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		<title>Black Friday edition of the Mitch Perry Report: 11.27.09</title>
		<link>http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/2009/11/27/black-friday-edition-of-the-mitch-perry-report-11-27-09/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/2009/11/27/black-friday-edition-of-the-mitch-perry-report-11-27-09/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:47:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mitch Perry</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mitch Perry Report]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/?p=48639</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<img src="http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/wp-content/uploads/daily_loaf_icons/mitch.jpg" width="60" height="25" alt="" title="Mitch Perry Report" /><img src="http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/wp-content/uploads/daily_loaf_icons/news.jpg" width="60" height="25" alt="" title="News" /><br/>Happy day after Thanksgiving to all of you out there.  Perhaps you&#8217;re reading this blog post on the laptop computer that some people have apparently waited days in line for.  I always thought it was somewhat garish to go to the stores at 5 a.m. on &#8220;Black Friday&#8221; in the 80&#8217;s and 90&#8217;s when my [...]]]></description>
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	<img src="http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/wp-content/uploads/daily_loaf_icons/mitch.jpg" width="60" height="25" alt="" title="Mitch Perry Report" /><img src="http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/wp-content/uploads/daily_loaf_icons/news.jpg" width="60" height="25" alt="" title="News" /><br/>Happy day after Thanksgiving to all of you out there.  Perhaps you&#8217;re reading this blog post on the laptop computer that some people have apparently waited days in line for.  I always thought it was somewhat garish to go to the stores at 5 a.m. on &#8220;Black Friday&#8221; in the 80&#8217;s and 90&#8217;s when my [...]
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		<title>Global warming skeptics thrilled by email leak</title>
		<link>http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/2009/11/27/global-warming-skeptics-thrilled-by-email-leak/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/2009/11/27/global-warming-skeptics-thrilled-by-email-leak/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:27:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mitch Perry</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[James Inhofe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[president obama]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/?p=48624</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<img src="http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/wp-content/uploads/daily_loaf_icons/news.jpg" width="60" height="25" alt="" title="News" /><br/>China announced yesterday that it had set a target to slow the growth of its greenhouse gas emissions by 2020, but according to environmentalists, it&#8217;s nothing to cheer about. From today&#8217;s NY Times:
The Chinese propose, by 2020, to reduce so-called carbon intensity — or the amount of carbon dioxide emitted per unit of economic output [...]]]></description>
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	<enclosure url='http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/files/2009/11/images-451.jpg' length ='3228'  type='image/jpg' /><img src="http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/wp-content/uploads/daily_loaf_icons/news.jpg" width="60" height="25" alt="" title="News" /><br/>China announced yesterday that it had set a target to slow the growth of its greenhouse gas emissions by 2020, but according to environmentalists, it&#8217;s nothing to cheer about. From today&#8217;s NY Times:
The Chinese propose, by 2020, to reduce so-called carbon intensity — or the amount of carbon dioxide emitted per unit of economic output [...]
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		<title>Skipper&#8217;s concert/fundraiser to aid hurricane victims in El Salvador</title>
		<link>http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/2009/11/27/skippers-concertfundraiser-to-aid-hurricane-victims-in-el-salvador/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/2009/11/27/skippers-concertfundraiser-to-aid-hurricane-victims-in-el-salvador/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 14:55:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mitch Perry</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/?p=48507</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<img src="http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/wp-content/uploads/daily_loaf_icons/news.jpg" width="60" height="25" alt="" title="News" /><br/>This Sunday afternoon at Skipper&#8217;s Smokehouse in Tampa, seven different bands of various musical pedigrees will be performing in a benefit concert for the people of El Salvador impacted by Hurricane Ida.
Mud slides and flooding earlier this month from the storm has left about 200 dead and 15,000 displaced in the Central American nation.
Rafael Avendano [...]]]></description>
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	<img src="http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/wp-content/uploads/daily_loaf_icons/news.jpg" width="60" height="25" alt="" title="News" /><br/>This Sunday afternoon at Skipper&#8217;s Smokehouse in Tampa, seven different bands of various musical pedigrees will be performing in a benefit concert for the people of El Salvador impacted by Hurricane Ida.
Mud slides and flooding earlier this month from the storm has left about 200 dead and 15,000 displaced in the Central American nation.
Rafael Avendano [...]
