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	<title>Brain-Jockey</title>
	
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	<description>Sustenance for those who think.  .....Or who want to use a Nerf© bat to those who don't.</description>
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		<title>The Real Gitmo</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 04:15:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Audrie Zettick</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Steve Crowder]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://brain-jockey.com/?p=337</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Hat tip to Tabitha Hale, who posted this video today by Steve Crowder about Gitmo.  Okay, you say, you&#8217;re not so into discussing Guantanamo Bay and the detainees.  You&#8217;d rather, say, read the massive Democrat health care bill.  Trust me on this one.  Grab a cup of coffee and sit down for about 12 minutes.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Power Comes Back To The People–The NY-23 Race (Appended)</title>
		<link>http://brain-jockey.com/power-comes-back-to-the-people-the-ny-23-race/</link>
		<comments>http://brain-jockey.com/power-comes-back-to-the-people-the-ny-23-race/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 05:12:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Audrie Zettick</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Republican]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Congress]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[elections]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Gingrich]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Scozzafava]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://brain-jockey.com/?p=322</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you haven&#8217;t already heard, the much ballyhooed NY 23rd district congressional race just became more interesting.  Party boss-backed Dede Scozzafava, a moderate to liberal Republican, withdrew from the race with 72 hours to go. (See her note from her campaign site here).  GOP Chair Michael Steele is now throwing resources behind Doug Hoffman, the Conservative Party candidate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Calling All Inventors: Speed Bumps for Government Spending</title>
		<link>http://brain-jockey.com/calling-all-inventors-speed-bumps-for-government-spending/</link>
		<comments>http://brain-jockey.com/calling-all-inventors-speed-bumps-for-government-spending/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 16:07:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Audrie Zettick</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Brain Food]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Federal Spending]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[voting]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[government recall]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Mexico]]></category>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://brain-jockey.com/?p=313</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In an attempt to ameliorate the "dirty air" around Mexico City, government officials are helping the private development of "smart speed bumps."  What we need in the U.S.A. is a smart speed bump to clear the air in D.C. and halt government spending. ]]></description>
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		<title>Brain Food</title>
		<link>http://brain-jockey.com/brain-food-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 03:52:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Audrie Zettick</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[tea party]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[moveon]]></category>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://brain-jockey.com/?p=305</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[After a several-week technology meltdown that required a new hard drive, reinstallation of my software and restoring of my files (bless Carbonite!), I thought I&#8217;d start back to blogging with some light brain food.
 
Hat tip to The Write Side of My Brain, for this bit on Biden who reportedly says this about the effect of the GOP winning House seats [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ACLU and Me: Sometimes We Agree</title>
		<link>http://brain-jockey.com/aclu-and-me-sometimes-we-agree/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2009 19:32:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Audrie Zettick</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[health care]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[policy]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[humor]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://brain-jockey.com/?p=299</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A good friend sent me an email she&#8217;d received that contained a flash video by the ACLU.  It&#8217;s a fictional account of how we might all be ordering pizza in a year or two, given the Federal government&#8217;s propensity for collecting information on us.  Check it out.
 
They say humor is best when it&#8217;s based on reality.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When I’m Wrong, I’m Right:The Truth About Private Health Insurance and Reforms</title>
		<link>http://brain-jockey.com/when-im-wrong-im-rightthe-truth-about-private-health-insurance-and-reforms/</link>
		<comments>http://brain-jockey.com/when-im-wrong-im-rightthe-truth-about-private-health-insurance-and-reforms/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 19:50:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Audrie Zettick</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[health care]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[policy]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[HR 3200]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://brain-jockey.com/?p=288</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I chastise my college students for not checking the facts when they cite online articles.  It&#8217;s too easy in today&#8217;s quick-paced world to promote bad information.  I have them consider the source.
 
For my recent piece on Health Care Reform, I cited some information provided through Investors Business Daily, a reputable source for finance information.  I did [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Specter Town Hall Draws Jeers</title>
		<link>http://brain-jockey.com/specter-town-hall-draws-jeers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 16:41:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Audrie Zettick</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Courtesy of Atlas Shrugs, here are some videos and other links that cover Arlen Specter&#8217;s Town Hall in Philadelphia on August 2.  Worth the watch. I couldn&#8217;t make the Philly event as I was busy yesterday at a local meet up with several Smart Girl Politics central PA members.  We plan to attend his Lebanon, PA town hall.
 
Here [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Planned Aging, Choice and Pining For The Good Ole Days-ADDENDUM</title>
		<link>http://brain-jockey.com/planned-aging-choice-and-pining-for-the-good-ole-days/</link>
		<comments>http://brain-jockey.com/planned-aging-choice-and-pining-for-the-good-ole-days/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 19:10:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Audrie Zettick</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Federal Spending]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[family]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[health care]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[policy]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[American Affordable Health Choices]]></category>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://brain-jockey.com/?p=265</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If recent health care reform proposals like &#8221;America&#8217;s Affordable Health Choices Act&#8221; are passed, where might we be 5 or 10 years from now?  Here&#8217;s a link to the proposed bill by House Democrats.  Here&#8217;s a brief shot at why we might pine for the good ole days:
 
Choice&#8211;well, not so much. 
 
Despite the word &#8220;choice&#8221; in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Mad Hatter’s Summer of Events</title>
		<link>http://brain-jockey.com/a-mad-hatters-summer-of-events/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:55:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Audrie Zettick</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Federal Spending]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[economy]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Alice in Wonderland]]></category>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://brain-jockey.com/?p=79</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Like Alice at the Mad Hatter&#8217;s tea party, taxpayers have recently been assaulted with many wish-it-weren&#8217;t-for-real events that make me watch for the white rabbit.  It&#8217;s been a Wonderland of events and characters.  Among them:
 
Queen of Hearts: Nancy Pelosi.  Politico recounts how she &#8220;whipped&#8221; together the votes for Cap and Trade, replacing &#8220;off with their heads&#8221; with dogged, in-your-face (and perhaps other [...]]]></description>
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		<title>July 1st in Iraq: A Soldier’s Perspective</title>
		<link>http://brain-jockey.com/july-1st-in-iraq-a-soldiers-perspective/</link>
		<comments>http://brain-jockey.com/july-1st-in-iraq-a-soldiers-perspective/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:40:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Audrie Zettick</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I just received this email via my church choir&#8217;s prayer chain.  It gives you some perspective on the U.S. withdrawal from Iraq.
 
&#8220;I try not to talk about everything that’s going on here cause its really hard,even to think about, and as of the 1st of July it’s only going to get worse. The government is [...]]]></description>
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