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	<description>Dissecting everyday images of escape and paradise.</description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t mess with beaches ~ thoughts on an unnatural disaster</title>
		<link>http://blog.rapidsea.com/2010/05/dont-mess-with-beaches-thoughts-on-an-unnatural-disaster/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 02:11:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cody</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Beaches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Natural Disasters]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Disasters in Paradise]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The gushing Louisiana oil well is about to show that paradise is a more powerful force than political allegiances. The Florida coast and islands are threatened. Obama has spent much of his first year+ rushing to the center, presumably building momentum for reelection in 2012. His approval of expanded offshore drilling mostly just fueled consternation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Political coconut launching ~ hitting real people’s livelihoods instead</title>
		<link>http://blog.rapidsea.com/2010/02/political-coconut-launching-hitting-real-peoples-livelihoods-instead/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 16:44:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cody</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Islands]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medium to Paradise]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Republicans and Democrats have long used escape and paradise to clobber one another, sometimes joining forces to lance a particularly malignant personality (think Gary Hart and the yacht named Monkey Business). Having a Democratic President from Hawaii has been both a blessing and a curse for those who want to use the state as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lei&#8217;ing down the line in Congress on health insurance reform</title>
		<link>http://blog.rapidsea.com/2009/11/leiing-down-the-line-in-congress-on-health-insurance-reform/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.rapidsea.com/2009/11/leiing-down-the-line-in-congress-on-health-insurance-reform/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:58:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cody</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Plants and Flowers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Which came first, the political insult with the lei or the political insult about the lei?  In a segment called “The Men Who Stare at Votes,” Jon Stewart took Rep. Michele Bachmann to task for her comment about a Hawaiian couple who came to Washington to help stop the health insurance reform bill: “Last Friday [...]]]></description>
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		<title>White House glows aloha purple at luau</title>
		<link>http://blog.rapidsea.com/2009/06/white-house-glows-aloha-purple-at-luau/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.rapidsea.com/2009/06/white-house-glows-aloha-purple-at-luau/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 22:48:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cody</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Current Affairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hula]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The White House hosted a luau yesterday for Congress, which would have gotten a great deal more attention in the media if it hadn’t been for the deaths of Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson.  The event was still largely documented, and the photographers out there didn’t fail to capture some of the island spirit in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dear Sweet Pyongyang, Capital of Paradise</title>
		<link>http://blog.rapidsea.com/2009/04/dear-sweet-pyongyang-capital-of-paradise/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:11:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cody</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Medium to Paradise]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This morning’s wanderings take us to North Korea where the eastern terminus of their Hyoksin (“Renovation”) subway line is 낙원, Rakwon or Ragwon, (“Paradise”), thus making the famed North Korean subway/underground bomb shelter a true medium to paradise.&#160; This knowledge came by way of a Foreign Policy photo reportage called “The Land of No Smiles.” [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama was born in Hawai&#8217;i ~ which a few argue was/is not part of the United States</title>
		<link>http://blog.rapidsea.com/2008/03/obama-was-born-in-hawaii-which-a-few-argue-wasis-not-part-of-the-united-states/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.rapidsea.com/2008/03/obama-was-born-in-hawaii-which-a-few-argue-wasis-not-part-of-the-united-states/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 02:36:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cody</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to The Honolulu Advertiser, a handful of people are arguing that Barack Obama, who was born in 1961 (three years after Hawai&#8217;i became a state), was not born in the United States. This argument is similar to the nonsense that a very small number of people are spreading about John McCain.&#160; Can we please [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The surfboard Mitt Romney did not ride all the way to the White House</title>
		<link>http://blog.rapidsea.com/2008/02/the-surfboard-mitt-romney-did-not-ride-all-the-way-to-the-white-house/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.rapidsea.com/2008/02/the-surfboard-mitt-romney-did-not-ride-all-the-way-to-the-white-house/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Feb 2008 20:40:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cody</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems like only days ago that Mitt Romney was going to ride a surfboard to the White House. &#160; Not this year. Remember when his son tried to take out the press corps on the jet: &#34;One of Romney&#8217;s sons, Josh, nearly took out the press corps when he attempted to surf down the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Team Obama refers to the Clinton campaign as &#8216;Jaws&#8217;&#8230;&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://blog.rapidsea.com/2008/02/team-obama-refers-to-the-clinton-campaign-as-jaws/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.rapidsea.com/2008/02/team-obama-refers-to-the-clinton-campaign-as-jaws/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Feb 2008 17:51:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cody</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sharks]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Maureen Dowd, in an article called &#34;There Will Be Blood&#34; at The New York Times, has this juicy little quote: &#34;Team Obama refers to the Clinton campaign as &#8216;Jaws&#8217; because &#8216;just when things are quiet, they keep trying to come back and capsize the boat&#8217;.&#34;&#160; It&#8217;s worth a read.&#160; What&#8217;s strange is that I didn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coconuts kill?</title>
		<link>http://blog.rapidsea.com/2008/01/coconuts-kill/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.rapidsea.com/2008/01/coconuts-kill/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:41:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cody</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fasion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Palm Trees]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This T-shirt popped up this morning: Duck! The headine that linked to this was, of course, that &#34;coconuts kill more Americans each year than terrorism.&#34;&#160; We must stop the killing. Of course, the Joel Best publishing through the University of California Press says that they don&#8217;t.&#160; Or more precisely: &#34;Do 150 people actually die in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rudy Giuliani&#8217;s Last-Ditch Paradise Effort in Florida</title>
		<link>http://blog.rapidsea.com/2008/01/rudy-giulianis-last-ditch-paradise-effort-in-florida/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.rapidsea.com/2008/01/rudy-giulianis-last-ditch-paradise-effort-in-florida/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2008 20:35:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cody</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Surfing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I couldn&#8217;t help but love this quote from an article called &#34;Giuliani Makes Last-Ditch Effort in Florida&#34; by Bret Schulte at US News and World Report: &#34;On Sunday, in an arena-size [Cocoa Beach] Ron Jon Surf Shop festooned with psychedelic surfboards and garb for those who hang loose, Giuliani appeared in his signature New York [...]]]></description>
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