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		<title>Rest of the country to NFL: Please remove Detroit from Thanksgiving menu</title>
		<link>http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/2009/11/27/rest-of-the-country-to-nfl-please-remove-detroit-from-thanksgiving-menu/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/2009/11/27/rest-of-the-country-to-nfl-please-remove-detroit-from-thanksgiving-menu/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 14:34:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mitch Perry</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Manhoman Singh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[president obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roger Goodell]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/?p=48621</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<img src="http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/wp-content/uploads/daily_loaf_icons/news.jpg" width="60" height="25" alt="" title="News" /><br/>So we know Detroit is hurting.  Which is why it might be too painful for the city to weather having their traditional Turkey Day game (that has been happening since 1934) removed as the early game this time of the year.

But what about the rest of the country, Commissioner?]]></description>
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	<enclosure url='http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/files/2009/11/images-441.jpg' length ='3479'  type='image/jpg' /><img src="http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/wp-content/uploads/daily_loaf_icons/news.jpg" width="60" height="25" alt="" title="News" /><br/>So we know Detroit is hurting.  Which is why it might be too painful for the city to weather having their traditional Turkey Day game (that has been happening since 1934) removed as the early game this time of the year.

But what about the rest of the country, Commissioner?
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		<title>Florida Legislature&#8217;s special session to begin next Thursday</title>
		<link>http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/2009/11/25/florida-legislatures-special-session-to-begin-next-thursday/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/2009/11/25/florida-legislatures-special-session-to-begin-next-thursday/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:11:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mitch Perry</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Larry Cretul]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paula Dockery]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/?p=48523</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<img src="http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/wp-content/uploads/daily_loaf_icons/news.jpg" width="60" height="25" alt="" title="News" /><br/>As Florida hopes to win $2.5 billion for a proposed high-speed rail line, the Federal government has indicated that the state needs to show they are serious by demonstrating that the state can handle their matching portion of the funding, and thus the urgency for the special session.]]></description>
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	<enclosure url='http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/files/2009/11/images-202.jpg' length ='1821'  type='image/jpg' /><img src="http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/wp-content/uploads/daily_loaf_icons/news.jpg" width="60" height="25" alt="" title="News" /><br/>As Florida hopes to win $2.5 billion for a proposed high-speed rail line, the Federal government has indicated that the state needs to show they are serious by demonstrating that the state can handle their matching portion of the funding, and thus the urgency for the special session.
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		<title>Tampa Health Clinic Serves the Working Poor</title>
		<link>http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/2009/11/25/tampa-health-clinic-serves-the-working-poor/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/2009/11/25/tampa-health-clinic-serves-the-working-poor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:22:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>concettadeluco</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/?p=48276</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<img src="http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/wp-content/uploads/daily_loaf_icons/news.jpg" width="60" height="25" alt="" title="News" /><br/>Despite the ongoing healthcare debate in Washington, one local clinic is not waiting to take action. The Judeo Christian Health Clinic on MacDill has been providing free healthcare for years and lately finds itself catering to the rising number of unemployed.

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	<img src="http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/wp-content/uploads/daily_loaf_icons/news.jpg" width="60" height="25" alt="" title="News" /><br/>Despite the ongoing healthcare debate in Washington, one local clinic is not waiting to take action. The Judeo Christian Health Clinic on MacDill has been providing free healthcare for years and lately finds itself catering to the rising number of unemployed.


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		<title>Democrats unhappy about Afghanistan &amp; Palin&#8217;s crowd is much smaller than Beck&#8217;s at the Villages:  Mitch Perry Report 11.25.09</title>
		<link>http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/2009/11/25/democrats-unhappy-about-afghanistan-palins-crowd-is-much-smaller-than-becks-at-the-villages-mitch-perry-report-11-25-09/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/2009/11/25/democrats-unhappy-about-afghanistan-palins-crowd-is-much-smaller-than-becks-at-the-villages-mitch-perry-report-11-25-09/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:25:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mitch Perry</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mitch Perry Report]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/?p=48424</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<img src="http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/wp-content/uploads/daily_loaf_icons/mitch.jpg" width="60" height="25" alt="" title="Mitch Perry Report" /><img src="http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/wp-content/uploads/daily_loaf_icons/news.jpg" width="60" height="25" alt="" title="News" /><br/>Happy Thanksgiving to all you loyal readers out there.
