<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><xml><meta><title>Driver's Licenses could soon be invalid for air travel : XML WIDGET</title><link>http://www.plime.com/travel/</link><description>You can use this XML spec to create a desktop widget or other application (i.e. Flash visualization). 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Gray wolves are just not that interesting. My bad.]]></description><comments>15</comments><score>325</score><crdate>2/21/2008 10:31:32 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-02-21T22:31:32+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><link><id>72019</id><url>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/72019/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Bush to relax protected species rules]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Bush administration wants federal agencies to decide for themselves whether highways, dams, mines and other construction projects might harm endangered animals and plants.]]></description><comments>6</comments><score>200</score><crdate>8/11/2008 4:03:44 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-08-11T16:03:44+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>59875</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/59875/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Audit: Millions in Iraq contracts never finished]]></title><description><![CDATA[Millions of dollars of lucrative Iraq reconstruction contracts were never finished because of excessive delays, poor performance or other factors, including failed projects that are being falsely described by the U.S. government as complete, federal investigators say.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>369</score><crdate>4/28/2008 7:53:21 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-04-28T07:53:21+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>24839</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/24839/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Truck Driver's Gear Change Hall Of Shame]]></title><description><![CDATA[You may have heard this technique informally referred to as &quot;modulation&quot;, but the correct ethnomusicological term for the phenomenon is the truck driver's gear change.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>20</score><crdate>6/22/2007 5:37:56 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-06-22T17:37:56+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>19236</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/19236/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Italian bus drivers lacked licenses]]></title><description><![CDATA[The city of Palermo, Italy, employed more than 100 bus drivers who lacked valid drivers' licenses.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>52</score><crdate>5/6/2007 9:43:58 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-05-06T09:43:58+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>72098</id><url>http://www.plime.com/world/l/72098/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Endangered Species Act Rendered Toothless?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Parts of the Endangered Species Act may soon be extinct. 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(AP) &#8212; A federal aviation spokesman says at least seven people are dead after two medical helicopters collided in mid-air in Arizona.<br/><br/>Ian Gregor of the Federal Aviation Administration says three others are in critical condition after the collision Sunday afternoon near a Flagstaff hospital.]]></description><comments>4</comments><score>121</score><crdate>6/29/2008 8:37:02 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-06-29T20:37:02+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>43574</id><url>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/43574/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Senator Reveals Secret Bush Legal Opinions]]></title><description><![CDATA[Whitehouse said that as a member of the Intelligence Committee, he had examined &quot;highly classified secret legal opinions&quot; issued by the Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel, which the administration used to get legal support of its surveillance program.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>91</score><crdate>12/7/2007 8:50:24 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-12-07T20:50:24+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>58913</id><url>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/58913/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Justice Dept. 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He said that his aim now was to leave his successor a legacy of international diplomacy for tackling Iran.]]></description><comments>5</comments><score>287</score><crdate>6/11/2008 1:37:16 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-06-11T13:37:16+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>53628</id><url>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/53628/1/</url><title><![CDATA[U.S. waived congressional restriction on Egypt aid]]></title><description><![CDATA[Congress had withheld the sum until the administration certified Egypt had done enough to protect the independence of the judiciary, curb police abuses and put a stop to arms smuggling from Egypt to Gaza.<br/><br/>But it also gave the administration an option to waive the restrictions &quot;in the national security interest of the United States&quot;.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>37</score><crdate>3/9/2008 5:00:25 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-03-09T17:00:25+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>68223</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/68223/1/</url><title><![CDATA[59 Reasons why Bush Sucks]]></title><description><![CDATA[There are so many reasons to oppose four more years of George W. Bush it can be hard to keep them all straight. And so we provide you with this handy guide, listing 60 reasons (in no particular order) why this administration sucks major butt.]]></description><comments>4</comments><score>81</score><crdate>7/9/2008 6:09:27 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-07-09T18:09:27+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>45463</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/45463/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Flying Spaghetti Monster defeats Florida School Board]]></title><description><![CDATA[Members of the Polk County School Board back down on their plans to add ID to the curriculum after being touched by His Noodly Appendage.<br/><br/>&quot;They've made us the laughingstock of the world,&quot;  board member Lofton told the Tampa Tribune.]]></description><comments>4</comments><score>353</score><crdate>12/29/2007 10:10:18 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-12-29T10:10:18+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>22218</id><url>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/22218/1/</url><title><![CDATA[George &quot;Dubya&quot; Bush Countdown Timer]]></title><description><![CDATA[Simply put, how long it will be until G.W. is no longer president of the United States.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>78</score><crdate>5/31/2007 9:53:30 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-05-31T09:53:30+01:00</atomdate></link></items></xml>