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		<title>Hit-n-Run Posting</title>
		<link>http://palady.wordpress.com/2009/03/15/hit-n-run-posting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2009 15:33:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yeah, yeah, I&#8217;m still not online yet. Maybe someday&#8230;before I die.
Anyway, this was too good not to share:
Miss M, my lovely 16yo daughter, hasn&#8217;t been doing well in school this year. With ADD and the school dragging its feet on implementing an IEP (Individualized Education Plan) plus a distinct lack of caring on Miss M&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=palady.wordpress.com&blog=141067&post=877&subd=palady&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Eddie</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Oct 2008 13:23:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PA_Lady</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[6/11/79 &#8211; 10/12/04
It&#8217;s been four years since you left us, and despite what they say, the pain is just as fresh.
We miss you.
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		<title>Let the Countdown Begin</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Oct 2008 13:21:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[100 days
and the end of the reign of El Pollo Loco, The Prince of Darkness, and the rest of the Merry Band of Minions and Idiots.
The end is in sight.
And I&#8217;ll be celebrating this joyous event by going to see Hillary Clinton in Scranton today&#8230; and some other people.


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		<title>Poking the Bear</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 09:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oh my freakin&#8217; Jeebus, people! I&#8217;m so pissed and annoyed and&#8230; plain freaked out, it&#8217;s not funny.
You know how we on the left always wonder just how crazy the Republicans and Bush-Cheney Corporate Headquarters are? Well, wonder no more!
The stupid is so awesome, so intense, so effin&#8217; ridiculous, so burningly awful that it is almost [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=palady.wordpress.com&blog=141067&post=864&subd=palady&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Promise You&#8217;ll Protect Me From the Americans&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://palady.wordpress.com/2008/07/15/promise-youll-protect-me/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 03:11:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Omar Khadr.
Fifteen years old when he was captured by US forces in Afghanistan. Six years spent at Guantanamo without trial. Facing five war crimes charges, including the murder of a US soldier during a battle, and life in prison.
&#8220;Softened up&#8221; by American interrogators prior to a visit by Canadian intelligence personnel.
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		<title>McCain Says: Family=Male/Female Parents</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jul 2008 20:52:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via Shakesville, Reason # 3582668 for Why I Won&#8217;t Vote For John McCain. 
From a man who cheated on and later divorced the wife who waited through the many years he was a prisoner of war. The mother of the two sons he adopted and the daughter they had together:
Mr. McCain, who with his wife, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=palady.wordpress.com&blog=141067&post=842&subd=palady&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Longest Walk Ends</title>
		<link>http://palady.wordpress.com/2008/07/11/the-longest-walk-ends/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 23:03:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PA_Lady</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
They started at Alcatraz on February 11th.
Five months. Two routes. Over 4,000 miles. From sea to shining sea.
On foot.
175 days (4200hrs.) ago walkers from all over Indian country as well as international allies embarked on a journey that carried them through rain, snow, and even a tornado.
Two paths were taken to make the journey, both [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=palady.wordpress.com&blog=141067&post=837&subd=palady&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Amerika</title>
		<link>http://palady.wordpress.com/2008/07/09/amerika/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 21:31:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Article IV, U.S. Constitution, as amended on July 9, 2008:
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=palady.wordpress.com&blog=141067&post=835&subd=palady&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fight Tyranny</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:34:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PA_Lady</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Those Senators who vote to allow the government to continue spying on the communications of Americans without warrants and to immunize those telecoms which complied with illegal directives by the Executive Branch &#8212; to a degree which is still unknown &#8212; should be haunted from here on out by the words of some of our [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=palady.wordpress.com&blog=141067&post=834&subd=palady&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fight the Power!</title>
		<link>http://palady.wordpress.com/2008/07/08/fight-the-power/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 18:33:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PA_Lady</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
This is the full-page ad run by Blue America, Firedoglake, and Color of Change in today&#8217;s Washington Post. Click the photo to see it full-size. [pdf]
The debate on the FISA bill begins today, with the vote scheduled for tomorrow. Call your Senators today, and tell them to stand up for the Constitution.
