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		<title>Facing Myself on Facebook &#8211; Part I: The Present</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 06:27:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Norman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Nolan, without even sitting in the same room with me once in over 18 months you have helped me become something I have always wanted to be - a writer. I will miss you terribly.  Rest In Peace.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thetruthmachine.net&blog=7650200&post=98&subd=thetruthmachine&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Writing About Writing About Racism</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:10:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Norman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like almost everyone I have witnessed and/or been a victim of some sort of discrimination, be it racial or religious. I consider myself to be extremely open-minded and non-judgmental, so writing about racism should be easy, right? Wrong.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thetruthmachine.net&blog=7650200&post=72&subd=thetruthmachine&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Five Things 24 Hour News Should Do</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:49:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Norman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are my suggestions for making the 24 hour news cycle more palatable - or at least more likely to include a warning sticker that it is not palatable ("In the case of outrage lasting more than 4 hours, please call your doctor as this may be a sign of a much more serious condition called a moral center").  Take a look, then share your five.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thetruthmachine.net&blog=7650200&post=55&subd=thetruthmachine&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Matthew Hoh Resigns: State Department Official Quits Over Afghan War</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:39:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Norman</dc:creator>
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As a supporter of Obama&#8217;s from day one, with a strong belief that he intends to do the right thing, I believe he should pay very close attention to this resignation letter. I think it is a spot on analysis of the situation.  Even Charlie Wilson, the Republican ex-Congressman largely responsible for the Afghan [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thetruthmachine.net&blog=7650200&post=59&subd=thetruthmachine&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Obama and The Nobel &#8211; odd, but not crazy.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 03:26:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Norman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[OK &#8211; A little honesty up front. I am an adamant supporter of Obama&#8217;s domestic policies, and cautiously optimistic about his foreign policy. I am also as surprised as anyone that he won the Nobel Peace Prize this morning.
I am not even slightly surprised by the attacks against his winning it that have come from [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thetruthmachine.net&blog=7650200&post=46&subd=thetruthmachine&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What are we anyway?</title>
		<link>http://thetruthmachine.net/2009/09/28/what-are-we-anyway/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 01:06:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Norman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The very concept of "government by consent of the governed" allows for fundamental change to our economic system as the will of the people evolves.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thetruthmachine.net&blog=7650200&post=33&subd=thetruthmachine&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Condition Critical (Thinking) Conclusion &#8211; What Next?</title>
		<link>http://thetruthmachine.net/2009/09/20/condition-critical-thinking-conclusion-what-next/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2009 04:16:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Norman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So we are left with the good old "America, love-it-or-leave-it" decision. Well, it just so happens that I love this country - or at least the ideas that make up what this country is supposed to be, so I'm sticking; and as long as I'm sticking I'm going to put forward some ideas to make things better - because screaming at my TV is starting to make my head hurt.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thetruthmachine.net&blog=7650200&post=27&subd=thetruthmachine&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>We interrupt your regularly scheduled blog&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://thetruthmachine.net/2009/09/17/we-interrupt-your-regularly-scheduled-blog/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 18:48:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Norman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been planning to write on health care, and certainly will at some point. But for now, there is nothing I could say about the piece of manure put forth by Sen Baucus yesterday that is not brought home better by this.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thetruthmachine.net&blog=7650200&post=19&subd=thetruthmachine&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Condition Critical (Thinking) Part II &#8211; The News Media</title>
		<link>http://thetruthmachine.net/2009/09/16/condition-critical-ii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 21:34:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Norman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The deterioration of critical thinking in our school curricula has contributed to our becoming a nation of morons. This may explain the roots of our "moron-ness", but fails to look at how it is reinforced in our adult life. How does one go from a child lacking the skills to form an opinion to an adult with an unwavering opinion?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thetruthmachine.net&blog=7650200&post=13&subd=thetruthmachine&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Condition Critical (Thinking)</title>
		<link>http://thetruthmachine.net/2009/09/14/condition-critical-thinking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 16:06:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Norman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many reasons have been posited for the crazy rantings of birthers, deathers, tenthers and teabaggers (yes I know that isn't what they call themselves but who could resist). Many have tried to decode the reasons behind believing in death panels and screams of keep government out of Medicare. Some believe it stems from economic fear and desperation, some from religious fervor, and some from racism. I think it is much simpler than that.

We have become a nation of morons.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thetruthmachine.net&blog=7650200&post=7&subd=thetruthmachine&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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