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	<title>BigDadGib - RenewedGilbert Purtee</title>
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		<title>gallery</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 21:44:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Tampa</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 14:53:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gilbert Purtee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am near the great city of Tampa Florida today.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am near the great city of Tampa Florida today.</p>
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		<title>Curiosity</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:43:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gilbert Purtee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A teacher was finishing up a lesson on the joys of discovery and the importance of curiosity.
&#8220;Where would we be today,&#8221; she asked, &#8220;if no one had ever been curious?&#8221;
One child quietly spoke up from the back of the room.
&#8220;In the garden of Eden?&#8221;
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A teacher was finishing up a lesson on the joys of discovery and the importance of curiosity.</p>
<p>&#8220;Where would we be today,&#8221; she asked, &#8220;if no one had ever been curious?&#8221;</p>
<p>One child quietly spoke up from the back of the room.</p>
<p>&#8220;In the garden of Eden?&#8221;</p>
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		<title>Looking For Work In Birmingham</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:36:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gilbert Purtee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m still in that job searching mode that many of our American friends are in.  I spend more time in prayer and that is a good thing.
I am in Alabama looking at a few trucking opportunities.  With my experience, I have several options that I may be able to take advantage of.
Maybe, I can get back in [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-248" title="saver" src="http://bigdadgib.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/saver-150x150.jpg" alt="saver" width="150" height="150" />I&#8217;m still in that job searching mode that many of our American friends are in.  I spend more time in prayer and that is a good thing.</p>
<p>I am in Alabama looking at a few trucking opportunities.  With my experience, I have several options that I may be able to take advantage of.</p>
<p>Maybe, I can get back in with &#8220;Rosie&#8221;.  Some of you remember her.</p>
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		<title>Dear Mr. Bill Clinton</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 17:22:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gilbert Purtee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am NOT a teabagger sir.  I am very disappointed that you call us (those who attend and support the &#8220;tea parties&#8221;) this derogatory term.
Gilbert Purtee
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am NOT a teabagger sir.  I am very disappointed that you call us (those who attend and support the &#8220;tea parties&#8221;) this derogatory term.</p>
<p>Gilbert Purtee</p>
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		<title>Cooper&#8217;s House</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:36:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gilbert Purtee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had some time to take photographs as I house-sat for a friend.  I took full advantage of the deck outside and ate a turkey sandwich and had a glass of apple juice.



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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I had some time to take photographs as I house-sat for a friend.  I took full advantage of the deck outside and ate a turkey sandwich and had a glass of apple juice.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-239" title="Nutty2" src="http://bigdadgib.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/Nutty2.jpg" alt="Nutty2" width="600" height="665" /></p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-240" title="gib3a" src="http://bigdadgib.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/gib3a.jpg" alt="gib3a" width="600" height="391" /></p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-242" title="Flower" src="http://bigdadgib.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/Flower.jpg" alt="Flower" width="600" height="450" /></p>
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		<title>The Expert</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:40:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gilbert Purtee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A man went to the police station wishing to speak with the burglar who had broken into his house the night before. &#8220;You&#8217;ll get your chance in court,&#8221; said the desk sergeant. &#8220;No, no, no!&#8221; said the man. &#8220;I want to know how he got into the house without waking my wife. I&#8217;ve been trying [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A man went to the police station wishing to speak with the burglar who had broken into his house the night before. &#8220;You&#8217;ll get your chance in court,&#8221; said the desk sergeant. &#8220;No, no, no!&#8221; said the man. &#8220;I want to know how he got into the house without waking my wife. I&#8217;ve been trying to do that for years!&#8221; </p>
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		<title>Ranking on Yahoo &#8211; It&#8217;s Simple</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:50:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gilbert Purtee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Quoted from Yahoo: Users are more likely to click a link if the title matches their search. Choose terms for the title that match the concept of your document.
Quoted from Yahoo: Use a “description” meta-tag and write your description accurately and carefully. After the title, the description is the most important draw for users. Make [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 5px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/19px Verdana;"><strong style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">Quoted from Yahoo:</strong> Users are more likely to click a link if the title matches their search. Choose terms for the title that match the concept of your document.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 5px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/19px Verdana;"><strong style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">Quoted from Yahoo:</strong> Use a “description” meta-tag and write your description accurately and carefully. After the title, the description is the most important draw for users. Make sure the document title and description attract the interest of the user but also fit the content on your site.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 5px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/19px Verdana;"><strong style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">Quoted from Yahoo:</strong> Use a “keyword” meta-tag to list key words for the document. Use a distinct list of keywords that relate to the specific page on your site instead of using one broad set of keywords for every page.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 5px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/19px Verdana;"><strong style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">Quoted from Yahoo:</strong> Keep relevant text and links in HTML. Placing them in graphics or image maps means search engines can’t always search for the text, and the crawler can’t follow links to your site’s other pages. An HTML site map, with a link from your welcome page, can help make sure all your pages are crawled.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 5px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/19px Verdana;"><strong style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">Quoted from Yahoo:</strong> Use ALT text for graphics. It’s good page design to accommodate text browsers or visually impaired visitors, and it helps improve the text content of your page for search purposes.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 5px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/19px Verdana;"><strong style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">Quoted from Yahoo:</strong> Correspond with webmasters and other content providers and build rich linkages between related pages. Note: “Link farms” create links between unrelated pages for no reason except to increase page link counts. Using link farms violates Yahoo!’s Site Guidelines and will not improve your page ranking.</p>
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		<title>A Video From My Church</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 22:59:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gilbert Purtee</dc:creator>
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		<title>Plank density</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 19:47:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>New Prize For You</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:48:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gilbert Purtee</dc:creator>
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		<title>New News?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:20:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gilbert Purtee</dc:creator>
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Another Barack Channel (ABC)
My Seriously New Barack Channel (MSNBC)
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>New Barack Channel (NBC)<br />
Another Barack Channel (ABC)<br />
My Seriously New Barack Channel (MSNBC)</p>
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		<title>Christian Love</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:56:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gilbert Purtee</dc:creator>
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&#160;22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,