Today on the menu we have the criticism from the political left (and from one of our closest foreign allies) about President Obama&#8217;s decision to send a reported 30,000 or so troops to Afghanistan;
Over at the Villages retirement center, some Sarah Palin supporters camped out Monday night [...]]]></description>
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	<img src="http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/wp-content/uploads/daily_loaf_icons/mitch.jpg" width="60" height="25" alt="" title="Mitch Perry Report" /><img src="http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/wp-content/uploads/daily_loaf_icons/news.jpg" width="60" height="25" alt="" title="News" /><br/>Happy Thanksgiving to all you loyal readers out there.
Today on the menu we have the criticism from the political left (and from one of our closest foreign allies) about President Obama&#8217;s decision to send a reported 30,000 or so troops to Afghanistan;
Over at the Villages retirement center, some Sarah Palin supporters camped out Monday night [...]
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		<title>Fighting global warming could reduce disease and save millions of lives (as well as the planet)</title>
		<link>http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/2009/11/25/fighting-global-warming-could-reduce-disease-and-save-millions-of-lives-as-well-as-the-planet/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/2009/11/25/fighting-global-warming-could-reduce-disease-and-save-millions-of-lives-as-well-as-the-planet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katie M.</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Green Living]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bicycling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[carbon dioxide]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[carbon emissions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Combustion-related air pollution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[global greenhouse gas emissions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[global warming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[greenhouse gases]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health and Climate Change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health implications of reducing greenhouse gases]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[heart disease]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kirk R. Smith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lung disease]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reduce meat consumption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[save millions of lives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the lancet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The University of California at Berkeley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[walking]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/?p=48445</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<img src="http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/wp-content/uploads/daily_loaf_icons/green_living.jpg" width="60" height="25" alt="" title="Green Living" /><img src="http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/wp-content/uploads/daily_loaf_icons/green_policy.jpg" width="60" height="25" alt="" title="Green Policy" /><br/>According to recent research, cutting greenhouse pollutants could not only save the planet from drastic climate change but could also greatly affect our health in a positive way. The studies linking climate change and health show that reducing carbon dioxide emissions from our atmosphere could greatly reduce preventable deaths from heart and lung diseases.]]></description>
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	<enclosure url='http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/files/2009/11/global_warming_sm-150x150.jpg' length ='9874'  type='image/jpg' /><img src="http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/wp-content/uploads/daily_loaf_icons/green_living.jpg" width="60" height="25" alt="" title="Green Living" /><img src="http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/wp-content/uploads/daily_loaf_icons/green_policy.jpg" width="60" height="25" alt="" title="Green Policy" /><br/>According to recent research, cutting greenhouse pollutants could not only save the planet from drastic climate change but could also greatly affect our health in a positive way. The studies linking climate change and health show that reducing carbon dioxide emissions from our atmosphere could greatly reduce preventable deaths from heart and lung diseases.
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		<title>Palin doesn&#8217;t bring in a Glenn Beck type crowd at the Villages</title>
		<link>http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/2009/11/25/palin-doesnt-bring-in-a-glenn-beck-type-crowd-at-the-villages/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/2009/11/25/palin-doesnt-bring-in-a-glenn-beck-type-crowd-at-the-villages/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:12:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mitch Perry</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[president obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sarah palin]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/?p=48414</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<img src="http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/wp-content/uploads/daily_loaf_icons/news.jpg" width="60" height="25" alt="" title="News" /><br/>The world's a more complicated place by the day, which is one reason why the sheen is so dramatically off the 48 year old former U.S. Senator from Illinois.  But it's nearly a full year until the Congressional elections, and nearly three years away to the next election. ]]></description>
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	<enclosure url='http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/files/2009/11/images-26.jpg' length ='2425'  type='image/jpg' /><img src="http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/wp-content/uploads/daily_loaf_icons/news.jpg" width="60" height="25" alt="" title="News" /><br/>The world's a more complicated place by the day, which is one reason why the sheen is so dramatically off the 48 year old former U.S. Senator from Illinois.  But it's nearly a full year until the Congressional elections, and nearly three years away to the next election. 
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		<title>Anti-war activists disappointed in Obama</title>
		<link>http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/2009/11/25/anti-war-activists-disappointed-in-obama/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/2009/11/25/anti-war-activists-disappointed-in-obama/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:45:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mitch Perry</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dennis Kuci]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[president obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stanley McChrystal]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/?p=48378</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<img src="http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/wp-content/uploads/daily_loaf_icons/news.jpg" width="60" height="25" alt="" title="News" /><br/>Meanwhile, USA Today reports that public approval of the President's handling of the war in Afghanistan has "plummeted".

