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		<title>By: jonolan</title>
		<link>http://blog.jonolan.net/about/comment-page-2/#comment-14253</link>
		<dc:creator>jonolan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 23:53:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You&#039;re welcome, Kevin. It was certainly no problem questioning the numbers. I&#039;ve a tendency to do that anyway.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You&#8217;re welcome, Kevin. It was certainly no problem questioning the numbers. I&#8217;ve a tendency to do that anyway.</p>
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		<title>By: Kevin Waterman</title>
		<link>http://blog.jonolan.net/about/comment-page-2/#comment-14252</link>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Waterman</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 23:24:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Also, I figured out why my false positive count was so high. I was applying the percentage to the wrong group (should have been the number of positives rather than the total population). Thanks for pushing me to figure that out, better to have right information even if it doesn&#039;t support my point as well.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Also, I figured out why my false positive count was so high. I was applying the percentage to the wrong group (should have been the number of positives rather than the total population). Thanks for pushing me to figure that out, better to have right information even if it doesn&#8217;t support my point as well.</p>
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		<title>By: Kevin Waterman</title>
		<link>http://blog.jonolan.net/about/comment-page-2/#comment-14251</link>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Waterman</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 22:32:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Meant to come over and say thanks for commenting on my blog sooner. Obviously we don&#039;t agree on the E-Verify issue, but a lot of what you have here&#039;s interesting and I certainly appreciate being honestly challenged.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Meant to come over and say thanks for commenting on my blog sooner. Obviously we don&#8217;t agree on the E-Verify issue, but a lot of what you have here&#8217;s interesting and I certainly appreciate being honestly challenged.</p>
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		<title>By: jonolan</title>
		<link>http://blog.jonolan.net/about/comment-page-2/#comment-14247</link>
		<dc:creator>jonolan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:25:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Since this entire rant of your and my responses to it are predicated on your &lt;a href=&quot;http://regularbrotha.wordpress.com/2010/01/29/did-i-say-that/#comment-513&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;post&lt;/a&gt;, with all of it racial points in it, don&#039;t try to say that I&#039;m the one fixated on race when your whole post was centered on racial politics.

Jump the shark much? I find Obama&#039;s agenda, especially ObamaCare to be somewhat Socialist in nature, but I&#039;m far more concerned that it is Statist in nature and likely to further harm our economy at a time when we can&#039;t afford to compensate for it.

As for attacking Obama because he&#039;s Black - nice try, if a tired one. Unlike Sharpton, Jackson, and some others Obama&#039;s race hasn&#039;t been particularly important to policies. I&#039;ve no reason to attack him on those issues.

I truly don&#039;t give a rat&#039;s ass about people&#039;s race. Culture and Ideology are a completely separate thing however. Yeah, if Obama started jabbering about Black America and White America - or a lot of the other bullshit coming out of some segments of the Black population, I&#039;d go after him on those terms. He hasn&#039;t though so I have no axe to grind on those scores.

As for drug use - You got me there. I did have to kick a nasty painkiller addiction I picked up after being wounded (Demerol is NOT your friend) a bunch of years ago.  Before that I never got around to using drugs, and after that I wasn&#039;t really interested in them.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Since this entire rant of your and my responses to it are predicated on your <a href="http://regularbrotha.wordpress.com/2010/01/29/did-i-say-that/#comment-513" rel="nofollow">post</a>, with all of it racial points in it, don&#8217;t try to say that I&#8217;m the one fixated on race when your whole post was centered on racial politics.</p>
<p>Jump the shark much? I find Obama&#8217;s agenda, especially ObamaCare to be somewhat Socialist in nature, but I&#8217;m far more concerned that it is Statist in nature and likely to further harm our economy at a time when we can&#8217;t afford to compensate for it.</p>
<p>As for attacking Obama because he&#8217;s Black &#8211; nice try, if a tired one. Unlike Sharpton, Jackson, and some others Obama&#8217;s race hasn&#8217;t been particularly important to policies. I&#8217;ve no reason to attack him on those issues.</p>
<p>I truly don&#8217;t give a rat&#8217;s ass about people&#8217;s race. Culture and Ideology are a completely separate thing however. Yeah, if Obama started jabbering about Black America and White America &#8211; or a lot of the other bullshit coming out of some segments of the Black population, I&#8217;d go after him on those terms. He hasn&#8217;t though so I have no axe to grind on those scores.</p>
<p>As for drug use &#8211; You got me there. I did have to kick a nasty painkiller addiction I picked up after being wounded (Demerol is NOT your friend) a bunch of years ago.  Before that I never got around to using drugs, and after that I wasn&#8217;t really interested in them.</p>
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		<title>By: regularbrotha</title>
		<link>http://blog.jonolan.net/about/comment-page-2/#comment-14246</link>
		<dc:creator>regularbrotha</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:09:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Your pretty stuck on the racial thing I see. Your supposed values (what ever they are) show that you are predisposed to identifying with racial politics. It is you who brought up race in response to one of my posts. Don&#039;t try to twist it. 

