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		<title>Is the sorry state of American education actually good for software innovation?</title>
		<link>http://www.jemery.com/2011/07/12/is-the-sorry-state-of-american-education-actually-good-for-software-innovation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jemery.com/2011/07/12/is-the-sorry-state-of-american-education-actually-good-for-software-innovation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2011 03:22:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jesse</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Misc]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is a bit in the realm of pointless mind games and Devil&#8217;s Advocate, so grain of salt applies. It struck me that America&#8217;s currently abhorrent state of education may, in an odd, counterproductive way actually be helping to fuel software innovation. Imagine you&#8217;re a smart student being put through the low-expectations, rote-memorization wringer&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>GOP debt ceiling strategy: How to be greedy, stupid and crazy all at once</title>
		<link>http://www.jemery.com/2011/07/12/gop-debt-ceiling-strategy-how-to-be-greedy-stupid-and-crazy-all-at-once/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jemery.com/2011/07/12/gop-debt-ceiling-strategy-how-to-be-greedy-stupid-and-crazy-all-at-once/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2011 16:26:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jesse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been struggling to put into words just how upsetting the GOP&#8217;s debt ceiling strategy really is and I think it has to be broken down into three categories: 1. It&#8217;s insanely greedy. Refusing to raise taxes on the rich while insisting on cuts to things like social services and college loans is just baldfaced&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Reactions: Bin Laden&#8217;s death, compare and contrast</title>
		<link>http://www.jemery.com/2011/05/03/reactions-bin-ladens-death-compare-and-contrast/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jemery.com/2011/05/03/reactions-bin-ladens-death-compare-and-contrast/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2011 05:04:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jesse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay, one other thought, via al Jazeera&#8217;s compilation of reactions to the death of Osama bin Laden. What struck me was Hamas vs. the PLA. Hamas: We condemn the assassination and the killing of an Arab holy warrior. We ask God to offer him mercy with the true believers and the martyrs. We regard this&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Killing Osama: A Few Thoughts</title>
		<link>http://www.jemery.com/2011/05/03/killing-osama-few-thoughts/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jemery.com/2011/05/03/killing-osama-few-thoughts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2011 04:52:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jesse</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.jemery.com/?p=304</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[While I don&#8217;t think killing Osama bin Laden is actually going to change much at this point for fighting terror, he and what he represented clearly occupied a good chunk of American and my own attention, to varying degrees, over the last decade. So, rather than pondering it for too long, I&#8217;m just going to&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Signs you are actually the dictator of a &#8220;democratic&#8221; country</title>
		<link>http://www.jemery.com/2011/01/29/signs-you-are-actually-the-dictator-of-a-democratic-country/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jemery.com/2011/01/29/signs-you-are-actually-the-dictator-of-a-democratic-country/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Jan 2011 20:54:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jesse</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.jemery.com/?p=258</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If any of these signs apply to you, you might be a faux-President dictator&#8230; You live in a &#8220;presidential palace&#8221; Your government has a Ministry of Information Your police forces are structured nationally rather than locally You have won an election by more than 80 percent of the vote Your Ministry of the Interior has&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Weird, I actually agree with this comment from the American Enterprise Institute</title>
		<link>http://www.jemery.com/2011/01/28/weird-i-actually-agree-with-this-comment-from-the-american-enterprise-institute/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jemery.com/2011/01/28/weird-i-actually-agree-with-this-comment-from-the-american-enterprise-institute/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Jan 2011 02:11:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jesse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Regarding the US State Department&#8217;s private vs. public efforts to support the Egyptian protestors, I just found myself in the startling position of agreeing with a statement out of AEI, via Foreign Policy: &#8220;The real problem is that when your macro policy and your micro policy don&#8217;t match up, it takes all the credibility away,&#8221;&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Beck&#8217;s double standards aren&#8217;t just imagery or historical</title>
		<link>http://www.jemery.com/2011/01/10/becks-double-standards-arent-just-imagery-or-historical/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jemery.com/2011/01/10/becks-double-standards-arent-just-imagery-or-historical/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2011 03:42:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jesse</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.jemery.com/?p=204</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A lot of people have posted or tweeted the tragically comic visual juxtaposition on glennbeck.com before it was scrubbed. But if you actually read the post, you&#8217;ll see the same sort of double message in the words as well. Blatantly. The post is titled &#8220;Glenn responds to the tragedy in Arizona.&#8221; It starts off like&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>A silver lining in the new net neutrality rules?</title>
