<?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</title><link>http://backroadsbubba.newsvine.com/</link><description>&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7274/7499176946_cf081b7707_c.jpg&quot; /&gt;</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2013</copyright><lastBuildDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2013 04:57:23 +0000</lastBuildDate><pubDate>Sun, 26 May 2013 05:24:37 +0000</pubDate><generator>http://www.newsvine.com</generator><docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs><item><title>Bye, epiph/mymy</title>
<description><![CDATA[Epiph/mymy, you're gone. I knew you were going but didn't think it would be so soon. You were my dearest friend on the Internet. You had the misfortune years ago&nbsp;to meet me, mts-vert, and capricorn at the old Holy Times forum. We always talked trash -- on Thursday Trash Nigh&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[backroads]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[backroads]]></source><link>http://backroadsbubba.newsvine.com/_news/2013/02/21/17037058-bye-epiphmymy</link><guid>http://backroadsbubba.newsvine.com/_news/2013/02/21/17037058-bye-epiphmymy</guid><category>never-forget</category><category>hermits</category><category>epiphany-sorbet</category><category>mymymy</category><pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2013 04:57:33 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Culture Comes To Town</title>
<description><![CDATA[I watched the afternoon Norfolk Southern rumble through town, enjoying the latest tagging on a long line of freight and tank cars. Some of the best I've seen. Good use of color. I've no idea what the images mean, but I enjoy watching them go by wondering where they came from,&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[backroads]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[backroads]]></source><link>http://backroadsbubba.newsvine.com/_news/2012/11/30/15582132-culture-comes-to-town</link><guid>http://backroadsbubba.newsvine.com/_news/2012/11/30/15582132-culture-comes-to-town</guid><category>arts</category><category>spray-painted-train-cars</category><pubDate>Sat, 1 Dec 2012 03:11:06 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>A cliff of their own choosing</title>
<description><![CDATA[
With a chip on his shoulder larger than his margin of victory, Barack Obama is approaching his second term by replicating the mistake of his first. Then his overreaching involved health care &mdash; expanding the entitlement state at the expense of economic growth. Now he seeks&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[backroads]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[backroads]]></source><link>http://backroadsbubba.newsvine.com/_news/2012/11/29/15551878-a-cliff-of-their-own-choosing</link><guid>http://backroadsbubba.newsvine.com/_news/2012/11/29/15551878-a-cliff-of-their-own-choosing</guid><category>politics</category><category>big-government</category><category>barack</category><category>over-reach</category><category>fiscal-cliff</category><pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2012 01:27:37 +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>Susan Rice Gains Little Ground With Skeptical Senators</title>
<description><![CDATA[
"I continue to be troubled by the fact that the U.N. ambassador decided to play what was essentially a political role at the height of a contentious presidential election campaign by agreeing to go on the Sunday shows to present the administration's position," Collins said afte&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[backroads]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[backroads]]></source><link>http://backroadsbubba.newsvine.com/_news/2012/11/28/15519687-susan-rice-gains-little-ground-with-skeptical-senators</link><guid>http://backroadsbubba.newsvine.com/_news/2012/11/28/15519687-susan-rice-gains-little-ground-with-skeptical-senators</guid><category>rice</category><category>politics</category><category>collins</category><category>tanzania</category><category>kenya</category><category>terrorist-attacks</category><category>benghazi</category><category>memory-lapse</category><pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2012 22:44:09 +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>Afghan girl's beheading: Two arrested in Kunduz province</title>
<description><![CDATA[
"People were harassing the family and asking for her hand. When she refused, they did this to her," a police official told the BBC.
Senior Afghan officials and local tribal elders said the two suspects were close relatives of the girl.
The father had not wanted his daughter t&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[backroads]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[backroads]]></source><link>http://backroadsbubba.newsvine.com/_news/2012/11/28/15518536-afghan-girls-beheading-two-arrested-in-kunduz-province</link><guid>http://backroadsbubba.newsvine.com/_news/2012/11/28/15518536-afghan-girls-beheading-two-arrested-in-kunduz-province</guid><category>afghanistan</category><category>culture</category><category>murder</category><category>world-news</category><category>misogyny</category><pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2012 21:20:38 +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><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=backroadsbubbaDF1A5DFF-25CD-A70D-CB79-375ECBF82C08.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="81" width="144" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=backroadsbubbaDF1A5DFF-25CD-A70D-CB79-375ECBF82C08.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="68" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>US lists top Afghan insurgent as Taliban's first heroin 'kingpin'</title>
<description><![CDATA[
The US government added a top Taliban commander to its list of suspected drug trafficking &ldquo;Kingpins&rdquo; on Thursday in the first such designation of a leader of the Afghan insurgency. 
