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But it doesn't have spell check.

The app



The Tumblr twist





How righteously fun is that? &amp;nbsp;For more Tumblr takes...go here and here.




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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/WomenOfCertainAge/~4/hANip-8ajcw" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><creativeCommons:license>http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/</creativeCommons:license><feedburner:origLink>http://womenofcertainage.blogspot.com/2012/05/commercials-wed-like-to-see.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Memorial Day:  Why We Remember</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WomenOfCertainAge/~3/6vOjKoo5UO4/memorial-day-why-we-remember.html</link><category>Memorial Day</category><category>death</category><category>soldiers</category><category>Decoration Day</category><category>war</category><author>noreply@blogger.com (California Girl)</author><pubDate>Mon, 28 May 2012 07:36:16 PDT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929216211968531577.post-6681487811891725024</guid><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2012-05-28T10:36:16.770-04:00</app:edited><media:thumbnail url="http://img.youtube.com/vi/p9Ol20SjtiU/default.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>We need to bring our soldiers home alive; not in a box. &amp;nbsp;War benefits no one.




  
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The former model turned model wife of Mad Avenue's hunky and...&lt;br/&gt;
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The French call it "une femme d' un certain âge" and it refers to female wisdom and self-assuredness that supposedly come with age. I'm here to test the theory...&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=YaQp0-sLVBQ:PU5cydNUoaw:yIl2AUoC8zA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=YaQp0-sLVBQ:PU5cydNUoaw:63t7Ie-LG7Y"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=63t7Ie-LG7Y" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=YaQp0-sLVBQ:PU5cydNUoaw:dnMXMwOfBR0"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=YaQp0-sLVBQ:PU5cydNUoaw:F7zBnMyn0Lo"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?i=YaQp0-sLVBQ:PU5cydNUoaw:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=YaQp0-sLVBQ:PU5cydNUoaw:7Q72WNTAKBA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=YaQp0-sLVBQ:PU5cydNUoaw:V_sGLiPBpWU"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?i=YaQp0-sLVBQ:PU5cydNUoaw:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=YaQp0-sLVBQ:PU5cydNUoaw:qj6IDK7rITs"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=YaQp0-sLVBQ:PU5cydNUoaw:KwTdNBX3Jqk"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?i=YaQp0-sLVBQ:PU5cydNUoaw:KwTdNBX3Jqk" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=YaQp0-sLVBQ:PU5cydNUoaw:l6gmwiTKsz0"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=YaQp0-sLVBQ:PU5cydNUoaw:gIN9vFwOqvQ"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?i=YaQp0-sLVBQ:PU5cydNUoaw:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=YaQp0-sLVBQ:PU5cydNUoaw:TzevzKxY174"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=TzevzKxY174" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/WomenOfCertainAge/~4/YaQp0-sLVBQ" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><creativeCommons:license>http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/</creativeCommons:license><feedburner:origLink>http://womenofcertainage.blogspot.com/2012/05/poor-betty-draper.html</feedburner:origLink><enclosure url="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WomenOfCertainAge/~5/fJhF2LwpOto/federated_f9" length="2611" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" /><feedburner:origEnclosureLink>http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1</feedburner:origEnclosureLink></item><item><title>Mommies, Have A Wonderful Day!</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WomenOfCertainAge/~3/do4jXNvJ1vo/mommies-have-wonderful-day.html</link><category>Mother's Day</category><category>mothers</category><category>love</category><category>children</category><author>noreply@blogger.com (California Girl)</author><pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2012 16:51:45 PDT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929216211968531577.post-835592988185581369</guid><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2012-05-13T19:51:45.961-04:00</app:edited><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping&lt;br/&gt;
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The French call it "une femme d' un certain âge" and it refers to female wisdom and self-assuredness that supposedly come with age. I'm here to test the theory...&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=do4jXNvJ1vo:qc_fKHnkeGo:yIl2AUoC8zA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=do4jXNvJ1vo:qc_fKHnkeGo:63t7Ie-LG7Y"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=63t7Ie-LG7Y" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=do4jXNvJ1vo:qc_fKHnkeGo:dnMXMwOfBR0"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=do4jXNvJ1vo:qc_fKHnkeGo:F7zBnMyn0Lo"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?i=do4jXNvJ1vo:qc_fKHnkeGo:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=do4jXNvJ1vo:qc_fKHnkeGo:7Q72WNTAKBA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=do4jXNvJ1vo:qc_fKHnkeGo:V_sGLiPBpWU"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?i=do4jXNvJ1vo:qc_fKHnkeGo:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=do4jXNvJ1vo:qc_fKHnkeGo:qj6IDK7rITs"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=do4jXNvJ1vo:qc_fKHnkeGo:KwTdNBX3Jqk"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?i=do4jXNvJ1vo:qc_fKHnkeGo:KwTdNBX3Jqk" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=do4jXNvJ1vo:qc_fKHnkeGo:l6gmwiTKsz0"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=do4jXNvJ1vo:qc_fKHnkeGo:gIN9vFwOqvQ"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?i=do4jXNvJ1vo:qc_fKHnkeGo:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=do4jXNvJ1vo:qc_fKHnkeGo:TzevzKxY174"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=TzevzKxY174" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/WomenOfCertainAge/~4/do4jXNvJ1vo" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><creativeCommons:license>http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/</creativeCommons:license><feedburner:origLink>http://womenofcertainage.blogspot.com/2012/05/mommies-have-wonderful-day.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Who Killed Osama Bin Laden?</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WomenOfCertainAge/~3/Brf9xykfBcA/who-killed-osama-bin-laden.html</link><category>Jon Stewart</category><category>Mitt Romney</category><category>spin</category><category>Osama Bin Laden</category><category>The Daily Show</category><category>President Obama</category><author>noreply@blogger.com (California Girl)</author><pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 07:11:25 PDT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929216211968531577.post-6806568312742864531</guid><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2012-05-09T10:11:25.511-04:00</app:edited><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>Stewart nails it again.



I almost called this "Spin Doctors Voodo Magic"

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The French call it "une femme d' un certain âge" and it refers to female wisdom and self-assuredness that supposedly come with age. I'm here to test the theory...&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=Brf9xykfBcA:Kf-caccMbUg:yIl2AUoC8zA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=Brf9xykfBcA:Kf-caccMbUg:63t7Ie-LG7Y"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=63t7Ie-LG7Y" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=Brf9xykfBcA:Kf-caccMbUg:dnMXMwOfBR0"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=Brf9xykfBcA:Kf-caccMbUg:F7zBnMyn0Lo"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?i=Brf9xykfBcA:Kf-caccMbUg:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=Brf9xykfBcA:Kf-caccMbUg:7Q72WNTAKBA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=Brf9xykfBcA:Kf-caccMbUg:V_sGLiPBpWU"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?i=Brf9xykfBcA:Kf-caccMbUg:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=Brf9xykfBcA:Kf-caccMbUg:qj6IDK7rITs"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=Brf9xykfBcA:Kf-caccMbUg:KwTdNBX3Jqk"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?i=Brf9xykfBcA:Kf-caccMbUg:KwTdNBX3Jqk" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=Brf9xykfBcA:Kf-caccMbUg:l6gmwiTKsz0"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=Brf9xykfBcA:Kf-caccMbUg:gIN9vFwOqvQ"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?i=Brf9xykfBcA:Kf-caccMbUg:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=Brf9xykfBcA:Kf-caccMbUg:TzevzKxY174"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=TzevzKxY174" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/WomenOfCertainAge/~4/Brf9xykfBcA" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><creativeCommons:license>http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/</creativeCommons:license><feedburner:origLink>http://womenofcertainage.blogspot.com/2012/05/who-killed-osama-bin-laden.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Morning Headline on Huff Post</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WomenOfCertainAge/~3/92xfqIk1-uA/morning-headline-on-huff-post.html</link><category>immigration</category><category>2012 presidential campaign</category><category>Mitt Romney</category><category>Politics</category><author>noreply@blogger.com (California Girl)</author><pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 12:58:59 PDT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929216211968531577.post-5237805761768044441</guid><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2012-05-08T15:58:59.664-04:00</app:edited><media:thumbnail url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-NSY3-mBEAsw/T6l6IqUuJMI/AAAAAAAADis/opNWufGTYS4/s72-c/Romney+Immigration+Headline+Huff+Post+5-08-12.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>Wonder if he and Ann are trying to get green cards for the domestic help in their five homes before he decides on a position?