Christy says:
We are asking [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=palady.wordpress.com&blog=141067&post=830&subd=palady&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Let Freedom Ring</title>
		<link>http://palady.wordpress.com/2008/07/04/let-freedom-ring/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 04:01:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PA_Lady</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[

In Congress, July 4, 1776
The Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America
When, in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the Powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=palady.wordpress.com&blog=141067&post=829&subd=palady&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Au Revoir</title>
		<link>http://palady.wordpress.com/2008/07/03/au-revoir/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:28:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the post that started me on this blogging thing:
A Question of Doing What&#8217;s Right &#8212; Christy Hardin Smith
Jan 6, 2006
But it isn&#8217;t enough that I want more for myself and my family. Every person in this nation needs to wake up and realize that they deserve more as well. That&#8217;s a message that Democrats [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=palady.wordpress.com&blog=141067&post=828&subd=palady&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bottomless Pit of Capitulation</title>
		<link>http://palady.wordpress.com/2008/07/01/bottomless-pit-of-capitulation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:05:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PA_Lady</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[*All items in red edited at 3:10p*
Okay, so maybe I lied about taking a break from writing about politics&#8230;
Well, no. It&#8217;s more a case of &#8220;when VastLeft Un-endorses Obama, the cause is so over the top as to require sensible people post about it.&#8221;
Admittedly, VastLeft&#8217;s support was self described as &#8220;tepid&#8221; by Lambert but he, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=palady.wordpress.com&blog=141067&post=825&subd=palady&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wandering Words</title>
		<link>http://palady.wordpress.com/2008/06/30/wandering-words/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 19:10:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PA_Lady</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The past couple of months, my posting has been infrequent at best. The simple fact is that blog fatigue, political fatigue, and plain ol&#8217; &#8220;life&#8221; fatigue have left me with little time and/or little interest.
I&#8217;ve been writing about the same topics, the same outrages for two and a half years. Almost nothing has changed in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=palady.wordpress.com&blog=141067&post=822&subd=palady&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Language Policing</title>
		<link>http://palady.wordpress.com/2008/06/16/language-policing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2008 15:46:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PA_Lady</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m petty enough to be driven nuts by this stuff and &#8211; I admit it &#8211;  my estimation of a person&#8216;s intelligence drops in direct proportion to their ability to spell and punctuate correctly.
I also admit that I had several fine English teachers during high school who drilled proper spelling, proper use of homonyms, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=palady.wordpress.com&blog=141067&post=820&subd=palady&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>For My Son, the Graduate</title>
		<link>http://palady.wordpress.com/2008/06/11/for-my-son-the-graduate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 23:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You did it, PK! After 14 years (counting K-4) of hard work and the every-single-year pre-emptive announcement that you didn&#8217;t think you were going to pass, you are a high school graduate.
Tonight was both an ending and a beginning. The end of your high school years, the beginning of your college years. The beginning of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=palady.wordpress.com&blog=141067&post=818&subd=palady&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Eddie</title>
		<link>http://palady.wordpress.com/2008/06/11/eddie/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:28:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PA_Lady</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Edward D. Owen, Jr.

June 11, 1979 &#8211; October 12, 2004
We miss you still, and for always.


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		<title>Saturday Poem</title>
		<link>http://palady.wordpress.com/2008/06/07/saturday-poem/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jun 2008 12:54:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PA_Lady</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://palady.wordpress.com/?p=813</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I Am the People, the Mob
By Carl Sandburg
I am the people&#8211;the mob&#8211;the crowd&#8211;the mass.
Do you know that all the great work of the world is done through me?
I am the workingman, the inventor, the maker of the world&#8217;s food and
clothes.