The poll, conducted with the Gallup organization, shows 55% disapprove of his handling on the issue, with just 35% approving.  That's a reversal of his 56% approval rating on the topic just four months ago.

The American public apparently is incredibly divided on the effort overall in Afghanistan, according to a CNN poll released yesterday, that actually showed a majority against the war, 52% to 45%. ]]></description>
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	<img src="http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/wp-content/uploads/daily_loaf_icons/news.jpg" width="60" height="25" alt="" title="News" /><br/>Meanwhile, USA Today reports that public approval of the President's handling of the war in Afghanistan has "plummeted".

The poll, conducted with the Gallup organization, shows 55% disapprove of his handling on the issue, with just 35% approving.  That's a reversal of his 56% approval rating on the topic just four months ago.

The American public apparently is incredibly divided on the effort overall in Afghanistan, according to a CNN poll released yesterday, that actually showed a majority against the war, 52% to 45%. 
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		<title>City of Tampa to Jim Norman &#8211; Thanks but no thanks on that water deal</title>
		<link>http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/2009/11/24/city-of-tampa-to-jim-norman-thanks-but-no-thanks-on-that-water-deal/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/2009/11/24/city-of-tampa-to-jim-norman-thanks-but-no-thanks-on-that-water-deal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:30:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mitch Perry</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/?p=48288</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<img src="http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/wp-content/uploads/daily_loaf_icons/news.jpg" width="60" height="25" alt="" title="News" /><br/>The Tampa Tribune is reporting that Tampa officials want no part of a proposal offered up recently by Hillsborough County Commissioner Jim Norman to consolidate the County and City&#8217;s water departments.
The call by Norman at the Board&#8217;s November 4th meeting caught Tampa officials completely unaware, and since according to the Trib they were expected to [...]]]></description>
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The call by Norman at the Board&#8217;s November 4th meeting caught Tampa officials completely unaware, and since according to the Trib they were expected to [...]
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		<title>My Saturday with Glenn Beck by Kelly Benjamin</title>
		<link>http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/2009/11/24/my-saturday-with-glenn-beck-by-kelly-benjamin/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/2009/11/24/my-saturday-with-glenn-beck-by-kelly-benjamin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:02:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mitch Perry</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[glenn beck]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mitch Perry]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/?p=48226</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<img src="http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/wp-content/uploads/daily_loaf_icons/news.jpg" width="60" height="25" alt="" title="News" /><br/>CL has published several pieces over the past couple of days on Glenn Beck&#8217;s appearance in Tampa.
Here&#8217;s another one, written by activist and former Tampa City Council candidate Kelly Benjamin.
My Saturday with Glenn Beck &#8211; by Kelly Benjamin
I knew attending an event that subjects one to being surrounded by hundreds of half-witted, hate-filled, raving lunatics [...]]]></description>
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	<enclosure url='http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/files/2009/11/images-242.jpg' length ='2859'  type='image/jpg' /><img src="http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/wp-content/uploads/daily_loaf_icons/news.jpg" width="60" height="25" alt="" title="News" /><br/>CL has published several pieces over the past couple of days on Glenn Beck&#8217;s appearance in Tampa.
Here&#8217;s another one, written by activist and former Tampa City Council candidate Kelly Benjamin.
My Saturday with Glenn Beck &#8211; by Kelly Benjamin
I knew attending an event that subjects one to being surrounded by hundreds of half-witted, hate-filled, raving lunatics [...]
