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	<description>We all have an obligation to each other and to ourselves to 'get it right' to help each other understand what really is and what things actually mean – not what we think might be or wish might be.</description>
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		<title>Self hate may encounter free speech</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The question: references to particular ethnic or religious groups as “viruses” or “cancers” in need of extirpation are socially unacceptable, triggering immediate thoughts of genocide and mass murder. Why, then, should it be acceptable to refer to all humanity in this fashion? Does widening the circle of eliminationist rhetoric somehow make it better? Professor Reynolds [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sierranevadaairstreams.org/whispers/?p=1772</link>
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		<title>Social Security and the illegal alien problem</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many complain that jobs are being taken from U.S. citizens by cheap foreign illegal labor. It is a political hot potato and a new report adds fuel to the fire. Bruce Krasting says it&#8217;s Social Security Trust Fund&#8217;s Labor Day Bombshell. SS has been collecting money from illegal aliens for years. They will keep the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sierranevadaairstreams.org/whispers/?p=1770</link>
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		<title>Is the Bible secular?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The display of the Ten Commandments has been a symbol for the anti-western culture advocates. The idea is that anything from the bible is sectarian and religious and therefore must be banned from the public square. David Hazony wonders: Can a Sacred Text Be Secular as Well? He uses his experience from a visit to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sierranevadaairstreams.org/whispers/?p=1768</link>
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		<title>Prosecutorial misconduct as political warfare?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Byron York says New evidence undermines feds&#8217; case against Arizona. The U.S. is going after Arizona and that means investigation and target definition. The latest case is Joe Arpaio, Maricopa County Sheriff. Since &#8220;in September 2008, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, known as ICE, did its own investigation of Arpaio&#8217;s office &#8212; and gave [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sierranevadaairstreams.org/whispers/?p=1766</link>
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		<title>Is truth an accord with objective reality?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Barry Ritholtz wonders aboout Seeking the Truth — Or Obscuring It?. He lists three reasons for seeking this sort of Truth. 1) intellectual interest: &#8220;So few people seem to understand what objective reality is that it is a rarified space to even get near, much less inhabit.&#8221; 2) professional: &#8220;Fund managers whose universe deviate from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sierranevadaairstreams.org/whispers/?p=1764</link>
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		<title>Pay equity?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There has been a long standing observation that there is pay inequity in the workforce by gender. A recent Bureau of Labor Statistics report says that &#8220;In 2009, women who were full-time wage and salary workers had median weekly earnings of $657, or about 80 percent of the $819 median for their male counterparts.&#8221; Carpe [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sierranevadaairstreams.org/whispers/?p=1762</link>
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		<title>Prosecution via press release</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Topix CEO Chris Tolles says it&#8217;s &#8220;Pissed off people, not illegality, is the issue to watch,&#8221; TechCrunch carries the story When Attorneys General Attack. This is going to happen more – The States’ Attorneys General are the place that complaints about your company will probably end up. This is especially true if you host a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sierranevadaairstreams.org/whispers/?p=1760</link>
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		<title>No competition? Net neutrality and a hidden agenda</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The net neutrality thing keeps pinging the awareness as the FCC continues its efforts to expand its authority to include the I&#8217;net as well as the airwaves. DSLreports wonders If We Had Competition, We Might Not Need Neutrality Rules and figures &#8220;we may not be getting either.&#8221; While it sounds nice to mandate that network [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sierranevadaairstreams.org/whispers/?p=1756</link>
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		<title>What has science come to (secrecy)?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When a science oriented blog takes up things like &#8220;Leave no trace of your electronic correspondence&#8221; it makes one wonder. This might be a response to the CRU email message release but, in any case, it goes away from basic values of science research. The topic might bring to mind the famous missing minutes in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sierranevadaairstreams.org/whispers/?p=1754</link>
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		<title>A problem with permits</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The RGJ highlights a problem with permits in rationalizing its lawsuit to dig dirt on the governor. They do a &#8216;fact finding&#8217; report on the question Is loss of privacy the price of a concealed weapon?. The claim that the information on the permit includes Social Security numbers, relatives and health information is bogus. Yes, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sierranevadaairstreams.org/whispers/?p=1752</link>
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