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	<title>Cowboy Confessional &#187; California</title>
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	<description>Guy Smith - writer, songwriter, political provocateur</description>
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		<title>Tehama’s Plank</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Oct 2011 15:35:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Larry Ellison – billionaire CEO of Oracle Corporation and avid yachtsman – would like to thank the 418 residents of Tehama,  California for building him a new dock.
This may come as a surprise to Tehama tenants whose only experience with large watercraft is watching upstream housing travel down the Sacramento River during periodic floods. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>State of Denial</title>
		<link>http://www.guysmith.org/blog/2011/06/29/state-of-denial/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2011 22:19:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why is California an intellectually backward state?
The amalgamated mindset of the Golden State views itself as progressive, leading, positively superhuman.  For California to fall behind 82 percent of the nation on any topic, especially one where the lives of its citizens are concerned, makes thoughtful folk reevaluate state-wide sensibilities.  For California to be clueless, to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Santa Cruz Claus</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2011 00:22:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Talk to strangers.  Unexpected whimsy may ensue.]]></description>
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		<title>Mexican Statistical Standoff</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Apr 2011 23:55:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Buncombe]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If irony and serendipity married, they would take up residence in Washington  D.C. to have oodles of congenial company.
Today’s example of how coincidence comically collides comes in part from the Clueless California Caliph, Senator Dianne Feinstein.  After a small handful of occasionally antique American firearms were found in Mexico, Dianne declared “It is unacceptable [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Choice Change</title>
		<link>http://www.guysmith.org/blog/2009/08/29/the-new-freight-and-salvage-in-berkeley/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 01:26:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[California]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Songwriting]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I could get used to this real quick.
There is a holy place in the unholy town of Berkeley, California.  Smelted in the 1960&#8217;s along with several thousand other coffee shops (the American variety, not the Amsterdam kind, though in the 60&#8217;s the differences were minor) was The Freight.  Its proper name is The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Senatorial Insensitivity</title>
		<link>http://www.guysmith.org/blog/2009/07/20/senatorial-barbara-boxer-lacks-cultural-sensitivity/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 01:23:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[California]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For a state that prides itself upon cultural sensitivity, California&#8217;s junior senator certainly seems unburdened by it.
In less than a month Senator Barbara Boxer has managed to instigate two controversies through ignorance of cultures or crass assumptions of the same.  Not content to merely castigate a soldier for his practiced politeness, this week she [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cal Reset</title>
		<link>http://www.guysmith.org/blog/2009/06/11/california-state-employees-budge/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 03:57:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[California is quaking once again.  In this instance it has nothing to do with plate tectonics.
California is like a functional drunk.  It sips, then swills, then gulps, then passes out, waking and swearing off the juice until the next time.  Government spending is California&#8217;s whiskey, and when the lush &#8211; also known [...]]]></description>
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		<title>California Screamin’</title>
		<link>http://www.guysmith.org/blog/2009/05/14/california-asks-for-federal-bailout/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
		<comments>http://www.guysmith.org/blog/2009/05/14/california-asks-for-federal-bailout/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 01:32:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[California]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The end of Washington&#8217;s spending spree may soon come thanks to incautious California.
The day care center known as the California Legislature has led the State of Disaster to fiscal ruin.  So bad is the situation here in the Shaky State that politicians &#8211; unable to balance the budget without bankrupting the taxpayers &#8211; rigged [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Political Profits</title>
		<link>http://www.guysmith.org/blog/2009/02/11/business-people-as-politicians/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
		<comments>http://www.guysmith.org/blog/2009/02/11/business-people-as-politicians/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 04:59:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fred Smith (no relation), the founder of Federal Express and the inventor of an entire industry, spoke at San Francisco&#8217;s Commonwealth Club tonight.  George Shultz &#8212; a man who held more secretary positions (Secretary of Labor, Secretary of the Treasury, U.S. Secretary of State) in the U.S. government than Monica Lewinsky &#8211; sat attentively [...]]]></description>
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