<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0" xmlns:activity="http://activitystrea.ms/spec/1.0/" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><channel><title>Newsvine - Prophat247's Column - Articles and Seeds</title><link>http://247.newsvine.com/</link><description>&quot;It is not people who break ethical standards who are regarded as aliens. It is people like me who are isolated.&quot; - Grigori Perelman </description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2012</copyright><lastBuildDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:07:40 +0000</lastBuildDate><pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2012 04:53:10 +0000</pubDate><generator>http://www.newsvine.com</generator><docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs><item><title>Protect the Internet! Watch This and Contact Your Representatives!</title>
<description><![CDATA[The video above discusses the Senate version of the House's Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). In the Senate the bill is called the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA). SOPA has gotten more attention than PIPA because it was moving faster in the legislative process.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Prophat247]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Prophat247]]></source><link>http://247.newsvine.com/_news/2012/01/18/10182126-protect-the-internet-watch-this-and-contact-your-representatives</link><guid>http://247.newsvine.com/_news/2012/01/18/10182126-protect-the-internet-watch-this-and-contact-your-representatives</guid><category>politics</category><category>pipa</category><category>protect-ip</category><category>fightforthefuture</category><category>fight-for-the-future</category><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:07:38 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Top 5 'let them eat cake' moments of the Obama White House</title>
<description><![CDATA[Michelle Obama&nbsp;may be missing the point.
Responding to a new book by&nbsp;New York Timesreporter&nbsp;Jodi Kantor&nbsp;that characterizes the first lady as an occasionally unhappy and strident&nbsp;White House&nbsp;resident,&nbsp;Mrs.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Prophat247]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Prophat247]]></source><link>http://247.newsvine.com/_news/2012/01/11/10120017-top-5-let-them-eat-cake-moments-of-the-obama-white-house</link><guid>http://247.newsvine.com/_news/2012/01/11/10120017-top-5-let-them-eat-cake-moments-of-the-obama-white-house</guid><category>politics</category><category>obama</category><category>let-them-eat-cake</category><category>michelle-obama</category><category>obama-vacations</category><category>obama-let-them-eat-cake</category><pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 21:04:09 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Obama in 'Unprecedented' Power Grab - Defies Administration's Supreme Court Three-Day Recess Argument</title>
<description><![CDATA[Defying&nbsp;Congress, President&nbsp;Obama&nbsp;used his recess appointment powers Wednesday to name a head for the controversial&nbsp;Consumer Financial Protection Bureau&nbsp;in a move Republican lawmakers said amounted to an unconstitutional power grab.
The president acted j&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Prophat247]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Prophat247]]></source><link>http://247.newsvine.com/_news/2012/01/04/9953508-obama-in-unprecedented-power-grab-defies-administrations-supreme-court-three-day-recess-argument</link><guid>http://247.newsvine.com/_news/2012/01/04/9953508-obama-in-unprecedented-power-grab-defies-administrations-supreme-court-three-day-recess-argument</guid><category>politics</category><category>obama</category><category>richard-cordray</category><category>obama-recess-appointment</category><category>obama-power-grab</category><pubDate>Wed, 4 Jan 2012 20:29:19 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>A five-course meal at Honolulu's priciest restaurant after golf with his hooker-loving buddy... Obama faces another tough day in Hawaii</title>
<description><![CDATA[President Obama is clearly not roughing it as he plays a lot of golf between trips to the beach with his wife and two daughters.
