<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post114242638539981444..comments</id><updated>2011-07-13T16:13:18.645-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Comments on Silliman&#39;s Blog: </title><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114242638539981444/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/member-of-my-immediate-family-has-been.html'/><link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114242638539981444/comments/default?start-index=26&amp;max-results=25'/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>88</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114302850532254375</id><published>2006-03-22T06:55:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-03-22T06:55:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>if you&#39;d get an email addressto me, john hanson, (...</title><summary type='text'>if you&#39;d get an email address&lt;BR/&gt;to me, john hanson, &lt;BR/&gt;(or email me)&lt;BR/&gt;I would send you links to &lt;BR/&gt;further &lt;BR/&gt;fantastical&lt;BR/&gt;fleece into yarns&lt;BR/&gt;as I have showed &#39;n telled&lt;BR/&gt;fleece before&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;the  carefully attended to&lt;BR/&gt;carefully done&lt;BR/&gt;alchemo-mystical &lt;BR/&gt;transform&lt;BR/&gt;of staples from the back of the sheep&lt;BR/&gt;through a dyebath&lt;BR/&gt;through a coccoonery &lt;BR/&gt;wherein it</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114242638539981444/comments/default/114302850532254375'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114242638539981444/comments/default/114302850532254375'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/member-of-my-immediate-family-has-been.html?showComment=1143028500000#c114302850532254375' title=''/><author><name>suzanne</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/18396449966859846043</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/member-of-my-immediate-family-has-been.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114242638539981444' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114242638539981444' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-769341666"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 22, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114299702523762972</id><published>2006-03-21T22:10:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-03-21T22:10:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>yeah    tres cool mamacita   i like the spinners w...</title><summary type='text'>yeah    tres cool mamacita   i like the spinners wheel &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;yeah&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;something done carefully&lt;BR/&gt;in every sense of the word   &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;yeah   &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;and the camera flash in the ram&#39;s eyes&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;yeah&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;and shakhti &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;for real&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;keep on spinnin in the fleece  wool-ed &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;merci</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114242638539981444/comments/default/114299702523762972'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114242638539981444/comments/default/114299702523762972'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/member-of-my-immediate-family-has-been.html?showComment=1142997000000#c114299702523762972' title=''/><author><name>john hanson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09681354460957743187</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/member-of-my-immediate-family-has-been.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114242638539981444' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114242638539981444' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1428247785"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 21, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114299514367151328</id><published>2006-03-21T21:39:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-03-21T21:39:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>hey john hanson___did you see theall natural organ...</title><summary type='text'>hey john hanson___&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;did you see the&lt;BR/&gt;all natural &lt;BR/&gt;organic&lt;BR/&gt;non-synthetic&lt;BR/&gt;fiber&lt;BR/&gt;I posted &lt;BR/&gt;just for you&lt;BR/&gt;?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;(most of my quilting&lt;BR/&gt;was lost when the farm burned. . . )</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114242638539981444/comments/default/114299514367151328'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114242638539981444/comments/default/114299514367151328'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/member-of-my-immediate-family-has-been.html?showComment=1142995140000#c114299514367151328' title=''/><author><name>suzanne</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/18396449966859846043</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/member-of-my-immediate-family-has-been.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114242638539981444' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114242638539981444' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-769341666"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 21, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114296681124572213</id><published>2006-03-21T13:46:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-03-21T13:46:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>yeah curtis....i had this deep need to get my idio...</title><summary type='text'>yeah curtis....i had this deep need to get my idiosyncratic and highly developed sense of the exotic out there for everyone...these days of confession are difficult...but better for everyone...the we clandestive whackos can have a corner on the market...i needed to let lilac know i have some serious social and cultural priorities as well&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;where i hail from we regard bullshit as an art </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114242638539981444/comments/default/114296681124572213'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114242638539981444/comments/default/114296681124572213'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/member-of-my-immediate-family-has-been.html?showComment=1142966760000#c114296681124572213' title=''/><author><name>john hanson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09681354460957743187</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/member-of-my-immediate-family-has-been.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114242638539981444' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114242638539981444' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1428247785"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 21, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114295442343994768</id><published>2006-03-21T10:20:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-03-21T10:20:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>SPONGE BOB?</title><summary type='text'>SPONGE BOB?</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114242638539981444/comments/default/114295442343994768'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114242638539981444/comments/default/114295442343994768'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/member-of-my-immediate-family-has-been.html?showComment=1142954400000#c114295442343994768' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01813159652010352331</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/member-of-my-immediate-family-has-been.