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	<title>The Binary Circumstance</title>
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	<description>Things either exist or they don't</description>
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		<title>Fannie and Freddie &#8220;Rescue&#8221; Could Cost Taxpayers $25 Billion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I thought they said Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were not in trouble.
Now they say it could cost taxpayers as much as $25 billion to bail them out.
WASHINGTON (AP) &#8212; A federal rescue of troubled mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac could cost taxpayers as much as $25 billion, Congress&#8217; top budget analyst said [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thebinarycircumstance.com/2008/07/22/3156/fannie-and-freddie-rescue-could-cost-taxpayers-25-billion/</link>
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		<title>Paulson Pushes Fannie and Freddie Bail-out</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As I pointed out in my last post, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac spent a fortune buying influence.  Now the government is planning to bail them out.
 July 21 (Bloomberg) &#8212; Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson suggested that U.S. lawmakers must pass his rescue plan for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to avert a slide [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thebinarycircumstance.com/2008/07/21/3155/paulson-pushes-fannie-and-freddie-bail-out/</link>
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		<title>Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Bought Influence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac helped create the currently mortgage crisis and all the related financial problems by using government to their advantage.
If you want to know how Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have survived scandal and crisis, consider this: Over the past decade, they have spent nearly $200 million on lobbying and campaign contributions.
But [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thebinarycircumstance.com/2008/07/16/3153/fannie-mae-and-freddie-mac-bought-influence/</link>
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		<title>Taxpayers to Bail-out Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and IndyMac</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In an effort to bolster confidence in the financial markets and prop up the housing market, the federal government is moving to bolster Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the two Government Sponsored Entities that buy up about 50% of mortgage loans.
Treasure Secretary Henry Paulson made the announcement on Sunday in an effort to halt the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thebinarycircumstance.com/2008/07/14/3152/taxpayers-to-bail-out-fannie-mae-freddie-mac-and-indymac/</link>
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		<title>Where the Hell is Matt?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Check out this funny and infectiously joyful video on YouTube of Seattle resident Matt Harding dancing his way around the world.

He&#8217;s made several other similar videos of himself dancing alone in far away places but in this one, which is already one of the most popular videos on YouTube, he has a lot of company.
For [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thebinarycircumstance.com/2008/07/08/3151/where-the-hell-is-matt/</link>
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		<title>Science for Presidential Candidates</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From Wired Science:
What exactly do John McCain and Barack Obama know about science?
That&#8217;s what the folks behind Science Debate 2008 want to know, and to find out, they&#8217;ve developed 14 questions they sent to the candidates and hope to discuss with them at a science-only debate. The questions cover innovation, climate change, energy, genetics, space, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thebinarycircumstance.com/2008/07/04/3148/science-for-presidential-candidates/</link>
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		<title>Supreme Court Upholds Right to Own Guns</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a landmark ruling that affirms the right of individuals to own guns for self-defense, the Supreme Court stuck down laws that ban individual ownership of guns.
It&#8217;s nice to know that the right of self-defense still has some value in this country.
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		<link>http://www.thebinarycircumstance.com/2008/06/27/3144/supreme-court-upholds-right-to-own-guns/</link>
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		<title>Home Prices and Sales Continue Slide in Seattle Area</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Two recent articles show that the prices and sales of homes continue to fall in the Seattle area although not as bad as in many other parts of the country.
From the Seattle Times:
King County&#8217;s median house price, $440,000, reflected a 1.9 percent decline from April and a 6.2 percent drop from the previous May.
One bright [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thebinarycircumstance.com/2008/06/07/3141/home-prices-and-sales-continue-slide-in-seattle-area/</link>
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		<title>Hypermiling on My 2007 Ninja 250R</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently learned about hypermiling, a collection of driving techniques for increasing the mileage you get in your car and wondered what it would do for the mileage on my 2007 Ninja 250R which already gets great mileage.
On this last tank, I didn&#8217;t do any hypermiling techniques for the first 100 miles but used them [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thebinarycircumstance.com/2008/05/30/3140/hypermiling-on-my-2007-ninja-250r/</link>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Latest Preacher Problem</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In this YouTube video, Father Michael Pfleger, a Catholic priest who likes to preach like a black preacher, rants about white entitlement and Hillary Clinton at Barack Obama&#8217;s Trinity United Church.  (This clip is longer than what I&#8217;ve seen on TV.)  Obama has denounced the comments, as one would expect.