The move underscores concerns that Taliban commanders may be playing a growing role&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[backroads]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[backroads]]></source><link>http://backroadsbubba.newsvine.com/_news/2012/11/16/15227859-us-lists-top-afghan-insurgent-as-talibans-first-heroin-kingpin</link><guid>http://backroadsbubba.newsvine.com/_news/2012/11/16/15227859-us-lists-top-afghan-insurgent-as-talibans-first-heroin-kingpin</guid><category>afghanistan</category><category>taliban</category><category>world-news</category><category>heroin</category><category>islamic-extremist</category><pubDate>Sat, 17 Nov 2012 03:26:41 +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>Religious party leader casts doubts on Malala attack</title>
<description><![CDATA[
The leader of Pakistan&rsquo;s largest religious political party has cast doubt on the Taliban shooting of schoolgirl activist Malala Yousufzai, saying he did not believe she was hit in the head.
. . . The cold-blooded attempt to murder the youngster shocked the world, but man&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[backroads]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[backroads]]></source><link>http://backroadsbubba.newsvine.com/_news/2012/11/05/14954330-religious-party-leader-casts-doubts-on-malala-attack</link><guid>http://backroadsbubba.newsvine.com/_news/2012/11/05/14954330-religious-party-leader-casts-doubts-on-malala-attack</guid><category>pakistan</category><category>taliban</category><category>religion</category><category>islam</category><category>extremism</category><category>malala-yousufzai</category><pubDate>Tue, 6 Nov 2012 03:46:24 +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's rejection of hope and change</title>
<description><![CDATA[
In four years, Obama had gone from asking Americans to vote for &ldquo;hope&rdquo; to asking them to vote for &ldquo;revenge.&rdquo;
. . . Romney had made himself the agent of change, and Obama the agent of the status quo.
]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[backroads]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[backroads]]></source><link>http://backroadsbubba.newsvine.com/_news/2012/11/05/14953750-obamas-rejection-of-hope-and-change</link><guid>http://backroadsbubba.newsvine.com/_news/2012/11/05/14953750-obamas-rejection-of-hope-and-change</guid><category>campaign</category><category>election</category><category>politics</category><category>mitt-romney</category><category>barack</category><pubDate>Tue, 6 Nov 2012 03:21:27 +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>If Rambo Had Been There</title>
<description><![CDATA[If Rambo had been in Custer's command, Errol Flynn would have faced an entirely different challenge making up history. Driving around in a stolen Guard truck or Soviet tank, Rambo would have slaughtered Big Cloud and the rest of them, ensuring America's safety from illegal aliens&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[backroads]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[backroads]]></source><link>http://backroadsbubba.newsvine.com/_news/2012/11/05/14927208-if-rambo-had-been-there</link><guid>http://backroadsbubba.newsvine.com/_news/2012/11/05/14927208-if-rambo-had-been-there</guid><category>fighting</category><category>rambo</category><category>custer</category><pubDate>Mon, 5 Nov 2012 05:22:06 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Syrians plead for foreign action</title>
<description><![CDATA[
They also contrasted the toll of hurricane Sandy in the US with that of the 19-month uprising, using the name of Assad&rsquo;s mother, with a sign reading: &ldquo;Sandy: 90 victims - Anissa: 40,000 victims&rdquo;.
