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		<title>By: lilybart</title>
		<link>http://www.themudflats.net/2010/03/15/alaska-coffee-party-report/#comment-178878</link>
		<dc:creator>lilybart</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 13:06:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Tea is so elitist, really.  Now coffee.....I see cowboys making campfire coffee, not guys in bow ties drinking weak tea with pinky fingers flying out.

I love this idea but I do miss the hitler moustaches</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Tea is so elitist, really.  Now coffee&#8230;..I see cowboys making campfire coffee, not guys in bow ties drinking weak tea with pinky fingers flying out.</p>
<p>I love this idea but I do miss the hitler moustaches</p>
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		<title>By: yukonbushgrma</title>
		<link>http://www.themudflats.net/2010/03/15/alaska-coffee-party-report/#comment-178867</link>
		<dc:creator>yukonbushgrma</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 09:12:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>MUYS:
Aw, I really like &quot;yukwasillagrma.&quot;  Oh well ........  guess it just doesn&#039;t fit.

Yup, you&#039;re just plain bad.  hahahahaha</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>MUYS:<br />
Aw, I really like &#8220;yukwasillagrma.&#8221;  Oh well &#8230;&#8230;..  guess it just doesn&#8217;t fit.</p>
<p>Yup, you&#8217;re just plain bad.  hahahahaha</p>
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		<title>By: Martha Unalaska Yard Sign</title>
		<link>http://www.themudflats.net/2010/03/15/alaska-coffee-party-report/#comment-178861</link>
		<dc:creator>Martha Unalaska Yard Sign</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 08:36:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>YBG-

Is that why your blog name isn&#039;t yukwasillagrma?  LOL!

Oh I&#039;m so bad tonight.  Full of excitement over the Iditarod, I guess.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>YBG-</p>
<p>Is that why your blog name isn&#8217;t yukwasillagrma?  LOL!</p>
<p>Oh I&#8217;m so bad tonight.  Full of excitement over the Iditarod, I guess.</p>
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		<title>By: yukonbushgrma</title>
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		<dc:creator>yukonbushgrma</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 07:13:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Oh yeah, one more thing --

I have dial-up, so it doesn&#039;t really work to do anything that needs high-speed internet.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Oh yeah, one more thing &#8211;</p>
<p>I have dial-up, so it doesn&#8217;t really work to do anything that needs high-speed internet.</p>
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		<title>By: yukonbushgrma</title>
		<link>http://www.themudflats.net/2010/03/15/alaska-coffee-party-report/#comment-178842</link>
		<dc:creator>yukonbushgrma</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 07:11:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>If I were in Wasilla or Anchorage, I would have been there in a heartbeat.

Unfortunately, I&#039;m out in the bush, and would have had to fly in to a meeting -- (sorry - cost-prohibitive).

So, my question is:

How can I participate in this with just a computer?  Is there a blog or something?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If I were in Wasilla or Anchorage, I would have been there in a heartbeat.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, I&#8217;m out in the bush, and would have had to fly in to a meeting &#8212; (sorry &#8211; cost-prohibitive).</p>
<p>So, my question is:</p>
<p>How can I participate in this with just a computer?  Is there a blog or something?</p>
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		<title>By: beth</title>
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		<dc:creator>beth</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 05:45:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>thinklin’ = thinkin&#039;. [But &#039;pups already knew that, didn&#039;t they? Sweet, sweet, &#039;pups.] b.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>thinklin’ = thinkin&#8217;. [But 'pups already knew that, didn't they? Sweet, sweet, 'pups.] b.</p>
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		<title>By: beth</title>
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		<dc:creator>beth</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 05:41:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I wish the movement had a 3rd &#039;leg&#039; to its logo/motto ~ &quot;Speak Up!&quot; 

For too long, I think, we&#039;ve watched and listened while the loony likes of SP, Beck, Limbaugh, Bachman, Malkin, Coulter, et al, have had, pretty much, free run of the airwaves/media/politics with their ever-increasing loonery. I think we (those of us who are more than a little disturbed by loonery --from &lt;i&gt;both&lt;/i&gt; &#039;sides&#039;--) *have* been awake and *have* been standing up; we *have* been doing so for a looooong time. It&#039;s just that...

It&#039;s just that a number of &#039;us&#039; have been awake and standing up ... with our hands on our hips while we&#039;ve been shaking our heads in stunned disbelief that &#039;they&#039; are &#039;getting away&#039; with the chit they&#039;re spreading; we&#039;ve been tsk-tsking the truth-stretching, misdirections, idiocy, and outright lies coming from the aforementioned folks, &lt;i&gt;instead&lt;/i&gt; of giving a *clear* and *immediate* voice to our objections over/to their on-going blather.

I&#039;m a thinklin&#039; (proposing that): If &#039;we&#039; can coordinate Alan Graysonesque-, Al Frankenesque-, Barney Franksesque-type (i.e.: factual, pertinent-to-the-*issue*, reality-based, and polite ... but unequivocal!) voices to meet/challenge &lt;i&gt;*consistently!*&lt;/i&gt; the loonery and garbage spewed by &#039;them&#039; (at *all* levels of our politics), we&#039;ll have success. And if {when} &#039;we&#039; speak that voice and have that voice heard by *others* who&#039;ll *also* pick it up, we&#039;ll have Great Success. &lt;i&gt;Until&lt;/i&gt; then, though... 