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114242638539981444' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114242638539981444' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 21, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114292677815157976</id><published>2006-03-21T02:39:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-03-21T02:39:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I thought Lilac sed she wuz leavin? Nothing worse ...</title><summary type='text'>I thought Lilac sed she wuz leavin? Nothing worse than a huffy fuck-you followed by hanging around in the hallways for another quarter. Michael Jordan, Jay-Z, meet Lilac. She&#39;s a Muslim living as a Muslim in who the fuck cares.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114242638539981444/comments/default/114292677815157976'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114242638539981444/comments/default/114292677815157976'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/member-of-my-immediate-family-has-been.html?showComment=1142926740000#c114292677815157976' title=''/><author><name>Jenny Vroon</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/17499407317366551697</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/member-of-my-immediate-family-has-been.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114242638539981444' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114242638539981444' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-835167991"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 21, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114291395577493101</id><published>2006-03-20T23:05:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-03-20T23:05:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>jeesuz h christ lilac   if you&#39;re not back why don...</title><summary type='text'>jeesuz h christ lilac   if you&#39;re not back why don&#39;t you get this goddam hologram out of my reading room.   and quit callin&#39; me names...and   well  yes  you have crossed a boundary...YOU LEAVE SPUNGE BOB OUT OF THIS!!!!</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114242638539981444/comments/default/114291395577493101'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114242638539981444/comments/default/114291395577493101'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/member-of-my-immediate-family-has-been.html?showComment=1142913900000#c114291395577493101' title=''/><author><name>john hanson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09681354460957743187</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/member-of-my-immediate-family-has-been.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114242638539981444' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114242638539981444' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1428247785"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 20, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114289610677402432</id><published>2006-03-20T18:08:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-03-20T18:08:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Kirby, I actually like it here out on the margin(s...</title><summary type='text'>Kirby, I actually like it here out on the margin(s).  You can see a long distance out to see, and the rocks and sand and detritis are very photogenic, and give the lie to all the bustle and hustle of making it.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Fuck New York City.  Fuck the Establishment.  Fuck the New York Review of Books.  We don&#39;t need them.  Bukowski didn&#39;t need them.  Frank O&#39;Hara didn&#39;t need them.  Lorine </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114242638539981444/comments/default/114289610677402432'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114242638539981444/comments/default/114289610677402432'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/member-of-my-immediate-family-has-been.html?showComment=1142896080000#c114289610677402432' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01813159652010352331</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/member-of-my-immediate-family-has-been.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114242638539981444' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114242638539981444' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 20, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114286627750677683</id><published>2006-03-20T09:51:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-03-20T09:51:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>You have every right to be arbitrary and irrelevan...</title><summary type='text'>You have every right to be arbitrary and irrelevant if discussing the real issue does not serve your notional interests.  So be it.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114242638539981444/comments/default/114286627750677683'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114242638539981444/comments/default/114286627750677683'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/member-of-my-immediate-family-has-been.html?showComment=1142866260000#c114286627750677683' title=''/><author><name>ideaist</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01173072568848543951</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/member-of-my-immediate-family-has-been.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114242638539981444' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114242638539981444' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-992181706"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 20, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114286290165828824</id><published>2006-03-20T08:55:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-03-20T08:55:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>What can I say.  There are huge gaping holes in so...</title><summary type='text'>What can I say.  There are huge gaping holes in some parts of my knowledges and that is why I generally try to be quite specific in the way I phrase a question.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Remember, I started late.  I was working on sick people for the first half.  Now I&#39;m busy working on the rest, the so-called healthy.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114242638539981444/comments/default/114286290165828824'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114242638539981444/comments/default/114286290165828824'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/member-of-my-immediate-family-has-been.html?showComment=1142862900000#c114286290165828824' title=''/><author><name>Lady Jane</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04555982712708881025</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/member-of-my-immediate-family-has-been.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114242638539981444' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114242638539981444' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1542572767"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 20, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114285517412175393</id><published>2006-03-20T06:46:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-03-20T06:46:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>The raScist is in the spirit of EpiscopaleAn. So m...