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I must say that RSS is awesome! When I recently switched to using Thunderbird instead of the older, integrated Mozilla client, I found the RSS feature handy. So, I supplied it with some RSS feeds from sites on the Internet: ABC News, CNN, BBC World Edition, BibleGateway.com's Verse of the Day… I'm even making an RSS feed for this site too so that you can have each of these rants delivered to your inbox as soon as it's available!

However, the point that I'm trying to make is that it's useful; it's useful to determine the liberal media bias in certain media outlets. Eric Rudolph has been in the news lately. He is the man who bombed the 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympic Games and some abortion clinics and gay bars in the South. There is no doubt in my mind about how setting a bomb off at the Olympic Games is bad. However, I kind of have mixed feelings about the abortion clinic bombings. When I hear about how some poor abortion person¹ who makes a living off of murdering children who haven't even had an opportunity to breath air gets killed or looses an eye, I really can't have sympathy for that. The issue is in the news recently because Rudolph is now facing trial. With my nifty RSS feed reader, I'm reading the articles that come in about this. As I'm reading CNN's article² on the subject, it mentions how he bombed several “women's clinics”. What's a women's clinic? Well, ABC News's article³ states that they were abortion clinics. Hmmmm, what's the connection between women and abortion? Obviously, men don't go getting abortions, but women don't go become the president. Does that mean that we can call the White House the Man House? (On a side note, the term White House is ironically descriptive since all the presidents have been white.)

As John Kerry would say, we're living in an Orwellian society where words are skewed to change our mindset towards certain issues. Women's health — who's against that? Hey, I'm all for pap smears and breast exams! Who in their right mind wouldn't want women to be unhealthy? It's a good thing. Abortion is a bad thing. So, how do you make a bad thing seem good? Write your answer on a piece of paper.

[Cue Jeopardy music.]

I'll trust that you'll grade your own paper in this instance. The answer's not that hard.

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1. I can't really use the term abortion doctor here. Doctors “do no harm”.
2. http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2005/rudolph/
3. http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=666679&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312