		<link>http://www.jemery.com/2011/01/04/a-silver-lining-in-the-new-net-neutrality-rules/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jemery.com/2011/01/04/a-silver-lining-in-the-new-net-neutrality-rules/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jan 2011 03:22:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jesse</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.jemery.com/?p=200</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I put together a little primer at work on the FCC&#8217;s new net neutrality rules. As I was fact checking myself, a thought struck me&#8230; Might the new wireless rules be a politically brilliant policy disaster? Hear me out. After ISP lobbying, what is the biggest obstacle that net neutrality faces? Public opinion. Not that&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Followup to SCOTUS ruling, letter to congress form</title>
		<link>http://www.jemery.com/2010/01/22/followup-to-scotus-ruling-letter-to-congress-form/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jemery.com/2010/01/22/followup-to-scotus-ruling-letter-to-congress-form/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:31:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jesse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A followup to last night&#8217;s rant on Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. BarackObama.com has posted a form to send a letter to your local rep. It can&#8217;t hurt&#8230; Organizing for America &#124; BarackObama.com &#124; Add Your Voice.]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s time to abandon the filibuster</title>
		<link>http://www.jemery.com/2010/01/22/its-time-to-abandon-the-filibuster/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jemery.com/2010/01/22/its-time-to-abandon-the-filibuster/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 06:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jesse</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.jemery.com/?p=147</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Dems aren&#8217;t the ones refusing to compromise. In fact, they&#8217;re bending over backwards to try to compromise with each other and get ANY, even one or two Republican votes. No one is budging. The stakes have gotten way too high to hold to a non-legislated procedural rule.]]></description>
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		<title>Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission: SciFi Dystopian Disasters Set to Come True</title>
		<link>http://www.jemery.com/2010/01/22/citizens-united-v-federal-election-commission-sf-dystopian-disasters-set-to-come-true/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jemery.com/2010/01/22/citizens-united-v-federal-election-commission-sf-dystopian-disasters-set-to-come-true/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 05:53:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jesse</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.jemery.com/?p=142</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For awhile there, it looked like all the paranoid cyberpunk fiction of the 80s and early 90s was just silly. The US had elected its first black president, we were on the verge of getting some kind of major health care reform and things were finally starting to move on reforming banking and finance. Then&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>The 00s in review, part 1, possibly of 1</title>
		<link>http://www.jemery.com/2010/01/05/the-00s-in-review-part-1-possibly-of-1/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jemery.com/2010/01/05/the-00s-in-review-part-1-possibly-of-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 05:15:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jesse</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.jemery.com/?p=122</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, since everyone is doing lists&#8230; Best moment The US electing Obama. Worst moment Katrina. Yes, it was worse than 9/11. Sorry, it just was. 9/11 may have had a more profound impact on world events and American politics, but ultimately Katrina was a far more horrifying event. (note: I realize this is a profoundly&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Bloomberg is the Last &#8220;Real&#8221; Republican</title>
		<link>http://www.jemery.com/2009/07/05/bloomberg-is-the-last-real-republican/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jemery.com/2009/07/05/bloomberg-is-the-last-real-republican/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 20:44:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jesse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It struck me the other day that Mike Bloomberg is the last &#8220;real&#8221; Republican; i.e. in the sense that he runs a tight a fiscal ship, wants government to stay out of personal lives (libertarians would cite the smoking policies as a major exception), he sells out the poor, he fights the unions and he&#8217;s&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Iran protest at the UN, videos</title>
		<link>http://www.jemery.com/2009/06/20/iran-protest-at-the-un-videos/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jemery.com/2009/06/20/iran-protest-at-the-un-videos/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2009 23:14:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jesse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Iranians, you are not alone. Uploaded these direct from the protest to Youtube&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>NY vs. CA, Fail Style</title>
		<link>http://www.jemery.com/2009/06/11/ny-vs-ca-fail-style/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jemery.com/2009/06/11/ny-vs-ca-fail-style/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 17:30:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jesse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Floyd Norris&#8217; has a great quip New York has long been competitive with California, which replaced it as the most populated state. Now they are in a tight race to see which state has the least functional government. It is too soon to declare a winner.]]></description>
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