  
http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping&lt;br/&gt;
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The French call it "une femme d' un certain âge" and it refers to female wisdom and self-assuredness that supposedly come with age. I'm here to test the theory...&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=92xfqIk1-uA:ioc_9zEIXQQ:yIl2AUoC8zA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=92xfqIk1-uA:ioc_9zEIXQQ:63t7Ie-LG7Y"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=63t7Ie-LG7Y" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=92xfqIk1-uA:ioc_9zEIXQQ:dnMXMwOfBR0"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=92xfqIk1-uA:ioc_9zEIXQQ:F7zBnMyn0Lo"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?i=92xfqIk1-uA:ioc_9zEIXQQ:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=92xfqIk1-uA:ioc_9zEIXQQ:7Q72WNTAKBA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=92xfqIk1-uA:ioc_9zEIXQQ:V_sGLiPBpWU"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?i=92xfqIk1-uA:ioc_9zEIXQQ:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=92xfqIk1-uA:ioc_9zEIXQQ:qj6IDK7rITs"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=92xfqIk1-uA:ioc_9zEIXQQ:KwTdNBX3Jqk"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?i=92xfqIk1-uA:ioc_9zEIXQQ:KwTdNBX3Jqk" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=92xfqIk1-uA:ioc_9zEIXQQ:l6gmwiTKsz0"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=92xfqIk1-uA:ioc_9zEIXQQ:gIN9vFwOqvQ"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?i=92xfqIk1-uA:ioc_9zEIXQQ:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=92xfqIk1-uA:ioc_9zEIXQQ:TzevzKxY174"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=TzevzKxY174" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/WomenOfCertainAge/~4/92xfqIk1-uA" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><creativeCommons:license>http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/</creativeCommons:license><feedburner:origLink>http://womenofcertainage.blogspot.com/2012/05/morning-headline-on-huff-post.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>And Furthermore...</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WomenOfCertainAge/~3/1hcW8GblQVU/and-furthermore.html</link><category>Rock Center</category><category>Jon Stewart</category><category>Brian Williams</category><category>Osama Bin Laden</category><category>The Daily Show</category><category>President Obama</category><category>GOP</category><author>noreply@blogger.com (California Girl)</author><pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 12:55:23 PDT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929216211968531577.post-3846252776368690118</guid><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2012-05-02T15:55:23.317-04:00</app:edited><media:thumbnail url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ZJQBAUlKNuo/T6Fe-S9YpNI/AAAAAAAADh8/WdF3vVxisAQ/s72-c/Politicize+Bin+Laden.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><media:content url="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WomenOfCertainAge/~5/gT8l20lr-yg/32545640" fileSize="369088" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" /><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle> It may be too much to ask the GOP to stop "whining" about the removal of Osama Bin Laden being a political tool of the re-election campaign. &amp;nbsp;But, so what? &amp;nbsp; Is it really necessary to point out the many ways in which the GOP politicizestheir&amp;nb</itunes:subtitle><itunes:author>noreply@blogger.com (California Girl)</itunes:author><itunes:summary> It may be too much to ask the GOP to stop "whining" about the removal of Osama Bin Laden being a political tool of the re-election campaign. &amp;nbsp;But, so what? &amp;nbsp; Is it really necessary to point out the many ways in which the GOP politicizestheir&amp;nbsp;many accomplishments? &amp;nbsp; Oh, wait. &amp;nbsp;It is. The Daily Show with Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10c Victory Lapse www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full EpisodesPolitical Humor &amp;amp; Satire BlogThe Daily Show on Facebook Now, if you want to hear the REAL MISSION ACCOMPLISHED by President George W. Bush&amp;nbsp;Barack Obama, tune in Rock Center on NBC tonight (9PM E/8PM C). &amp;nbsp; Brian Williams gave a riveting account of his exclusive from inside the Situation Room (no tv cameras ever before allowed) and his interviews with all cabinet and military members present with the President during the actual raid. &amp;nbsp; Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping</itunes:summary><itunes:keywords>Rock Center, Jon Stewart, Brian Williams, Osama Bin Laden, The Daily Show, President Obama, GOP</itunes:keywords><description>It may be too much to ask the GOP to stop "whining" about the removal of Osama Bin Laden being a political tool of the re-election campaign. &amp;nbsp;But, so what? &amp;nbsp;







Is it really necessary...&lt;br/&gt;
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The French call it "une femme d' un certain âge" and it refers to female wisdom and self-assuredness that supposedly come with age. I'm here to test the theory...&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=1hcW8GblQVU:qUnNGSF-f4Q:yIl2AUoC8zA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=1hcW8GblQVU:qUnNGSF-f4Q:63t7Ie-LG7Y"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=63t7Ie-LG7Y" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=1hcW8GblQVU:qUnNGSF-f4Q:dnMXMwOfBR0"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=1hcW8GblQVU:qUnNGSF-f4Q:F7zBnMyn0Lo"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?i=1hcW8GblQVU:qUnNGSF-f4Q:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=1hcW8GblQVU:qUnNGSF-f4Q:7Q72WNTAKBA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=1hcW8GblQVU:qUnNGSF-f4Q:V_sGLiPBpWU"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?i=1hcW8GblQVU:qUnNGSF-f4Q:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=1hcW8GblQVU:qUnNGSF-f4Q:qj6IDK7rITs"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=1hcW8GblQVU:qUnNGSF-f4Q:KwTdNBX3Jqk"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?i=1hcW8GblQVU:qUnNGSF-f4Q:KwTdNBX3Jqk" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=1hcW8GblQVU:qUnNGSF-f4Q:l6gmwiTKsz0"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=1hcW8GblQVU:qUnNGSF-f4Q:gIN9vFwOqvQ"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?i=1hcW8GblQVU:qUnNGSF-f4Q:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=1hcW8GblQVU:qUnNGSF-f4Q:TzevzKxY174"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=TzevzKxY174" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/WomenOfCertainAge/~4/1hcW8GblQVU" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><creativeCommons:license>http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/</creativeCommons:license><feedburner:origLink>http://womenofcertainage.blogspot.com/2012/05/and-furthermore.html</feedburner:origLink><enclosure url="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WomenOfCertainAge/~5/gT8l20lr-yg/32545640" length="369088" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" /><feedburner:origEnclosureLink>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32545640</feedburner:origEnclosureLink></item><item><title>Seen Today on the Internet, Blogs, Twitter</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WomenOfCertainAge/~3/7FMBMPj6lE4/seen-today-on-internet-blogs-twitter.html</link><category>2012 presidential campaign</category><category>Mitt Romney</category><category>Robert Reich</category><category>Economy</category><category>President Obama</category><category>Politics</category><author>noreply@blogger.com (California Girl)</author><pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 13:53:25 PDT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929216211968531577.post-9118678483243971011</guid><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2012-05-01T16:53:25.125-04:00</app:edited><media:thumbnail url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-M4rHG2pRQrE/T6AfeJkGrEI/AAAAAAAADhM/XzcQ69d9JBc/s72-c/Obama+bumper+sticker.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>GOD, no!





