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		<title>Lowest Common Denominator</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 04:16:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have seen over and over again, the basic mathematic principle of lowest common denominator play out. Be it relationships, work or politics, it is the lowest behavior that becomes common and everybody falls to it. People upholding higher statutes are sooner or later grinded down by people who uphold no higher values despite always [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tinkerthethinkers.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6021006&amp;post=534&amp;subd=tinkerthethinkers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Minarets and Temple Domes and Church Spires</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:59:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Food for thought There is an article on the BBC website titled, &#8220;Vatican and Muslims condemn Swiss minaret ban vote.&#8221; With the sub-heading, &#8220;Religious leaders across the world have criticised Switzerland&#8217;s referendum vote to ban the building of minarets.&#8221; Which makes me wonder why the religious leaders around the world don&#8217;t have a standing condemnation [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tinkerthethinkers.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6021006&amp;post=527&amp;subd=tinkerthethinkers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tax me to help us</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 01:56:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is not my typical post. I came across the following rather interesting news story on the BBC website and thought of sharing it with the readers of this blog. What are your thoughts?  Rich Germans demand higher taxes http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8321967.stm A group of rich Germans has launched a petition calling for the government to make [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tinkerthethinkers.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6021006&amp;post=522&amp;subd=tinkerthethinkers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Alfred Nobel, Nobel Prize and Irony</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 03:13:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As most of the readers must know, Alfred Nobel invented Dynamite. What you might not know is he also owned &#8220;Bofors,&#8221; a major armaments manufacturer, which he had redirected from its previous role as an iron and steel mill. According to Wikipedia, &#8220;The erroneous publication in 1888 of a premature obituary of Nobel by a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tinkerthethinkers.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6021006&amp;post=514&amp;subd=tinkerthethinkers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bankers robbed the banks</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 03:14:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wasn&#8217;t it only in October &#8217;08 that we all were told to believe that the whole financial system had collapsed/was on the verge of collapse and that we need to shell out $780 billion of tax payers money to the exact same bankers has cost us upwards of $5 trillion to-date (per President Obama on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tinkerthethinkers.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6021006&amp;post=508&amp;subd=tinkerthethinkers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Health Care Reform 2.0</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 04:48:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just like Microsoft and Apple &#8212; both of them are poised to launch new versions of their Operating Systems in the fall, President Obama seems ready to launch health care reform 2.0. An article titled, &#8220;Obama Aides Aim to Simplify and Scale Back Health Bills&#8220; in today&#8217;s New York Times has these head scratching contradictory paragraphs [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tinkerthethinkers.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6021006&amp;post=504&amp;subd=tinkerthethinkers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Health Care Bill &#8212; Where is the reform?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 03:22:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don&#8217;t let anyone fool you &#8212; Health Care reform is essential. Why? Because from spending 1 out of $20 on health care in 1960 we have arrived at a point that we are spending 1 out of every $6 on health care now. And of course, this cost is expected to sky rocket. President Obama [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tinkerthethinkers.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6021006&amp;post=482&amp;subd=tinkerthethinkers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Iran &#8211; Reform Resuscitated?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 02:52:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an article titled, &#8220;Iran Cleric Defy Election Ruling&#8221; the BBC reports, &#8220;In a statement to the press, the Assembly of Qom Seminary Scholars and Researchers said some members of the Guardian Council had &#8220;lost their impartial image in the eyes of the public.&#8221; How can one accept the legitimacy of the election just because [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tinkerthethinkers.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6021006&amp;post=470&amp;subd=tinkerthethinkers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Iran &#8211; what next?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 04:14:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The tense Iranian standoff has the highest probability of ending in some form of power sharing arrangement between the two parties.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tinkerthethinkers.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6021006&amp;post=464&amp;subd=tinkerthethinkers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Iranian Election</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2009 04:08:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The reaction by the people of Iran to the election for President in Iran, despite the elections themselves being a sham, has proven that Iran is not too far off from true democracy.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tinkerthethinkers.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6021006&amp;post=456&amp;subd=tinkerthethinkers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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