<?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 - Pauline Brock's Column - Articles and Seeds</title><link>http://paulinebrock.newsvine.com/</link><description>Newsvine - Pauline Brock's Column - Articles and Seeds</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2009</copyright><lastBuildDate>Mon, 7 Sep 2009 15:43:26 +0000</lastBuildDate><pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 22:26:10 +0000</pubDate><generator>http://www.newsvine.com</generator><docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs><item><title>We Don't Need No Education...</title><description><![CDATA[It doesn't happen often but… Keith missed the point.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Pauline Brock]]></dc:creator><link>http://paulinebrock.newsvine.com/_news/2009/09/07/3234149-we-dont-need-no-education</link><guid>http://paulinebrock.newsvine.com/_news/2009/09/07/3234149-we-dont-need-no-education</guid><category>politics</category><category>republicans</category><category>obama</category><category>school-speech</category><category>keith</category><category>ko</category><category>countdown</category><category>conspiracy-theory</category><category>obama-effect</category><pubDate>Mon, 7 Sep 2009 15:43:26 +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>Moving the Embassy?</title><description><![CDATA[What happened the last time a major political figure campaigned on moving their country's embassy to Jerusalem.

Why would the Republicans open up that old can o'worms? A few votes at the expense of national (and world) security.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Pauline Brock]]></dc:creator><link>http://paulinebrock.newsvine.com/_news/2008/10/02/1948805-moving-the-embassy</link><guid>http://paulinebrock.newsvine.com/_news/2008/10/02/1948805-moving-the-embassy</guid><category>politics</category><category>palin</category><category>mccain</category><category>debate</category><category>vp-debate</category><category>israel</category><category>jerusalem</category><category>us-embassy</category><pubDate>Fri, 3 Oct 2008 03:11:56 +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>Habs defend Koivu's French</title><description><![CDATA[Now they are @!$%#ing with HOCKEY?

I can't stand it, really I can't.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Pauline Brock]]></dc:creator><link>http://paulinebrock.newsvine.com/_news/2007/10/31/1064443-habs-defend-koivus-french</link><guid>http://paulinebrock.newsvine.com/_news/2007/10/31/1064443-habs-defend-koivus-french</guid><category>politics</category><category>quebec</category><category>canada</category><category>french</category><category>quebec-politics</category><category>hockey</category><category>pq</category><category>pauline-marois</category><category>koivu</category><category>reasonable-accomodation</category><pubDate>Thu, 1 Nov 2007 00:20:00 +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>Deja Vu</title><description><![CDATA[News item:

Duceppe to make French his priority in Parliament

Gilles Duceppe, leader of the Bloc Quebecois, had some intriguing words for students at the University of Montreal this week:]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Pauline Brock]]></dc:creator><link>http://paulinebrock.newsvine.com/_news/2007/10/13/1023552-deja-vu</link><guid>http://paulinebrock.newsvine.com/_news/2007/10/13/1023552-deja-vu</guid><category>world-news</category><category>canada</category><category>canadian-politics</category><category>quebec-politics</category><category>bloc-quebecois</category><category>gilles-duceppe</category><category>french-language-rights</category><pubDate>Sun, 14 Oct 2007 02:42:11 +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>Mom charged with buying guns for son </title><description><![CDATA[Yessssssssssss!

Don't get me started on parental responsibility. And this goes way beyond denial and the type of *benign* neglect that many parents practice.

Seriously, wtf.

And on a side note, MSNBC really should get that Newsvine button already...]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Pauline Brock]]></dc:creator><link>http://paulinebrock.newsvine.com/_news/2007/10/12/1020666-mom-charged-with-buying-guns-for-son-</link><guid>http://paulinebrock.newsvine.com/_news/2007/10/12/1020666-mom-charged-with-buying-guns-for-son-</guid><category>us-news</category><category>philadelphia</category><category>school-shooting</category><category>guns</category><category>gun-show</category><category>crime</category><category>gun-crime</category><category>criminal-neglect</category><pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2007 14:15:50 +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>MSNBC Buys Newsvine </title><description><![CDATA[The first thing they will have to do is have their affiliates (including the story source, CNBC) add the NV seed link...