</title><summary type='text'>The raScist is in the spirit of EpiscopaleAn. So much for your subtle reading of Ron&#39;s real and hyper-ironic intention. You can&#39;t follow that? &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;But that&#39;s the way you would have to do it if it were possible.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114242638539981444/comments/default/114285517412175393'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114242638539981444/comments/default/114285517412175393'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/member-of-my-immediate-family-has-been.html?showComment=1142855160000#c114285517412175393' title=''/><author><name>joe green</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/12257285616529795340</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/member-of-my-immediate-family-has-been.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114242638539981444' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114242638539981444' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1849826838"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 20, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114284901916251466</id><published>2006-03-20T05:03:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-03-20T05:03:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I might ask those however, who took issue (way lat...</title><summary type='text'>I might ask those however, who took issue (way later in the game here) with the word &quot;Nigger&quot; and &quot;Niggeritis&quot; in the poem and in my facetious comments relating to a popular epithet used against Arabs like my loving husband...I might ask why the word Islamofascist didn&#39;t bother you overly much?  Now that is a curious entry in the annals of this.  Very.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Especially when BJ uses the word &quot;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114242638539981444/comments/default/114284901916251466'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114242638539981444/comments/default/114284901916251466'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/member-of-my-immediate-family-has-been.html?showComment=1142848980000#c114284901916251466' title=''/><author><name>Lady Jane</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04555982712708881025</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/member-of-my-immediate-family-has-been.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114242638539981444' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114242638539981444' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1542572767"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 20, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114284330590645450</id><published>2006-03-20T03:28:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-03-20T03:28:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Oh dear god.  Bury me.  Might as well.  Copy and p...</title><summary type='text'>Oh dear god.  Bury me.  Might as well.  Copy and pasting might help.  That is generally in Troll 101.  Deconstructing Joe Green...hahaha, well good luck.  I&#39;ve been trying for three years to figure that guy out and the best I can come up with is a typo regarding &quot;you deer stealing fuck&quot; or something like that.  But I do try.  :)&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Thanks Ron.  Once again, thank you berryberry much.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114242638539981444/comments/default/114284330590645450'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114242638539981444/comments/default/114284330590645450'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/member-of-my-immediate-family-has-been.html?showComment=1142843280000#c114284330590645450' title=''/><author><name>Lady Jane</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04555982712708881025</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/member-of-my-immediate-family-has-been.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114242638539981444' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114242638539981444' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1542572767"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 20, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114284201033785511</id><published>2006-03-20T03:06:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-03-20T03:06:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Joe referred to RS who pointed out &#39;the implicit –...</title><summary type='text'>Joe referred to RS who pointed out &#39;the implicit – but unmistakable – racism within that word “exotic” &#39;.  He however did not refute RS&#39;s claim. He rather expressed the view that RS was being hypocritical in his characterisation of you as an Anglo woman living as a Muslim in Lebanon.  Thanks for that old chestnut.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114242638539981444/comments/default/114284201033785511'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114242638539981444/comments/default/114284201033785511'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/member-of-my-immediate-family-has-been.html?showComment=1142841960000#c114284201033785511' title=''/><author><name>ideaist</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01173072568848543951</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/member-of-my-immediate-family-has-been.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114242638539981444' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114242638539981444' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-992181706"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 20, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114283950809847026</id><published>2006-03-20T02:25:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-03-20T02:25:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>How can a person deconstruct an illogical argument...</title><summary type='text'>How can a person deconstruct an illogical argument Ms. I?  Read Wittgenstein a bit and pass over it.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Joe was not referring to exotic.  That was the other team.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;In baseball, generally speaking, one should know when to swing the bat and when to take a walk.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;In yours, I&#39;d suggest the latter.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114242638539981444/comments/default/114283950809847026'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114242638539981444/comments/default/114283950809847026'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/member-of-my-immediate-family-has-been.html?showComment=1142839500000#c114283950809847026' title=''/><author><name>Lady Jane</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04555982712708881025</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/member-of-my-immediate-family-has-been.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114242638539981444' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114242638539981444' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1542572767"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 20, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114283789845657894</id><published>2006-03-20T01:58:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-03-20T01:58:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>My comments were directed to verdurous Joe who als...</title><summary type='text'>My comments were directed to verdurous Joe who also mentioned &#39;the implicit – but unmistakable – racism within that word “exotic” &#39;.  