. . . Other slogans referred to recent statements by US Secreta&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[backroads]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[backroads]]></source><link>http://backroadsbubba.newsvine.com/_news/2012/11/02/14888956-syrians-plead-for-foreign-action</link><guid>http://backroadsbubba.newsvine.com/_news/2012/11/02/14888956-syrians-plead-for-foreign-action</guid><category>clinton</category><category>syria</category><category>protests</category><category>world-news</category><category>assad</category><category>syrian-national-council</category><category>hurricane-sandy</category><pubDate>Fri, 2 Nov 2012 23:53:52 +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's empty noise </title>
<description><![CDATA[
Energetic in body but indolent in mind, Barack Obama in his frenetic  campaigning for a second term is promising to replicate his first term, although  simply apologizing would be appropriate. His long campaign&rsquo;s bilious tone &mdash;  scurrilities about Mitt Romney as a m&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[backroads]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[backroads]]></source><link>http://backroadsbubba.newsvine.com/_news/2012/10/31/14842285-obamas-empty-noise</link><guid>http://backroadsbubba.newsvine.com/_news/2012/10/31/14842285-obamas-empty-noise</guid><category>campaign</category><category>election</category><category>politics</category><category>barack</category><category>democrat-party</category><category>crazy-joe</category><pubDate>Thu, 1 Nov 2012 03:38:39 +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>France expels 'anti-Semitic' Tunisian preacher</title>
<description><![CDATA[
He was arrested at his home and flown straight to Tunis, although he has lived in France for much of his life.
]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[backroads]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[backroads]]></source><link>http://backroadsbubba.newsvine.com/_news/2012/10/31/14841086-france-expels-anti-semitic-tunisian-preacher</link><guid>http://backroadsbubba.newsvine.com/_news/2012/10/31/14841086-france-expels-anti-semitic-tunisian-preacher</guid><category>france</category><category>religion</category><category>tunisia</category><category>anti-semite</category><category>misogynist</category><category>jihadi-cleric</category><pubDate>Thu, 1 Nov 2012 02:46:20 +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 jihadist group prospers in Syria</title>
<description><![CDATA[
&nbsp;For more than a year, the Obama administration has been assuring the world that the downfall of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad is &ldquo;a matter of time.&rdquo; Yes, its own Middle East experts warned, but how much time matters. The longer the fighting goes on, they sai&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[backroads]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[backroads]]></source><link>http://backroadsbubba.newsvine.com/_news/2012/10/28/14763709-a-jihadist-group-prospers-in-syria</link><guid>http://backroadsbubba.newsvine.com/_news/2012/10/28/14763709-a-jihadist-group-prospers-in-syria</guid><category>syria</category><category>world-news</category><category>assad</category><category>jihadis</category><category>islamic-extremists</category><pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2012 01:21:24 +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>Mugging our descendants</title>
<description><![CDATA[
Barack Obama&rsquo;s agenda is a menu of temptations intended to change the nation&rsquo;s social norms by making Americans comfortable with the degradation of democracy. This degradation consists of piling up public debt that binds unconsenting future generations to finance cu&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[backroads]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[backroads]]></source><link>http://backroadsbubba.newsvine.com/_news/2012/10/28/14752150-mugging-our-descendants</link><guid>http://backroadsbubba.newsvine.com/_news/2012/10/28/14752150-mugging-our-descendants</guid><category>politics</category><category>debt</category><category>entitlement</category><category>legacy</category><category>responsibility</category><category>descendants</category><category>course-correction</category><pubDate>Sun, 28 Oct 2012 04:50:50 +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>Congressman's son leaves campaign in wake of video</title>
<description><![CDATA[
The son of Democratic congressman Jim Moran of Virginia has resigned from his father's campaign after an undercover video shows him discussing a plan to cast fraudulent ballots.