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		<title>Obama to announce Afghanistan troop increase, Charlie Crist and Lou Dobbs.  Mitch Perry Report: 11.24.09</title>
		<link>http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/2009/11/24/obama-to-announce-afghanistan-troop-increase-charlie-crist-and-lou-dobbs-mitch-perry-report-11-24-09/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/2009/11/24/obama-to-announce-afghanistan-troop-increase-charlie-crist-and-lou-dobbs-mitch-perry-report-11-24-09/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:57:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mitch Perry</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mitch Perry Report]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/?p=48224</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<img src="http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/wp-content/uploads/daily_loaf_icons/mitch.jpg" width="60" height="25" alt="" title="Mitch Perry Report" /><img src="http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/wp-content/uploads/daily_loaf_icons/news.jpg" width="60" height="25" alt="" title="News" /><br/>The waiting is the hardest part, Tom Petty sang  exactly 30 years ago.  And that&#8217;s what critics of President Obama&#8217;s strategy on Afghanistan have been complaining about.  Well, no more.  The President goes before the country next week to talk about his plans;
You knew it was coming:  Charlie Crist slowly begins to take the gloves [...]]]></description>
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	<img src="http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/wp-content/uploads/daily_loaf_icons/mitch.jpg" width="60" height="25" alt="" title="Mitch Perry Report" /><img src="http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/wp-content/uploads/daily_loaf_icons/news.jpg" width="60" height="25" alt="" title="News" /><br/>The waiting is the hardest part, Tom Petty sang  exactly 30 years ago.  And that&#8217;s what critics of President Obama&#8217;s strategy on Afghanistan have been complaining about.  Well, no more.  The President goes before the country next week to talk about his plans;
You knew it was coming:  Charlie Crist slowly begins to take the gloves [...]
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		<title>Is Lou Dobbs thinking of running for President? &#8220;Yes is the answer&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/2009/11/24/is-lou-dobbs-thinking-of-running-for-president-yes-is-the-answer/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/2009/11/24/is-lou-dobbs-thinking-of-running-for-president-yes-is-the-answer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:49:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mitch Perry</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[glenn beck]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jesse Ventura]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lou Dobbs]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/?p=48219</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<img src="http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/wp-content/uploads/daily_loaf_icons/news.jpg" width="60" height="25" alt="" title="News" /><br/>The anti-immigrant, anti-Wall Stret sentiment that Dobbs espouses is shared by Glenn Beck  as well.  Beck seems to want to emphasize Libertarians over Republicans, yet the problem with everything is those damn liberals.  That's the impression I got  yesterday, when I watched the first time ever on his Fox 5 p.m. program (research for my story coming out next week).]]></description>
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	<enclosure url='http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/files/2009/11/images-141.jpg' length ='2565'  type='image/jpg' /><img src="http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/wp-content/uploads/daily_loaf_icons/news.jpg" width="60" height="25" alt="" title="News" /><br/>The anti-immigrant, anti-Wall Stret sentiment that Dobbs espouses is shared by Glenn Beck  as well.  Beck seems to want to emphasize Libertarians over Republicans, yet the problem with everything is those damn liberals.  That's the impression I got  yesterday, when I watched the first time ever on his Fox 5 p.m. program (research for my story coming out next week).
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		<title>Obama to address the nation on Afghanistan next Tuesday</title>
		<link>http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/2009/11/24/obama-to-address-the-nation-on-afghanistan-next-tuesday/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/2009/11/24/obama-to-address-the-nation-on-afghanistan-next-tuesday/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:21:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mitch Perry</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/?p=48212</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<img src="http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/wp-content/uploads/daily_loaf_icons/news.jpg" width="60" height="25" alt="" title="News" /><br/>, OMB Director Peter Orszag was in the Cabinet  meeting on Afghanistan in the White House yesterday, indicating that Obama is extremely cognizant about how much this troop escalation will have on a burgeoning federal deficit.  These are hard times and hard choices.  And some liberal supporters of the President, who supported him because of his anti Iraq war stance, will be solely disappointed that he's not de-escalating the war in Afghanistan.]]></description>
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	<enclosure url='http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/files/2009/11/Obamayearx-topper-medium-150x150.jpg' length ='10199'  type='image/jpg' /><img src="http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/wp-content/uploads/daily_loaf_icons/news.jpg" width="60" height="25" alt="" title="News" /><br/>, OMB Director Peter Orszag was in the Cabinet  meeting on Afghanistan in the White House yesterday, indicating that Obama is extremely cognizant about how much this troop escalation will have on a burgeoning federal deficit.  These are hard times and hard choices.  And some liberal supporters of the President, who supported him because of his anti Iraq war stance, will be solely disappointed that he's not de-escalating the war in Afghanistan.
