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		<title>Readin&#8217; Ridin&#8217; and Other Stuff</title>
		<link>http://crackernostalgia.wordpress.com/2008/07/14/readin-ridin-and-other-stuff/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:39:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[More Reflections on a Misspent Youth I grew up on a farm about seven miles from the little town of Lake Placid, Florida which, at that time, probably had a population of about a thousand — tops.  My brother, 13 years older, had 14 people in his graduating class, so that will give you a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=crackernostalgia.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1011668&amp;post=61&amp;subd=crackernostalgia&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Morning After &#8212; Helios Remembered</title>
		<link>http://crackernostalgia.wordpress.com/2007/09/07/the-morning-after-helios-remembered/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Sep 2007 14:31:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[She was 22, beautiful, and had already felt more of life&#8217;s hard knocks than she deserved. He was two weeks old, and not exactly beautiful.  But she thought so. Everyone told her it was no use, that he was too young, but she fed him with an eye-dropper every few hours for weeks.  She took [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=crackernostalgia.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1011668&amp;post=60&amp;subd=crackernostalgia&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>If y&#8217; try sometimes, y&#8217; just might find&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://crackernostalgia.wordpress.com/2007/05/18/if-y-try-sometimes-y-just-might-find/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2007 15:24:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve had an interesting life experience over the past few years that I&#8217;d like to share with you. As longtime readers will recall, my wife and I helped start a drug and alcohol treatment center back in 2001 &#8211; and that was, indeed, a spacey odyssey. (I&#8217;m sorry; that just forced its way out.) For [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=crackernostalgia.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1011668&amp;post=51&amp;subd=crackernostalgia&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tolerance</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2007 01:27:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve recently been involved in a dialogue with some Evangelical Christian folks. The results have been interesting. As is often the case, the encounters began with an approach in an attempt to &#8220;save&#8221; me. This sort of thing used to really bother me. Eventually I came to realize that, unlike some lesser species (such as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=crackernostalgia.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1011668&amp;post=52&amp;subd=crackernostalgia&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Far As I&#8217;m Concerned, You Should ALL Be Ashamed Of Yourselves</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2007 16:53:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I truly do not understand why the followers of the Prophet are so thin-skinned. Nor do I understand why they claim to be a religion of peace. They are no more so than are the Christians. Regardless of what the Prophet and Jesus may (or may not) have written or said, there is little in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=crackernostalgia.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1011668&amp;post=58&amp;subd=crackernostalgia&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s Knock Off the P.C. B.S.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2007 16:38:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I started off as a middle-of-the-road Republican, and switched to the Democratic party in the Gingrich era because I couldn’t stand the embarrassment any longer. Since then I’ve swung even farther left, as my common sense has slowly beaten the redneck into submission. I’d now call myself liberal-progressive, if I thought I needed a label. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=crackernostalgia.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1011668&amp;post=57&amp;subd=crackernostalgia&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>SOME COMMENTS ON THE WAYS WE VIEW DRUG USE</title>
		<link>http://crackernostalgia.wordpress.com/2007/05/04/some-comments-on-the-ways-we-view-drug-use/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2007 22:19:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[People use alcohol and drugs for only one reason, to alter their brain chemistry so that they feel &#8220;better&#8221; than they did previously. Therefore, without exception, a person who is &#8220;under the influence&#8221; is suffering from chemically induced abnormal brain function, and is unable accurately to judge her own behavior. That is why so many [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=crackernostalgia.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1011668&amp;post=55&amp;subd=crackernostalgia&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Moms</title>
		<link>http://crackernostalgia.wordpress.com/2007/05/03/moms/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2007 23:22:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mom It’s Mother’s Day on the 13th, as we all know. It’s interesting &#8212; that&#8217;s two days after May 11th, which would be the 39th anniversary of the lovely mother of my lovely daughters and I, had we remained married. I’d like to have sent her a card or something. Unfortunately, her second husband, (to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=crackernostalgia.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1011668&amp;post=50&amp;subd=crackernostalgia&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Moral Masturbation</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2007 23:07:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wrote this during the run-up to our current incursion into other people&#8217;s territory. I think it holds up fairly well in today&#8217;s market. I’ve been reading all the stuff on the message boards about the coming&#8211;and seemingly inevitable&#8211;war with Iraq, and one thing stands out: no one seems to be able to do much [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=crackernostalgia.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1011668&amp;post=49&amp;subd=crackernostalgia&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;If God Was Here He&#8217;d Tell Y&#8217; To Yer Face&#8230;.&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://crackernostalgia.wordpress.com/2007/05/02/if-god-was-here-hed-tell-y-to-yer-face/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2007 13:56:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wednesday October 02, 2002 &#160; I&#8217;m really tired of people who think it&#8217;s their duty to make sure the rest of us behave properly. I&#8217;m especially tired of vocal minorities who make a lot of fuss and manage to get far more than their share of air time and political attention by pressure tactics, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=crackernostalgia.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1011668&amp;post=43&amp;subd=crackernostalgia&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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