<?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/" ><channel><title>Newsvine - santame's Column - Articles and Seeds</title><link>http://wayfarer-1.newsvine.com/</link><description>Newsvine - santame's Column - Articles and Seeds</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2010</copyright><lastBuildDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2009 09:48:59 +0000</lastBuildDate><pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 06:39:13 +0000</pubDate><generator>http://www.newsvine.com</generator><docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs><item><title>Sarah Denies she Asked Senator Begich to Resign</title><description><![CDATA[JUNEAU — Gov. Sarah Palin stepped back from an earlier call for U.S. Sen. Mark Begich to resign pending a fresh election after a federal judge dropped charges against former Sen. Ted Stevens.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[santame]]></dc:creator><link>http://wayfarer-1.newsvine.com/_news/2009/04/11/2668469-sarah-denies-she-asked-senator-begich-to-resign</link><guid>http://wayfarer-1.newsvine.com/_news/2009/04/11/2668469-sarah-denies-she-asked-senator-begich-to-resign</guid><category>politics</category><category>corruption</category><category>sarah</category><category>palin</category><category>senator-stevens</category><category>begich</category><category>election-20012</category><pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2009 09:48:59 +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>Palin joins call for new Senate election after Stevens' case dropped</title><description><![CDATA[JUNEAU — Gov. Sarah Palin on Thursday echoed a call from the Alaska Republican Party for U.S. Sen. Mark Begich to resign after the Justice Department asked a judge to toss out corruption charges against former Sen. Ted Stevens]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[santame]]></dc:creator><link>http://wayfarer-1.newsvine.com/_news/2009/04/03/2637290-palin-joins-call-for-new-senate-election-after-stevens-case-dropped</link><guid>http://wayfarer-1.newsvine.com/_news/2009/04/03/2637290-palin-joins-call-for-new-senate-election-after-stevens-case-dropped</guid><category>alaska</category><category>politics</category><category>stevens</category><category>us-senate</category><category>palin</category><category>election-08</category><pubDate>Fri, 3 Apr 2009 18:51:06 +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>Palin needs to parley with lawmakers to end pass-the-stimulus-buck game</title><description><![CDATA[Legislators are growing increasingly frustrated that Palin isn't discussing specifics.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[santame]]></dc:creator><link>http://wayfarer-1.newsvine.com/_news/2009/03/29/2615380-palin-needs-to-parley-with-lawmakers-to-end-pass-the-stimulus-buck-game</link><guid>http://wayfarer-1.newsvine.com/_news/2009/03/29/2615380-palin-needs-to-parley-with-lawmakers-to-end-pass-the-stimulus-buck-game</guid><category>governor</category><category>alaska</category><category>politics</category><category>obama</category><category>far-right</category><category>palin</category><category>stimulus</category><category>no-thanks</category><category>palin-2012</category><category>buck-passing</category><category>game-playing</category><category>legisltors-frustrated</category><category>jindel</category><pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2009 19:59:35 +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>Obama Ready to Compormise on Health Care</title><description><![CDATA[ President Barack Obama pumped health care allies and skeptics alike for ways to overhaul the nation's costly and frustrating system Thursday and heard only applause and agreement when he told them there's "a clear consensus that the need for health care reform is here and now."]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[santame]]></dc:creator><link>http://wayfarer-1.newsvine.com/_news/2009/03/05/2511071-obama-ready-to-compormise-on-health-care</link><guid>http://wayfarer-1.newsvine.com/_news/2009/03/05/2511071-obama-ready-to-compormise-on-health-care</guid><category>health</category><category>democrats</category><category>health-care</category><category>reform</category><category>republicans</category><category>obama</category><pubDate>Fri, 6 Mar 2009 01:07:12 +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><item><title>FBI Rescues 48 teen prostitutes in Nationwide Sweep</title><description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON – The FBI has rescued 48 suspected teenage prostitutes, some as young as 13 years old, in a nationwide sweep to remove kids from the illegal sex trade and punish their accused pimps.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[santame]]></dc:creator><link>http://wayfarer-1.newsvine.com/_news/2009/02/23/2469273-fbi-rescues-48-teen-prostitutes-in-nationwide-sweep</link><guid>http://wayfarer-1.newsvine.com/_news/2009/02/23/2469273-fbi-rescues-48-teen-prostitutes-in-nationwide-sweep</guid><category>prostitution</category><category>teen</category><category>us-news</category><category>pimps</category><category>nation-wide</category><category>child-prostitutes</category><category>fbi-sweep</category><category>sun-aways</category><pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 00:09:35 +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>Homeowners Grasp at Last Sraw</title><description><![CDATA[ZEPHYRHILLS | Kathy Lovelace lost her job and was about to lose her house, too. But then she made a seemingly simple request of the bank: Show me the original mortgage paperwork.

