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		<title>I&#8217;m A Locksmith&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://truetech.org/2011/01/im-a-locksmith/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Jan 2011 00:29:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brad</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; and I&#8217;m a locksmith.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8230; and I&#8217;m a locksmith.</p>
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		<title>Cheap iPhone!</title>
		<link>http://truetech.org/2010/10/cheap-iphone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Oct 2010 01:29:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brad</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just got this email: Hey，good news! I ordered one Apple iPhone 3GS 32GB from this website www.genuine188.com one weeks ago, today I&#8217;ve got it . Amazing,beyond my imagination, it&#8217;s genuine and as good as expected,but much cheaper. I&#8217;m pleased to share &#8230; <a href="http://truetech.org/2010/10/cheap-iphone/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Just got this email:</p>
<blockquote><p>Hey，good news!<br />
I ordered one Apple iPhone 3GS 32GB from this website www.genuine188.com one weeks ago, today I&#8217;ve got it . Amazing,beyond my imagination, it&#8217;s genuine and as good as expected,but much cheaper. I&#8217;m pleased to share this good news with you! May all goes well for you.</p>
<div>Best regards.<br />
03w44</div>
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<p>Seems legit. And to think it was only ordered one weeks ago!</p>
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		<title>The “Run Like A Dog” Workout</title>
		<link>http://truetech.org/2010/10/the-run-like-a-dog-workout/</link>
		<comments>http://truetech.org/2010/10/the-run-like-a-dog-workout/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Oct 2010 17:30:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brad</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[fitness]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The &#8220;Run Like a Dog&#8221; Workout: (Including Warmup and Cooldown) Walk 8 seconds. Trot 4 seconds. Stop. Sniff. Sprint 7 seconds. Freeze. Walk 5 seconds in any direction but forward. Stare 9 seconds. Lunge at rabbit. Double back, walk 3 &#8230; <a href="http://truetech.org/2010/10/the-run-like-a-dog-workout/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The &#8220;Run Like a Dog&#8221; Workout:</p>
<p>(Including Warmup and Cooldown)<br />
Walk 8 seconds.<br />
Trot 4 seconds.<br />
Stop.<br />
Sniff.<br />
Sprint 7 seconds.<br />
Freeze.<br />
Walk 5 seconds in any direction but forward.<br />
Stare 9 seconds.<br />
Lunge at rabbit.<br />
Double back, walk 3 seconds.<br />
Urinate.<br />
Repeat 6 times.<br />
Collapse on rug.</p>
<p>From <a href="http://www.runnersworld.com/article/1,7124,s6-238-267--13385-0,00.html?cm_mmc=Active-_-Dont Blow It Now-_-Article-_-A Few Rules To Run By RL">Runners&#8217; World</a>.</p>
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		<title>Best Movie Trailer Ever</title>
		<link>http://truetech.org/2010/05/best-movie-trailer-ever/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 03:03:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brad</dc:creator>
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		<title>Best 419 Scam Email</title>
		<link>http://truetech.org/2010/01/best-419-scam-email/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 15:10:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brad</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the best 419 scam email I&#8217;ve ever received. I&#8217;m so glad my spam filter didn&#8217;t catch it. Bonus points for an original take on a cliched genre. Email follow in its entirety. &#8212;&#8212; INTERNATIONAL POLICE AUTHORITY UNITED STATES &#8230; <a href="http://truetech.org/2010/01/best-419-scam-email/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is the best 419 scam email I&#8217;ve ever received. I&#8217;m so glad my spam filter didn&#8217;t catch it. Bonus points for an original take on a cliched genre. Email follow in its entirety.<br />
&#8212;&#8212;</p>
<p>INTERNATIONAL POLICE AUTHORITY UNITED STATES SECTION (IPA)<br />
Region No. 2 New York City<br />
P.O. Box 804 Knickerbocker Station<br />
New York City, New York 10002-0804 USA</p>
<p>We, office of the international police authority (IPA) hereby write to inform you that we caught a diplomatic lady called Mrs. Vernon Wallace at (John F Kennedy International Airport) here in New York with a consignment box filed with United State Dollars.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, base on our interview to the diplomat she said that the consignment box belongs to you, that she was sent by one Williams I. Luis to deliver the consignment box to your doorstep not knowing that the content of the box is money. The diplomat also said that her first transit in the state was at Cincinnati Northern Kentucky International Airport Ohio.</p>
<p>Now, the diplomat is under detention in the office of (IPA) security, and we cannot release her until we carry out our proper investigation on how this huge amount of money managed to be yours before we will release her with the box.. So, in this regards you are to reassure and prove to us that the money you are about to receive is legal by sending us the Award Ownership Certificate showing that the money is not illegal. </p>
