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		<title>Investigation: Did Mass. Grand Lodge misuse $1.5 million?</title>
		<link>http://burningtaper.wordpress.com/2008/07/14/investigation-did-mass-grand-lodge-misuse-15-million/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:13:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>widowsson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Boston Herald reported on Saturday that an investigation is being conducted into allegations that as much as $1.5 million was embezzled from the 275-year old Grand Lodge of Massachusetts. Does this even surprise anyone any more?
From the Boston Herald: 

Suffolk County prosecutors are investigating allegations that as much as $1.5 million was embezzled from [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=burningtaper.wordpress.com&blog=4124784&post=45&subd=burningtaper&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Exiled for &#8217;spam&#8217;? Is your Blogger blog next?</title>
		<link>http://burningtaper.wordpress.com/2008/07/09/exiled-for-spam-is-your-blogger-blog-next/</link>
		<comments>http://burningtaper.wordpress.com/2008/07/09/exiled-for-spam-is-your-blogger-blog-next/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 18:28:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>widowsson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blogger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blogging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wordpress]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On June 25, I received the following email from Blogger: 
Dear Blogger user,
This is a message from the Blogger team.
Your blog, at http://burningtaper.blogspot.com/, has been identified as a potential spam blog.  For an explanation of what spam blogs are, please see Blogger Help.
You will not be able to publish posts to your blog until [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=burningtaper.wordpress.com&blog=4124784&post=43&subd=burningtaper&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>&#8216;Be seeing you&#8217;: The Prisoner to be made into mini-series</title>
		<link>http://burningtaper.wordpress.com/2008/07/09/be-seeing-you-the-prisoner-to-be-made-into-mini-series/</link>
		<comments>http://burningtaper.wordpress.com/2008/07/09/be-seeing-you-the-prisoner-to-be-made-into-mini-series/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 17:01:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>widowsson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ian McKellen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jim Caviezel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Patrick McGoohan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Remakes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Prisoner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TV shows]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Do you remember The Beverly Hillbillies, Bewitched, The Avengers, Lost in Space, Starsky and Hutch, Dennis the Menace, My Favorite Martian, Dukes of Hazzard, Charlie&#8217;s Angels, or The Wild Wild West?
If any of these titles create an image in your head, I&#8217;m guessing, no matter your age, that you visualized the original television show, not [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=burningtaper.wordpress.com&blog=4124784&post=41&subd=burningtaper&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>SC Lt. Gov. speaks out for &#8216;free speech&#8217; for Christians</title>
		<link>http://burningtaper.wordpress.com/2008/07/07/36/</link>
		<comments>http://burningtaper.wordpress.com/2008/07/07/36/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 20:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>widowsson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Political]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Andre Bauer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christianty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[License Plates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mark Sanford]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[South Carolina]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The political leaders of the Palmetto State continue to push for the production of automobile license plates emblazoned with a Christian cross superimposed upon a stained glass window showcasing the words &#8220;I Believe.&#8221;
The Burning Taper reported in early June that the authorization to produce Christian license plates in South Carolina became law after Gov. Mark [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=burningtaper.wordpress.com&blog=4124784&post=36&subd=burningtaper&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>MEDUSA ray gun puts voices in your head</title>
		<link>http://burningtaper.wordpress.com/2008/07/07/medusa-ray-gun-puts-voices-in-your-head/</link>
		<comments>http://burningtaper.wordpress.com/2008/07/07/medusa-ray-gun-puts-voices-in-your-head/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 17:05:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>widowsson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Warped]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aluminum Foil Hats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MEDUSA Ray Gun]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Microwave Weapons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Warfare]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://burningtaper.wordpress.com/?p=34</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[No longer will we have to memorize all those lines of ritual. We can now just &#8220;hear&#8221; it inside our skulls, and then repeat what we hear.
Or at least that is what may be possible once cheap home versions of the MEDUSA Ray Gun go on sale at your local Wal-Mart.