But as the commander-in-chief teed off at the Ko&rsquo;olau Golf Club yesterday, the one thing more eye-opening than his handicap is who he golfs with&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Prophat247]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Prophat247]]></source><link>http://247.newsvine.com/_news/2011/12/30/9828473-a-five-course-meal-at-honolulus-priciest-restaurant-after-golf-with-his-hooker-loving-buddy-obama-faces-another-tough-day-in-hawaii</link><guid>http://247.newsvine.com/_news/2011/12/30/9828473-a-five-course-meal-at-honolulus-priciest-restaurant-after-golf-with-his-hooker-loving-buddy-obama-faces-another-tough-day-in-hawaii</guid><category>politics</category><category>obama</category><category>obama-hawaii</category><category>obama-vacation</category><pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 15:34:01 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>PolitiFact Lie of the Year 2011: 'Republicans voted to end Medicare'</title>
<description><![CDATA[Republicans muscled a budget through the House of Representatives in April that they said would take an important step toward reducing the federal deficit. Introduced by U.S. Rep.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Prophat247]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Prophat247]]></source><link>http://247.newsvine.com/_news/2011/12/20/9582041-politifact-lie-of-the-year-2011-republicans-voted-to-end-medicare</link><guid>http://247.newsvine.com/_news/2011/12/20/9582041-politifact-lie-of-the-year-2011-republicans-voted-to-end-medicare</guid><category>politics</category><pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 15:35:01 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Holder Plays Race Card - Accuses Critics of &quot;racist motivations&quot;</title>
<description><![CDATA[Attorney General Eric Holder accused his growing chorus of critics of racist motivations in a Sunday interview published in the New York Times.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Prophat247]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Prophat247]]></source><link>http://247.newsvine.com/_news/2011/12/19/9560806-holder-plays-race-card-accuses-critics-of-racist-motivations</link><guid>http://247.newsvine.com/_news/2011/12/19/9560806-holder-plays-race-card-accuses-critics-of-racist-motivations</guid><category>politics</category><category>justice-department</category><category>eric-holder</category><pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 18:37:53 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Disturbing Casket photo sparks investigation at Lackland Air Force Base</title>
<description><![CDATA[The commander of the 37th Training Group at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas, has launched an investigation into a photo of 15 airmen posing with an open casket, in which another airman is posed with a noose around his neck and chains across his body.
&nbsp;
&ldquo;Da Dumpt, Da D&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Prophat247]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Prophat247]]></source><link>http://247.newsvine.com/_news/2011/12/15/9469103-disturbing-casket-photo-sparks-investigation-at-lackland-air-force-base</link><guid>http://247.newsvine.com/_news/2011/12/15/9469103-disturbing-casket-photo-sparks-investigation-at-lackland-air-force-base</guid><category>air-force</category><category>us-news</category><category>casket-photo</category><pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 15:27:11 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>AMAZING: 'She's a little miracle': Baby born at 24 weeks weighing just 9oz becomes world's third smallest to survive</title>
<description><![CDATA[The third smallest baby ever to be born and survive is thriving, doctors say, after she entered the world almost four months before she was due.
Melinda Star Guido weighed roughly the same as two iPhones when was born 16 weeks premature at Los Angeles County-USC Medical Centre o&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Prophat247]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Prophat247]]></source><link>http://247.newsvine.com/_news/2011/12/15/9468944-amazing-shes-a-little-miracle-baby-born-at-24-weeks-weighing-just-9oz-becomes-worlds-third-smallest-to-survive</link><guid>http://247.newsvine.com/_news/2011/12/15/9468944-amazing-shes-a-little-miracle-baby-born-at-24-weeks-weighing-just-9oz-becomes-worlds-third-smallest-to-survive</guid><category>world-news</category><category>childbirth</category><category>smallest-baby</category><category>24-weeks</category><pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 15:18:29 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Senate Dems kill bill that would have required balanced budget...</title>
<description><![CDATA[The Senate on Wednesday defeated each party&rsquo;s version of a constitutional amendment that would have required a balanced federal budget.
The rival proposals would have prohibited Congress from spending more each year than it receives in revenue.&nbsp;
&nbsp;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Prophat247]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Prophat247]]></source><link>http://247.newsvine.com/_news/2011/12/14/9445381-senate-dems-kill-bill-that-would-have-required-balanced-budget</link><guid>http://247.newsvine.com/_news/2011/12/14/9445381-senate-dems-kill-bill-that-would-have-required-balanced-budget</guid><category>taxes</category><category>budget</category><category>politics</category><category>balanced-budget</category><category>democrats-defeat-balanced-budget</category><pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 18:00:10 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Dem lawmaker blasts 'Professor Obama' as arrogant, alienating</title>
<description><![CDATA[fter observing President Obama for the last three years, it has become obvious to me that the president might prefer to be a university professor rather than do the job he holds today.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Prophat247]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Prophat247]]></source><link>http://247.newsvine.com/_news/2011/12/14/9445112-dem-lawmaker-blasts-professor-obama-as-arrogant-alienating</link><guid>http://247.newsvine.com/_news/2011/12/14/9445112-dem-lawmaker-blasts-professor-obama-as-arrogant-alienating</guid><category>politics</category><category>obama</category><category>dennis-cardoza</category><category>obama-arrogant</category><category>professor-obama</category><category>obama-alienating</category><category>representative-dennis-cardoza</category><category>representative-cardoza</category><pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 17:45:56 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>OBAMA: Give Me Republican's Email Addresses</title>
<description><![CDATA[The Obama presidential campaign is&nbsp;launching an effort&nbsp;to collect Republican email addresses by inviting its supporters to submit information about their Republican associates to the Obama 2012 website.