<p>Note, that the Award Ownership Certificate must to be secured from the office of the senate president in Nigeria, because that is the only office that will issue you the original Award Ownership Certificate of this funds, this is because the fund originated from Nigeria</p>
<p>You are advised to forward immediately the Award Ownership Certificate if you have it with you, but if you did not have it we will urge you to contact back the sender of the diplomat to help you secure the Award Ownership Certificate if at all you did not have it.</p>
<p>Below is the contact information of the person that sent the diplomat: </p>
<p>Name: Williams I. Luis </p>
<p>Email: williamluis60@yahoo.com </p>
<p>Phone: +23480-88-926-727 </p>
<p>Furthermore, we are giving you only but 3 working business days to forward the requested Award Ownership Certificate. Please note that we shall get back to you after the 3 working business days, that if you didn’t come up with the certificate we shall confiscate the funds into World Bank account then charge you for money laundering, but if you forward the Award Ownership Certificate then we will release diplomat with your consignment box also gives you every back up on the money.</p>
<p>Thanks for your understanding and co-operation </p>
<p>Yours Truly,<br />
I.P.A REGION NO:2 </p>
<p>DCP. DOUGLAS H. KING </p>
<p>Cc: FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION (FBI). </p>
<p>Cc: CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY (CIA).</p>
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		<title>My Son, Future CEO Of Apple</title>
		<link>http://truetech.org/2009/12/my-son-future-ceo-of-apple/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 02:25:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brad</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I came home from work to find my son wearing blue jeans and a black mock turtleneck, looking for all the world like a very young Steve Jobs. This, of course, prompted my wife and me to take the following &#8230; <a href="http://truetech.org/2009/12/my-son-future-ceo-of-apple/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I came home from work to find my son wearing blue jeans and a black mock turtleneck, looking for all the world like a very young Steve Jobs. This, of course, prompted my wife and me to take the following photograph:</p>
<div id="attachment_1897" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 235px"><a href="http://truetech.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/little_steve_jobs.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-1897" title="Little Stevie Jobs" src="http://truetech.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/little_steve_jobs-225x300.jpg" alt="" width="225" height="300" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Little Stevie Jobs</p></div>
<p>Yeah, we may need to get out more.</p>
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		<title>Best &#8220;My Coke Rewards&#8221; Code Ever</title>
		<link>http://truetech.org/2009/07/best-my-coke-rewards-code-ever/</link>
		<comments>http://truetech.org/2009/07/best-my-coke-rewards-code-ever/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 01:56:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brad</dc:creator>
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		<title>Always Good To Know</title>
		<link>http://truetech.org/2009/06/always-good-to-know/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brad</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From The Onion.]]></description>
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<p>From <a href="http://www.theonion.com/content/news/dna_evidence_frees_man_from_zoo?utm_source=onion_rss_daily" target="_blank">The Onion</a>.</p>
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		<title>Pa. high school orders shot glasses as prom favors</title>
		<link>http://truetech.org/2009/05/pa-high-school-orders-shot-glasses-as-prom-favors/</link>
		<comments>http://truetech.org/2009/05/pa-high-school-orders-shot-glasses-as-prom-favors/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 14:42:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brad</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m always so proud to be both (1) from Central Pennsylvania and (2) working in K12 education. From the local education news: A Pennsylvania high school ordered more than 450 shot glasses for its prom, a move the assistant principal now says sent the &#8230; <a href="http://truetech.org/2009/05/pa-high-school-orders-shot-glasses-as-prom-favors/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m always so proud to be both (1) from Central Pennsylvania and (2) working in K12 education. From the <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090509/ap_on_fe_st/us_odd_prom_shot_glasses" target="_blank">local education news</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>A <span id="lw_1241878618_0" class="yshortcuts">Pennsylvania high school</span> ordered more than 450 <span id="lw_1241878618_1" class="yshortcuts">shot glasses</span> for its prom, a move the assistant principal now says sent the wrong message.</p></blockquote>
<p>There&#8217;s failure&#8230; and then there&#8217;s epic failure.</p>
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		<title>Happy Mother&#8217;s Day</title>
