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	<title>Neon's Glow - The Blog of John DeArmond &#187; Philosophy</title>
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		<title>Why they&#8217;re still Japs</title>
		<link>http://www.johndearmond.com/2009/01/02/why-theyre-still-japs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2009 10:54:17 +0000</pubDate>
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Usually several things have to come together to stimulate a post from me.  I&#8217;m lousy at writing off-the-cuff.  Today that happened.

I have been listening to the audio book version of &#8220;Escape from the Deep&#8221; by Alex Kershaw.
Some lamer complained in comments about my referring to Communist China by the abbreviation ChiCom.  I really hate PC [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ignorance in America</title>
		<link>http://www.johndearmond.com/2008/11/24/ignorance-in-america/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 04:54:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>neonjohn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This little ditty
http://www.americancivicliteracy.org/resources/quiz.aspx
is making the rounds right now, typically forwarded by a knuckle-dragging right wing whacko (as opposed to the left-wing knuckle-dragging whackos) to demonstrate how ignorant people are today of their &#8220;heritage&#8221;.
I took this quiz and was horrified at the number of flat-out wrong answers.  (absent the questions with no right answers or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>That Worthless UL Label</title>
		<link>http://www.johndearmond.com/2008/11/24/that-worthless-ul-label/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 06:32:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>neonjohn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Current Events]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Product Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blue smoke]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[burned out]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re a &#8220;Boomer&#8221; like me, you were probably raised up to respect that UL or &#8220;Underwriter&#8217;s Laboratory&#8221; label on electrical stuff.  I still remember the ads on TV.  The label really meant something too.
UL started out as an independent testing laboratory funded by the insurance companies to test boiler safety valves and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dissection of a Furnace Fan Motor</title>
		<link>http://www.johndearmond.com/2008/10/01/dissection-of-a-furnace-fan-motor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 06:40:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>neonjohn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cool Stuff]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Energy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[BS]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.johndearmond.com/?p=415</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[or Why There is so Much BS on the Net.
In this post I&#8217;m going to take you through a guided tour of the common everyday fan motor that drives the fan in just about every domestic air conditioner, furnace or heat pump.  At the same time I&#8217;m going to demonstrate why there is so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A glimpse of Geezerdom</title>
		<link>http://www.johndearmond.com/2008/08/07/a-glimpse-of-geezerdom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:29:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>neonjohn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of weeks ago my ham license expired (my 30th anniversary of being a ham.)  Nowadays all I had to do was go the FCC website, fill out a little form and submit it.  Given the average age of a ham these days, I imagine that this is a &#8220;still breathing&#8221; check.
Anyway, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why &#8220;Criminals have rights&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.johndearmond.com/2008/08/03/why-criminals-have-rights/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johndearmond.com/2008/08/03/why-criminals-have-rights/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Aug 2008 19:38:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>neonjohn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just finished listening to an otherwise unremarkable audio book called In the Shadow of the Law by Kermit Roosevelt.  This book tracks the lives of several individuals in the fictional mega-law firm of Morgan Syler.  It was interesting, if in need of some brutal editing.  Roosevelt spends a lot of time [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dutch Solutions to US Problems?</title>
		<link>http://www.johndearmond.com/2008/07/20/dutch-solutions-to-us-problems/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johndearmond.com/2008/07/20/dutch-solutions-to-us-problems/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 04:28:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>neonjohn</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.johndearmond.com/?p=308</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It seems like every day some European &#8220;expert&#8221; proposes that the US adopt his or her country&#8217;s policies as the solution to transportation or energy or other problems that the US faces.  More and more as I travel around the net, I see such advice coming from the Dutch.  Seems like they have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jeremy Clarkson: Don&#8217;t Stop Behaving Badly</title>
		<link>http://www.johndearmond.com/2008/07/16/jeremy-clarkson-dont-stop-behaving-badly/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johndearmond.com/2008/07/16/jeremy-clarkson-dont-stop-behaving-badly/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 13:13:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>neonjohn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cars]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[
So I was prowling news of the Empire (as in British) this morning when I came across this jewel from our old buddy, Jeremy Clarkson, famous in this country for his car show Top Gear.  I found myself pumping the air repeatedly with my fist, yelling &#8220;Right on!&#8221;.  I mean. look how this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Just Say No to the Gate Gestapo</title>
		<link>http://www.johndearmond.com/2008/04/15/just-say-no-to-the-gate-gestapo/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johndearmond.com/2008/04/15/just-say-no-to-the-gate-gestapo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 01:50:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>neonjohn</dc:creator>
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I&#8217;m not one of those people who rabidly hates Wal-Mart and other big box stores.  I don&#8217;t like the experience but they&#8217;re a fact of life.  I usually wear headphones and listen to an audio book so that I don&#8217;t have to listen to the toothless trash prattle on about their miserable lives [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Choices</title>
		<link>http://www.johndearmond.com/2007/06/14/choices/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2007 05:27:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>neonjohn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s after midnight and I&#8217;m sitting here on my front porch watching a gentle spring rain, Bob (the cat, you filthy-minded thing) in my lap and a cup of coffee by my side&#8230; OKOKOK, enough gloating about my semi-retirement&#8230;.
Since I&#8217;ve moved to my cabin here in the wonderful Tellico Mountains I&#8217;ve had that, to steal [...]]]></description>
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