]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Pauline Brock]]></dc:creator><link>http://paulinebrock.newsvine.com/_news/2007/10/07/1008867-msnbc-buys-newsvine-</link><guid>http://paulinebrock.newsvine.com/_news/2007/10/07/1008867-msnbc-buys-newsvine-</guid><category>technology</category><category>newsvine</category><pubDate>Sun, 7 Oct 2007 20:47:21 +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>Ethics, Role Models, Facts and Arguments</title><description><![CDATA[It has long been a contention of mine that schools ought to prepare students for the real world. School society should, in an age-appropriate fashion, mirror adult societies such as the workplace.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Pauline Brock]]></dc:creator><link>http://paulinebrock.newsvine.com/_news/2007/09/07/947679-ethics-role-models-facts-and-arguments</link><guid>http://paulinebrock.newsvine.com/_news/2007/09/07/947679-ethics-role-models-facts-and-arguments</guid><category>media</category><category>newspapers</category><category>globe-and-mail</category><category>facts-and-arguments</category><category>plagiarism</category><category>editing</category><category>fact-checking</category><pubDate>Fri, 7 Sep 2007 15:51:04 +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>Newsvine Seed Button on UK Times Site!</title><description><![CDATA[The UK newspaper website Timesonline has redesigned and added a Newsvine button!]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Pauline Brock]]></dc:creator><link>http://paulinebrock.newsvine.com/_news/2007/02/05/554494-newsvine-seed-button-on-uk-times-site</link><guid>http://paulinebrock.newsvine.com/_news/2007/02/05/554494-newsvine-seed-button-on-uk-times-site</guid><category>business</category><category>newsvine</category><category>timesonline</category><category>times</category><category>newsvine-seed-button</category><pubDate>Tue, 6 Feb 2007 03:43:00 +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>Bush's Four Anti-Terror Successes All Fictional</title><description><![CDATA[This article formed the basis for the latest in Keith Olbermann's "special comments".  All of the anti-terror claims debunked. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Pauline Brock]]></dc:creator><link>http://paulinebrock.newsvine.com/_news/2007/01/30/545323-bushs-four-anti-terror-successes-all-fictional</link><guid>http://paulinebrock.newsvine.com/_news/2007/01/30/545323-bushs-four-anti-terror-successes-all-fictional</guid><category>us-news</category><category>bush</category><category>state-of-the-union</category><category>war-on-terror</category><category>politics</category><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2007 02:10:00 +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>Paranoia, 1; Freedom of Speech, 0.</title><description><![CDATA[BETHLEHEM, Pa. -- An elderly man who wrote in a letter to the editor about Saddam Hussein's execution that "they hanged the wrong man" got a visit from Secret Service agents concerned he was threatening President Bush...]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Pauline Brock]]></dc:creator><link>http://paulinebrock.newsvine.com/_news/2007/01/22/532464-paranoia-1-freedom-of-speech-0</link><guid>http://paulinebrock.newsvine.com/_news/2007/01/22/532464-paranoia-1-freedom-of-speech-0</guid><category>us-news</category><category>secret-service</category><category>letter-to-editor</category><category>censorship</category><category>freedom-of-speech</category><category>intimidation</category><category>politics</category><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jan 2007 20:50:00 +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>Bringing Democracy to Iraq - At Bush's Pleasure?</title><description><![CDATA[
He put it far more bluntly when leaders of Congress visited the White House earlier on Wednesday. "I said to Maliki this has to work or you're out," the president told the Congressional leaders, according to two officials who were in the room.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Pauline Brock]]></dc:creator><link>http://paulinebrock.newsvine.com/_news/2007/01/11/515905-bringing-democracy-to-iraq-at-bushs-pleasure</link><guid>http://paulinebrock.newsvine.com/_news/2007/01/11/515905-bringing-democracy-to-iraq-at-bushs-pleasure</guid><category>politics</category><category>bush</category><category>iraq</category><category>surge</category><category>al-maliki</category><category>magical-thinking</category><category>us-news</category><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jan 2007 15:52:00 +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>US Army urges dead to re-enlist</title><description><![CDATA[The US Army is to apologise to the families of officers killed or wounded in action who were sent letters urging them to return to active duty. 
The letters were sent to more than 5,100 Army officers listed as recently having left the military. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Pauline Brock]]></dc:creator><link>http://paulinebrock.newsvine.com/_news/2007/01/06/509114-us-army-urges-dead-to-re-enlist</link><guid>http://paulinebrock.newsvine.com/_news/2007/01/06/509114-us-army-urges-dead-to-re-enlist</guid><category>us-news</category><category>incompetence</category><category>outrage</category><category>not-satire</category><category>us-army</category><category>i-cant-stand-it</category><pubDate>Sat, 6 Jan 2007 19:58:00 +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>John Dean's Take on Presidential Signing Statements</title><description><![CDATA[The Problem with Presidential Signing Statements: Their Use and Misuse by the Bush Administration 
By JOHN W. DEAN 