   

Romney: 'Borrow Money From Your Parents'






  
http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping&lt;br/&gt;
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The French call it "une femme d' un certain âge" and it refers to female wisdom and self-assuredness that supposedly come with age. I'm here to test the theory...&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=7FMBMPj6lE4:eM4Z5EodsXg:yIl2AUoC8zA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=7FMBMPj6lE4:eM4Z5EodsXg:63t7Ie-LG7Y"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=63t7Ie-LG7Y" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=7FMBMPj6lE4:eM4Z5EodsXg:dnMXMwOfBR0"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=7FMBMPj6lE4:eM4Z5EodsXg:F7zBnMyn0Lo"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?i=7FMBMPj6lE4:eM4Z5EodsXg:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=7FMBMPj6lE4:eM4Z5EodsXg:7Q72WNTAKBA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=7FMBMPj6lE4:eM4Z5EodsXg:V_sGLiPBpWU"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?i=7FMBMPj6lE4:eM4Z5EodsXg:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=7FMBMPj6lE4:eM4Z5EodsXg:qj6IDK7rITs"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=7FMBMPj6lE4:eM4Z5EodsXg:KwTdNBX3Jqk"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?i=7FMBMPj6lE4:eM4Z5EodsXg:KwTdNBX3Jqk" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=7FMBMPj6lE4:eM4Z5EodsXg:l6gmwiTKsz0"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=7FMBMPj6lE4:eM4Z5EodsXg:gIN9vFwOqvQ"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?i=7FMBMPj6lE4:eM4Z5EodsXg:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=7FMBMPj6lE4:eM4Z5EodsXg:TzevzKxY174"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=TzevzKxY174" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/WomenOfCertainAge/~4/7FMBMPj6lE4" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><creativeCommons:license>http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/</creativeCommons:license><feedburner:origLink>http://womenofcertainage.blogspot.com/2012/05/seen-today-on-internet-blogs-twitter.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Les Fleurs du Printemps</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WomenOfCertainAge/~3/fdeZKpZBEEo/les-fleurs-du-printemps.html</link><category>photography</category><category>Cole Scott Photography</category><category>close up photography</category><category>color photography</category><category>Flowers</category><category>Spring</category><author>noreply@blogger.com (California Girl)</author><pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 11:39:07 PDT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929216211968531577.post-6263196693232885477</guid><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2012-04-24T14:39:07.019-04:00</app:edited><media:thumbnail url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yVY7yhYX2_c/T5bvpT9cqSI/AAAAAAAADeY/4qIg_HBeruo/s72-c/Pink+2008.png" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>Every once in a while I just want to publish something "pretty". &amp;nbsp;No politics, no opinions, no jokes, no controversies. &amp;nbsp;




