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	<title>Rapidsea &#187; Pirates</title>
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		<title>Find the treasure ~ lower my bills</title>
		<link>http://blog.rapidsea.com/2008/02/find-the-treasure-lower-my-bills/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2008 07:04:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cody</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[LowerMyBills.com has this animated Flash auto insurance ad floating out there (found on CNN.com): Those look like pirate ships to me.&#160; Do you really want to represent your company as a couple of pirate ships on a treasure hunt?&#160; And those creatures jumping out of the water could be sharks.&#160; Even the best case scenario [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US Pirate Party Endorses Barack Obama</title>
		<link>http://blog.rapidsea.com/2008/01/us-pirate-pirate-endorses-barack-obama/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2008 01:07:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cody</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The US Pirate Party has officially endorsed Barack Obama.&#160; Their PDF press release can be found here.]]></description>
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		<title>Lego Aqua Raiders</title>
		<link>http://blog.rapidsea.com/2007/12/lego-aqua-raiders/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2007 05:49:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cody</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Growing Up]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the great toy finds of the year is definitely the Lego Aqua Raiders sets.&#160; Here&#8217;s one with an amazing Lego skeleton in the lower right-hand corner: I wonder if it draws its inspiration from Pirates of the Caribbean on some level.&#160; I&#8217;d like to think that Disney doesn&#8217;t dictate most toy evolutions. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Disneycemetery ~ People scattering remains at the &#8216;Happiest Place on Earth&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://blog.rapidsea.com/2007/11/disneycemetery-people-apparently-scatter-human-ashes-on-rides-at-the-happiest-place-on-earth/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.rapidsea.com/2007/11/disneycemetery-people-apparently-scatter-human-ashes-on-rides-at-the-happiest-place-on-earth/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2007 15:18:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cody</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Medium to Paradise]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Utopia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There is a group of people who think that it&#8217;s okay to spread ashes at Disney&#8217;s theme parks according to this article. Apparently, the most recent incident happened on the Pirates of the Caribbean ride where a woman claimed she was putting baby powder into the water.]]></description>
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		<title>Nothing communicates political scandal faster than a journalist wearing half a bikini</title>
		<link>http://blog.rapidsea.com/2007/10/nothing-communicates-political-scandal-faster-than-a-journalist-wearing-half-a-bikini/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.rapidsea.com/2007/10/nothing-communicates-political-scandal-faster-than-a-journalist-wearing-half-a-bikini/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Oct 2007 15:31:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cody</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nothing communicates political scandal faster than a half-naked woman in a bikini. This week, it&#8217;s happening in Brazil. According to the Merco Press, journalist Monica Veloso posed recently for Playboy and revealed wrongdoings by her former lover Senate President Renan Calheiros. Merco writes: The Senator and close ally of President Lula da Silva allegedly paid [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pirate Politician ~ U.S. Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska)</title>
		<link>http://blog.rapidsea.com/2007/10/pirate-politician-us-rep-don-young-r-alaska/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.rapidsea.com/2007/10/pirate-politician-us-rep-don-young-r-alaska/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Oct 2007 18:30:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cody</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Florida real estate keeps coming back to this special section of Rapidsea, this time involving a prominent Alaskan.&#xA0; Don Young has served as the only official in the U.S. House of Representatives from Alaska for almost 35 years.&#xA0; In the past couple of years, more and more information has been brought forth to lead to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pirate Politician ~ Former U.S. Rep. Harold Ford Sr.</title>
		<link>http://blog.rapidsea.com/2007/10/pirate-politician-former-us-rep-harold-ford-sr/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.rapidsea.com/2007/10/pirate-politician-former-us-rep-harold-ford-sr/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Oct 2007 01:43:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cody</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Continuing in the spirit of our post on former Mexican President Vicente Fox and his &#34;beach house&#34; scandal, former U.S. Representative Harold Ford Sr. (D-TN) is in the news with his own.&#xA0; Among all of the controversy that has followed his son and him around over the years, this time dad&#8217;s being accused of a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pirate Politician ~ Senator Larry Craig (R-ID) at his &quot;floating trailer park&quot;</title>
		<link>http://blog.rapidsea.com/2007/09/pirate-politician-senator-larry-craig-r-id-at-his-floating-trailer-park/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.rapidsea.com/2007/09/pirate-politician-senator-larry-craig-r-id-at-his-floating-trailer-park/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2007 14:10:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cody</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Up until I posted the Pirate Politician Post on Rep. Jerry Weller (R-IL), I had avoided using Larry E. Craig as the first &#8220;Pirate Politician&#8221; for various (perhaps obvious) reasons, but this week his hypocrisy and lust for luxe have been further exposed. It&#8217;s time. I&#8217;ll dive right into this post, which was born because [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pirate Politician? Former President Vicente Fox Which came first the beach house or the scandal?</title>
		<link>http://blog.rapidsea.com/2007/09/pirate-politician-mexicos-president-vicente-fox-which-came-first-the-beach-house-or-the-scandal/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.rapidsea.com/2007/09/pirate-politician-mexicos-president-vicente-fox-which-came-first-the-beach-house-or-the-scandal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2007 14:04:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cody</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Beaches]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The classic Rapidsea corruption question is popping up again today: Which came first the beach house or the scandal? I have chided Rep. Jerry Weller&#8217;s (R-IL) Nicaraguan land deals and Larry Craig&#8217;s (R-ID) yacht club lifestyle, but a new issue has popped up with Mexico&#8217;s Former President Vicente Fox in the Houston Chronicle today. It [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pirate Politician ~ Torturing tropical kittens to stop Rep. Jerry Weller (R-Ill.)</title>
		<link>http://blog.rapidsea.com/2007/09/pirate-politician-torturing-tropical-kittens-to-stop-rep-jerry-weller-r-ill/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.rapidsea.com/2007/09/pirate-politician-torturing-tropical-kittens-to-stop-rep-jerry-weller-r-ill/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Sep 2007 15:20:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cody</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After learning from Professor Leeson how much law and order went into piratical governance, I couldn&#8217;t help but think that Rapidsea should host an occasional section called &#34;Pirate Politician.&#34;&#xA0; I have just the candidate for September. The political sphere is buzzing about Representative Jerry Weller (R-Illinois) who had made some misjudgments in revealing some paradisiacal [...]]]></description>
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