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		<title>WRITE SOMETHING ABOUT MICHAEL JACKSON PLEASE</title>
		<link>http://downtownster.com/2009/12/write-something-about-michael-jackson-please-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 23:37:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stan Lerner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[FOREWORD BY STAN LERNER: downtownster does not celebrate its first birthday until February, but I still feel compelled to post the TEN BEST downtownster blogs of 2009. And while I think all of our blogs have been great, these are the ones that readers read the most and gave us the highest level of props [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IRAN</title>
		<link>http://downtownster.com/2009/10/iran/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 10:37:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stan Lerner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several months ago I wrote in a downtownster blog that Iran was seeking to develop nuclear weapons – unequivocally. I went on to say that sanctions would not cause the Iranian government to halt their development of a nuclear weapon. I did not mention the not so well kept secret of the uranium enrichment facility [...]]]></description>
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		<title>STATE OF RACE</title>
		<link>http://downtownster.com/2009/09/state-of-race/</link>
		<comments>http://downtownster.com/2009/09/state-of-race/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 19:37:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stan Lerner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the weekend the state of race relations in America came to mind…Seventy-five thousand protestors marched against President Obama’s agenda…Serena Williams had a meltdown at the U.S. Open…Kanye West went thug at the MTV Video Music Awards…And I attended my friend Kim’s Gospel Brunch in Beverly Hills. All of these events, except for my brunch, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>California Monsters by Ryne Mading</title>
		<link>http://downtownster.com/2009/08/california-monsters-by-ryne-mading/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 06:49:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stan Lerner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Foreword by Stan Lerner: I just got this in the downtownster mailbox, I would laugh if I wasn&#8217;t in so much pain!!! During another post graduate day of slaving away at the coffee shop that uniquely helped me achieve secondary educational success….enter Stan Lerner. After a double short latte order and a short chat session, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IF YOU BUILD IT, THEY WILL COME?</title>
		<link>http://downtownster.com/2009/08/if-you-build-it-they-will-come/</link>
		<comments>http://downtownster.com/2009/08/if-you-build-it-they-will-come/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 17:18:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stan Lerner</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://downtownster.com/?p=1074</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My writing has come to span a variety of topics. And because one can never truly know what lies beyond the next door I, on occasion, write about what was once reserved for my most personal of conversations—politics and business. You see, I admittedly have a passion for both subjects, but in the ideal sense; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WHY PAY TO BURY MJ?</title>
		<link>http://downtownster.com/2009/07/why-pay-to-bury-mj/</link>
		<comments>http://downtownster.com/2009/07/why-pay-to-bury-mj/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 06:15:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stan Lerner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The story a few days ago was buried in the Los Angeles Times—far less conspicuously than the King of Pop, who stopped at Staple’s Center to say goodbye to 17,000 of his closest friends. The tale is a simple one; taxpayers are going to get stuck with the 1.4 million dollar expense for security and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WRITE SOMETHING ABOUT MICHAEL JACKSON PLEASE</title>
		<link>http://downtownster.com/2009/06/write-something-about-michael-jackson-please/</link>
		<comments>http://downtownster.com/2009/06/write-something-about-michael-jackson-please/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:19:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stan Lerner</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://downtownster.com/?p=896</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I received a text message from one of my sources at 3:00 pm that Michael Jackson, often called the King of Pop, was dead. This was fifteen minutes before the official declaration and by 3:30 pm the calls, text messages, and emails asking me to write something were rolling in. My initial response to all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TILLER THE BABY KILLER GUNNED DOWN IN CHURCH!</title>
		<link>http://downtownster.com/2009/06/tiller-the-baby-killer-gunned-down-in-church/</link>
		<comments>http://downtownster.com/2009/06/tiller-the-baby-killer-gunned-down-in-church/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 19:36:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stan Lerner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. George Tiller was attending church in Wichita Kansas when a lone gunman walked in and shot him once, a single bullet, bringing a violent and sudden death to one of the great mass murderers of our time. Warning: if you are a person that believes in the right to choose, or more simply put, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ten Years of Dark Humor: A Retrospective of the First Decade of the New Century</title>
		<link>http://downtownster.com/2009/05/ten-years-of-dark-humor-a-retrospective-of-the-first-decade-of-the-new-century/</link>
		<comments>http://downtownster.com/2009/05/ten-years-of-dark-humor-a-retrospective-of-the-first-decade-of-the-new-century/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 17:24:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wylie VanWenger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://downtownster.com/?p=726</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We are approaching the half-way point of the last year of the decade.  Sort of.  Officially the last year of this decade is 2010.  That’s if you’re following the rules.  If you’re going by the book then the first year of this decade/century/millennium was not 2000, but 2001.  After all the Julian calendar didn’t start [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thought Tools</title>
		<link>http://downtownster.com/2009/05/thought-tools/</link>
		<comments>http://downtownster.com/2009/05/thought-tools/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 17:50:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi Daniel Lapen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Foreword by Stan Lerner: Many  years ago I had the great opportunity to learn with Rabbi Daniel Lapen who is one of the greatest thinkers of our time. His move from California to Washington State in many ways left an empty desert where a sea of knowledge had flourished. Now because of the internet and [...]]]></description>
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