Over the years, my husband has worked on close-up photography...&lt;br/&gt;
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The French call it "une femme d' un certain âge" and it refers to female wisdom and self-assuredness that supposedly come with age. I'm here to test the theory...&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=fdeZKpZBEEo:ULS5QGcBjDo:yIl2AUoC8zA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=fdeZKpZBEEo:ULS5QGcBjDo:63t7Ie-LG7Y"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=63t7Ie-LG7Y" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=fdeZKpZBEEo:ULS5QGcBjDo:dnMXMwOfBR0"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=fdeZKpZBEEo:ULS5QGcBjDo:F7zBnMyn0Lo"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?i=fdeZKpZBEEo:ULS5QGcBjDo:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=fdeZKpZBEEo:ULS5QGcBjDo:7Q72WNTAKBA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=fdeZKpZBEEo:ULS5QGcBjDo:V_sGLiPBpWU"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?i=fdeZKpZBEEo:ULS5QGcBjDo:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=fdeZKpZBEEo:ULS5QGcBjDo:qj6IDK7rITs"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=fdeZKpZBEEo:ULS5QGcBjDo:KwTdNBX3Jqk"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?i=fdeZKpZBEEo:ULS5QGcBjDo:KwTdNBX3Jqk" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=fdeZKpZBEEo:ULS5QGcBjDo:l6gmwiTKsz0"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=fdeZKpZBEEo:ULS5QGcBjDo:gIN9vFwOqvQ"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?i=fdeZKpZBEEo:ULS5QGcBjDo:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=fdeZKpZBEEo:ULS5QGcBjDo:TzevzKxY174"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=TzevzKxY174" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/WomenOfCertainAge/~4/fdeZKpZBEEo" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><creativeCommons:license>http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/</creativeCommons:license><feedburner:origLink>http://womenofcertainage.blogspot.com/2012/04/les-fleurs-du-printemps.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Punk'd</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WomenOfCertainAge/~3/JKIfawnMz50/punkd.html</link><category>Ann Romney</category><category>satire</category><category>Political Humor</category><author>noreply@blogger.com (California Girl)</author><pubDate>Sun, 22 Apr 2012 09:50:58 PDT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929216211968531577.post-7679541773266838194</guid><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2012-04-22T12:50:58.806-04:00</app:edited><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>I totally admit it. &amp;nbsp;I saw a link on Facebook to an article about Ann Romney mouthing off about equal pay for&amp;nbsp;women and I thought it was real.  I wrote a quick intro, cut and pasted an...&lt;br/&gt;
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The French call it "une femme d' un certain âge" and it refers to female wisdom and self-assuredness that supposedly come with age. I'm here to test the theory...&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=JKIfawnMz50:OxdiNx5Aqso:yIl2AUoC8zA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=JKIfawnMz50:OxdiNx5Aqso:63t7Ie-LG7Y"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=63t7Ie-LG7Y" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=JKIfawnMz50:OxdiNx5Aqso:dnMXMwOfBR0"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=JKIfawnMz50:OxdiNx5Aqso:F7zBnMyn0Lo"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?i=JKIfawnMz50:OxdiNx5Aqso:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=JKIfawnMz50:OxdiNx5Aqso:7Q72WNTAKBA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=JKIfawnMz50:OxdiNx5Aqso:V_sGLiPBpWU"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?i=JKIfawnMz50:OxdiNx5Aqso:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=JKIfawnMz50:OxdiNx5Aqso:qj6IDK7rITs"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=JKIfawnMz50:OxdiNx5Aqso:KwTdNBX3Jqk"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?i=JKIfawnMz50:OxdiNx5Aqso:KwTdNBX3Jqk" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=JKIfawnMz50:OxdiNx5Aqso:l6gmwiTKsz0"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=JKIfawnMz50:OxdiNx5Aqso:gIN9vFwOqvQ"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?i=JKIfawnMz50:OxdiNx5Aqso:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=JKIfawnMz50:OxdiNx5Aqso:TzevzKxY174"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=TzevzKxY174" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/WomenOfCertainAge/~4/JKIfawnMz50" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><creativeCommons:license>http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/</creativeCommons:license><feedburner:origLink>http://womenofcertainage.blogspot.com/2012/04/punkd.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Is This What You Want for the Next 4 Years?</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WomenOfCertainAge/~3/Iaf62mGW5PA/is-this-what-you-want-for-next-4-years.html</link><category>2012 presidential campaign</category><category>Mitt Romney</category><category>Ann Romney</category><category>President Obama</category><category>Hillary Rosen</category><category>Women</category><category>rich vs poor</category><author>noreply@blogger.com (California Girl)</author><pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 12:52:47 PDT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929216211968531577.post-2764349872624935678</guid><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2012-04-20T15:52:47.755-04:00</app:edited><media:thumbnail url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Bt9a_9S0NFA/T4wfwNZ9c0I/AAAAAAAADd0/n06Rdw5MDgI/s72-c/Mitt+Romney.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>Mitt Romney is confident he has the Fox crowd or "true believers"&amp;nbsp;now. He knows he has to expand his reach beyond the Fox audience to women, Hispanics and Independents. &amp;nbsp;I don't think this...&lt;br/&gt;
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The French call it "une femme d' un certain âge" and it refers to female wisdom and self-assuredness that supposedly come with age. I'm here to test the theory...&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/WomenOfCertainAge/~4/Iaf62mGW5PA" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><creativeCommons:license>http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/</creativeCommons:license><feedburner:origLink>http://womenofcertainage.blogspot.com/2012/04/is-this-what-you-want-for-next-4-years.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Our Faces, Our Bodies, Ourselves</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WomenOfCertainAge/~3/0-OVVks1yoY/our-faces-our-bodies-ourselves.html</link><category>sexism</category><category>beauty</category><category>inner beauty</category><category>Ashley Judd</category><category>Women</category><author>noreply@blogger.com (California Girl)</author><pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 16:46:37 PDT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929216211968531577.post-7646869576799590238</guid><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2012-04-12T19:46:37.876-04:00</app:edited><media:thumbnail url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-m2dj5_3-9Rg/T4doraQFMNI/AAAAAAAADcI/wnTd-f6l258/s72-c/Ashley+Judd+on+steroids.JPG" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><media:content url="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WomenOfCertainAge/~5/gT8l20lr-yg/32545640" fileSize="369088" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" /><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>Ashley Judd is challenging the media as well as the rest of us to stop the incessant focus on outward beauty. She is criticizing the critics telling them to get back to the inherent values of worth: good deeds, kindness, character, inner strength...all "b</itunes:subtitle><itunes:author>noreply@blogger.com (California Girl)</itunes:author><itunes:summary>Ashley Judd is challenging the media as well as the rest of us to stop the incessant focus on outward beauty. She is criticizing the critics telling them to get back to the inherent values of worth: good deeds, kindness, character, inner strength...all "beautiful". It was refreshing to listen to her outrage on last nights Rock Center. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy I don't know about you but I am certainly guilty of participating in the practice of "Wonder if she/he's had work done?". &amp;nbsp;I had the conversation with the husband of a friend who looks so darn good in photos I was sure she'd gone under the knife. &amp;nbsp;He laughed and assured me she hasn't. &amp;nbsp;But I started the dialog. &amp;nbsp;It's part of our world of "looking good is better than feeling good." &amp;nbsp;I should know. &amp;nbsp;I'm from L.A. Women are too often treated as objects, armpieces, decoration, at-your-service. &amp;nbsp;We may be asked to do things in exchange for climbing the ladder. &amp;nbsp;We may think it's okay to exchange self-esteem for security. &amp;nbsp;But we almost always have a say. &amp;nbsp;We have the right, the obligation to say "No" if we, in fact, don't like what we're asked to do. &amp;nbsp;Some women/girls have no say whatsoever. &amp;nbsp;They are slaves, chattel, second or third class citizens. &amp;nbsp;They are seen and not heard. &amp;nbsp;Luckily, this is not the norm in America though I know it can happen. &amp;nbsp;Polygamous society anyone? We all scrutinize ourselves and one another too much. &amp;nbsp;We're all critical. &amp;nbsp;I am probably more focused on my looks now they are changing, aging &amp;amp; losing their luster than at any other point in my life. &amp;nbsp;It's exhausting. What are your thoughts? &amp;nbsp;Have women perpetrated an age-old problem? &amp;nbsp;Is it thrust upon us by the male&amp;nbsp;hierarchy, still in charge? &amp;nbsp;The media? &amp;nbsp;Advertising? &amp;nbsp;What can we do to change the dialog? http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping</itunes:summary><itunes:keywords>sexism, beauty, inner beauty, Ashley Judd, Women</itunes:keywords><description>Ashley Judd is challenging the media as well as the rest of us to stop the incessant focus on outward beauty.  She is criticizing the critics telling them to get back to the inherent values of worth:...&lt;br/&gt;
