<?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.post113983363789665203..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/3738579/113983363789665203/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/kent-johnson-sent-me-note-asking-me-to_13.html'/><link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113983363789665203/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>32</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114470678401679598</id><published>2006-04-10T18:06:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-04-10T18:06:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>This is a rather late response to Kirby&#39;s statemen...</title><summary type='text'>This is a rather late response to Kirby&#39;s statement that he wished to hear what someone from Iceland thought about the US military being Iceland&#39;s military. It&#39;s spectacularly late considering that a few weeks ago it was decided that the US military will be leaving in september!&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The history of it is that Iceland was to remain neutral, after it gained it&#39;s independence in 1944. The first </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113983363789665203/comments/default/114470678401679598'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113983363789665203/comments/default/114470678401679598'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/kent-johnson-sent-me-note-asking-me-to_13.html?showComment=1144706760000#c114470678401679598' title=''/><author><name>Eiríkur Örn Norðdahl</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/17777562476240194569</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='17' height='32' src='http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v603/kolbrunarskald/eirikur.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/kent-johnson-sent-me-note-asking-me-to_13.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113983363789665203' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113983363789665203' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-434496603"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 10, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114017208714921565</id><published>2006-02-17T05:28:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-17T05:28:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Adonis, from The Grave Of New York:...I sawthe Ara...</title><summary type='text'>Adonis, from The Grave Of New York:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;...I saw&lt;BR/&gt;the Arab map a stallion its steps while time droops like a saddle toward the grave or toward the darker shadow, toward a fire dying or already dead; discovering the chemistry of the other dimension in Kirkuk al Dhahran and what has remained of such citadels in Arab Afro-Asia. And here is the world ripening in our hands. Hah! We prepare for</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113983363789665203/comments/default/114017208714921565'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113983363789665203/comments/default/114017208714921565'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/kent-johnson-sent-me-note-asking-me-to_13.html?showComment=1140172080000#c114017208714921565' 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/2006/02/kent-johnson-sent-me-note-asking-me-to_13.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113983363789665203' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113983363789665203' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1542572767"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 17, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114014065083800741</id><published>2006-02-16T20:44:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-16T20:44:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Kirby, read my lips!</title><summary type='text'>Kirby, read my lips!</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113983363789665203/comments/default/114014065083800741'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113983363789665203/comments/default/114014065083800741'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/kent-johnson-sent-me-note-asking-me-to_13.html?showComment=1140140640000#c114014065083800741' 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/2006/02/kent-johnson-sent-me-note-asking-me-to_13.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113983363789665203' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113983363789665203' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 16, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114010499553901896</id><published>2006-02-16T10:49:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-16T10:49:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>If the Icelanders or the Brits want us out all the...</title><summary type='text'>If the Icelanders or the Brits want us out all they have to do is ask.  We&#39;re there to protect them!  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The French asked us to get out and we did.  We don&#39;t have any bases in France.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;We have a base on Cuba but isn&#39;t that part of some old treaty or another that will eventually run out?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Of course there is always something a little perverse in helping another person or </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113983363789665203/comments/default/114010499553901896'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113983363789665203/comments/default/114010499553901896'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/kent-johnson-sent-me-note-asking-me-to_13.html?showComment=1140104940000#c114010499553901896' title=''/><author><name>Kirby Olson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943</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/2006/02/kent-johnson-sent-me-note-asking-me-to_13.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113983363789665203' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113983363789665203' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 16, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114009256518150216</id><published>2006-02-16T07:22:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-16T07:22:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Kirby, the last I checked the U.S had 890 military...</title><summary type='text'>Kirby, the last I checked the U.S had 890 military bases in foreign countries. The U.S. has military personnel in 135 countries, or over 70% of the world.  Maybe Iran should set-up shop in Baltimore.  People would go for that, wouldn&#39;t they?  How about France putting up a base in San Diego, just to keep us safe?  (Somebody has to look out for us.) We are Iceland&#39;s entire military, Kirby.  We took</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113983363789665203/comments/default/114009256518150216'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113983363789665203/comments/default/114009256518150216'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/kent-johnson-sent-me-note-asking-me-to_13.html?showComment=1140092520000#c114009256518150216' title=''/><author><name>James</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/14066844450420389687</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/2006/02/kent-johnson-sent-me-note-asking-me-to_13.