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		<title>The gift that keeps on taking</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 12:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember the 2010 Winter Olympics? Remember how fun they were? Remember how much is cost? Well it continues to cost the taxpaying victims of VANOC&#8217;s success well into the summer as the bills just keep rolling in. ICBC reports that over $2.3 million of damage was done to VANOC&#8217;s fleet of General Motors vehicles used [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Resident Evils</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 18:53:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>R&#38;O</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It's no secret that here's no shortage of scumbags in the lower mainland but the numbers seem to be growing as our useless legal system does little or nothing to slow their reign of terror. Here's a few of the most recent pieces of garbage to grace the pages of our local newspapers...]]></description>
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		<title>Tweedsmuir Twits</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 12:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>R&#38;O</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Facebook sucks at the best of times. It reaches a new level of suck when a few young horn-dogs flagrantly advertise their mission to bed Grade 8 school girls on a Facebook page. Such was the case with students at <a href="http://www.sd36.bc.ca/tweeds/">Lord Tweedsmuir High School</a> in Cloverdale.]]></description>
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		<title>The sorry state of pop music</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2010 21:44:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>R&#38;O</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pop music officially entered the '<em>complete shit</em>' phase of it's existence with the recent appearance of <a href="http://www.blackeyedpeas.com/" target="_blank">The Black Eyed Peas</a> on the <em>American Idol Gives Back</em> broadcast. Don't believe me? Take a gander at the video below but be sure to have a small bucket handy while you watch this piece of visual and aural excrement.]]></description>
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		<title>Another Killer Set Free</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 18:13:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>R&#38;O</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Darnell Pratt will be released from prison in June after serving less than five years of a nine year sentence for dragging Grant De Patie under his car for 7.5 kilometres. Mr. Pratt was caught stealing gas in a stolen Chrysler LeBaron and Grant, an employee at the Esso station, attempted to stop his car from leaving the lot.]]></description>
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		<title>Final Update</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 21:39:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>R&#38;O</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We received a phone call from The City of Port Moody regarding our complaint about our neighbour's dog and it appears it has been deemed <em>Aggressive</em>. This results in an increase in their annual <a href="http://www.cityofportmoody.com/City+Hall/Services/Licences+and+Permits/Animal+Licences.htm" target="_blank">dog license</a> fee and a requirement that the dog be muzzled when in any public area. I don't believe the dog is actually aggressive but rather it just doesn't like my dog and my dog doesn't like it. This does, however, force them to leash their pet and ensures we don't have a repeat performance. And if we do then things will become considerably more uncomfortable to our neighbourhood a-holes.]]></description>
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		<title>Update #2</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 01:52:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, the assholes signed for and received the registered letter we sent containing a copy of the vet bill and a letter advising  we will take them to court if they don't pay the bill. And what did they do? Nothing. But then again, what would expect from assholes?]]></description>
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		<title>Irresponsible A-holes</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:27:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>R&#38;O</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It's well known that some dogs just don't like other dogs. Our dog <em>Benjamin</em> and a neighbour's dog just a block away don't like each other and waste no time barking and posturing whenever they meet. They've had 3 run-ins over the years and we keep Benjamin on a leash at all times on his walks only because this dog however our neighbour are not nearly as responsible.
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		<title>Only a matter of time</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 21:46:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>R&#38;O</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Keep a 12,000 pound killer whale in isolation for an extended period of time and it's no surprise when it drags a trainer into the water to 'play'. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilikum_(whale)#Tilikum" target="_blank">Tilikum</a> the killer whale, a past resident of Victoria's now defunct <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealand_of_the_Pacific" target="_blank">Sealand of the Pacific</a> tourist trap and now residing at Orlando's Seaworld, is responsible for the death of Dawn Brancheau, who had to be manually extricated from the jaws of the mammal by Seaworld staff.]]></description>
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		<title>An American point of view</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 15:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>R&#38;O</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So what did our American neighbours think of our little Olympic opening show? Well, some were not terribly impressed. Americans have a habit of making most things bigger and better than everyone else which is one of the reasons we love 'em so much. But Canadians are a bit more reserved and do just enough to get the point across without being showoffs.]]></description>
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