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		<title>By: Christian B. Bowers</title>
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		<dc:creator>Christian B. Bowers</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 05:13:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Oh, and I forgot, though my father and stepmother SAY they punished Melanie, it is in no way true. She&#039;s working all right, but not for money to pay this back. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Yeah... if I think about that, and then what my father would have done to ME, had I done it, I get nothing short of pissed.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Oh, and I forgot, though my father and stepmother SAY they punished Melanie, it is in no way true. She&#39;s working all right, but not for money to pay this back. </p>
<p>Yeah&#8230; if I think about that, and then what my father would have done to ME, had I done it, I get nothing short of pissed.</p>
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		<title>By: Christian B. Bowers</title>
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		<dc:creator>Christian B. Bowers</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2009 23:13:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Oh, and I forgot, though my father and stepmother SAY they punished Melanie, it is in no way true. She&#039;s working all right, but not for money to pay this back. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Yeah... if I think about that, and then what my father would have done to ME, had I done it, I get nothing short of pissed.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Oh, and I forgot, though my father and stepmother SAY they punished Melanie, it is in no way true. She&#39;s working all right, but not for money to pay this back. </p>
<p>Yeah&#8230; if I think about that, and then what my father would have done to ME, had I done it, I get nothing short of pissed.</p>
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		<title>By: Christian B. Bowers</title>
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		<dc:creator>Christian B. Bowers</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2009 23:09:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hello, my name is Christian Bowers. I am J.R. Bowers ONLY blood son, and my younger sister is his only blood DAUGHTER. Melanie is merely a stepchild. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;It was four years ago that my father, J.R., a.k.a Gary Jesse Bowers Jr., and my mother, who shall for her sake remain nameless. divorced. There were many allegations from both sides that adultery was held on both sides. However, the only evidence of anything like that was pointed at my father, whom we had once prior to the divorce, found having sex with another woman at our house when we were away. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;For a while however, I believed that my mother was at fault, and even considered going to live with my father. However, once I returned home after a lengthy summer legal visit with my father, I found undeniable evidence that my father&#039;s new &quot;family&quot; had filled me with nothing but lies. When I was told Shera and my father were to be wed, I took two days to evaluate what I knew. Then, two days before their wedding, I broke it off. I told my father I would never come to see him so long as they were his family. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;After this, Shera, from whom Melanie&#039;s lying habits originated, called and verbally attacked my grandmother, on my father&#039;s side, with slanderous lies of what my mother was supposedly planning. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Since then, my mother and I have become close, and I understand what is illusion, and what is false. So, imagine my surprise to here her screaming from the living room, bringing me to find the first of the two reports on this subject. I was nonchalant, unsympathetic one could say. I had but one comment on the whole thing:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&quot;Either she&#039;s a total moron, or she&#039;s lying like her mother.&quot;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Well, guess which was true? &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Anyways, I&#039;m done ranting, I&#039;m just trying to clear the air and erase any harsh marks left on the actual Bowers family, who no longer speaks with my father after he allowed his wife to say such blasphemy about my mother toward my grandmother, though they do all still have an ironclad relationship with my mother even though they are no longer legally related.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Got anything to ask about my stupid stepsister? Please, e-mail me, I&#039;ll try to reply when I can. lol</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hello, my name is Christian Bowers. I am J.R. Bowers ONLY blood son, and my younger sister is his only blood DAUGHTER. Melanie is merely a stepchild. </p>
<p>It was four years ago that my father, J.R., a.k.a Gary Jesse Bowers Jr., and my mother, who shall for her sake remain nameless. divorced. There were many allegations from both sides that adultery was held on both sides. However, the only evidence of anything like that was pointed at my father, whom we had once prior to the divorce, found having sex with another woman at our house when we were away. </p>
<p>For a while however, I believed that my mother was at fault, and even considered going to live with my father. However, once I returned home after a lengthy summer legal visit with my father, I found undeniable evidence that my father&#39;s new &#8220;family&#8221; had filled me with nothing but lies. When I was told Shera and my father were to be wed, I took two days to evaluate what I knew. Then, two days before their wedding, I broke it off. I told my father I would never come to see him so long as they were his family. </p>
<p>After this, Shera, from whom Melanie&#39;s lying habits originated, called and verbally attacked my grandmother, on my father&#39;s side, with slanderous lies of what my mother was supposedly planning. </p>
<p>Since then, my mother and I have become close, and I understand what is illusion, and what is false. So, imagine my surprise to here her screaming from the living room, bringing me to find the first of the two reports on this subject. I was nonchalant, unsympathetic one could say. I had but one comment on the whole thing:</p>
<p>&#8220;Either she&#39;s a total moron, or she&#39;s lying like her mother.&#8221;</p>
<p>Well, guess which was true? </p>
