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		<title>Still here</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Idea of Progress is currently without internet access, and will therefore be returning at whichever time Comcast decides to install the internet at his new home in Portland.
 
Stay Tuned!
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Idea of Progress is currently without internet access, and will therefore be returning at whichever time Comcast decides to install the internet at his new home in Portland.</p>
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<p>Stay Tuned!</p>
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		<title>Best of Craigslist</title>
		<link>http://www.theideaofprogress.com/2008/06/26/best-of-craigslist-10/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 22:11:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bikini Cashier/Barista Needed.. Gresham Area (Gresham)
Reply to: msshilohphelps@yahoo.com
Date: 2008-06-26, 1:11PM PDT
Grand re-opening July 1st. Looking for Bikini Cashiers and Baristas with witty personalities. Wage + Tips. No experience needed just bikinis and other optional lingerie. Please call 503-661-3540, email copy of resume and picture to msshilohphelps@yahoo.com or drop off Coffee shop on 181st and Division [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><b><u>Bikini Cashier/Barista Needed.. Gresham Area (Gresham)</b></u><br />
<i>Reply to: msshilohphelps@yahoo.com<br />
Date: 2008-06-26, 1:11PM PDT</i></p>
<p><a href='http://www.theideaofprogress.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/espresso_vivace.jpg'><img src="http://www.theideaofprogress.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/espresso_vivace-150x150.jpg" alt="" title="espresso_vivace" width="150" height="150" class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-432" /></a>Grand re-opening July 1st. Looking for Bikini Cashiers and Baristas with witty personalities. Wage + Tips. No experience needed just bikinis and other optional lingerie. Please call 503-661-3540, email copy of resume and picture to msshilohphelps@yahoo.com or drop off Coffee shop on 181st and Division between dominoes and shell gas station. Interviews start Saturday. You will be required to obtain food handlers card within 30 days of employment.</p>
<p>    * Location: Gresham<br />
    * This is a part-time job.<br />
    * Principals only. Recruiters, please don&#8217;t contact this job poster.<br />
    * Phone calls about this job are ok.<br />
    * Please do not contact job poster about other services, products or commercial interests.</p>
<p>PostingID: 733690178</p>
<p><i><a href="http://portland.craigslist.org/mlt/fbh/733690178.html">Original Post</a></i>.</p>
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		<title>Extra-Satisfying Quote of the Day</title>
		<link>http://www.theideaofprogress.com/2008/06/25/extra-satisfying-quote-of-the-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 19:28:16 +0000</pubDate>
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 It looks as if Rove is on the verge of realizing his dream of creating a permanent position for the Republicans.
Unfortunately for him, it’s in the minority. 
&#8211;Maureen Dowd in the New York Times today.
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<blockquote> It looks as if Rove is on the verge of realizing his dream of creating a permanent position for the Republicans.</p>
<p>Unfortunately for him, it’s in the minority. </p></blockquote>
<p>&#8211;Maureen Dowd in the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/25/opinion/25dowd.html?em&#038;ex=1214539200&#038;en=fecd60c8a2b8c257&#038;ei=5087%0A">New York Times</a> today.</p>
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		<title>Creative Hiding Place</title>
		<link>http://www.theideaofprogress.com/2008/06/23/creative-hiding-place/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 21:29:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Say you want to take pictures of naked ladies.  One place that might be good to start is a tanning bed, right?  What, you don&#8217;t have a camera?  Not problem, use your cell phone!  Those have cameras, right?
Uh oh, the cops are here!  Where can you hide the evidence?  In your shoe?  In a garbage [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.theideaofprogress.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/barrier.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-428" title="barrier" src="http://www.theideaofprogress.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/barrier-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="150" /></a>Say you want to take pictures of naked ladies.  One place that might be good to start is a tanning bed, right?  What, you don&#8217;t have a camera?  Not problem, use your cell phone!  Those have cameras, right?</p>
<p>Uh oh, the cops are here!  Where can you hide the evidence?  In your shoe?  In a garbage can?  Wait, a better idea occurs to you:</p>
<p>Your butt!</p>
<p>This scenerio must have seemed a good one to Jeffery Barrier of Ohio.  Except the fuzz was on to his whole &#8216;hide cellphone up butt&#8217; master plan, and he was arrested.</p>
<p>See all of the fun facts about the case at the <a href="http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2008/0623081phone1.html">Smoking Gun</a>.</p>
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		<title>Freedom!</title>
		<link>http://www.theideaofprogress.com/2008/06/18/freedom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 02:16:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The pig!  The pig!  Is he safe?
