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		<title>Writing as a tool of personal development</title>
		<link>http://thefiresidepost.com/2010/05/22/writing-as-a-tool-of-personal-development/</link>
		<comments>http://thefiresidepost.com/2010/05/22/writing-as-a-tool-of-personal-development/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 May 2010 21:55:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ohg Rea Tone</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My son and I began this magazine almost three years past.  I have personally written over eleven hundred (1,100) posts.  That is more than one a day.  Why would anyone do such a goofy thing?  I write because I am compelled to write.  Every thought that crosses my mind must be written &#8211; and examined.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Uniform Design Contest For Huffington Post Police Badges</title>
		<link>http://thefiresidepost.com/2010/04/30/uniform-design-contest-for-huffington-post-police-badges/</link>
		<comments>http://thefiresidepost.com/2010/04/30/uniform-design-contest-for-huffington-post-police-badges/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 21:11:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ohg Rea Tone</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thefiresidepost.com/?p=6124</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Arianna Huffington has established a secret police force to monitor and control reader comments.  Additionally the Huffington Post will now monitor, for free, reader social networking sites.  Three different levels of  &#8216;badges&#8217; of authority can be earned by following Huffinton&#8217;s guidelines.  The Fireside Post is volunteering to assist with the design of Huffington Police Uniforms.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Youth Violence &#8211; Not Just Fight or Flight</title>
		<link>http://thefiresidepost.com/2010/03/24/youth-violence-not-just-fight-or-flight/</link>
		<comments>http://thefiresidepost.com/2010/03/24/youth-violence-not-just-fight-or-flight/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 16:11:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ohg Rea Tone</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thefiresidepost.com/?p=5696</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Mark Twain used youth violence as a humorous anecdote necessary to the maturing process of young boys.  In The Adventures of Tom Sawyer two boys (one is Tom) confront each other on the street; they taunt, tease, dare, and then scuffle.  Tom is victorious when the other boy cries 'nuff!'  Not one sociologist at the time raised a stink about Twain's portrayal of youth violence.]]></description>
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		<title>Redneck Ingenuity &#8211; or Schizophrenic Engineering?</title>
		<link>http://thefiresidepost.com/2010/02/05/redneck-ingenuity-or-schizophrenic-engineering/</link>
		<comments>http://thefiresidepost.com/2010/02/05/redneck-ingenuity-or-schizophrenic-engineering/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:09:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ohg Rea Tone</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Redneck Gazette]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thefiresidepost.com/?p=5388</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I know rednecks.  I should.  I am one generation removed from hillbillies.  Around these parts people who are one generation removed must go through the redneck phase &#8211; and sometimes that phase lasts a couple of generations.  I am known as a half-breed because I obtained a formal university education.  Even my redneck friends will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Redneck, The Italian, and The German</title>
		<link>http://thefiresidepost.com/2009/10/13/the-redneck-the-italian-and-the-german/</link>
		<comments>http://thefiresidepost.com/2009/10/13/the-redneck-the-italian-and-the-german/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 18:43:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ohg Rea Tone</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thefiresidepost.com/?p=5204</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A redneck an Italian and a German were captured by the French.  All convicted &#8211; they were sentenced to death by the guillotine.
The Italian was led to the platform and given one last opportunity say his last words.  He said, &#8220;Long live Italy.&#8221;
The French put his head on the block and let the blade fall.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Letterman on Bush, McCain, Palin, and Clinton</title>
		<link>http://thefiresidepost.com/2009/08/28/letterman-on-bush-mccain-palin-and-clinton/</link>
		<comments>http://thefiresidepost.com/2009/08/28/letterman-on-bush-mccain-palin-and-clinton/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 18:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ohg Rea Tone</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thefiresidepost.com/?p=5150</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[David Letterman is taking over late night television.  With this monologue, it is easy to see why.  His writers are superb, and Letterman knows how to tell a joke.  Is this merely a case of art reflecting reality &#8211; or are these just jokes?


