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		<title>Comment on Elmo Exits Sesame Street Amid 2nd Gay Pedophilia Charge, Lawsuit, and Failed $125,000 Payoff by isabel marant sneakers</title>
		<link>http://acutemania.net/elmo-exits-sesame-street-amid-2nd-gay-pedophilia-charge-lawsuit-and-failed-125000-payoff/comment-page-1/#comment-3167</link>
		<dc:creator>isabel marant sneakers</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 10:05:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hey I know this is off topic but I was wondering 
if you knew of any widgets I could add to my blog that automatically tweet my newest twitter updates.

I&#039;ve been looking for a plug-in like this for quite some time and was hoping maybe you would have some experience with something like this. Please let me know if you run into anything. I truly enjoy reading your blog and I look forward to your new updates.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey I know this is off topic but I was wondering<br />
if you knew of any widgets I could add to my blog that automatically tweet my newest twitter updates.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve been looking for a plug-in like this for quite some time and was hoping maybe you would have some experience with something like this. Please let me know if you run into anything. I truly enjoy reading your blog and I look forward to your new updates.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Join the Ron Paul Crackpot Resolution! by jakec</title>
		<link>http://acutemania.net/join-the-ron-paul-crackpot-resolution/comment-page-1/#comment-2813</link>
		<dc:creator>jakec</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 03:05:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Talk about desperation. Get a life, you buffoon.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Talk about desperation. Get a life, you buffoon.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Gay Elmo Puppeteer Accused of Pedophilia, Confirmed as Internet Pervert by Jerry</title>
		<link>http://acutemania.net/gay-elmo-puppeteer-accused-of-pedophilia-confirmed-as-internet-pervert/comment-page-1/#comment-2798</link>
		<dc:creator>Jerry</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2013 14:16:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Although there may be some shady dealings here, as a gay man I can simply say this.  At 16, I would have LOVED to have had an older lover and knew what I was doing.  At 18 I was on my own, and making my own choises...no one was taking advantage of me...no one of ANY age.  To think 18 year olds do not understand what is going on around them, or happening to them is ludicrous!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Although there may be some shady dealings here, as a gay man I can simply say this.  At 16, I would have LOVED to have had an older lover and knew what I was doing.  At 18 I was on my own, and making my own choises&#8230;no one was taking advantage of me&#8230;no one of ANY age.  To think 18 year olds do not understand what is going on around them, or happening to them is ludicrous!</p>
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		<title>Comment on Elmo Exits Sesame Street Amid 2nd Gay Pedophilia Charge, Lawsuit, and Failed $125,000 Payoff by http://www.bain-de-soleil.info/bain-de-soleil-pas-cher/</title>
		<link>http://acutemania.net/elmo-exits-sesame-street-amid-2nd-gay-pedophilia-charge-lawsuit-and-failed-125000-payoff/comment-page-1/#comment-2430</link>
		<dc:creator>http://www.bain-de-soleil.info/bain-de-soleil-pas-cher/</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Feb 2013 22:46:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;m really enjoying the design and layout of your site. It&#039;s a very easy on the eyes 
which makes it much more pleasant for me to come here and visit more often.

Did you hire out a developer to create your theme?
Great work!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m really enjoying the design and layout of your site. It&#8217;s a very easy on the eyes<br />
which makes it much more pleasant for me to come here and visit more often.</p>
<p>Did you hire out a developer to create your theme?<br />
Great work!</p>
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		<title>Comment on Biden Plays Jester &#8211; Watch the Entire VP Debate Here! by mzaz</title>
		<link>http://acutemania.net/biden-plays-jester-watch-the-entire-vp-debate-here/comment-page-1/#comment-1036</link>
		<dc:creator>mzaz</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2012 18:28:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I couldn&#039;t believe how BIASED the moderator was allowing this clown Biden to interrupt and sit there laughing. He sat there doodling in between laughs. He made me think of my girls when they were two &amp; three years old. 

Amazon Proves Liberals Are 50% More Ignorant
The result is illustrative of how uninformed liberals are. Overall, conservative book sales are 50% higher than those of liberal books. Even in the ultra-liberal states like California and Illinois, Amazon sells more conservative books than liberal ones.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I couldn&#8217;t believe how BIASED the moderator was allowing this clown Biden to interrupt and sit there laughing. He sat there doodling in between laughs. He made me think of my girls when they were two &amp; three years old. </p>
<p>Amazon Proves Liberals Are 50% More Ignorant<br />
The result is illustrative of how uninformed liberals are. Overall, conservative book sales are 50% higher than those of liberal books. Even in the ultra-liberal states like California and Illinois, Amazon sells more conservative books than liberal ones.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Glen Shulfer&#8217;s Latest Song, &#8220;Obama Gotta Go&#8221; by Old Sarge</title>
		<link>http://acutemania.net/glen-shulfers-latest-song-obama-gotta-go/comment-page-1/#comment-1028</link>
		<dc:creator>Old Sarge</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2012 01:03:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I have lost jobs because of unions and watched unions close business because of stupid demands.  Let them bargain wisely and maybe we an be competitive in the world market again.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have lost jobs because of unions and watched unions close business because of stupid demands.  Let them bargain wisely and maybe we an be competitive in the world market again.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Glen Shulfer&#8217;s Latest Song, &#8220;Obama Gotta Go&#8221; by wanderer</title>
		<link>http://acutemania.net/glen-shulfers-latest-song-obama-gotta-go/comment-page-1/#comment-924</link>
		<dc:creator>wanderer</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2012 03:16:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The key words there are “free” and “forbidden.” Conservatives don’t forbid unions, and the unions that we have are never free. I’ve been in several unions and I’ve never been offered the opportunity to opt out. That is what Right-to-Work is all about.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The key words there are “free” and “forbidden.” Conservatives don’t forbid unions, and the unions that we have are never free. I’ve been in several unions and I’ve never been offered the opportunity to opt out. That is what Right-to-Work is all about.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Glen Shulfer&#8217;s Latest Song, &#8220;Obama Gotta Go&#8221; by M</title>
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		<dc:creator>M</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2012 02:23:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Ronald Reagan on unions:
&quot;Where free unions and collective bargaining are forbidden, freedom is lost.&quot;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bn28oayX31Y
(video of speech)

