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Bush</category></item><item><title>Deciding Vote On Wetlands Preservation Bill Rests With The Littlest Senator</title><link>http://www.theonion.com/content/news/deciding_vote_on_wetlands?utm_source=onion_rss_daily</link><description><![CDATA[ WASHINGTON, DC—Congress narrowly passed the McCann-Hawkins Florida Wetlands Preservation Bill Tuesday, with the deciding vote coming from an unlikely source: Sen. Dwight Q. 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"Texas wastes more than 500,000 watts of electricity on every criminal it executes," Durning told reporters Monday. "We live in the 21st century, and it's high time we acted like it. Let's stop depleting our non-renewable fossil fuels. Solar power is a more energy-efficient way to execute the condemned." Durning added that wrist and ankle restraints should be made of hemp rather than leather, the use of which is cruel.]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2008 07:00:00 -0400</pubDate><guid>http://www.theonion.com/content/node/32860?utm_source=onion_rss_daily</guid><category domain="http://www.theonion.com/content/taxonomy/tag/News_In_Brief">News In Brief</category><category domain="http://www.theonion.com/content/taxonomy/tag/Politics">Politics</category><category domain="http://www.theonion.com/content/taxonomy/tag/Capital_Punishment">Capital Punishment</category><category domain="http://www.theonion.com/content/taxonomy/tag/Environment">Environment</category><category domain="http://www.theonion.com/content/taxonomy/tag/Energy">Energy</category><category domain="http://www.theonion.com/content/taxonomy/tag/Texas">Texas</category><category domain="http://www.theonion.com/content/taxonomy/tag/Legal">Legal</category><category domain="http://www.theonion.com/content/taxonomy/tag/Death">Death</category><category domain="http://www.theonion.com/content/taxonomy/tag/Alternative_Energy">Alternative Energy</category></item><item><title>Senate Subcommittee On Energy And Water Development More Like A Family</title><link>http://www.theonion.com/content/node/31759?utm_source=onion_rss_daily</link><description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, DC— Sen. Pete Domenici (R-NM), ranking Republican on the Senate Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, revealed Monday that the group is "less a Senate subcommittee than a big family. "[Senator] Harry [Reid (D-NV)] isn't just chairman of our subcommittee. He's more like a dad to us," Domenici said. "We can talk to him about anything that's troubling us, even if it has nothing to do with the allocation of hydroelectric power."]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2008 08:00:00 -0400</pubDate><guid>http://www.theonion.com/content/node/31759?utm_source=onion_rss_daily</guid><category domain="http://www.theonion.com/content/taxonomy/tag/News_In_Brief">News In Brief</category><category domain="http://www.theonion.com/content/taxonomy/tag/Politics">Politics</category><category domain="http://www.theonion.com/content/taxonomy/tag/Congress">Congress</category></item><item><title>Tomato Genetically Modified To Be More Expensive</title><link>http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/tomato_genetically_modified?utm_source=onion_rss_daily</link><description><![CDATA[PASADENA, CA&mdash;Geneticists at the California Institute of Technology announced Monday that they have developed a tomato with a 31 percent larger...]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2008 09:00:00 -0400</pubDate><guid>http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/tomato_genetically_modified?utm_source=onion_rss_daily</guid><category domain="http://www.theonion.com/content/taxonomy/tag/Science_%2526_Technology">Science &amp;amp; Technology</category><category domain="http://www.theonion.com/content/taxonomy/tag/News_In_Brief">News In Brief</category><category domain="http://www.theonion.com/content/taxonomy/tag/Diet_%2526_Weight">Diet &amp;amp; Weight</category><category domain="http://www.theonion.com/content/taxonomy/tag/food">food</category><category domain="http://www.theonion.com/content/taxonomy/tag/shopping">shopping</category></item><item><title>[audio] Life Jackets Issued To All Americans For Some Reason</title><link>http://www.theonion.com/content/radio_news/life_jackets_issued_to_all?utm_source=onion_rss_daily</link><description><![CDATA[Onion Radio News - with Doyle Redland]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2008 10:00:00 -0400</pubDate><guid>http://www.theonion.com/content/radio_news/life_jackets_issued_to_all?utm_source=onion_rss_daily</guid><category domain="http://www.theonion.com/content/taxonomy/tag/Onion_Radio_News">Onion Radio News</category></item><item><title>[audio] Endangered Manatee Struggles To Make Self Understood To Congress</title><link>http://www.theonion.com/content/radio_news/endangered_manatee_struggles?utm_source=onion_rss_daily</link><description><![CDATA[Onion Radio News - with Doyle Redland]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2008 11:00:00 -0400</pubDate><guid>http://www.theonion.com/content/radio_news/endangered_manatee_struggles?utm_source=onion_rss_daily</guid><category domain="http://www.theonion.com/content/taxonomy/tag/Onion_Radio_News">Onion Radio News</category></item><item><title>[audio] Arizona Burned To Stop California Wildfire</title><link>http://www.theonion.com/content/radio_news/arizona_burned_to_stop?utm_source=onion_rss_daily</link><description><![CDATA[Onion Radio News - with Doyle Redland]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2008 12:00:00 -0400</pubDate><guid>http://www.theonion.com/content/radio_news/arizona_burned_to_stop?utm_source=onion_rss_daily</guid><category domain="http://www.theonion.com/content/taxonomy/tag/Onion_Radio_News">Onion Radio News</category></item><item><title>Bald Eagles Thriving</title><link>http://www.theonion.com/content/node/46207?utm_source=onion_rss_daily</link><description><![CDATA[A recent survey indicated that bald eagles would soon be taken off the endangered-species list. What do <i>you</i> think?]