<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><xml><meta><title>Presentation of the Homeland Terrorism Prepareness Bill : XML WIDGET</title><link>http://www.plime.com/politics/</link><description>You can use this XML spec to create a desktop widget or other application (i.e. Flash visualization). 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It's a new law called the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act, and it is worded in a clever way that could allow the U.S. government to arrest and incarcerate any individual who speaks out against the Bush Administration, the war on Iraq, the Department of Homeland Security or any government agency (including the FDA). The law has already passed the House on a traitorous vote of 405 to 6, and it is now being considered in the Senate where a vote is imminent.&quot;<br/><br/>This blog summarizes the bill and links to the full text.]]></description><comments>27</comments><score>287</score><crdate>12/9/2007 5:16:32 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-12-09T05:16:32+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>56777</id><url>http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/56777/1/</url><title><![CDATA[The $2 Bill]]></title><description><![CDATA[A guy stops off at his local Taco Bell after work and decides to pay with a $2 bill instead of a $50 to make things easier for the cashier.<br/><br/>Hilarity and Asshatery ensue.]]></description><comments>12</comments><score>273</score><crdate>4/2/2008 3:04:48 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-04-02T15:04:48+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>54089</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/54089/1/</url><title><![CDATA[A Colorful $5 Bill Is Coming Your Way]]></title><description><![CDATA[Coming soon to a cash register near you: a new $5 bill sporting some touches of color for the first time.]]></description><comments>4</comments><score>273</score><crdate>3/13/2008 2:11:40 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-03-13T02:11:40+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>44061</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/44061/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Shock at $85k mobile phone bill]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Canadian man has been shocked to receive a mobile phone bill for nearly $85,000]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>103</score><crdate>12/13/2007 9:43:06 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-12-13T09:43:06+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>40480</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/40480/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Spending Godless Money]]></title><description><![CDATA[For more than 10 years, Mitchell Kahle has spent only Godless money. 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When I make a withdrawal from the bank ATM, I immediately &#8220;de-God&#8221; each of the crisp new $20s.]]></description><comments>41</comments><score>420</score><crdate>11/3/2007 1:00:03 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-11-03T01:00:03+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>67046</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/67046/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Bill Gates to Step Down from Microsoft]]></title><description><![CDATA[The chairman of Microsoft and one of the world's richest men, Bill Gates, is stepping down from his job running the world's largest software company.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>67</score><crdate>6/28/2008 3:30:36 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-06-28T15:30:36+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>25258</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/25258/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Bill Bailey Kraftwerk Tribute]]></title><description><![CDATA[Klassik Bill Bailey.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>17</score><crdate>6/26/2007 4:32:51 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-06-26T16:32:51+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>80014</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/80014/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Fla. woman chooses to go to jail over $7.45 bill]]></title><description><![CDATA[A woman decided to go to jail rather than pay her bill at a Fort Pierce Waffle House restaurant. The total she went to jail over: $7.45.]]></description><comments>6</comments><score>283</score><crdate>10/22/2008 9:23:35 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-10-22T09:23:35+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>45878</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/45878/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Mesa boy, 7, gets bill in bike-van crash]]></title><description><![CDATA[Jessica Brovitch was relieved when her 7-year-old son was only scraped and bruised after a van collided with his bicycle on Nov. 9. But she was shocked when the child later received a bill for $650.]]></description><comments>3</comments><score>174</score><crdate>1/3/2008 2:35:44 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-01-03T02:35:44+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>74321</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/74321/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Russell Crowe to play Bill Hicks?]]></title><description><![CDATA[In a recent interview Russell Crowe let slip that he is involved in a Bill Hicks biopic.]]></description><comments>4</comments><score>181</score><crdate>8/31/2008 9:38:41 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-08-31T09:38:41+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>71</score><crdate>7/9/2008 10:11:22 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-07-09T22:11:22+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>46274</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/46274/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Bill Gates Just May Be Cooler Than Steve Jobs]]></title><description><![CDATA[At least in this video he is. 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Thousands of individuals working in isolation from one another painted a tiny part of the bill without knowledge of the overall task. Workers were paid one cent each via Amazon's Mechanical Turk distributed labor tool.  Site also has a video with all 10,000 parts being drawn simultaneously.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>518</score><crdate>4/11/2008 10:54:08 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-04-11T22:54:08+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>72142</id><url>http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/72142/1/</url><title><![CDATA[The best Fire Marshall Bill Ever]]></title><description><![CDATA[Jim Carrey as Fire Marshall Bill on the Star Ship Enterprise.]]></description><comments>3</comments><score>-6</score><crdate>8/12/2008 8:59:39 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-08-12T20:59:39+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>11028</id><url>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/11028/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Bill Donohue's &quot;Gook Joke&quot;]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Catholic League's Bill Donohue is typical. Just your garden variety angry blowhard who spies hatred at every turn.]]></description><comments>4</comments><score>69</score><crdate>2/17/2007 7:18:49 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-02-17T19:18:49+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>13289</id><url>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/13289/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Bill Gates Annoyed With Apple Ads]]></title><description><![CDATA[This is hilarious. Bill Gates during an interview avoids discussing the Apple ad campaign.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>3</score><crdate>3/16/2007 12:03:08 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-03-16T00:03:08+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>37779</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/37779/1/</url><title><![CDATA[ Man jailed for trying to pass $1M bill]]></title><description><![CDATA[Change for a million? That's what a man was seeking Saturday when he handed a $1 million bill to a cashier at a Pittsburgh supermarket. But when the Giant Eagle employee refused and a manager confiscated the bogus bill, the man flew into a rage.]]></description><comments>10</comments><score>311</score><crdate>10/9/2007 8:40:58 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-10-09T08:40:58+01:00</atomdate></link></items></xml>