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		<title>Charlie Crist begins to fight back</title>
		<link>http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/2009/11/24/charlie-crist-begins-to-fight-back/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/2009/11/24/charlie-crist-begins-to-fight-back/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:37:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mitch Perry</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[charlie crist]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jeb-Bush]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marco Rubio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wolf Blitzer]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/?p=48208</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<img src="http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/wp-content/uploads/daily_loaf_icons/news.jpg" width="60" height="25" alt="" title="News" /><br/>Crist sounds fired up, which has taken a long time coming.  Perhaps it was his hitting rock bottom a few weeks ago, when he essentially lied to CNN's Wolf Blitzer when he said that he never endorsed the stimulus plan, and the subsequent humiliation in press reports that pointed that out that has led to this more aggressive stance. ]]></description>
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	<enclosure url='http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/files/2009/11/images-33.jpg' length ='2960'  type='image/jpg' /><img src="http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/wp-content/uploads/daily_loaf_icons/news.jpg" width="60" height="25" alt="" title="News" /><br/>Crist sounds fired up, which has taken a long time coming.  Perhaps it was his hitting rock bottom a few weeks ago, when he essentially lied to CNN's Wolf Blitzer when he said that he never endorsed the stimulus plan, and the subsequent humiliation in press reports that pointed that out that has led to this more aggressive stance. 
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		<title>Glenn Beck&#8217;s 100-Year Plan</title>
		<link>http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/2009/11/23/glenn-becks-100-year-plan/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/2009/11/23/glenn-becks-100-year-plan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:23:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Bortnyk</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[arguing with idiots]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[common sense]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[glenn beck]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[healthcare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pelosi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tampa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the villages]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/?p=47783</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<img src="http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/wp-content/uploads/daily_loaf_icons/news.jpg" width="60" height="25" alt="" title="News" /><br/>On Saturday Beck held a book signing in Tampa for Arguing With Idiots, his latest bestseller, followed by a rally at The Villages, a retirement community near Ocala. As divisive as Beck may be on a national scale, it is evident by the thousands in attendance that he also can unite.]]></description>
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	<img src="http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/wp-content/uploads/daily_loaf_icons/news.jpg" width="60" height="25" alt="" title="News" /><br/>On Saturday Beck held a book signing in Tampa for Arguing With Idiots, his latest bestseller, followed by a rally at The Villages, a retirement community near Ocala. As divisive as Beck may be on a national scale, it is evident by the thousands in attendance that he also can unite.
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		<title>Changing downtown St. Petersburg: Williams Park bus exodus?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/2009/11/23/changing-downtown-williams-park-bus-exodus/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/2009/11/23/changing-downtown-williams-park-bus-exodus/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:10:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah Gerard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Florida Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Neighborhoods]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tampa Bay Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[art in the park]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bob lasher]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[christine silvia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[city of st. petersburg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[department of transportation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[downtown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[downtown neighborhood association]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[friends of williams park]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[homeless]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[homelessness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[joe kubicki]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[marilyn olsen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Metropolitan Planning Organization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pinellas suncoast transit authority]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PSTA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[St. Petersburg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tim garling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[transportation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vision 2020]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Williams Park]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/?p=46984</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<img src="http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/wp-content/uploads/daily_loaf_icons/floridapolitics.jpg" width="60" height="25" alt="" title="Florida Politics" /><img src="http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/wp-content/uploads/daily_loaf_icons/neighborhoods.jpg" width="60" height="25" alt="" title="Neighborhoods" /><br/>Friends of Williams Park’s mission is to develop and implement a strategy to reestablish Williams Park as an exciting urban town square—the beautiful and active center of the downtown community—through coordination of resources and advocacy]]></description>
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	<img src="http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/wp-content/uploads/daily_loaf_icons/floridapolitics.jpg" width="60" height="25" alt="" title="Florida Politics" /><img src="http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/wp-content/uploads/daily_loaf_icons/neighborhoods.jpg" width="60" height="25" alt="" title="Neighborhoods" /><br/>Friends of Williams Park’s mission is to develop and implement a strategy to reestablish Williams Park as an exciting urban town square—the beautiful and active center of the downtown community—through coordination of resources and advocacy
