>Mother Tortures Her Own Daughter To Death</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mother Tortures Her Own Daughter To Death
A good night for Laura Cummings meant being allowed to sleep on the kitchen floor in her family’s North Collins home.
Usually in the weeks leading up to her death, she was forced to sleep shackled to a metal chair with a sack over her face.
Days were even more nightmarish]]></description>
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		<title>Washington man electrocuted by urinating on power line</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just love stories like these.  Some people are so incredibly stupid that it defies logic and reason.  JD
MONTESANO, Wash. (AP) &#8211; Authorities believe a Washington man was killed by accidentally urinating on a downed power line after a car crash.
Grays Harbor County sheriff&#8217;s Deputy Dave Pimentel (PIM&#8217;-en-tel) said Monday 50-year-old Roy Messenger]]></description>
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		<title>Pennsylvania Man Killed By Pet Bull</title>
		<description><![CDATA[WERNERSVILLE, Pa. (AP) ―An eastern Pennsylvania man was attacked and killed by a &#8220;temperamental&#8221; pet bull a day before his 53rd birthday, the coroner&#8217;s office said Monday.
Ricky Weinhold, of Reinholds, was attacked Saturday by a 1-ton bull on a farm where he leased barn space in Wernersville, about 60 miles northwest of Philadelphia, Berks County]]></description>
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		<title>Topless Bar Fires Pregnant Bartender</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When Jennifer Paviglianiti, 29, of Centereach, N.Y., discovered she was pregnant, she hoped to wait until the three-month mark to tell her boss, John Doxey. But workplace gossip got to him first.
Seven women make claims against Wal-Mart in sex discrimination lawsuit.
Once Doxey heard the news, Paviglianiti says, he immediately showed he had doubts about her]]></description>
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		<title>Bring Chelsea King Home</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t understand why the authorities don&#8217;t just beat the crap out of John Albert Gardner until he tells them where he hid Chelsea King. 
 I have a seventeen year old daughter that looks a lot like Chelsea King, and if it where my kid,  I would commit a crime and get arrested]]></description>
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		<title>John Albert Gardner Arrested in Chelsea King Murder</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yet another senseless murder that can be directly blamed on the liberal justice system of the state of California.  John Gardner should still be in jail for his prior convictions.  Take a good look at this beautiful young lady.  She will never be held in the loving arms of her parents again.]]></description>
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		<title>California Water Resources Board Moves to Put Electric Companies Out of Business</title>
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In yet another attack on the California business infrastructure and the tax payers,  the California Water Resources Board is moving to ban the practice of using sea water to cool power generating facilities.  
The California legislature,  has been very busy as of late doing all it can to drive the state into]]></description>
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		<title>Late Night Lineup Letterman Pits Mitt Romney Against Leno&#8217;s Sarah Palin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jay Leno made news when he announced that Sarah Palin will be among his high-profile guests when he returns to The Tonight Show next week (aka &#8220;The Jaysurrection&#8221;). 
Now David Letterman&#8217;s lineup for next week pits Mitt Romney against Sarah Palin on Tuesday night &#8212; and the ratings may well provide clues on which probable]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brokencountry.com/index.php/2010/03/01/late-night-lineup-letterman-pits-mitt-romney-against-lenos-sarah-palin/</link>
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		<title>Octomom is a stark raving lunatic on The View</title>
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		<title>California greater risk than Greece Says J.P. Morgan Chase</title>
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Jamie Dimon, chairman of JP Morgan Chase, has warned American investors should    be more worried about the risk of default of the state of California than of    Greece&#8217;s current debt woes.
Everyone knows that California is a greater risk financially than Greece.  The socialist machine in Sacramento will simply]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s raining fish in Australia&#8217;s Northern Territory</title>
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WHILE the Top End and Central Australia have been battered by torrential rains, a Territory town has reportedly had fish falling from the sky. 
