<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><xml><meta><title>Doing the Troops Wrong : XML WIDGET</title><link>http://www.plime.com/education/</link><description>You can use this XML spec to create a desktop widget or other application (i.e. Flash visualization). Please share it with us in our forum and we'll link it here!</description><language>en-us</language></meta><items><link><id>60824</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/60824/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Doing the Troops Wrong]]></title><description><![CDATA[Who wouldn&#8217;t support an effort to pay for college for G.I.&#8217;s who have willingly suited up and put their lives on the line, who in many cases have served multiple tours in combat zones and in some cases have been wounded?<br/>Well, you might be surprised at who is not supporting this effort. The Bush administration opposes it, and so does Senator John McCain.]]></description><comments>31</comments><score>364</score><crdate>5/6/2008 2:57:39 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-05-06T14:57:39+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>17973</id><url>http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/17973/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Sneak Peak of New Fashion Line &quot;The Row&quot;]]></title><description><![CDATA[For those of you who haven&#8217;t heard, Mary Kate and Ashley (yes, the Olsen twins), are in the process of launching a new high-end fashion line called &#8220;The Row.&#8221;]]></description><comments>3</comments><score>-8</score><crdate>4/26/2007 8:46:52 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-04-26T08:46:52+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>13292</id><url>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/13292/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Is Gonzales Next Bush, Rove and Cheney Fall Guy?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Does anyone notice a trend in the Bush administration:<ul style='list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 0px 10px;'><li class='li'>Passing the buck and setting up others to be fall guys<br/><li class='li'>Truckloads of lies, deception and half truths<br/><li class='li'>Lack of accountability</ul>]]></description><comments>4</comments><score>39</score><crdate>3/16/2007 12:24:47 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-03-16T00:24:47+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>50759</id><url>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/50759/1/</url><title><![CDATA[George Bush Sr to Endorse McCain]]></title><description><![CDATA[Former President George H.W. Bush will appear with his wife, Barbara, on Monday to showcase their endorsement of Sen. John McCain. A senior campaign official said that the former first couple will attend a rally for McCain and are expected to campaign for him.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>145</score><crdate>2/15/2008 3:19:56 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-02-15T15:19:56+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>19102</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/19102/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Bush is A commander guy, not THE commander guy]]></title><description><![CDATA[The White House is trying to clarify something: President George W Bush is ''a commander guy'' but not ''the commander guy.''<br/><br/>Or something like that.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>41</score><crdate>5/5/2007 2:10:12 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-05-05T02:10:12+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>67543</id><url>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/67543/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Bush says US to send more troops to Afghanistan ]]></title><description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON - Grappling with a record death toll in an overshadowed war, President Bush promised Wednesday to send more U.S. troops into Afghanistan by year's end. He conceded that June was a &quot;tough month&quot; in the nearly seven-year-old war.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>174</score><crdate>7/2/2008 9:28:33 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-07-02T21:28:33+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>50926</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/50926/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Colorado DoE Working to Kill Bill Providing Free College Tuition to Decorated Combat Vets]]></title><description><![CDATA[A bill that would grant Colorado residents who were awarded Purple Heart or higher medal free college tuition is <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://slapstickpolitics.blogspot.com/2008/02/colorado-department-of-higher-education.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">under fire</a> as too costly by people such as David Skaggs of the Dept of Education. The same David Skaggs who <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/education/article/0,1299,DRMN_957_5657370,00.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">proposes</a> having tax payers pay a large percentage of <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://slapstickpolitics.blogspot.com/2007/08/colorado-in-state-tuition-for-children.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">illegal</a> alien's tuition.]]></description><comments>5</comments><score>289</score><crdate>2/17/2008 9:59:39 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-02-17T09:59:39+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>53203</id><url>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/53203/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Bush endorses John McCain for president]]></title><description><![CDATA[If that ain't the kiss of death, what is?  Can McCain tell him to please not do that?]]></description><comments>18</comments><score>320</score><crdate>3/5/2008 1:59:13 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-03-05T13:59:13+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>69753</id><url>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/69753/1/</url><title><![CDATA[McCain credits Bush for drop in oil price]]></title><description><![CDATA[Republican John McCain on Wednesday credited the recent $10-a-barrel drop in the price of oil to President Bush's lifting of a presidential ban on offshore drilling, an action he has been advocating in his presidential campaign.]]></description><comments>12</comments><score>114</score><crdate>7/23/2008 4:32:02 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-07-23T16:32:02+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>35651</id><url>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/35651/1/</url><title><![CDATA[SoCal college offers YouTube class]]></title><description><![CDATA[Here's a dream-come-true for Web addicts: college credit for watching YouTube. Pitzer College this fall began offering what may be the first course about the video-sharing site. About 35 students meet in a classroom but work mostly online, where they view YouTube content and post their comments.