The effort could help the Obama campaign build a database that wou&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Prophat247]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Prophat247]]></source><link>http://247.newsvine.com/_news/2011/12/14/9444978-obama-give-me-republicans-email-addresses</link><guid>http://247.newsvine.com/_news/2011/12/14/9444978-obama-give-me-republicans-email-addresses</guid><category>politics</category><category>obama</category><category>obama-campaign</category><category>obama-2012</category><pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 17:38:54 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Michael Moore: &quot;Wall Street Has Their Man And His Name Is Barack Obama&quot;</title>
<description><![CDATA[MICHAEL MOORE, ON CNN: Well, "The Washington post" three weeks ago had this investigation and they said that President Obama has now raised more money from Wall Street and the banks for this election cycle than all -- than all eight Republicans combined.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Prophat247]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Prophat247]]></source><link>http://247.newsvine.com/_news/2011/12/07/9278348-michael-moore-wall-street-has-their-man-and-his-name-is-barack-obama</link><guid>http://247.newsvine.com/_news/2011/12/07/9278348-michael-moore-wall-street-has-their-man-and-his-name-is-barack-obama</guid><category>wall-street</category><category>politics</category><category>obama</category><category>michael-moore</category><pubDate>Wed, 7 Dec 2011 19:01:01 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Obama Admin Seals Records of Murdered Border Patrol Agent Implicated in Fast and Furious</title>
<description><![CDATA[And to think that Attorney General&nbsp;Eric Holder is getting testy&nbsp;about congressional calls for his resignation. After all, the Justice Department has nothing to hide,&nbsp;right?:]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Prophat247]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Prophat247]]></source><link>http://247.newsvine.com/_news/2011/11/30/9121696-obama-admin-seals-records-of-murdered-border-patrol-agent-implicated-in-fast-and-furious</link><guid>http://247.newsvine.com/_news/2011/11/30/9121696-obama-admin-seals-records-of-murdered-border-patrol-agent-implicated-in-fast-and-furious</guid><category>politics</category><category>justice-department</category><category>fast-and-furious</category><category>gun-running</category><category>eric-holder</category><category>obama-gun-running-operation</category><category>obama-gun-running</category><pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 20:35:22 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Where's the Cash, Corzine? MF Global Shortfall Exceeding $1.2 Billion</title>
<description><![CDATA[The amount of customer money missing from the collapsed trading firm MF Global may be more than $1.2 billion &mdash; double previous estimates &mdash; the trustee dismantling the firm&rsquo;s brokerage unit said on Monday.
But the surprise finding, which caught regulators off gu&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Prophat247]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Prophat247]]></source><link>http://247.newsvine.com/_news/2011/11/22/8952886-wheres-the-cash-corzine-mf-global-shortfall-exceeding-12-billion</link><guid>http://247.newsvine.com/_news/2011/11/22/8952886-wheres-the-cash-corzine-mf-global-shortfall-exceeding-12-billion</guid><category>corzine</category><category>us-news</category><category>mf-global</category><category>mf-global-shortfall</category><pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 15:02:48 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Maybe She's Just Jealous - Pelosi whines about Catholics having &quot;this conscience thing&quot;</title>
<description><![CDATA[Maybe she&rsquo;s just jealous they have something she doesn&rsquo;t &hellip;
According to&nbsp;LifeNews.com, Nancy Pelosi is upset that the U.S.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Prophat247]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Prophat247]]></source><link>http://247.newsvine.com/_news/2011/11/22/8952856-maybe-shes-just-jealous-pelosi-whines-about-catholics-having-this-conscience-thing</link><guid>http://247.newsvine.com/_news/2011/11/22/8952856-maybe-shes-just-jealous-pelosi-whines-about-catholics-having-this-conscience-thing</guid><category>politics</category><category>catholic</category><category>catholics</category><category>conscience</category><category>pelosi</category><pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 15:00:41 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Treasury Department Dramatically Boosted Its Estimate of GM Bailout Losses By More Than $9 Billion</title>
<description><![CDATA[The Treasury Department dramatically boosted its estimate of losses from its $85 billion auto industry bailout by more than $9 billion in the face of General Motors Co.'s steep stock decline.