Written a year ago but possibly even more relevant in light of recent developments. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Pauline Brock]]></dc:creator><link>http://paulinebrock.newsvine.com/_news/2007/01/05/508288-john-deans-take-on-presidential-signing-statements</link><guid>http://paulinebrock.newsvine.com/_news/2007/01/05/508288-john-deans-take-on-presidential-signing-statements</guid><category>politics</category><category>bush</category><category>signing-statements</category><category>constitution</category><category>government</category><category>john-dean</category><pubDate>Sat, 6 Jan 2007 00:36:00 +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>Just Another Common Garden-Variety Outrage</title><description><![CDATA[So, it turns out that while you were busy with the holidays last month, the President of the United States was busy too.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Pauline Brock]]></dc:creator><link>http://paulinebrock.newsvine.com/_news/2007/01/05/508255-just-another-common-garden-variety-outrage</link><guid>http://paulinebrock.newsvine.com/_news/2007/01/05/508255-just-another-common-garden-variety-outrage</guid><category>politics</category><category>bush</category><category>signing-statement</category><category>warrantless-spying</category><category>civil-rights</category><category>cell-phone-spying</category><category>us-news</category><pubDate>Sat, 6 Jan 2007 00:24:58 +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>Anti-Zionists and the impossible peace</title><description><![CDATA[Anti-Zionists promote their cause by propagating phony charges against Israel to discredit and delegitimize the Jewish state.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Pauline Brock]]></dc:creator><link>http://paulinebrock.newsvine.com/_news/2007/01/03/505592-anti-zionists-and-the-impossible-peace</link><guid>http://paulinebrock.newsvine.com/_news/2007/01/03/505592-anti-zionists-and-the-impossible-peace</guid><category>politics</category><category>israel</category><category>hamas</category><category>lebanon</category><category>gaza</category><category>palestinians</category><category>anti-semitism</category><category>anti-zionism</category><category>zionism</category><category>world-news</category><pubDate>Thu, 4 Jan 2007 04:49:00 +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 Cartoon I'd Like to Draw</title><description><![CDATA[If I could only draw...

