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	<title>Robin 'Roblimo' Miller's Personal Web Site</title>
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		<title>Preparing to Build Florida&#8217;s First Earthship Home</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Contractor Bryan Roberts is building Florida&#8217;s first Earthship right here in Manatee County &#8212; and if you&#8217;re a college student (or have part of this summer free, anyway), you can participate in a Greencamp and learn the ins and outs of Earthship building yourself.

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		<link>http://www.roblimo.com/node/329</link>
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		<title>Manatee County Commission Candidate Gabriele Boecker (video)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(Recorded at the April 28, 2008 meeting of the Manatee-Sarasota Democratic Black Caucus) 
It&#8217;s nice &#8212; and not nearly usual enough - to have electable Democrats run for local office around here!
																												
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		<link>http://www.roblimo.com/node/328</link>
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		<title>Strangest phone solicitation in a long time</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t get many telemarketing calls. I&#8217;m on every &#8220;do not call&#8221; list in existence, plus I use a Verizon service that intercepts phone calls from numbers with Caller ID disabled. But this call had a legitimate-looking number and name &#8212; &#8220;Intel Gateway, 538-6316&#8243; attached to it, and since I write about technology and often [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.roblimo.com/node/327</link>
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		<title>Obama is a Better Manager than Clinton or McCain</title>
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One thing I look at when evaluating candidates for high office is how they manage their campaigns. I am not talking about ideology here, but about personnel turnover and &#8212; even more important &#8212; fiscal responsibility. So far, Barack Obama scores high on both fronts, and his opponents have done rather poorly. I don&#8217;t know [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.roblimo.com/node/326</link>
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		<title>Richard Jackson for Florida House District # 67 (video)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Richard Jackson is running for the Florida legislature in house district 67. He&#8217;s a Democrat and he has two PhDs. His opponent (incumbent) is one of the party-line Republicans who helped make Florida the mess it is today. We need to get more people like Richard into our legislature!
																											
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		<link>http://www.roblimo.com/node/325</link>
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		<title>Rev. Jeremiah Wright and my presidential vote</title>
		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s it! This man is nuts. There is totally no way I&#8217;m going to vote for Rev. Wright as our next president.  Of course, I still might very well vote for Barack Obama, even thought it seems that no, he really can&#8217;t bowl very well. Face it: Barack Obama  has some nutsy friends. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.roblimo.com/node/324</link>
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		<title>How many Bear Stearns executives are losing their homes?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An old joke: The stockbroker takes a prospective client down to the marina and points out a row of gleaming high-end boats. &#8220;Those are the brokers&#8217; yachts,&#8221; he says. The prospective client asks, &#8220;And where are the customers&#8217; yachts.&#8221; 
Now Bear Stearns is being &#8220;rescued&#8221; by a taxpayer-backed forced merger with JPMorgan Chase. Bear Stearns [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.roblimo.com/node/323</link>
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		<title>Housing Economics 101</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was reading an article in the New York Times (free registration required to read) this morning about how the housing market is crashing not just in the U.S. but all over the world.  And I was thinking, &#8220;Well, that makes the U.S. look a little less dumb in comparison to everyone else.&#8221; But [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.roblimo.com/node/322</link>
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		<title>Poetry Slam, April 4, 2008 @ The Village Bookshop, Bradenton Florida (video)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This video totally goes against the &#8220;shorter is better&#8221; rule of online video. It&#8217;s somewhat over an hour long. But it&#8217;s also the only full-length record of the  2nd Annual Village of the Arts Poetry Slam, held at The Village Bookshop in honor of National Poetry Month. I don&#8217;t think many people are going [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.roblimo.com/node/321</link>
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		<title>Dueling headlines about Anna Maria Island bridge rebuild</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Islanders stand against tall bridge &#8212; Sarasota Herald-Tribune

Island residents back high-rise AMI Bridge &#8212; Bradenton Herald
That&#8217;s right, folks. Somebody got it wrong, didn&#8217;t they?
In this case, I&#8217;d say the Bradenton Herald is the one that got the story right. Their piece included hard numbers from the Florida DOT survey about Anna Maria Island bridge preferences, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.roblimo.com/node/320</link>
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