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		<title>Whatever Happened To Clyde? Some Thoughts On The &#8220;Least Of These.&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.perkersonpark.com/2011/12/whatever-happened-to-clyde-some-thoughts-on-the-least-of-these.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 19:52:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prentice</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ponder This]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Christianity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[homelessness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[morality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poverty]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I am mad. I am sick at heart, pissed off and absolutely powerless to right a terrible wrong. But, more than anything, I am sad. Sad for us all. Clyde was a homeless man, living on the streets of East Nashville, when we met him. It had been four years since he had slept [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Occupy Wall Street: America&#8217;s Greatest Generation Would Be There.</title>
		<link>http://www.perkersonpark.com/2011/10/economic-bill-of-rights-necessitous-men-are-not-free-men.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2011 17:19:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prentice &#38; Mary Ann</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ponder This]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bill of Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economic Bill of Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Franklin Roosevelt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[freedom from want]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sixty-seven years have passed since the evening of January 11, 1944, an evening on which the voice of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt filled the airwaves of a nation at war. On that evening, in one his radio fireside chats, Roosevelt addressed an anxious audience of millions of listeners who sensed that the greatest battles and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Patient Has A Tumor. A Giant, Unmistakable And Potentially Terminal Mass Of Greed.</title>
		<link>http://www.perkersonpark.com/2011/09/the-patient-has-a-tumor-a-giant-unmistakable-and-potentially-terminal-mass-of-greed.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.perkersonpark.com/2011/09/the-patient-has-a-tumor-a-giant-unmistakable-and-potentially-terminal-mass-of-greed.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 05:15:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prentice</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Love & Marriage]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sex - A Popular Category]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[alimony]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[capitalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[divorce]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.perkersonpark.com/?p=8597</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Roll this comment around in your head for a moment: “Only marry someone that is your financial equal… Do a credit check, asset check, income check… you are going into business with these people.” The quote is a reader comment appearing below an article in the Huffington Post, Divorce Section, written by William Quigley. The author [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First, Justice Was Blindfolded. Now She&#8217;s Been Beaten.</title>
		<link>http://www.perkersonpark.com/2011/09/first-justice-was-blindfolded-now-shes-been-beaten.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.perkersonpark.com/2011/09/first-justice-was-blindfolded-now-shes-been-beaten.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 05:55:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Ann</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Worrisome Stuff]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andrew Holmes]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[criminal justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[death penalty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[execution]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[murder]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Troy Davis]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.perkersonpark.com/?p=8563</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[He aimed a fully loaded automatic weapon at a child standing 15 feet away, then cut the child down in a hail of bullets. He then grabbed the hair on the top of the head and pulled the child&#8217;s bloody face up out of the dirt, displaying his &#8220;kill&#8221; like a trophy while posing for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Let Them Eat Cake. But Not My Cake!</title>
		<link>http://www.perkersonpark.com/2011/09/let-them-eat-cake-but-not-my-cake.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 06:54:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prentice</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[deficit reduction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elizabeth Warren]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[obligations of the rich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social contract]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social justice]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.perkersonpark.com/?p=8525</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a Republican favorite. It&#8217;s a Tea Party favorite. It was a favorite of Ebenezer Scrooge. It reflects a small, hard, miserly spirit, and it slaps common sense in the face. &#8220;I worked for everything I have, I earned it all, and I don&#8217;t owe any part of it to anyone else.&#8221; You&#8217;ve heard that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Smarter Than An Aggie?</title>
		<link>http://www.perkersonpark.com/2011/09/smarter-than-an-aggie.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.perkersonpark.com/2011/09/smarter-than-an-aggie.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2011 23:43:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prentice</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aggie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rick Perry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Texas A&M]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.perkersonpark.com/?p=8505</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Who would have guessed that Rick Perry is a product of Texas A&#038;M? Me and any other graduate of the University of Texas. It&#8217;s worth noting, though, that Perry wasn&#8217;t your average Aggie. No sir, he was a standout. A bright star even at an early age, Rick racked up a 2.22 grade point average [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Food For Thought: Lard, Cigarettes, And 350-Pound Patrons Eat For Free!</title>
		<link>http://www.perkersonpark.com/2011/05/food-for-thought-lard-cigarettes-and-350-pound-patrons-eat-for-free.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2011 03:03:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Ann</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ponder This]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[capitalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[diet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[exploitation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[obese]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.perkersonpark.com/?p=8465</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I wonder whatever happened to shame. Good old fashioned mortification. Ring a bell? The dictionary defines it as &#8220;the painful feeling arising from the consciousness of something dishonorable, improper&#8230; done by oneself or another: She was overcome with shame.&#8221; (Dictionary.com) There was a time when nobody wanted to be seen as vulgar, cruel, crass, exploitative [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tired Of Paying Through The Nose To Cut Your Own Throat? Stop The Bleeding Now!</title>