&#8211;
I&#8217;ve managed to escape.  I don&#8217;t know how long I was trapped in that basement, but I managed to free myself.  My head hurts.  I think I was drugged.
&#8211;
Wait, that&#8217;s not chloroform.  That&#8217;s PBR.
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Where am I?  Fernando is gone.  I managed [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The pig!  The pig!  Is he safe?</p>
<p>&#8211;</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve managed to escape.  I don&#8217;t know how long I was trapped in that basement, but I managed to free myself.  My head hurts.  I think I was drugged.</p>
<p>&#8211;</p>
<p>Wait, that&#8217;s not chloroform.  That&#8217;s PBR.</p>
<p>&#8211;</p>
<p>Where am I?  Fernando is gone.  I managed to hold them off long enough to allow him to escape.  That damn pig didn&#8217;t want to leave me behind, but he had no choice.  That pig is one hell of a shot with an Uzi.</p>
<p>&#8211;</p>
<p>The PLF.  Damn it!  They got away!  I think I was in that basement for&#8230;days?  Weeks?  I don&#8217;t know how they found me.</p>
<p>&#8211;</p>
<p>Wait, I know how they found me, I knocked on their door.  They shouldn&#8217;t have listed their address on their Facebook page.  I demanded to see El Cerdo.  When they played dumb, I shoved them aside and drew my .45.  This got their attention.  But someone hit me on the back of the head.  As my consciousness faded, I heard a voice.</p>
<p>&#8220;Four legs good, two legs bad.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8211;</p>
<p>I woke up in a pool of my own blood.  At first I thought I was alone.  The room was dark, dank.  A basement, most likely.  My hands were cuffed behind my back.</p>
<p>I heard the sound of trotters clicking on the cement floor.  A voice assured me that everything would be okay.  The lock on my cuffs was picked.  My hands were free.</p>
<p>The sound of a match scraping.  A cigarette was lit.  It was Fernando.  He had been here for days.  If he couldn&#8217;t escape, how was I going to?</p>
<p>&#8211;</p>
<p>Over the next few days we formulated a plan.  I pretended to be sick, and when the guards came in, Fernando would jump them.  Sure, the plan seemed too simple, but it worked like a charm.  Two guards entered to investigate my cries.  Fernando made short order of them.  Tossed me one of their guns.  He took the Uzi.</p>
<p>&#8211;<br />
<a href="http://www.theideaofprogress.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/tiopfernando.gif"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-426" title="Fernando is free" src="http://www.theideaofprogress.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/tiopfernando-300x207.gif" alt="" width="300" height="207" /></a><br />
It was a bloodbath.  We shot our way out of the damn place, side to side, brother to brother, swine to blogger.  We escaped in a Maserati that someone had parked on the street, and that the pig quickly hotwired.  We pulled away just as the PLF headquarters exploded in a fireball that engulfed much of the block.</p>
<p>But we were followed.</p>
<p>&#8211;</p>
<p>He let me off at the corner of 20th and Burnside.  We were going to split up.  but as I stepped out of the car, there was the sound of gunfire.  The car was riddled with bullets, but the pig and I manged to run for it to the nearest train.</p>
<p>Fernando hopped on first, with me in close pursuit, but just as I reached the doors my legs were kicked out from under me.  Fernando came to help, but the doors closed on him, and he was taken away to the airport.</p>
<p>I was left to face my assailant.</p>
<p>El Cerdo.</p>
<p>&#8211;</p>
<p>&#8220;The future is ours!&#8221;  he proclaimed, waving an AK-47 in my direction.  &#8220;The fascist state of two legged carnivores is at an end.  This is only the beginning!&#8221;</p>
<p>But while he was speaking, I was reaching for the knife in my boot.</p>
<p>El Cerdo raised his rifle and pointed at my heart.</p>
<p>&#8220;Farewell, human!&#8221; he spat.</p>
<p>I braced myself.  &#8220;Hey, El Cerdo!</p>
<p>&#8220;Four legs are good, but two legs are better!&#8221;</p>
<p>I threw the knife.  He must have been faster than I thought, because I never miss.  The knife sank into his shoulder like a ham sandwich.  El Cerdo squealed, dropped his gun and scampered off.</p>
<p>And I was left alone.</p>
<p>&#8211;</p>
<p>And Fernando is safe. That is all that matters.  Perhaps I&#8217;ve judged both he and McGone too harshly.  This experience has opened the eyes of the Idea of Progress.  No more will I bear ill will towards a fellow blogger.  We&#8217;re in this crazy Blogonetosphere together.</p>
<p>Except for Grant Miller.</p>
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		<title>More To Come&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.theideaofprogress.com/2008/06/05/more-to-come/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 20:37:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve got a lead on Fernando&#8211; I think I know where he&#8217;s being held.
