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		<title>Venture vs Vulture</title>
		<link>http://tfgray.wordpress.com/2012/01/23/venture-vs-vulture/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 03:56:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the largest elephants in the American living room has just been outed. Willard &#8220;Mitt&#8221; Romney&#8217;s wealth has become a major issue, thanks not so much to the Occupy folks, but to his Republican rival Newton Leroy Gingrich. In his own defense Mitt cites his job creation record at Bain Capital. He started some [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tfgray.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4418133&amp;post=643&amp;subd=tfgray&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Predictions &amp; Other Thoughts</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 03:58:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[1. The big league Republicans (Bush 2.5, Barbour, Daniels, Christie, et al) are sitting this one out in a strategic bid to regain control of the party. Is it because they think Obama is unbeatable? Probably not. Traditionally a bad economy = no re-election. No, the current crop of candidates all kowtow to the Koch [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tfgray.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4418133&amp;post=620&amp;subd=tfgray&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Predictions</title>
		<link>http://tfgray.wordpress.com/2011/10/13/predictions-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 03:14:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The basic idea is that if we vote for the people the plutocrats want to see in office, the corporate coffers will open, and prosperity return to the land in a wave of business investment. On the small scale, that would be called blackmail. On a large enough scale, it's called Business as Usual.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tfgray.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4418133&amp;post=618&amp;subd=tfgray&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Point of View</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 01:20:39 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[alt fuel]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[So what does WWII have to do with paper towel rolls ?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tfgray.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4418133&amp;post=615&amp;subd=tfgray&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Tea Party Opt-Out</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Sep 2011 01:36:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was thinking about Obama's speech last night. How he presented a set of proposals that Congress has agreed to a gazillion times in the past. But there's that problem with the purest of the pure, those who believe that government should just curl up and die. Yes, the Tea Party. I though long and hard and figured out a way around that. Actually, I got the idea from watching the Republican debate the night before.
Add two sentences to the bill...<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tfgray.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4418133&amp;post=609&amp;subd=tfgray&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Freedom!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2011 17:30:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA["Whenever someone says to you, 'Freedom,' ask them, 'Freedom from what, and freedom to do what?'"
--Edward Peter Fitzsimmons<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tfgray.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4418133&amp;post=602&amp;subd=tfgray&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Random Musings</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Aug 2011 00:22:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mitt Romney: "Corporations are people!"

@tfgray: Yes, Mitt, but would you want your daughter to marry one?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tfgray.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4418133&amp;post=598&amp;subd=tfgray&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Open Letter to Eric</title>
		<link>http://tfgray.wordpress.com/2011/08/06/open-letter-to-eric/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Aug 2011 20:25:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are some very odd bedfellows between these sheets. The ideologues on the Right want to prove themselves correct, no matter what the cost, including taking down the US economy. After all, in their view, their policies will work in preciesly the opposite fashion that they ever have throughout history. China will benefit greatly from the collapse of the American economy. Bedfellows! Osama bin Laden's three goals for 9/11 were Oil at $140 a barrel, up from $28, (60% success on that) US out of Arabia, (announced 3 days before the infamous "Mission Accomplished" banner photo op. I'm still wondering what mission, other than Osama's #2 goal was accomplished.) and bankrupting the US by bogging us down in a land war in Asia or two.  That makes it a threesome with the Tea Party Right, China, and Al Quaeda. Throw in a bunch of pious folks whose fervent dream is total war in the Middle East, preferably involving nukes and men with scorpion heads, and you've got enough for a swinger's party. Toss in a few of Bush's Got-Mores, who apparently won't be happy until they're the Got-It-Alls, and you've got a political daisy chain.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tfgray.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4418133&amp;post=595&amp;subd=tfgray&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Predictions</title>
		<link>http://tfgray.wordpress.com/2011/07/28/predictions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2011 02:26:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes I just can't help myself. After all, didn't I predict that either Sarah Palin or a family member would have a reality show? What with Sarah's Alaska, Bristol's star turn on the dance floor, and the BabyDaddy's televised run for Wasilla mayor, I pretty much hit the trifecta. So I'm at it again...<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tfgray.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4418133&amp;post=582&amp;subd=tfgray&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why the Markets Aren&#8217;t Panicking</title>
		<link>http://tfgray.wordpress.com/2011/07/26/why-the-markets-arent-panicking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 11:31:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Consider this possibility: The government is about to get another $2.4 trillion added to the debt limit with no tax hit to the wealthy and a guarantee that we&#8217;ll go through another one of these roller coaster rides again in about 3-6 months. Moody&#8217;s has warned that the threat of another round of Republican Russian Roulette in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tfgray.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4418133&amp;post=579&amp;subd=tfgray&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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