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		<title>Search Engine Warnings for Questionable Sites</title>
		<link>http://mephistos.com/2012/02/02/search-engine-warnings-for-questionable-sites/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:12:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is almost believable to be that some one is actually suggesting this kind of thinly veiled move toward censorship, but that is exactly what Evgeny Morozov is proposing. Morozov is a writer of a book and researcher that focuses on how the use of technology tends to affect the social aspects of society at large, so his opinion piece recently suggesting such a move of labeling websites that may be based more on pseudo science as such has gotten a lot of attention. Now to be sure, after reading his opinion and listening to parts of his recent interview Q, his actual idea is to label the sites actually based on science or even move them up in the page rankings.]]></description>
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		<title>Finding My Muse</title>
		<link>http://mephistos.com/2011/08/02/finding-my-muse/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 11:49:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finding Un-leashing my muse. You may have noticed over the last few weeks months that my blogging has been less than regular. I had an epiphany a couple of days ago though about that which has my muse bottled up. Now to be sure, I have had a lot of things on my mind the last couple of months, especially with figuring out what has been going on with me and diagnosed with MS, but there is more. I have this focus with perfection that gets in the way of my muse way to often.]]></description>
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		<title>Consider Theory of Multiverse</title>
		<link>http://mephistos.com/2011/03/06/consider-theory-of-multiverse/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Mar 2011 13:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Observations]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[math]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[multiverse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NPR]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mephistos.com/?p=3846</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Interesting conversation heard this past Friday on NPR while driving to Kansas city with an author on the subject matter. Granted there are several mathematical theories that suggest and point to the idea of instead a single universe, instead multiple universes. It is certainly an interesting subject matter to consider, given the different theories of how they exist and even how they would have come into being given the different theories. What I find most interesting though is the concept that given an infinite number of space (and perhaps one could argue the same for time) for things to occur within and the apparent finite building blocks of matter, at some point it is very likely that some other universe would approach very closely and perhaps even be an exact replica of this one in which we are currently living and breathing, even having this thought. In those close but not exact other universes instead of sitting here in a coffee shop writing this I could be out on a lake fishing and in other similar one I could be in armor getting ready to head down the lane for a jousting pass.]]></description>
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		<title>New Insurance Law &amp; Cost</title>
		<link>http://mephistos.com/2011/01/31/new-insurance-law-cost/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2011 04:16:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anyone else there have an opinion on the fairly new Health Car Reform Law that is often called Obama-Care? I have been mulling this one over in my head for some time, considering various aspects of it as I thought it through and finally have some comments to make about the law. I have to admit, the libertarian part of me really gets a bit riled up about this one when I think about another thing the government is going to force me to do whether I want to do it or not. I get even more riled about it when I think about the folks that will then get coverage at a discount when I consider all the years in the past that I have paid for health insurance and scarcely used it. I will grant, the larger portion of that health insurance was picked up by the employer most of the time, but still, my pay would have in theory been more if not paying for it, right?]]></description>
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		<title>Healthy Food, Michelle Obama, &amp; Palin</title>
		<link>http://mephistos.com/2011/01/20/healthy-food-michelle-obama-palin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jan 2011 02:26:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You have to give credit where credit is due and deserved and this week the credit is all due to Michelle Obama and her efforts regarding the healthy food initiative. it is an issue that is near and dear to Michelle Obama and fits in nicely with the emphasis she has placed on children's health and exercise already and despite my general dislike of Wal-Mart, recognizing that if you start with the leading grocer in the country others will likely follow, is another smart move. Similarly, the fact that Sarah Palin has come out so strongly against this initiative gives a very clear indication of just how out of touch with the typical lower to middle American family she truly is. Yeah, I know there was a time at which I thought Palin had might have been acceptable, but I will point out I was in favor of a the very unlikely Lieberman being on that ticket. I am sure some background information is order to help bring everyone up to speed and then give my opinion on the matter before asking for yours.]]></description>
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		<title>Editorial White-Wash</title>
		<link>http://mephistos.com/2011/01/07/editorial-white-wash/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Jan 2011 04:38:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mephistos.com/?p=3427</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Two things have been in my proverbial crawl this week regarding the use the editorial pen to seemingly not acknowledge our own history. In fact, the two matters I am thinking of not only do not seem to acknowledge the history, but in fact seem bent on the rewrite of our history, in which the ugly parts of it are white-washed under the rug so to speak. The two issues, briefly are the newest version of Mark Twain's classic The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, in which the n-word has been replaced or eliminated. And of course, the reading of our most revered constitution on the house floor, but with things that reference the 3/5 counting of slaves and even the repelled prohibition of liquor were left out.]]></description>
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		<title>Few More Random Things</title>
		<link>http://mephistos.com/2010/11/18/few-more-random-things/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2010 04:54:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am still going back through the posts that have been made over the years here on Mephistos and editing, mostly for grammatical correction, though there are a few photograph and video issues that I am cleaning up in the process as well. A particular post that caught my attention a day or two back was entitled twenty-five random things. The post consisted of, you guessed it, twenty-five things - but not just any twenty-five things. They were random things about me. I like the concept and decided to re-visit the concept. Not sure how many I will have, but I will give it a go and see what we have in the end.]]></description>
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		<title>Public Domain Web?</title>
		<link>http://mephistos.com/2010/11/08/public-domain-web/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Nov 2010 03:11:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mephistos.com/?p=3132</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Heard a little snippet on the radio (NPR of course) on the way home about a lady who had written an article or perhaps it was a how to for a recipe. The content of her article appeared in a magazine by the name of Cook Source, giving her a full credit as the author. Trouble is, she had originally published the article on a website and had never granted any sort of rights to Cook Source to publish the work. When she called the publisher of the Cook Source magazine asking for simply an apology in print and a $130.00 donation to a writers scholarship fund (or something of the nature), the publisher said she should be grateful that they even bothered to put her name in the by line, as they got it from the web and everything on the web is in the public domain. I nearly choked and sure would have if I had anything in my mouth at the time.
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		<title>Believe in Ghosts?</title>
		<link>http://mephistos.com/2010/10/05/believe-in-ghosts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Oct 2010 16:15:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Faith]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mephistos.com/?p=2982</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Believe in ghosts was the question that my wife asked me just a few days ago while were making our somewhat usual walk around the park.  I suspect the question came up because it was an usually cold and dreary day, very late well past dark with the cloud clover and just felt like more a late October then early October.  I think my quick and very definite answer of "No" took her by surprise just a little bit.  But perhaps my follow up answer to the question of spirits existing being a yes then seemed contradictory.  A bit of an explanation on my personal believes in the matter of spirits, ghosts and energies then ensued.  As the conversation was somewhat interesting and I thought of a few clarifications that may have been missed in the previous conversation, I thought I would share it here on Mephistos.]]></description>
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		<title>Mosque Issues</title>
		<link>http://mephistos.com/2010/09/21/mosque-issues/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Sep 2010 16:30:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some belated thoughts on the ongoing controversy concerning the plan to build a mosque near Ground Zero.  Note my refusal to say on/in Ground Zero, as it is not even in that location.  The absurdity of somethings being made an issue just amazes me at times.]]></description>
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