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            <title>Thank You Senator Franken!!!</title>
            <description>Dear Senator Franken, 
 
Thank you so much for taking on Haliburton and other contractors and helping to end the violence against women. You are the Vagina Warrior of the month! And, you&#039;re a big enough man to be proud of the title. 
 
It isn&#039;t often that politicians follow through in a timely fashion with their campaign promises. I ALWAYS had faith in you and I&#039;m happy to say that I sent you all of my spending money for four months as campaign donations ... it was worth every penney and I&#039;m happy to say that you are the only politician to see a donation check from me. Many, many people believe in you and your integrity, so thank you for fighting the good fight. With Peace and all good wishes. 
LL</description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 00:44:02 EDT</pubDate>
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            <dc:creator>Orca G.</dc:creator>
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            <title>War on drugs?</title>
            <description>I often wonder why we spend so much time and money on stopping the distribution of marijuana, a relatively harmless natural herb, when we have tens of millions of our citizens taking multiple prescription pills every day; we seem to now have pills for every ailment and worry and it would appear that none of us can be &quot;well&quot; without taking some sort of prescription drugs. 
 
Perhaps we are all just guinea pigs for the drug companies ... Don&#039;t you wonder how doctors could possibly know the potential side effects of combining these powerful chemical compositions? Also, what sort of incentives does your health care provider receive for prescribing drugs? 
 
Furthermore, when folks order their prescription drugs through the mail, what kind of controls are there to assure quality of the drugs and that folks are receiving the correct medications? A drug distribution center in the wrong hands is truly a scary thought. 
 
I really hope that President-elect Obama can assure us that our drug supplies are safe because the federal watchdog agencies under the Cheney/Bush administration have certainly been corrupted and reduced to ineptitude at best.</description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 05:21:51 EST</pubDate>
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            <dc:creator>Orca G.</dc:creator>
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            <title>Some of my favorite quotes ...</title>
            <description>&quot;If might makes right, then Love has no place in this world.&quot; 
 
--from the movie &quot;The Mission&quot; 
 
 
&quot;The Soul selects its own society.&quot; 
 
--Emily Dickinson 
 
... 
 
But nature is a stranger yet;   
  The ones that cite her most   
Have never passed her haunted house, 
  Nor simplified her ghost.   
    
To pity those that know her not   
  Is helped by the regret   
That those who know her, know her less   
  The nearer her they get.  
 
--Emily Dickinson</description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2008 00:56:56 EST</pubDate>
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            <dc:creator>Orca G.</dc:creator>
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            <title>To understand how war affects your fellow citizens ...</title>
            <description>Jonathan Shay&#039;s books need to be read, Achilles In Vietnam and Odysseus in America ... Please read at least one of them. 
 
While visiting me in Bellingham, just before we invaded Iraq, a friend of mine from Austria said, &amp;quot;No one should be allowed to start a war who has not participated (on the front lines) in a war and seen the death up close.&amp;quot; Because he was a middle-aged Austrian, I took his words very seriously. 
 
Why did we allow Picasso&#039;s Guernica hanging in the U.N.&amp;nbsp;to be shrouded on the very day the Bush administration went to the U.N. to request a war? 
 
 
 
GUERNICA 
 
     I don&#039;t paint to decorate apartments. Painting  
     is an instrument of war.  --Pablo Picasso, 1937 
 
 
When the bombers came over, the startled air 
Began to vibrate, the earth began to shake. 
There are no bombs or planes in the finished work,  
Nothing about the scope of the massacre-- 
 
Only his drawings of pain-distorted figures: 
A dying horse, a long arm clutching a lamp, 
A bull unmoved by the grief of a pieta. 
More intense than those sepia photographs 
 
Sent from Spain by telephoto, that showed 
Bloodshed on the front page of Ce Soir, 
He caught forever the stark, unspeakable horror. 
 
He didn&#039;t need the bombs or planes or blood-- 
Only a canvas, twelve by twenty-four 
To illustrate the ravages of war.                         
 
--David George 
 
&quot;No one escapes the ravages of war behind closed doors.&quot;</description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 22:28:19 EST</pubDate>
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            <dc:creator>Orca G.</dc:creator>
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            <title>These are tough times, but We The People will overcome all challenges, if we choose to ...</title>
            <description>We have citizens from around the world and we have the capacity to change the world for the better for everyone. I am very hopeful. 
 