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The French call it "une femme d' un certain âge" and it refers to female wisdom and self-assuredness that supposedly come with age. I'm here to test the theory...&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/WomenOfCertainAge/~4/0-OVVks1yoY" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><creativeCommons:license>http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/</creativeCommons:license><feedburner:origLink>http://womenofcertainage.blogspot.com/2012/04/our-faces-our-bodies-ourselves.html</feedburner:origLink><enclosure url="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WomenOfCertainAge/~5/gT8l20lr-yg/32545640" length="369088" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" /><feedburner:origEnclosureLink>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32545640</feedburner:origEnclosureLink></item><item><title>A Day of Remembrance</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WomenOfCertainAge/~3/MU4pW92B-ds/day-of-remembrance.html</link><category>blessings</category><category>church</category><category>family</category><category>Easter</category><category>love</category><category>Growing Up</category><category>Christianity</category><author>noreply@blogger.com (California Girl)</author><pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 10:43:06 PDT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929216211968531577.post-6742620514891706636</guid><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2012-04-09T13:43:06.234-04:00</app:edited><media:thumbnail url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Gwbj-tZDAls/T4MLBKIa5eI/AAAAAAAADbg/finJvuuvqNQ/s72-c/Easter+Morning+circa+1965+or+66.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>The Easter season is the most poignant Christian observance with its many themes of persecution, mockery, innocence, death, and, ultimately, triumph over Death. &amp;nbsp;Christ &amp;nbsp;winds up his 33...&lt;br/&gt;
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The French call it "une femme d' un certain âge" and it refers to female wisdom and self-assuredness that supposedly come with age. I'm here to test the theory...&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/WomenOfCertainAge/~4/MU4pW92B-ds" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><creativeCommons:license>http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/</creativeCommons:license><feedburner:origLink>http://womenofcertainage.blogspot.com/2012/04/day-of-remembrance.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Why...</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WomenOfCertainAge/~3/koZHOwsdbIE/why.html</link><category>ABC News</category><category>school shootings</category><category>News</category><category>Morley Safer</category><category>Art</category><category>starvation</category><category>America</category><category>60 Minutes</category><author>noreply@blogger.com (California Girl)</author><pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 04:16:55 PDT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929216211968531577.post-2006312324658456728</guid><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2012-04-03T07:16:55.407-04:00</app:edited><media:thumbnail url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-EErFRWNua9s/T3o6hAPrpaI/AAAAAAAADa4/npV3HA0Zs5U/s72-c/Trayvon+Martin+in+football+uniform.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><media:content url="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WomenOfCertainAge/~5/snY8SE8luoE/cbsnews_player_embed.swf" fileSize="254624" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" /><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>...is the news becoming more dark, more depressing and overwhelmingly difficult to digest? &amp;nbsp;I find myself increasingly reluctant to scan internet news sources, watch tv news, read the scrolling headlines at the bottom of a tv screen. &amp;nbsp;It seems t</itunes:subtitle><itunes:author>noreply@blogger.com (California Girl)</itunes:author><itunes:summary>...is the news becoming more dark, more depressing and overwhelmingly difficult to digest? &amp;nbsp;I find myself increasingly reluctant to scan internet news sources, watch tv news, read the scrolling headlines at the bottom of a tv screen. &amp;nbsp;It seems to predominate on the negative. &amp;nbsp;Look, I'm not Pollyanna and I don't expect happy sunshiney information every moment. &amp;nbsp;I also wonder at the magnitude of that which is anything but positive. The evening news is on. &amp;nbsp;Another&amp;nbsp;school shooting took place today with 7 dead thus far. &amp;nbsp; The Trayvon Martin case: murky in detail, heartbreaking in scope. &amp;nbsp;It is every parent's nightmare. &amp;nbsp;Why was Trayvon picked as the poster boy for something that happens all too often? &amp;nbsp;He looks like a sweet, unassuming child. &amp;nbsp;He looks like your child or mine. &amp;nbsp;It's as simple as that. &amp;nbsp; Yesterday, a headline scrolled across the bottom of one of the cable new channel about a father and step mother holding his daughter hostage, starving, abusing her. &amp;nbsp;She weighed 70 lbs when she escaped. &amp;nbsp;She's 15. &amp;nbsp; Our troops continue to die overseas and for what? &amp;nbsp;There's always talk of another front, another war, another nation we'll have to protect from themselves. &amp;nbsp;Yet we seem unable to take care of our own. Then there is the more mundane, not unexpected news about &amp;nbsp;taxpayer waste. &amp;nbsp;The GSA (General Services Administration) spent $823,000 taxpayer money on a retreat in Vegas in 2010. &amp;nbsp;Nobody sanctioned this. Then there's Middle America. &amp;nbsp;We aren't in recovery but the 1% are. &amp;nbsp; Sunday night, &amp;nbsp;"60 Minutes" &amp;nbsp;aired a follow up episode on contemporary art purchases and the money to be made. &amp;nbsp;It was all about the very wealthy speculating on what I perceive to be cutting edge crap. &amp;nbsp;Apparently, Morley Safer and I think alike. &amp;nbsp;He was dismissive of much of the contemporary art sold in the early 90s. &amp;nbsp;It came back to haunt him during in this episode. &amp;nbsp;He good naturedly acknowledged the art he disparaged had increased in value by the tens of millions. &amp;nbsp;But, he didn't acknowledge it was worth it. http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping</itunes:summary><itunes:keywords>ABC News, school shootings, News, Morley Safer, Art, starvation, America, 60 Minutes</itunes:keywords><description>...is the news becoming more dark, more depressing and overwhelmingly difficult to digest? &amp;nbsp;I find myself increasingly reluctant to scan internet news sources, watch tv news, read the scrolling...&lt;br/&gt;
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The French call it "une femme d' un certain âge" and it refers to female wisdom and self-assuredness that supposedly come with age. I'm here to test the theory...&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=koZHOwsdbIE:TaUhS2kFXw8:yIl2AUoC8zA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=koZHOwsdbIE:TaUhS2kFXw8:63t7Ie-LG7Y"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=63t7Ie-LG7Y" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=koZHOwsdbIE:TaUhS2kFXw8:dnMXMwOfBR0"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=koZHOwsdbIE:TaUhS2kFXw8:F7zBnMyn0Lo"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?i=koZHOwsdbIE:TaUhS2kFXw8:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=koZHOwsdbIE:TaUhS2kFXw8:7Q72WNTAKBA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=koZHOwsdbIE:TaUhS2kFXw8:V_sGLiPBpWU"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?i=koZHOwsdbIE:TaUhS2kFXw8:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=koZHOwsdbIE:TaUhS2kFXw8:qj6IDK7rITs"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=koZHOwsdbIE:TaUhS2kFXw8:KwTdNBX3Jqk"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?i=koZHOwsdbIE:TaUhS2kFXw8:KwTdNBX3Jqk" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=koZHOwsdbIE:TaUhS2kFXw8:l6gmwiTKsz0"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=koZHOwsdbIE:TaUhS2kFXw8:gIN9vFwOqvQ"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?i=koZHOwsdbIE:TaUhS2kFXw8:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=koZHOwsdbIE:TaUhS2kFXw8:TzevzKxY174"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=TzevzKxY174" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/WomenOfCertainAge/~4/koZHOwsdbIE" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><creativeCommons:license>http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/</creativeCommons:license><feedburner:origLink>http://womenofcertainage.blogspot.com/2012/04/why.html</feedburner:origLink><enclosure url="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WomenOfCertainAge/~5/snY8SE8luoE/cbsnews_player_embed.swf" length="254624" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" /><feedburner:origEnclosureLink>http://cnettv.cnet.com/av/video/cbsnews/atlantis2/cbsnews_player_embed.swf</feedburner:origEnclosureLink></item><item><title>When Less Is(n't) More</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WomenOfCertainAge/~3/oKGaPoUbJvQ/when-less-isnt-more.html</link><category>More magazine</category><category>Women of a Certain Age</category><category>growing older</category><category>beauty</category><category>Aging</category><category>Diane Keaton</category><category>Sophia Loren</category><author>noreply@blogger.com (California Girl)</author><pubDate>Sat, 31 Mar 2012 10:16:02 PDT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929216211968531577.post-6540300968889888484</guid><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2012-03-31T13:16:02.799-04:00</app:edited><media:thumbnail url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XFC54uAWPcs/T3cquwAetSI/AAAAAAAADZ8/Y3er68GvIsA/s72-c/MORE+magaziine+cover+Apr+2012.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>My 85 yr old MIL handed me another subscription to a magazine she ordered but can't relate to. &amp;nbsp;That's it on the left, More. &amp;nbsp;