MEDUSA, which stands for Mob [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=burningtaper.wordpress.com&blog=4124784&post=34&subd=burningtaper&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>GOUSA receives patent from Grand Orient de France</title>
		<link>http://burningtaper.wordpress.com/2008/07/06/gousa-receives-patent-from-grand-orient-de-france/</link>
		<comments>http://burningtaper.wordpress.com/2008/07/06/gousa-receives-patent-from-grand-orient-de-france/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2008 23:25:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>widowsson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Masonic]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[GOUSA]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Masonic Patent]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On July 4, it was announced on the website of the Grand Orient of the United States of America (GOUSA) that
&#8220;The official Patent from the Grand Orient of France giving the Grand Orient of the United States of America legal Masonic authority to work in North America was signed in Paris on Friday, the 27th [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=burningtaper.wordpress.com&blog=4124784&post=30&subd=burningtaper&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tonight&#8217;s Masonic Central podcast to feature Bro. Tom Accuosti</title>
		<link>http://burningtaper.wordpress.com/2008/07/06/tonights-masonic-central-podcast-to-feature-bro-tom-accuosti/</link>
		<comments>http://burningtaper.wordpress.com/2008/07/06/tonights-masonic-central-podcast-to-feature-bro-tom-accuosti/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2008 21:49:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>widowsson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Masonic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Freemasons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Masonic Central]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Masonic Tao]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tom Accuosti]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://burningtaper.wordpress.com/?p=26</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Tonight&#8217;s Masonic Central podcast will feature Bro. Tom Accuosti.
Bro. Tom is famous not only for his blog Tao of Masonry, but for being a Purple Apron-wearing Exalted Keeper of the Secrets of Freemasonarianism; Grand Sovereign Pontiff and Secret Exposuer; Ambassador to Zeta-Reticula; Crop Circle Planning &#38; Zoning Commissioner; Aluminum Foil Beanie Fitting and Training Consultant; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=burningtaper.wordpress.com&blog=4124784&post=26&subd=burningtaper&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Canadian Mason celebrates 4th of July in Georgia</title>
		<link>http://burningtaper.wordpress.com/2008/07/05/canadian-mason-celebrates-4th-of-july-in-georgia/</link>
		<comments>http://burningtaper.wordpress.com/2008/07/05/canadian-mason-celebrates-4th-of-july-in-georgia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2008 15:36:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>widowsson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Masonic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Canada]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fourth of July]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Freemason]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Georgia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Independence Day]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, July 4, I was honored by a visit by Canadian Brother Dean Kennedy and his family, who visited my home and then attended an &#8220;old-fashioned Fourth of July picnic&#8221; at a nearby river park with my son and me. We had a great time visiting and sharing, eating Southern barbecue, hot dogs, and then [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=burningtaper.wordpress.com&blog=4124784&post=20&subd=burningtaper&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Replication, re-creation, and resurrection</title>
		<link>http://burningtaper.wordpress.com/2008/07/03/replication-re-creation-and-resurrection/</link>
		<comments>http://burningtaper.wordpress.com/2008/07/03/replication-re-creation-and-resurrection/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:17:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>widowsson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Masonic]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://burningtaper.wordpress.com/?p=14</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s rather daunting trying to create a new blog out of an old one.
Google/Blogger has proven to be unreliable, having blocked my publishing access to a two-and-a-half year old blog because a robot tagged it as a &#8220;possible spam blog.&#8221; Inadvertent though it (probably) is, not having the ability to write and post at will [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=burningtaper.wordpress.com&blog=4124784&post=14&subd=burningtaper&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The fire still burns</title>
		<link>http://burningtaper.wordpress.com/2008/07/02/the-fire-still-burns/</link>
		<comments>http://burningtaper.wordpress.com/2008/07/02/the-fire-still-burns/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:52:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>widowsson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Masonic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blogger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blogging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wordpress]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[After 2.5 years of regularly posting to the Blogger version of The Burning Taper at burningtaper.blogspot.com, the powers-that-be — namely the mindless robots — at Google/Blogger have decided that, until proven otherwise, The Burning Taper is a &#8220;spam blog.&#8221;
Though a two-second review would satisfy anyone over the age of seven that The Taper is not [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=burningtaper.wordpress.com&blog=4124784&post=7&subd=burningtaper&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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