I am the audience that witnesses history. The Napoleons come from me
and the Lincolns. They die. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=palady.wordpress.com&blog=141067&post=813&subd=palady&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The End of the Primary Season</title>
		<link>http://palady.wordpress.com/2008/06/03/the-end-of-the-primary-season/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 16:56:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PA_Lady</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://palady.wordpress.com/?p=812</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s the day. Montanans and South Dakotans will flock to the polls, vote their choices &#8211; with much expectation and extrapolation by the news media &#8211; and the primary season will end.
Only the primary season though. Hillary intends to take this to the superdelegates, and all the way to the convention, if need be.
My candle [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=palady.wordpress.com&blog=141067&post=812&subd=palady&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Rules</title>
		<link>http://palady.wordpress.com/2008/05/29/the-rules/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 15:39:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PA_Lady</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This one&#8217;s for all those Obama supporters out there screaming and ranting that the DNC has to &#8220;follow the rules!&#8221; and wailing and moaning that Hillary is breaking said rules.
Here&#8217;s a snippet of reality from Big Tent Democrat, who lays out the DNC&#8217;s actual rules and the consequences:
To recapitulate, a strict interpretation of the DNC [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=palady.wordpress.com&blog=141067&post=811&subd=palady&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On this Memorial Day</title>
		<link>http://palady.wordpress.com/2008/05/26/on-this-memorial-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2008 15:34:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PA_Lady</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.
~From a headstone in Ireland, via quotegarden
Two years ago, I wrote a post for Memorial Day that I&#8217;ve never been able to top. The words came straight from my soul via my heart, and nothing I&#8217;ve written since about our [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=palady.wordpress.com&blog=141067&post=809&subd=palady&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sexism and The Media</title>
		<link>http://palady.wordpress.com/2008/05/21/sexism-and-the-media/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 15:48:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PA_Lady</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You have got to be fucking kidding me.
At Shakesville today, I learn that irony isn&#8217;t just dead, but has been staked, shot, knifed, and garroted.
In case you needed any motivation for Assignment: Teaspoon below, CNN—yes, the same outlet currently running the question &#8220;Do you agree with Sen. Hillary Clinton that the press has ignored sexism [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=palady.wordpress.com&blog=141067&post=808&subd=palady&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Time Once Again</title>
		<link>http://palady.wordpress.com/2008/05/20/time-once-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 15:39:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://palady.wordpress.com/?p=807</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Today will be yet another installment of &#8220;I Just Can&#8217;t Wait to be King.&#8221;
Today&#8217;s episode will no doubt feature bunches of misogynistic television anchors, dozens of panting, genuflecting, and possibly fainting bloggers and commentors, and hundreds of troll attacks by people who will either dismiss and disrespect us poor, hysterical women &#8211; or else play [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=palady.wordpress.com&blog=141067&post=807&subd=palady&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cool News!</title>
		<link>http://palady.wordpress.com/2008/05/13/cool-news/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 16:22:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I meant to share this sooner, but forgot!
Last week, I received the following email:
May 2, 2008
Author
The Lady Speaks blog
theladyspeaksblog@yahoo.com
Dear Author,
I am writing to request permission to reprint the material listed below in my forthcoming college textbook, Dialogues: An Argument Rhetoric and Reader, sixth edition.
Pearson Longman plans to publish this college composition anthology in August 2008. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=palady.wordpress.com&blog=141067&post=806&subd=palady&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Belated Mother&#8217;s Day</title>
		<link>http://palady.wordpress.com/2008/05/12/happy-belated-mothers-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 15:08:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yep, evil liberal blogger that I am, I failed to produce a post honoring mothers and motherhood and all those who aren&#8217;t mothers but step in to fill the breach. I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;s because I&#8217;m an anti-family, abortion-forcing, pants-wearing, male-hating feminazi. (Yes, I got an email cursing me for my failure to post and accusing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=palady.wordpress.com&blog=141067&post=804&subd=palady&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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