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	<title>Cowboy Confessional &#187; International</title>
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	<description>Guy Smith - writer, songwriter, political provocateur</description>
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		<title>Destructive Designers</title>
		<link>http://www.guysmith.org/blog/2011/10/14/destructive-designers/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 21:56:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Taliban had a blast blowing up non-Islamic icons.
Iconic footage (pun intended) of pre 9/11 Taliban tanks blasting ancient and historically significant Buddha statues demonstrate the demonic desires of those who deign to design societies (a.k.a. politicians and terrorists, if I may be redundant). Their goal was to obliterate knowledge of competing religious beliefs, which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chavez Shuffle</title>
		<link>http://www.guysmith.org/blog/2011/09/29/hugo-chavez-gets-private-healthcare/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 13:53:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[People with means in socialized medicine countries manage to survive predictably inept government medical care by avoiding the stuff. People without means die.
Little surprise then that socialist madman and full-time maniac Hugo Chavez has suffered kidney failure via government health care, and is now bugging out to a private hospital.
This may be the only instance [...]]]></description>
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		<title>International Incivility</title>
		<link>http://www.guysmith.org/blog/2011/07/09/international-incivility/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jul 2011 20:01:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Constitution]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Can China take away your civil rights?
Such rhetorical inquiries sound absurd on the surface, but a new constitutional collision course is careening our way, one that pits the perverse perceptions of dictatorships, oligarchies and monarchies against you.
You just knew Hillary Clinton would be at that nexus.
International treaties have the ability to run roughshod over states [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Less Moore</title>
		<link>http://www.guysmith.org/blog/2011/05/11/less-of-moore/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2011 17:59:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Stupidity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Few people can stomach Michael Moore, and from his growing girth I suspect there is little he cannot.
That Moore occupies a rather large portion of my latest book, as well as floor space wherever he goes, derives from his indefatigable ability to be simultaneously bombastic, boorish and a blackguard.  Any honest assessment of Bowling for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mexican Statistical Standoff</title>
		<link>http://www.guysmith.org/blog/2011/04/05/mexican-statistical-standoff/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Apr 2011 23:55:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Buncombe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[California]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Crime]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gun control]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International]]></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>Capper Caper?</title>
		<link>http://www.guysmith.org/blog/2011/02/03/batf-sting-for-treaty-passage/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2011 03:23:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gun control]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The old Silicon Valley adage goes “If it ain’t broke, break it.”
We may be witnessing a branch of the federal government creating crime where it virtually did not exist, all for political reasons.  In the past year several politicians and a Mexican president complained that American civilian firearms were being used by drug cartels.  A [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mexican Muskets</title>
		<link>http://www.guysmith.org/blog/2011/01/27/mexican-guns-drugs-cartels/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
		<comments>http://www.guysmith.org/blog/2011/01/27/mexican-guns-drugs-cartels/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jan 2011 03:03:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gun control]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Hey, Aarif.  Toss twenty crates of those Russian AK-47’s in with the next heroin shipment.”
The Russians left a lot of fully-automatic (machine guns for the newbies) AK-47’s behind in Afghanistan.  News reports note that you can buy them on the streets of Kabul for $150.  Deep discounts when buying in bulk.  Same for various rocket [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Presidential Peril</title>
		<link>http://www.guysmith.org/blog/2010/11/19/presidential-peril/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
		<comments>http://www.guysmith.org/blog/2010/11/19/presidential-peril/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2010 23:57:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Freedom]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sailors know to look for storms on the horizon.  It is a survival tactic and one that tells them when hatches require battening or when to read last rites.
Today’s world is covered in storm clouds and the American captain is incompetent to sail out the approaching swells.
America will always have enemies, primarily because the history [...]]]></description>
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		<title>French Inflation</title>
		<link>http://www.guysmith.org/blog/2010/11/01/frenchman-jailed-for-humor/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
		<comments>http://www.guysmith.org/blog/2010/11/01/frenchman-jailed-for-humor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Nov 2010 01:50:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Freedom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Stupidity]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In France it is a crime to display contempt towards a public servant.  In America it is a pastime and blood sport.






Sans humour, non?



Not long ago a female politician confused the words for expanding the money supply with a form of oral gratification, which is understandable since they both lead to inflation.  During an interview, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dictatorial Developments</title>
		<link>http://www.guysmith.org/blog/2010/10/01/chavez-loses-majority-control-venezuela/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Oct 2010 23:34:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Freedom]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The tip jar at the coffee shop said “Change causes people stress, so leave yours here.”
My handy dictionary defines change as “to become different,” be it a person, object, nation, solar system, galaxy or Gawd.  I suspect the last member on that list has changed quite a bit since his first big bang.  At least [...]]]></description>
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