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		<title>Western Energy Capitol&#8211;Making the Most of What We&#8217;ve Got</title>
		<link>http://thetexasring.com/2010/07/30/western-energy-capitol-making-the-most-of-what-weve-got/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:02:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Author Steve Foste
Do you really need a PhD in Energy to understand the solution to the energy problem?  Do you have to be a lobbyist to line the pockets of the politicians to get anything done? Or do we have to go to the elitist to develop the system of energy control so they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Minimum Wage &#8211; How Poor is Poor?</title>
		<link>http://thetexasring.com/2010/07/30/the-minimum-wage-how-poor-is-poor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 15:59:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Author Tony DeMaio
Once upon a time, many years ago, I had a Civil Service job and was making the princely sum of about $3,000/month ($150/day). At the time it was one of the highest paid Civil Service positions in the State of California. (For the most part, higher levels were political appointees.) I had a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who Is Watching Your Inbox?</title>
		<link>http://thetexasring.com/2010/07/30/who-is-watching-your-inbox/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 15:54:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>davewave9</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Author Linda Brady Traynham
I have a superb SPAM filter built into the e-mail provider I use customarily and ferocious protective software on my share of our&#8230;seven, is it, now?&#8230; computers, so I do not ever get advertisements for Viagra or cures for prostate cancer, neither of which would be of any use to me.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Life, Liberty, &amp; The Pursuit Of Happiness</title>
		<link>http://thetexasring.com/2010/07/07/life-liberty-the-pursuit-of-happiness/</link>
		<comments>http://thetexasring.com/2010/07/07/life-liberty-the-pursuit-of-happiness/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 08:11:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>davewave9</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Author Linda Brady Traynham
The idea behind the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights was to secure to citizens the blessings of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness by way of the sanctity of private property and the least possible foreign government.  The same is true of the Constitutions of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Return From The Darkside</title>
		<link>http://thetexasring.com/2010/07/07/return-from-the-darkside/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 08:08:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>davewave9</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Author Tex Norton
Yeah, I admit it. I made a mistake. I don’t even have an excuse. I thought I could work within the System and perhaps even make a difference. What a mistake!
It all started last Fall on a crisp soon-to-be-Winter day. Neighbors had seen a notice that the Census would be visiting our small, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nothing In Particular</title>
		<link>http://thetexasring.com/2010/07/05/nothing-in-particular/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 09:21:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>davewave9</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Author Linda Brady Traynham
Question:  &#8220;What does Independence Day mean in 2010?&#8221;  Answer:  &#8220;Nothing in particular.&#8221;
Oh, still barbecues, incredibly expensive fireworks, lots of politicians ducking their constituents, probably a few more deaths along the drug cartel corridor&#8230;but&#8230;nothing of any significance. 
My most &#8220;patriotic&#8221; thought was that in a country where Thomas Jefferson and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who Should Replace McChrystal?</title>
		<link>http://thetexasring.com/2010/06/30/who-should-replace-mcchrystal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 20:41:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>davewave9</dc:creator>
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After due consideration, about two seconds&#8217; worth, I have concluded that I am the best candidate to replace General McChrystal, and before you start patting my hand, making soothing noises, and wondering what the treatment for senile dementia is, consider my qualifications via the following imaginary interview. 
&#8220;Mrs. Traynham, do you now, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>32</slash:comments>
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		<title>Wood You?</title>
		<link>http://thetexasring.com/2010/06/30/wood-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 20:30:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>davewave9</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Author David W Franklin
Recently I met a lady who like I, labors to gather, cut and split fire wood for supplemental heat in the winter months. Mutual knowledge of this shared activity provided a common ground for further personal communications.
Just recently, she informed me &#8220;I did vote for Obama. I&#8217;m still in holding pattern as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Something&#8217;s Changed</title>
		<link>http://thetexasring.com/2010/06/24/somethings-changed/</link>
		<comments>http://thetexasring.com/2010/06/24/somethings-changed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 22:05:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>davewave9</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Author Linda Brady Traynham
Analysis ranges from what to do when your chemistry professor hands you a beaker with instructions to tell him what is in it by Friday to the sudden feeling mothers get that &#8220;it&#8217;s too quiet,&#8221; meaning they had better go find out what their children are up to.  I could say [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Civil Rights, Civil Wrongs, and Not So Civil People</title>
		<link>http://thetexasring.com/2010/06/16/civil-rights-civil-wrongs-and-not-so-civil-people/</link>
		<comments>http://thetexasring.com/2010/06/16/civil-rights-civil-wrongs-and-not-so-civil-people/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 06:18:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>davewave9</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Author Tony DeMaio
During the initial Civil Rights movement, I was a young tad. I went to an integrated school and didn’t think much about my friends’ color or heritage. I walked without fear in “black” (Negro at the time) neighborhoods. I was in the ninth grade when the Brown vs. the Board of Education decision [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>47</slash:comments>
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