 
WASHINGTON&#039;S MONUMENT, 1985 
 
   Thou, Washington, art all the world&#039;s, the continents&#039; 
   entire--/ not yours alone, America. 
            --Walt Whitman, &quot;Washington&#039;s Monument, 1885&quot; 
 
 
This old marble, remote and monumental, 
That sways in its aging stone like a leaning tower, 
Will fall or soar. 
                            The narrow shaft of its spire 
Contains within itself the Elemental-- 
Lift and star-thrust, the Humming Invisible. 
 
Von Braun and Steinmetz understood the spark 
That drives a man to empty his mind, to fill 
Infinite space with thoughts made visible. 
 
And Washington, upon the Delaware, 
Didn&#039;t avoid the sight of those banked-fires-- 
Nor have the leaders after him, 
                                                   who find 
Their words and gestures recycled in other spheres-- 
Who do not measure their years on level ground, 
But balance--poised--on a planet between stars. 
 
--David George</description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 17:35:32 EST</pubDate>
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            <dc:creator>Orca G.</dc:creator>
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            <title>How to put a recession/depression into perspective ...</title>
            <description>without giving in to the politics of fear ... 
 
just imagine life in a different way ... 
 
as Pascal said: &quot;I shall have no more if I possess worlds, by thought I comprehend the universe.&quot; 
 
 
PINS AND WHEELS: A METAPHYSICAL 
 
Do stones in the crystal chambers of their souls 
Move without meaning in their molecules? 
Do even the smallest, the insignificant least-- 
Like dust on the tusk of the most revolting beast-- 
Detect in the flesh of the invisible 
A sense of purpose? 
 
                               If souls have knees that kneel, 
And stones have brains that calculate the cost 
Of energy, then even the busy flea-- 
Vastly underrated by the cat-- 
Plays a part in a delicate balancing act: 
The pins and wheels that keep the world afloat. 
 
Now when I feel the pitch and tilt of an ark 
That I have been riding too lightly in the dark, 
I praise the water flowing under my feet. 
 
--David George</description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 04:11:29 EST</pubDate>
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            <dc:creator>Orca G.</dc:creator>
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            <title>This fig walks into a bar and says, &quot;I&#039;ll be your huckelberry.&quot;</title>
            <description>On the battlefield, the oponnent had the guns and the powder, but the huckelberry had all the balls ... 
 
Poems below by David George: 
 
     RAINBOW 
 
     I saw a rainbow lift out of water and leap 
     Back into its origins. In one vast arc, 
     It cast a light that curved in falling back, 
     As if the sky were speaking to the deep 
     In mystical remarks. It spoke of hope: 
 
     The bright unraveling of what is bound 
     Between the flowing river and the ground. 
	 
     It spoke of things that swim in myth and sleep-- 
     Things rarely seen, things that began before 
     A rainbow came to illuminate in mist 
     The darker patterns of a valley floor. 
 
     I stood transfixed--a shadow in the grass-- 
     Thinking the thoughts of a child in a candy store 
     Who spends his penny on splendor and stained glass. 
 
 
THAT STAR 
 
Where is that star we steer by, that shaft of light 
Cold in the lens but tender in the heart? 
 
And if it has drifted, has it drifted far 
From where it flared upon the calendar? 
 
The wise men said it was a star in fact-- 
And not a question mark, as when they asked 
 
What searchlight probed the sky, what burning bright 
Caught fire in the straw of prophecy. 
 
Perhaps one night that star will reappear, 
Cast fire down, consolidate its light. 
 
Some say it will come to overpower the sky 
Or lie in wait, with wise and open eye-- 
As if, in being, it were enough to be 
A pinpoint on a vast periphery.</description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 15:19:24 EST</pubDate>
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            <dc:creator>Orca G.</dc:creator>
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            <title>Midwestern Values: Large and Small</title>
            <description>Midwestern values mean a lot to us Midwesterners of course, but it&#039;s hard to get a conversation going about what anyone values until we&#039;re about to lose it.  There is the inevitable conflict for lack of communication and soon things escalate into language about how someone &quot;just doesn&#039;t get it&quot;, or &quot;what we value here&quot; and &quot;that &#039;s not the way we do things!&quot;   
 
There&#039;s usually a measure of pain involved in talking about what we really value.   It&#039;s not that any of us can leave that way of understanding behind. Wherever we go it plagues us like a long drought, keeping us from standing too close to really good-looking people or laughing too loudly, or staying too long at a really good party. It has to do with early to bed and early to rise, getting enough fiber and washing our hands before every meal.  
 
