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		<title>Congress Grows a Pair</title>
		<link>http://www.selfdirectedsociety.com/2010/03/04/congress-grows-a-pair/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 21:52:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mr. Smith</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Armenia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[atrocities]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[crimes against humanity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[genocide]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a long-overdue move, today a Congressional panel approved a measure which labels the massacre of Armenian civilians by the military forces of the Ottoman Empire as &#8220;genocide.&#8221;  Proposals to apply this term to the atrocity committed nearly a century ago have been punted down the line from one Congress to the next for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hope in a Time of Cynicism</title>
		<link>http://www.selfdirectedsociety.com/2010/01/21/hope-in-a-time-of-cynicism/</link>
		<comments>http://www.selfdirectedsociety.com/2010/01/21/hope-in-a-time-of-cynicism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 22:28:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mr. Smith</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[conservative]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cynicism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hope]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[President Obama]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My neighbor&#8217;s car has a bumper sticker that says, &#8220;How&#8217;s that whole hopey-changey thing goin&#8217; for ya?&#8221;   This moronic expression is not only annoying because it reads like it was meant to be a Sarah Palin quote.  It is annoying because I would actually like a whole lot more change, please, and I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kill the Filibuster</title>
		<link>http://www.selfdirectedsociety.com/2009/12/21/kill-the-filibuster/</link>
		<comments>http://www.selfdirectedsociety.com/2009/12/21/kill-the-filibuster/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 18:34:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mr. Smith</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Congress]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Democrats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[filibuster]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[legislation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[majority rule]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nuclear option]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.selfdirectedsociety.com/?p=112</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The filibuster, simply put, is the practice of talking proposed legislation to death.  Presently, in the Senate, a three-fifths majority vote is required to end a filibuster: a high standard that aims toward consensus instead of mere majority rule.  
Back in the days of the Bush administration, when the Republicans controlled both houses [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why the Vaccine Debate is a Legitimate Debate</title>
		<link>http://www.selfdirectedsociety.com/2009/10/16/why-the-vaccine-debate-is-a-legitimate-debate/</link>
		<comments>http://www.selfdirectedsociety.com/2009/10/16/why-the-vaccine-debate-is-a-legitimate-debate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 01:40:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mr. Smith</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[ADHD]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[autism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[childhood immunizations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[neurological damage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pharmaceuticals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[studies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vaccinations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vaccines]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The pro-vaccine crowd has grown increasingly intolerant of the very idea of defending their position.  Instead they have resorted to name-calling, accusing vaccine doubters of being &#8220;anti-science,&#8221; and lumping vaccine doubters together with Creationists as irrational and superstitious.  The present harsh rhetoric of the pro-vaccine crowd in the media actually makes me even [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Hubris of Conservative Christianity</title>
		<link>http://www.selfdirectedsociety.com/2009/10/07/the-hubris-of-conservative-christianity/</link>
		<comments>http://www.selfdirectedsociety.com/2009/10/07/the-hubris-of-conservative-christianity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 22:34:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mr. Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is priceless&#8230;  the funniest thing I have heard all day is not a joke!  (Thanks to Huffington Post for bringing this to my attention.)
The Conservative Bible Project is literally re-writing the Bible.
What is all this about?  How could fundamentalist Bible-thumpers find objection to their own most sacred text?  










Well, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jingoism</title>
		<link>http://www.selfdirectedsociety.com/2009/09/29/jingoism/</link>
		<comments>http://www.selfdirectedsociety.com/2009/09/29/jingoism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:12:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mr. Smith</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[bellicose chauvinism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jingoism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s word of the day is jingoism.  Given its prevalence in modern American society, this word is severely under-utilized.   
Jingoism: noun.  The spirit, policy, or practice of bellicose chauvinism; professing patriotism loudly and excessively, favoring vigilant preparedness for war and an aggressive foreign policy.
-Random House Unabridged Dictionary
Sound familiar?  
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		<title>The Party of Big Government</title>
		<link>http://www.selfdirectedsociety.com/2009/09/23/the-party-of-big-government/</link>
		<comments>http://www.selfdirectedsociety.com/2009/09/23/the-party-of-big-government/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 03:43:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mr. Smith</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[big brother]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[big government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Republicans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[totalitarian state]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;d like to take a moment to reflect on the part of Big Government.  Yes, I am speaking of the American political party that ran up the largest budget deficit in our history after inheriting a budget surplus from their predecessors.   This is the party whose leaders have consistently supported such privacy-invading [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reforming Health Insurance</title>
		<link>http://www.selfdirectedsociety.com/2009/08/19/reforming-health-insurance/</link>
		<comments>http://www.selfdirectedsociety.com/2009/08/19/reforming-health-insurance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 19:42:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mr. Smith</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Congress]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health insurance]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[President Obama]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Of course I agree with the sentiments expressed by President Obama in his op-ed piece in the New York Times.  While more rallying cry than technical discussion, the President&#8217;s piece insists that health insurance reform is necessary, and he names four specific impacts which such legislation would have on the lives of ordinary Americans.
The first [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eliminating the F-22 Raptor: Exactly What I&#8217;m Talking About</title>
		<link>http://www.selfdirectedsociety.com/2009/02/27/eliminating-the-f-22-raptor-exactly-what-im-talking-about/</link>
		<comments>http://www.selfdirectedsociety.com/2009/02/27/eliminating-the-f-22-raptor-exactly-what-im-talking-about/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2009 18:33:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mr. Smith</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Air Force]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[F-22]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Raptor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wind turbines]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.selfdirectedsociety.com/?p=63</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[President Obama has submitted his budget proposal and it is no surprise that the uproar was instantaneous.  These are contentious times and he has had to make difficult decisions.
One item that has caught a lot of attention is his plan to eliminate the continuing manufacture of expensive Cold War-era weapons systems.  One such weapons system [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Prescription for Peace: The United Territories of Israel-Palestine</title>
		<link>http://www.selfdirectedsociety.com/2009/01/14/a-prescription-for-peace-the-united-territories-of-israel-palestine/</link>
		<comments>http://www.selfdirectedsociety.com/2009/01/14/a-prescription-for-peace-the-united-territories-of-israel-palestine/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 18:52:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mr. Smith</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[federalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[global security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[peace]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[secular]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[two state solution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United Nations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[war]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In the book, I offered two possible solutions for the conflict between Israel and Palestine.  One possibility I suggested was the complete social and political unification of the entire territory of Israel and Palestine; and the other was the much vaunted &#8220;Two State Solution.&#8221;
The present military action in the Gaza Strip has forced me to [...]]]></description>
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