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		<title>Wasserman Schultz accuses the GOP of playing politics with breast cancer, unemployment continues to rise, and more Glenn Beck:  Mitch Perry Report 11.23.09</title>
		<link>http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/2009/11/23/wasserman-schultz-accuses-the-gop-of-playing-politics-with-breast-cancer-unemployment-continues-to-rise-and-more-glenn-beck-mitch-perry-report-11-23-09/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/2009/11/23/wasserman-schultz-accuses-the-gop-of-playing-politics-with-breast-cancer-unemployment-continues-to-rise-and-more-glenn-beck-mitch-perry-report-11-23-09/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:37:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mitch Perry</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mitch Perry Report]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Debbie Wasserman Schultz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[glenn beck]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marsha Blackwell]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/?p=48006</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<img src="http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/wp-content/uploads/daily_loaf_icons/mitch.jpg" width="60" height="25" alt="" title="Mitch Perry Report" /><img src="http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/wp-content/uploads/daily_loaf_icons/news.jpg" width="60" height="25" alt="" title="News" /><br/>As the battle for health care reform continues, discussions on where we are with the legislation after Saturday night&#8217;s vote to continue debate in the Senate was fodder on all of the talk shows yesterday.  On ABC, South Florida Democrat Debbie Wasserman Schultz got into a dispute with Tennessee&#8217;s Marsha Blackwell on the politics of [...]]]></description>
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	<img src="http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/wp-content/uploads/daily_loaf_icons/mitch.jpg" width="60" height="25" alt="" title="Mitch Perry Report" /><img src="http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/wp-content/uploads/daily_loaf_icons/news.jpg" width="60" height="25" alt="" title="News" /><br/>As the battle for health care reform continues, discussions on where we are with the legislation after Saturday night&#8217;s vote to continue debate in the Senate was fodder on all of the talk shows yesterday.  On ABC, South Florida Democrat Debbie Wasserman Schultz got into a dispute with Tennessee&#8217;s Marsha Blackwell on the politics of [...]
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		<title>Glenn Beck now wants to be a community organizer</title>
		<link>http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/2009/11/23/glenn-beck-now-wants-to-be-a-community-organizer/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/2009/11/23/glenn-beck-now-wants-to-be-a-community-organizer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:51:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mitch Perry</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/?p=47756</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<img src="http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/wp-content/uploads/daily_loaf_icons/news.jpg" width="60" height="25" alt="" title="News" /><br/>Phyllis Tropea from Palm Harbor said of Beck,  "He's wonderful. He scares me, but he's wonderful."   What scares  you, I inquired?   "Well, if you hear what he says and you listen to him you understand the trouble America is in, economically, every which way.  We need a different president to fix these problems."]]></description>
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	<enclosure url='http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/files/2009/11/IMG_0249-150x150.jpg' length ='10659'  type='image/jpg' /><img src="http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/wp-content/uploads/daily_loaf_icons/news.jpg" width="60" height="25" alt="" title="News" /><br/>Phyllis Tropea from Palm Harbor said of Beck,  "He's wonderful. He scares me, but he's wonderful."   What scares  you, I inquired?   "Well, if you hear what he says and you listen to him you understand the trouble America is in, economically, every which way.  We need a different president to fix these problems."
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		<title>Health care bill passes first test in Senate.  Now what?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/2009/11/23/health-care-bill-passes-first-test-in-senate-now-what/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:13:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mitch Perry</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Gregory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Debbie Wasserman Schultz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Harry Reid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[joe lieberman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mary Blackburn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mary Landrieu]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tom Coburn]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[<img src="http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/wp-content/uploads/daily_loaf_icons/news.jpg" width="60" height="25" alt="" title="News" /><br/>Wasserman Schultz got into a verbal back and forth with her GOP colleague, Tennessee's Marsha Blackburn on "This Week", accusing her and the GOP of politicizing breast cancer.

Blackburn had said that the controversial breast cancer screening guidelines announced last week were an example of how the Democrats would ration health care, and quoted a specific section of the House bill ("Go to page 1296, in Title III, on Preventive Wellness service....")

Wasserman Schultz came right back, saying, " "The task force language in that bill actually makes sure that prevention services like mammograms and colonoscopies would be free."]]></description>
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	<enclosure url='http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/files/2009/11/images-126.jpg' length ='3405'  type='image/jpg' /><img src="http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/wp-content/uploads/daily_loaf_icons/news.jpg" width="60" height="25" alt="" title="News" /><br/>Wasserman Schultz got into a verbal back and forth with her GOP colleague, Tennessee's Marsha Blackburn on "This Week", accusing her and the GOP of politicizing breast cancer.

Blackburn had said that the controversial breast cancer screening guidelines announced last week were an example of how the Democrats would ration health care, and quoted a specific section of the House bill ("Go to page 1296, in Title III, on Preventive Wellness service....")

Wasserman Schultz came right back, saying, " "The task force language in that bill actually makes sure that prevention services like mammograms and colonoscopies would be free."
