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	<description>Reflections Of One Not At Home In This World</description>
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		<title>Reflections on a Yard Sale</title>
		<link>http://resident-aliens.org/2011/05/14/reflections-on-a-yard-sale/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 May 2011 01:19:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bo Grimes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Capitalism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, I confess.  I used to dread our biannual church yard sales, which are always on a Saturday, but take two days to set-up.  A lot of my distaste for them was the pressure of time while raising kids, the neglect of my own home and yard that would still have to be made up, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Perseverance, or What&#8217;s It All About Alfie?</title>
		<link>http://resident-aliens.org/2011/05/10/perseverance-or-whats-it-all-about-alfie/</link>
		<comments>http://resident-aliens.org/2011/05/10/perseverance-or-whats-it-all-about-alfie/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2011 13:40:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bo Grimes</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[expectations]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes I think the harder you fight the more resistance there is such that more energy is expended to accomplish the same amount.  It&#8217;s like jogging 3 miles, but every time you increase your pace the wind blows back in equal proportion, so that you still only jog 3 miles, and you do it in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Greeks R Us</title>
		<link>http://resident-aliens.org/2010/05/06/greeks-r-us/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2010 01:22:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bo Grimes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[entitlements]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the last several days there have been violent protest in Greece, including several deaths, over the spending cuts the government is proposing.   From &#8220;The Wall Street Journal:&#8221; The Greeks are giving the world a good taste of their modern politics. Periclean democracy, meet Athenian mob rule: Tens of thousands are rampaging through the capital and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stimulus</title>
		<link>http://resident-aliens.org/2009/02/03/stimulus/</link>
		<comments>http://resident-aliens.org/2009/02/03/stimulus/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 15:40:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bo Grimes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Watching the stimulus grow is stimulating, but not in a good way.  I feel like I am bound and gagged in an underground mafia casino watching a craps table where a gambling addict is betting with my money, going deeper and deeper into the hole, both unable to stop because of his compulsion and unconcerned [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Greatest Salesman in the World?</title>
		<link>http://resident-aliens.org/2009/01/28/greatest-salesman-in-the-world/</link>
		<comments>http://resident-aliens.org/2009/01/28/greatest-salesman-in-the-world/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 14:22:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bo Grimes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Discipleship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a story in &#8220;The Washington Post&#8221; this morning about President Obama&#8217;s meeting with House Republicans yesterday. As the president met with House Republicans yesterday in the Capitol basement, Rep. Jeff Flake (Ariz.) got out his BlackBerry and started to Twitter. &#8220;President Obama is speaking to House Republicans right now on Democratic stimulus bill,&#8221; he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama, Oil and Politics as Usual</title>
		<link>http://resident-aliens.org/2008/05/04/obama-oil-and-politics-as-usual/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 May 2008 15:21:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bo Grimes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Capitalism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The primaries have come to NC, and I have to tell you, I never thought I&#8217;d pull for a Clinton, but if I weren&#8217;t for McCain I&#8217;d have to vote for Hillary. Obama is slick, inexperienced and elitist. He&#8217;s like one of those infuriating Sprite ™ commercials that tell you &#8220;Image is nothing&#8221; while using [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Letter To My Representatives On Oil Prices</title>
		<link>http://resident-aliens.org/2008/04/10/a-letter-to-my-representatives-on-oil-prices/</link>
		<comments>http://resident-aliens.org/2008/04/10/a-letter-to-my-representatives-on-oil-prices/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 04:05:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bo Grimes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Senators Burr and Dole and Representative Jones, Last week I listened on C-SPAN to the testimony of oil executives from the big five oil companies. As a father of five who is forced to drive a large van, this issue is of great concern to me. I recognize that there are things that I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reducing Families to Economics</title>
		<link>http://resident-aliens.org/2008/04/03/reducing-families-to-economics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2008 01:43:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bo Grimes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Family]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was just browsing the position papers at the National Youth Rights Association, where, under the topic of entertainment, they write: While we understand the need to warn viewers about the content of a show, movie or game, we feel that age-based ratings systems not only fail to do so properly, but deprive young people [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thank God That I Am Not Like The (Re)publican</title>
		<link>http://resident-aliens.org/2008/03/28/thank-you-that-i-am-not-like-the-republican/</link>
		<comments>http://resident-aliens.org/2008/03/28/thank-you-that-i-am-not-like-the-republican/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 01:01:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bo Grimes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Jesus&#8217;s day, publicans were often tax collectors, and Scripture lumps them in with sinners as in Mark 2: 16: &#8220;When the teachers of the Law, who were Pharisees saw him eating with the sinners and tax collectors [publicans]&#8230; &#8221; They were despised and looked down upon as corrupt and greedy. Jesus tells The Parable [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Of Markets and Men</title>
		<link>http://resident-aliens.org/2008/03/19/of-markets-and-men/</link>
		<comments>http://resident-aliens.org/2008/03/19/of-markets-and-men/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 17:22:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bo Grimes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Capitalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When are we going to realize that if men are not moral markets can&#8217;t be. The idea of markets, of freedom in general, are moral, but their operation will only be as moral as the people who use them. Free markets don&#8217;t make men moral; moral men make free markets. I support free markets, but [...]]]></description>
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