Yeah, I do wish it were: &quot;Wake Up ~ Stand Up ~ Speak Up!&quot; beth.

--How in the &lt;i&gt;world&lt;/i&gt; can the so-called &quot;Coffee Party&quot; &#039;movement&#039; &lt;i&gt;possibly&lt;/i&gt; work...it doesn&#039;t have [left-ish, progressive equivalents of] Beck, SPalin, SCOTUS Justice Thomas&#039;s wife, Faux News, or any &lt;i&gt;other&lt;/i&gt; &#039;grass root movement&#039; *non*-organizers *behind* it [read: backing/promoting/funding it like crazy]? [/snark] b.--</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I wish the movement had a 3rd &#8216;leg&#8217; to its logo/motto ~ &#8220;Speak Up!&#8221; </p>
<p>For too long, I think, we&#8217;ve watched and listened while the loony likes of SP, Beck, Limbaugh, Bachman, Malkin, Coulter, et al, have had, pretty much, free run of the airwaves/media/politics with their ever-increasing loonery. I think we (those of us who are more than a little disturbed by loonery &#8211;from <i>both</i> &#8216;sides&#8217;&#8211;) *have* been awake and *have* been standing up; we *have* been doing so for a looooong time. It&#8217;s just that&#8230;</p>
<p>It&#8217;s just that a number of &#8216;us&#8217; have been awake and standing up &#8230; with our hands on our hips while we&#8217;ve been shaking our heads in stunned disbelief that &#8216;they&#8217; are &#8216;getting away&#8217; with the chit they&#8217;re spreading; we&#8217;ve been tsk-tsking the truth-stretching, misdirections, idiocy, and outright lies coming from the aforementioned folks, <i>instead</i> of giving a *clear* and *immediate* voice to our objections over/to their on-going blather.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m a thinklin&#8217; (proposing that): If &#8216;we&#8217; can coordinate Alan Graysonesque-, Al Frankenesque-, Barney Franksesque-type (i.e.: factual, pertinent-to-the-*issue*, reality-based, and polite &#8230; but unequivocal!) voices to meet/challenge <i>*consistently!*</i> the loonery and garbage spewed by &#8216;them&#8217; (at *all* levels of our politics), we&#8217;ll have success. And if {when} &#8216;we&#8217; speak that voice and have that voice heard by *others* who&#8217;ll *also* pick it up, we&#8217;ll have Great Success. <i>Until</i> then, though&#8230; </p>
<p>Yeah, I do wish it were: &#8220;Wake Up ~ Stand Up ~ Speak Up!&#8221; beth.</p>
<p>&#8211;How in the <i>world</i> can the so-called &#8220;Coffee Party&#8221; &#8216;movement&#8217; <i>possibly</i> work&#8230;it doesn&#8217;t have [left-ish, progressive equivalents of] Beck, SPalin, SCOTUS Justice Thomas&#8217;s wife, Faux News, or any <i>other</i> &#8216;grass root movement&#8217; *non*-organizers *behind* it [read: backing/promoting/funding it like crazy]? [/snark] b.&#8211;</p>
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		<title>By: Martha Unalaska Yard Sign</title>
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		<dc:creator>Martha Unalaska Yard Sign</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 05:41:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Wohoo Valley Independent!   Coffee Party, indeed!  I am partial to coffee over tea, thank you very much!

Not that tea is bad, mind you.  It&#039;s just that the thugs took it over, and if you take the tea away from the thugs, you just get hugs.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wohoo Valley Independent!   Coffee Party, indeed!  I am partial to coffee over tea, thank you very much!</p>
<p>Not that tea is bad, mind you.  It&#8217;s just that the thugs took it over, and if you take the tea away from the thugs, you just get hugs.</p>
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		<title>By: faithfulpup</title>
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		<dc:creator>faithfulpup</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 05:24:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Coffee Parties? I don&#039;t get to see newscasts for a few days---ok I just got sick of the b***s**t and wouldn&#039;t watch or listen.Then I tune in to Mudflats for some sanity checks and there they are, coffee parties.  Checked out the sites and signed up.  People talking to each other? Discussions without accusations, lies and hate? WOW !!!  Happiness.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Coffee Parties? I don&#8217;t get to see newscasts for a few days&#8212;ok I just got sick of the b***s**t and wouldn&#8217;t watch or listen.Then I tune in to Mudflats for some sanity checks and there they are, coffee parties.  Checked out the sites and signed up.  People talking to each other? Discussions without accusations, lies and hate? WOW !!!  Happiness.</p>
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		<title>By: Lee323</title>
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		<dc:creator>Lee323</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 03:34:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Great report, Valley Independent!

&quot;Wake Up and Stand Up&quot;....I like that. (Much better than the visuals of dangling tea bags, I might add.)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Great report, Valley Independent!</p>
<p>&#8220;Wake Up and Stand Up&#8221;&#8230;.I like that. (Much better than the visuals of dangling tea bags, I might add.)</p>
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