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113983363789665203' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113983363789665203' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-564976163"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 16, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114005994902242062</id><published>2006-02-15T22:19:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-15T22:19:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>The biggest--and worst--presumption the West promu...</title><summary type='text'>The biggest--and worst--presumption the West promulgates is that we have 1) the Right &amp; 2) the Responsibility to &quot;save&quot; the world--from itself, from starvation, from ignorance, from injustice, from prejudice, etc., etc., etc.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;We&quot; have no such right and responsibility.  That&#39;s bullshit.  Paternalistic colonialism was exploitation with religious and political window-dressing.  The &quot;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113983363789665203/comments/default/114005994902242062'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113983363789665203/comments/default/114005994902242062'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/kent-johnson-sent-me-note-asking-me-to_13.html?showComment=1140059940000#c114005994902242062' 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/2006/02/kent-johnson-sent-me-note-asking-me-to_13.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113983363789665203' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113983363789665203' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 15, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114004355418134975</id><published>2006-02-15T17:45:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-15T17:45:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Lilac et al.,I&#39;m not aware of the many pro and con...</title><summary type='text'>Lilac et al.,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I&#39;m not aware of the many pro and contra factions or the schisms within Islam.  They all give me a headache whether Wahabi or Wasabi.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Bush&#39;s game plan as such is a continuation of Lincoln&#39;s: spread democracy.  He is constantly reiterating this.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The idea seems to come out of a watershed of thought maybe best represented by an Indian Nobel economist named </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113983363789665203/comments/default/114004355418134975'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113983363789665203/comments/default/114004355418134975'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/kent-johnson-sent-me-note-asking-me-to_13.html?showComment=1140043500000#c114004355418134975' title=''/><author><name>Kirby Olson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943</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/2006/02/kent-johnson-sent-me-note-asking-me-to_13.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113983363789665203' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113983363789665203' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 15, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114002165591660742</id><published>2006-02-15T11:40:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-15T11:40:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Curtis, he would have still &quot;won&quot;.  He always &quot;win...</title><summary type='text'>Curtis, he would have still &quot;won&quot;.  He always &quot;wins&quot;.  There would have been &quot;problems&quot; at &quot;polls&quot; in other states, besides &quot;Ohio&quot;.  We would be comforted, though, that bi-partisan Republican officials and &quot;judges&quot; would provide the correct &quot;conclusions&quot;.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113983363789665203/comments/default/114002165591660742'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113983363789665203/comments/default/114002165591660742'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/kent-johnson-sent-me-note-asking-me-to_13.html?showComment=1140021600000#c114002165591660742' title=''/><author><name>James</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/14066844450420389687</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/2006/02/kent-johnson-sent-me-note-asking-me-to_13.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113983363789665203' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113983363789665203' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-564976163"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 15, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114000708842972584</id><published>2006-02-15T07:38:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-15T07:38:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I think the Weinberger piece is constructed in a w...</title><summary type='text'>I think the Weinberger piece is constructed in a way that suggests certain poetry rants.  It&#39;s repetitive, it&#39;s dogmatic, and it&#39;s fairly narrow in its argument.  Like most not very good political rants, it tends to congratulate and encourage those who already agree with its tenets, rather than convincing skeptics who are undecided.  But poetry is a poor forum for debate, and as such, is an </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113983363789665203/comments/default/114000708842972584'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113983363789665203/comments/default/114000708842972584'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/kent-johnson-sent-me-note-asking-me-to_13.html?showComment=1140007080000#c114000708842972584' 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/2006/02/kent-johnson-sent-me-note-asking-me-to_13.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113983363789665203' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113983363789665203' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 15, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113997215095250974</id><published>2006-02-14T21:55:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-14T21:55:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>First problem Kirby is that you have confused Iraq...</title><summary type='text'>First problem Kirby is that you have confused Iraq with an Islamic state.  It wasn&#39;t.  It was a Nasserite state run by the Ba&#39;ath party with the acquiescence of the Sunni minority and Reagan post cold war cabinet.  The Shia were routinely &quot;quieted&quot; down by placing them in mass graves, draining their swamps and invading their countries (Iran, which IS an Islamic state).  On the other hand, Iraq </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113983363789665203/comments/default/113997215095250974'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113983363789665203/comments/default/113997215095250974'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/kent-johnson-sent-me-note-asking-me-to_13.html?showComment=1139972100000#c113997215095250974' 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/2006/02/kent-johnson-sent-me-note-asking-me-to_13.