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		<title>Comment on Saturday by Nan</title>
		<link>http://thehopefullscrivener.wordpress.com/2009/09/23/saturday/#comment-108</link>
		<dc:creator>Nan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 23:43:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Love it, Dennis!  I wish that I couldn&#039;t relate, but can you believe that my two oldest children had the brakes fail on each of them within one month of each other?  What are the odds of that?  Scary, scary stuff, but you&#039;re right...as parents we can&#039;t &quot;go there&quot;, but just put them in God&#039;s hands and delight in the miracles (i.e. escaping from such a situation unscathed).  Keep &#039;em coming!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Love it, Dennis!  I wish that I couldn&#8217;t relate, but can you believe that my two oldest children had the brakes fail on each of them within one month of each other?  What are the odds of that?  Scary, scary stuff, but you&#8217;re right&#8230;as parents we can&#8217;t &#8220;go there&#8221;, but just put them in God&#8217;s hands and delight in the miracles (i.e. escaping from such a situation unscathed).  Keep &#8216;em coming!</p>
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		<title>Comment on Saturday by Pamela Sue</title>
		<link>http://thehopefullscrivener.wordpress.com/2009/09/23/saturday/#comment-107</link>
		<dc:creator>Pamela Sue</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 19:14:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Ha ha ha, good on you!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ha ha ha, good on you!</p>
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		<title>Comment on Saturday by degan</title>
		<link>http://thehopefullscrivener.wordpress.com/2009/09/23/saturday/#comment-106</link>
		<dc:creator>degan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 19:12:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>ya, well, there are limits to my mercy, he&#039;s learning how to bleed brakes tonight.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>ya, well, there are limits to my mercy, he&#8217;s learning how to bleed brakes tonight.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Saturday by Pamela Sue</title>
		<link>http://thehopefullscrivener.wordpress.com/2009/09/23/saturday/#comment-105</link>
		<dc:creator>Pamela Sue</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 19:01:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Oh dear, the ungrateful child went off to play with his friends while Dear Old Dad spent time and money laboring on his car. You are long-suffering, and deserving of some parental trophy. Or at least repayment for what you spent on parts. :)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Oh dear, the ungrateful child went off to play with his friends while Dear Old Dad spent time and money laboring on his car. You are long-suffering, and deserving of some parental trophy. Or at least repayment for what you spent on parts. <img src='http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>Comment on Slacker Beavers by Qatgirl</title>
		<link>http://thehopefullscrivener.wordpress.com/2009/01/29/slackers/#comment-98</link>
		<dc:creator>Qatgirl</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 20:13:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Maybe this is an auxiliary dam, and the real, big dam is somewhere else off in the woods. Up the creek, maybe. And they just work on your dam when they have time off from the Main Dam (MD).

Maybe your creek has been designated a Dam Construction Training Area (DCTA), and they send their interns out there to get experience. (Which would explain the subpar workmanship skills.) With the economy the way it is, most of the interns have headed for Pennsylvania, where most of the Dam Construction Internships (DCI&#039;s) have been awarded.

Or... maybe the Beavers have planned a great dam for your creek, but they haven&#039;t been granted approval from the Greater West Virginia Beaver Dam Planning Commission (GWVBDPC). You know how red tape can hold up things like this.

Or maybe you just have some Dam Lazy Beavers (DLB).</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Maybe this is an auxiliary dam, and the real, big dam is somewhere else off in the woods. Up the creek, maybe. And they just work on your dam when they have time off from the Main Dam (MD).</p>
<p>Maybe your creek has been designated a Dam Construction Training Area (DCTA), and they send their interns out there to get experience. (Which would explain the subpar workmanship skills.) With the economy the way it is, most of the interns have headed for Pennsylvania, where most of the Dam Construction Internships (DCI&#8217;s) have been awarded.</p>
<p>Or&#8230; maybe the Beavers have planned a great dam for your creek, but they haven&#8217;t been granted approval from the Greater West Virginia Beaver Dam Planning Commission (GWVBDPC). You know how red tape can hold up things like this.</p>
<p>Or maybe you just have some Dam Lazy Beavers (DLB).</p>
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		<title>Comment on Savings, America&#8217;s Capital Depreciation Fund by qatgirl</title>
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		<dc:creator>qatgirl</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 17:07:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I have never been a good &quot;saver.&quot; (Ask your wife about my teenaged-attempts at saving up to go to Europe.)

But then, I&#039;ve never felt there was much incentive to save money; the interest you get is from another planet... a planet where you don&#039;t get any interest. 

Why do the banks charge us 22% on a credit card (where we&#039;re &quot;renting&quot; their cold hard cash) but only give us a nickel&#039;s worth back on a savings account (where they&#039;re renting OUR cold hard cash). There aint no equity in that.

