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	<description>Stupidity got us into this mess; stupidity will get us out!</description>
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		<title>Ow!  Thinking is so DIFFICULT!</title>
		<link>http://mindscalpel.com/2009/06/18/ow-thinking-is-so-difficult/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:45:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mind Scalpel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Coming from the News of the Pathetic Department: Obama volunteers are finding that it&#8217;s much tougher to work on an actual substantive issue than it is to march in mindless lockstep on a binary choice. According to Bloomberg: When Patricia McArdle volunteered for Barack Obama&#8217;s presidential campaign, her duties and goals were clear. Now she’s [...]]]></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>New York Times Can&#8217;t Even Keep Up With Iraqi Press Shoe-Throwing</title>
		<link>http://mindscalpel.com/2008/12/14/new-york-times-cant-even-keep-up-with-iraqi-press-shoe-throwing/</link>
		<comments>http://mindscalpel.com/2008/12/14/new-york-times-cant-even-keep-up-with-iraqi-press-shoe-throwing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:49:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mind Scalpel</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mindscalpel.com/?p=122</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Belatedly reacting to an Iraqi journalist&#8217;s poorly-aimed footwear assault on President Bush during a news conference today, the New York Times asserted that it &#8220;had been working on a Presidential shoe-throwing, but our plummeting subscription rates and reduced revenues had cut our training budgets.&#8221; Internal reports from the New York Times painted a portrait of [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://mindscalpel.com/2008/12/12/why-people-object-to-car-maker-bailouts-even-though-the-bank-bailouts-went-through/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 19:58:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mind Scalpel</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mindscalpel.com/?p=118</guid>
		<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>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 03:01:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mind Scalpel</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mindscalpel.com/?p=112</guid>
		<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>Rock On!</title>
		<link>http://mindscalpel.com/2008/12/09/rock-on/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 03:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mind Scalpel</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mindscalpel.com/?p=103</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Once again, I feel like a mosquito at a nudist colony &#8212; I have so many options, I just don&#8217;t know where to begin!  Auto maker bailouts!  Corruptocratic politicians in Illinois!  International intrigue! So of course, I&#8217;m going to talk a little bit about floating rocks. I guess it&#8217;s a sign of either our sophistication [...]]]></description>
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		<title>News Flash: Al Qaeda Really Mean!</title>
		<link>http://mindscalpel.com/2008/11/19/news-flash-al-qaeda-really-mean/</link>
		<comments>http://mindscalpel.com/2008/11/19/news-flash-al-qaeda-really-mean/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:04:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mind Scalpel</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mindscalpel.com/?p=94</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Now they&#8217;ve done it! In a new video, purportedly of Ayman al-Zawahiri, Al Qaeda used racially charged language to attack President-elect Obama &#8212; they called him a &#8220;house slave&#8221; (or a &#8220;house Negro&#8220;, depending on your translation). Plus, they called him a bad Muslim. This is going to have a seismic effect among the American [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://mindscalpel.com/2008/08/21/best-congress-ever/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:42:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mind Scalpel</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mindscalpel.com/?p=83</guid>
		<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>Olympics News Flash: Chinese Gymnasts Are 16, Just Starving</title>
		<link>http://mindscalpel.com/2008/08/14/olympics-news-flash-chinese-gymnasts-are-16-just-starving/</link>
		<comments>http://mindscalpel.com/2008/08/14/olympics-news-flash-chinese-gymnasts-are-16-just-starving/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:52:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mind Scalpel</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mindscalpel.com/?p=73</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Despite substantial suggestions that some of China&#8217;s female Olympic gymnasts are younger than the required 16 years of age, Chinese apparatchi &#8211; uh &#8211; spokespeople insist that previous Chinese state-controlled news reports that showed them as being younger were erroneous. According to the Associated Press: Just nine months before the Beijing Olympics, the Chinese government&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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