<p>Anyways, I&#39;m done ranting, I&#39;m just trying to clear the air and erase any harsh marks left on the actual Bowers family, who no longer speaks with my father after he allowed his wife to say such blasphemy about my mother toward my grandmother, though they do all still have an ironclad relationship with my mother even though they are no longer legally related.</p>
<p>Got anything to ask about my stupid stepsister? Please, e-mail me, I&#39;ll try to reply when I can. lol</p>
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		<title>By: Christian B. Bowers</title>
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		<dc:creator>Christian B. Bowers</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2009 22:09:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hello, my name is Christian Bowers. I am J.R. Bowers ONLY blood son, and my younger sister is his only blood DAUGHTER. Melanie is merely a stepchild. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;It was four years ago that my father, J.R., a.k.a Gary Jesse Bowers Jr., and my mother, who shall for her sake remain nameless. divorced. There were many allegations from both sides that adultery was held on both sides. However, the only evidence of anything like that was pointed at my father, whom we had once prior to the divorce, found having sex with another woman at our house when we were away. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;For a while however, I believed that my mother was at fault, and even considered going to live with my father. However, once I returned home after a lengthy summer legal visit with my father, I found undeniable evidence that my father&#039;s new &quot;family&quot; had filled me with nothing but lies. When I was told Shera and my father were to be wed, I took two days to evaluate what I knew. Then, two days before their wedding, I broke it off. I told my father I would never come to see him so long as they were his family. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;After this, Shera, from whom Melanie&#039;s lying habits originated, called and verbally attacked my grandmother, on my father&#039;s side, with slanderous lies of what my mother was supposedly planning. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Since then, my mother and I have become close, and I understand what is illusion, and what is false. So, imagine my surprise to here her screaming from the living room, bringing me to find the first of the two reports on this subject. I was nonchalant, unsympathetic one could say. I had but one comment on the whole thing:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&quot;Either she&#039;s a total moron, or she&#039;s lying like her mother.&quot;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Well, guess which was true? &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Anyways, I&#039;m done ranting, I&#039;m just trying to clear the air and erase any harsh marks left on the actual Bowers family, who no longer speaks with my father after he allowed his wife to say such blasphemy about my mother toward my grandmother, though they do all still have an ironclad relationship with my mother even though they are no longer legally related.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Got anything to ask about my stupid stepsister? Please, e-mail me, I&#039;ll try to reply when I can. lol</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hello, my name is Christian Bowers. I am J.R. Bowers ONLY blood son, and my younger sister is his only blood DAUGHTER. Melanie is merely a stepchild. </p>
<p>It was four years ago that my father, J.R., a.k.a Gary Jesse Bowers Jr., and my mother, who shall for her sake remain nameless. divorced. There were many allegations from both sides that adultery was held on both sides. However, the only evidence of anything like that was pointed at my father, whom we had once prior to the divorce, found having sex with another woman at our house when we were away. </p>
<p>For a while however, I believed that my mother was at fault, and even considered going to live with my father. However, once I returned home after a lengthy summer legal visit with my father, I found undeniable evidence that my father&#39;s new &#8220;family&#8221; had filled me with nothing but lies. When I was told Shera and my father were to be wed, I took two days to evaluate what I knew. Then, two days before their wedding, I broke it off. I told my father I would never come to see him so long as they were his family. </p>
<p>After this, Shera, from whom Melanie&#39;s lying habits originated, called and verbally attacked my grandmother, on my father&#39;s side, with slanderous lies of what my mother was supposedly planning. </p>
<p>Since then, my mother and I have become close, and I understand what is illusion, and what is false. So, imagine my surprise to here her screaming from the living room, bringing me to find the first of the two reports on this subject. I was nonchalant, unsympathetic one could say. I had but one comment on the whole thing:</p>
<p>&#8220;Either she&#39;s a total moron, or she&#39;s lying like her mother.&#8221;</p>
<p>Well, guess which was true? </p>
<p>Anyways, I&#39;m done ranting, I&#39;m just trying to clear the air and erase any harsh marks left on the actual Bowers family, who no longer speaks with my father after he allowed his wife to say such blasphemy about my mother toward my grandmother, though they do all still have an ironclad relationship with my mother even though they are no longer legally related.</p>
<p>Got anything to ask about my stupid stepsister? Please, e-mail me, I&#39;ll try to reply when I can. lol</p>
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		<title>By: scott</title>
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		<dc:creator>scott</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:08:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Karoli,&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;you sound like the one who is racist.  racism extends to &quot;just about anyone who isn&#039;t white&quot;??  that comment is racist in itself.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;the girl is 13 years old!  kids do stupid things all of the time, especially in middle school.  she was probably more upset about the poster being taken away than anything else.  and to assume that her parents are racist just because they sent her to school with an illegal immigration poster?  thats the whole point of the immigration debate... to cut down on illegal immigration!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Karoli,</p>
<p>you sound like the one who is racist.  racism extends to &#8220;just about anyone who isn&#39;t white&#8221;??  that comment is racist in itself.</p>
<p>the girl is 13 years old!  kids do stupid things all of the time, especially in middle school.  she was probably more upset about the poster being taken away than anything else.  and to assume that her parents are racist just because they sent her to school with an illegal immigration poster?  thats the whole point of the immigration debate&#8230; to cut down on illegal immigration!</p>