You&#39;ve not really engaged with much, if any, of what I wrote. Instead, you&#39;ve gone on ad nauseam about being a victim.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I referred to the fact that without any firm basis for saying so you leapt to a conclusion about RS&#39;s ethnicity, which proved false like </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114242638539981444/comments/default/114283789845657894'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114242638539981444/comments/default/114283789845657894'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/member-of-my-immediate-family-has-been.html?showComment=1142837880000#c114283789845657894' title=''/><author><name>ideaist</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01173072568848543951</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/member-of-my-immediate-family-has-been.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114242638539981444' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114242638539981444' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-992181706"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 20, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114283745798107088</id><published>2006-03-20T01:50:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-03-20T01:50:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I&#39;m not back JB.  I would never feel comfortable h...</title><summary type='text'>I&#39;m not back JB.  I would never feel comfortable here again after Ron&#39;s libel and the best psychoanalyst in the worldsky wouldn&#39;t be able to crack your fig. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I&#39;ve always been open about my views here (when asked and sometimes baited) but that is also, finito in regards to how a muslim might see a person&#39;s poetical works.  My scholarships are quite different than yours.&lt;BR/&gt;We all know </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114242638539981444/comments/default/114283745798107088'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114242638539981444/comments/default/114283745798107088'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/member-of-my-immediate-family-has-been.html?showComment=1142837400000#c114283745798107088' title=''/><author><name>Lady Jane</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04555982712708881025</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/member-of-my-immediate-family-has-been.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114242638539981444' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114242638539981444' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1542572767"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 20, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114283530154660275</id><published>2006-03-20T01:15:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-03-20T01:15:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>lilac   if you were a guy  and anywhere near me   ...</title><summary type='text'>lilac   if you were a guy  and anywhere near me   i&#39;d bitch slap you....i guess JB is me...well i&#39;ll be go to hell...as to conversion (those who wish to convert vs. those who wish to interest)i was taking my lead from the long quote you left up on genuine vs demented inspiration...i think it is a very good thing what is said there...i ain&#39;t got the slightest idea who wrote it....lilac....was that</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114242638539981444/comments/default/114283530154660275'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114242638539981444/comments/default/114283530154660275'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/member-of-my-immediate-family-has-been.html?showComment=1142835300000#c114283530154660275' title=''/><author><name>john hanson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09681354460957743187</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/member-of-my-immediate-family-has-been.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114242638539981444' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114242638539981444' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1428247785"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 20, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114283330960706400</id><published>2006-03-20T00:41:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-03-20T00:41:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Oh, and my grandmother was most likely a German Je...</title><summary type='text'>Oh, and my grandmother was most likely a German Jew.  We shaved our Jewish &#39;berg ending off a very long time ago it seems.  But my mother was dark skinned and for some peculiar reason, she wasn&#39;t alarmed that I didn&#39;t accept Jesus as God&#39;s son (she was at the time nearly bedridden and received the Roman Catholic eurcharist in her bed or reclining chair) anymore when I told her I was officially </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114242638539981444/comments/default/114283330960706400'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114242638539981444/comments/default/114283330960706400'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/member-of-my-immediate-family-has-been.html?showComment=1142833260000#c114283330960706400' title=''/><author><name>Lady Jane</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04555982712708881025</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/member-of-my-immediate-family-has-been.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114242638539981444' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114242638539981444' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1542572767"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 20, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114283254030218429</id><published>2006-03-20T00:29:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-03-20T00:29:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I love my sister even though she doesn&#39;t possess a...</title><summary type='text'>I love my sister even though she doesn&#39;t possess a religion (although I deeply suspect she is a Ba&#39;hai but doesn&#39;t want to tell me because I&#39;d have to kill her because that is heretical hahaha) and I love Joe&#39;s wife Connie because she wrote to me one time and asked me for a photograph, validated me as her husband&#39;s good friend and student.  I love Fred Tarr because he is a fantastic poet and fine</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114242638539981444/comments/default/114283254030218429'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114242638539981444/comments/default/114283254030218429'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/member-of-my-immediate-family-has-been.html?showComment=1142832540000#c114283254030218429' title=''/><author><name>Lady Jane</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04555982712708881025</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/member-of-my-immediate-family-has-been.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114242638539981444' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114242638539981444' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1542572767"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 20, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114283117488405130</id><published>2006-03-20T00:06:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-03-20T00:06:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Well now that that is cleared up Ron, thanks for f...