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2008 13:00:00 -0400</pubDate><guid>http://www.theonion.com/content/node/46207?utm_source=onion_rss_daily</guid><category domain="http://www.theonion.com/content/taxonomy/tag/American_Voices">American Voices</category><category domain="http://www.theonion.com/content/taxonomy/tag/Animals">Animals</category><category domain="http://www.theonion.com/content/taxonomy/tag/United_States">United States</category></item><item><title>Polluting Nations Endorse Greenhouse-Gas Plan</title><link>http://www.theonion.com/content/node/45086?utm_source=onion_rss_daily</link><description><![CDATA[Six of the nations that produce the highest volume of greenhouse gases have endorsed a voluntary plan that will reduce emissions 30 percent by 2050....]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2008 14:00:00 -0400</pubDate><guid>http://www.theonion.com/content/node/45086?utm_source=onion_rss_daily</guid><category domain="http://www.theonion.com/content/taxonomy/tag/American_Voices">American Voices</category></item><item><title>Honeybees Dying Mysteriously</title><link>http://www.theonion.com/content/amvo/honeybees_dying_mysteriously?utm_source=onion_rss_daily</link><description><![CDATA[American honeybees are being wiped out in record numbers by a mysterious illness. What do <i>you</i> think?]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2008 15:00:00 -0400</pubDate><guid>http://www.theonion.com/content/amvo/honeybees_dying_mysteriously?utm_source=onion_rss_daily</guid><category domain="http://www.theonion.com/content/taxonomy/tag/Science_%2526_Technology">Science &amp;amp; Technology</category><category domain="http://www.theonion.com/content/taxonomy/tag/American_Voices">American Voices</category><category domain="http://www.theonion.com/content/taxonomy/tag/Science">Science</category><category domain="http://www.theonion.com/content/taxonomy/tag/Animals">Animals</category></item><item><title>Where The Fuck Is Diane With My Fair-Trade Coffee?</title><link>http://www.theonion.com/content/node/33988?utm_source=onion_rss_daily</link><description><![CDATA[Marla? Get in here. Where the fuck is Diane with my coffee? I sent her out 15 minutes ago for a large cup of fair-trade Ethiopian Dark Roast from the La Paz coffee shop. How hard could it be? You walk your ass to the corner, hand them my <i>Utne Reader</i> travel mug, plunk down the money, and pick up the coffee. Add a little soy milk and two natural-cane sugar packets, and you make sure the lid is tight. That's so simple, even Diane should be able to do it without fucking up.]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2008 16:00:00 -0400</pubDate><guid>http://www.theonion.com/content/node/33988?utm_source=onion_rss_daily</guid><enclosure url="http://www.theonion.com/content/files/images/onion_opinion479.thumbnail.jpg" length="2363" type="image/jpeg"/><category domain="http://www.theonion.com/content/taxonomy/tag/Opinion">Opinion</category><category domain="http://www.theonion.com/content/taxonomy/tag/Workplace">Workplace</category></item><item><title>We Must Preserve The Earth's Dwindling Resources For My Five Children</title><link>http://www.theonion.com/content/opinion/we_must_preserve_the_earths?utm_source=onion_rss_daily</link><description><![CDATA[As we move into the 21st century, it is our responsibility to think of the future of the earth&mdash;not for ourselves, but for those who will...]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2008 17:00:00 -0400</pubDate><guid>http://www.theonion.com/content/opinion/we_must_preserve_the_earths?utm_source=onion_rss_daily</guid><category domain="http://www.theonion.com/content/taxonomy/tag/Opinion">Opinion</category><category domain="http://www.theonion.com/content/taxonomy/tag/Family">Family</category><category domain="http://www.theonion.com/content/taxonomy/tag/Environment">Environment</category></item><item><title>Fantasy Baseball Owner Rips Team In Media</title><link>http://www.theonion.com/content/news/fantasy_baseball_owner_rips_team?utm_source=onion_rss_daily</link><description><![CDATA[BROOKLYN, NY&mdash;Mark Mendicus, 26-year-old Staples employee and principal owner of the fantasy baseball team Beat With Uggla Stick, blasted his underperforming team in the media Monday, going so far as to single out individual players,...]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2008 18:00:00 -0400</pubDate><guid>http://www.theonion.com/content/news/fantasy_baseball_owner_rips_team?utm_source=onion_rss_daily</guid><enclosure url="http://www.theonion.com/content/files/images/TS-Fantasy-Baseball-R.thumbnail.jpg" length="4970" type="image/jpeg"/><category domain="http://www.theonion.com/content/taxonomy/tag/Sports">Sports</category><category domain="http://www.theonion.com/content/taxonomy/tag/Sports_News">Sports News</category><category domain="http://www.theonion.com/content/taxonomy/tag/Baseball">Baseball</category></item></channel></rss>