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		<title>Travellinbaen&#8217;s Political Consulting Service, Bipartisan Edition</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 03:32:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Quote of the Day:     &#8220;The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.&#8221;     &#8211;Mark Twain TB&#8217;s been thinking about the state of politics in America lately, and trying to set aside my ingrained bias against the Republican &#8230; <a href="http://travellinbaen.com/2009/04/28/travellinbaens-political-consulting-service-bipartisan-edition/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=travellinbaen.com&amp;blog=3850992&amp;post=1319&amp;subd=travellinbaen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Warning&#8230;this post could make your head explode (I think mine just did)</title>
		<link>http://travellinbaen.com/2009/03/27/warningthis-post-could-make-your-head-explode-i-think-mine-just-did/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 18:24:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Quote of the Day:     &#8220;I would not give a fig for the simplicity this side of complexity, but I would give my life for the simplicity on the other side of complexity.&#8221;     &#8211;Oliver Wendell Holmes TB &#8230; <a href="http://travellinbaen.com/2009/03/27/warningthis-post-could-make-your-head-explode-i-think-mine-just-did/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=travellinbaen.com&amp;blog=3850992&amp;post=1200&amp;subd=travellinbaen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Last Debate</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 23:03:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Quote of the Day     &#8220;I don&#8217;t know what they call themselves doing but it ain&#8217;t debating.&#8221;     Smily in the previous post (here) Does anybody need to watch this &#8220;debate&#8221; tonight? Are you undecided? If so, please respond &#8230; <a href="http://travellinbaen.com/2008/10/15/the-last-debate/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=travellinbaen.com&amp;blog=3850992&amp;post=613&amp;subd=travellinbaen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Mississippi Debate in a Bizarro Universe</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 22:02:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Word of the Day     Truthiness&#8211;&#8221;truth that comes from the gut, not books&#8221; &#8211;Stephen Colbert; the quality of preferring concepts or facts one wishes to be true rather than concepts or facts known to be true  &#8211;American Dialect Society TB &#8230; <a href="http://travellinbaen.com/2008/09/25/the-mississippi-debate-in-a-bizarro-universe/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=travellinbaen.com&amp;blog=3850992&amp;post=494&amp;subd=travellinbaen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>TB&#8217;s Guide to Life (in the event of a Second Great Depression)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 18:51:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Quote of the Day     &#8220;When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.&#8221;     Franklin D. Roosevelt The U.S. Government this week &#8220;bailed out&#8221; the largest insurance company in the United States, AIG, &#8230; <a href="http://travellinbaen.com/2008/09/17/tbs-guide-to-life-in-the-event-of-a-second-great-depression/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=travellinbaen.com&amp;blog=3850992&amp;post=403&amp;subd=travellinbaen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 19:21:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Quote of the Day     &#8220;It&#8217;s clearly a budget.  It&#8217;s got a lot of numbers in it.&#8221;     George W. Bush Paul B. Farrell is a financial columnist with over 1000 articles to his credit.  He appears regularly on all &#8230; <a href="http://travellinbaen.com/2008/08/20/spending-money/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=travellinbaen.com&amp;blog=3850992&amp;post=258&amp;subd=travellinbaen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 13:41:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Quote of the Day     &#8220;It ain&#8217;t the heat, it&#8217;s the humility.&#8221;       &#8211;Yogi Berra I was forwarded an email today including the transcript of a NOVA episode from PBS.  To confirm its validity, I went to the NOVA &#8230; <a href="http://travellinbaen.com/2008/08/15/global-warming-slowed-by-manmade-global-cooling/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=travellinbaen.com&amp;blog=3850992&amp;post=236&amp;subd=travellinbaen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jul 2008 14:28:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Quote of the Day      &#8221;When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds.&#8221;       &#8211;Will Rogers As closely as I can recount it, here is a lunch time conversation I was involved in this week.  Enjoy. Person1&#8211;What was &#8230; <a href="http://travellinbaen.com/2008/07/26/a-political-conversation/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=travellinbaen.com&amp;blog=3850992&amp;post=149&amp;subd=travellinbaen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Multi-tasking, or How to Make Issue Worlds Collide</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 19:25:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Advice for Obama, continued&#8230;. Groceries and prison overcrowding:  they go together like peas and a box of chocolates.  Stay with me.  People hate high cereal prices and they hate crime.  Bonus hatred for illegal immigrants.  We are going to set up a program to provide &#8230; <a href="http://travellinbaen.com/2008/06/06/multi-tasking-or-how-to-make-issue-worlds-collide/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=travellinbaen.com&amp;blog=3850992&amp;post=18&amp;subd=travellinbaen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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