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		<title>Obituary for common sense</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 May 2010 16:37:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend, Common Sense, who has been with us for many years. No one knows for sure how old he was, since his birth records were long ago lost in bureaucratic red tape. He will be remembered as having cultivated such valuable lessons as: Knowing when to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=maverick1966.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11560701&amp;post=136&amp;subd=maverick1966&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Oh canada</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 14:22:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The image of a fallen soldier on TV who paid the ultimate sacrafice for the freedom and democracy of his fellow man in a foriegn country stirs a feeling of pride and patriotism in me that somehow surprises me. Afterall, this young person was willing to give everything they had, right down to thier very [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=maverick1966.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11560701&amp;post=129&amp;subd=maverick1966&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Who Pays the Piper?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 01:44:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I remember at sixteen thinking how much more I knew about the world than my parents. Afterall, they had to drop out of highschool to look after thier families. How could someone who knew nothing of the theory of pythagorus, know more about the world than me. Once I moved out and began life on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=maverick1966.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11560701&amp;post=113&amp;subd=maverick1966&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gun owners NOT criminals</title>
		<link>http://maverick1966.wordpress.com/2010/02/26/gun-owners-not-criminals/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 14:58:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On December 6th 1989, Marc Lapine unleashed unspeakable horror on the women of Montréal’s École Polytechnique. As a father the hairs on my neck stand up when I think of that unimaginable horror that occurred that day. However, the response from the Canadian government could not have been more counter productive. Their solution, rather than [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=maverick1966.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11560701&amp;post=100&amp;subd=maverick1966&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>For God&#8217;s sake don&#8217;t say God!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:06:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a lad we began our school day with the lords prayer. At lunch some lucky volunteer was picked to say grace, and we actually learned a little about Christianity in schools, instead of a littany of facts about allah, buddah, or whatever diety some other part of the world might worship. When we came [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=maverick1966.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11560701&amp;post=81&amp;subd=maverick1966&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Plane crash in Smith&#8217;s sound</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 23:15:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The weather in Newfoundland was seasonably poor, as on the morning of March 18 1953 American Convair B-36 (known as the peacemaker) departed from Lajes in The Azores destined for its home base in South Dakota. On board were 23 airmen anxious to be heading home after a training mission. Among the crew on board [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=maverick1966.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11560701&amp;post=39&amp;subd=maverick1966&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Who pays the Piper?</title>
		<link>http://maverick1966.wordpress.com/2010/01/22/who-pays-the-piper/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:18:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I remember at sixteen thinking how much more I knew about the world than my parents. Afterall, they had to drop out of highschool to look after thier families. How could someone who knew nothing of the theory of pythagorus, know more about the world than me. Once I moved out and began life on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=maverick1966.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11560701&amp;post=18&amp;subd=maverick1966&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Pee&#8221; or get off the &#8220;pot&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://maverick1966.wordpress.com/2010/01/21/pee-or-get-off-the-pot/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 01:53:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a parent of three teenagers, I am very concerned about the amount of drugs in our school system. Drug dealers seemingly go about our community practicing their trade, with little fear of any repercussions, legally or from the parents of the kids to whom they sell these drugs. Despite the fact that almost everyone [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=maverick1966.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11560701&amp;post=8&amp;subd=maverick1966&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Eulogy for common sense</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 01:51:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend, Common Sense, who has been with us for many years. No one knows for sure how old he was, since his birth records were long ago lost in bureaucratic red tape. He will be remembered as having cultivated such valuable lessons as: Knowing when to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=maverick1966.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11560701&amp;post=6&amp;subd=maverick1966&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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