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		<title>BBC: What Happened to Global Warming?</title>
		<link>http://thevitki.wordpress.com/2009/10/11/bbc-what-happened-to-global-warming/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 21:12:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I find this hysterical. The BBC has long pounded the man made global warming drum with unwavering religious fervor. I watch them on PBS regularly and they have this tapped clip where one of the BBC&#8217;s man made global warming preachers travels the arctic in an attempt to raise the alarm by showing melting ice [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thevitki.wordpress.com&blog=2417284&post=99&subd=thevitki&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dare Change!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 06:31:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Music &amp; Astronomy: Two Sides Of The Same Coin</title>
		<link>http://thevitki.wordpress.com/2009/09/04/music-might-just-be-the-most-human-thing-about-us-it-is-for-certain-the-one-human-thing-that-survives-when-all-other-human-traits-fail/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2009 04:04:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Below is the URL to the welcome address of Karl Paulnack, a professor at the Boston Conservatory of Music and member of the Columbus Symphony. It just might be the most important thing you read this year:
Welcome Address, by Karl Paulnack

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		<title>Beware of Illegal Lemonade Stands!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2009 03:04:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes you just wouldn&#8217;t have believed it if you hadn&#8217;t seen it &#8212; or in this case read it &#8212; with your own eyes. A &#8220;code enforcement officer&#8221; for the City of Tulare shut down the roadside lemonade stand of an 8 year old girl trying to raise money for a trip to Disneyland. Why? [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thevitki.wordpress.com&blog=2417284&post=93&subd=thevitki&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>About The BlackBerry</title>
		<link>http://thevitki.wordpress.com/2009/07/22/the-incomprehensible-wierdness-of-blackberry-software-can-leave-you-speechless/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 05:04:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay&#8230;
So I&#8217;ve been a Crackberry owner (Blackberry Curve 8310) for about nine months now. There&#8217;s a lot to like, I have to admit. I love the idea that it&#8217;s really just a tether to the Internet, for instance. Email is one big Blackberry selling point, and it is rather nice. You can do almost anything [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thevitki.wordpress.com&blog=2417284&post=87&subd=thevitki&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Government Suppresses Internal Reports: CBS News Reports</title>
		<link>http://thevitki.wordpress.com/2009/07/03/epa-may-have-quashed-scientists-report-skeptical-of-man-made-global-warming/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 04:11:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It appears the EPA may have quashed a report because: &#8220;The administrator and the administration has decided to move forward&#8230; and your comments do not help the legal or policy case for this decision.&#8221; In other words, the Obama Administration has made its decision and any scientific evidence contracting or challenging the hypothesis turned dogma [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thevitki.wordpress.com&blog=2417284&post=85&subd=thevitki&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Message From Sharam Shiva</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 03:32:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sharam Shiva, for those who may not know, is an Iranian native that has devoted his life to studying, translating, and performing the works of Rumi. Thirty years ago he fled his home country during the Islamic Revolution that overthrew the Shaw.
The following was emailed to those on his mailing list. I have reposted it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thevitki.wordpress.com&blog=2417284&post=83&subd=thevitki&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pounding The Nail</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 19:20:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I find it amusing, both as I see it in myself and others. The pounding of the nail. The use of the great energies of Thurisaz to repeat and reinforce patterns of behavior that are desired to be changed, rather than using those energies to break out of those patterns. Unfortunately, many people don&#8217;t seem [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thevitki.wordpress.com&blog=2417284&post=82&subd=thevitki&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ears That Can Hear&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://thevitki.wordpress.com/2009/04/16/ears-that-can-hear/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 02:24:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay, this is kind of a rant, so if you&#8217;re not in the mood, you might want to skip this post.
I do wish people would learn to listen, especially when large numbers of dollars are on the line. I mean, with big money on the line you&#8217;d think they would, wouldn&#8217;t you? But apparently not.
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		<title>How Many Politicians Does It Take To Change A Light Bulb?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 23:53:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The answer is 4:
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