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		<title>High School Buddy On The Lam</title>
		<link>http://markfweber.com/2010/07/23/high-school-buddy-on-the-lam/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 20:57:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Family & Friends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[1989 gold discovery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[friendship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[legal problems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ship of Gold]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sinking of Central America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tommy Thompson]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Defiance, Ohio hosted some famous residents, like General ‘Mad Anthony’ Wayne and race car star, Sam Hornish. No doubt the most infamous celebrity from my home town is Tommy Thompson, who discovered the Ship of Gold. Our high school reunion is next weekend, but Harvey Thompson will not be joining us. He is on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Islam in America</title>
		<link>http://markfweber.com/2010/07/21/islam-in-america/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 02:56:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News & Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[History of American Islam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Islam Day at 6 Flags]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mosque near 9/11]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[religion vs. terrorism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A New York developer wants to build an Islamic culture center and mosque within two city blocks of the World Trade Center site. An amusement park is sponsoring an Islamic Day on September 12. Both issues are igniting debates in social media and on the 24 x 7 cable news. How dare they? What a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Problem Passport is A Pain in Portugal</title>
		<link>http://markfweber.com/2010/07/19/problem-passport-is-a-pain-in-portugal/</link>
		<comments>http://markfweber.com/2010/07/19/problem-passport-is-a-pain-in-portugal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 20:34:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Travel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[deporting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iroquois lacrosse team]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Passports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Portugal]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://markfweber.com/?p=474</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I am watching a group of Iroquois lacrosse players trying to reach a tournament in Great Britain with only their tribal passport. The UK will not let them in without a U.S. Passport. I used to take these international documents for granted until the day I was deported from Portugal. It was 2004 and a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Hill Too Far</title>
		<link>http://markfweber.com/2010/07/12/a-hill-too-far/</link>
		<comments>http://markfweber.com/2010/07/12/a-hill-too-far/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 12:49:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News & Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cancer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lance Armstrong]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Livestrong]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tour de France]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://markfweber.com/?p=465</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the weekend Lance Armstrong fell to 39th place in the Tour de France, ending all hope of winning an 8th title in his last tour. The King of Cycling retired in 2005 after his seventh Tour de France victory, an amazing achievement. Despite repeated tests and accusations, Lance left the sport clean. Now, as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Employers &#8211; The Best Illegal Immigration Wall</title>
		<link>http://markfweber.com/2010/07/08/employers-the-best-illegal-immigration-wall/</link>
		<comments>http://markfweber.com/2010/07/08/employers-the-best-illegal-immigration-wall/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 02:32:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News & Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arizona law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[e-verify program]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[illegal employers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[illegal immigration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US border wall]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://markfweber.com/?p=458</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Justice Department is suing to stop the new Arizona immigration law. Politicians and pundits are debating border protection, amnesty, and other immigration issues with increased ferocity. Very little is mentioned about those that employ illegal immigrants. Conservatives want the federal government to finish the three-story wall along the US-Mexican border, some of the most [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Comet Passes By</title>
		<link>http://markfweber.com/2010/07/06/a-comet-passes-by/</link>
		<comments>http://markfweber.com/2010/07/06/a-comet-passes-by/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 00:18:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Family & Friends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blazing comet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ted Moninger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[teenage tragedy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My nephew, Ted Moninger, passed away last week. The seventeen year old honor student and class clown was a couple months shy of his senior year. Gifted is an understatement for Ted. He excelled as an artist, musician, gardener, oceanographer, student leader, mechanic, and jewelry-maker. Recently, Ted won a scholarship on a speech he wrote [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flemish 1 &#8211; Vatican 0</title>
		<link>http://markfweber.com/2010/06/28/flemish-1-vatican-0/</link>
		<comments>http://markfweber.com/2010/06/28/flemish-1-vatican-0/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 00:12:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News & Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Belgium police raids on Church]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[child sexual abuse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pedophile priests]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vatican]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Vatican was shocked and outraged as Belgium police took aggressive steps to halt child sexual abuse by priests in their country. Last week authorities raided Church offices; confiscated documents and computers; detained a number of conferencing bishops; and drilled into two tombs of former cardinals. The Flemish government is apparently tired of the delays [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Summer Reading:  The Best Books . . . So Far . . . In 2010</title>
		<link>http://markfweber.com/2010/06/24/summer-reading-the-best-books-so-far-in-2010/</link>
		<comments>http://markfweber.com/2010/06/24/summer-reading-the-best-books-so-far-in-2010/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 00:59:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Books I've Read]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[9 Dragons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lisbeth Salander]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Outliers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Post American Worlds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scent of Rain & Lightening]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Summer reading]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wolf Hall]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://markfweber.com/?p=429</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The mid-year sunshine is time for beach towels, blue skies, and a good novel. Here are my picks . . . so far . . . for the best books in 2010. NON-FICTION Outliers – The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell: My dad used to claim, “The harder I work, the luckier I get.” [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Organ-Izer</title>
		<link>http://markfweber.com/2010/06/21/organ-izer/</link>
		<comments>http://markfweber.com/2010/06/21/organ-izer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 00:33:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News & Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New State problems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[organ donation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[presumed consent law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard Brodsky]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://markfweber.com/?p=420</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Richard Brodsky, candidate for New York Attorney General, wants more than taxes out of us. He wants our organs. Brodsky, whose daughter received two kidney transplants, is promoting a law, called ‘presumed consent,’ that assumes all New Yorkers will provide livers, kidneys, hearts and corneas upon our death unless we opt out. In 2009, according [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Memorial Day In Hornell, NY</title>
		<link>http://markfweber.com/2010/05/30/memorial-day-in-hornell-ny/</link>
		<comments>http://markfweber.com/2010/05/30/memorial-day-in-hornell-ny/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2010 00:01:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Observing Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan casualty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hornell NY]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Memorial Day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zach Smith Post Office]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Like hundreds of communities, Hornell, New York will celebrate Memorial Day with a parade and veteran ceremonies. The event in this Southern Tier village is a bit more personal for the town’s people. It is the first Memorial Day since Zach Smith died in Afghanistan. It is now a little over four months since his [...]]]></description>
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