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	<description>Weblog and archive of published articles by George Koch and John Weissenberger. Focused on subject areas of politics, powder (alpine skiing) and profit (business and economics). Daily weblog of politically conservative views. Articles from National Post, Calgary Herald, Ski Canada, Investment Executive and other publications.</description>
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		<title>Cap &#038; Trade: A Boondoggle at any Price</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 00:02:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My &#8220;Open Range&#8221; column from the September 2010 edition of Alberta Venture magazine:
Bound to fail, guaranteed to waste money

Of the ways suggested for Canada to cut greenhouse gas emissions, the most seductive is “cap and trade”. It’s hailed as being both effective at cutting emissions and economically efficient, minimizing costs while maximizing benefits. It’s conceptually [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Putting the &#8220;ass&#8221; in assertion</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 02:57:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;This counters the assertation that the economic recovery will be slow.&#8221; -
Faisal Karmali, CHQR&#8217;s financial guru
I don&#8217;t know how you readers have fared in your investments over the last few years, particularly in mutual funds. Let&#8217;s just say that my esteem for financial planners could be higher.
They&#8217;d be higher yet if they spoke proper English. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Summer of media discontent</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 03:11:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This may be one summer where some people will welcome Labour Day, mainly those of us plagued by this year&#8217;s dog day journalism.  Ever desperate for a story of some kind, the Canadian fifth estate offered up the census flap, which was - I guess - supposed to make Canadians rise up from their lawn [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CBC exceeds itself</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 04:31:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>drj</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Stephen Harper is on his annual trip to Canada&#8217;s arctic this week, a chance for Harper to wave the Conservative flag in the north&#8230;&#8221; -
Lead to a news story on CBC Radio One , read by Bernie McNamee
There are times when individuals, and even organizations make that extra effort and really exceed themselves. In ferreting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>They&#8217;re called vermin</title>
		<link>http://www.drjandmrk.com/?p=3348</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 04:24:04 +0000</pubDate>
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One aspect of our cultural amnesia is forgetting the very real, life-and-death struggle for scarce resources man has had with various animals - until very recently in the West, and still continuing in the third world. These animals - bugs, rodents and the like - were collectively called vermin, a term that has gone distinctly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unfiltered words</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 04:14:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;This system filters out all organismal growth&#8221; - 
Danny Hooper, spokesman for Big Iron Drilling
One big plus about switching from the gutted classics on CBC Radio Two to AM radio News -Talk-Sports is ads. I now know when all the mattress sales are on, have memorized the jingles for several travel ads and laugh at that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Line in the Branding Sand</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2010 21:46:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My “Open Range” column from the August 2010 issue of Alberta Venture magazine:
The BP disaster shows that advertisers ignore authenticity at their customers’ peril 
It was a widely hailed marketing coup, a much-talked-about case study and the biggest antler rack on the ad agency’s trophy wall. BP would no longer stand for the storied brand [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Miller&#8217;s border solution</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Aug 2010 17:14:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I&#8217;m trying to picture how many minuets that would take.&#8221; -
Bill O&#8217;Reilly on the &#8220;Miller time&#8221; segment, August 3rd, 2010
Bill O&#8217;Reilly is one of the few sticklers for proper language, usage and increased vocabulary. But he often skirts Stupidism when in rhetorical flight.
This one was committed during a discussion with Dennis Miller on the Ground [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I got a gal(lon) in Kalamazoo</title>
		<link>http://www.drjandmrk.com/?p=3339</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2010 00:08:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;If there was a spill in this region it could affect the tributories of the Fraser River&#8221; -
Karen Campbell, Pembina Institute, interviewed on CBC Radio One&#8217;s As it Happens
The titanic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has underscored the inherent, but still comparatively low risks of the international oil economy. Regardless, the sheer scale [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wells channels Feschuk</title>
		<link>http://www.drjandmrk.com/?p=3337</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 04:49:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>drj</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s nice to have it both ways. Have your cake and eat it too. So it is when Paul Wells doles out thick gobs of sarcasm at the Conservative government this week.
Mr. Wells is a smart man who, as the expression goes, does not seem to be plagued by self-doubt. While he has taken some [...]]]></description>
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