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		<title>LAND MINES?</title>
		<link>http://mariospaladuchi.wordpress.com/2009/12/04/land-mines/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 21:07:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mario</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You may recall that about six years ago I wrote a brief blog about my disenchantment with the U.S.goverment refusing to joint the global treaty banning land mines.At that point 141 countries had ratified the Ottawa Convention&#8217;s land mine prohibition of antipersonnel mines. The Bush administration refused to ratify it because we needed to be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mariospaladuchi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6004583&amp;post=140&amp;subd=mariospaladuchi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Doubter/Believer Stance Thinking</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:09:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mario</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[﻿﻿﻿The notion that intentionally monitoring and decreasing one&#8217;s judgmental thinking increases one&#8217;s happiness fits well with a few other beliefs that I hold. ﻿﻿I believe that early in life we develop what I call a default yes/no setting.  I call it that because we regularly engage it entirely out of our conscious awareness &#8211; we [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mariospaladuchi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6004583&amp;post=126&amp;subd=mariospaladuchi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>﻿A Path To Enhanced Joyfulness In Life</title>
		<link>http://mariospaladuchi.wordpress.com/2009/11/11/%ef%bb%bfa-path-to-enhanced-joyfulness-in-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:53:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mario</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[﻿I had an interesting insight the other day.  I went through a period of about fifteen or so years (early eighties to late nineties) when I practiced a good deal of Vipassanna mediation.  I meditated daily, was in a mediation group that met weekly, and attended quite a number of formal meditation retreats &#8211; six [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mariospaladuchi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6004583&amp;post=122&amp;subd=mariospaladuchi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Health Care, Etc.</title>
		<link>http://mariospaladuchi.wordpress.com/2009/09/10/health-care-etc/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 23:53:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mario</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[﻿For the most part, the health care debate (debate?)  has been sufficiently inane (death panels, birthers, rampant socialism) and lacking rational dialogue about real issues we are facing that I’m feeling somewhat embarrassed about being a citizen of country that actually elects to congress some of the members that have been public supporting the false [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mariospaladuchi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6004583&amp;post=119&amp;subd=mariospaladuchi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Supreme Court Appointee Confirmation Hearings</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:44:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mario</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Who would ever have thought that so many U.S. Senators would  seize the occasion to publicly demonstate and affirm the accuracy of Judge Sotomayor&#8217;s comment about how the wisdom of aging Latina women compares favorably with that of old white men.  Apparently several senators simply could not pass up the photo-op to once again display [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mariospaladuchi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6004583&amp;post=58&amp;subd=mariospaladuchi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s task</title>
		<link>http://mariospaladuchi.wordpress.com/2009/04/22/obamas-task-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:53:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mario</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1936 A.M Hocart the eminent English anthropologist who wrote extensively on Polynesian cultures published a book entitled Kings and Councillors which anaylized in depth the tribal structure of the Fiji Islanders. He points out that the tribal chief was considered divine and thereby had access to the gods and how to plese them and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mariospaladuchi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6004583&amp;post=113&amp;subd=mariospaladuchi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Task</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 15:40:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pat Watt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1936 A.M Hocart the eminent English anthropologist who wrote extensively on Polynesian cultures published a book entitled Kings and Councillors which anaylized in depth the tribal structure of the Fiji Islanders. He points out that the tribal chief was considered divine and thereby had access to the gods and how to plese them and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mariospaladuchi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6004583&amp;post=67&amp;subd=mariospaladuchi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thought for the week</title>
		<link>http://mariospaladuchi.wordpress.com/2009/03/06/thought-for-the-week/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 23:50:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mario</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[﻿I believe the basic premise of the Enlightenment  is that there is nothing in man or nature which would prevent us from taking some control of our destiny and making the world a saner place for our children.  That being the case, how  do we continue to manage to stop ourselves from doing just that? [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mariospaladuchi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6004583&amp;post=51&amp;subd=mariospaladuchi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Default Settings</title>
		<link>http://mariospaladuchi.wordpress.com/2009/02/04/default-settings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2009 18:35:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mario</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My thoughts this morning are back on our species being meaning rather than instinct driven.  A few things come to particularly to mind. First, my belief that by the age of 3 or 4 we all develop a default setting of &#8216;yes&#8217; or &#8216;no&#8217; to new experience. Yes leads to explore it, find out more, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mariospaladuchi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6004583&amp;post=48&amp;subd=mariospaladuchi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Military Advice</title>
		<link>http://mariospaladuchi.wordpress.com/2009/01/31/military-advice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2009 23:25:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mario</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[﻿Dear President Obama, Secretary Clinton and Secretary Gates: No military victory will ever be achieved in Afghanistan or Pakistan.  Continued military attempts will only swell the ranks of those who desperately resort to terrorist acts. There can be no ‘War Against Terrorism’ because going to war with an ideology is a non sequitur.  Defining our [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mariospaladuchi.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6004583&amp;post=44&amp;subd=mariospaladuchi&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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