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		<title>Healthy to run the race or Drag me to the finish line</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 22:36:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My formative years were during the 60&#8242;s and 70&#8242;s, it was an exciting time to be young. I remember going to baseball games with my father to cheer on the Washington Senators, being proud of the Washington Redskins as they won their first Super Bowl, watching basketball championships between the Lakers and Knicks and of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=timhief.wordpress.com&amp;blog=831349&amp;post=959&amp;subd=timhief&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Empowerment of &#8220;The Walk Away&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 23:17:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The year was 1968, I was nearly through fourth grade, and after a winter of being kept inside all the kids were excited to see spring arrive. Warmer weather led to exciting games of kick-ball, running around in the school yard and swinging about on the school's playground equipment.

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		<title>The only thing between you and your doctor&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 03:56:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every time I hear the tv and radio heads discuss the current national healthcare legislation, both sides of the political aisle are overstating the real information. This isn&#8217;t the plan for us, it stinks. But this shouldn&#8217;t be the end of the discussion on SOME OF SORT strategy either. I hear the mantra, &#8220;I don&#8217;t [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=timhief.wordpress.com&amp;blog=831349&amp;post=941&amp;subd=timhief&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The National Healthcare Kitchen Is A Hot Place</title>
		<link>http://timhief.wordpress.com/2009/07/16/the-national-healthcare-kitchen-is-a-hot-place/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 02:22:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>timhief</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I can recall the kitchen being my family&#8217;s meeting place.  We would all hang out with mom as she was cooking the evening meal, my sister&#8217;s often stayed closer to learn a bit of cooking while my brother and I were content to think cooking was a wonderful, mysterious endeavor we would never understand. As [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=timhief.wordpress.com&amp;blog=831349&amp;post=916&amp;subd=timhief&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Corporate Tax Smoke Screen</title>
		<link>http://timhief.wordpress.com/2009/07/03/the-corporate-tax-smoke-screen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 02:48:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>timhief</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the definitions of the phrase &#8220;smoke screen&#8221; is : [noun] an action intended to conceal or confuse or obscure. In military terms it&#8217;s a way of preventing the other side from precisely seeing your movements in time to take action. I couldn&#8217;t find the exact origin of the phrase, but I discovered references [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=timhief.wordpress.com&amp;blog=831349&amp;post=927&amp;subd=timhief&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Congressional Housing and Salaries</title>
		<link>http://timhief.wordpress.com/2009/06/18/congressional-housing-and-salaries/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 02:57:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This morning while driving my wife to the train station I tuned-in a talk radio station with Glenn Beck ranting about congressional salaries. I listened as he express a bit of outrage over the fact our congressmen each get an annual salary just over $170k. The last increase of note came as an &#8220;automatic&#8221; pay [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=timhief.wordpress.com&amp;blog=831349&amp;post=934&amp;subd=timhief&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Soiled Animal Skins and Spent Bones</title>
		<link>http://timhief.wordpress.com/2008/07/01/soiled-animal-skins-and-spent-bones/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>timhief</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spring cleaning, I&#8217;m not sure exactly when the practice began but I can be reasonably sure it had to do with getting rid of old things with lingering odors from long winter months spent inside. Once the fortunes of bad weather faded and it was safe to come out of the caves, I&#8217;m sure even [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=timhief.wordpress.com&amp;blog=831349&amp;post=589&amp;subd=timhief&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>One Way Signs or Alternate Route Ahead</title>
		<link>http://timhief.wordpress.com/2008/05/24/one-way-signs-or-alternate-route-ahead/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 May 2008 18:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was a teenager the justification for one way streets was a hollow discussion, in my mind the need to turn around quickly, to change my mind, or simply have an &#8220;oops, missed the turn&#8221; moment, trumped all other arguments for them. My first awareness of &#8220;single minded streets&#8221; came as a seventh grader. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=timhief.wordpress.com&amp;blog=831349&amp;post=586&amp;subd=timhief&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Boy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 16:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My daughter wrote this essay while still in high school in 2004. She was recognized by the governor of the state in front of the state legislature as being the best writer in the entire state for 11th and 12th graders&#8230; she was in 11th at the time. The Boy A Children&#8217;s Story to Honor [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=timhief.wordpress.com&amp;blog=831349&amp;post=584&amp;subd=timhief&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Random Spanish Words</title>
		<link>http://timhief.wordpress.com/2008/02/20/random-spanish-words/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:17:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before moving across the country in 1970 my family lived in Kensington, Maryland, a few short miles from Washington DC. I grew up in the shadow of the center of the political universe, oblivious to its significance; 11 year olds have no business with inconvenient truths. My mother was able to manage a nice three [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=timhief.wordpress.com&amp;blog=831349&amp;post=574&amp;subd=timhief&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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