]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[backroads]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[backroads]]></source><link>http://backroadsbubba.newsvine.com/_news/2012/10/24/14680333-congressmans-son-leaves-campaign-in-wake-of-video</link><guid>http://backroadsbubba.newsvine.com/_news/2012/10/24/14680333-congressmans-son-leaves-campaign-in-wake-of-video</guid><category>politics</category><category>voter-fraud</category><category>jim-moran</category><category>democrat-party</category><category>sonny-boy</category><pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2012 02:09:56 +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>As world helps Malala, Afghans ask 'what about us?'</title>
<description><![CDATA[
Afghanistan&rsquo;s independent human rights commission says violence against women is increasing across the country as Karzai&rsquo;s government appears to backslide on women&rsquo;s rights. The older brother of Mah Gul, a 20-year-old woman beheaded last week in western Herat &nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[backroads]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[backroads]]></source><link>http://backroadsbubba.newsvine.com/_news/2012/10/22/14624678-as-world-helps-malala-afghans-ask-what-about-us</link><guid>http://backroadsbubba.newsvine.com/_news/2012/10/22/14624678-as-world-helps-malala-afghans-ask-what-about-us</guid><category>afghanistan</category><category>pakistan</category><category>taliban</category><category>world-news</category><category>karzai</category><category>womens-rights</category><category>islamic-extremists</category><category>malala-yousufzai</category><pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2012 23:18:35 +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>How blaming the West hides a war on women</title>
<description><![CDATA[
Western politicians can apologize for crooked policies and retreat into passivity for fear of committing new errors, which are bound to be deemed as new sins by future generations. Yet none will change the elemental facts. The notion of an Islamic democracy is merely another eu&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[backroads]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[backroads]]></source><link>http://backroadsbubba.newsvine.com/_news/2012/10/20/14585329-how-blaming-the-west-hides-a-war-on-women</link><guid>http://backroadsbubba.newsvine.com/_news/2012/10/20/14585329-how-blaming-the-west-hides-a-war-on-women</guid><category>libya</category><category>egypt</category><category>pakistan</category><category>iran</category><category>taliban</category><category>religion</category><category>tunisia</category><category>culture</category><category>islam</category><category>islamic-extremists</category><category>misogyny</category><category>islamic-republic</category><category>khomeini</category><category>anti-modernity</category><category>gender-segregation</category><category>arab-spring</category><category>commentid-religion</category><category>malala-yousafzai</category><pubDate>Sun, 21 Oct 2012 00:40:27 +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=backroadsbubba6D929341-C32E-52FA-CBB6-00E4475E44AE.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="60" width="90" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=backroadsbubba6D929341-C32E-52FA-CBB6-00E4475E44AE.jpg&amp;width=120" width="90" height="60" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Clinton and Biden: Thanks a lot, fellas</title>
<description><![CDATA[
In one of his most bizarre comments, Biden said today in Las Vegas, &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t understand how they believe &mdash; and they do believe &mdash; Ryan has written a book called The Young Guns with two other members of the House, no these are Republican leaders in the Hou&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[backroads]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[backroads]]></source><link>http://backroadsbubba.newsvine.com/_news/2012/10/18/14545011-clinton-and-biden-thanks-a-lot-fellas</link><guid>http://backroadsbubba.newsvine.com/_news/2012/10/18/14545011-clinton-and-biden-thanks-a-lot-fellas</guid><category>campaign</category><category>election</category><category>politics</category><category>crazy-joe-biden</category><pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2012 02:03:52 +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>The great gaffe</title>
<description><![CDATA[
Not wishing to admit that we had just been attacked by al-Qaeda affiliates, perhaps answering to the successor of a man on whose grave Obama and the Democrats have been dancing for months, the administration relentlessly advanced the mob/video tale to distract from the truth.
&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[backroads]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[backroads]]></source><link>http://backroadsbubba.newsvine.com/_news/2012/10/18/14543795-the-great-gaffe</link><guid>http://backroadsbubba.newsvine.com/_news/2012/10/18/14543795-the-great-gaffe</guid><category>libya</category><category>politics</category><category>murder</category><category>incompetence</category><category>al-qaeda</category><category>islamic-extremists</category><category>deceit</category><category>barack</category><category>benghazi</category><category>ambassador-stevens</category><pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2012 00:33:11 +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>For Benghazi diplomatic security, U.S. relied on small British firm</title>
<description><![CDATA[
Blue Mountain hired about 20 Libyan men - including some who say they had minimal training - to screen visitors and help patrol the mission at Benghazi, according to Reuters interviews.
Some of the guards sustained injuries and said they were ill-prepared to protect themselves&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[backroads]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[backroads]]></source><link>http://backroadsbubba.newsvine.com/_news/2012/10/18/14522478-for-benghazi-diplomatic-security-us-relied-on-small-british-firm</link><guid>http://backroadsbubba.newsvine.com/_news/2012/10/18/14522478-for-benghazi-diplomatic-security-us-relied-on-small-british-firm</guid><category>libya</category><category>murder</category><category>incompetence</category><category>outsourcing</category><category>world-news</category><category>al-qaeda</category><category>islamic-extremists</category><category>benghazi</category><category>ambassador-stevens</category><pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2012 04:28:15 +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>Gunmen kill polio vaccinator in Pakistan</title>
<description><![CDATA[
The Taliban have banned immunisations in some areas, condemning the campaign as a cover for espionage since a Pakistani doctor was jailed after helping the CIA track down Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden using a hepatitis vaccination programme.
