{"id":104,"date":"2010-12-17T06:49:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-17T06:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wildfoxzen\/2010\/12\/real-talk\/"},"modified":"2010-12-17T06:49:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-17T06:49:00","slug":"real-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wildfoxzen\/2010\/12\/real-talk.html","title":{"rendered":"Real Talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=H5OtB298fHY?fs=1\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=H5OtB298fHY?fs=1<\/a>\n<\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: large\"><span style='font-family: Georgia,\"Times New Roman\",serif'>Driving home from work yesterday, I flipped on NPR and heard somebody saying things just like I think. Wow, I thought, this dude has to run for president of \u2026 something.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large\"><span style='font-family: Georgia,\"Times New Roman\",serif'>Turns out it was Bernie Sanders, independent senator from the beautiful state of Vermont. I\u2019m moving there! Minnesota\u2019s senators voted for the incredibly bad idea tax-break extension, giving away billions to the wealthy and pennies to the poor.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large\"><span style='font-family: Georgia,\"Times New Roman\",serif'>And as most of you know, unless you were in sesshin too last Friday, Sen. Sanders spoke for 8.5 hours on the Senate floor, opposing the transfer of more wealth from the lower and middle classes to the wealthy. 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