<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8495844</id><updated>2011-05-10T19:14:40.108-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Paragraph Two</title><subtitle type='html'>Whatever pops into my head today -- usually something that I hope is interesting. 

At least to me.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://paragraph2.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8495844/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://paragraph2.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Rufus Von Jones</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>5</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8495844.post-9183384361962346102</id><published>2009-04-20T07:07:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-20T07:11:30.063-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Glenn Beck is a Piehole</title><content type='html'>I wish I could say something more intelligent about this butthead, but this clip says it all:&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; white-space: pre; "&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/WiLppliFzbs&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/WiLppliFzbs&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; white-space: pre;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;This guy is a tired hack. A whining, idiotic overpaid douchebag who has nothing of value or importance to say. His sole purpose is to get other idiots like him up in arms and rage against some invisible enemy who is out to "get him."&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;If you listen to what Beck is saying.... truly listen.... you will hear nothing except a moronic, blithering foaming at the mouth impotence. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Sore losers suck.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8495844-9183384361962346102?l=paragraph2.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://paragraph2.blogspot.com/feeds/9183384361962346102/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8495844&amp;postID=9183384361962346102&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8495844/posts/default/9183384361962346102'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8495844/posts/default/9183384361962346102'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://paragraph2.blogspot.com/2009/04/glenn-beck-is-piehole.html' title='Glenn Beck is a Piehole'/><author><name>Rufus Von Jones</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8495844.post-111203296255210941</id><published>2005-03-28T09:58:00.003-08:00</published><updated>2009-04-20T07:18:16.332-07:00</updated><title type='text'>To David Brooks, Editorial Writer for the New York Times</title><content type='html'>Dear Mr. Brooks:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Just when I think you’re starting to make progress…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;BAM! You write some &lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/26/opinion/26brooks.html?oref=login"&gt;op-ed &lt;/a&gt;piece that is straight, unrepentant garbage, pure and simple.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I really don’t understand you. You write an article that implies – no, not implies – says directly – that social conservatives and liberals both have flawed arguments regarding the Terri Schiavo matter.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You state that social conservatives (whatever the hell that means, anyway) have a belief that life is more sacred than liberals and that liberals tend to go right to the unmiraculous court of law.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What in God’s name are you talking about?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These kinds of gross generalizations come off as empty-headed and would play better to the bohunks in Idaho. How did you get this job, Dave?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I’m a liberal. I also believe in God, the Universe, or whatever you want to call it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I also believe that the government has no right to interfere in our personal lives, which is what Tom “Crooked as they Come” Delay and George “W Stands for Worst President Ever” Bush are slowly, but surely trying to do.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;People tend to be more abstract and non-specific than your articles would have us presume.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With people like you writing for the New York Times, where does anyone get off calling the media “liberal?”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Good God, man! that is straight, unrepentant garbage, pure and simple.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8495844-111203296255210941?l=paragraph2.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://paragraph2.blogspot.com/feeds/111203296255210941/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8495844&amp;postID=111203296255210941&amp;isPopup=true' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8495844/posts/default/111203296255210941'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8495844/posts/default/111203296255210941'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://paragraph2.blogspot.com/2005/03/to-david-brooks-editorial-writer-for.html' title='To David Brooks, Editorial Writer for the New York Times'/><author><name>Rufus Von Jones</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8495844.post-111188686379700002</id><published>2005-03-26T17:24:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2005-03-26T17:27:43.796-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Terri Schiavo</title><content type='html'>These right-wingers are scaring me. They really are.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Founding Fathers knew what they were doing when they created three separate branches of government:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Executive&lt;br /&gt;The Legislative&lt;br /&gt;The Judiciary -- which is INDEPENDENT!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now, the Congress and the Executive Branches, which pretty much rule the world, are trying to take over the Judiciary.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It disgusts me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Who the hell do these people think they are? They think they value life more than a liberal does? Throwing sanctimonious Christian outpourings out there saying that they see life as a miracle and we see life as chemical?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I believe in God.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I also believe in separation of Church and State.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;George Bush can fly from Texas to Washington on a moment's notice, but he can't walk outside his house to pay sympathy to tsunami victims.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Of the people, by the people and for the people.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Not for your rich corporations.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8495844-111188686379700002?l=paragraph2.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://paragraph2.blogspot.com/feeds/111188686379700002/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8495844&amp;postID=111188686379700002&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8495844/posts/default/111188686379700002'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8495844/posts/default/111188686379700002'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://paragraph2.blogspot.com/2005/03/terri-schiavo.html' title='Terri Schiavo'/><author><name>Rufus Von Jones</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8495844.post-111181225240415381</id><published>2005-03-25T20:41:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2005-03-25T20:44:12.406-08:00</updated><title type='text'>The Terri Schiavo Mess</title><content type='html'>Far be it from me to complain about the way the United States government is run.&lt;br /&gt;Far be it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our country is doing everything perfectly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Just perfect.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What's up with this Terri Schiavo mess? Can it be that the rightwing nut jobs are using this poor woman's ordeal to further their own agenda, which is solely getting power for power's sake?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I think so.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is just sickening. It's All Terri, All the Time. I can't watch the news. I can't read the newspapers. There are far too many good and wonderful things in life that I'd like to pay attention to.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Watching Jeb Bush and Bill Frist trying to position themselves to gain a step up for the Presidential election in 2008 is terrible.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ugh.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8495844-111181225240415381?l=paragraph2.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://paragraph2.blogspot.com/feeds/111181225240415381/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8495844&amp;postID=111181225240415381&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8495844/posts/default/111181225240415381'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8495844/posts/default/111181225240415381'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://paragraph2.blogspot.com/2005/03/terri-schiavo-mess.html' title='The Terri Schiavo Mess'/><author><name>Rufus Von Jones</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8495844.post-109638315098658397</id><published>2004-09-28T07:31:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2005-03-28T06:56:58.713-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Oliver North?!?</title><content type='html'>Oliver North? I'm watching Fox-TV last night because South Park wasn't on and I figured I'd just do what I could do to piss myself off.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm watching Greta Van Susternernern or whatever the hell her name is, and she's totally diminished any kind of worth she has as a "reporter" by interviewing Oliver North, the guy who illegally gave arms to whatever-the-hell that country's name is.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And he's going on about how it doesn't matter that Osama bin Laden isn't caught (And why do they spell it Usama? What's up with that?)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Old Ollie thinks that binnie may very well be dead, killed in the first air strikes in Afghanistan! "And it doesn't matter because all those terrorist groups with all those Arab names that I'm going to look smart by pronouncing correctly are the ones who are really evil..." &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, sweet Jesus Ollie, where the fuck do you get your information from, you stupid piehole?  You have no job with the government! How the hell do you know? Who are your sources? And Fox News is "fair and balanced?" My ass I tell you! My ass!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What you really are is a self-important egomaniac who finds it more important to help the extreme right wing get their say by blithering out more bad information and misleading lies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's not important that bin Laden isn't caught?!? What this does is diminish any kind of responsibility that our beloved President has to take in regards to finding this lunatic.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You're just trying to help him get off easy. How do you look in the mirror, Ollie? I really want to know how you are able to get up, look at that puss of yours, and say, "I'm gonna have a good day lying on television." How do you face yourself?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8495844-109638315098658397?l=paragraph2.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://paragraph2.blogspot.com/feeds/109638315098658397/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8495844&amp;postID=109638315098658397&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8495844/posts/default/109638315098658397'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8495844/posts/default/109638315098658397'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://paragraph2.blogspot.com/2004/09/oliver-north.html' title='Oliver North?!?'/><author><name>Rufus Von Jones</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