And just like that, the foreclosure proceedings came to a standstill.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[santame]]></dc:creator><link>http://wayfarer-1.newsvine.com/_news/2009/02/22/2463608-homeowners-grasp-at-last-sraw</link><guid>http://wayfarer-1.newsvine.com/_news/2009/02/22/2463608-homeowners-grasp-at-last-sraw</guid><category>politics</category><category>strategy</category><category>obama</category><category>homeowners</category><category>fforeclosure</category><pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2009 06:50:57 +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>Modifying Mortgages Has Mixed Results for Lenders</title><description><![CDATA[As the Obama administration steps up efforts to help troubled homeowners modify their mortgages, it might consider the experiences of these two South Florida borrowers and their mortgage companies, one small, one large
]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[santame]]></dc:creator><link>http://wayfarer-1.newsvine.com/_news/2009/02/22/2463560-modifying-mortgages-has-mixed-results-for-lenders</link><guid>http://wayfarer-1.newsvine.com/_news/2009/02/22/2463560-modifying-mortgages-has-mixed-results-for-lenders</guid><category>politics</category><category>loans</category><category>homeowners</category><category>foreclosure</category><category>stimulus</category><category>mortage-modification</category><pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2009 06:27:59 +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>Defendant Was Tired of Father, Records Show</title><description><![CDATA[BARTOW | Murder defendant Robert Farley told detectives he was tired of putting up with his 93-year-old father's curmudgeonly ways and wanted him out of the way, according to investigative reports recently obtained by The Ledger.

]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[santame]]></dc:creator><link>http://wayfarer-1.newsvine.com/_news/2009/02/22/2463540-defendant-was-tired-of-father-records-show</link><guid>http://wayfarer-1.newsvine.com/_news/2009/02/22/2463540-defendant-was-tired-of-father-records-show</guid><category>investigation</category><category>father</category><category>son</category><category>murder</category><category>us-news</category><category>senior</category><category>parent</category><pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2009 06:20:07 +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>Schwarzenegger Will Take Fellow GOP Stimulus Money</title><description><![CDATA[Fresh off a grueling budget battle in his state, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said Saturday that if fellow Republican governors threatening to turn down stimulus funds follow through on their pledge, he'd be happy to have their share. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[santame]]></dc:creator><link>http://wayfarer-1.newsvine.com/_news/2009/02/21/2462584-schwarzenegger-will-take-fellow-gop-stimulus-money</link><guid>http://wayfarer-1.newsvine.com/_news/2009/02/21/2462584-schwarzenegger-will-take-fellow-gop-stimulus-money</guid><category>politics</category><category>schwarzenegger</category><category>california</category><category>gop</category><category>obama</category><category>stimulus</category><category>budget-battle</category><pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2009 22:50:45 +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 TAims to half Federal Deficit by 2013</title><description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama wants to slash America's ballooning deficit in half by 2013 by cutting spending on the Iraq war, eliminating wasteful public programs and raising taxes on the wealthy, an administration official said on Saturday]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[santame]]></dc:creator><link>http://wayfarer-1.newsvine.com/_news/2009/02/21/2462539-obama-taims-to-half-federal-deficit-by-2013</link><guid>http://wayfarer-1.newsvine.com/_news/2009/02/21/2462539-obama-taims-to-half-federal-deficit-by-2013</guid><category>iraq</category><category>politics</category><category>deficit</category><category>obama</category><category>tax-cut</category><pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2009 22:38:05 +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>Who Said Palin is Refusing Stimulus -- Lights, infrastructure Await Stimulus  Action</title><description><![CDATA[Government number crunchers are still combing the massive federal economic stimulus plan for final details  on what it means for Alaska, but many local and state agencies already have lined out the work they'd like to get done.