In its monthly report to Congress, the Treasury Department now says it expects to lose &nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Prophat247]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Prophat247]]></source><link>http://247.newsvine.com/_news/2011/11/16/8840510-treasury-department-dramatically-boosted-its-estimate-of-gm-bailout-losses-by-more-than-9-billion</link><guid>http://247.newsvine.com/_news/2011/11/16/8840510-treasury-department-dramatically-boosted-its-estimate-of-gm-bailout-losses-by-more-than-9-billion</guid><category>politics</category><category>treasury-department</category><category>obama</category><category>bailout</category><category>gm-bailout</category><category>obama-treasury-department</category><pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 18:24:22 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>VIDEO: Bizarre courtroom scene as lesbian lovers collapse and wail after hearing they will serve life for murdering three-year-old girl</title>
<description><![CDATA[A Charleston courtroom was the setting for a bizarre scene when two lesbian lovers collapsed, wailed uncontrollably and hyper-ventilated after hearing they would serve life for killing a three-year-old girl.
Erica Mae Butts and Shanita Latrice Cunningham had to be picked off the&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Prophat247]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Prophat247]]></source><link>http://247.newsvine.com/_news/2011/11/07/8681260-video-bizarre-courtroom-scene-as-lesbian-lovers-collapse-and-wail-after-hearing-they-will-serve-life-for-murdering-three-year-old-girl</link><guid>http://247.newsvine.com/_news/2011/11/07/8681260-video-bizarre-courtroom-scene-as-lesbian-lovers-collapse-and-wail-after-hearing-they-will-serve-life-for-murdering-three-year-old-girl</guid><category>politics</category><category>murder</category><category>erica-mae-butts</category><category>shanita-latrice-cunningham</category><pubDate>Mon, 7 Nov 2011 15:19:46 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=null1A656F94-BB62-2840-7060-863E427EA23B.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="84" width="87" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=null1A656F94-BB62-2840-7060-863E427EA23B.jpg&amp;width=120" width="87" height="84" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Revealed: How Obama was playing golf until 20 minutes before Navy SEALs began mission to take out Bin Laden</title>
<description><![CDATA[
Stayed out on golf course to distance himself if it went wrong, book claims
We would have taken him alive if he surrendered, says commander
Al-Qaeda leader's wife screamed:&nbsp;'No, no, don't do this...]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Prophat247]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Prophat247]]></source><link>http://247.newsvine.com/_news/2011/11/07/8681078-revealed-how-obama-was-playing-golf-until-20-minutes-before-navy-seals-began-mission-to-take-out-bin-laden</link><guid>http://247.newsvine.com/_news/2011/11/07/8681078-revealed-how-obama-was-playing-golf-until-20-minutes-before-navy-seals-began-mission-to-take-out-bin-laden</guid><category>pakistan</category><category>politics</category><category>obama</category><category>osama</category><category>seals</category><category>navy-seals</category><category>obama-golf</category><pubDate>Mon, 7 Nov 2011 15:07:26 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Bill Clinton sticks boot into Obama over debt row that made America 'weak and confused' </title>
<description><![CDATA[Bill Clinton has stuck the knife into President Barack Obama's handling of America's debt crisis.
The former president claimed that last summer's political fight over raising the U.S.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Prophat247]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Prophat247]]></source><link>http://247.newsvine.com/_news/2011/11/04/8637347-bill-clinton-sticks-boot-into-obama-over-debt-row-that-made-america-weak-and-confused</link><guid>http://247.newsvine.com/_news/2011/11/04/8637347-bill-clinton-sticks-boot-into-obama-over-debt-row-that-made-america-weak-and-confused</guid><category>economy</category><category>clinton</category><category>politics</category><category>obama</category><pubDate>Fri, 4 Nov 2011 18:30:32 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=null092AD886-3356-2ECC-31B5-56C0589CEF0D.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="84" width="87" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=null092AD886-3356-2ECC-31B5-56C0589CEF0D.jpg&amp;width=120" width="87" height="84" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>SHOCKER: More than half health care deadlines missed by Obama administration</title>
<description><![CDATA[The Obama administration has failed to meet more than half of the new health care law's deadlines, from submitting plans for new, value-based Medicare purchasing programs to publishing criteria for determining the medically underserved.