 The freak phenomena happened not once, but twice, on Thursday and Friday afternoon about 6pm at Lajamanu, about 550km southwest of Katherine,  The Northern Territory News reports.
Christine Balmer, who]]></description>
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		<title>Doctors Say Obama Still Smoking Cigarettes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So let me get this straight.  The leader of the free world, who is telling us we need his health care reform,  smokes cigarettes?   Imagine that.  Aren&#8217;t these the same leftist guerrillas in Congress that made the tobacco industry the bane of society by vilifying them and suing them for]]></description>
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		<title>Andy Griffith Statue Vandalized in Mt. Airy, North Carolina</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What a travesty.  Andy Griffith statue vandalized?  I consider this an attack on America.  Andy Griffith is pure Americana.  Griffith represents all that is good in America.
For some retarded kids to randomly deface a statue of the man is a direct attack on America and should be considered a terrorist act.]]></description>
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		<title>Pelosi Compares Health Care Reform to Selling Pie</title>
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WASHINGTON- In yet another stunning show of disdain for American voters,  President Obama had his left wing radicals all over the Sunday morning news shows trying desperately to keep health care reform alive.
Obama has demanded what the White House calls &#8220;a simple up or down&#8221; vote on the massive spending bill designed to nationalize]]></description>
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		<title>Mark Smith, Suspect in stolen car shot, killed by police</title>
		<description><![CDATA[FONTANA &#8211; Police officers shot and killed a 35-year-old Beaumont man in an exchange of gunfire Saturday after he tried to flee in a stolen car.
Mark Smith was killed at 7:22 a.m. when the car pursuit ended at Cherry Avenue and Merrill Avenue and shots were fired, according to a police news release and Deputy]]></description>
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		<title>Marie Osmond’s son commits suicide</title>
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Marie Osmond&#8217;s teenaged son, Michael Blosil, has killed himself by leaping to his death around 9 p.m. Friday in Los Angeles, reports Entertainment Tonight, which quotes Marie&#8217;s brother, Donny Osmond, as saying, &#8220;Please pray for my sister and her family.&#8221;
According to ET, Michael left a note explaining he intended to end his life after a]]></description>
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		<title>Julianna Smoot Picked by Obama for Social Secretary</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The White House has appointed a Washington insider to replace Desiree Rogers, Obama&#8217;s social secretary who stepped down on Friday in the wake of an embarrassing security lapse late last year.
Julianna Smoot, who will be responsible for organizing social functions at the president&#8217;s residence, is currently chief of staff to U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk.
&#8220;Julianna]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brokencountry.com/index.php/2010/02/27/julianna-smoot-picked-by-obama-for-social-secretary/</link>
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		<title>Gary Coleman Officially Put on Death Watch List</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Gary Coleman has officially been added to the death watch list of celebrities predicted to die by years end.  Here is a link to KROQ death watch of Gary Coleman. 
Gary Coleman suffered an apparent seizure on the set of &#8220;The Insider&#8221; on Friday and was taken to a Los Angeles area hospital. Fellow panelist]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brokencountry.com/index.php/2010/02/27/gary-coleman-officially-put-on-death-watch-list/</link>
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		<title>Is nature out of control? MSNBC Proves How Incredibly Stupid They Are</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Is nature out of control? MSNBC Proves How Incredibly Stupid They Are
Is it just me or is this the dumbest headline you have ever seen?  Nature out of control?  Has nature ever been &#8220;in control&#8221; in the first place?  The article from MSNBC never asks this pressing question. 
