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		<title>Bushwhacked And Obama&#8217;d</title>
		<link>http://www.yellowswordfish.com/910/bushwhacked-and-obamad/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 12:59:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been neglecting my job here but I have slapped my own wrist and am ready to go! This was intended to be posted the day before the recent US election but now is as good a time as any.
Not long ago, when I wrote an item on US politics, my esteemed fellow blogger [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scary People Reprised</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Oct 2008 16:13:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy @ Yellow Swordfish</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I shouldn&#8217;t be doing this as I suspect I&#8217;ll just get myself into trouble again. Just like last time. But sometimes you just have to stand up and join the debate. 
Exactly a month ago I wrote a piece entitled &#8216;Scary People&#8216;. You don&#8217;t need to read it but it might help. It attracted around [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Round And Round And Round</title>
		<link>http://www.yellowswordfish.com/760/round-and-round-and-round/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 09:53:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy @ Yellow Swordfish</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many, many years ago I was driving a first time American visitor from Heathrow to my home town and he became intrigued &#8211; or perhaps a better expression would be horrified &#8211; at good old roundabouts. His initial reaction seemed to be terror but, in all fairness, that was probably the South Mimms roundabout that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The White Woman. The Black Man. Are They Just What The Republicans Want?</title>
		<link>http://www.yellowswordfish.com/697/the-white-woman-the-black-man-are-they-just-what-the-republicans-want/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2008 11:23:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy @ Yellow Swordfish</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am neither a political pundit nor a political analyst. My personal politics are neither left nor right &#8211; or, in the case of the USA, rightish or extreme right. But what the world doesn&#8217;t need at the end of this year is a Shrub replacement from the same political mould. What the USA might [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Comedy And The Tragedy Of The USA</title>
		<link>http://www.yellowswordfish.com/540/the-comedy-and-the-tragedy-of-the-usa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2007 18:57:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy @ Yellow Swordfish</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I posted an item entitled The Americans And The Vagina a couple of weeks back following which the comments wandered off topic a bit and I said some things about Las Vegas and the image the USA &#8216;exports&#8217; of itself through Hollywood and TV shows. It was in response to just such a remark that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Americans And The Vagina</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2007 10:41:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy @ Yellow Swordfish</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just how did the American people get so screwed up? OK &#8211; not, perhaps all of them &#8211; but enough of them to set the country on a backward trend towards repression. Here is a country that on one side produces the biggest volume of porn videos and material the world has ever surely known, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Strange Act Of James Smithson</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Oct 2006 01:40:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy @ Yellow Swordfish</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[James Smithson was an English chemist and member of the Royal Society who died, leaving a small fortune, in 1829. The estate was left to a nephew but stipulated that should the nephew die without children, the money was to go to the United States of America to create &#8216;an establishment for the increase and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U-571</title>
		<link>http://www.yellowswordfish.com/430/u-571/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Aug 2006 20:11:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy @ Yellow Swordfish</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We all know that America has problems understanding the rest of the world and likes to think of itself as the only country worth living in. At the same time they have their own special &#8216;history&#8217;. For example, how many times have we heard Americans refer to their country as the worlds biggest democracy? They [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When Did America Start To Go Wrong?</title>
		<link>http://www.yellowswordfish.com/365/when-did-america-start-to-go-wrong/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 May 2006 19:39:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy @ Yellow Swordfish</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems to me that up until the 2nd World War America was still pretty much in a unique position. Surely the most truly cosmopolitan nation the world has ever known, it had opened it&#8217;s gates to the peoples of the world to come and make a new life. They came, of course, in their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>And God Said &#8216;Let There Be Hurricanes&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.yellowswordfish.com/356/and-god-said-let-there-be-hurricanes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 May 2006 21:15:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy @ Yellow Swordfish</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa) predicts there will be 13-16 named storms in the 2006 season (June to November), four of which will be &#8220;major storms&#8221;.
This is above average but far less than the unprecedented 28 storms the USA suffered in 2005, 15 of which went on to become hurricanes, including, of [...]]]></description>
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