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	<description>Food For Thought from Warren "Mickey" Michelsen</description>
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		<title>On Space Travel</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Aug 2010 16:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Warren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anyone who knows me or reads my blog knows that I&#8217;m fascinated by the possibility that we Earthlings have been visited by beings of extraterrestrial origin. I like to watch shows about sightings and such to see what sort of evidence is offered to substantiate the various claims. I remain unconvinced that we&#8217;ve been visited [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The &#8220;Ground Zero&#8221; Mosque</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010 22:15:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Warren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been in the news for a while now — the mosque that Muslims want to build near the site of &#8220;Ground Zero&#8221; — the former site of the World Trade Center twin towers that were felled on 9/11/2001 by suicidal Muslims invoking the name of Allah. It&#8217;s time I weighed in on this. I think Muslims [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who&#8217;s The Boss?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2010 02:13:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Warren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When it comes time to determine whether the federal government of the United States (FedGov) is acting constitutionally in any given situation, the issue is very simple: What does the Constitution say? If the power being exercised by FedGov is not one granted by the states to FedGov, then FedGov is acting unconstitutionally. Simple, really. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FedGov Takes Over My TV</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 21:14:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Warren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the past, when a government agency felt it needed to communicate with me via my television, it ran a &#8220;crawler&#8221; across the bottom of my screen. While annoying, it was not overly intrusive. The recent change to this mechanism is unacceptable. Recently, this mechanism has changed. FedGov now takes over my TV receiver entirely. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yet Another Federal Double Standard</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 20:26:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Warren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A federal judge today issued a partial injunction blocking enforcement of Arizona&#8217;s new illegal alien law. FedGov suspects that some parts of this new law are unconstitutional and so has blocked enforcement until the matter is settled in the (federal) courts. Better safe than sorry, right? Now this is very strange since, when the States [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Firing of Shirley Sherrod</title>
		<link>http://www.otfb.com/blog/?p=1008</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 22:07:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Warren</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Race in America]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In the last few days, the Obama administration over-reacted to a video on the web and is blaming it on a blogger. The video showed Shirley Sherrod addressing the NAACP&#8217;s 2010 Freedom Fund Banquet. She related a story of how, years ago, she had not done all she could to help a &#8220;white&#8221; farmer. At [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Procrastination</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 21:14:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Warren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(If I were a stand-up comic, this would be my bit on procrastination.) Been meaning to write this for years, finally got around to it. I&#8217;m a bit of a procrastinator. Let me amend that: I am quite the procrastinator. OK, OK, truth is, I&#8217;m a world-class procrastinator. There are few people on the face [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why The Ignorant Are Blissful</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 May 2010 23:23:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Warren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been just over a decade since I came across an interesting article about research into competence /incompetence. The article was entitled &#8220;Why the ignorant are blissful: Inept individuals ooze confidence, study finds.&#8221; It describes research supporting what I&#8217;d long suspected: Stupid people are too stupid to realize that they are clueless, and cannot be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Internet Sales Tax</title>
		<link>http://www.otfb.com/blog/?p=1043</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2010 18:37:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Warren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I received an invoice via email from NewEgg today. (NewEgg.com is an on-line retailer I sometimes use.) It included this text&#8230; &#8220;Although Newegg is not obligated to and does not collect Colorado sales tax, this purchase is subject to Colorado sales tax unless it is specifically exempt from taxation. A purchase is not exempt from sales [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Navy Daze</title>
		<link>http://www.otfb.com/blog/?p=1028</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 01:37:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Warren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was in the U. S. Navy from 1964 to 1972. I&#8217;m going to tell you about two men I met while aboard ship. The first was a Chief Petty Officer, a Machinist Mate (mechanic, essentially). He had risen to CPO fairly quickly, as such things go and, once he made CPO, he kicked back. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fun With Numbers II</title>
		<link>http://www.otfb.com/blog/?p=978</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Apr 2010 18:13:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Warren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let's say that Jimmy Jones is in the lowest quintile (bottom 20%) income-wise. Jimmy invents a better mousetrap  and sells the patent rights for millions of dollars. Suddenly, Jimmy is in the top quintile of earners and someone from the second quintile drops down into the lowest quintile to fill his place. The headline will read: "Rich Get Richer!"]]></description>
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		<title>On Racial Profiling</title>
		<link>http://www.otfb.com/blog/?p=1032</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Apr 2010 15:49:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Warren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pundits all across the political spectrum have been saying that Arizona&#8217;s new law cracking down on illegal aliens is unconstitutional. On the news last night I saw the AZ  governor saying that racial profiling is illegal and Arizona will not do it or words to that effect. OK, I get it. Some federal court has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Stop Sign Tax</title>
		<link>http://www.otfb.com/blog/?p=1079</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 01:48:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Warren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A remarkable thing happened the other day. I was driving home from the post office and when I stopped at the stop sign on Sixth Avenue, at the Elm Street intersection, there was a pedestrian crossing the street! He was crossing Sixth Avenue right in front of me. Really! I saw him with my own [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On &#8220;Social Justice&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.otfb.com/blog/?p=969</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 02:14:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Warren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the election of Barack Obama to the presidency, the clamor for &#8220;social justice&#8221; is becoming louder. But what is &#8220;social justice?&#8221; All justice is social in nature. Absent a society of some sort, there can be neither justice nor injustice. Alone on a desert island, who is there to treat you unjustly, or justly, for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>State of Arizona versus Shelton</title>
		<link>http://www.otfb.com/blog/?p=963</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2009 19:07:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Warren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I've said it before: the authorities don't like it when we citizens know our rights. And they really hate it when we actually defend our rights]]></description>
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