Its the same thing]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brokencountry.com/index.php/2010/02/27/is-nature-out-of-control-msnbc-proves-how-incredibly-stupid-they-are/</link>
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		<title>Southern California Beaches Under Tsunami Warning</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Southern California Beaches Under Tsunami Warning
Surfs up here in So Cali.  Turns out that we could have 25 foot waves out there from a south easterly direction.  Get out your boards dudes.  Tsunami Surfing is the all the rage today.  Oddly enough,  the local media is telling us all not]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brokencountry.com/index.php/2010/02/27/southern-california-beaches-under-tsunami-warning/</link>
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		<title>Server Time Issues After Upgrading to Wordpress 2.9.1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I posted this here because Wordpress was giving me fits.  I lost my RSS feeds,  ATOM feeds and my post time was being set to UTC-0,  which for anyone that knows anything about how the internet works,  means that all of my posts were happening in the future.  
In other]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brokencountry.com/index.php/2010/02/27/server-time-issues-after-upgrading-to-wordpress-2-9-1/</link>
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		<title>Obama Trying to Nationalized the Internet</title>
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It just never ends with Obama.  The guy probably sits around and wonders why people compare him to Hugo Chavez.  Not a day goes by that Obama isn&#8217;t trying to expand the powers of government.  
The president would have the power to safeguard essential federal and private Web resources under draft Senate]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brokencountry.com/index.php/2010/02/27/obama-trying-to-nationalized-the-internet/</link>
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		<title>Arrogant Obama Still Pushing Health Care Overhaul on Republicans</title>
		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON &#8212; President Barack Obama said Saturday that he&#8217;s ready to compromise with Republicans if they&#8217;re serious about it but that his health care overhaul must go forward.
Obama&#8217;s comments in his weekly Internet and radio address, two days after an all-day bipartisan summit across from the White House, were the latest sign that Democrats are]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brokencountry.com/index.php/2010/02/27/arrogant-obama-still-pushing-health-care-overhaul-on-republicans/</link>
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		<title>Small Earthquake Hits Los Angeles</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A small earthquake has just rattled the Los Angeles area.  Preliminary magnitudes are not yet available  . . . .   developing
 Tweet This Post&#160; No tags for this post.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brokencountry.com/index.php/2010/02/27/small-earthquake-hits-los-angeles/</link>
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		<title>Hawaii Forces evacuations ahead of tsunami</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It planned to sound civil defense sirens across the island state at 6 a.m. local time (11 a.m. EST) after the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said a tsunami was generated that could cause damage along the coasts of all the Hawaiian islands,
&#8220;Get off the shore line. We are closing all the beaches and telling people]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brokencountry.com/index.php/2010/02/27/hawaii-forces-evacuations-ahead-of-tsunami/</link>
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		<title>8.5 Earthquake hits Chile</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A magnitude 8. 5 earthquake has occurred near Concepcion, Chile early this Saturday morning, February 27, 2010.
Building were shaking and blackouts are everywhere, including Chile’s capital of Santiago.
Witnesses are saying the severe shaking lasted anywhere from 10 to 30 seconds.
Chili Earthquake: Magnitude 8.5 Earthquake Strikes Chili,Tsunami Warning For Chile, Peru
Chili Earthquake: Magnitude 8.5 Earthquake Strikes]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brokencountry.com/index.php/2010/02/27/8-5-earthquake-hits-chile/</link>
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		<title>Obamunists Still Willing to Push Obamacare Through Senate</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Its an interesting time in politics.  Americans,  frustrated with the current Jimmy Carter like malaise in Washington,  are lashing out like never before against the political tyranny of the Obama administration and the seemingly deaf ear that the democrats are turning toward the very people that put them in office.  
All]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brokencountry.com/index.php/2010/02/26/obamunists-still-willing-to-push-obamacare-through-senate/</link>
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		<title>Desiree Rogers Resigns, White House Social Secretary</title>
		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON&#8211;White House Social Secretary Desiree Rogers told me Friday she will step down next month, after presiding over 330 events in the White House in 14 months.
Rogers is departing after achieving a major goal of President Obama and First Lady Michelle &#8212; opening up the White House to make it the &#8220;peoples house.&#8221;
&#8220;As we turn]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brokencountry.com/index.php/2010/02/26/desiree-rogers-resigns-white-house-social-secretary/</link>
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