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		<title>Credit Where Credit is Due</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160;&#160;&#160; Tonight President Obama made a brief address regarding the withdrawl of combat forces from Iraq. A Facebook &#34;friend&#34; of mine posted a reminder that Obama had voted against the surge and Bush had done all the real work. &#160;&#160;&#160; Obama had better give George Bush credit where credit is due! she said. &#160;&#160;&#160; Yeah&#8230;. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://meisky.com/soapbox/2010/08/31/credit-where-credit-is-due/</link>
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		<title>A Little Light Reading</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160;&#160;&#160; I was just perusing the ILA&#39;s list of challenged and banned books for 2009-2010. http://www.ila.org/pdf/2010banned.pdf &#160;&#160;&#160; The list contains the usual foul-mouthed criminals: Toni Morrison, Harper Lee, Anne Frank (Really? Man, this still blows me away) Ernest Hemmingway, Maya Angelou, Barbara Kingsolver. However, I did not see that miscreant&#160; Mark Twain on the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://meisky.com/soapbox/2010/08/23/a-little-light-reading/</link>
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		<title>Rules of the Road</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; Driving home from the store today I saw a bumper sticker that said: &#34;Put American back in God&#39;s hands.&#34; &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; Idling in traffic behind the pick-up truck sporting this sentiment, I found myself drumming my nails on the steering wheel and considering what this might mean. &#160;&#160;&#160; &#8220;Back&#8221; in God&#39;s hands implies that once, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://meisky.com/soapbox/2010/08/22/1064/</link>
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		<title>Memorial Service</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Man never kills so gleefully, so without remorse as when he plans to frame God for the murder. If the Devil is truly at work in the land then he wears the hard hat and work boots of just another dedicated believer building God&#39;s kingdom, meeting out divine justice on the wicked. God does not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://meisky.com/soapbox/2010/08/17/memorial-service/</link>
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		<title>The Muslims Take Manhattan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; I am so discouraged by the misplaced- and often blatantly false- outrage over the proposal to build what is being (wrongly) called the Ground Zero Mosque. The Cordoba House Mosque and community center would replace a similar, smaller facility that has been in lower Manhattan for some years. It would also be about 2 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://meisky.com/soapbox/2010/08/15/the-muslims-take-manhattan/</link>
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		<title>The Illusion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just finished reading a book that was so good it is hard to let it go. The story was engaging, the style of prose elegant and there was a quiet depth to it, like a still pond with apple petals floating on top. I feel that reading it has subtly changed my interior narrative [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://meisky.com/soapbox/2010/08/05/the-illusion/</link>
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		<title>Til the Cows Come Home</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Spend&#160;a little time&#160;at the Ohio State fair and you make some realizations: how many people there are in the world how many people there are who do not own mirrors how many people have no idea what size clothing they should actually wear how many people don&#8217;t care what size clothing they now wear how [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://meisky.com/soapbox/2010/08/01/til-the-cows-come-home/</link>
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		<title>Free To a Good Home</title>
		<description><![CDATA[FREE to a good home: year-old puppy of questionable parentage, but is probably half circus clown, half pick-pocket. Housebroken, understands a wide variety of commands, just doesn&#39;t always choose to follow them. Likes: walking in the rain and digging in the mud all over the yard, the taste of shredded paper, pencil lead and shoe [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://meisky.com/soapbox/2010/07/28/1012/</link>
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		<title>Right on Target</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Target Corporation (affectionately known to many of us as &#34;Tar-zhay&#34;) has a reputation for being very community oriented, with lots of charity programs, green programs, etc. This always made me feel better about all the money I spend there. But Target has recently been caught with their pants down, so to speak. It has come [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://meisky.com/soapbox/2010/07/28/right-on-target/</link>
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		<title>The River</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A love song for the Big Darby as it used to be. &#160; I am the river. &#160; I am bluegill and small-mouth bass,&#160; pumpkin seed and shiner, &#160; hellgrammites and crawdads, water striders and dragonflies. I am back eddies and quiet pools filled with swift, argent minnows the opal eye of perfect shells, gleaming [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://meisky.com/soapbox/2010/07/28/the-river/</link>
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