There&#039;s something so wholesome ingrained in us that after a certain number of years of faux rebellion, we begin to wipe our shoes, hold doors for people, and shovel the nighbors&#039; drive. Or if we don&#039;t, we get gloomy and wonder why. It doesn&#039;t take long to realize it&#039;s because the dominant culture doesn&#039;t seem to care about what we care about.</description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 20:40:23 EDT</pubDate>
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            <dc:creator>LShores</dc:creator>
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            <title>Repiglican Hoglitics</title>
            <description>Not trying to sell these to y&#039;all -- but I&#039;ve been getting GREAT feedback on them from all over the nation and I thought just about everyone here might get a kick out of the new symbols and the slogans.   
 
What am I talking about?   
 
Meet the General, a five star pig, who&#039;s just arrived on 
the election battlefield to represent the shape of the post-GIPper 
Republican Party. He&#039;s brandishing a killer new acronym and he&#039;s loaded 
full boar with side splitting Republican campaign slogan ammo! 
 
(Slogans like... &quot;Together We Can Prevent Change,&quot; &quot;Together We Can Make Sure Our Troops NEVER Come Home,&quot; &quot;Vote Republican Or We&#039;ll Put You On The Terrorist List&quot; and dozens more!) 
 
See The General, read the campaign slogans, laugh til your belly aches and then laugh some more: 
http://www.cafepress.com/melhi/5786389 
 
Press Release (I need lots of clicks to make it into Google News, so if you like the piggies, maybe help me get them there with a click to the Press Release):  
http://www.prlog.org/10098848-new-symbol-for-todays-republican-party.html 
 
And...Me shamelessly trying to seduce Stephen into bringing me on the Colbert Report as a guest by waving a big juicy weiner in his face: 
http://melhi.blogspot.com 
 
 
Hope you enjoy!  :)    
Mel.</description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 23:41:43 EDT</pubDate>
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            <title>Bless you California Supreme Court justices</title>
            <description>During the campaign for California&#039;s Proposition 22 to ban gay marriages, my dear friend and former roommate, Clay Whitmer, and his best friend, Stuart Matis, both committed suicide. The hateful lobbying for this proposition caused them great pain in the weeks before they took their own lives.  
 
On Thursday morning, I was elated to hear that the mostly Republican-appointed justices had ruled that the ban on gay marriages was unconstitutional. After my initial euphoria, I decided to write a tribute and this is the working copy.  
 
 
 
In re MARRIAGE CASES 
California Supreme Court  
5/15/08 
 
-- For Clay and Stuart. Both of them left this life too soon 
 because they just could not take the hate anymore. 
 
 
I would have 
called Clay 
right away. 
He would have 
cried with relief 
shouted with joy 
blurted out a catty 
comment or two. 
Then, he would have 
called Stuart to celebrate. 
 
Clay hasn&#039;t had 
a phone number for 
nearly eight years.  
 
He left his number 
and his pain behind 
when he bought a gun, 
and rode the city bus to 
The Presidio. 
 
I imagine he 
found just the 
right spot before  
breathing one last 
huge sigh of relief 
one last blink before 
he ended the pain 
in a flash of light. 
 
Sometimes,  
good news 
comes too late 
making victory 
bittersweet. 
 
When will the bricks 
of judgment cease to fall 
on all the innocent souls?</description>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2008 16:29:27 EDT</pubDate>
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            <dc:creator>Orca G.</dc:creator>
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            <title>Ready for some football ...</title>
            <description>TRIBUTE TO THE NFL 
 
Helmeted warriors 
lined up 
shoulder-to-shoulder, 
frozen in coiled stances 
determined by position. 
 
Statues of rock-hard flesh, 
they crouch face-to-face, 
breathing fire and smoke 
across a thin, intense, scrimmage 
line of crackling air which 
narrowly divides the bellowing 
Bills and Browns who paw the grass 
as they wait for the QB 
to make the call. 
 
After the snap, 
warriors collide 
on the white-lined, 
green battlefield. 
Sweaty smoke wafts 
over the field 
of pounding flesh 
and piston tendons as 
Vikings and Buccaneers 
seek to steal the small, 
brown ball of treasure. 
 
