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		<title>Hello!&#8230;.This is Rachel from Card Holders Services…….</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 23:04:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Please press two to kiss my ass…. Like Popeye, my toddlerhood hero, I finally blurted out “That’s all I can stands and I can’t stand no more…!” From the day we moved into our current residence in 2006 right up until this noon, “Rachel” has been calling to get my attention by alluding to impending [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mcrayons.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10291378&amp;post=412&amp;subd=mcrayons&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>National Nincompoop </title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 03:10:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mcrayons.wordpress.com/?p=391</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Despite heroic efforts by fiction writers during the last two centuries, we have nevertheless entered the Age of Idiocy with our eyes wide open, our open palms outstretched, and our alleged brains in a state of suspended animation. We achieved a blissful condition of blind obedience to pundit polarities first, with “Liberals” automatically retching in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mcrayons.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10291378&amp;post=391&amp;subd=mcrayons&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Legislating Good Judgment</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 23:16:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[POLITICS: talking out of one&#039;s ass and face at the same time]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mcrayons.wordpress.com/?p=357</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Terrible ideas share the unvarying pedigree of having started out as good ideas badly thought out. Historically, I have tended to vote Libertarian, Independent, or Republican. I’m of bit of a political mongrel in that regard, but I don’t think I’m that unique, really. I know a few people who would vote a straight party [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mcrayons.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10291378&amp;post=357&amp;subd=mcrayons&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title> old birthday ponderings revisited  </title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 00:42:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mcrayons.wordpress.com/?p=348</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[…….I remember looking up from the morning crossword puzzle and, with my pencil, parting the curtains covering the window across the table. Dawn. I glanced at the clock on the kitchen wall above the refrigerator and noted that, as of that moment, I had completed 65 years on this galactic spitball. Celebrating my birthday with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mcrayons.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10291378&amp;post=348&amp;subd=mcrayons&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Doctor Oxymoron’s Pending DSM-V Profile&#8230; </title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Aug 2010 14:26:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mcrayons.wordpress.com/?p=336</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[…..or “open mouth, insert plug”… This is a bit off-topic for me, as the media concerned doesn’t normally merit shelf space in my head. However, the nature of the incident caught my eye while plowing through the daily effluvium of MSN’s sorry offerings and I felt the urge to comment. First of all, those who [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mcrayons.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10291378&amp;post=336&amp;subd=mcrayons&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Resolving the BP/Deepwater Horizon disaster&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://mcrayons.wordpress.com/2010/06/01/resolving-the-bpdeepwater-horizon-disaster/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 13:06:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mcrayons.wordpress.com/?p=326</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[…..or “he said, she said”… I’m not big on conspiracy theories, especially when it comes to government entities. First of all, I sincerely doubt a government entity could remain cohesive enough, long enough, to carry one off. Secondly, human nature demands that someone would “leak” the story….to make a buck, to make a mess, to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mcrayons.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10291378&amp;post=326&amp;subd=mcrayons&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title> The Descent Continues&#8230;.. </title>
		<link>http://mcrayons.wordpress.com/2010/03/22/the-descent-continues/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 12:35:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[dependency]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mcrayons.wordpress.com/?p=318</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[…..or “swan diving into an empty pool”… Some have rationalized the health care coup is like social Security, Medicare, etc. &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.. there are many analogies to this kind of thinking, many of them describing progressive insertion justifications by adolescent boys cajoling gullible adolescent girls that small increments of added involvement won&#8217;t do any harm and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mcrayons.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10291378&amp;post=318&amp;subd=mcrayons&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title> Our public servants profess “Free Range”&#8230;.. </title>
		<link>http://mcrayons.wordpress.com/2010/02/28/our-public-servants-profess-%e2%80%9cfree-range%e2%80%9d/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 17:40:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mcrayons.wordpress.com/?p=312</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[…..while stringing barbed wire to the four winds… Nearly half a century ago, Lyndon B. Johnson observed “Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men&#8217;s skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.” That was in the day when freedom [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mcrayons.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10291378&amp;post=312&amp;subd=mcrayons&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title> Internet journalism&#8230;..</title>
		<link>http://mcrayons.wordpress.com/2010/02/27/internet-journalism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 20:14:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[…..oxymoron of the millenium&#8230;? One has to give MSNBC credit. They may not ask the biggest questions but they sure are consistent at addressing the dumbest ones, or at least in addressing the biggest ones in the dumbest ways. If some guy solved the mysteries of nuclear fusion, MSNBC would want to know what he [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mcrayons.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10291378&amp;post=302&amp;subd=mcrayons&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title> The well is dry&#8230;..</title>
		<link>http://mcrayons.wordpress.com/2010/02/27/the-well-is-dry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 17:10:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[…..and they wanna buy buckets&#8230;? OK, let’s stand back and take a look at what is going on here for a second. The Six O’clock News gives a rundown of who pled their cases before the various state budget committees that day, each seeking to convince those responsible for doling out the Public Largess that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mcrayons.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10291378&amp;post=298&amp;subd=mcrayons&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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