A report requested by Sen.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Prophat247]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Prophat247]]></source><link>http://247.newsvine.com/_news/2011/11/03/8620881-shocker-more-than-half-health-care-deadlines-missed-by-obama-administration</link><guid>http://247.newsvine.com/_news/2011/11/03/8620881-shocker-more-than-half-health-care-deadlines-missed-by-obama-administration</guid><category>politics</category><category>obama</category><category>obama-administration</category><category>obamacare</category><category>health-care-deadlines</category><pubDate>Thu, 3 Nov 2011 22:00:19 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>DISTURBING VIDEO: 'Family law judge' brutally beats 16-year-old disabled daughter with belt for playing computer games</title>
<description><![CDATA[This horrific video allegedly shows a family law judge viciously beating his disabled 16-year-old daughter, who suffers from cerebral palsy, after catching her playing computer games.
The man, believed to be Court-at-Law judge William Adams from&nbsp;Aransas County, Texas, is se&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Prophat247]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Prophat247]]></source><link>http://247.newsvine.com/_news/2011/11/02/8596255-disturbing-video-family-law-judge-brutally-beats-16-year-old-disabled-daughter-with-belt-for-playing-computer-games</link><guid>http://247.newsvine.com/_news/2011/11/02/8596255-disturbing-video-family-law-judge-brutally-beats-16-year-old-disabled-daughter-with-belt-for-playing-computer-games</guid><category>child-abuse</category><category>us-news</category><category>judge-adams</category><pubDate>Wed, 2 Nov 2011 14:14:13 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>INFOGRAPHIC: Here's What America's Big Corporations Pay In Taxes</title>
<description><![CDATA[While some corporations get away with paying little in income tax (see&nbsp;GE), others pay mindboggling sums.&nbsp;Exxon&nbsp;blows out the rest of the field.
This infographic from&nbsp;Mint Life&nbsp;tells the story of the insane amount of money some American corporations make&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Prophat247]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Prophat247]]></source><link>http://247.newsvine.com/_news/2011/10/28/8523972-infographic-heres-what-americas-big-corporations-pay-in-taxes</link><guid>http://247.newsvine.com/_news/2011/10/28/8523972-infographic-heres-what-americas-big-corporations-pay-in-taxes</guid><category>taxes</category><category>politics</category><category>corporate-taxes</category><category>corporate-tax-rates</category><pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 17:47:19 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>NEW BLACK PANTHER SPOKESMAN: BLACKS WERE NEVER GAY BEFORE COMING INTO CONTACT WITH EUROPEANS</title>
<description><![CDATA[New Black Panther Party Spokesman Chawn Kweli appeared on Larry O'Connor's radio show on Breitbart.tv and shared his unique ideas about the origins of homosexuality in the African-American community.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Prophat247]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Prophat247]]></source><link>http://247.newsvine.com/_news/2011/10/27/8511026-new-black-panther-spokesman-blacks-were-never-gay-before-coming-into-contact-with-europeans</link><guid>http://247.newsvine.com/_news/2011/10/27/8511026-new-black-panther-spokesman-blacks-were-never-gay-before-coming-into-contact-with-europeans</guid><category>us-news</category><category>black-panthers</category><category>chawn-kweli</category><category>black-panther-spokesman</category><pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 21:21:19 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Tuition costs soar under Obama...</title>
<description><![CDATA[Just as the Obama administration unveils new measures it says will ease crushing student loan debt, the College Board is out with new figures showing the cost of college surged again this year, and student borrowing along with it.
Tuition and fees at public four-year colleges an&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Prophat247]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Prophat247]]></source><link>http://247.newsvine.com/_news/2011/10/26/8497081-tuition-costs-soar-under-obama</link><guid>http://247.newsvine.com/_news/2011/10/26/8497081-tuition-costs-soar-under-obama</guid><category>obama</category><category>student-loans</category><category>us-news</category><category>tuition</category><category>tuition-cost</category><pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 20:40:01 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Obama, Biden AWOL on Iraq - As U.S.-Iraq troop talks faltered, Obama didn't pick up the phone</title>
<description><![CDATA[Throughout the summer and autumn, as talks on a continued U.S.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Prophat247]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Prophat247]]></source><link>http://247.newsvine.com/_news/2011/10/26/8493587-obama-biden-awol-on-iraq-as-us-iraq-troop-talks-faltered-obama-didnt-pick-up-the-phone</link><guid>http://247.newsvine.com/_news/2011/10/26/8493587-obama-biden-awol-on-iraq-as-us-iraq-troop-talks-faltered-obama-didnt-pick-up-the-phone</guid><category>iraq</category><category>politics</category><category>obama</category><category>iraq-war</category><category>biden</category><category>iraq-talks</category><category>obama-iraq</category><category>biden-iraq</category><pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 15:18:57 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item></channel></rss>