War with minimal casualties, 
men on a complex mission, 
special forces dominating the field, 
massive hits in the trenches 
peopled by Packers and Steelers. 
 
Patriots and Raiders exchange 
grenades of passion, of fanaticism, 
that explode in the battle 
To Protect vs. To Sack  
the Quarterback King. 
 
Yet we get a ballet passing game, 
complete with men in tight, shiny, pants-- 
aerial acrobats, sure-handed 
contortionists defying gravity-- 
who catch pigskin missiles 
fired from rocket arms. 
 
Jaguar cornerbacks stalk 
sleek Panther receivers. 
Air battles ensue between 
high-flying Falcons and Eagles 
while Seahawks stun Ravens 
with mid-air miracles, 
and Saints flutter right by Jets  
propelled by high-octane breaths. 
 
Some of these men 
are mountains, true Titans, 
Giants in the midst of battle 
when they clash in movable, 
x and o coach-scripted trenches. 
Crashing helmets create thunder 
as Cardinals and 49ers see red all around 
and Chargers and Rams collide 
in bone-crunching bursts. 
 
Texans and Cowboys shoot it out, 
then try to tame kicking Colts and Broncos-- 
stallions battling for the right to lead  
the herd to Super-hallowed ground. 
Meanwhile, Chiefs and Redskins 
struggle for tribal supremacy, 
and Dolphins surf the waves 
of cacophonic crowd surges. 
 
Because of The Rules 
the Zebras are able  
to keep order among 
the Lions and Bengals and Bears 
and all other beasts on the field. 
 
Some call it fast chess, 
some never know what hit them, 
their primal screams drowned out 
by the crowd of basic instincts.</description>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2008 16:22:37 EDT</pubDate>
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            <dc:creator>Orca G.</dc:creator>
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            <title>We Action Team</title>
            <description>I&#039;ve signed up for the We Campaign because I believe that by working together, we can solve the climate crisis. Will you join me? Just click on the link below to sign up and add your voice to the million-plus call for an end to global warming 
 
www.wecansolveit.org/join 
 
The We Campaign is an effort launched by Al Gore and the Alliance for Climate Protection to promote solutions to the climate crisis. It&#039;s an urgent issue, but the climate crisis is also solvable if we work together and unite our leaders around solutions like renewable power and enhanced energy efficiency. We can leave the next generation a healthy climate. 
 
Once you have joined the We campaign, think about creating an account on My Community and join the We Action Team: 
 
http://www.wecansolveit.org/page/group/WeActionTeam</description>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 26 Apr 2008 12:09:03 EDT</pubDate>
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            <dc:creator>Asher</dc:creator>
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            <title>We Can Solve It</title>
            <description>I&#039;ve signed up for the We Campaign because I believe that by working together, we can solve the climate crisis. Will you join me? Just click on the link below to sign up and add your voice to the million-plus call for an end to global warming 
 
www.wecansolveit.org/join 
 
The We Campaign is an effort launched by Al Gore and the Alliance for Climate Protection to promote solutions to the climate crisis. It&#039;s an urgent issue, but the climate crisis is also solvable if we work together and unite our leaders around solutions like renewable power and enhanced energy efficiency. We can leave the next generation a healthy climate. Please add your voice by joining the We Campaign today: 
 
www.wecansolveit.org/join</description>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 26 Apr 2008 12:07:20 EDT</pubDate>
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            <title>Asher Speaks Live</title>
            <description>My name is Asher Heimermann and I am the host of a live internet radio broadcast show called &quot;Asher Speaks Live&quot;. My show brings; authors, elected officials, candidates, and local celebrities &quot;on air&quot; as special guests to talk about their life and current events. 
 
Asher Speaks Live attracts about 200 and 300 listeners each month. We discuss the latest national and political news as well as topics such as; news, sports, weather, and much more. Asher Speaks Live is a new innovative approach. 
 
Noted guests on Asher Speaks Live include Larry Nelson, George Phillies, Kat Swift, and Judy Stock, just to name a few. 
 
Archives of Asher Speaks Live can also be heard on my official website that is located at www.asherheimermann.com as well as my profile on MySpace, which can be found at www.myspace.com/aheimermann. 
 
