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		<title>Movie Mirrors Society</title>
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I just watched one of the most brilliantly conceived, and apparently misunderstood, films I have ever seen. It&#8217;s called &#8220;The Day My Parents Ran Away.&#8221; It&#8217;s from 1993 but it&#8217;s incredibly pertinent today.
In the movie, Matt Miller is this spoiled little teenager who manipulates his parents and every other adult around him into giving him [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Online Tax Revolt</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was in a meeting the other night and one of the guys cheerfully proclaimed, &#8220;I&#8217;m getting a tax refund this year!&#8221;
I tried to explain that the government was only sending him back his own money, less any interest he could have earned on it. He wasn&#8217;t being given anything. But, it didn&#8217;t seem to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Frog in Hot Water Experiment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here at the CowChows we take nothing at face value. We do our own research and experiments until we&#8217;re satisfied that every stone has been turned. So, when I heard the story about the frog I had to see it for myself.
The story goes that if you drop a frog into a pot of boiling [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s New Golf Czar</title>
		<description><![CDATA[President Obama has now appointed a Golf Czar. The identity of the newly appointed czar is still unknown but announcements were just made of major rule changes to the game of golf. These changes are expected to become effective March 2010 and may be retroactive in southern States. This is only a preview as new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Most Perfect Valentine&#8217;s Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I know as men we don&#8217;t tend to get as caught-up in Valentine&#8217;s Day as our more sentimental counterparts do, but I gotta tell you I am having just the most perfect Valentine&#8217;s Day ever.
It all started several days ago when I began to take notice of all the Valentine&#8217;s Day advertising. First, I was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Statists vs Thinkers: This is War</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every time I listen to the news for very long I end up scratching my head and mumbling to myself, &#8220;What are they thinking?&#8221; Thankfully, there are brighter minds than mine around to shed some light on just what it is, &#8220;they&#8221; are thinking.
The Obama administration and the Democrat controlled Congress have continually and repeatedly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Time Travel &#8211; not all it&#8217;s cracked up to be</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I experienced time travel today.
When we woke this morning the CowChows lay under a seven inch thick blanket of new snow. It was early; my neighbors had not yet ventured out and so the snow blanket lay pure and undisturbed. All was quiet; save the distant rush of the river and occasional birdsong it was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taxed Enough Already!</title>
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Building Permit Tax
CDL License Tax
Cigarette Tax
Corporate Income Tax
Dog License Tax
Federal Income Tax (Fed)
Federal Unemployment Tax (FUTA)
Fishing License Tax
Food License Tax
Fuel Permit Tax
Gasoline Tax
Hunting License Tax
Inheritance Tax
Inventory Tax
IRS Interest Charges (tax on top of tax)
IRS Penalties (tax on top of tax)
Liquor Tax
Luxury Tax
Marriage License Tax
Medicare Tax
Property Tax
Real Estate Tax
Service charge taxes
Social Security Tax
Road Usage Tax (Truckers)
Sales [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.straightupamerican.com/449/taxed-enough-already/</link>
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		<title>Boys being boys</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was out back of the CowChows a little while ago poking around in my collection of undetermined purposes. I&#8217;m working on a new project. I got the idea from the Lazy-Susan in the kitchen, but in my design my La-Z-Boy sits on a giant turntable in the center of a donut shaped desk. On [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Moment of Clarity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Occasionally in life we are blessed with a moment of clarity, an instant of insight when suddenly we know something with unquestioning certainty. These moments have the potential to change us forever, to change the way we see the world, and to change our role in it. I had such a moment today.
I was out [...]]]></description>
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