		<link>http://truetech.org/2009/05/happy-mothers-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 15:43:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brad</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Slightly off-color, but still funny.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Slightly off-color, <a title="Mother's Day" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhcA4Ry65FU&amp;eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Efacebook%2Ecom%2Fhome%2Ephp%3Fref%3Dlogo&amp;feature=player_embedded" target="_blank">but still funny</a>.</p>
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		<title>In Honor Of Saint Patrick&#8217;s Day</title>
		<link>http://truetech.org/2009/03/in-honor-of-saint-patricks-day/</link>
		<comments>http://truetech.org/2009/03/in-honor-of-saint-patricks-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brad</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pure awesome:]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Pure awesome:<br />
<object width="445" height="364"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/OCbuRA_D3KU&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;color1=0x3a3a3a&#038;color2=0x999999&#038;border=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/OCbuRA_D3KU&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;color1=0x3a3a3a&#038;color2=0x999999&#038;border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="445" height="364"></embed></object></p>
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		<title>96 Percent Seems Low</title>
		<link>http://truetech.org/2009/03/96-percent-seems-low/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brad</dc:creator>
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		<title>Colon</title>
		<link>http://truetech.org/2009/01/colon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brad</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You Are a Colon You are very orderly and fact driven. You aren&#8217;t concerned much with theories or dreams&#8230; only what&#8217;s true or untrue. You are brilliant and incredibly learned. Anything you know is well researched. You like to make &#8230; <a href="http://truetech.org/2009/01/colon/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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You are very orderly and fact driven.<br />
You aren&#8217;t concerned much with theories or dreams&#8230; only what&#8217;s true or untrue.</p>
<p>You are brilliant and incredibly learned. Anything you know is well researched.<br />
You like to make lists and sort through things step by step. You aren&#8217;t subject to whim or emotions.</p>
<p>Your friends see you as a constant source of knowledge and advice.<br />
(But they are a little sick of you being right all of the time!)</p>
<p>You excel in: Leadership positions</p>
<p>You get along best with: The Semi-Colon<br />
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		<title>Message From The Queen</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To the citizens of the United States of America from Her Sovereign Majesty Queen Elizabeth II In light of your failure in recent years to nominate competent candidates for President of the USA and thus to govern yourselves, we hereby &#8230; <a href="http://truetech.org/2008/10/message-from-the-queen/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><b>To the citizens of the United States of America from Her Sovereign Majesty Queen Elizabeth II</b></p>
<p><img src="http://truetech.org/images/BuckyMakeTheSwitch.jpg" alt="" style="float: right; margin: 2px 2px 2px 2px" border="0" />In light of your failure in recent years to nominate competent candidates for President of the USA and thus to govern yourselves, we hereby give notice of the revocation of your independence, effective immediately. (You should look up ‘revocation’ in the Oxford English Dictionary.) Her Sovereign Majesty Queen Elizabeth II will resume monarchical duties over all states, commonwealths, and territories (except Kansas, which she does not fancy).</p>
<p>Your new Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, will appoint a Governor for America without the need for further elections.</p>
<p>Congress and the Senate will be disbanded.</p>
<p>A questionnaire may be circulated next year to determine whether any of you noticed.</p>
<p>To aid in the transition to a British Crown Dependency, the following rules are introduced with immediate effect:</p>
<p>1. Then look up aluminium, and check the pronunciation guide. You will be amazed at just how wrongly you have been pronouncing it.</p>
<p>2. The letter ‘U’ will be reinstated in words such as ‘colour’, ‘favour’ and ‘neighbour.’ Likewise, you will learn to spell ‘doughnut’ with out skipping half the letters, and the suffix ‘-ize’ will be replaced by the suffix ‘-ise’. Generally, you will be expected to raise your vocabulary to acceptable levels. (Look up ‘vocabulary’)</p>
<p>3. Using the same twenty-seven words interspersed with filler noises such as ‘like’ and ‘you know’ is an unacceptable and inefficient form of communication. There is no such thing as US English. We will let Microsoft know on your behalf. The Microsoft spell-checker will be adjusted to take account of the reinstated letter ‘u’ and the elimination of -ize.</p>
<p>4. July 4th will no longer be celebrated as a holiday.</p>
<p>5. You will learn to resolve personal issues without using guns, lawyers, or therapists. The fact that you need so many lawyers and therapists shows that you’re not quite ready to be independent. Guns should only be used for shooting grouse. If you can’t sort things out without suing someone or speaking to a therapist then you’re not ready to shoot grouse.</p>
