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	<title>An Octogenarian's Blog</title>
	
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		<title>GOVERNMENT SERVICES – CITY OF GAINESVILLE PLUS COUNTY AND STATE and FEDERAL (Issue 727)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 02:59:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Freedom Lady</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just spoke to a young man visiting one of my neighbors who works for the City of Gainesville, keeping gutters cleaned. He was rather upset because of a complaint lodged against him, from a customer he had given special attention to. I assured him I appreciated the good job they did keeping my street [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GAINESVILLE TIMES THIS WEEK – FULL PAGE STORY ABOUT MY LIFE (Issue 726)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 14:03:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Freedom Lady</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My big surprise yesterday at the wonderful Mother’s Day dinner, with my children and grandchildren at Milton’s in Alpharetta, was a presentation by my son Ken, a pre-copy of a story about my life scheduled to appear in the Gainesville Times this week, covering one full page in the local paper. The Times had a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>“HOOLIGAN LIBERTARIAN” – “MILITANT LIBERTARIAN” – BLOGGING AND BIRDHOUSES AND FREEDOM (Issue 725)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2012 02:11:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Freedom Lady</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just received an early surprise birthday gift from a fellow-blogging friend, Kent McManigal, author of &#8220;Hooligans Libertarian&#8221; blog site. A lovely and unique, handmade birdhouse, from a coconut. Kent’s ability to create something of use and interest, out of ordinary material, usually discarded, is a motivating idea to anyone sitting around waiting for a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FRANCE – CAPITALISM , BRAINWASHING, AND THE GOAL OF SOCIALISM (Issue 724)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 17:05:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Freedom Lady</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Headline news over the weekend portrays a degree of shock over the defeat of French President Sarkozy, at the hands of Socialist challenger François Hollande. Despite the fact that the managed news media sometimes portrayed Sarkozy (one I called good-time Charley) as someone with less Socialist leanings, from reports I’ve read, he’s no great proponent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IS THE UNDERSTANDING OF FREEDOM SOMETHING YOU ARE BORN KNOWING? IS IT LEARNED?  (Issue 723)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 May 2012 16:58:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Freedom Lady</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent article titled &#8220;When You’re Talking You Ain’t Learning,&#8221; How Do You Define Freedom, Issue 722, seems to have stirred the intellectual nettle of some of my readers, and any discussion about Freedom deserves more attention. I have written many articles relative to the meaning of Freedom, and for myself accept the definition, &#8220;Freedom [...]]]></description>
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		<title>“WHEN YOU’RE TALKING YOU AIN’T LEARNING” – HOW DO YOU DEFINE FREEDOM? (Issue 722)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Apr 2012 18:09:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Freedom Lady</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was the Texas senator, Sam Rayburn, who said, &#8220;When you’re talking you ain’t learning.&#8221; Ain’t that the Truth? In the past week I’ve had occasion to listen to three different persons on three different subjects that appear to have totally different opinions, than I. The three subjects were, Religion, Alcoholism, and Freedom. All three [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PRINCE WILLIAM CO-STARRED METROPOLITAN CLUB WITH ISABELLA CONCERT (Issue 721)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 16:44:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Freedom Lady</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A glorious Sunday afternoon yesterday, when around one hundred special invited guests gathered at the Metropolitan Club on Windward Parkway in Alpharetta, Georgia, a suburb of Atlanta, for a special performance piano recital by my granddaughter, Isabella. Bella is 14 years old and has been playing the piano for ten years. She has participated in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE REPORTED “APOLOGY” OF GEORGE ZIMMERMAN FOR MURDER of TRAYVON MARTIN (Issue 720)</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AnOctogenariansBlog/~3/AZyDwEQmfcg/</link>
		<comments>http://www.octogenariansblog.com/the-reported-apology-of-george-zimmerman-for-murder-of-trayvon-martin-issue-420/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 16:37:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Freedom Lady</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rarely have we heard a call to the police from a stalker, describing events just before killing his victim, as reported on the news in the Zimmerman-Trayvon Martin case. It was a first in my memory. A 28-year old neighborhood watchman, describing a situation as it happened, following a 17 year old in his neighborhood [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FREEDOM – HOW MUCH DO I LOVE THEE – LET ME COUNT THE WAYS (Issue 719)</title>
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		<comments>http://www.octogenariansblog.com/freedom-how-much-do-i-love-thee-let-me-count-the-ways-issue-719/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 23:36:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Freedom Lady</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A friend of mine recently asked me how I would recommend one go about learning the Philosophy of Freedom. First of all I suggest Freedom is a matter of Discovery. First get a copy of the Declaration of Independence and read it regularly. Secondly, keep handy and available a copy of the U.S. Constitution. Read [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SECRET SERVICE – CONGRESS – RENTED HOOKERS – Civil RIGHTS – and VACCINATIONS (Issue 718)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 18:48:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Freedom Lady</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was watching the news last evening, when my teenaged granddaughter called, and asked me what I remembered about the Civil Rights movement in the sixties. She was working on a school assignment. I had to stop and think, to beam up memories of that tumultuous decade, and decided I would write an article about [...]]]></description>
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