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		<title>Rare</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 02:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Slattery</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From a Herald Sun commenter: Q. What do you call a non-cheating Pakistani cricketer? A. Asif]]></description>
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		<title>Deep trouble</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 23:15:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Slattery</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Someone&#8217;s in it deep, all right. ONE of the trapped Chilean miners is dreading his rescue after his wife met his secret mistress at the entrance to the San Jose mine.]]></description>
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		<title>Jail escape</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 03:04:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Slattery</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Norrie Ross has just served an intro with the lot. A DRIVER who killed his teen girlfriend in a high-speed smash was spared jail today because he is a cross-dresser with man boobs.]]></description>
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		<title>Fore! Er, fire!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 02:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Slattery</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Honey, how did your game of golf go?&#8221; &#8220;Darling, I burnt up the course.&#8221; The golfer at the Shady Canyon Golf Course in Irvine landed a shot in the rough Saturday. On his next swing, his club snagged a rock, causing a spark that lit the rough ablaze and eventually attracted 150 firefighters to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cool on warming claims</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:59:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Slattery</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This won&#8217;t fit under the carpet: THE world’s leading climate change body has been accused of losing credibility after a damning report into its research practices. A high-level inquiry into the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change found there was “little evidence” for its claims about global warming.]]></description>
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		<title>Dregs of society</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Aug 2010 00:48:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Slattery</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michael Thompson substantiates Kim Beasley senior&#8217;s highly relevant truism that the Labor party which was once run by the cream of the working class has been hijacked by the dregs of the middle class. There is a &#8220;new&#8221; class whose identity and political machinations are largely hidden from the working class. They call themselves &#8220;progressives&#8221;, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Batten the hatches!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Aug 2010 03:57:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Slattery</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You call manmade global warming a prediction? That&#8217;s not a prediction. THIS is a prediction! Melbourne, Aug 26 (ANI): Astronomers are predicting that a massive solar storm, much bigger in potential than the one that caused spectacular light shows on Earth earlier this month, is to strike our planet in 2012 with a force of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Expectant days</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Aug 2010 02:51:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Slattery</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The scan has been completed and both parties are hale and hearty so now it can be officially announced: The beloved and I are to become grandparents in early March. Can&#8217;t wait.]]></description>
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		<title>Nice company some people keep</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Aug 2010 02:26:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We already know that Greens embrace policies that kill innocents. We must be more vigilant in better protecting our people. Since February 7, those with practical local knowledge and bushfire behaviour experts have constantly raised the failure of government agencies to reduce fuel loads along our roads and on forest floors. And that Greens policies [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mention in deep north despatches</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Aug 2010 01:41:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Slattery</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been 28 years since my words have appeared in the Townsville Bulletin. Nice to be back. Thanks to my old china, John Anderson &#8211; once described as so tough he shampoos with Solvol and who once said the ABC&#8217;s sartorially sharp man in North Queensland, Dougie Murray, was &#8220;as flash as a rat with [...]]]></description>
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