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		<title>Poetic Art Opening!!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:42:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Kirkpatrick</dc:creator>
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		<title>Second Annual Yellow Ribbon fundraising event &#8211; Poetic Art!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 21:25:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Kirkpatrick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hello, After Mick O&#8217;Sheas&#8217; great success last year now Marti and I are very pleased to announce the next fundraiser for the Yellow Ribbon Fund in remembrance of our son, Sgt. Scott Kirkpatrick. As many of you know, Scott did Slam poetry for several years and won the DC Slam Poet Championship in 2000.  He performed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pickupthepen.com&blog=2088969&post=231&subd=pickupthepen&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Yet, Another Sign of the Apocalypse</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 12:15:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Kirkpatrick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The great British chocolate maker has offshored to China the production of its great chocolate&#8230;..  I quote: Hong Kong&#8217;s food safety agency said samples of two chocolate products made by British candy maker Cadbury at its Beijing factory contained considerably more melamine than the city&#8217;s legal limit of 2.5 parts per million. The two items [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pickupthepen.com&blog=2088969&post=201&subd=pickupthepen&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dear Senators Mikulski and Cardin&#8230;.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 13:48:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Kirkpatrick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Senators Mikulski and Cardin, I write to urge you to vote against the bill before the Senate that will grant immunity to the Telecommunications companies for violating our civil rights at the request of the Bush Administration. As a Gold Star Parent, I am incensed that the President and Vice-President regularly violate the very protections [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pickupthepen.com&blog=2088969&post=33&subd=pickupthepen&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>YRF Fundraising Event in honor of Scott Kirkpatrick</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 03:46:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Kirkpatrick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Be sure to read the comments for updated information! Dear Friends and Family, Forgive me if you&#8217;ve received this bulletin more than once, but we&#8217;re doing what we can to reach as many people as possible. That being said, please feel free to pass the word. As most of you know our son, Sgt Scott [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pickupthepen.com&blog=2088969&post=34&subd=pickupthepen&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>WD-40, Bounce and Snopes.com</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 15:11:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Kirkpatrick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I received from a friend another of those emails we all get from our friends on the net, this one was about the merits and miracles of the ubiquitous WD-40. We all know what WD-40 is but this note was passed on through who knows how many folks who thought it to be essential [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pickupthepen.com&blog=2088969&post=32&subd=pickupthepen&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What should they read?  Bill Moyers asks&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://pickupthepen.com/2008/02/06/what-should-they-read-bill-moyers-asks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2008 14:42:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Kirkpatrick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you haven’t yet had a chance to watch Bill Moyers’ Journal on PBS, I suggest that you find some way. It’s not your usual talking heads show, he never screams at people or calls them bad names and it’s certainly not FAUX News. There is a wide variety of topics and guests, always current, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pickupthepen.com&blog=2088969&post=31&subd=pickupthepen&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An end in sight, a beginning again.</title>
		<link>http://pickupthepen.com/2008/01/20/an-end-in-sight-a-beginning-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jan 2008 18:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Kirkpatrick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In just 365 days, one year from now, on January 20, 2009, at 12:00 Noon, we will be listening to the Inaugural Address of our newest President. Our Nation’s very worst presidency will have come to an end. No matter who is elected this November, he or she cannot be worse in any way than [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pickupthepen.com&blog=2088969&post=29&subd=pickupthepen&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Best Buy?&#8230;.. Bye-bye</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jan 2008 16:38:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Kirkpatrick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why is it that that something as simple and basic to good business, customer satisfaction, no longer matters? How is it that awareness of its importance to business success is lost on those who run these large companies? With the Wal-Mart’ing of America and the death of Main street mom and pop shops and the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pickupthepen.com&blog=2088969&post=28&subd=pickupthepen&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Annoying Keyboarding</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2008 01:04:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Kirkpatrick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have not written much lately for a novel reason. I have a new keyboard that I hate and can&#8217;t get used to it. It is a Logitech MX3200 in addition to being a pain in the patootie. I spend most of my time backspacing mistypes. I can&#8217;t figure out why this is, but I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pickupthepen.com&blog=2088969&post=26&subd=pickupthepen&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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