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	<description>...&#38; some Digital Filmmaking &#38; Post-Production, too!</description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 02:59:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>&#8216;Nuff Said</title>
		<link>http://practicalmysticproductions.com/blog/2010/01/20/nuff-said/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 02:57:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>taijidave</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[From Huffpost:
It is a truly remarkable feat, in just one year&#8217;s time, to turn the fear and anger voters felt in 2006 and 2008 at a Republican Party that had destroyed the economy, redistributed massive amounts of wealth from the middle class to the richest of the rich and the biggest of big businesses, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Breakdown of the Social Contract</title>
		<link>http://practicalmysticproductions.com/blog/2009/10/01/the-breakdown-of-the-social-contract/</link>
		<comments>http://practicalmysticproductions.com/blog/2009/10/01/the-breakdown-of-the-social-contract/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 23:35:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>taijidave</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://practicalmysticproductions.com/blog/?p=177</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Stupid NeoCon Trick #(billions &#038; billions):
&#8220;I don&#8217;t NEED that, so WTF do i gotta PAY for it (taxes, etc)&#8221;
&#038; at first, that sounds Reasonable, eh?
Sure, you&#8217;re a Guy&#8211; you ain&#8217;t gonna get Pregnant, right?
You don&#8217;t drive thru that tunnel, or across that bridge&#8211; so fuck them!
&#8220;If they can&#8217;t stand the heat {can&#8217;t pay for prenatal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lou Holtz should stick to Football</title>
		<link>http://practicalmysticproductions.com/blog/2009/09/03/lou-holtz-should-stick-to-football/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 19:51:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>taijidave</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://practicalmysticproductions.com/blog/?p=165</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Cf: the WSJ&#8217;s &#8220;Is your Coach Republican&#8220;:
&#8230;it turns out, that the Great Coach Lou Holtz is running around, trying to be a politician&#8211; which is fine, I admit.. &#038; I&#8217;m actually interested. His skill at Coaching is legendary, &#038; I have his series of tapes w/ Blanchard&#8230;
But then he &#8216;draws a parallel between the standards [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Punk&#8217;d by Obama</title>
		<link>http://practicalmysticproductions.com/blog/2009/08/09/punkd-by-obama/</link>
		<comments>http://practicalmysticproductions.com/blog/2009/08/09/punkd-by-obama/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2009 10:20:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>taijidave</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://practicalmysticproductions.com/blog/?p=158</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here I go again&#8211;
i&#8217;m full of [rage/resentment/disbelief]&#8230;
&#038; i tell everyone, write a bunch of emails&#8230;
&#8230;&#038; never get it together to blog&#8230;
&#8230;&#038; now *everyone* is writing about it:
OBAMA IS FUCKING US OVER:
&#8220;is Obama Punking us&#8221;
&#8230;we kept &#8216;giving him chances&#8217;;
 -thought all the repubs on his Cabinet/etc was &#8220;great Lincoln statesmanship&#8221;
 -then gave him the benefit-of-doubt for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cheney&#8217;s Grand Strategy&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://practicalmysticproductions.com/blog/2009/05/22/cheneys-grand-strategy/</link>
		<comments>http://practicalmysticproductions.com/blog/2009/05/22/cheneys-grand-strategy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 09:30:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>taijidave</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://practicalmysticproductions.com/blog/?p=143</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[He&#8217;s calling Congress&#8217; bluff&#8211; he knows they&#8217;re too CYA&#8217;ing to ever indict, prosecute, let-alone impeach

He&#8217;s scoffing at all of us&#8211; firmly, emphaticly believing in his own entitled self-righteousness

