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		<title>By: Debbie G</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Debbie G]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2014 20:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wow, I feel just the opposite.  I&#039;d say he&#039;s passionate without becoming angry.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wow, I feel just the opposite.  I&#8217;d say he&#8217;s passionate without becoming angry.</p>
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		<title>By: Wolfthatknowsall</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/truthrevolt-org/bill-whittle-my-friend-failure/comment-page-1/#comment-5421185</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Wolfthatknowsall]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2014 03:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why the he!! are we arguing about Ron Paul?  He is history.  He will never be president, and he had no chance to be president.  I think the guy could have won, if his &lt;b&gt;POLICY POSITIONS&lt;/b&gt; on national defense hadn&#039;t been straight out of the 1920&#039;s, and his foreign policy was isolationist.

I did not not support McCain, and my support for Romney was tepid, at best, but those were the only choices we had.  If you wrote in &quot;Ron Paul&quot;, or didn&#039;t vote, at all, you helped put Obama in the White House.  If you voted for a third party candidate, you helped put Obama in the White House.

We have to come together, support, and vote for the GOP candidates in 2016, or we will have Hitlery for President.  My personal choice is Ted Cruz/Dr. Ben Carson as a ticket.

So, the GOP didn&#039;t nominate Ron Paul.  Get your head out of the sand, stop whining, and help save our country ...]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Why the he!! are we arguing about Ron Paul?  He is history.  He will never be president, and he had no chance to be president.  I think the guy could have won, if his <b>POLICY POSITIONS</b> on national defense hadn&#8217;t been straight out of the 1920&#8242;s, and his foreign policy was isolationist.</p>
<p>I did not not support McCain, and my support for Romney was tepid, at best, but those were the only choices we had.  If you wrote in &#8220;Ron Paul&#8221;, or didn&#8217;t vote, at all, you helped put Obama in the White House.  If you voted for a third party candidate, you helped put Obama in the White House.</p>
<p>We have to come together, support, and vote for the GOP candidates in 2016, or we will have Hitlery for President.  My personal choice is Ted Cruz/Dr. Ben Carson as a ticket.</p>
<p>So, the GOP didn&#8217;t nominate Ron Paul.  Get your head out of the sand, stop whining, and help save our country &#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: r3VOLution is not republican</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[r3VOLution is not republican]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2014 01:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You won&#039;t, because you can&#039;t.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You won&#8217;t, because you can&#8217;t.</p>
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		<title>By: r3VOLution is not republican</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/truthrevolt-org/bill-whittle-my-friend-failure/comment-page-1/#comment-5421109</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[r3VOLution is not republican]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2014 01:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ron Paul&#039;s NONINTERVENTIONIST, CONSTITUTIONAL foreign policy is designed for AMERICAN, ESPECIALLY RIGHT NOW, after republicans and democrats HAVE KILLED THOUSANDS OF AMERICANS FOR NOTHING.

Republican party?  You just as well place the crown on Hillary&#039;s brow, SAME A YOU DID WITH OBAMA... TWICE.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ron Paul&#8217;s NONINTERVENTIONIST, CONSTITUTIONAL foreign policy is designed for AMERICAN, ESPECIALLY RIGHT NOW, after republicans and democrats HAVE KILLED THOUSANDS OF AMERICANS FOR NOTHING.</p>
<p>Republican party?  You just as well place the crown on Hillary&#8217;s brow, SAME A YOU DID WITH OBAMA&#8230; TWICE.</p>
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		<title>By: Bill #2</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bill #2]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2014 00:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To me, he seems not so angry as impatient. Without this feeling, you might be happy if someone else passed on his talks, or someone else acted on his talk. What he says needs to be passed on to others and actions taken - sometimes he calls for action, sometimes he describes something and leaves us to take the appropriate action.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>To me, he seems not so angry as impatient. Without this feeling, you might be happy if someone else passed on his talks, or someone else acted on his talk. What he says needs to be passed on to others and actions taken &#8211; sometimes he calls for action, sometimes he describes something and leaves us to take the appropriate action.</p>
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		<title>By: Americana</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/truthrevolt-org/bill-whittle-my-friend-failure/comment-page-1/#comment-5420984</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Americana]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2014 21:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You might feel very differently if you could no longer drink your ground water without adding a significant water purification system to your home water system because you live in an area of the country where fracking chemicals have somehow percolated into the groundwater. There&#039;s a reason why China is no longer being quite so complacent about its environmental travesties and those reasons are the same for the U.S.  The U.S. began to strengthen its environmental awareness DECADES AGO when the first large-scale environmental degradation was detected at many places around the U.S. China is still experiencing the Wild West of capitalism where anything goes. Chinese businesses are poisoning our dogs and cats w/melamine in their foods and treats. Chinese businesses are poisoning baby formula. Chinese rice has arsenic that&#039;s been absorbed into the rice grains because of the water used on the rice paddies and the soil in which the rice is grown.


