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	<title>The Catholic Cricket</title>
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	<description>Chirping in the silence</description>
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		<title>Economic Stimulus</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I heard some politician (I believe it was a House Democrat, but I could be mistaken) talking on some talk radio show (I think it was Michael Medved) as I was driving to or from some contract job or other.  As you can tell, the details are really sharp in my mind.
What is really sharp was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://catholic.siekierski.com/2010/03/10/economic-stimulus/</link>
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		<title>Wasting Money to Feel Safe</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been a bit busy, and thus haven&#8217;t had an opportunity to comment on things, but there&#8217;s one main thought I had after the underwear bomber inspired those charged with ensuring safety on airplanes to start using those ridiculous full-body scanners.
What a waste.
I don&#8217;t know how much those things cost, but they surely aren&#8217;t cheap.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://catholic.siekierski.com/2010/02/14/wasting-money-to-feel-safe/</link>
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		<title>Scientific Integrity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I like science.  I&#8217;ve always liked science.  I have great respect for the scientific process.  Which is why I find the &#8220;stolen&#8221; CRU documents to be so disturbing.  It&#8217;s not just the fact that scientists appear to have cooked the data to fit their preconceived notions, as bad as that is.  It&#8217;s not just that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://catholic.siekierski.com/2009/12/15/scientific_integrity/</link>
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		<title>To All Veterans</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thank you.
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		<link>http://catholic.siekierski.com/2009/11/11/to-all-veterans/</link>
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		<title>Obama at Notre Dame</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A lot of the Catholic blogs I read are up in arms (figuratively, obviously) over Notre Dame&#8217;s invitation to President Obama to be the commencement speaker at this years graduation ceremony.  While I understand and share their dislike of this situation, I have a slightly different perspective I&#8217;ve not seen brought up anywhere.
It is no [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://catholic.siekierski.com/2009/03/24/obama-at-notre-dame/</link>
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		<title>Bailout Bonuses</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s all this hoopla surrounding the faux Congressional outrage (and media-generated public outrage).  While I agree in essence with my brother&#8217;s take on it, I have a slightly different response.
I&#8217;m outraged.
I&#8217;m not outraged that public money was used to pay the $165 million in bonuses.  Those were contractually-required bonuses, from what I understand.  No, I&#8217;m outraged that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://catholic.siekierski.com/2009/03/19/bailout-bonuses/</link>
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		<title>The Matrix on Windows</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is really well done:

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		<link>http://catholic.siekierski.com/2009/02/24/the-matrix-on-windows/</link>
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		<title>Stimulus</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The proposed stimulus package keeps growing and growing, and is now (if I recall correctly) over $900 billion.
$900,000,000,000, spent on what?  All sorts of weird things that won&#8217;t do diddly to stimulate the economy.  Well, here&#8217;s my own idea.  Since the government is going to go into debt by nearly another trillion dollars, they should [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://catholic.siekierski.com/2009/02/09/stimulus/</link>
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		<title>Prayers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Please pray for Amy Welborn and her family.  Her husband Michael Dubruiel passed away today.  They have a daughter and two sons.
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		<link>http://catholic.siekierski.com/2009/02/03/prayers/</link>
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		<title>Normal Times</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Senator Kent Conrad, speaking on the vote to confirm Geithner as Secretary of the Treasury, offered the following rationale:
One committee member, Sen. Kent Conrad, D-N.D., a former tax commissioner, said in normal times, Geithner&#8217;s failure to pay his taxes would have led Conrad to oppose the nomination. 
&#8220;But these are not normal times,&#8221; Conrad said. He [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://catholic.siekierski.com/2009/01/27/normal-times/</link>
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