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		<title>What Is a Christian?</title>
		<link>http://neitshade.wordpress.com/2012/02/21/what-is-a-christian/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 21:22:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DaveD</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You would think, from the stentorian, yet at the same time, strangely (dare I say) shrill complaints from some Christians, that Richard Dawkins has reserved the right to himself to say who is, and who isn&#8217;t, entitled to call themselves &#8230; <a href="http://neitshade.wordpress.com/2012/02/21/what-is-a-christian/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=neitshade.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15103250&amp;post=3237&amp;subd=neitshade&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Study in Desperation &#8211; A Concocted Dawkins Scandal</title>
		<link>http://neitshade.wordpress.com/2012/02/19/a-study-in-desperation-a-concocted-dawkins-scandal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2012 13:32:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DaveD</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Richard Dawkins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Slavery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[smear campaign]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://neitshade.wordpress.com/?p=3192</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I didn&#8217;t really expect the Telegraph to go through with it, the &#8220;scandalous revelation&#8221; that one of Richard Dawkins&#8217; ancestors owned slaves, but they have, and the article is even more scurrilous than I expected. It starts badly: &#8220;Richard Dawkins, &#8230; <a href="http://neitshade.wordpress.com/2012/02/19/a-study-in-desperation-a-concocted-dawkins-scandal/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=neitshade.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15103250&amp;post=3192&amp;subd=neitshade&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In Defence of Dawkins</title>
		<link>http://neitshade.wordpress.com/2012/02/18/in-defence-of-dawkins/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2012 17:35:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DaveD</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Christian hypocrisy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard Dawkins]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://neitshade.wordpress.com/?p=3177</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Richard Dawkins isn&#8217;t always right about everything. I&#8217;ve criticised his handling of the RDF forum meltdown and, in this very blog, I wasn&#8217;t too kind about his comments about &#8220;elevatorgate&#8220;. But some of the abuse he has received lately would be &#8230; <a href="http://neitshade.wordpress.com/2012/02/18/in-defence-of-dawkins/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=neitshade.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15103250&amp;post=3177&amp;subd=neitshade&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Strange Bedfellows</title>
		<link>http://neitshade.wordpress.com/2012/02/14/strange-bedfellows/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:07:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DaveD</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pope]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Baroness Sayeeda Warsi]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pope Benedict XVI and Baroness Warsi, seemingly the self-appointed Minister for Promoting Religion, have two things in common, despite being followers of different faiths. Neither of them understands what secularism is, and they are both terrified of it. A secular &#8230; <a href="http://neitshade.wordpress.com/2012/02/14/strange-bedfellows/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=neitshade.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15103250&amp;post=3103&amp;subd=neitshade&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Darwin Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2012 21:15:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DaveD</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Darwin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charles Darwin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Darwin Day]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Natural selection]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://neitshade.wordpress.com/?p=3058</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Charles Darwin was born on February 12th 1809, and 50 years later published what was arguably the most important book of science in history. wanted to make a picture to celebrate, but all the best ideas had already been done, &#8230; <a href="http://neitshade.wordpress.com/2012/02/12/happy-darwin-day/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=neitshade.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15103250&amp;post=3058&amp;subd=neitshade&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Stupid Fakers</title>
		<link>http://neitshade.wordpress.com/2012/02/06/stupid-fakers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:13:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DaveD</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christianity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Efficacy of prayer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ofcom]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://neitshade.wordpress.com/?p=2947</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve seen quite a few stories from the USA, a country with religious freedom enshrined in its constitution, featuring people, often children, dying from treatable illnesses because they or their families put their faith, literally, in the power of prayer. &#8230; <a href="http://neitshade.wordpress.com/2012/02/06/stupid-fakers/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=neitshade.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15103250&amp;post=2947&amp;subd=neitshade&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m an Electronic Cigarette &#8220;Smoker&#8221; &#8211; 1st Anniversary</title>
		<link>http://neitshade.wordpress.com/2012/02/06/im-an-electronic-cigarette-smoker-1st-anniversary/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:53:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DaveD</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cigarettes]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is now a year (give or take a couple of days or so) since I switched from tobacco cigarettes to electronic ones. Apart from one occasion, when I left the house with the wrong (uncharged) batteries, I haven&#8217;t smoked &#8230; <a href="http://neitshade.wordpress.com/2012/02/06/im-an-electronic-cigarette-smoker-1st-anniversary/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=neitshade.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15103250&amp;post=2944&amp;subd=neitshade&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Carry On Lying</title>
		<link>http://neitshade.wordpress.com/2012/02/01/carry-on-lying/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:47:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DaveD</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Disability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fibromyalgia]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://neitshade.wordpress.com/?p=2865</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Rod Liddle, in a radio interview, continued to spread lies about M.E. and fibromyalgia, while shouting down opposing views. Another interviewee made a minor mistake, saying that diabetes wasn&#8217;t recognised 50 years ago, and Liddle pounced on it as if &#8230; <a href="http://neitshade.wordpress.com/2012/02/01/carry-on-lying/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=neitshade.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15103250&amp;post=2865&amp;subd=neitshade&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Liddle Bit of Perspective &#8211; The Clarkson Defence</title>
		<link>http://neitshade.wordpress.com/2012/01/30/a-liddle-bit-of-perspective-the-clarkson-defence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:42:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DaveD</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alf Garnett]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The reaction to Rod Liddle&#8217;s venomous attack on the disabled has been largely anger, but I have noticed some comments along the lines of &#8220;Well, he&#8217;s just like Jeremy Clarkson, don&#8217;t take any notice, he&#8217;s harmless.&#8221; The trouble is some people &#8230; <a href="http://neitshade.wordpress.com/2012/01/30/a-liddle-bit-of-perspective-the-clarkson-defence/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=neitshade.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15103250&amp;post=2804&amp;subd=neitshade&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pretend Journalist Writes Garbage</title>
		<link>http://neitshade.wordpress.com/2012/01/28/2749/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 20:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DaveD</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Political Scrapbook]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sun]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Welfare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Welfare reform]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Rod Liddle, already known to many of us as a misogynist, racist, religious bigot and liar, has now targeted disabled people. In today&#8217;s Sun &#8220;newspaper&#8221; (and yes, the scare quotes are in the right place) he has denounced most disabled,especially &#8230; <a href="http://neitshade.wordpress.com/2012/01/28/2749/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=neitshade.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15103250&amp;post=2749&amp;subd=neitshade&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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