Environmental control over business is not &quot;arbitrary interference 
of government.&quot; It may be difficult to always arrive at the correct balance of environmental controls over business but there&#039;s a reason why the U.S. has a massive number of SUPERFUND sites — sites that are dangerously polluted to the point where people aren&#039;t allowed to live near them. These Superfund sites were created umpteen decades ago when we didn&#039;t recognize how long it took for chemicals to degrade in the environment. What we did during America&#039;s Wild West days and what we should be conscious of today are two different things.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You might feel very differently if you could no longer drink your ground water without adding a significant water purification system to your home water system because you live in an area of the country where fracking chemicals have somehow percolated into the groundwater. There&#8217;s a reason why China is no longer being quite so complacent about its environmental travesties and those reasons are the same for the U.S.  The U.S. began to strengthen its environmental awareness DECADES AGO when the first large-scale environmental degradation was detected at many places around the U.S. China is still experiencing the Wild West of capitalism where anything goes. Chinese businesses are poisoning our dogs and cats w/melamine in their foods and treats. Chinese businesses are poisoning baby formula. Chinese rice has arsenic that&#8217;s been absorbed into the rice grains because of the water used on the rice paddies and the soil in which the rice is grown.</p>
<p>Environmental control over business is not &#8220;arbitrary interference<br />
of government.&#8221; It may be difficult to always arrive at the correct balance of environmental controls over business but there&#8217;s a reason why the U.S. has a massive number of SUPERFUND sites — sites that are dangerously polluted to the point where people aren&#8217;t allowed to live near them. These Superfund sites were created umpteen decades ago when we didn&#8217;t recognize how long it took for chemicals to degrade in the environment. What we did during America&#8217;s Wild West days and what we should be conscious of today are two different things.</p>
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		<title>By: NAHALKIDES</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[NAHALKIDES]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2014 17:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#039;s a sad day when you have to go to socialist Canada to start a business, but perhaps that day has arrived under Obama.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s a sad day when you have to go to socialist Canada to start a business, but perhaps that day has arrived under Obama.</p>
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		<title>By: Matt Dickinson</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Matt Dickinson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2014 16:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[we&#039;re all in this together]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>we&#8217;re all in this together</p>
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		<title>By: stephencarter</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[stephencarter]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2014 16:16:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#039;ve noticed that too. I think he&#039;s truly horrified at what is overtaking the USA, and the malaise that afflicts 80%+ of the country. Americans are famously gung-ho when they&#039;re going in a productive direction, but they&#039;re equally impassioned when the direction is negative. Reagan almost single-handed turned America away from its 1980s malaise, largely created by the Left. I feel as Bill feels much of the time, and I&#039;m Canadian, so I don&#039;t have a dog in this fight. Plus I think it&#039;s too late now for the USA to make a course correction. Now I think America subconsciously wants to fail and become a middle power, but will that work? I doubt it. Great powers can only shed their former role when a war separates the before from the after.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve noticed that too. I think he&#8217;s truly horrified at what is overtaking the USA, and the malaise that afflicts 80%+ of the country. Americans are famously gung-ho when they&#8217;re going in a productive direction, but they&#8217;re equally impassioned when the direction is negative. Reagan almost single-handed turned America away from its 1980s malaise, largely created by the Left. I feel as Bill feels much of the time, and I&#8217;m Canadian, so I don&#8217;t have a dog in this fight. Plus I think it&#8217;s too late now for the USA to make a course correction. Now I think America subconsciously wants to fail and become a middle power, but will that work? I doubt it. Great powers can only shed their former role when a war separates the before from the after.</p>
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		<title>By: stephencarter</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[stephencarter]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2014 16:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#039;s worse than this. Imagine if the guys who developed &#039;fracking&#039; technology were getting started today. The government has probably instituted preemptive regulatory filters to shut down any such tech innovations of the future. So you have to go to a country that allows innovations in areas that don&#039;t accord with the the strict worldview of the EPA, IRS, etc. ie. go to Canada. Probably 35-40% of US innovation historically happened in part in Canada, for diverse reasons. That number will probably increase as the USA becomes ever more hostile to new products, innovation, fairness, capitalism, and real democracy. Bureaucrats get power by saying no, or having endless lists of requirements to be &#039;in compliance.&#039;]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s worse than this. Imagine if the guys who developed &#8216;fracking&#8217; technology were getting started today. The government has probably instituted preemptive regulatory filters to shut down any such tech innovations of the future. So you have to go to a country that allows innovations in areas that don&#8217;t accord with the the strict worldview of the EPA, IRS, etc. ie. go to Canada. Probably 35-40% of US innovation historically happened in part in Canada, for diverse reasons. That number will probably increase as the USA becomes ever more hostile to new products, innovation, fairness, capitalism, and real democracy. Bureaucrats get power by saying no, or having endless lists of requirements to be &#8216;in compliance.&#8217;</p>
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		<title>By: Wolfthatknowsall</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Wolfthatknowsall]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2014 13:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ron Paul never would have been nominated, much less elected.  His foreign and military policy was designed for the 1920&#039;s (and they didn&#039;t work, then), not the 21st Century.