		<link>http://www.perkersonpark.com/2011/05/paying-through-the-nose-to-cut-your-own-throat-stop-the-bleeding.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.perkersonpark.com/2011/05/paying-through-the-nose-to-cut-your-own-throat-stop-the-bleeding.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2011 22:34:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prentice</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ponder This]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[double edge razor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[razor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[razor blades]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[shaving cartridges]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wet shaving]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.perkersonpark.com/?p=8427</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Yes, I know. It sounds like a joke. I wouldn’t have believed it either if I hadn’t seen it with my own eyes. But, there they were, boldly displayed in their Terminatoresque packaging, hanging right there next to the Barbasol shaving cream and the corn plasters. Gillette Mach3 shaving cartridges: $13.99 for a pack of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Back To The Future: Ron Paul And The Libertarian Time Machine</title>
		<link>http://www.perkersonpark.com/2011/05/ron-paul-and-the-libertarian-time-machine.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.perkersonpark.com/2011/05/ron-paul-and-the-libertarian-time-machine.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2011 05:54:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prentice</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[civil rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[libertarian]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ron Paul]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.perkersonpark.com/?p=8380</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ron Paul and I have very little in common, but we do share this: He’s been around a long time, and so have I. It&#8217;s fair to say that we&#8217;re old timers, the pair of us. One thing old timers like to do, you may have noticed, is reminisce. We like to look back over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sadhu Sundar Singh: A Modern Day Apostle&#8217;s Warning To America</title>
		<link>http://www.perkersonpark.com/2011/04/sadhu-sundar-singh-warns-america-stop-examining-spiritual-truths-like-dry-bones.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.perkersonpark.com/2011/04/sadhu-sundar-singh-warns-america-stop-examining-spiritual-truths-like-dry-bones.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2011 03:34:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prentice</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American Christianity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[asceticism]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sadhu Sundar Singh]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[western materialism]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.perkersonpark.com/?p=8319</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Romantic stories. Americans have always loved them. Especially popular are stories that tell of heathen people saved from their heathenness by Christian missionaries who have bravely trekked into the lands of idolaters. The stuff of national legend has often been found where such tales have combined with the liberation of unenlightened people through the introduction [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nashville Joins The Third World. Pigeon Forge And Sacramento Are Next In Line.</title>
		<link>http://www.perkersonpark.com/2011/02/nashville-joins-the-third-world-pigeon-forge-and-sacramento-are-next.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.perkersonpark.com/2011/02/nashville-joins-the-third-world-pigeon-forge-and-sacramento-are-next.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2011 02:10:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prentice</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.perkersonpark.com/?p=8301</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[America has no shame. If it did there would never be a need for such events as occurred last weekend at McGavock High School in Nashville, TN or what will occur in the next few weeks in Pigeon Forge, TN and Sacramento, California. To the everlasting shame of our country, and to the everlasting credit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Splendors Of The Spirit: An Introduction To Emanuel Swedenborg</title>
		<link>http://www.perkersonpark.com/2011/02/introduction-to-emanuel-swedenborg.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.perkersonpark.com/2011/02/introduction-to-emanuel-swedenborg.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2011 18:36:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prentice</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Love & Marriage]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Friends who read this blog frequently ask me for more information about Emanuel Swedenborg, his teachings and theology. Because Swedenborg was more than a theologian and philosopher and made a most extraordinary claim to personal revelation it is difficult to communicate the gist of Swedenborg with any economy of words to someone with no prior [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Want To Learn More About Snow? Google &#8220;Emanuel Swedenborg.&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.perkersonpark.com/2011/01/want-to-learn-more-about-snow-google-emanuel-swedenborg.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.perkersonpark.com/2011/01/want-to-learn-more-about-snow-google-emanuel-swedenborg.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jan 2011 06:14:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Ann</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ponder This]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[atheism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[believer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[evidence of God]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[proof of God]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.perkersonpark.com/?p=8266</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If there&#8217;s one thing I definitely am not, it is a theologian. Sadly, I am also not a video maker. If I were both those things I like to think I might have made this little video. If after watching the video you want to learn more about snow (or God), Google &#8220;Emanuel Swedenborg.&#8221; If you liked [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Oddball In My Family: A Story About Choctaws, Potatoes And The Irish</title>
		<link>http://www.perkersonpark.com/2011/01/the-oddball-in-my-family-a-story-about-choctaws-and-the-irish.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.perkersonpark.com/2011/01/the-oddball-in-my-family-a-story-about-choctaws-and-the-irish.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jan 2011 15:45:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Ann</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ponder This]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[capitalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Choctaw]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[laissez-faire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[potato famine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[socialism]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.perkersonpark.com/?p=8239</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I want to tell you a story about the people of the Choctaw Nation and the people of Ireland. It’s a story that warms my heart. But, first I need to say a few words about the context in which the story comes to my mind. I’m the oddball of my family. The “odd girl [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Twelve Apostles Testify About The &#8220;Health And Wealth&#8221; Gospel</title>
		<link>http://www.perkersonpark.com/2011/01/twelve-apostles-testify-about-the-health-and-wealth-gospel.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.perkersonpark.com/2011/01/twelve-apostles-testify-about-the-health-and-wealth-gospel.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jan 2011 19:24:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prentice</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[charlatans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[heresy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poverty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[prosperity gospel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[television preachers]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.perkersonpark.com/?p=8221</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What if I told you that Jesus was born of a Roman Emperor and his concubine, traveled about with a harem of women of questionable honor, and was killed in a bad drug deal in the slums on Jerusalem’s lower east side? You’d know I just made that up, right? You’d know that nothing in [...]]]></description>
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