Please feel free to contact me for more information or to inquire about booking to be a special guest on the Asher Speaks Live radio program. You are welcome to visit my website to learn more about me and my radio show. 
 
 
Mr. Asher Heimermann 
asher@asherheimermann.com 
http://www.asherheimermann.com 
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/asher</description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 09:51:46 EDT</pubDate>
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            <title>My Pick for President</title>
            <description>I have officially endorsed Senator Barack Obama. I have posted my endorsement on my blog, which is is located at www.ASHERHEIMERMANN.com and click on Blog. 
 
Please feel free to comment on the endorsement and to vote for the Senator in the 2008 Presidential Poll that is on the right side of the blog. 
 
If you have any questions, please e-mail me at asher@asherheimermann.com. Comments should be left on the blog.</description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2008 23:40:50 EST</pubDate>
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            <title>The Iowa Caucuses</title>
            <description>Tonight, check with ASHERHEIMERMANN.com for the fastest results and the latest breaking developments for the Iowa Caucuses. The arcane rules governing Thursday&#039;s Iowa Democratic caucuses will test even the most organized campaign, but mastery of the process could launch a candidate on a path to the White House. 
 
The Iowa Caucuses start at 8pm ET / 7pm CT and the Presidential Candidates have to show up at caucus sites to vote. Also, the Presidential Candidates must have at lease 15 percent of the voters to be &quot;viable&quot;. 
 
Please go to www.ASHERHEIMERMANN.com/blog to vote for your favorite candidate in the 2008 Presidential Poll.</description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2008 20:01:25 EST</pubDate>
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            <title>Happy New Years 2008</title>
            <description>I wish you and your family and safe and Happy New Year 2008! I hope that we can elected a Democratic President. 
 
There are two new polls that I welcome you to vote in. Those polls are located at www.ASHERHEIMERMANN.com/blog and you will be able to vote once per day until January 30th.</description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2008 17:23:45 EST</pubDate>
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            <title>Final Results! Winners and Losers!</title>
            <description>Below are the final results of the two polls that were located at www.ASHERHEIMERMANN.com/blog. 
 
As for the 2008 Presidential Poll: 
 
- Joe Biden had 1% 
- Chris Dodd had 0% 
- Mike Gravel had 11% 
- Hillary Clinton had 2% 
- John Edwards had 11% 
- Barack Obama had 53% 
- Bill Richardson had 2% 
- Dennis Kucinich has 19% 
 
As for the Person of the Year: 
 
- Al Gore had 89 votes  
- Wolf Blitzer had 6 votes  
- Barack Obama had 125 votes  
- Fred Thompson had 10 votes  
- Dennis Kucinich had 86 votes  
- Ellen DeGeneres had 7 votes 
- Anderson Cooper had 15 votes  
- Asher Heimermann had 12 votes 
 
We have three new polls that you can vote in until Wednesday, January 30th, 2008. Just go to www.ASHERHEIMERMANN.com/blog to start voting!</description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2008 17:22:27 EST</pubDate>
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            <title>Just Hours Left!</title>
            <description>You have just hours left to vote for your favorite candidate in the 2008 Presidential Poll that is located at www.ASHERHEIMERMANN.com/blog before the final results are read live on New Years Eve! 
 
- Joe Biden has 1% 
- Chris Dodd has 0% 
- Mike Gravel has 11% 
- Hillary Clinton has 2% 
- John Edwards has 11% 
- Barack Obama has 54% 
- Bill Richardson has 2% 
- Dennis Kucinich has 19% 
 
The final results of this poll will be read on Asher Speaks Live which airs live on Monday, December 31st at 12:30am ET / 11:30pm CT. You can listen to the show live by going to www.BlogTalkRadio.com/asher/.</description>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 30 Dec 2007 18:50:15 EST</pubDate>
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            <title>New Website Launched</title>
            <description>We&#039;ve launched another new edition of www.ASHERHEIMERMANN.com! We have added more resources and action items on the website. We have also set-up a few groups that you can join to show your support and interest. 
 
We have even added the Asher Speaks Live Schedule so you will know the dates and times of the show! We are still adding a few more pages to the website. We will not have the Issues page up until the third week of January, 2008. 
 
Please feel free to e-mail your comments to asher@asherheimermann.com. These comments will be helpful in making this website better to use and access. Many more cool features will be added in the upcoming months.</description>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 30 Dec 2007 18:48:31 EST</pubDate>
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