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		<title>Hi Cuz</title>
		<link>http://www.slattsnews.observationdeck.org/?p=7429</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 02:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Slattery</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Slatts&#8217; clan comes from the line known as Black Irish. Looks like we&#8217;ve got a new strain: Speaking at the Gaiety Theatre in Dublin, Ireland, at a performance by of &#8220;Riverdance&#8221; by Irish youth, First Lady Michelle Obama thanked the crowd and said, &#8220;It is good to be home.&#8221; That&#8217;s what Gillard would call [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Institutionalised hypocrites</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 01:48:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Slattery</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Former Labor MP Gary Johns gives the luvvy classes an erudite, learned spray: &#8221;Nowhere on this committee is to be found a Meals-on-Wheels representative, the Salvation Army or someone from Lifeline or a St Vinnies shop, or Rotary. The latter are civil society, not the leftists who, in the past decades, have assumed positions as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wheely up in the air</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 03:19:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Slattery</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hey Santa, this is the bike I want:]]></description>
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		<title>Our &#8216;Enery to open the English battering</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jun 2013 02:55:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Slattery</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Letter of the week in The Australian today: HELLO, my Aussie cousins. I want to send a few words of support at this difficult time. We all know the Australian Test cricket team has had it tough of late, what with back-to-back Ashes defeats and a 4-0 thumping in India. We all know the Australian [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You don&#8217;t say</title>
		<link>http://www.slattsnews.observationdeck.org/?p=7418</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jun 2013 02:47:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Slattery</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tell us something we don&#8217;t know: AUSTRALIA&#8217;S refugee determination process has broken down completely, admitting large numbers of people whose claims to refugee status are fraudulent. The claims come from a former senior Immigration Department official who says the system favours those who tell lies over those who tell the truth, is easily scammed and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WAW!</title>
		<link>http://www.slattsnews.observationdeck.org/?p=7414</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jun 2013 03:42:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Slattery</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Plummeting to a new low in grievance pursuit. A MAN dialled 999 to complain to police that a prostitute was UGLY after meeting her outside a hotel. The caller told West Midlands Police he wanted &#8220;to report her for breaching the Sale of Goods Act&#8221;. Read more:]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s a joke, Joyce</title>
		<link>http://www.slattsnews.observationdeck.org/?p=7405</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jun 2013 01:28:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Slattery</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Definitely a case of Gillard and Labor luvvies in the media going off half-cocked: The Prime Minister launched a day-long attack on the Opposition Leader &#8211; as well as Mr Hockey, the opposition&#8217;s Treasury spokesman, and Howard government minister Mal Brough, the LNP&#8217;s candidate for the Sunshine Coast seat of Fisher, who both attended the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Media retractions, anyone?</title>
		<link>http://www.slattsnews.observationdeck.org/?p=7403</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jun 2013 02:26:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Slattery</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So there were sound grounds for our doubts, after all. But then we weren&#8217;t on the payroll of Big Gov. The New York Times is wondering, as are other mainstream media outlets, &#8220;What to Make of a Warming Plateau.&#8221; If the media had a more critical eye, they&#8217;d see what they&#8217;ve been expecting is wrong. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Predicting cross words</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jun 2013 01:17:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Slattery</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jeez, The Age&#8217;s luvvy readers will melt the phone lines if they solve today&#8217;s politically incorrect cryptic crossword. Clues and answers include nuts, round the bend, goes nuts, up the pole, one-legged, maniac or nutcase.]]></description>
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		<title>History repeated</title>
		<link>http://www.slattsnews.observationdeck.org/?p=7396</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jun 2013 04:13:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Slattery</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What&#8217;s that about those who ignore history being bound to repeat it? This will send a chill down Jewish spines. And hopefully outrage a majority of Germans. In a throwback to its darkest past, the German government recently decided to back an initiative which singles out Jewish-owned businesses and targets them for detrimental treatment. Joining [...]]]></description>
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