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		<title>A Passive Aggressive Rumination on Movies and Not Caring What You Think</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 13:38:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Ryan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This here is a little movie I slapped together with iMovie. It&#8217;s a movie trailer for the upcoming launch of the model rocket I assembled. I&#8217;ve been sitting in my dank basement off and on gluing tubes and plastic together. And this is the result of rocket 1 of 2 from the kit. I like [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sibrain.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6354159&amp;post=195&amp;subd=sibrain&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reading PDFs</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 10:42:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Ryan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reading PDF-versions of print publications on-screen blows. I&#8217;ve subscribed to a few magazines this way. Unfortunately, if they have the format that works great in print, (which is to have a couple of columns where you go to the top of the 2nd column when you&#8217;re done with the first) you find yourself getting lost. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sibrain.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6354159&amp;post=189&amp;subd=sibrain&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Come Again?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2009 14:52:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Ryan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[military spending]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[You want to save money? Stop giving the Pentagon things it isn&#8217;t even asking for. On a side note, this caught me by surprise: Although the F-22 is built as an air-superiority fighter, the U.S. military has not faced a serious dogfight threat since the Vietnam War, one of the officials said. via Pentagon&#8217;s Unwanted [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sibrain.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6354159&amp;post=187&amp;subd=sibrain&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Enough Picking on Poor People</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 12:27:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Ryan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;d be nice if the LA Times would ask the &#8220;tough&#8221; questions of the people and institutions that are bilking us for billions of dollars, such as the Pentagon or bank executives, rather than taking pot shots at poor people for having cell phones. In answer to this incisive LA Times blogger: who knows? You [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sibrain.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6354159&amp;post=184&amp;subd=sibrain&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Really?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 03:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re really leaving Iraq &#124; Salon. by Juan Cole So writes Juan Cole. Essentially he&#8217;s saying the withdrawal is beginning and we shouldn&#8217;t be alarmed that it&#8217;s going so slowly. If we leave too soon, the country could collapse and we&#8217;d have to go back in, he suggests. It&#8217;s this last part that I don&#8217;t [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sibrain.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6354159&amp;post=182&amp;subd=sibrain&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Revolving Door &amp; The American Socialized Economy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 15:09:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Ryan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[corporate welfare]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just to really drive home the insult of us not owning Citigroup, as we should, and in order to incite you into rioting: via Foreign Policy In Focus &#124; Chomsky: Understanding the Crisis — Markets, the State and Hypocrisy: Dean Baker, one of the few economists who saw what was coming all along, pointed out [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sibrain.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6354159&amp;post=171&amp;subd=sibrain&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Corporate Welfare Lives; The Rest of you: Get a F&amp;*$ng Job!</title>
		<link>http://sibrain.wordpress.com/2009/02/24/corporate-welfare-lives-the-rest-of-you-get-a-fng-job/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 12:05:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Ryan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[corporate welfare]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This reminds me of the front page Wall Street Journal article yesterday talking about people in their 60s, 70s, and 80s who still need to work because Social Security doesn&#8217;t cover their expenses (typically due to skyrocketing costs for prescription drugs) and there&#8217;s no such thing as a guaranteed pension any more. We&#8217;ve given that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sibrain.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6354159&amp;post=169&amp;subd=sibrain&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Torture Continues Under Obama Administration</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 13:08:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Ryan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[torture]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not much hope and change here: Mohamed&#8217;s British lawyer, Clive Stafford Smith, said his client had been beaten &#8220;dozens&#8221; of times inside the notorious US camp in Cuba with the most recent abuse occurring during recent weeks. &#8230; Claims that Mohamed was beaten during the period after President Obama announced Guantánamo&#8217;s closure in January risk [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sibrain.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6354159&amp;post=167&amp;subd=sibrain&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Medieval Senators</title>
		<link>http://sibrain.wordpress.com/2009/02/19/medieval-senators/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 22:43:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Ryan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Quick, what&#8217;s the biggest threat to America? a.) Imaginary Terrorists b.) The collapse of our economic system c.) Global Warming d.) Nuclear Proliferation e.) Bears f.) Ignorant state senators from Utah with a mentality stuck in the Dark Ages Correct Answer: f. And finally, this is how senator Buttars refers to the &#8220;radical gay movement.&#8221; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sibrain.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6354159&amp;post=161&amp;subd=sibrain&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reasons to De-Escalate in Afghanistan</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:28:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Ryan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few reasons for not escalating in Afghanistan, provided by the anti-Iraq-War coalition United for Peace &#38; Justice: There is no &#8220;military solution&#8221; in Afghanistan. Obama&#8217;s advisors say the war in Afghanistan &#8220;cannot be won on the battlefield” and military think tanks like the Rand Corporation agree that political, local law enforcement and peacekeeping solutions [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sibrain.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6354159&amp;post=158&amp;subd=sibrain&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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