As far as reconciling making a living for ones self or die as opposed to an Obama Stalinist agenda...If I may borrow from surely one of your hero&#039;s, &quot;There you go again&quot;.

I guess you and your brethren are all knowing. You can foresee three years from now that the US will become Cuba or something. NO, YOU CAN&#039;T.

You are but a mere man that uses alarmist jargon to attack this man (Obama) because he is black. There, I said it. What social program are you referring to that makes Obama the second coming of Stalin?  Healthcare reform? How do you know that healthcare reform will cause a slippery slope towards Stalinism?

YOUR guy did this:

http://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&amp;id=3036

Not Obama. As much as you don&#039;t want to talk about it. And John McCain voted for all of the Stalinist George W. Bush&#039;s programs that put us on the path we are on. And you would have preferred a McCain Presidency? 

I&#039;m sure I know one area that I&#039;m more socially conservative in then you... I say no to drugs (as Nancy told me too when she was your hero&#039;s first lady).</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Your pretty stuck on the racial thing I see. Your supposed values (what ever they are) show that you are predisposed to identifying with racial politics. It is you who brought up race in response to one of my posts. Don&#8217;t try to twist it. </p>
<p>As far as reconciling making a living for ones self or die as opposed to an Obama Stalinist agenda&#8230;If I may borrow from surely one of your hero&#8217;s, &#8220;There you go again&#8221;.</p>
<p>I guess you and your brethren are all knowing. You can foresee three years from now that the US will become Cuba or something. NO, YOU CAN&#8217;T.</p>
<p>You are but a mere man that uses alarmist jargon to attack this man (Obama) because he is black. There, I said it. What social program are you referring to that makes Obama the second coming of Stalin?  Healthcare reform? How do you know that healthcare reform will cause a slippery slope towards Stalinism?</p>
<p>YOUR guy did this:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&amp;id=3036" rel="nofollow">http://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&amp;id=3036</a></p>
<p>Not Obama. As much as you don&#8217;t want to talk about it. And John McCain voted for all of the Stalinist George W. Bush&#8217;s programs that put us on the path we are on. And you would have preferred a McCain Presidency? </p>
<p>I&#8217;m sure I know one area that I&#8217;m more socially conservative in then you&#8230; I say no to drugs (as Nancy told me too when she was your hero&#8217;s first lady).</p>
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		<title>By: jonolan</title>
		<link>http://blog.jonolan.net/about/comment-page-2/#comment-14243</link>
		<dc:creator>jonolan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 17:26:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You may, in some social respects, be more conservative than I am. As I have said before, on some issues I&#039;m fairly far to the Left. most of those issues are of the social variety.

How though do you reconcile your claim of, &quot;You get your but out there and make a living for yourself or you die,&quot; with Obama&#039;s Statist, subsidy happy agenda that has so little in common in what you say you believe in?

Could it be that the reconciliation between your supposed values and Obama&#039;s agenda is &quot;racial reconciliation?&quot; ;) 

As you&#039;ve said, &quot;What a bunch of BS.&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You may, in some social respects, be more conservative than I am. As I have said before, on some issues I&#8217;m fairly far to the Left. most of those issues are of the social variety.</p>
<p>How though do you reconcile your claim of, &#8220;You get your but out there and make a living for yourself or you die,&#8221; with Obama&#8217;s Statist, subsidy happy agenda that has so little in common in what you say you believe in?</p>
<p>Could it be that the reconciliation between your supposed values and Obama&#8217;s agenda is &#8220;racial reconciliation?&#8221; <img src='http://blog.jonolan.net/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' />  </p>
<p>As you&#8217;ve said, &#8220;What a bunch of BS.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: regularbrotha</title>
		<link>http://blog.jonolan.net/about/comment-page-2/#comment-14242</link>
		<dc:creator>regularbrotha</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 17:05:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>What your type don&#039;t understand is that YOU are the whiniest special interest group in this country! Your blog is the epitome of this whine.

