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	<title>The Redemption of Todd M. Fay &#187; power</title>
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		<title>Pride &amp; Serpents.</title>
		<link>http://www.toddmfay.com/2010/02/rant-pride-serpents/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 05:26:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd M. Fay</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Rant]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[They said to me:  &#8220;I deserve better!&#8221;
De-serve. If I serve anyone it&#8217;s myself. I thought this much was clear.
Snake Fang Strike.
Backed into a corner, enraged, I coil. Lost, despairing, angry. Spinning, slipping, falling. Crashing.
I strike, scoring. Fangs pierce, venom delivers, tears flow. Heart breaks.
Get out.
System Failure.
We had time to recover this spirit. We failed to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Being Dishonest with Myself.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2010 05:59:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd M. Fay</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Self-honesty eludes me. I have been such a liar to myself that my self-dishonesty is nearly indiscernible. It&#8217;s unreal &#8211; literally.
Open These Eyes
Earlier this week I asked that which listens for a miracle. I received one in the unlikely form of one chef Gordon Ramsay. Ramsay has a reality television show named Kitchen Nightmares where [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Agnostic Shift.</title>
		<link>http://www.toddmfay.com/2009/09/the-agnostic-shift/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 15:11:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd M. Fay</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[metaphysics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA["What The Bleep Do We Know Anyway?" (Film)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[agnosticism]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[awakening]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[certainty]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[choice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christ]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[coming of age]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[confirmation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[power]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[responsibility]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[science]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am trying desperately to understand God, and the universe we live in.
Catholic Roots
I came into the world to Catholic parents. I left the church unceremoniously. I didn&#8217;t receive my confirmation &#8211; the coming of age ceremony in Catholicism &#8211; and it was my choice. I chose not to get confirmed because I wasn&#8217;t ready [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From Bondage to Bondage</title>
		<link>http://www.toddmfay.com/2009/09/from-bondage-to-bondage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 04:57:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd M. Fay</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alexander Tyler]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[apathy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[complacency]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dependence]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[entitlement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[federal government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[history]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hurricane Katrina]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Note: Originally published on my Myspace.com blog on November 16, 2007.
Quoting Alexander Tyler (an 18th Century Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh) reflecting on the demise of the Athenian Republic 2,000 years earlier:
&#8220;A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Third Dimension of Political Politics</title>
		<link>http://www.toddmfay.com/2009/09/the-third-dimension-of-political-politics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 04:07:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd M. Fay</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Albert Einstein]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arianna Huffington]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Colby Peterson]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier today on Facebook my friend Colby Peterson posts a link to this video. In his link comment Colby asserts both Ron Paul and Arianna Huffington agree what we have today is not Capitalism. He calls this an &#8220;Epic left-right alliance moment.&#8221;
In the course of the discussion after the post, one of his friends requests [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Power of the People. Fear of the People.</title>
		<link>http://www.toddmfay.com/2009/09/power-of-the-people-fear-of-the-people/</link>
		<comments>http://www.toddmfay.com/2009/09/power-of-the-people-fear-of-the-people/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 00:17:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd M. Fay</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[death]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[An acquaintance from my political life recently quoted the following:
“Impotentes defendere libertatem non possunt: Those without power cannot defend freedom.”
My sentiment is this:
A lack of power is not what afflicts us. We have the power; always have. What we have is a surplus of ignorance. We ignore the fact that each of us, some day, [...]]]></description>
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