This would be my political cartoon of the week:

A large housecat with the face of George W. Bush, presents a gift at the feet of his owner, George Bush I: 

a dead rat with the face of Saddam Hussein.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Pauline Brock]]></dc:creator><link>http://paulinebrock.newsvine.com/_news/2006/12/30/500639-the-cartoon-id-like-to-draw</link><guid>http://paulinebrock.newsvine.com/_news/2006/12/30/500639-the-cartoon-id-like-to-draw</guid><category>politics</category><category>saddam-hussein</category><category>saddam-execution</category><category>bush</category><category>political-cartoon</category><category>political-satire</category><category>us-news</category><pubDate>Sat, 30 Dec 2006 19:20:26 +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>It's Already a Success; All it Has to do Now is Occur!</title><description><![CDATA[Why I object to giving out *best of the year* awards before the year is actually over: this one is definitely a contender for

Best Attempt at Elevating Truthiness and Spin to a Whole New Level]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Pauline Brock]]></dc:creator><link>http://paulinebrock.newsvine.com/_news/2006/12/29/499551-its-already-a-success-all-it-has-to-do-now-is-occur</link><guid>http://paulinebrock.newsvine.com/_news/2006/12/29/499551-its-already-a-success-all-it-has-to-do-now-is-occur</guid><category>politics</category><category>homeland-security</category><category>cnn</category><category>bin-laden</category><category>war-on-terror</category><category>us-news</category><pubDate>Fri, 29 Dec 2006 18:23:18 +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>US EPA Increases by 4 TIMES, threshold for reporting toxic releases.</title><description><![CDATA[Efforts to curb pollution in North America have taken a blow from a U.S. decision this week to exempt thousands of facilities from having to publicly report their toxic releases.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Pauline Brock]]></dc:creator><link>http://paulinebrock.newsvine.com/_news/2006/12/23/493890-us-epa-increases-by-4-times-threshold-for-reporting-toxic-releases</link><guid>http://paulinebrock.newsvine.com/_news/2006/12/23/493890-us-epa-increases-by-4-times-threshold-for-reporting-toxic-releases</guid><category>politics</category><category>pollution</category><category>epa</category><category>environment</category><category>toxic-substances</category><category>toxic-emissions</category><category>us-news</category><category>business</category><category>science</category><category>health</category><pubDate>Sat, 23 Dec 2006 20:22:00 +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>Sudden Decline in Breast Cancer Could Be Linked to HRT</title><description><![CDATA[Rates of women taking hormone replacement therapy, and women coming down with breast cancer, have declined in parallel since 2003. 

Didn't they tell us hormones were harmless? Guess they just wanted us to stop @!$%#in'.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Pauline Brock]]></dc:creator><link>http://paulinebrock.newsvine.com/_news/2006/12/20/490273-sudden-decline-in-breast-cancer-could-be-linked-to-hrt</link><guid>http://paulinebrock.newsvine.com/_news/2006/12/20/490273-sudden-decline-in-breast-cancer-could-be-linked-to-hrt</guid><category>health</category><category>cancer</category><category>breast-cancer</category><category>cancer-rate</category><category>hrt</category><category>hormones</category><category>hormone-replacement-therapy</category><category>cancer-study</category><pubDate>Wed, 20 Dec 2006 22:25:00 +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>Sex Offenders, Guns, and Jimmy Buffett, Oh My!</title><description><![CDATA[Update on a news story I blogged about in October, in which an American teacher, convicted of a sex offense for fondling an underage student, was allowed by US authorities to serve his sentence as a parolee, living in his home with his wife and child in Canada:The good news is, C&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Pauline Brock]]></dc:creator><link>http://paulinebrock.newsvine.com/_news/2006/12/19/488960-sex-offenders-guns-and-jimmy-buffett-oh-my</link><guid>http://paulinebrock.newsvine.com/_news/2006/12/19/488960-sex-offenders-guns-and-jimmy-buffett-oh-my</guid><category>world-news</category><category>canada</category><category>malcolm-watson</category><category>sex-offender-exile</category><category>seal-hunt</category><category>celebrities</category><category>seal-hunt-protest</category><category>canadian-seafood-boycott</category><category>jimmy-buffett</category><category>great-lakes</category><category>coast-guard-exercise</category><category>us-news</category><category>blind-hunter</category><category>texas-gun-law</category><pubDate>Wed, 20 Dec 2006 00:11:46 +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></channel></rss>