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	<description>Stupidity got us into this mess; stupidity will get us out!</description>
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		<title>President Obama&#8217;s Master Plan &#8211; Part I</title>
		<link>http://mindscalpel.com/2009/01/31/president-obamas-master-plan-part-i/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2009 18:15:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mind Scalpel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s brilliant.  It&#8217;s subtle.  It&#8217;s happening before people&#8217;s eyes, and no one has detected it. It&#8217;s President Obama&#8217;s plan to eliminate the United States government&#8217;s deficit, and he&#8217;s doing it one nominee at a time. At first I was confused &#8212; how could the President think that Timothy Geithner, a man who had &#8220;inadvertently&#8221; failed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why People Object to Car Maker Bailouts Even Though The Bank Bailouts Went Through</title>
		<link>http://mindscalpel.com/2008/12/12/why-people-object-to-car-maker-bailouts-even-though-the-bank-bailouts-went-through/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 19:58:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mind Scalpel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two simple reasons: 1) Fool me once, shame on you.  Fool me twice, shame on me. 2) Everyone understands, at the gut level, how aggravating an overpriced, shoddy car is, especially when coupled with an unpleasant purchasing experience and unscrupulous dealer service.  Few average joes have time to delve into the intricacies of credit default [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hey &#8211; Let&#8217;s Borrow from GM!</title>
		<link>http://mindscalpel.com/2008/12/11/hey-lets-borrow-from-gm/</link>
		<comments>http://mindscalpel.com/2008/12/11/hey-lets-borrow-from-gm/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 03:01:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mind Scalpel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So you&#8217;d like a new car, but you&#8217;re in really bad financial shape.  You&#8217;ve borrowed way too much money, you&#8217;ve made some really bad business deals you can&#8217;t get out of, and your old car, which is critical for maintaining what little cash flow you have &#8212; even though your ongoing debt payments exceed whatever [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Just Do Something &#8211; Stand There!</title>
		<link>http://mindscalpel.com/2008/11/17/dont-just-do-something-stand-there/</link>
		<comments>http://mindscalpel.com/2008/11/17/dont-just-do-something-stand-there/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 03:01:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mind Scalpel</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mindscalpel.com/?p=87</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Man, I turn my back for three short months to work on my meson cannon, and look what they&#8217;ve done &#8212; the world&#8217;s hardly worth taking over anymore.  Drives me crazy. But I must say, the several trillion dollars the world economy has &#8220;lost&#8221; will all be worth it, if only to prove the prescience [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Best!  Congress!  Ever!</title>
		<link>http://mindscalpel.com/2008/08/21/best-congress-ever/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:42:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mind Scalpel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay, so, the Wall Street Journal reported that &#8220;[i]n two decades of record keeping, no sitting Congress has passed fewer public laws at this point in the session &#8212; 294 so far &#8212; than this one.&#8221; To which I can only say, &#8220;Excelsior!&#8221; When did it become a benchmark of productivity or success for a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Maybe You Should Have Just Kept It On The Radio&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://mindscalpel.com/2008/07/18/maybe-you-should-have-just-kept-it-on-the-radio/</link>
		<comments>http://mindscalpel.com/2008/07/18/maybe-you-should-have-just-kept-it-on-the-radio/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 03:30:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mind Scalpel</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mindscalpel.com/?p=61</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Insensitivity alert! So a July 16 &#8220;All Things Considered&#8221; story was quite sympathetic to an Ohio family who were in such dire financial straits that they couldn&#8217;t even afford meat anymore. The NPR story went on for five minutes, essentially indicting the economy and painting a portrait of misery. This is a case where less [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Osama bin Laden: A Cappella Geek</title>
		<link>http://mindscalpel.com/2008/05/20/osama-bin-laden-a-cappella-geek/</link>
		<comments>http://mindscalpel.com/2008/05/20/osama-bin-laden-a-cappella-geek/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 01:02:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mind Scalpel</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mindscalpel.com/?p=56</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I knew we hadn&#8217;t fully plumbed the depths of this evil man&#8217;s depravity and hatred of all humankind. In addition to his advocacy of mass murder against innocent civilians, this cave-hiding nutjob, according to Newsweek, was an a cappella aficionado: According to &#8220;Pitch Perfect: The Quest for Collegiate A Cappella Glory,&#8221; by author Mickey Rapkin, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Chinese Are Gambling?  We&#8217;re Doomed!</title>
		<link>http://mindscalpel.com/2008/05/11/the-chinese-are-gambling-were-doomed/</link>
		<comments>http://mindscalpel.com/2008/05/11/the-chinese-are-gambling-were-doomed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 02:39:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mind Scalpel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been relatively confident in the likelihood of the United States maintaining its hegemony in the world, not because of the superiority of our military capabilities, but because of the innate corrosiveness of our culture. You see, America&#8217;s international predominance is not based on nukes or aircraft carrier battle groups, both of which are inherently [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Setting Them Off</title>
		<link>http://mindscalpel.com/2008/04/22/setting-them-off/</link>
		<comments>http://mindscalpel.com/2008/04/22/setting-them-off/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2008 15:56:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mind Scalpel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oh, lordy. Michelle Malkin reminded me that today is Earth Day. So with the parade of “environmental” celebrities and presidential candidates justifying their ownership and use of multiple-acre mansions and fuel-guzzling, pollution-belching private jets (including – I kid you not – a private 707 owned by John Travolta) by pointing out that they’re purchasing “carbon [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Only Thing The Music Industry Is Taxing Is Our Patience</title>
		<link>http://mindscalpel.com/2008/03/28/the-only-thing-the-music-industry-is-taxing-is-our-patience/</link>
		<comments>http://mindscalpel.com/2008/03/28/the-only-thing-the-music-industry-is-taxing-is-our-patience/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 22:02:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mind Scalpel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michelle Malkin relays a Portfolio story on how Warner Music is spearheading a lobbying push for Congress to require a &#8220;music tax&#8221; be bundled into your monthly internet service provider fee &#8212; supposedly for unlimited access to &#8220;a database of all known music.&#8221; Apart from the fact that the phrase &#8220;new tax&#8221; gets most people [...]]]></description>
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