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		<title>As Florida&#8217;s unemployment rate goes over 11% , and critics continue to circle, national economists say stimulus package is working</title>
		<link>http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/2009/11/23/as-floridas-unemployment-rate-goes-over-11-and-critics-continue-to-circle-national-economists-say-stimulus-package-is-working/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:56:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mitch Perry</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[David Gregory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Diane Feinstein]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ed Schultz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[joe lieberman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kay Bailey Hutchinson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Brady]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Micheal Burgess]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/?p=47791</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<img src="http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/wp-content/uploads/daily_loaf_icons/news.jpg" width="60" height="25" alt="" title="News" /><br/>There was more negative news on the job front on Friday:  It was announced that Florida&#8217;s unemployment rate was at 11.2% in October, the highest level in 34 years.   According to the Labor Department, 29 states recorded unemployment rising last month, with Michigan over 15%, and California at 12.5%.
Despite all the conversation about health care, [...]]]></description>
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	<enclosure url='http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/files/2009/11/images-10.jpg' length ='2397'  type='image/jpg' /><img src="http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/wp-content/uploads/daily_loaf_icons/news.jpg" width="60" height="25" alt="" title="News" /><br/>There was more negative news on the job front on Friday:  It was announced that Florida&#8217;s unemployment rate was at 11.2% in October, the highest level in 34 years.   According to the Labor Department, 29 states recorded unemployment rising last month, with Michigan over 15%, and California at 12.5%.
Despite all the conversation about health care, [...]
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		<title>More than 1000 people come out in Tampa to greet Glenn Beck</title>
		<link>http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/2009/11/21/thousands-come-out-in-tampa-to-greet-glenn-beck/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:41:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mitch Perry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img src="http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/wp-content/uploads/daily_loaf_icons/news.jpg" width="60" height="25" alt="" title="News" /><br/>A crowd estimated to be at least a thousand  strong came out to Borders bookstore on South Dale Mabry in Tampa this morning to meet and greet (quickly) conservative icon Glenn Beck.
The radio and cable television personality sandwiched Tampa in between two other Florida stops on Saturday.   He began the day in Lee County, came [...]]]></description>
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	<enclosure url='http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/files/2009/11/IMG_0233-150x150.jpg' length ='10275'  type='image/jpg' /><img src="http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/wp-content/uploads/daily_loaf_icons/news.jpg" width="60" height="25" alt="" title="News" /><br/>A crowd estimated to be at least a thousand  strong came out to Borders bookstore on South Dale Mabry in Tampa this morning to meet and greet (quickly) conservative icon Glenn Beck.
The radio and cable television personality sandwiched Tampa in between two other Florida stops on Saturday.   He began the day in Lee County, came [...]
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		<title>Does the road to rationing start with women?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/2009/11/21/does-the-road-to-rationing-start-with-women/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/2009/11/21/does-the-road-to-rationing-start-with-women/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:39:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kelly Cornelius</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ACOG]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[breast cancer screenings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care reform]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/?p=47613</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<img src="http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/wp-content/uploads/daily_loaf_icons/news.jpg" width="60" height="25" alt="" title="News" /><br/>Does the road to health care rationing start with women?]]></description>
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		<title>David Caton on Tampa City Council transgender vote : I thought Scott would vote against it, Caetano told me he didn&#8217;t want to be only no vote</title>
		<link>http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/2009/11/20/david-caton-on-tampa-city-council-transgender-vote-i-thought-scott-would-vote-against-it-caetano-told-me-he-didnt-want-to-be-only-no-vote/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:44:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mitch Perry</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Caton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joseph Caetano]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thomas Scott]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[<img src="http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/wp-content/uploads/daily_loaf_icons/news.jpg" width="60" height="25" alt="" title="News" /><br/>David Caton, executive director of the Florida Family Association, writes on his web site that he met during the meeting with Commission Chairman Thomas Scott and the City Attorney  to know "what wording changes needed to be made to correct the situation."]]></description>
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	<enclosure url='http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/files/2009/11/images-49.jpg' length ='1717'  type='image/jpg' /><img src="http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/wp-content/uploads/daily_loaf_icons/news.jpg" width="60" height="25" alt="" title="News" /><br/>David Caton, executive director of the Florida Family Association, writes on his web site that he met during the meeting with Commission Chairman Thomas Scott and the City Attorney  to know "what wording changes needed to be made to correct the situation."
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