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113983363789665203' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113983363789665203' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1542572767"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 14, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113996468209728810</id><published>2006-02-14T19:51:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-14T19:51:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>And for that matter, Kirby: do you think that, jus...</title><summary type='text'>And for that matter, Kirby: do you think that, just maybe, the wholesale devastation of Vietnam by the U.S. military had something to do with its economic problems since the war?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;How do you feel about the sanctions in Iraq that killed so many children for the sake of their &quot;freedom?&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Look: history has shown that it&#39;s almost impossible to win a war if the majority of the </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113983363789665203/comments/default/113996468209728810'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113983363789665203/comments/default/113996468209728810'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/kent-johnson-sent-me-note-asking-me-to_13.html?showComment=1139964660000#c113996468209728810' title=''/><author><name>andy gricevich</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/00797822725132844348</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/2006/02/kent-johnson-sent-me-note-asking-me-to_13.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113983363789665203' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113983363789665203' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1436621432"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 14, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113995901959479228</id><published>2006-02-14T18:16:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-14T18:16:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Kirby,that&#39;s not islam staring you in the face, th...</title><summary type='text'>Kirby,&lt;BR/&gt;that&#39;s not islam staring you in the face, that&#39;s sixty years of u.s. foreign policy. not neat, is it?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;cheers&lt;BR/&gt;lars</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113983363789665203/comments/default/113995901959479228'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113983363789665203/comments/default/113995901959479228'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/kent-johnson-sent-me-note-asking-me-to_13.html?showComment=1139958960000#c113995901959479228' title=''/><author><name>Lars Palm</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/18014279624033048950</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/2006/02/kent-johnson-sent-me-note-asking-me-to_13.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113983363789665203' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113983363789665203' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1490930370"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 14, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113995744386410082</id><published>2006-02-14T17:50:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-14T17:50:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Yes, and this administration is not known for its ...</title><summary type='text'>Yes, and this administration is not known for its self-delusion.&lt;BR/&gt;I can invoke Jack anytime I want; but that doesn&#39;t make me Jack.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Here&#39;s a little something for you to read: Rebuilding America&#39;s Defenses (RAD), published on the Project for the New American Century&#39;s website at http://newamericancentury.org/RebuildingAmericasDefenses.pdf. As someone else commented, the plan &quot;outlines a</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113983363789665203/comments/default/113995744386410082'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113983363789665203/comments/default/113995744386410082'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/kent-johnson-sent-me-note-asking-me-to_13.html?showComment=1139957400000#c113995744386410082' title=''/><author><name>Mamaconnie</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/03568894545797687825</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/2006/02/kent-johnson-sent-me-note-asking-me-to_13.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113983363789665203' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113983363789665203' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-493004135"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 14, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113995542605442814</id><published>2006-02-14T17:17:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-14T17:17:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Hm yes, and perhaps posterity will not think of Ki...</title><summary type='text'>Hm yes, and perhaps posterity will not think of Kissinger as a mass murderer, either.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113983363789665203/comments/default/113995542605442814'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113983363789665203/comments/default/113995542605442814'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/kent-johnson-sent-me-note-asking-me-to_13.html?showComment=1139955420000#c113995542605442814' title=''/><author><name>Samuel Vriezen</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16229066450439148225</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/2006/02/kent-johnson-sent-me-note-asking-me-to_13.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113983363789665203' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113983363789665203' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1125742735"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 14, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113995435453121774</id><published>2006-02-14T16:59:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-14T16:59:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>It&#39;s an amusing but false analogy.  Cheney might b...</title><summary type='text'>It&#39;s an amusing but false analogy.  Cheney might be a better strategist than he is an actual hunter.  Had he taken the hunting safety course?  There were thirty accidents along these lines in Texas last year, two fatal.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I&#39;m not saying any of these men are the greatest strategists of all time.  But they are leaning on Lincoln in almost all of their speeches.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Lincoln may also have</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113983363789665203/comments/default/113995435453121774'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113983363789665203/comments/default/113995435453121774'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/kent-johnson-sent-me-note-asking-me-to_13.html?showComment=1139954340000#c113995435453121774' title=''/><author><name>Kirby Olson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943</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/2006/02/kent-johnson-sent-me-note-asking-me-to_13.