<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><xml><meta><title>North Carolina lab chief quits rather than lower flag for Jesse Helms : 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). Please share it with us in our forum and we'll link it here!</description><language>en-us</language></meta><items><link><id>68211</id><url>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/68211/1/</url><title><![CDATA[North Carolina lab chief quits rather than lower flag for Jesse Helms]]></title><description><![CDATA[Got to admire standing on principals but even his wife didn't agree with him.]]></description><comments>5</comments><score>456</score><crdate>7/9/2008 2:50:17 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-07-09T14:50:17+01:00</atomdate></link><table cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0' width='100%' style='padding-top:5px;margin-bottom:0px;' class='trh'><tr valign='bottom'><td><table cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0'><tr valign='bottom'><td class='minitabspc' style='font-size:7px'>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td class='minitabs lg'  nowrap="nowrap" id='tab-comments'><a href='/politics/l/68211/1/' class='plime2 td mn'>comments (5)</a></td><td class='minitabspc' style='font-size:7px'>&nbsp;</td><td class='minitabd lg'  nowrap="nowrap" id='tab-related'><a href='/politics/l/68211-related/1/' class='plime td mn'>related</a></td><td class='minitabspc' style='font-size:7px'>&nbsp;</td><td class='minitabd lg'  nowrap="nowrap" id='tab-share'><a href='/politics/l/68211-share/1/' class='plime td mn'>share</a></td><td class='minitabspc' style='font-size:7px'>&nbsp;</td><td class='minitabd lg'  nowrap="nowrap" id='tab-history'><a href='/politics/l/68211-history/1/' class='plime td mn'>edit history (0)</a></td></tr></table></td><td class='minitabspc' style='width:100%' valign='middle'><table width='100%'><tr class='regular'><td align='right'> <a onclick='return false' class='page-dull td'>&lt;</a><span> <b><a class='page-selected td' href='/politics/l/68211/1/'>1</a></b> <a onclick='return false' class='page-dull td'>&gt;</a></span></td></tr></table></td></tr></table><comment><id>287341</id><url>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/68211/1/xml_widget.rss#q6</url><title><![CDATA[fentwin @ 7/10/2008 10:18:13 AM]]></title><content><![CDATA[<div class='qp pad d'><a class="page-dull td" href="/politics/l/68211/1/#q5"><b>&laquo;</b></a>&nbsp;<i><b>ieldanth</b>&#160;:&#160;Doesn't that automatically make him wrong?<br/><br/>*duck and cover</i></div><br/>I've heard this quite often over the past week; &quot;I may have disagreed with him but I respect the fact that he stood by his princilpes&quot;.<br/><br/><br/><br/>Hell, Genghis Kahn stood by his principles, Pol Pot stood by his.]]></content><score></score><crdate>7/10/2008 10:18:13 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-07-10T10:18:13+01:00</atomdate></comment><comment><id>287241</id><url>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/68211/1/xml_widget.rss#q5</url><title><![CDATA[ieldanth @ 7/10/2008 2:33:37 AM]]></title><content><![CDATA[<div class='qp pad d'><a class="page-dull td" href="/l/68211/1/#q1"><b>&laquo;</b></a>&nbsp;<i><b>tigertony</b>&#160;:&#160;<br/>Got to admire standing on principals but even his wife didn't agree with him.</i></div>Doesn't that automatically make him wrong?<br/><br/><br/><br/>*duck and cover]]></content><score></score><crdate>7/10/2008 2:33:37 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-07-10T02:33:37+01:00</atomdate></comment><comment><id>287221</id><url>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/68211/1/xml_widget.rss#q4</url><title><![CDATA[heymrp @ 7/10/2008 1:23:30 AM]]></title><content><![CDATA[I think that his superiors drew too hard of a line. A short administrative leave possibly, but forced into early retirement! Thats overdoing it.]]></content><score></score><crdate>7/10/2008 1:23:30 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-07-10T01:23:30+01:00</atomdate></comment><comment><id>287019</id><url>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/68211/1/xml_widget.rss#q3</url><title><![CDATA[fentwin @ 7/9/2008 6:29:35 PM]]></title><content><![CDATA[<div class='qp pad d'><a class="page-dull td" href="/politics/l/68211/1/#q2"><b>&laquo;</b></a>&nbsp;<i><b>DoggySpew</b>&#160;:&#160;I, for one, applaud this mans decision. Not that I wanted his job lost, but why honor a total douchebag ?</i></div>Man, I live in NC. Its been a Helms love fest for a week. Ugh.<br/><br/><br/>Nothing like a good old fashioned bigot who supported the Contras killing innocent men, women and children in Nicaragua. When this was brought to his attention his reply was &quot;Well, they're just Communists&#8212;they deserve to die&quot;. <br/><br/><br/><br/>As Mark Twain said (I think it was Twain) &quot;I will wish no man dead, but I will write letters in support of their funeral&quot; or something to that effect.]]></content><score></score><crdate>7/9/2008 6:29:35 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-07-09T18:29:35+01:00</atomdate></comment><comment><id>286980</id><url>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/68211/1/xml_widget.rss#q2</url><title><![CDATA[DoggySpew @ 7/9/2008 5:19:07 PM]]></title><content><![CDATA[I, for one, applaud this mans decision. Not that I wanted his job lost, but why honor a total douchebag ?]]></content><score></score><crdate>7/9/2008 5:19:07 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-07-09T17:19:07+01:00</atomdate></comment></items></xml>