I wonder how this quote would be received in today&#039;s Republican party...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ronald Reagan on unions:<br />
&#8220;Where free unions and collective bargaining are forbidden, freedom is lost.&#8221;</p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bn28oayX31Y" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bn28oayX31Y</a><br />
(video of speech)</p>
<p>I wonder how this quote would be received in today&#8217;s Republican party&#8230;</p>
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		<title>Comment on It&#8217;s Government That Can&#8217;t Exist Without Businesses by M</title>
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		<dc:creator>M</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2012 02:18:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Listen, have you ever heard of the concept of a positive externality? You talk about education in your post; that&#039;s a perfect example. Society as a whole benefits from having an educated population. However, when in a free market economy, people make decisions, they make decisions based on their own private benefit, not societal benefit. For example, imagine I were to gain 500$ worth of benefits in the long term from purchasing something. Imagine also, that society as a whole would get an extra 200$ worth of benefits if I purchased this product. Any rational economic actor would pay only 500$ (because that is how much private benefit the actor gets). 

The problem arises when it turns out that the market does not provide the optimal amount of this positive externality product. Producers supply more of a product when they can sell it for a higher price, and the societally optimal amount of product is the one produced when the price in 700$, not 500$. When the price is 500$, there is too little of the product sold, and the outcome is not optimal. 

The government can step in to subsidize the producer (yes, with your tax dollars), ie pay the producer an extra 200$ for every unit of the product purchased, so that we reach the societally optimal level of production. This is what the government does with education. You get benefits from the public school system even if you don&#039;t have kids who go to public school (educated population = less crime, better productivity etc.), and you pay for those benefits through your property taxes.

The real problem with public schools isn&#039;t that they&#039;re not privatized enough, it&#039;s that there are gross inequalities in the system, and a kid growing up in a poor neighborhood often has a worse school than a kid growing up in a rich neighborhood.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Listen, have you ever heard of the concept of a positive externality? You talk about education in your post; that&#8217;s a perfect example. Society as a whole benefits from having an educated population. However, when in a free market economy, people make decisions, they make decisions based on their own private benefit, not societal benefit. For example, imagine I were to gain 500$ worth of benefits in the long term from purchasing something. Imagine also, that society as a whole would get an extra 200$ worth of benefits if I purchased this product. Any rational economic actor would pay only 500$ (because that is how much private benefit the actor gets). </p>
<p>The problem arises when it turns out that the market does not provide the optimal amount of this positive externality product. Producers supply more of a product when they can sell it for a higher price, and the societally optimal amount of product is the one produced when the price in 700$, not 500$. When the price is 500$, there is too little of the product sold, and the outcome is not optimal. </p>
<p>The government can step in to subsidize the producer (yes, with your tax dollars), ie pay the producer an extra 200$ for every unit of the product purchased, so that we reach the societally optimal level of production. This is what the government does with education. You get benefits from the public school system even if you don&#8217;t have kids who go to public school (educated population = less crime, better productivity etc.), and you pay for those benefits through your property taxes.</p>
<p>The real problem with public schools isn&#8217;t that they&#8217;re not privatized enough, it&#8217;s that there are gross inequalities in the system, and a kid growing up in a poor neighborhood often has a worse school than a kid growing up in a rich neighborhood.</p>
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		<title>Comment on New Music: America by Glen Shulfer by Glen Shulfer&#8217;s Latest Song, &#8220;Obama Gotta Go&#8221; &#124; AcuteMania</title>
		<link>http://acutemania.net/new-music-america-by-glen-shulfer/comment-page-1/#comment-919</link>
		<dc:creator>Glen Shulfer&#8217;s Latest Song, &#8220;Obama Gotta Go&#8221; &#124; AcuteMania</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2012 15:20:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] unions started attacking Governor Scott Walker. Two of my favorites are &#8220;Union Man&#8221; and &#8220;America.&#8221; If you like these, take a look at his YouTube channel. He has many more. Glen [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] unions started attacking Governor Scott Walker. Two of my favorites are &#8220;Union Man&#8221; and &#8220;America.&#8221; If you like these, take a look at his YouTube channel. He has many more. Glen [...]</p>
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