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	<description>Guy Smith - writer, songwriter, political provocateur</description>
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		<title>Public/Private Plunder</title>
		<link>http://www.guysmith.org/blog/2013/05/13/publicprivate-plunder/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 17:53:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wealthy Californians would like to thank you for buying them expensive automobiles. Didn’t know you that generous, eh? In fairly recent political history, left-of-center ideologues and other special needs people have advocated “public/private partnerships”. Once opposed to anything corporate, alleged progressives now embrace funneling tax funds to corporations of every ilk that sustain their ideology, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unreasonably Happy</title>
		<link>http://www.guysmith.org/blog/2013/05/06/unreasonably-happy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 16:09:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[“I suppose I’m reasonably happy.” He seemed a bit sad when he said it. He was one of many people that British television serially stalked from age seven to forty nine. Every seven years a film crew would arrive and see how the lives of these media victims changed, rewinding the tape to remind each [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spotty Observations</title>
		<link>http://www.guysmith.org/blog/2013/05/03/spotty-observations-2013-05-03/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 16:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[California]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Crime]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gun control]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Federal Finances Sometimes it is better to not set expectations instead of setting low ones. The Federal Government is rather expert at the latter, evidenced by the fact that they are once again making payments on the national debt to the tune of an underwhelming $35 billion bucks, which is a mere 0.2% of our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cunning News Network</title>
		<link>http://www.guysmith.org/blog/2013/04/22/cunning-news-network/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 21:53:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Most voters still get their news from television,” a Rasmussen survey sadly reported before dropping the big bomb. “[They] consider the news reported by the media generally trustworthy.” Any serious student of media and propaganda rapidly comes to the conclusion that if one strives to be misinformed, they must watch the evening news. This is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Shame</title>
		<link>http://www.guysmith.org/blog/2013/04/19/obamas-shame/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 16:31:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gun control]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[“All that happened today was the preservation of the loophole that let’s dangerous criminals buy guns without a background check, it did not make our kids safer. So all in all this was a pretty shameful day for America,” was Barack Obamas summation of a defeated gun control proposal. “The gun lobby and its allies [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Preposterous Politicos</title>
		<link>http://www.guysmith.org/blog/2013/04/15/preposterous-politicos/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 18:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Stupidity]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Propaganda]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[America’s Political Theater of the Absurd has a new set of actors. Completely anticipatable, but always surprising, are outburst from politicos and propagandist. Their campaigns are largely punctuated with rhetorical nonsense which we cooler heads dismiss as partisan positioning more designed to firm a base than sway undecided voters. Yet once in an increasingly frequent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spotty Observations</title>
		<link>http://www.guysmith.org/blog/2013/04/12/spotty-observations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2013 15:13:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Corruption]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.guysmith.org/blog/?p=2294</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Spotty Observations are a periodic post from Guy Smith, capturing some of the odd occurrences in this thing we call life &#8230; Mohels Need Meds: Outdated religious practices need to be ignored. For example, a chosen friend of mine chomps pork chops like they were sacraments, distaining dietary dicta over his gastronomic pleasure. Some penis [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Savage State</title>
		<link>http://www.guysmith.org/blog/2013/04/08/savage-state/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 17:25:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Freedom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gun control]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Law]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[All they have left is violence. A political scientist one concluded that elites maintain power using propaganda, economic disincentives and violence. In America, propaganda has become ineffective and economic disincentives have been stretched to the point of whipping dead workhorses. If those primary tools of controlling to populace fade further, the elites will use violence [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Forget, Not</title>
		<link>http://www.guysmith.org/blog/2013/04/01/forget-not/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 17:08:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[California]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Shame on us if we&#8217;ve forgotten,” was Barack Obama’s lament concerning the Sandy Hook school slaying. But we will forget. It is human nature, and not a subject of shame despite Obama’s attempts to make it such. To forget is natural. Memories not etched strongly and personally fade. Even great memories of people loved and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fingering Feinstein</title>
		<link>http://www.guysmith.org/blog/2013/03/25/fingering-feinstein/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2013 16:41:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[California]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some days mocking elites is too easy. It would be more fun if they offered a challenge and if the flipside of their misbehavior wasn’t routinely repugnant. Being in San Francisco, one of my favorite snobs to snub is our own Senior Dementia Senator, Dianne Feinstein. Being of autocratic attitude, she is simply ripe for [...]]]></description>
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