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113983363789665203' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113983363789665203' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 14, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113994535459444142</id><published>2006-02-14T14:29:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-14T14:29:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>To see Kirby Olson go on like this, one would thin...</title><summary type='text'>To see Kirby Olson go on like this, one would think that the White House is full of magnanimous strategic geniuses who are actually bringing freedom to Iraq, or Islam, or Vietnam. But as a Dutch newspaper columnist was asking today - &quot;The vice president aimed for a half-foot-high quail and accidentally shot a two-yards 200 pound redneck. Does this perhaps say something about the war in Iraq?&quot;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113983363789665203/comments/default/113994535459444142'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113983363789665203/comments/default/113994535459444142'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/kent-johnson-sent-me-note-asking-me-to_13.html?showComment=1139945340000#c113994535459444142' title=''/><author><name>Samuel Vriezen</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16229066450439148225</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/2006/02/kent-johnson-sent-me-note-asking-me-to_13.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113983363789665203' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113983363789665203' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1125742735"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 14, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113993829713223041</id><published>2006-02-14T12:31:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-14T12:31:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Lars, I think there is a discrepancy between histo...</title><summary type='text'>Lars, I think there is a discrepancy between historical Islam with philosophers like Averroes, and actual Islam, with a much different set of principles staring us all in the face.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Iraq is not part of the US but then neither were the Confederate States (they had voted to secede).  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The world is all one thing now whether we like it or not since anybody can get anywhere within a </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113983363789665203/comments/default/113993829713223041'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113983363789665203/comments/default/113993829713223041'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/kent-johnson-sent-me-note-asking-me-to_13.html?showComment=1139938260000#c113993829713223041' title=''/><author><name>Kirby Olson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943</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/2006/02/kent-johnson-sent-me-note-asking-me-to_13.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113983363789665203' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113983363789665203' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 14, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113993647599065171</id><published>2006-02-14T12:01:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-14T12:01:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>There&#39;s also the little problem that islam is the ...</title><summary type='text'>There&#39;s also the little problem that islam is the intellectually richest &amp; most versatile of the three monotheistic religions. Which is easy to find if you study it seriously</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113983363789665203/comments/default/113993647599065171'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113983363789665203/comments/default/113993647599065171'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/kent-johnson-sent-me-note-asking-me-to_13.html?showComment=1139936460000#c113993647599065171' title=''/><author><name>Lars Palm</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/18014279624033048950</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/2006/02/kent-johnson-sent-me-note-asking-me-to_13.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113983363789665203' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113983363789665203' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1490930370"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 14, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113993279666448153</id><published>2006-02-14T10:59:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-14T10:59:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Kirby said:&quot;The whole country was against Lincoln ...</title><summary type='text'>Kirby said:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;The whole country was against Lincoln and his popularity was below even that of Bush in the darkest days of the Civil War but he hung on. 350,000 Union dead.&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;*&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Kirby, there&#39;s one little problem here, but maybe it needs to actually be stated:  Iraq is not part of the United States!</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113983363789665203/comments/default/113993279666448153'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113983363789665203/comments/default/113993279666448153'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/kent-johnson-sent-me-note-asking-me-to_13.html?showComment=1139932740000#c113993279666448153' title=''/><author><name>James</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/14066844450420389687</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/2006/02/kent-johnson-sent-me-note-asking-me-to_13.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113983363789665203' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113983363789665203' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-564976163"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 14, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113992746538972575</id><published>2006-02-14T09:31:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-14T09:31:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I would have made a lousy soldier or a lousy polic...</title><summary type='text'>I would have made a lousy soldier or a lousy police officer.  Unless I was just in the typing pool.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Think of the Civil War.  It cost enormously much more and it is that which Bush continually recalls in his speeches.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The whole country was against Lincoln and his popularity was below even that of Bush in the darkest days of the Civil War but he hung on.  350,000 Union dead.  &lt;BR/</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113983363789665203/comments/default/113992746538972575'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113983363789665203/comments/default/113992746538972575'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/kent-johnson-sent-me-note-asking-me-to_13.html?showComment=1139927460000#c113992746538972575' title=''/><author><name>Kirby Olson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943</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/2006/02/kent-johnson-sent-me-note-asking-me-to_13.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113983363789665203' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113983363789665203' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 14, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113992235717645566</id><published>2006-02-14T08:05:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-14T08:05:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>In 1969 Nixon and Kissinger agreed that the war wa...</title><summary type='text'>In 1969 Nixon and Kissinger agreed that the war was unwinnable -- they decided it would be best for them to just pretend it wasn&#39;t.  18,000 American soldiers died from then till we left.  God knows how many Vietnamese.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113983363789665203/comments/default/113992235717645566'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113983363789665203/comments/default/113992235717645566'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/kent-johnson-sent-me-note-asking-me-to_13.html?showComment=1139922300000#c113992235717645566' 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/2006/02/kent-johnson-sent-me-note-asking-me-to_13.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113983363789665203' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113983363789665203' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1849826838"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 14, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113990674536412300</id><published>2006-02-14T03:45:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-14T03:45:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Well said, Curtis.</title><summary type='text'>Well said, Curtis.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113983363789665203/comments/default/113990674536412300'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113983363789665203/comments/default/113990674536412300'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/kent-johnson-sent-me-note-asking-me-to_13.html?showComment=1139906700000#c113990674536412300' title=''/><author><name>andy gricevich</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/00797822725132844348</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/2006/02/kent-johnson-sent-me-note-asking-me-to_13.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113983363789665203' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113983363789665203' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1436621432"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 14, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113988707656439379</id><published>2006-02-13T22:17:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-13T22:17:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Kirby, Vietnam was a demonstrable failure on sever...</title><summary type='text'>Kirby, Vietnam was a demonstrable failure on several levels:  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;1) It was a war we were destined to &quot;lose&quot; from the start.  The only way it could have been &quot;won&quot; was literally to melt it back into the stone age with nuclear bombs.  As it was, we killed and poisoned and smeared devastation throughout the land.  There comes a point when you&#39;re no longer representing anything except your own</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113983363789665203/comments/default/113988707656439379'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113983363789665203/comments/default/113988707656439379'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/kent-johnson-sent-me-note-asking-me-to_13.html?showComment=1139887020000#c113988707656439379' 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/2006/02/kent-johnson-sent-me-note-asking-me-to_13.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113983363789665203' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113983363789665203' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 13, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113987823499953639</id><published>2006-02-13T19:50:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-13T19:50:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Kirby -- tell the whole story. First you tried to ...</title><summary type='text'>Kirby -- tell the whole story. First you tried to sign up with the Spartans to stand with them at that fateful pass.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;Go tell the Spartans,&quot; you asseverated.  &quot;That here obedient to their wish am I!&quot;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113983363789665203/comments/default/113987823499953639'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113983363789665203/comments/default/113987823499953639'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/kent-johnson-sent-me-note-asking-me-to_13.html?showComment=1139878200000#c113987823499953639' 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/2006/02/kent-johnson-sent-me-note-asking-me-to_13.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113983363789665203' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113983363789665203' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1849826838"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 13, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113986792910209952</id><published>2006-02-13T16:58:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-13T16:58:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Ron, thanks for posting that link &#39;What I Heard Ab...</title><summary type='text'>Ron, thanks for posting that link &#39;What I Heard About Iraq&#39;. What I&#39;ve read of it (so far) eloquently summarises what myself and the rest of the 100,000 people in Dublin were marching against. Some of it I&#39;ve read before of course, such as GW Bush&#39;s madly optimistic victory speech aboard the  USS Abraham Lincoln, dressed in flight-suit of a Navy pilot, under a banner reading MISSION ACCOMPLISHED.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113983363789665203/comments/default/113986792910209952'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113983363789665203/comments/default/113986792910209952'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/kent-johnson-sent-me-note-asking-me-to_13.html?showComment=1139867880000#c113986792910209952' title=''/><author><name>Mark Granier</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11217856911720898729</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/2006/02/kent-johnson-sent-me-note-asking-me-to_13.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113983363789665203' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113983363789665203' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-876787782"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 13, 2006"/></entry></feed>