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		<title>What&#8230;? Not this Old Beast again?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2007 02:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[War! What&#8217;s it good for? Say it, say it, say it again&#8230; So&#8230; this song, below, is certainly not one of my best songs, by a stretch. And, yet, I&#8217;ve posted a slug of versions of it here on the AYoS parade of songwriting shame&#8230; What gives? It&#8217;s this damn war, I tell you. Like [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Coming to your hometown before too long&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jan 2007 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[He never thought he&#8217;d be glad to see tanks rolling down Main Street. But after masked gunmen with machine guns and grenades killed the mayor and half the city council, he decided maybe martial law wasn&#8217;t so bad. The regional authority said it was the foreign fighters but the rumor spread quickly through town that [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Shame</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[TK]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jul 2006 18:52:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[  You want to talk about desecrating the flag of the United States of America? How about making it a symbol around the world of rape, murder, corruption, greed, and wanton destruction? It&#8217;s apparently easy for some to say, The world is wrong and we are right&#8230; It rolls from their tongue. It&#8217;s second nature [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Have You Embraced the Beast?</title>
		<link>https://ayearofsongs.org/blg/2005/12/13/have-you-embraced-the-beast/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[TK]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2005 19:54:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[1984. Death squads and slaughter in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras&#8230; genocide against inconvenient indigenous peoples, murder of labor workers, missionaries, nuns, and priests &#8212; paid for, in large part, by US taxpayers with a wink and a nod from our government leaders and our legislators. This song is not long on subtlety or craft, I&#8217;ll [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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