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>110</score><crdate>9/14/2007 8:06:44 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-09-14T08:06:44+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>15874</id><url>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/15874/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Bush seeks new Iraq funding bill]]></title><description><![CDATA[US President George W Bush invited Democrats to the White House on Tuesday to discuss a standoff over a bill that provides for more than $100 billion to pay for wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>42</score><crdate>4/11/2007 10:36:13 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-04-11T10:36:13+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>42622</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/42622/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Ever Wonder Why College Tuition Goes Up Every Year?]]></title><description><![CDATA[It costs a lot of money to go to college. It costs even more money to run a college. And it&#8217;s costing increasingly more money to pay college and university presidents&#8217; salaries and compensation packages, with many reaching the million-dollar mark.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>87</score><crdate>11/27/2007 1:14:03 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-11-27T13:14:03+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>44060</id><url>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/44060/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Bush Vetoes Children's Health Bill]]></title><description><![CDATA[The measure would provide $60 billion over the next five years, $35 billion more than current spending and $30 billion more than the president proposed. Mr. Bush and his backers argue that the bill would be a step toward federalization of health care, and that it would steer the program away from its core purpose of providing insurance for poor children and toward covering children from middle-class families.]]></description><comments>7</comments><score>205</score><crdate>12/13/2007 9:41:38 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-12-13T09:41:38+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>61801</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/61801/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Bush: I Gave Up Golf For The Troops]]></title><description><![CDATA[&#8220;I don't want some mom whose son may have recently died to see the commander in chief playing golf,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I feel I owe it to the families to be in solidarity as best as I can with them. And I think playing golf during a war just sends the wrong signal.&#8221;]]></description><comments>23</comments><score>384</score><crdate>5/14/2008 9:45:37 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-05-14T09:45:37+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>61579</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/61579/1/</url><title><![CDATA[McCain Differs With Bush on Climate Change]]></title><description><![CDATA[Mr. McCain added pointedly: &#8220;I will not shirk the mantle of leadership that the United States bears. I will not permit eight long years to pass without serious action on serious challenges.&#8221;<br/><br/>Ouch! That will cost him some votes with the hardliners.]]></description><comments>9</comments><score>71</score><crdate>5/12/2008 9:50:05 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-05-12T21:50:05+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>68232</id><url>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/68232/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Senate bows to Bush, approves surveillance bill ]]></title><description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON - Bowing to President Bush's demands, the Senate approved and sent the White House a bill Wednesday to overhaul bitterly disputed rules on secret government eavesdropping and shield telecommunications companies from lawsuits complaining they helped the U.S. spy on Americans.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>120</score><crdate>7/9/2008 10:11:22 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-07-09T22:11:22+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>18880</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/18880/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Bush Does #2 For The Troops]]></title><description><![CDATA[President Bush again appeared on national TV to further clarify that &quot;this commander-in-chief ain't not going to unfund the troops.&quot;]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>1</score><crdate>5/3/2007 8:48:33 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-05-03T08:48:33+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>20208</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/20208/1/</url><title><![CDATA[ Off-color Bush featured in coloring book]]></title><description><![CDATA[U.S. President George W. Bush shows up in some very non-presidential situations in the new &quot;Off-Color Coloring Book: The Bush Years.&quot; Whether Bush is shown dressed as a cheerleader or drinking beer, the coloring book portrays the president in an unflattering light that its authors said is simply good-natured fun.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>44</score><crdate>5/13/2007 10:36:13 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-05-13T22:36:13+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>3107</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/3107/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Want A College Course Without Going To College?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Now on Google Video: a college class in Anatomy and Physiology. <br/>Quite interesting]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>29</score><crdate>10/14/2006 12:14:56 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2006-10-14T12:14:56+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>51654</id><url>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/51654/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Bush is the worst American president ever?]]></title><description><![CDATA[&quot;A new poll has Bush breaking a new nadir in presidential approval ratings, beating out Harry Truman&#8217;s 22% for the lowest support among Americans in the nation&#8217;s history.&quot;]]></description><comments>12</comments><score>338</score><crdate>2/22/2008 3:42:02 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-02-22T03:42:02+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>13275</id><url>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/13275/1/</url><title><![CDATA[New Emails Obtained Suggest White House Aides Lied about Firings]]></title><description><![CDATA[Just breaking, MTB has obtained excerpts from the leaked emails suggesting the WHite House targeted federal attorneys for firing because they were not &quot;Bush loyalists&quot;<br/>Another Bush administration scandal, lies and cover-ups. <br/><br/>This update provides access to the actual email and may be the first place on the Internet to find it.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>63</score><crdate>3/15/2007 9:53:33 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-03-15T21:53:33+01:00</atomdate></link></items></xml>