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		<title>By: Steven G. Erickson</title>
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		<dc:creator>Steven G. Erickson</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 14:34:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>In Seymour Connecticut, a 6&#039;5&quot; Homeland Security Officer installed in the school interrogated a 13 year old girl, terrorist interrogating style and torment her. He wanted to know her sexual orientation as she had passed a note to another girl in school.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;If you go to &lt;a href=&quot;http://youtube.com&quot;&gt;youtube.com&lt;/a&gt; and do a word search on, &quot;Homeland Security routing&quot;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;or paste this url:&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NP7O4w4d_tM&quot;&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NP7O4w4d_tM&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;to see video</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In Seymour Connecticut, a 6&#39;5&#8243; Homeland Security Officer installed in the school interrogated a 13 year old girl, terrorist interrogating style and torment her. He wanted to know her sexual orientation as she had passed a note to another girl in school.</p>
<p>If you go to <a href="http://youtube.com">youtube.com</a> and do a word search on, &#8220;Homeland Security routing&#8221;</p>
<p>or paste this url:<br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NP7O4w4d_tM">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NP7O4w4d_tM</a> <br />to see video</p>
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		<title>By: Jay Andrew Allen</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jay Andrew Allen</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Apr 2008 14:05:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Good for the parents. Here&#039;s hoping for a larger ideological turnaround.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Good for the parents. Here&#39;s hoping for a larger ideological turnaround.</p>
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		<title>By: Louis Calabro</title>
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		<dc:creator>Louis Calabro</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Apr 2008 03:34:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Illegal Immigration is illegal in America. She is more of an American that those who say it is OK to break immigration laws.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;She was wrong to exaggerate the injuries to her, but the Hispanics who forcibly took her sign and destroyed it are guilty of a crime--its called theft, or grand theft.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Illegal Immigration is illegal in America. She is more of an American that those who say it is OK to break immigration laws.</p>
<p>She was wrong to exaggerate the injuries to her, but the Hispanics who forcibly took her sign and destroyed it are guilty of a crime&#8211;its called theft, or grand theft.</p>
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		<title>By: Karoli</title>
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		<dc:creator>Karoli</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 22:30:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>jo7894,&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Racism is in the eye of the beholder.  Even if it was an assignment, the message was offensive.  Should it have been torn up?  No.  They were wrong.  As to forgiveness, I  hold nothing against her. My objection is mostly with the local news, who blew it up without all the facts, and also I have some criticism for her parents, because honestly, she didn&#039;t come up with that on her own.  She is going to have enough grief with the charges pending on her -- I wish her no ill will, though I think a well-said public apology to the kids she accused is in order.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Her view is mainstream nearly everywhere, but it&#039;s still racist. (Remember that racism isn&#039;t just a black/white issue...it extends to Asians and Mexicans and just about anyone who isn&#039;t white.)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>jo7894,</p>
<p>Racism is in the eye of the beholder.  Even if it was an assignment, the message was offensive.  Should it have been torn up?  No.  They were wrong.  As to forgiveness, I  hold nothing against her. My objection is mostly with the local news, who blew it up without all the facts, and also I have some criticism for her parents, because honestly, she didn&#39;t come up with that on her own.  She is going to have enough grief with the charges pending on her &#8212; I wish her no ill will, though I think a well-said public apology to the kids she accused is in order.</p>
<p>Her view is mainstream nearly everywhere, but it&#39;s still racist. (Remember that racism isn&#39;t just a black/white issue&#8230;it extends to Asians and Mexicans and just about anyone who isn&#39;t white.)</p>
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		<title>By: jo7894</title>
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		<dc:creator>jo7894</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 21:44:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Listen, i&#039;m a student at the school and i was also a witness. Melanie isnt  a bad person at all and i wouldnt ever consider her to be racist. She was just upset that they tore up her sign and she wanted to get them back for it. She took her story way to far and it was very stupid to make those marks on herself to frame the other people, but i think she should be forgiven because she never intended it to go this far and this experience itself is a horrible punishment. She was never the brightest person but everyone makes mistakes very similier to this all the time and i think it should be forgotten.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Listen, i&#39;m a student at the school and i was also a witness. Melanie isnt  a bad person at all and i wouldnt ever consider her to be racist. She was just upset that they tore up her sign and she wanted to get them back for it. She took her story way to far and it was very stupid to make those marks on herself to frame the other people, but i think she should be forgiven because she never intended it to go this far and this experience itself is a horrible punishment. She was never the brightest person but everyone makes mistakes very similier to this all the time and i think it should be forgotten.</p>
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