More is aimed at women over 40. &amp;nbsp;It was a radical...&lt;br/&gt;
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The French call it "une femme d' un certain âge" and it refers to female wisdom and self-assuredness that supposedly come with age. I'm here to test the theory...&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=oKGaPoUbJvQ:4AtpW9JZoDk:yIl2AUoC8zA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=oKGaPoUbJvQ:4AtpW9JZoDk:63t7Ie-LG7Y"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=63t7Ie-LG7Y" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=oKGaPoUbJvQ:4AtpW9JZoDk:dnMXMwOfBR0"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=oKGaPoUbJvQ:4AtpW9JZoDk:F7zBnMyn0Lo"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?i=oKGaPoUbJvQ:4AtpW9JZoDk:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=oKGaPoUbJvQ:4AtpW9JZoDk:7Q72WNTAKBA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=oKGaPoUbJvQ:4AtpW9JZoDk:V_sGLiPBpWU"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?i=oKGaPoUbJvQ:4AtpW9JZoDk:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=oKGaPoUbJvQ:4AtpW9JZoDk:qj6IDK7rITs"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=oKGaPoUbJvQ:4AtpW9JZoDk:KwTdNBX3Jqk"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?i=oKGaPoUbJvQ:4AtpW9JZoDk:KwTdNBX3Jqk" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=oKGaPoUbJvQ:4AtpW9JZoDk:l6gmwiTKsz0"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=oKGaPoUbJvQ:4AtpW9JZoDk:gIN9vFwOqvQ"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?i=oKGaPoUbJvQ:4AtpW9JZoDk:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=oKGaPoUbJvQ:4AtpW9JZoDk:TzevzKxY174"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=TzevzKxY174" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/WomenOfCertainAge/~4/oKGaPoUbJvQ" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><creativeCommons:license>http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/</creativeCommons:license><feedburner:origLink>http://womenofcertainage.blogspot.com/2012/03/when-less-isnt-more.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Hump Day Humor</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WomenOfCertainAge/~3/32TN_Bimtg8/hump-day-humor.html</link><category>Political Humor</category><category>Humor</category><author>noreply@blogger.com (California Girl)</author><pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2012 10:15:58 PDT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929216211968531577.post-8734989132469202808</guid><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2012-03-21T13:15:58.070-04:00</app:edited><media:thumbnail url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-uShz9FUHksg/T2oMMMpDM-I/AAAAAAAADZU/F2eAFpXJsHE/s72-c/Monopoly+man+&amp;+GOP+sit+down+at+a+bar....jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping&lt;br/&gt;
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The French call it "une femme d' un certain âge" and it refers to female wisdom and self-assuredness that supposedly come with age. I'm here to test the theory...&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=32TN_Bimtg8:pGfl8EKDDKo:yIl2AUoC8zA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=32TN_Bimtg8:pGfl8EKDDKo:63t7Ie-LG7Y"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=63t7Ie-LG7Y" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=32TN_Bimtg8:pGfl8EKDDKo:dnMXMwOfBR0"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=32TN_Bimtg8:pGfl8EKDDKo:F7zBnMyn0Lo"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?i=32TN_Bimtg8:pGfl8EKDDKo:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=32TN_Bimtg8:pGfl8EKDDKo:7Q72WNTAKBA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=32TN_Bimtg8:pGfl8EKDDKo:V_sGLiPBpWU"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?i=32TN_Bimtg8:pGfl8EKDDKo:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=32TN_Bimtg8:pGfl8EKDDKo:qj6IDK7rITs"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=32TN_Bimtg8:pGfl8EKDDKo:KwTdNBX3Jqk"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?i=32TN_Bimtg8:pGfl8EKDDKo:KwTdNBX3Jqk" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=32TN_Bimtg8:pGfl8EKDDKo:l6gmwiTKsz0"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=32TN_Bimtg8:pGfl8EKDDKo:gIN9vFwOqvQ"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?i=32TN_Bimtg8:pGfl8EKDDKo:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=32TN_Bimtg8:pGfl8EKDDKo:TzevzKxY174"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=TzevzKxY174" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/WomenOfCertainAge/~4/32TN_Bimtg8" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><creativeCommons:license>http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/</creativeCommons:license><feedburner:origLink>http://womenofcertainage.blogspot.com/2012/03/hump-day-humor.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Forced Time Out</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WomenOfCertainAge/~3/YQxZMfQFfPY/forced-time-out.html</link><category>hiatus</category><category>surgery</category><author>noreply@blogger.com (California Girl)</author><pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2012 18:13:55 PDT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929216211968531577.post-6913527903832338622</guid><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2012-03-12T21:13:55.822-04:00</app:edited><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">1</thr:total><description>Tuesday morning @ 10:00AM, I'll be under the knife having a long over-due total knee replacement.  I have put this off long enough (7 years) and am succumbing to advice from physical therapists,...&lt;br/&gt;
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The French call it "une femme d' un certain âge" and it refers to female wisdom and self-assuredness that supposedly come with age. I'm here to test the theory...&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=YQxZMfQFfPY:HkyTSNvVPWE:yIl2AUoC8zA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=YQxZMfQFfPY:HkyTSNvVPWE:63t7Ie-LG7Y"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=63t7Ie-LG7Y" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=YQxZMfQFfPY:HkyTSNvVPWE:dnMXMwOfBR0"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=YQxZMfQFfPY:HkyTSNvVPWE:F7zBnMyn0Lo"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?i=YQxZMfQFfPY:HkyTSNvVPWE:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=YQxZMfQFfPY:HkyTSNvVPWE:7Q72WNTAKBA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=YQxZMfQFfPY:HkyTSNvVPWE:V_sGLiPBpWU"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?i=YQxZMfQFfPY:HkyTSNvVPWE:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=YQxZMfQFfPY:HkyTSNvVPWE:qj6IDK7rITs"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=YQxZMfQFfPY:HkyTSNvVPWE:KwTdNBX3Jqk"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?i=YQxZMfQFfPY:HkyTSNvVPWE:KwTdNBX3Jqk" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=YQxZMfQFfPY:HkyTSNvVPWE:l6gmwiTKsz0"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=YQxZMfQFfPY:HkyTSNvVPWE:gIN9vFwOqvQ"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?i=YQxZMfQFfPY:HkyTSNvVPWE:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=YQxZMfQFfPY:HkyTSNvVPWE:TzevzKxY174"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=TzevzKxY174" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/WomenOfCertainAge/~4/YQxZMfQFfPY" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><creativeCommons:license>http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/</creativeCommons:license><feedburner:origLink>http://womenofcertainage.blogspot.com/2012/03/forced-time-out.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>International Women's Day:  Headlines Dispute Women's Progress</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WomenOfCertainAge/~3/4OKGY1TDFMg/international-womens-day-headlines.html</link><category>ERA</category><category>Equality</category><category>Women's Rights</category><category>Intl Women's Day</category><category>Women's Movement</category><author>noreply@blogger.com (California Girl)</author><pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2012 04:49:11 PST</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929216211968531577.post-8825095129622814686</guid><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2012-03-09T07:49:11.482-05:00</app:edited><media:thumbnail url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-1d3bwV1F434/T1kl7IUkFwI/AAAAAAAADZE/49fMgxB6ixk/s72-c/Virginia+Slims+2.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>"You've come a long way, baby." &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;