<p>6. Therefore, you will no longer be allowed to own or carry anything more dangerous than a vegetable peeler. A permit will be required if you wish to carry a vegetable peeler in public.</p>
<p>7. All intersections will be replaced with roundabouts, and you will start driving on the left with immediate effect. At the same time, you will go metric with immediate effect and without the benefit of conversion tables.<br />
Both roundabouts and metrication will help you understand the British sense of humour.</p>
<p>8. The Former USA will adopt UK prices on petrol (which you have been calling gasoline)-roughly $10/US gallon. Get used to it.</p>
<p>9. You will learn to make real chips. Those things you call French fries are not real chips, and those things you insist on calling potato chips are properly called crisps. Real chips are thick cut, fried in animal fat, and dressed not with catsup but with vinegar.</p>
<p>10. The cold tasteless stuff you insist on calling beer is not actually beer at all. Henceforth, only proper British Bitter will be referred to as beer, and European brews of known and accepted provenance will be referred to as Lager. South African beer is also acceptable as they are pound for pound the greatest sporting Nation on earth and it can only be due to the beer. They are also part of British Commonwealth &#8211; see what it did for them. American brands will be referred to as Near-Frozen Gnat’s Urine, so that all can be sold without risk of further confusion.</p>
<p>11. Hollywood will be required occasionally to cast English actors as good guys. Hollywood will also be required to cast English actors to play English characters. Watching Andie Macdowell attempt English dialogue in Four Weddings and a Funeral was an experience akin to having one’s ears removed with a cheese grater.</p>
<p>12. You will cease playing American football. There is only one kind of proper football; you call it soccer. Those of you brave enough will, in time, be allowed to play rugby (which has some similarities to American football, but does not involve stopping for a rest every twenty seconds or wearing full kevlar body Armour like a bunch of nancies). Don’t try Rugby &#8211; the South Africans and Kiwis will thrash you, like they regularly thrash us.</p>
<p>13. Further, you will stop playing baseball. It is not reasonable to host an event called the World Series for a game which is not played outside of America. Since only 2.1% of you are aware that there is a world beyond your borders, your error is understandable. You will learn cricket, and we will let you face the South Africans first to take the sting out of their deliveries.</p>
<p>14. You must tell us who killed JFK. It’s been driving us mad.</p>
<p>15. An internal revenue agent (i.e. tax collector) from Her Majesty’s Government will be with you shortly to ensure the acquisition of all monies due (backdated to 1776).</p>
<p>16. Daily Tea Time begins promptly at 4 pm with proper cups, with saucers, and never mugs, with high quality biscuits (cookies) and cakes; plus strawberries (with cream) when in season.</p>
<p>God Save the Queen</p>
<p><i>Original source unknown, but this was sent to my department by our secretary, who, as you may assume, is English, and quite a hoot about it.</i></p>
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		<title>The Number One Threat To America</title>
		<link>http://truetech.org/2008/09/the-number-one-threat-to-america/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Best Practices</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Submitted without comment. Hat tip: Bill.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Submitted without comment.</p>
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<p>Hat tip: <a href="http://users.lmf.net/billf/Blog" target="_blank">Bill</a>.</p>
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		<title>Quite A News Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wow, today&#8217;s one of those news days that money can&#8217;t buy. In Vacaville, California, a man found a pit bull in his car. In the engine. Yeah. Picture here. That&#8217;s pretty odd, I&#8217;d say. And in my own hometown of &#8230; <a href="http://truetech.org/2008/05/quite-a-news-day/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wow, today&#8217;s one of those news days that money can&#8217;t buy.</p>
<p><img src="http://truetech.org/images/satchelhmm.jpg" alt="" style="float: left; margin: 2px 2px 2px 2px" border="0" />In Vacaville, California, a man found a pit bull in his car. In the <a href="http://www.wgal.com/automotive/16182653/detail.html" target="_blank">engine</a>. Yeah. <a href="http://www.wgal.com/slideshow/automotive/16182656/detail.html" target="_blank">Picture here</a>. That&#8217;s pretty odd, I&#8217;d say.</p>
<p>And in my own hometown of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, the 600 block of South Queen Street has been shutdown by a spill. What spilled? <a href="http://www.wgal.com/news/16190573/detail.html?rss=lan&#038;psp=news#" target="_blank">Vegetable oil</a>. I&#8217;m just picturing all the cards skidding around the road, sliding in the oil. In my mind, one driver finally gets out of his car, only to slip in the oil and fall hilariously.</p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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