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		<title>Pop-Pop Dutchenstein</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 05:57:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mandie</dc:creator>
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At long last, the picture you have all been waiting for&#8230;

Thanks to Linds and Dan for capturing the moment of unveiling live for those of us unable to attend the Easter celebration!

&#8220;If you ain&#8217;t dutch, you ain&#8217;t much.&#8221;
Visit My Zazzle Store and Buy Your Very Own Dutchenstein!
If You Ain&#8217;t Dutch, You Ain&#8217;t Much by mandieesBrowse [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Results Are In&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 05:23:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mandie</dc:creator>
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The readers of Startup Fiance have spoken (all 15 of you), and have selected the shirt that Pop-Pop will be sporting sometime in the next week or two.  After a week of a nail biting race between Shirt #3 &#8211; PA with Dutchman, and Shirt #7 &#8211; lovingly called simply &#8220;Dutchenstein&#8221; by the partner, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Wheel in the Sky Keeps on Turning&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 07:58:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mandie</dc:creator>
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It is my hope that the catchy classic rock song title of this post will get so stuck in your head that it will serve to detract from the lack of an amazing reappearance to my website I am about to make.  I had planned all sorts of PR-worthy stunts related to my return to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ban Stupid People, Not Dogs</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:03:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mandie</dc:creator>
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After spending some time browsing the pets section on Craiglist, I want to lay with my pit bulls and cry.  It is incomprehensibly saddening to see the things people do to this misunderstood breed.  Area shelters across the US are jam-packed with pit bulls. Backyard breeders with no regard for the welfare of these dogs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tofurky Anyone?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 14:23:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mandie</dc:creator>
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I thought staying true to pescatarianism (if that is even a word) would be more difficult around the holidays.  It would mean the absence of baked beans with bacon, an empty bowl where my endive with hot bacon dressing used to rest, finding a substitute for the slab of ham I used to use to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dogs Greet Owner After 14 Months in Iraq</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 02:26:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mandie</dc:creator>
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		<title>The Rules For Being Human</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 22:37:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mandie</dc:creator>
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1. You Will Receive A Body.
You may like it or hate it, but it will be yours for the entire period this time around.
The choice of how you deal with your body is yours.

2. You Will Learn Lessons.
You are enrolled in a full-time informal school called life.
Each day in this school you will have the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Support Hallmark</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 22:58:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mandie</dc:creator>
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It appears that the American Family Association has just caught wind of the fact that Hallmark offers greeting cards geared toward people in same sex partnerships.  Being that the AFA is actually a religious fundamentalist group operating under the guise of being concerned with American family values, they have taken it upon themselves to encourage [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peanut Butter Pitbull</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 05:32:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mandie</dc:creator>
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Today Mr. Tucker thought he would be a silly little (well maybe not so little&#8230;) Pitbull, stealing an almost empty can of peanut butter from the recycling bin, and taking it to his bed to enjoy the tasty morsels. Little did he know, I was watching his sneaky little act, and he was caught red [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Featured Article &#8211; Syd&#8217;s Story</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 09:32:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mandie</dc:creator>
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This story was written by my niece, with a little guidance from my younger sister.  After the story was read to all of us in OBX I asked if it was ok to post the story on the blog, and with her permission I am now publishing the debut of this fantastic tale for your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pairing KFC with Wine</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 03:53:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mandie</dc:creator>
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My sister is a KFC fanatic.  She loves it so much that for her past birthday I begged my local KFC employees for some used KFC boxes, coupons, and treats with which to package her present.  When the local KFC went out of business she was depressed; luckily there is another one relatively close, or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vacationitis</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 02:41:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mandie</dc:creator>
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I wish I could say I had all kinds of fun adventures and spent a whole week soaking up the rays on the beach, but the truth is that I spent most of my vacation laying on the couch, visiting the toilet, and rotting my brain with television.  My delusions of drinking grandeur were shattered [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m Only a Child</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 19:25:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mandie</dc:creator>
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This video is from the UN Earth Summit in 1992.  The speaker is 12 year old Severn Suzuki (Wikipedia entry for Severn Cullis-Suzuki), and her childrens group ECO (Environmental Childrens Organization) raised all the funds needed to speak at the conference.  Has anything changed?

Look at this video, look closely at the body language of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Summer Vacation</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:44:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mandie</dc:creator>
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Ahh&#8230; That time of year again&#8230;  For the past 15 or so odd years my family has been taking a trek to the Outer Banks of North Carolina to spend a week killing coolers of beers, devouring plates of fried tomatoes and corn fritters, getting kite strings tangled, capsizing on kayaks, spying on neighboring families [...]]]></description>
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