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	<description>Who lied and told you life would EVER be fair?</description>
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		<title>An American Citizen&#8217;s Response</title>
		<link>http://www.benched42.net/2012/01/18/an-american-citizens-response/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:17:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BillH</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Barack Obama during his Cairo speech, of June 4, 2009, said: &#8220;I know, too, that Islam has always been a part of America&#8217;s story.&#8221; AN AMERICAN CITIZEN&#8217;S RESPONSE: Dear Mr. Obama: Were those Muslims that were in America when the Pilgrims first landed? Funny, I thought they were Native American Indians. Were those Muslims that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stop SOPA!</title>
		<link>http://www.benched42.net/2012/01/17/stop-sopa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 03:07:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BillH</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not going to go intd details about SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) or PIPA (Protect IP Act). Let&#8217;s just say that the nasty SOPA and it&#8217;s evil little sister PIPA are about the two worst things to be proposed for those who use the internet for pretty much anything since&#8230;. well since the internet [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Passing of a True Giant</title>
		<link>http://www.benched42.net/2011/10/18/passing-of-a-true-giant/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 12:30:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BillH</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Time Out]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dennis Ritchie]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been mulling over this post for about a week now, so here goes. You know, it&#8217;s really kind of sad. Our entire country, heck &#8211; most of the world, mourned the loss of Steve Jobs. I&#8217;m not really going to go into what kind of person Steve Jobs was here, but let&#8217;s not speak [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Protesters Demands</title>
		<link>http://www.benched42.net/2011/10/04/protesters-demands/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 01:03:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BillH</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oh My God! Are these fools for real? The &#8220;Occupy Wall Street&#8221; protest group (or should I say loony left gathering?) has published thirteen &#8220;demands&#8221;. Here&#8217;s the list of &#8220;demands&#8221;. This post is going to be somewhat longer than most of my posts as I&#8217;m going to go through and critique each of their &#8220;demands&#8221;. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>College Rankings</title>
		<link>http://www.benched42.net/2011/08/13/college-rankings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Aug 2011 14:28:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BillH</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[My Life (such as it is)]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Forbes&#8217; annual list of America&#8217;s best undergraduate institutions. Click here to see the full list. From the website: &#8220;Our annual ranking of the 650 best undergraduate institutions focuses on the things that matter the most to students: quality of teaching, great career prospects, graduation rates and low levels of debt. Unlike other lists, we pointedly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Put Me In Charge</title>
		<link>http://www.benched42.net/2011/08/05/put-me-in-charge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2011 12:35:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BillH</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This was in the Waco Tribune Herald, Waco, TX Nov 18, 2010. Here&#8217;s the link to the original story, but you need a subscription. Put me in charge of food stamps. I&#8217;d get rid of Lone Star cards; no cash for Ding Dongs or Ho Ho&#8217;s, just money for 50-pound bags of rice and beans, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reelection?</title>
		<link>http://www.benched42.net/2011/06/21/reelection/</link>
		<comments>http://www.benched42.net/2011/06/21/reelection/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2011 15:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BillH</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SOME OF YOU MAY APPRECIATE THIS AND SOME OF YOU MAY NOT If any other of our presidents had: doubled the national debt in one year, which had taken more than two centuries to accumulate, would you have approved? then proposed to double the debt again within 10 years, would you have approved? criticized a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m Tired&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.benched42.net/2011/04/26/im-tired/</link>
		<comments>http://www.benched42.net/2011/04/26/im-tired/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2011 12:24:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BillH</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I&#8217;m 63 and I&#8217;m Tired&#8221; by Robert A. Hall (Robert A. Hall is a Marine Vietnam veteran who served five terms in the Massachusetts State Senate.) I&#8217;m 63. Except for one semester in college when jobs were scarce and a six-month period when I was between jobs, but job-hunting every day, I&#8217;ve worked hard since [...]]]></description>
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