While I search, let me leave you with the most amazing/ horrifying office video ever.  Is it real?  I can&#8217;t tell.
Office Worker Goes Absolutely Insane - Watch more free videos
If you look closely, you can see people taping the incident [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve got a lead on Fernando&#8211; I think I know where he&#8217;s being held.</p>
<p>While I search, let me leave you with the most amazing/ horrifying office video ever.  Is it real?  I can&#8217;t tell.</p>
<p><object width="464" height="392"><param name="movie" value="http://embed.break.com/NTEzMzEw"></param><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://embed.break.com/NTEzMzEw" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowScriptAccess=always width="464" height="392"></embed></object><br /><font size=1><a href="http://www.break.com/index/office-worker-goes-absolutely-insane.html">Office Worker Goes Absolutely Insane</a> - Watch more <a href="http://www.break.com/">free videos</a></font></p>
<p>If you look closely, you can see people taping the incident on cellphone cameras.  Here&#8217;s one of their videos:</p>
<p><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/XqTItdUlJPk&#038;rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/XqTItdUlJPk&#038;rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></p>
<p>Is it real?  Fake?  I know we&#8217;ve all felt like this.</p>
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		<title>Fernando will be found</title>
		<link>http://www.theideaofprogress.com/2008/06/02/fernando-will-be-found/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 19:49:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>On to Portland!</title>
		<link>http://www.theideaofprogress.com/2008/06/01/on-to-portland/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 04:48:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fernando must ben saved!

EDIT: Must be saved.  I&#8217;m in too much of a hurry to spellcheck.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Fernando must ben saved!<br />
<a href='http://www.theideaofprogress.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/tiop-at-mdw.jpg'><img src="http://www.theideaofprogress.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/tiop-at-mdw-300x225.jpg" alt="" title="tiop-at-mdw" width="300" height="225" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-421" /></a></p>
<p><i>EDIT: Must <u>be</u> saved.  I&#8217;m in too much of a hurry to spellcheck.</i></p>
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		<title>It&#8217;s true!  Fernando has been kidnapped!</title>
		<link>http://www.theideaofprogress.com/2008/05/31/its-true-fernando-has-been-kidnapped/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2008 01:57:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Pork Liberation front has posted a picture of the kidnapped Fernando.  But they have made a tactical error&#8211; the newspaper he is shown in front of is the Oregonian.
Fernando is in Portland!
I am on the next plane there.  I will bring him home safely and clear my name.  I will not [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href='http://www.theideaofprogress.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/fernandokidnapped.jpeg'><img src="http://www.theideaofprogress.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/fernandokidnapped-150x150.jpg" alt="" title="fernandokidnapped" width="150" height="150" class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-419" /></a>The Pork Liberation front has <a href="http://www.porkliberationfront.org/2008/05/31/we-have-taken-the-pig/">posted a picture</a> of the kidnapped Fernando.  But they have made a tactical error&#8211; the newspaper he is shown in front of is the Oregonian.</p>
<p>Fernando is in Portland!</p>
<p>I am on the next plane there.  I will bring him home safely and clear my name.  I will not allow Fernando to be harmed by these agents of terror.</p>
<p>If I don&#8217;t return safely, tell Katrocket that she can have my estate in Provance and Splotchy can have my record collection.  Grant Miller can have my collection of Hummel figurines. </p>
<p>The rest should be donated to charity.</p>
<p>Wish me luck.</p>
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		<title>Fernando Update</title>
		<link>http://www.theideaofprogress.com/2008/05/30/fernando-update/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 18:01:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It appears the claims of the Pork Liberation Front were credible.  They have posted a picture of their leader and Fernando.
More to come.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It appears the claims of the Pork Liberation Front were credible.  They have <a href="http://www.porkliberationfront.org/2008/05/30/we-have-taken-fernando/">posted a picture of their leader and Fernando</a>.</p>
<p>More to come.</p>
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