To receive any kind of decent interest you have to get a CD or something, which requires a fairly large amount to start with. So you have to save up before you can start saving. Yeah... that&#039;ll happen.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have never been a good &#8220;saver.&#8221; (Ask your wife about my teenaged-attempts at saving up to go to Europe.)</p>
<p>But then, I&#8217;ve never felt there was much incentive to save money; the interest you get is from another planet&#8230; a planet where you don&#8217;t get any interest. </p>
<p>Why do the banks charge us 22% on a credit card (where we&#8217;re &#8220;renting&#8221; their cold hard cash) but only give us a nickel&#8217;s worth back on a savings account (where they&#8217;re renting OUR cold hard cash). There aint no equity in that.</p>
<p>To receive any kind of decent interest you have to get a CD or something, which requires a fairly large amount to start with. So you have to save up before you can start saving. Yeah&#8230; that&#8217;ll happen.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Consumer Confidence by Allen Taylor</title>
		<link>http://thehopefullscrivener.wordpress.com/2008/11/13/consumer-confidence/#comment-92</link>
		<dc:creator>Allen Taylor</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 22:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Nice writing.  You are on my RSS reader now so I can read more from you down the road.

Allen Taylor</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Nice writing.  You are on my RSS reader now so I can read more from you down the road.</p>
<p>Allen Taylor</p>
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		<title>Comment on Laissez-Faire by Mike the American</title>
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		<dc:creator>Mike the American</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 14:08:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>THE NEW DEAL made America strong enough to win World War II.

THE GREAT SOCIETY made America great enough to go to the moon.

REAGANOMICS destroyed that strength and greatness letting Gordon Gecko run free.

Obama is not a Socialist, and what he proposes is not Socialism.

The only Socialist in the race for the White House is Sarah Palin.
Alaska&#039;s Windfall Profit Tax = Redistribution of wealth, earned by Entrepenuers.

What we have under W., and what REAGANOMICS essentially is, is a system
akin to Feudal Europe, which is what America&#039;s founding fathers fought for 
Independence from in the first place. 

And just as the Palin&#039;s fight for Alaskan Independence, 
Obama fights for America&#039;s Independence from Gordon Gecko, 
and the Republican party which would turn the U.S.A. into
The Peoples Republic Of America so they could run it just like their
heroes run China.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>THE NEW DEAL made America strong enough to win World War II.</p>
<p>THE GREAT SOCIETY made America great enough to go to the moon.</p>
<p>REAGANOMICS destroyed that strength and greatness letting Gordon Gecko run free.</p>
<p>Obama is not a Socialist, and what he proposes is not Socialism.</p>
<p>The only Socialist in the race for the White House is Sarah Palin.<br />
Alaska&#8217;s Windfall Profit Tax = Redistribution of wealth, earned by Entrepenuers.</p>
<p>What we have under W., and what REAGANOMICS essentially is, is a system<br />
akin to Feudal Europe, which is what America&#8217;s founding fathers fought for<br />
Independence from in the first place. </p>
<p>And just as the Palin&#8217;s fight for Alaskan Independence,<br />
Obama fights for America&#8217;s Independence from Gordon Gecko,<br />
and the Republican party which would turn the U.S.A. into<br />
The Peoples Republic Of America so they could run it just like their<br />
heroes run China.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Laissez-Faire by qatgirl</title>
		<link>http://thehopefullscrivener.wordpress.com/2008/10/21/laisse-fare/#comment-90</link>
		<dc:creator>qatgirl</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:49:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Yesterday in the mail we got a thingie from our mortgage company, which very neatly lays out all the facts about our homeownership, financially speaking. It&#039;s delightful to see, in print, how low our mortgage payment is. Not so delightful: how many months we have left to make those payments. 

We refinanced our house about seven years ago. I know that because there is 277 months left on our mortgage, and I whipped out a calculator and did the math. When I spoke to Tim on the phone last night, I mentioned it to him, and he said we&#039;d be paying off our mortgage until we died. What a depressing thought, I exclaimed. It&#039;s the American way, he replied.

Then he said, &quot;Sweet dreams,&quot; as we hung up the phone. Yeah, right... sweet dreams!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yesterday in the mail we got a thingie from our mortgage company, which very neatly lays out all the facts about our homeownership, financially speaking. It&#8217;s delightful to see, in print, how low our mortgage payment is. Not so delightful: how many months we have left to make those payments. </p>
<p>We refinanced our house about seven years ago. I know that because there is 277 months left on our mortgage, and I whipped out a calculator and did the math. When I spoke to Tim on the phone last night, I mentioned it to him, and he said we&#8217;d be paying off our mortgage until we died. What a depressing thought, I exclaimed. It&#8217;s the American way, he replied.</p>
<p>Then he said, &#8220;Sweet dreams,&#8221; as we hung up the phone. Yeah, right&#8230; sweet dreams!</p>
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		<title>Comment on Banks- or- I wish Adam Smith&#8217;s invisible hand would stop touching me there. by Laisse Fare &#171; Oh, The Places We&#8217;ll Go&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://thehopefullscrivener.wordpress.com/2007/11/27/banks/#comment-89</link>
		<dc:creator>Laisse Fare &#171; Oh, The Places We&#8217;ll Go&#8230;</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 19:21:04 +0000</pubDate>
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