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SF Signal: Stargate SG-1 Watchathon - 'Pretense' (S03E15)
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Pretense by Lori Wick because I believe it was the first Christian fiction book I ever read.
Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Win a SONY Reader. It’s as easy as sharing your emotions. 2009
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Pretense, whispers, deceit, all to hide the same opinion that the "resuscitated" commander now flippantly tosses out to foreign journalist.
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Promoted to Headline (H3) on 6/16/09: No More Pretense for Health Reform yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'No More Pretense for Health Reform'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: The fraud of Democratic Party health care proposals is evident now that the CBO has reported that ten years from now, under the most robust Democratic proposal, 36 million Americans will not have insurance.
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Pretense of balance is, however, vital to the way media sells itself and "Going Rouge" thus became a handy counterweight to its competitor.
Colin Robinson: Going Rouge and the Art of Jujitsu Publishing 2009
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VIEW FAVORITES yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'The Price of Pretense in Pittsburgh by Peter Schiff'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'While admiring the pageantry, chuckling at the awkward group photos, and parsing the joint communiqués like newly found Dead Sea scrolls, the overwhelming majority of observers will miss the meeting\'s dominant theme: hypocrisy.'
OpEdNews - Quicklink: The Price of Pretense in Pittsburgh by Peter Schiff 2009
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The Pretense of Government by William Whitten on Sunday, Apr 12, 2009 at 1: 10: 08 PM
Paranoid Republicans are projecting their own evil ways onto liberals 2009
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VIEW FAVORITES yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Iraq: Deaths Rise, Pretense We Care Fades'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'While the U.S. media obsesses over teeny fractions of the trillions of dollars the U.S. government is giving to bankers, 130,000 troops and 160,000 contractors continue to occupy Iraq in the name of the United States, and very few Iraqis are convinced they will ever leave, while even fewer want them to stay.'
OpEdNews - Quicklink: Iraq: Deaths Rise, Pretense We Care Fades 2009
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Pretense by Jennifer Hathaway on Friday, Jan 9, 2009 at 12: 58: 01 PM
What's to become of the homeless - especially when that number might increase? 2009
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Promoted to Headline (H3) on 12/3/09: Pretense of an Afghanistan Exit Plan yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Pretense of an Afghanistan Exit Plan'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: There is no exit in the president\'s escalation plan for Afghanistan, only a prospect of more fighting, killing, and unrest; both in the country and across the border into Pakistan.'
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