Book Mark it-> del.icio.us &#124;  Reddit &#124;  Slashdot &#124;  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Polite Manners With Name Prefixes</title>
		<link>http://thefiresidepost.com/2009/06/12/polite-manners-with-name-prefixes/</link>
		<comments>http://thefiresidepost.com/2009/06/12/polite-manners-with-name-prefixes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:42:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ohg Rea Tone</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thefiresidepost.com/?p=5054</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[How do you address others?  How are we supposed to address others?  The internet serves to mix cultures and polite manners.  My internet friend in San Francisco calls me Mr. Tone.  I call her Ann &#8211; thinking by so doing I would subtly give her permission to call me Ohg.  She figured me out and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Handle a Heckler</title>
		<link>http://thefiresidepost.com/2009/03/31/how-to-handle-a-heckler/</link>
		<comments>http://thefiresidepost.com/2009/03/31/how-to-handle-a-heckler/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:21:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bryan</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thefiresidepost.com/?p=4492</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In case you ever get the notion that you might launch your comedy career from the seats rather from the stage, I hope that this will be a reminder that the brave and the truly funny are always the people on stage.  You are just the annoying person in the audience and, trust me, no one there is cheering for you.]]></description>
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		<title>Hypochondria &#8211; The Disease Of The Elderly</title>
		<link>http://thefiresidepost.com/2009/03/30/hypochondria-the-disease-of-the-elderly/</link>
		<comments>http://thefiresidepost.com/2009/03/30/hypochondria-the-disease-of-the-elderly/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:17:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ohg Rea Tone</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thefiresidepost.com/?p=4487</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I am in the class of people politely referred to as 'Senior.'  When I was young I thought Senior meant really old, fragile, frail, sickly, helpless.  Today I understand Senior as that stage of life before Elderly.  Senior is a prelude to an honest understanding of illness and mortality.  Senior is that time of life where we begin to examine the ailments we will experience as elderly.  I used to be a hypochondriac, but now I think I have something much worse. - it is called aging.]]></description>
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		<title>Colbert and Conan &#8211; String Dancing</title>
		<link>http://thefiresidepost.com/2009/02/18/colbert-and-conan-string-dancing/</link>
		<comments>http://thefiresidepost.com/2009/02/18/colbert-and-conan-string-dancing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 16:23:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ohg Rea Tone</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thefiresidepost.com/?p=4370</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What can we say - these two are great comedians.  Steven Colbert and Conan O'Brian often play off each other - they make fun of each other and politicians should take a clue of how to react.  Conan invented the 'string dance' and Colbert imitated Conan.  Here they are together:]]></description>
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		<title>The Sentence &#8211; confusing a simple thought</title>
		<link>http://thefiresidepost.com/2009/02/17/the-sentence-confusing-a-simple-thought/</link>
		<comments>http://thefiresidepost.com/2009/02/17/the-sentence-confusing-a-simple-thought/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 20:16:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ohg Rea Tone</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thefiresidepost.com/?p=4366</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The sentence is the most simple form of expressing a thought.  The sentence must have a subject and a predicate - well, not exactly.  The subject and predicate can be explicit, or simply understood.  We are assuming of course that one wants to express a complete thought.  But a sentence may also have an object, may have modifiers, may have connectives, and may have independent elements.  So what is so hard about that?  Please feel free to help with this understanding.]]></description>
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		<title>America Derailed</title>
		<link>http://thefiresidepost.com/2009/01/17/america-derailed/</link>
		<comments>http://thefiresidepost.com/2009/01/17/america-derailed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2009 16:52:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cole James</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thefiresidepost.com/?p=4216</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Rights organizations have historically been a blessing to life as we know it today. While they did not necessarily reflect the ideology of every person in this great country, their purpose was for progression and prosperity of the nation as a whole. Women’s rights, abolishment of slavery, equal opportunity employment and to a good degree, affirmative action have all been for positive change to move our country forward. Now we are stuck in a gravy bowl of economic turmoil and some of these new found organizations are just adding flour.]]></description>
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		<title>The Prophecy of Ohg Rea Tone &#8211; 2009</title>
		<link>http://thefiresidepost.com/2008/12/16/the-prophecy-of-ohg-rea-tone-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://thefiresidepost.com/2008/12/16/the-prophecy-of-ohg-rea-tone-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 14:11:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ohg Rea Tone</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thefiresidepost.com/?p=4044</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Prophecy is only valuable if it presents opportunity for change.  Absolutes are for the cynical, for those who presume their destiny is predetermined.  Free will suggests we have something to say about our life.  In the tradition of ancient Bible Prophets we will offer some conditional prophecy for 2009:

If we reward failure, failure will be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Future Is Not What It Used To Be</title>
		<link>http://thefiresidepost.com/2008/12/12/the-future-is-not-what-is-used-to-be/</link>
		<comments>http://thefiresidepost.com/2008/12/12/the-future-is-not-what-is-used-to-be/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 13:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ohg Rea Tone</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thefiresidepost.com/2007/11/30/the-future-is-not-what-is-used-to-be/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I studied electronics at The Electronics Institute in Kansas City. That was a long time ago. We studied vacuum tubes. Vacuum tube radios and television and radar systems. It was the dawn of the transistor &#8211; we talked about transistors in class, and experimented with diodes in building full-wave bridge power supplies. Resonant circuits were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tabloid Voyeurism Sells</title>
		<link>http://thefiresidepost.com/2008/12/10/tabloid-voyeurism-sells/</link>
		<comments>http://thefiresidepost.com/2008/12/10/tabloid-voyeurism-sells/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 19:47:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ohg Rea Tone</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are not talking about the National Enquirer here folks.  We are talking about Cable News, Network News, Print Newspapers, Print Magazines, and of course the internet boom in journalistic voyeurism.  We just gave an example  &#8211; the use of the term &#8216;journalistic voyeurism&#8217; is much more interesting than say, &#8216;Journalistic practice.&#8217;
The Fireside Post has [...]]]></description>
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