&#160;23Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.

&#160;24And they that are Christ&#8217;s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.

&#160;25If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. (Galatians 5:22-25, King James Version)
D.L. Moody:
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<p>&nbsp;<sup class="versenum" id="bg_passage-29185">22</sup>But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
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<p>&nbsp;<sup class="versenum" id="bg_passage-29186">23</sup>Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
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<p>&nbsp;<sup class="versenum" id="bg_passage-29187">24</sup>And they that are Christ&#8217;s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.
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<p>&nbsp;<sup class="versenum" id="bg_passage-29188">25</sup>If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. (<a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Galatians+5%3A22-25&amp;version=KJV&amp;src=embed">Galatians 5:22-25</a>, <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/versions/King-James-Version-KJV-Bible/?src=embed">King James Version</a>)</p></blockquote>
<p><strong>D.L. Moody:</strong><br />
IT speaks in Galatians about love, the fruit of the Spirit being love, joy, peace, gentleness, long suffering, meekness and temperance. The way this writer has put it &#8212; and I think it is very beautiful &#8212; is that joy is love exultant, peace is love in repose, and long suffering is love enduring. It is all love, you see, a gentleness is love in society, and goodness is love in action, and faith is love on the battle-field, and meekness is love at school, and temperance is love in training.</p>
<p>Now there are a great many that have got love and they hold the truth. I should have said they have got truth, but they don&#8217;t hold it in love, and they are very unsuccessful in working for God. They are very harsh, and God cannot use them. Now let us hold the truth, but let us hold it in love. People will stand almost any kind of plain talk if you only do it in love. If you do it in harshness it bounds back and they won&#8217;t receive it. So what we want is to have the truth and at the same time hold it in love.</p>
<p>Then there is another class of people in the world that have got the truth, but they love so much that they give up the truth because they are afraid it will hurt some one&#8217;s feelings. That is wrong. We want the whole truth anyway. We don&#8217;t want to give it up, but hold it in love, and I believe one reason why people think God don&#8217;t love them is because they have not this love. I met a lady in the inquiry-room today, and I could not convince her that God loved her, for she said that if He did love her He would not treat her as He had. And I believe people are all measuring God with their own rule, as I said the other day, and we are not sincere in our love, and we very often profess something we really don&#8217;t possess. Very often we profess to have love for a person when we do not, and we think God is like us.</p>
<p>Now God is just what He says He is, and He wants His children to be sincere in love; not to love just merely in word and in tongue, but to love in earnest. -That is what God does. You ask me why God loves. You might as well ask me why the sun shines. It can&#8217;t help shining, and neither can He help loving, because He is love Himself; and any one that says He is not love does not know anything about love. If we have got the true love of God shed abroad in our hearts we will show it in our lives. We will not have to go up and down the earth proclaiming it. We will show it in everything we say or do.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.biblebelievers.com/moody_sermons/m20.html">Read full sermon HERE</a></p>
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		<title>Hmmm</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:02:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gilbert Purtee</dc:creator>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 17:46:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gilbert Purtee</dc:creator>
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		<title>Intimate Prayer</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 22:24:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gilbert Purtee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the most intimate activities you can share as a couple is prayer. When you talk to God together, sharing your most private thoughts, prayer becomes a team effort and you bond spiritually. Collaborative prayer unites the marriage partners into a unified voice, powerfully merging your marriage dreams, concerns and requests.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One of the most intimate activities you can share as a couple is prayer. When you talk to God together, sharing your most private thoughts, prayer becomes a team effort and you bond spiritually. Collaborative prayer unites the marriage partners into a unified voice, powerfully merging your marriage dreams, concerns and requests.</p>
<p>Prayer is about listening too. Somehow combined prayer creates a heightened sensitivity to God&#8217;s activity in our marriage. We are in sync with God&#8217;s leadings in our lives. At first, praying together isn&#8217;t a comfortable thing to do. For most of us, prayer is a very private activity. Disclosing your most personal thoughts to another person — even your spouse — is not easy. Here are some suggestions:</p>