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[santame]]></dc:creator><link>http://wayfarer-1.newsvine.com/_news/2009/02/20/2458633-who-said-palin-is-refusing-stimulus-lights-infrastructure-await-stimulus-action</link><guid>http://wayfarer-1.newsvine.com/_news/2009/02/20/2458633-who-said-palin-is-refusing-stimulus-lights-infrastructure-await-stimulus-action</guid><category>alaska</category><category>recovery</category><category>politics</category><category>republicans</category><category>2012</category><category>obama</category><category>infrastructure</category><category>palin</category><category>stimulus</category><category>governor-palin</category><pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 19:06:41 +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>Palin Aid Computes State Employee Travel Cost on VP Campaign</title><description><![CDATA[ANCHORAGE — An aide to Sarah Palin is disclosing as gifts more than $13,000 in airfare and lodging from the John McCain campaign, logged while helping the Alaska governor with state business during her bid as the Republican vice presidential candidate.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[santame]]></dc:creator><link>http://wayfarer-1.newsvine.com/_news/2009/01/09/2292517-palin-aid-computes-state-employee-travel-cost-on-vp-campaign</link><guid>http://wayfarer-1.newsvine.com/_news/2009/01/09/2292517-palin-aid-computes-state-employee-travel-cost-on-vp-campaign</guid><category>governor</category><category>alaska</category><category>constitution</category><category>politics</category><category>mccain</category><category>ethics</category><category>gifts</category><category>palin</category><category>campaign-08</category><category>travel-cost</category><pubDate>Fri, 9 Jan 2009 16:54:12 +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><item><title>The Wholesale Sedation of America's Youth</title><description><![CDATA[In the winter of 2000, the Journal of the American Medical Association published the results of a study indicating that 200,000 two- to four-year-olds had been prescribed Ritalin for an "attention disorder" from 1991 to 1995.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[santame]]></dc:creator><link>http://wayfarer-1.newsvine.com/_news/2009/01/02/2266489-the-wholesale-sedation-of-americas-youth</link><guid>http://wayfarer-1.newsvine.com/_news/2009/01/02/2266489-the-wholesale-sedation-of-americas-youth</guid><category>drugs</category><category>health</category><category>children</category><category>antidepressants</category><category>infants</category><category>psychotropics</category><category>drug-profit</category><category>sedatives</category><category>pre-schoolers</category><category>toddlers-medicalizing-childhood</category><category>sedated-children</category><category>national-disgrace</category><category>over-prescribed-medicine-stimulants</category><category>anti-suchotics</category><pubDate>Fri, 2 Jan 2009 12:13:19 +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>Broken System -  Domestic Violence </title><description><![CDATA[So many battered women have lost faith in Hawai'i's criminal justice system that many are not reporting their beatings and some even say the abuse can be more tolerable than the trauma of dealing with unsympathetic people in a grueling judicial process.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[santame]]></dc:creator><link>http://wayfarer-1.newsvine.com/_news/2008/12/28/2251921-broken-system-domestic-violence-</link><guid>http://wayfarer-1.newsvine.com/_news/2008/12/28/2251921-broken-system-domestic-violence-</guid><category>us-news</category><category>domestic-violence</category><category>child-endangerment</category><category>broken-judicial-system</category><category>battered-spouse</category><pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2008 12:42:34 +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>Sarah's stylist $165,000 Over Nine Weeks</title><description><![CDATA[Senator John McCain's presidential campaign spent more than $165,000 over the course of nine weeks on a trio of stylists for Gov.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[santame]]></dc:creator><link>http://wayfarer-1.newsvine.com/_news/2008/12/06/2185786-sarahs-stylist-165000-over-nine-weeks</link><guid>http://wayfarer-1.newsvine.com/_news/2008/12/06/2185786-sarahs-stylist-165000-over-nine-weeks</guid><category>campaign</category><category>election</category><category>politics</category><category>waste</category><category>mccain</category><category>stylist</category><category>beauty</category><category>alaska-governor</category><category>sarah</category><category>palin</category><category>washington-elite</category><pubDate>Sat, 6 Dec 2008 21:38:09 +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>Sarah political ads still flooding Alaska.  Early start on 2012?</title><description><![CDATA[I thought the election was over.  I thought she lost.  .  Seems our Governor is more interested in running for election over the next 4 years then she is about running our state.  We are being hit with "Thank you Sarah"   TV spots hourly or bettter.  