If you don&#039;t get your way, you want to quit the game and take your ball home like the little wusses you are. You don&#039;t understand the word compromise. Yet you have the nerve to place yourselves ideologically above other points of views (which is what you are trying to do here). It doesn&#039;t work with me. 

Another thing I&#039;m sure of is that in real life, I&#039;m more conservative than you are. I don&#039;t care about social issues. You get your but out there and make a living for yourself or you die. That&#039;s my motto to myself and my kids. What I notice is that people of your ideological persuasion can only survive off the exploitation of others. You use intellectual bullying to drive your agenda of exploitation.  By the way, it was during the first 6 years of Dupya&#039;s Presidency that the Mexican flood gates were open so that you had even more people to exploit for the sake of the corporate capitalist fraternity and its brainwashed followers such as yourself. Hows that for changing the fundemental values of MY country!

But like all bullies when stood up to, your shown to be the punks you are. 

Yea, blame me for Obama&#039;s agenda... after his Presidency is over. Oh but wait... I&#039;ve noticed on some of your other posts (yea, I checked you out) that when someone brings up the failings of Dupya, you coyly respond, &quot;I have no intention of talking about someone who is no longer in office. Obama&#039;s in office so we need to focus on what he&#039;s doing now&quot;. 

What a bunch of BS.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What your type don&#8217;t understand is that YOU are the whiniest special interest group in this country! Your blog is the epitome of this whine.</p>
<p>If you don&#8217;t get your way, you want to quit the game and take your ball home like the little wusses you are. You don&#8217;t understand the word compromise. Yet you have the nerve to place yourselves ideologically above other points of views (which is what you are trying to do here). It doesn&#8217;t work with me. </p>
<p>Another thing I&#8217;m sure of is that in real life, I&#8217;m more conservative than you are. I don&#8217;t care about social issues. You get your but out there and make a living for yourself or you die. That&#8217;s my motto to myself and my kids. What I notice is that people of your ideological persuasion can only survive off the exploitation of others. You use intellectual bullying to drive your agenda of exploitation.  By the way, it was during the first 6 years of Dupya&#8217;s Presidency that the Mexican flood gates were open so that you had even more people to exploit for the sake of the corporate capitalist fraternity and its brainwashed followers such as yourself. Hows that for changing the fundemental values of MY country!</p>
<p>But like all bullies when stood up to, your shown to be the punks you are. </p>
<p>Yea, blame me for Obama&#8217;s agenda&#8230; after his Presidency is over. Oh but wait&#8230; I&#8217;ve noticed on some of your other posts (yea, I checked you out) that when someone brings up the failings of Dupya, you coyly respond, &#8220;I have no intention of talking about someone who is no longer in office. Obama&#8217;s in office so we need to focus on what he&#8217;s doing now&#8221;. </p>
<p>What a bunch of BS.</p>
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		<title>By: jonolan</title>
		<link>http://blog.jonolan.net/about/comment-page-2/#comment-14241</link>
		<dc:creator>jonolan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 16:23:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Simply put, regularbrotha, Americans are those people in this country and OF this country and its culture who are not looking to change the fundamental values of it or turn it and our rights over to a over-bloated federal government that hell bent on subsidizing everyone to the point of shared poverty.

In your post you strongly came across as just another whining special interest type of the &quot;social justice&quot; stripe that wanted hand-outs and was willing to threaten to get them.

&lt;blockquote&gt;What the Democrats don’t understand is that this is their last chance and the last chance for this country. If they don’t stop blocking Obama’s agenda then they are sure to loose the black vote come next election. Say what you want of the support Obama got from whites and hispanics, it was the black vote and the numbers in which they turned out that carried Obama over. the Democrat Party will not get that again if they continue to betray Obama and work behind the scenes with Republicans to make it seem as though Obama can’t get the job done.&lt;/blockquote&gt;