A cigarette campaign which became the mantra for the 1970's Movement is starting to sound like a distant dream. &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;



Today's headlines on...&lt;br/&gt;
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The French call it "une femme d' un certain âge" and it refers to female wisdom and self-assuredness that supposedly come with age. I'm here to test the theory...&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=4OKGY1TDFMg:sN6huulXIWw:yIl2AUoC8zA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=4OKGY1TDFMg:sN6huulXIWw:63t7Ie-LG7Y"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=63t7Ie-LG7Y" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=4OKGY1TDFMg:sN6huulXIWw:dnMXMwOfBR0"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=4OKGY1TDFMg:sN6huulXIWw:F7zBnMyn0Lo"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?i=4OKGY1TDFMg:sN6huulXIWw:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=4OKGY1TDFMg:sN6huulXIWw:7Q72WNTAKBA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=4OKGY1TDFMg:sN6huulXIWw:V_sGLiPBpWU"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?i=4OKGY1TDFMg:sN6huulXIWw:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=4OKGY1TDFMg:sN6huulXIWw:qj6IDK7rITs"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=4OKGY1TDFMg:sN6huulXIWw:KwTdNBX3Jqk"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?i=4OKGY1TDFMg:sN6huulXIWw:KwTdNBX3Jqk" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=4OKGY1TDFMg:sN6huulXIWw:l6gmwiTKsz0"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=4OKGY1TDFMg:sN6huulXIWw:gIN9vFwOqvQ"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?i=4OKGY1TDFMg:sN6huulXIWw:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=4OKGY1TDFMg:sN6huulXIWw:TzevzKxY174"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=TzevzKxY174" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/WomenOfCertainAge/~4/4OKGY1TDFMg" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><creativeCommons:license>http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/</creativeCommons:license><feedburner:origLink>http://womenofcertainage.blogspot.com/2012/03/international-womens-day-headlines.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>It's the Economic Divide, Stupid!</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WomenOfCertainAge/~3/BcS8Aw0bu3o/its-economic-divide-stupid.html</link><category>99%</category><category>1%</category><category>Paul Pierson</category><category>Robert Reich</category><category>Economy</category><category>Bill Moyers</category><category>Jacob Hacker</category><author>noreply@blogger.com (California Girl)</author><pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2012 03:48:04 PST</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929216211968531577.post-7631459549325352153</guid><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2012-03-06T06:48:04.765-05:00</app:edited><media:thumbnail url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-e_uk6iyvdT8/T1U1l0DC84I/AAAAAAAADYU/cTzkYfXYKLk/s72-c/Moyers+%2526+Co+logo.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>In a recent editorial, Bill Moyers made a case for the un-level playing field people are on; the inequality of life in America and the lack of opportunity where once there was so much hope.We’re...&lt;br/&gt;
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The French call it "une femme d' un certain âge" and it refers to female wisdom and self-assuredness that supposedly come with age. I'm here to test the theory...&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=BcS8Aw0bu3o:PTlIn_gatww:yIl2AUoC8zA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=BcS8Aw0bu3o:PTlIn_gatww:63t7Ie-LG7Y"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=63t7Ie-LG7Y" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=BcS8Aw0bu3o:PTlIn_gatww:dnMXMwOfBR0"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=BcS8Aw0bu3o:PTlIn_gatww:F7zBnMyn0Lo"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?i=BcS8Aw0bu3o:PTlIn_gatww:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=BcS8Aw0bu3o:PTlIn_gatww:7Q72WNTAKBA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=BcS8Aw0bu3o:PTlIn_gatww:V_sGLiPBpWU"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?i=BcS8Aw0bu3o:PTlIn_gatww:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=BcS8Aw0bu3o:PTlIn_gatww:qj6IDK7rITs"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=BcS8Aw0bu3o:PTlIn_gatww:KwTdNBX3Jqk"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?i=BcS8Aw0bu3o:PTlIn_gatww:KwTdNBX3Jqk" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=BcS8Aw0bu3o:PTlIn_gatww:l6gmwiTKsz0"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=BcS8Aw0bu3o:PTlIn_gatww:gIN9vFwOqvQ"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?i=BcS8Aw0bu3o:PTlIn_gatww:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=BcS8Aw0bu3o:PTlIn_gatww:TzevzKxY174"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=TzevzKxY174" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/WomenOfCertainAge/~4/BcS8Aw0bu3o" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><creativeCommons:license>http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/</creativeCommons:license><feedburner:origLink>http://womenofcertainage.blogspot.com/2012/03/its-economic-divide-stupid.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Hurt Rush Where It Counts...His Bank Account</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WomenOfCertainAge/~3/cZo4p__xRts/hurt-rush-where-it-countshis-bank.html</link><category>Allstate</category><category>Lear Capital</category><category>Tax Resolution Services</category><category>dirty politics</category><category>Rush Limbaugh</category><category>American Forces Network</category><category>boycott</category><category>Hillsdale College</category><category>Health Heart Body</category><category>AOL</category><author>noreply@blogger.com (California Girl)</author><pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2012 09:50:56 PST</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929216211968531577.post-8108063074027590784</guid><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2012-03-05T12:50:56.750-05:00</app:edited><media:thumbnail url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-3C6wDldt8u0/T1T7jh63ghI/AAAAAAAADYM/VwkM2D1g7qM/s72-c/BOYCOTT+rUSH.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>Those of you outraged by the latest Rush Limbaugh stunt, excoriating a Georgetown law student&amp;nbsp;as a "slut" and a "prostitute" for supporting health insurance coverage of contraception, NOW'S YOUR...&lt;br/&gt;
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The French call it "une femme d' un certain âge" and it refers to female wisdom and self-assuredness that supposedly come with age. I'm here to test the theory...&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=cZo4p__xRts:wMS_v8hQygw:yIl2AUoC8zA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=cZo4p__xRts:wMS_v8hQygw:63t7Ie-LG7Y"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=63t7Ie-LG7Y" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=cZo4p__xRts:wMS_v8hQygw:dnMXMwOfBR0"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=cZo4p__xRts:wMS_v8hQygw:F7zBnMyn0Lo"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?i=cZo4p__xRts:wMS_v8hQygw:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=cZo4p__xRts:wMS_v8hQygw:7Q72WNTAKBA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=cZo4p__xRts:wMS_v8hQygw:V_sGLiPBpWU"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?i=cZo4p__xRts:wMS_v8hQygw:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=cZo4p__xRts:wMS_v8hQygw:qj6IDK7rITs"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=cZo4p__xRts:wMS_v8hQygw:KwTdNBX3Jqk"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?i=cZo4p__xRts:wMS_v8hQygw:KwTdNBX3Jqk" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=cZo4p__xRts:wMS_v8hQygw:l6gmwiTKsz0"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=cZo4p__xRts:wMS_v8hQygw:gIN9vFwOqvQ"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?i=cZo4p__xRts:wMS_v8hQygw:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=cZo4p__xRts:wMS_v8hQygw:TzevzKxY174"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=TzevzKxY174" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/WomenOfCertainAge/~4/cZo4p__xRts" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><creativeCommons:license>http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/</creativeCommons:license><feedburner:origLink>http://womenofcertainage.blogspot.com/2012/03/hurt-rush-where-it-countshis-bank.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Back to the Future</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WomenOfCertainAge/~3/cHjN4q8jRDc/back-to-future.html</link><category>Mike Pense</category><category>John Boehner</category><category>Congress</category><category>racism</category><category>President Obama</category><category>President Clinton</category><category>Hillary Clinton</category><category>Eric Cantor</category><author>noreply@blogger.com (California Girl)</author><pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2012 09:15:35 PST</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929216211968531577.post-6562932516392923995</guid><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2012-03-02T12:15:35.538-05:00</app:edited><media:thumbnail url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-f1Ar7UO23Eo/T0-0OWfbqmI/AAAAAAAADXk/QrOVYvvAm1A/s72-c/Clinton++masthead+for+PBS+series+2012.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>Yesterday's &amp;nbsp;blog post by Jayne Martin&amp;nbsp;struck a chord. &amp;nbsp;She reprised a 2 year old post about the&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;continuing dominance of "tired old white men" in our political system and...&lt;br/&gt;
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The French call it "une femme d' un certain âge" and it refers to female wisdom and self-assuredness that supposedly come with age. I'm here to test the theory...&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=cHjN4q8jRDc:zr0OOlMbk5s:yIl2AUoC8zA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=cHjN4q8jRDc:zr0OOlMbk5s:63t7Ie-LG7Y"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=63t7Ie-LG7Y" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=cHjN4q8jRDc:zr0OOlMbk5s:dnMXMwOfBR0"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=cHjN4q8jRDc:zr0OOlMbk5s:F7zBnMyn0Lo"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?i=cHjN4q8jRDc:zr0OOlMbk5s:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=cHjN4q8jRDc:zr0OOlMbk5s:7Q72WNTAKBA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=cHjN4q8jRDc:zr0OOlMbk5s:V_sGLiPBpWU"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?i=cHjN4q8jRDc:zr0OOlMbk5s:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=cHjN4q8jRDc:zr0OOlMbk5s:qj6IDK7rITs"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=cHjN4q8jRDc:zr0OOlMbk5s:KwTdNBX3Jqk"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?i=cHjN4q8jRDc:zr0OOlMbk5s:KwTdNBX3Jqk" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=cHjN4q8jRDc:zr0OOlMbk5s:l6gmwiTKsz0"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=cHjN4q8jRDc:zr0OOlMbk5s:gIN9vFwOqvQ"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?i=cHjN4q8jRDc:zr0OOlMbk5s:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=cHjN4q8jRDc:zr0OOlMbk5s:TzevzKxY174"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=TzevzKxY174" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/WomenOfCertainAge/~4/cHjN4q8jRDc" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><creativeCommons:license>http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/</creativeCommons:license><feedburner:origLink>http://womenofcertainage.blogspot.com/2012/03/back-to-future.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Random Thoughts</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WomenOfCertainAge/~3/hR0vNytqy0g/random-thoughts.html</link><category>Sen. Sessions</category><category>Laugh In</category><category>Henry Gibson</category><author>noreply@blogger.com (California Girl)</author><pubDate>Sun, 26 Feb 2012 15:30:05 PST</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929216211968531577.post-7253408415475740695</guid><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2012-02-26T18:30:05.509-05:00</app:edited><media:thumbnail url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lrkgMVzXd-c/Tzq22oZrT6I/AAAAAAAADVk/QAfSL8Qlsbo/s72-c/Sen.+Sessions+++Alabama+++Henry+Gibson+lookalike.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">1</thr:total><description>Senator Jeff Sessions, (R: Ala) and&amp;nbsp;the late Henry

Gibson &amp;nbsp;of Laugh In fame.













