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	<title>The Sunshine Empire &#187; The Holidays</title>
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		<title>Facebook A Foot-Soldier In The War On Christmas</title>
		<link>http://www.thesunshineempire.com/2011/12/08/facebook-a-foot-soldier-in-the-war-on-christmas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 23:49:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Facebook now groups posts according to if the users talk about a similar subject. Lately the discussion of Christmas has been prevalent, and Facebook has been presenting groups of comments under the subheading &#8220;So-and-so and 12 others commented about Christmas.&#8221; But one thing I found interesting. I read a comment from someone that did not [...]
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		<title>I WILL SAY HAPPY HOLIDAYS, IT IS MY RIGHT!</title>
		<link>http://www.thesunshineempire.com/2010/12/10/i-will-say-happy-holidays-it-is-my-right/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Dec 2010 17:19:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dutch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When the weather starts to cool at the closing of the year, we come to a trifecta of holidays that are celebrated. The first of these holidays marks the start of the Christmas season, Thanksgiving day. On December 25th we celebrate the only religious holiday in the United States that is actually also a Federally [...]
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		<title>A Veterans Day Message</title>
		<link>http://www.thesunshineempire.com/2010/11/11/a-veterans-day-message/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Nov 2010 15:29:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dutch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have never served in the military, but I have a great reverence for those who have. I live in a military town so people fall all over themselves to praise veterans in acts that look more self important than self-less. Yet our veterans deserve our praise, because they fight to defend us even after [...]
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		<title>Mr. T Hit Hard By Recession</title>
		<link>http://www.thesunshineempire.com/2010/05/19/mr-t-hit-hard-by-recession/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 18:54:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dutch</dc:creator>
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		<title>The Easter Bunny Hates You</title>
		<link>http://www.thesunshineempire.com/2010/04/02/the-easter-bunny-hates-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2010 17:36:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dutch</dc:creator>
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		<title>The Time Has Come, I&#8217;m Leaving The Democrat Party</title>
		<link>http://www.thesunshineempire.com/2010/04/01/the-time-has-come-im-leaving-the-democrat-party/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 14:39:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dutch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The political world is in turmoil and I don&#8217;t know who or what to trust in today&#8217;s America. I&#8217;ve been mostly silent over the last few days because, much like many Americans I have become disgusted with both political parties. I was a registered Republican at the height of the Gingrich revolution, and a registered [...]
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		<title>Happy St. Patrick&#8217;s Day, You&#8217;re Not Irish</title>
		<link>http://www.thesunshineempire.com/2010/03/17/happy-st-patricks-day-youre-not-irish/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 19:30:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dutch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is St. Patrick&#8217;s day, and that Asian guy you work with is proudly wearing the &#8220;Kiss me I&#8217;m Irish&#8221; t-shirt from Spencers Gifts. All your friends from accounting will be going down to the local TGIFridays to drink green beer and some will make pithy jokes about St. Patrick, snakes, and Samuel L. Jackson [...]
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		<title>Our Changing Disaster Movie Of A Decade In Review</title>
		<link>http://www.thesunshineempire.com/2009/12/23/our-changing-disaster-movie-of-a-decade-in-review/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 17:31:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Jesus, And The War On Christmas</title>
		<link>http://www.thesunshineempire.com/2009/12/09/jesus-and-the-war-on-christmas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 03:06:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dutch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My mother received this email just at that time of year when conservatives start their annual victimgasm known as the war on Christmas. Now I understand it probably did not come from the actual Jesus, as I believe he&#8217;s more of a text message guy, but the message is an important one. Letter from Jesus [...]
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		<title>Christopher Columbus Was A Modern Day Birthtard</title>
		<link>http://www.thesunshineempire.com/2009/10/12/christopher-columbus-was-a-modern-day-birthtard/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:11:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dutch</dc:creator>
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