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	<description>&#34;Diplomacy is the art of saying &#039;Nice doggie&#039; until you can find a rock.&#34; Will Rogers</description>
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		<title>Cranky About Terrorist Board Members</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cranky About Terrorist Board Member I’ve worked with Boards of various sizes and shapes throughout my career.  I’ve found there are a variety of “types” who seek opportunities to be on Boards.  Their motivations range from altruistic hippie to maniacal &#8230; <a href="http://crankyblog.com/?p=579">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Friday Traffic Cranky</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, I hit the usual Friday freeway slow down on the way into Sacramento, and I see a huge boat (large fuel wasting vehicle) piled high with junk speeding and weaving through the slowdown, taking the off ramp into the rest area &#8230; <a href="http://crankyblog.com/?p=573">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Cranky Bullets</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Fascinating how the volcano &#8220;experts&#8221; thought that the volcano in Sumatra, Mount Sinabung, was still dormant (had been for over 400 years), but it suddenly erupted!  Holy CRAP!  Now, I think that the whole &#8220;science&#8221; of volcanology needs re-thinking.  Perhaps &#8230; <a href="http://crankyblog.com/?p=565">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Cranky Australian School wins the first Golden Crank Award</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is the best school answering machine message for a school in the world today, bar none.  It may not be real (I kind of doubt it), but I like to think that it is from a cranky public person&#8217;s &#8230; <a href="http://crankyblog.com/?p=559">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Cranky About Text Books and Stuff</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At a time when wealthy people are buying Kindles and downloading books at an amazing clip, the poor, starving college kid is paying outrageous prices for text books.  In this age of electronic books, why on God&#8217;s green earth can&#8217;t &#8230; <a href="http://crankyblog.com/?p=555">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Left Talks &#8211; An Interesting Viewpoint</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m reading a notoriously liberal weekly rag here in Midtown Sacramento and I come across an interesting little article entitled, &#8220;Nonsense&#8221; which details the four key elements contributing to the current budget deficit.  These, according to the anonymous author are: &#8230; <a href="http://crankyblog.com/?p=553">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Saturday Cranky Bullets</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My Dad said something funny the other day, he said that the good thing about Jerry Brown&#8217;s campaign is that he won&#8217;t be accused of making false promises, since he&#8217;s not waging a campaign at all! I read the SF &#8230; <a href="http://crankyblog.com/?p=547">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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