Twins? or a devilishly clever clone to make us believe the wacky insights of the senator are due...&lt;br/&gt;
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The French call it "une femme d' un certain âge" and it refers to female wisdom and self-assuredness that supposedly come with age. I'm here to test the theory...&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=hR0vNytqy0g:wSHSWLHRGnc:yIl2AUoC8zA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=hR0vNytqy0g:wSHSWLHRGnc:63t7Ie-LG7Y"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=63t7Ie-LG7Y" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=hR0vNytqy0g:wSHSWLHRGnc:dnMXMwOfBR0"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=hR0vNytqy0g:wSHSWLHRGnc:F7zBnMyn0Lo"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?i=hR0vNytqy0g:wSHSWLHRGnc:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=hR0vNytqy0g:wSHSWLHRGnc:7Q72WNTAKBA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=hR0vNytqy0g:wSHSWLHRGnc:V_sGLiPBpWU"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?i=hR0vNytqy0g:wSHSWLHRGnc:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=hR0vNytqy0g:wSHSWLHRGnc:qj6IDK7rITs"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=hR0vNytqy0g:wSHSWLHRGnc:KwTdNBX3Jqk"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?i=hR0vNytqy0g:wSHSWLHRGnc:KwTdNBX3Jqk" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=hR0vNytqy0g:wSHSWLHRGnc:l6gmwiTKsz0"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=hR0vNytqy0g:wSHSWLHRGnc:gIN9vFwOqvQ"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?i=hR0vNytqy0g:wSHSWLHRGnc:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=hR0vNytqy0g:wSHSWLHRGnc:TzevzKxY174"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=TzevzKxY174" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/WomenOfCertainAge/~4/hR0vNytqy0g" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><creativeCommons:license>http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/</creativeCommons:license><feedburner:origLink>http://womenofcertainage.blogspot.com/2012/02/random-thoughts.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Are YOU A Christian? Am I?   Franklin Graham Has the Answers</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WomenOfCertainAge/~3/wVWsWMobRJw/are-you-christian-am-i-franklin-graham.html</link><category>Willie Geist</category><category>2012 presidential campaign</category><category>Franklin Graham</category><category>President Obama</category><category>Mike Barnicle</category><category>Morning Joe</category><author>noreply@blogger.com (California Girl)</author><pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 11:38:55 PST</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929216211968531577.post-2699455959036069161</guid><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2012-02-21T14:38:55.592-05:00</app:edited><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>As a person raised in the Protestant faith, I am well-acquainted with religious elitisism and judgment for all. &amp;nbsp;My brother and I&amp;nbsp;attended Sunday School or church most Sundays. &amp;nbsp;When...&lt;br/&gt;
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The French call it "une femme d' un certain âge" and it refers to female wisdom and self-assuredness that supposedly come with age. I'm here to test the theory...&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=wVWsWMobRJw:fpkPuX8llzY:yIl2AUoC8zA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=wVWsWMobRJw:fpkPuX8llzY:63t7Ie-LG7Y"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=63t7Ie-LG7Y" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=wVWsWMobRJw:fpkPuX8llzY:dnMXMwOfBR0"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=wVWsWMobRJw:fpkPuX8llzY:F7zBnMyn0Lo"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?i=wVWsWMobRJw:fpkPuX8llzY:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=wVWsWMobRJw:fpkPuX8llzY:7Q72WNTAKBA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=wVWsWMobRJw:fpkPuX8llzY:V_sGLiPBpWU"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?i=wVWsWMobRJw:fpkPuX8llzY:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=wVWsWMobRJw:fpkPuX8llzY:qj6IDK7rITs"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=wVWsWMobRJw:fpkPuX8llzY:KwTdNBX3Jqk"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?i=wVWsWMobRJw:fpkPuX8llzY:KwTdNBX3Jqk" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=wVWsWMobRJw:fpkPuX8llzY:l6gmwiTKsz0"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=wVWsWMobRJw:fpkPuX8llzY:gIN9vFwOqvQ"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?i=wVWsWMobRJw:fpkPuX8llzY:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=wVWsWMobRJw:fpkPuX8llzY:TzevzKxY174"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=TzevzKxY174" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/WomenOfCertainAge/~4/wVWsWMobRJw" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><creativeCommons:license>http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/</creativeCommons:license><feedburner:origLink>http://womenofcertainage.blogspot.com/2012/02/are-you-christian-am-i-franklin-graham.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Had Enough?</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WomenOfCertainAge/~3/4Q8aL_pvaTo/had-enough.html</link><category>political commentary</category><category>Mel Brooks</category><category>Blaziing Saddles</category><category>Foster Friess</category><author>noreply@blogger.com (California Girl)</author><pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2012 08:04:33 PST</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929216211968531577.post-6113859430724579330</guid><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2012-02-19T11:04:33.362-05:00</app:edited><media:thumbnail url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-j2-IU0YePaM/T0EatsJIFAI/AAAAAAAADWw/MVydChkjmf4/s72-c/Campfire+blog+masthead++2012.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>As mentioned in my previous two posts below, the Foster Friess comments and subsequent hoo-rah gives one pause when it comes to women's rights.   I returned to his blog this morning to see if they...&lt;br/&gt;
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The French call it "une femme d' un certain âge" and it refers to female wisdom and self-assuredness that supposedly come with age. I'm here to test the theory...&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=4Q8aL_pvaTo:CAOsg7lKad8:yIl2AUoC8zA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=4Q8aL_pvaTo:CAOsg7lKad8:63t7Ie-LG7Y"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=63t7Ie-LG7Y" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=4Q8aL_pvaTo:CAOsg7lKad8:dnMXMwOfBR0"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=4Q8aL_pvaTo:CAOsg7lKad8:F7zBnMyn0Lo"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?i=4Q8aL_pvaTo:CAOsg7lKad8:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=4Q8aL_pvaTo:CAOsg7lKad8:7Q72WNTAKBA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=4Q8aL_pvaTo:CAOsg7lKad8:V_sGLiPBpWU"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?i=4Q8aL_pvaTo:CAOsg7lKad8:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=4Q8aL_pvaTo:CAOsg7lKad8:qj6IDK7rITs"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=4Q8aL_pvaTo:CAOsg7lKad8:KwTdNBX3Jqk"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?i=4Q8aL_pvaTo:CAOsg7lKad8:KwTdNBX3Jqk" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=4Q8aL_pvaTo:CAOsg7lKad8:l6gmwiTKsz0"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=4Q8aL_pvaTo:CAOsg7lKad8:gIN9vFwOqvQ"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?i=4Q8aL_pvaTo:CAOsg7lKad8:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?a=4Q8aL_pvaTo:CAOsg7lKad8:TzevzKxY174"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WomenOfCertainAge?d=TzevzKxY174" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
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