</title><summary type='text'>Well now that that is cleared up Ron, thanks for finally showing up and mediating the blazing apartment fire you set.  Would you mind telling me why you think it is appropriate to say something about someone, that they possess racist views about (specifically) Filipinos when you know (from your association with Ms. Tabios I assume) that BJ Reyes uses EXPLICIT racist terminology in not only her </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114242638539981444/comments/default/114283117488405130'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114242638539981444/comments/default/114283117488405130'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/member-of-my-immediate-family-has-been.html?showComment=1142831160000#c114283117488405130' title=''/><author><name>Lady Jane</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04555982712708881025</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/member-of-my-immediate-family-has-been.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114242638539981444' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114242638539981444' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1542572767"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 20, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114282990465247450</id><published>2006-03-19T23:45:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-03-19T23:45:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I might mention though the letter I received from ...</title><summary type='text'>I might mention though the letter I received from someone who wanted to put me in my place privately and mentioned Said.  That&#39;s funny.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The only thing I know about Ed is that he is dead, has no opinion about this particular matter and was denied a lecture series (in Austria I believe?) because the IDF photographed him throwing rocks over Fatma&#39;s gate in the south.  A gate which I refused</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114242638539981444/comments/default/114282990465247450'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114242638539981444/comments/default/114282990465247450'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/member-of-my-immediate-family-has-been.html?showComment=1142829900000#c114282990465247450' title=''/><author><name>Lady Jane</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04555982712708881025</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/member-of-my-immediate-family-has-been.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114242638539981444' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114242638539981444' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1542572767"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 19, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114282933492873206</id><published>2006-03-19T23:35:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-03-19T23:35:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>There were multiple comments in the polyphony of t...</title><summary type='text'>There were multiple comments in the polyphony of the stream that could be interpreted as racist, especially those made by Lilac, an Anglo woman living as a Muslim in Lebanon.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;No the (in Ron&#39;s words) &quot;positional&quot; reference to &quot;living AS a muslim&quot; suggests only that I pretend to be a muslim in some context because it wins me votes or perhaps (my guess) because Ron generally isn&#39;t very </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114242638539981444/comments/default/114282933492873206'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114242638539981444/comments/default/114282933492873206'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/member-of-my-immediate-family-has-been.html?showComment=1142829300000#c114282933492873206' title=''/><author><name>Lady Jane</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04555982712708881025</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/member-of-my-immediate-family-has-been.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114242638539981444' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114242638539981444' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1542572767"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 19, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114282118466243993</id><published>2006-03-19T21:19:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-03-19T21:19:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>JG:RS did not label/libel Lilac a rascist (sic). S...</title><summary type='text'>JG:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;RS did not label/libel Lilac a rascist (sic). She&#39;s actually done a good job of that on her own. He said she, among others, made comments &#39;that could be interpreted as racist&#39; based on her unreflecting use of the reductive term &#39;exotic&#39;. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;His description of her as &#39;an Anglo woman living as a Muslim in Lebanon&#39;  pointedly demonstrates the untenableness of Lilac&#39;s position by </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114242638539981444/comments/default/114282118466243993'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114242638539981444/comments/default/114282118466243993'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/member-of-my-immediate-family-has-been.html?showComment=1142821140000#c114282118466243993' title=''/><author><name>ideaist</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01173072568848543951</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/member-of-my-immediate-family-has-been.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114242638539981444' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114242638539981444' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-992181706"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 19, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114281739143630312</id><published>2006-03-19T20:16:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-03-19T20:16:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>The Episcopaleans were the Paleolithic Episcopalia...</title><summary type='text'>The Episcopaleans were the Paleolithic Episcopalians.  And the labeling by Lilac ironic.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;For the record I can&#39;t (contra Ben Sherman) see that Ron had anything to say about me.  His labeling Lilac a rascist is appalling and the remark about &quot;Anglo living as a Muslim&quot; of a piece.  But what can be done?  A lot of isness here and the usual mediocrity. Only disappointing if you believed what </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114242638539981444/comments/default/114281739143630312'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114242638539981444/comments/default/114281739143630312'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/member-of-my-immediate-family-has-been.html?showComment=1142817360000#c114281739143630312' title=''/><author><name>joe green</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/12257285616529795340</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/member-of-my-immediate-family-has-been.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114242638539981444' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114242638539981444' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1849826838"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 19, 2006"/></entry></feed>