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		<title>Carpetbaggery in store for the Taney County Commission elections?</title>
		<link>http://theoleseagull.com/2012/01/carpetbaggery-in-store-for-the-taney-county-commission-elections-branson/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 13:23:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The OleSeagull</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seemed surreal, almost as if the Ole Seagull wasn&#8217;t actually in the crowded room in Branson filled with some of Branson&#8217;s biggest power brokers and a sprinkling of others. Although, it was as if they didn&#8217;t even notice him, he was surprised he was there because lowly Seagulls are not normally invited to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are rights without responsibility and a &#8220;free lunch&#8221; destroying America?</title>
		<link>http://theoleseagull.com/2012/01/are-rights-without-responsibility-and-a-free-lunch-destroying-america/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 13:14:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The OleSeagull</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although the Ole Seagull listens to Rush Limbaugh on the radio, much of the time he loses the benefit of his tremendous intellect and logic because of the &#8220;noise&#8221; of his self-aggrandizement. During a recent broadcast however, Limbaugh blasted through the noise and caught his attention when he defined &#8220;the Democratic Party base&#8221; as &#8220;The  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Could Branson marketing math of 2 + 1= 2 lead to a Humpty Dumpty marketing fund?</title>
		<link>http://theoleseagull.com/2011/11/could-branson-marketing-math-of-2-1-2-lead-to-a-humpty-dumpty-marketing-fund/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Nov 2011 13:56:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The OleSeagull</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The short and quick of it is, &#8220;That&#8217;s the indication.&#8221; Normally one establishes a precedent that starts them on a gradual slide down the &#8220;slippery slope.&#8221; A discussion at the November 22 meeting of the Branson Board of Aldermen about that precedent happening using City Tourism Tax marketing funds to pay off airport bond indebtedness [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does inaction of local, elected and paid leaders place Branson area at risk?</title>
		<link>http://theoleseagull.com/2011/06/does-inaction-of-local-elected-and-paid-leaders-place-branson-area-at-risk/</link>
		<comments>http://theoleseagull.com/2011/06/does-inaction-of-local-elected-and-paid-leaders-place-branson-area-at-risk/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jun 2011 18:38:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The OleSeagull</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What a difference a couple of months makes. Most of the questions an Ole Seagull gets about Lake Taneycomo these days is about how low it is and why is it that way. Less than a couple of months ago it was about how high the water in Lake Taneycomo was getting and why they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is America committing suicide using the &#8220;Exit Bag&#8221; of an unbridled Federal Judiciary?</title>
		<link>http://theoleseagull.com/2011/06/is-america-committing-suicide-using-the-exit-bag-of-an-unbridled-federal-judiciary/</link>
		<comments>http://theoleseagull.com/2011/06/is-america-committing-suicide-using-the-exit-bag-of-an-unbridled-federal-judiciary/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jun 2011 20:08:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The OleSeagull</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If the &#8220;oxygen&#8221; necessary for America&#8217;s &#8220;life&#8221; is even remotely related to the way Abraham Lincoln described it at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania on November 19, 1863, then an Ole Seagull would have to answer &#8220;Yes.&#8221; In concluding his speech that day Lincoln said, &#8220;…that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Plan fiddles “The Plood” while local officials and community leaders dance to the tune, tick tock, tick tock…</title>
		<link>http://theoleseagull.com/2011/05/plan-fiddles-the-plood-while-local-officials-and-community-leaders-dance-to-the-tune-tick-tock-tick-tock/</link>
		<comments>http://theoleseagull.com/2011/05/plan-fiddles-the-plood-while-local-officials-and-community-leaders-dance-to-the-tune-tick-tock-tick-tock/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 May 2011 12:06:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In terms of the ticking time bomb that hangs over the Branson area, not  only in terms of those who will be directly impacted by any more &#8220;high  water,&#8221; but by those businesses that are effected adversely, even by the  perception of Branson being flooded, let&#8217;s hope that three years from  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are the insensitive &#8220;Cretins of Westboro&#8221; really the fault of our Forefathers?</title>
		<link>http://theoleseagull.com/2011/03/are-the-insensitive-cretins-of-westboro-really-the-fault-of-our-forefathers/</link>
		<comments>http://theoleseagull.com/2011/03/are-the-insensitive-cretins-of-westboro-really-the-fault-of-our-forefathers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Mar 2011 13:13:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The OleSeagull</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week, in the case of SNYDER v. PHELPS ET AL, the U.S. Supreme Court proved one thing once and for all, our Forefathers made one huge mistake and in making it might very well have sowed the seeds that bode the end of this great nation. As used in this opinion the term &#8220;Cretin&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can America compete in the &#8220;Super Bowl of Nations?&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://theoleseagull.com/2011/02/can-america-compete-in-the-super-bowl-of-nations/</link>
		<comments>http://theoleseagull.com/2011/02/can-america-compete-in-the-super-bowl-of-nations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Feb 2011 13:16:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The OleSeagull</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tens of millions of Americans will watch the &#8220;Green Bay Packers&#8221; and &#8220;Pittsburgh Steelers&#8221; play in the Super Bowl today with millions cheering for one team or the other to win. However, if they were honest with themselves, &#8220;being truthful in what they say and do,&#8221; many would put a &#8220;steely&#8221; faced grin on their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Even with the Branson Airport Agreement it&#8217;s the process that counts, not what an Ole Seagull thinks or believes</title>
		<link>http://theoleseagull.com/2010/11/even-with-the-branson-airport-agreement-its-the-process-that-counts-not-what-an-ole-seagull-thinks-or-believes/</link>
		<comments>http://theoleseagull.com/2010/11/even-with-the-branson-airport-agreement-its-the-process-that-counts-not-what-an-ole-seagull-thinks-or-believes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Nov 2010 12:54:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The OleSeagull</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Glory be another miracle!&#8221; Given the political pressure of the community and in spite of months of study, work and preparation, City staff has gone back into the allegedly &#8220;bare bones budget&#8221; they originally submitted and found a way to save about $295,000. Now, dear citizen, don&#8217;t get your hopes up thinking that money might [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Apology for Hiroshima and Nagasaki?</title>
		<link>http://theoleseagull.com/2010/11/an-apology-for-hiroshima-and-nagasaki-2/</link>
		<comments>http://theoleseagull.com/2010/11/an-apology-for-hiroshima-and-nagasaki-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Nov 2010 12:53:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dedication: The republication of this evolving tribute is respectfully dedicated to America’s veterans and active duty military and their families with thanks and gratitude for their service and sacrifice.

It is a sad fact of life that the politicians, and those in power, start wars and that the people of the nations involved bleed, die, suffer, [...]]]></description>
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