I agree with your second point, in part.

Third party?  You just as well place the crown on Hillary&#039;s brow ...]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ron Paul never would have been nominated, much less elected.  His foreign and military policy was designed for the 1920&#8242;s (and they didn&#8217;t work, then), not the 21st Century.</p>
<p>I agree with your second point, in part.</p>
<p>Third party?  You just as well place the crown on Hillary&#8217;s brow &#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: NAHALKIDES</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[NAHALKIDES]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2014 12:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#039;m not going to go through it all here, but I did in this article: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stubbornthings.org/libertarianism-minus-conservatism-zero/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Libertarianism Minus Conservatism = Zero&lt;/a&gt;.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m not going to go through it all here, but I did in this article: <a href="http://www.stubbornthings.org/libertarianism-minus-conservatism-zero/" rel="nofollow">Libertarianism Minus Conservatism = Zero</a>.</p>
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		<title>By: r3VOLution is not republican</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[r3VOLution is not republican]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2014 04:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[1. Ron Paul was well on his way to becoming President. The only thing that stopped him was the CHEATING, LEFTIST republican party and it&#039;s USEFUL IDIOT &quot;better&quot; evil voters.

2. CHICKENHAWK Obama HAS KILLED MORE PEOPLE AND INTERVENED IN MORE COUNTRIES THAN BUSH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NOT, IN ANY WAY, &quot;nonintervention!&quot; GOOD GOD IN HEAVEN STOP KILLING AMERICANS IN YOUR UNCONSTITUTIONAL NATION-BUILDING!!!!!!

3. 2016? Third party!!!!!!!!!!!!!]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>1. Ron Paul was well on his way to becoming President. The only thing that stopped him was the CHEATING, LEFTIST republican party and it&#8217;s USEFUL IDIOT &#8220;better&#8221; evil voters.</p>
<p>2. CHICKENHAWK Obama HAS KILLED MORE PEOPLE AND INTERVENED IN MORE COUNTRIES THAN BUSH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NOT, IN ANY WAY, &#8220;nonintervention!&#8221; GOOD GOD IN HEAVEN STOP KILLING AMERICANS IN YOUR UNCONSTITUTIONAL NATION-BUILDING!!!!!!</p>
<p>3. 2016? Third party!!!!!!!!!!!!!</p>
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		<title>By: Wolfthatknowsall</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Wolfthatknowsall]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2014 04:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Can you clearly explain how someone is elected to the presidency without being subsidized in the hundreds of millions of dollars?

Non-interventionism is clearly why the world is a much more dangerous place, today, than it was in 2008.  The president does not have the cojones to intervene when the future of the United States is at stake.

Please get over it.  Ron Paul could never have won the nomination.  Even if he had, he would never have won the election.  Move on to a better candidate, for 2016.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Can you clearly explain how someone is elected to the presidency without being subsidized in the hundreds of millions of dollars?</p>
<p>Non-interventionism is clearly why the world is a much more dangerous place, today, than it was in 2008.  The president does not have the cojones to intervene when the future of the United States is at stake.</p>
<p>Please get over it.  Ron Paul could never have won the nomination.  Even if he had, he would never have won the election.  Move on to a better candidate, for 2016.</p>
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		<title>By: Wolfthatknowsall</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Wolfthatknowsall]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2014 04:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Flagged as off-topic ...]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Flagged as off-topic &#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: Wolfthatknowsall</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Wolfthatknowsall]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2014 04:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interesting bit of history ...]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Interesting bit of history &#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: Bellerophons_Revenge</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bellerophons_Revenge]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2014 00:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[See my previous post to understand why Edison&#039;s &quot;folklore&quot; is more accurate than the Canadian, British and German versions of who really invented the electric light.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>See my previous post to understand why Edison&#8217;s &#8220;folklore&#8221; is more accurate than the Canadian, British and German versions of who really invented the electric light.</p>
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		<title>By: Bellerophons_Revenge</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bellerophons_Revenge]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2014 00:52:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#039;s a lot to know about electric lights. The Woodward/Evans light was basically useless because it had a low resistance. The meant that it had either be wired in series or required a low voltage and high current to illuminate. Wired in series it would be like the string of Christmas lights, when one failed they all go out. If operated at high current it meant that power distribution would require large, unwieldy cables or would suffer too great losses in transmission to make it economical to power them. 