So, since you claim credit for it, why should we all blame and you and yours for Obama and his agenda?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Simply put, regularbrotha, Americans are those people in this country and OF this country and its culture who are not looking to change the fundamental values of it or turn it and our rights over to a over-bloated federal government that hell bent on subsidizing everyone to the point of shared poverty.</p>
<p>In your post you strongly came across as just another whining special interest type of the &#8220;social justice&#8221; stripe that wanted hand-outs and was willing to threaten to get them.</p>
<blockquote><p>What the Democrats don’t understand is that this is their last chance and the last chance for this country. If they don’t stop blocking Obama’s agenda then they are sure to loose the black vote come next election. Say what you want of the support Obama got from whites and hispanics, it was the black vote and the numbers in which they turned out that carried Obama over. the Democrat Party will not get that again if they continue to betray Obama and work behind the scenes with Republicans to make it seem as though Obama can’t get the job done.</p></blockquote>
<p>So, since you claim credit for it, why should we all blame and you and yours for Obama and his agenda?</p>
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		<title>By: regularbrotha</title>
		<link>http://blog.jonolan.net/about/comment-page-2/#comment-14240</link>
		<dc:creator>regularbrotha</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 16:14:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>So tell me. What DID you mean by &quot;Americans will take their country back?

Also explain, &quot;then you&#039;ll decide if you all will have a place in it&quot;? 

Sounds like a Rushcentric threat to me (since you want to throw around euphemisms). 

Care to explain yourself? Or are you just going to rest on the &quot;care to read anything you want into it&quot; stance?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So tell me. What DID you mean by &#8220;Americans will take their country back?</p>
<p>Also explain, &#8220;then you&#8217;ll decide if you all will have a place in it&#8221;? </p>
<p>Sounds like a Rushcentric threat to me (since you want to throw around euphemisms). </p>
<p>Care to explain yourself? Or are you just going to rest on the &#8220;care to read anything you want into it&#8221; stance?</p>
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		<title>By: jonolan</title>
		<link>http://blog.jonolan.net/about/comment-page-2/#comment-14239</link>
		<dc:creator>jonolan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 16:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Don&#039;t worry, I accept almost all comments. I only delete comments based up their content when they&#039;re &quot;over the top&quot; personal attacks against other commenters as opposed to attacks against myself.

You&#039;re - rather classically and therefor boringly - misrepresenting my comment on your blog though. In response to your &lt;a href=&quot;http://regularbrotha.wordpress.com/2010/01/29/did-i-say-that/#comment-509&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Afrocentric threats&lt;/a&gt; I said:

&lt;blockquote&gt;Yep, you Blacks saddled this nation with Obama. 10 million of you went out voted for him, which “put him over the top” – assuming you discount the 53 million non-Blacks who voted for him.

One thing, your kind certainly got him the Dems nomination. There’s no denying that in all its racist “glory.”

But, since the Dems aren’t going to limit themselves to only Black candidates, they could really count on the Black vote anyway so your threat is seriously weakened. ;)

But it all moot. Americans will take our country back in 2010 and 2012 – and then we’ll decide if you all have any place left in it.&lt;/blockquote&gt;

You and anyone who cares to can read whatever they want into that. I&#039;m fairly sure, when taken in the context of your post, that their &quot;mileage may vary.&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Don&#8217;t worry, I accept almost all comments. I only delete comments based up their content when they&#8217;re &#8220;over the top&#8221; personal attacks against other commenters as opposed to attacks against myself.</p>
<p>You&#8217;re &#8211; rather classically and therefor boringly &#8211; misrepresenting my comment on your blog though. In response to your <a href="http://regularbrotha.wordpress.com/2010/01/29/did-i-say-that/#comment-509" rel="nofollow">Afrocentric threats</a> I said:</p>
<blockquote><p>Yep, you Blacks saddled this nation with Obama. 10 million of you went out voted for him, which “put him over the top” – assuming you discount the 53 million non-Blacks who voted for him.</p>
<p>One thing, your kind certainly got him the Dems nomination. There’s no denying that in all its racist “glory.”</p>
<p>But, since the Dems aren’t going to limit themselves to only Black candidates, they could really count on the Black vote anyway so your threat is seriously weakened. <img src='http://blog.jonolan.net/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>But it all moot. Americans will take our country back in 2010 and 2012 – and then we’ll decide if you all have any place left in it.</p></blockquote>
<p>You and anyone who cares to can read whatever they want into that. I&#8217;m fairly sure, when taken in the context of your post, that their &#8220;mileage may vary.&#8221;</p>
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