Something tells me this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thebinarycircumstance.com/2008/05/30/3139/obamas-latest-preacher-problem/</link>
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		<title>Hubble Finds Missing Matter in Deep Space</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since I just wrote about StarGaze which features pictures from the Hubble space telescope, I enjoyed this article about the Hubble&#8217;s most recent revelation.
The ethereal strands of hydrogen and oxygen atoms could account for up to half the matter that scientists knew must be there but simply could not see, the researchers reported on Tuesday.
Scientists [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thebinarycircumstance.com/2008/05/20/3138/hubble-finds-missing-matter-in-deep-space/</link>
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		<title>StarGaze: Hubble&#8217;s View of the Universe</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you would like to get your mind off of self-important politicians and the nonsense that they spout to win elections, I would highly recommend StarGaze: Hubble&#8217;s View of the Universe, a DVD that consists of awesome pictures taken by the Hubble space telescope set to music.
I found it necessary to watch it twice, because [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thebinarycircumstance.com/2008/05/18/3137/stargaze-hubbles-view-of-the-universe/</link>
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		<title>The EPR Paradox and The Binary Circumstance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m still in the process of researching both the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Paradox (EPR Paradox) as well as Bell&#8217;s Theorem in an effort to understand their implications for Objectivism as well as the binary circumstance or the binary nature of existence.
Albert Einstein argued that quantum mechanics was an incomplete theory and that certain hidden variables were required [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thebinarycircumstance.com/2008/05/06/3136/the-epr-paradox-and-the-binary-circumstance/</link>
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		<title>Justice Antonin Scalia on 60 Minutes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was interviewed and profiled on 60 Minutes last night.  He calls his judicial philosophy &#8220;originalism.&#8221;
At 72, Justice Scalia is still a maverick, championing a philosophy known as &#8220;orginalism,&#8221; which means interpreting the Constitution based on what it originally meant to the people who ratified it over 200 years ago.
Scalia [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thebinarycircumstance.com/2008/04/28/3135/justice-antonin-scalia-on-60-minutes/</link>
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		<title>Zen Story from Charlie Wilson&#8217;s War</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From the Boston Globe:
Toward the end of &#8220;Charlie Wilson&#8217;s War,&#8221; a CIA officer played by the pitch-perfect Philip Seymour Hoffman cautions the Wilson character (played by Tom Hanks) not to be too sure they have done something glorious. To make the point, he tells the story of a Zen master who observes the people of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thebinarycircumstance.com/2008/04/26/3134/zen-story-from-charlie-wilsons-war/</link>
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		<title>Human Intestinal Flora Varies Around the Globe</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently wrote about how to make your own yogurt.
Urinalysis of populations from several different countries showed there are wide variations in metabolism based on the types of microbes that reside in the gut.  What is particularly mind-boggling is the amount of bacteria we all having living in our intestines.
Each country turned out very [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thebinarycircumstance.com/2008/04/22/3133/human-intestinal-flora-varies-around-the-globe/</link>
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		<title>Snowfall Meditation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the third time in the past few days I looking at snow coming down outside my window.  Though we&#8217;re well into Spring, it looks like the dead of winter outside complete with darkened, gray skies, cold air and snow.
These are not just little snow flurries but a steady snowfall and it&#8217;s sticking.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thebinarycircumstance.com/2008/04/20/3132/snowfall-meditation/</link>
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		<title>How to Make Yogurt (Yoghurt)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I wanted to make my own yogurt and found many sites that offered great advice but MakeYourOwnYogurt.com had very clear instructions and photographs.
My first attempt was a success!
I used my food dehydrator to keep the yogurt at the right temperature for the bacteria to grow instead of a heating pad. But I thought the heating [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thebinarycircumstance.com/2008/04/18/3131/how-to-make-yogurt/</link>
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		<title>Quote of the Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lady Astor:  Sir, if you were my husband, I would poison your drink.
Winston Churchill:  Madam, if you were my wife, I would drink it.
Source
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		<link>http://www.thebinarycircumstance.com/2008/04/16/3130/quote-of-the-day-124/</link>
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		<title>Quote of the Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lady Astor: &#8220;Mr. Churchill, you&#8217;re drunk!&#8221;
Winston Churchill: &#8220;Yes, and you, Madam, are ugly. But tomorrow, I shall be sober.&#8221;
Source
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		<link>http://www.thebinarycircumstance.com/2008/04/16/3129/quote-of-the-day-123/</link>
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