Complicating the problem even more was the fact that high current generators require heavy gauge copper and hence result in heavy armatures which, when spinning at high speeds, place enormous stress on the bearings. The high currents also generate great heat which needs to be conducted away from the windings. The engineering problem of an electric light wasn&#039;t merely to produce light. You need a way to power those lights economically. 

The most important aspect of Edison&#039;s electric light wasn&#039;t that it worked. There were many lights that &quot;worked&quot;. The real problem was to design the entire generating and  distribution system. He understood that to make an economically successful light bulb he would have to make one that had a high electrical resistance. Woodward and Evans may have succeeded in producing a long lasting bulb but the thick filament made their invention impractical. 

The reason that Woodward and Evans couldn&#039;t get backing was almost certainly because they had not developed a way to power their lights.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There&#8217;s a lot to know about electric lights. The Woodward/Evans light was basically useless because it had a low resistance. The meant that it had either be wired in series or required a low voltage and high current to illuminate. Wired in series it would be like the string of Christmas lights, when one failed they all go out. If operated at high current it meant that power distribution would require large, unwieldy cables or would suffer too great losses in transmission to make it economical to power them. </p>
<p>Complicating the problem even more was the fact that high current generators require heavy gauge copper and hence result in heavy armatures which, when spinning at high speeds, place enormous stress on the bearings. The high currents also generate great heat which needs to be conducted away from the windings. The engineering problem of an electric light wasn&#8217;t merely to produce light. You need a way to power those lights economically. </p>
<p>The most important aspect of Edison&#8217;s electric light wasn&#8217;t that it worked. There were many lights that &#8220;worked&#8221;. The real problem was to design the entire generating and  distribution system. He understood that to make an economically successful light bulb he would have to make one that had a high electrical resistance. Woodward and Evans may have succeeded in producing a long lasting bulb but the thick filament made their invention impractical. </p>
<p>The reason that Woodward and Evans couldn&#8217;t get backing was almost certainly because they had not developed a way to power their lights.</p>
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		<title>By: Fritz</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Fritz]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 May 2014 17:33:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sorry, it wasn&#039;t Watson and Evans, it was Henry Woodward and Mathew Evans, Woodward and Evans were granted a U.S patent on their lightbulb in 1876, and sold it to Edison in 1879. The main difference between Edison&#039;s lightbulb and the Woodward and Evans lightbulb, was the envelope of the earlier lamp was nitrogen filled whereas Edison&#039;s lamp employed a vacuum.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sorry, it wasn&#8217;t Watson and Evans, it was Henry Woodward and Mathew Evans, Woodward and Evans were granted a U.S patent on their lightbulb in 1876, and sold it to Edison in 1879. The main difference between Edison&#8217;s lightbulb and the Woodward and Evans lightbulb, was the envelope of the earlier lamp was nitrogen filled whereas Edison&#8217;s lamp employed a vacuum.</p>
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		<title>By: Fritz</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/truthrevolt-org/bill-whittle-my-friend-failure/comment-page-1/#comment-5420016</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Fritz]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 May 2014 17:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, and to further things along, he bought the rights to an incandescent electric lamp, with a carbon filament, invented by a pair from Toronto named Watson and Evans in 1874. They held the patent, could not get any financial backing, and sold their American patent to Edison for $5000  I know that it does not fit with the template of American folklore surrounding Edison but it happens to be a fact.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yes, and to further things along, he bought the rights to an incandescent electric lamp, with a carbon filament, invented by a pair from Toronto named Watson and Evans in 1874. They held the patent, could not get any financial backing, and sold their American patent to Edison for $5000  I know that it does not fit with the template of American folklore surrounding Edison but it happens to be a fact.</p>
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