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		<title>Playing &#8216;King of the Hill&#8217; is a rough and tumble game</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 22:29:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[      And I had the black and blue marks to prove it, in that children&#8217;s game. The object of which is to stay on top of a large hill or pile, while other players attempt to knock the current King &#8230; <a href="http://davgrand.wordpress.com/2012/01/12/king-of-the-hill-is-a-rough-and-tumble-game/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davgrand.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14369660&amp;post=1825&amp;subd=davgrand&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My New Year Resolutions are to make none</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 17:43:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[      Never have. Never will. For I couldn&#8217;t see any sense in lying to myself or others that I could keep them for longer than one day, much less than throughout the year.        For to believe I could would be as fatuous as my pledging &#8230; <a href="http://davgrand.wordpress.com/2012/01/03/my-new-year-resolutions-are-to-make-none/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davgrand.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14369660&amp;post=1811&amp;subd=davgrand&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>All I wanted for Christmas was what I always want</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 02:56:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[       And that&#8217;s for peace on earth and my own peace of mind. And it&#8217;s a toss-up as to which has proven to be more elusive and difficult to attain.           Now, each year at Christmastime brings back fond memories to me, as I&#8217;m sure it does you, &#8230; <a href="http://davgrand.wordpress.com/2011/12/26/all-i-wanted-for-this-christmas-was-what-i-want-each-day/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davgrand.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14369660&amp;post=1785&amp;subd=davgrand&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Ding Dong-The Wicked Witch is Dead&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 14:28:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[      One could just as easily substitute Kim Jong II name in the title of that song of rejoicing sung by the Munchkins in the Wizard of Oz, whose death on Monday was greeted throughout the free world with a sigh of relief (however &#8230; <a href="http://davgrand.wordpress.com/2011/12/22/ding-dong-the-wicked-witch-is-dead/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davgrand.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14369660&amp;post=1768&amp;subd=davgrand&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>2011 Report Cards for Commissioners</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 20:35:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[      When writing for local papers over the years, I&#8217;d announce the &#8220;Grand Awards&#8221; for that year, which to many local politicians, who received the two-inch high trophies (in the shape of an extinct do-do bird) was about as welcomed as meeting a former lover during a honeymoon. &#8230; <a href="http://davgrand.wordpress.com/2011/12/15/grands-2011-awards/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davgrand.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14369660&amp;post=1731&amp;subd=davgrand&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Levelheadedness prevails over wrongheadedness on PR position</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 18:40:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[           Now, I have always been selective in the public meetings I&#8217;ve I gone to over the last 20 years, with my criteria for attending them being that the topic must hold the promise of drawing a large turnout, along with having the potential for raucous behavior to make &#8230; <a href="http://davgrand.wordpress.com/2011/12/08/levelheadedness-prevails-over-wrongheadedness-on-pr-position/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davgrand.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14369660&amp;post=1688&amp;subd=davgrand&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Brother, can you spare a dime?&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://davgrand.wordpress.com/2011/12/02/brother-can-you-spare-a-dime/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 17:18:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[      That was the Depression-era anthem for the times. Written in 1932, that song still resonates loud and clear today, especially among those who find themselves, due to no fault of their own, in a daily struggle for mere survival.       And hard &#8230; <a href="http://davgrand.wordpress.com/2011/12/02/brother-can-you-spare-a-dime/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davgrand.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14369660&amp;post=1648&amp;subd=davgrand&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Rose is a Rose by any Name</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 17:14:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[      I could have just as well used that more common saying, &#8220;that if it looks like a duck, waddles like a duck, and sounds like a duck, then it must be a duck.&#8221;       But I stuck with my first choice, for &#8230; <a href="http://davgrand.wordpress.com/2011/11/21/a-rose-is-a-rose-by-any-name/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davgrand.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14369660&amp;post=1625&amp;subd=davgrand&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lordy, Lordy! Look who&#8217;s claiming to be a member of the House of Lords</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Nov 2011 23:44:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[      Before the stench of that odor emanating from the site where the commissoners&#8217; forum was staged fully disipates, it would be well, I thought, to delve into the background of Christopher Monckton, who was the keynote speaker at the eagerly awaited &#8230; <a href="http://davgrand.wordpress.com/2011/11/12/lordy-lordy-look-at-whos-claiming-to-be-a-member-of-the-house-of-lords/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davgrand.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14369660&amp;post=1581&amp;subd=davgrand&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Marijuana debate goes from the sublime to the ridiculous</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 20:40:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[      For as far back as I can remember, the debate over legalizing it has been raging for nearly as long as the abortion rights donnybrook.        The first I&#8217;d heard of marijuana (a.k.a. pot, weed, reefer, canja and wacky tobacky) was in 1943, when headlines &#8230; <a href="http://davgrand.wordpress.com/2011/11/03/marijuana-debate-goes-from-the-sublime-to-the-ridiculous/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davgrand.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14369660&amp;post=1508&amp;subd=davgrand&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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