"Thank you Sarah" ???]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[santame]]></dc:creator><link>http://wayfarer-1.newsvine.com/_news/2008/11/25/2150324-sarah-political-ads-still-flooding-alaska-early-start-on-2012</link><guid>http://wayfarer-1.newsvine.com/_news/2008/11/25/2150324-sarah-political-ads-still-flooding-alaska-early-start-on-2012</guid><category>governor</category><category>alaska</category><category>politics</category><category>mccain</category><category>lies</category><category>obama</category><category>conservative</category><category>deceit</category><category>palin</category><category>sarha-palin</category><pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 01:55:23 +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>Sarah Palin Assured Spot for 2012</title><description><![CDATA[At a press conference on Friday November 21st, Sarah Palin and top level RNC members  announced that they believe the door has finally opened  to place Sarah in place for 2012 election.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[santame]]></dc:creator><link>http://wayfarer-1.newsvine.com/_news/2008/11/24/2143867-sarah-palin-assured-spot-for-2012</link><guid>http://wayfarer-1.newsvine.com/_news/2008/11/24/2143867-sarah-palin-assured-spot-for-2012</guid><category>bush</category><category>alaska</category><category>politics</category><category>mccain</category><category>news</category><category>god</category><category>obama</category><category>alaska-governor</category><category>sarah</category><category>rnc</category><category>cheny</category><category>palin</category><category>sarah-palin</category><category>mccain-2012</category><pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 05:09:17 +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>Looking Past Palin - At leastTrying to</title><description><![CDATA[Washington Times Tells it like it is.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[santame]]></dc:creator><link>http://wayfarer-1.newsvine.com/_news/2008/11/17/2119424-looking-past-palin-at-leasttrying-to</link><guid>http://wayfarer-1.newsvine.com/_news/2008/11/17/2119424-looking-past-palin-at-leasttrying-to</guid><category>governor</category><category>alaska</category><category>election</category><category>politics</category><category>mccain</category><category>republican</category><category>palin</category><category>sarah-palin</category><pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 09:34:53 +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>Sarah, It's  Time to Come back to Work</title><description><![CDATA[Now that the governor has concluded her postscript at the Republican Governors Association meeting in Florida, though, it's time to put a wrap on the 2008 campaign and attend to Alaska's issues.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[santame]]></dc:creator><link>http://wayfarer-1.newsvine.com/_news/2008/11/16/2117935-sarah-its-time-to-come-back-to-work</link><guid>http://wayfarer-1.newsvine.com/_news/2008/11/16/2117935-sarah-its-time-to-come-back-to-work</guid><category>alaska</category><category>election</category><category>budget</category><category>politics</category><category>mccain</category><category>sarah</category><category>palin</category><category>governor-return</category><pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2008 20:12:51 +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>Priest: No communion for Obama supporters</title><description><![CDATA[A South Carolina Roman Catholic priest has told his parishioners that they should refrain from receiving Holy Communion if they voted for Barack Obama because the Democratic president-elect supports abortion.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[santame]]></dc:creator><link>http://wayfarer-1.newsvine.com/_news/2008/11/14/2110670-priest-no-communion-for-obama-supporters</link><guid>http://wayfarer-1.newsvine.com/_news/2008/11/14/2110670-priest-no-communion-for-obama-supporters</guid><category>faith</category><category>us-news</category><category>msnbci</category><pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 09:20:19 +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>