  &#8230;fergoshsakes, even a 7th-grader knows the &#8220;Office of VP&#8221; is -part- of the Executive Branch, &#038; not a &#8220;Fourth Branch&#8221; of gov&#8217;t&#8230; despite all of Cheney&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rush Limbaugh: Loudly Authoritarian, Casually Factual, Blustering Hypocrite</title>
		<link>http://practicalmysticproductions.com/blog/2009/04/18/rush-limbaugh-loudly-authoritarian-casually-factual-blustering-hypocrite/</link>
		<comments>http://practicalmysticproductions.com/blog/2009/04/18/rush-limbaugh-loudly-authoritarian-casually-factual-blustering-hypocrite/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2009 19:47:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>taijidave</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[What can we say about LIMBAUGH that hasn&#8217;t already been said before??
Let&#8217;s start w/ a couple of Rush&#8217;s Favorite Systematic Logical Fallacies
1) Straw Man: completely misrepresenting the opposing position, eg, taking a hyperbolic, outlying possible case &#038; characterizing it as the &#8220;normal&#8221; or &#8220;generic&#8221; situation&#8230; Or simply &#8220;damning with faint praise&#8221;
2. Argumentum Verbosim: to overwhelm [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does your Shot &#8216;Work&#8217; ?</title>
		<link>http://practicalmysticproductions.com/blog/2009/04/05/does-your-shot-work/</link>
		<comments>http://practicalmysticproductions.com/blog/2009/04/05/does-your-shot-work/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2009 14:20:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>taijidave</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s start w/ the Mechanics:
a) Focus. Can you see their eyes (or most-important eye), CLEAR &#038; CRISP
 -there&#8217;s no fall-back; everything else can be blurred, but NOT the eyes&#8230;
b. Light. Can you SEE what&#8217;s important, &#038; it&#8217;s picked-out clearly
 -Key: can i pick-out the salient details
 -Fill: are the surroundings lit too, (keeping) the most-important [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Go Programs: Will &#8216;guessing faster&#8217; beat a Pro?</title>
		<link>http://practicalmysticproductions.com/blog/2009/03/12/go-programs-will-guessing-faster-beat-a-pro/</link>
		<comments>http://practicalmysticproductions.com/blog/2009/03/12/go-programs-will-guessing-faster-beat-a-pro/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 08:45:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>taijidave</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Wired has an article claiming that Go-programs will inevitably beat Pro players, just as Chess programs have. Thus the title, &#8220;Humans No Match for Go Bot Overlords&#8221;, even though at best the programs have won via a huge handicap (9-stones).
Here&#8217;s my perspective as an AGA-rated Amateur 4-dan:
Sure the programmers can effectively create an expert system [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Free Market&#8221; at Merrill Lynch/etc really was &#8220;Free Lunch&#8221;&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://practicalmysticproductions.com/blog/2008/12/18/free-market-at-merrill-lynchetc-really-was-free/</link>
		<comments>http://practicalmysticproductions.com/blog/2008/12/18/free-market-at-merrill-lynchetc-really-was-free/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 18:48:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>taijidave</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[We always knew this&#8211; ppl will live up (or down) to whatever is Expected of them.
And so now, the Gov&#8217;t Regulators are belatedly realizing, &#8216;wow&#8211; all these mortgage traders were just focusing on short-term gains&#8230; regardless of future viability&#8217;. 
Well, OF COURSE they were. Hasn&#8217;t anyone ever hung-out w/ Sales-guys, at Quarter-End? By far &#038; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Repub &#8216;talking points&#8217; &amp; Intellectual Violence&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://practicalmysticproductions.com/blog/2008/12/04/repub-talking-points-intellectual-violence/</link>
		<comments>http://practicalmysticproductions.com/blog/2008/12/04/repub-talking-points-intellectual-violence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 11:39:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>taijidave</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Has this ever happened to you?
You&#8217;re &#8216;discussing&#8217; politics with someone of the &#8216;opposite persuasion&#8217;, &#038; some (or all) of the following comes-up:
Bush isn&#8217;t a &#8216;true&#8217; Conservative -or- Repub
 -so any (alleged) failures by him, aren&#8217;t indictments of Repubs, let-alone &#8216;Conservatives&#8217;
	
Obama is
 -&#8221;unknown&#8221;
 -&#8221;liar&#8221;
 -&#8221;unqualified&#8221;
 -really did &#8220;pal around w/ terrorists&#8221;
 -caused stock-market crash; the Market [...]]]></description>
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