<p>* Until both of you feel comfortable praying, one of you might want to take the lead.<br />
* Decide in advance what you need to pray about. Remember the &#8220;ACTS&#8221; model: Adoration [worship], Confession, Thanksgiving and Supplication [Requests]. Of course you don&#8217;t need to hit on all of these.<br />
* As a guide, try writing out your prayers first.</p>
<p>From:<a href="http://www.marriageintimacy.com/spiritual-intimacy-in-marriage.htm"> </a><span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.marriageintimacy.com/spiritual-intimacy-in-marriage.htm">spiritual intimacy in marriage</a></span></p>
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		<title>The Profession</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 19:15:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gilbert Purtee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An old country preacher&#8230;..had a  teenage son, and it was getting time the boy should give some thought to  choosing a profession.  Like many young Men his age, the boy didn&#8217;t really know  what he wanted to do, and he didn&#8217;t seem too concerned about it.
One  day, while the boy was [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="yiv1164179647"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: #000000; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-size: x-small;"><strong><span style="background: white; color: black;">An old country preacher&#8230;..had a  teenage son, and it was getting time the boy should give some thought to  choosing a profession.  Like many young Men his age, the boy didn&#8217;t really know  what he wanted to do, and he didn&#8217;t seem too concerned about it.</p>
<p>One  day, while the boy was away at school, his father decided to try an experiment.  He went into the boy&#8217;s room and placed on his study table four objects.</p>
<p>1. A Bible&#8230;..?</p>
<p>2. A silver dollar&#8230;..?</p>
<p>3. A bottle of  whiskey&#8230;..?</p>
<p>4. And a Playboy magazine&#8230;..?</p>
<p>&#8216;I&#8217;ll just hide  behind the door,&#8217; the old preacher said to himself. &#8216;When he comes home from  school today, I&#8217;ll see which object he picks up.</p>
<p>If it&#8217;s the Bible, he&#8217;s  going to be a preacher like me, and what a blessing that would be!</p>
<p>If he  picks up the dollar, he&#8217;s going to be a business man, and that would be okay,  too.</p>
<p>But if he picks up the bottle, he&#8217;s going to be a no-good drunken  bum, and Lord, what a shame that would be.</p>
<p>And worst of all if he picks  up that magazine he&#8217;s going to be a skirt-chasing womanizer.&#8217;</p>
<p>The old  man waited anxiously, and soon heard his son&#8217;s foot-steps as he entered the  house whistling and headed for his room.</p>
<p>The boy tossed his books on the  bed, and as he turned to leave the room he spotted the objects on the table..</p>
<p>With curiosity in his eye, he walked over to inspect them. Finally, he  picked up the Bible and placed it under his arm. He picked up the silver dollar  and dropped into his pocket.  He uncorked the bottle and took a big drink, while  he admired this month&#8217;s centerfold.</p>
<p>&#8216;Oh Lord have mercy,&#8217; the old  preacher disgustedly whispered,</p>
<p>&#8216;He&#8217;s gonna run for Congress!&#8217; </span></strong></span></span></span></span></div>
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		<title>CREATION</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 05:11:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gilbert Purtee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A man said to his wife one day, &#8216;I don&#8217;t know how you can be so stupid and so beautiful all at the same time. &#8216;The wife responded, &#8216;Allow me to explain. God made me beautiful so you would be attracted to me; God made me stupid so I would be attracted to you! 
Those [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A man said to his wife one day, &#8216;I don&#8217;t know how you can be so stupid and so beautiful all at the same time. &#8216;The wife responded, &#8216;Allow me to explain. God made me beautiful so you would be attracted to me; God made me stupid so I would be attracted to you! </p>
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		<title>Anger</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 22:18:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gilbert Purtee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Because it is based on an exaggeration, anger is an unrealistic mind.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>Because it is based on an exaggeration, anger is an unrealistic mind.</p></blockquote>
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		<title>A Dream Of Gib</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 14:12:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gilbert Purtee</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[gold]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I created this little graphic myself&#8230; for myself.

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I created this little graphic myself&#8230; for myself.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-202" title="Golden Throne" src="http://bigdadgib.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/Golden-Throne.png" alt="Golden Throne" width="400" height="400" /></p>
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