]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[backroads]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[backroads]]></source><link>http://backroadsbubba.newsvine.com/_news/2012/10/16/14491881-gunmen-kill-polio-vaccinator-in-pakistan</link><guid>http://backroadsbubba.newsvine.com/_news/2012/10/16/14491881-gunmen-kill-polio-vaccinator-in-pakistan</guid><category>pakistan</category><category>taliban</category><category>polio</category><category>world-news</category><category>osama</category><category>vaccination</category><category>islamic-extremists</category><pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2012 01:59:08 +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>Battery firm backed by federal stimulus money files for bankruptcy</title>
<description><![CDATA[
But the start-up was besieged by problems, including malfunctions and fires in its batteries and a heavy reliance on a single troubled buyer, carmaker Fisker Automotive.
. . . A123 is the fifth prominent clean-energy firm the Obama administration subsidized with loans or grant&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[backroads]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[backroads]]></source><link>http://backroadsbubba.newsvine.com/_news/2012/10/16/14491282-battery-firm-backed-by-federal-stimulus-money-files-for-bankruptcy</link><guid>http://backroadsbubba.newsvine.com/_news/2012/10/16/14491282-battery-firm-backed-by-federal-stimulus-money-files-for-bankruptcy</guid><category>technology</category><category>green-energy</category><category>stimulus-failure</category><pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2012 01:24:59 +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>Biden's toxic victory</title>
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On Afghanistan, Biden described a policy of total and unconditional retreat that the Obama administration does not actually hold. &ldquo;We are leaving in 2014, period,&rdquo; said Biden. Responsible representatives of the administration put it a little differently: U.S. combat&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[backroads]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[backroads]]></source><link>http://backroadsbubba.newsvine.com/_news/2012/10/15/14461850-bidens-toxic-victory</link><guid>http://backroadsbubba.newsvine.com/_news/2012/10/15/14461850-bidens-toxic-victory</guid><category>iraq</category><category>afghanistan</category><category>libya</category><category>iran</category><category>clinton</category><category>politics</category><category>fool</category><category>vp-debate</category><category>crazy-joe</category><pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2012 00:15:02 +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>The new Middle East coverup: Biden caught in Syria debate falsehood</title>
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&ldquo;Most of the arms shipped at the behest of Saudi Arabia and Qatar to supply Syrian rebel groups fighting the government of Bashar al-Assad are going to hard-line Islamic jihadists, and not the more secular opposition groups that the West wants to bolster, according to Ame&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[backroads]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[backroads]]></source><link>http://backroadsbubba.newsvine.com/_news/2012/10/15/14456879-the-new-middle-east-coverup-biden-caught-in-syria-debate-falsehood</link><guid>http://backroadsbubba.newsvine.com/_news/2012/10/15/14456879-the-new-middle-east-coverup-biden-caught-in-syria-debate-falsehood</guid><category>politics</category><category>syria</category><category>scandal</category><category>lie</category><category>al-qaeda</category><category>cover-up</category><category>islamic-jihadis</category><category>crazy-joe</category><category>debate-bluster</category><pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2012 19:20:03 +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>Pakistan holds US responsible for protecting Malala's attackers</title>
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While President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have condemned the attack on Malala Yousufzai, describing it disgusting and tragic, Pakistani authorities believe the US was equally responsible because of the repeated refusal of US-led Allied Forces in Afghanistan to arrest or &nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[backroads]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[backroads]]></source><link>http://backroadsbubba.newsvine.com/_news/2012/10/14/14437032-pakistan-holds-us-responsible-for-protecting-malalas-attackers</link><guid>http://backroadsbubba.newsvine.com/_news/2012/10/14/14437032-pakistan-holds-us-responsible-for-protecting-malalas-attackers</guid><category>afghanistan</category><category>pakistan</category><category>taliban</category><category>terrorists</category><category>world-news</category><category>sharia-law</category><category>islamic-extremists</category><category>mysogyny</category><category>fazlullah</category><category>malala-yousufzai</category><category>mullah-radio</category><pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2012 01:28:12 +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>