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	<title>Return to Common Sense &#187; Freethinking</title>
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	<description>A Simple, Rational Approach to Understanding the Issues of the Day</description>
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		<title>Defending Obama</title>
		<link>http://www.troy.thoughtsaloud.com/2009/03/27/defending-obama/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 18:02:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few evenings ago, while acting like a rock star on the Tonight Show, the chosen one made a comment to the extent that watching him try to play tennis was like watching the Special Olympics.  Since then, quite a number of pundits have been on his case about this horrible insult to the physically [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who Do You Trust?</title>
		<link>http://www.troy.thoughtsaloud.com/2009/03/12/who-do-you-trust/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 00:09:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Troy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think it is a healthy exercise, especially in times like the present, to stop and think about how much we trust each other.
It is quite easy to be aware of who you don&#8217;t trust.  After all, they no doubt earned your mistrust through some act of word of deed which left a sensitive spot [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Life Is Like Cheese &#8211; The Culture Determines The Product</title>
		<link>http://www.troy.thoughtsaloud.com/2009/02/13/life-is-like-cheese-the-culture-determines-the-product/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 16:55:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Troy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As we all know, Cultural Diversity is a hot button today in the USA (Unbounded Silliness in America).  Does it occur to any of the over educated morons pushing this stuff that this is actually a sort of national schizophrenia?
I contend that it is culture, not race, skin hue, national origin or any other superficial [...]]]></description>
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		<title>For Your Information</title>
		<link>http://www.troy.thoughtsaloud.com/2009/01/03/for-your-information/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2009 19:19:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Troy</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.troy.thoughtsaloud.com/?p=106</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have read several articles recently that hail the democratization made possible by the Internet &#8211; and the almost endless access to information that it brings to any and all who want it.  This got me thinking.   Always a dangerous thing!
I just finished reading Ken Follett&#8217;s World Without End. While this highly entertaining book is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Away With The Manger</title>
		<link>http://www.troy.thoughtsaloud.com/2008/12/18/away-with-the-manger/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 19:34:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Troy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I learned a long time ago that the surest way to upset others is to make negative comments about religion.  Any religion.  OK &#8211; be prepared to be upset.  And, what better time to do the foul deed than at the very time that a large percentage of the world celebrates their god by pretending [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Say Nothing in 10 Words or More</title>
		<link>http://www.troy.thoughtsaloud.com/2008/12/11/how-to-say-nothing-in-10-words-or-more/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2008 19:30:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Troy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since only 2 of you seem have the nerve to respond to my outbursts, let me start by saying &#8220;Hi Dave and Dae.&#8221;
You will have noticed a deafening silence from these parts the last few days or even weeks.  That is because I try to keep this blog within the bounds of rationality and, it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Education?</title>
		<link>http://www.troy.thoughtsaloud.com/2008/10/10/why-education/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 22:52:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Troy</dc:creator>
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I am of the serious opinion that all the worlds problems, one way or another, come back to education; usually to the lack of it.  This category is here to invite discussion and ideas for an education system that actually works.   Sadly, we must also discuss those who, no matter the system, will remain unable [...]]]></description>
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