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		<title>Lady Gaga</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 07:36:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dawood Khan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the start of a long night of drinking.  Why? Because I&#8217;m about to be off to see Lady Gaga in a few hours.  I got shianghai&#8217;d into this gig when one of Unny&#8217;s friends had to go to Japan for work.  Thanks Pimmy&#8230;mooooooo I suppose it might be fun.  A night of strangeness [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=silkroadsandsiamesesmiles.com&#038;blog=2384303&#038;post=10618&#038;subd=hereticdhammasangha&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Class is in Session</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 05:28:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dawood Khan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had a great and unique experience this morning.  I gave a presentation on Afghanistan to a group of 3rd Graders at an International School in Bangkok.  There were students from Thailand, China, Korea and America in attendance.  Actually, it was two classes as the teacher next door brought her class over for the presentation. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=silkroadsandsiamesesmiles.com&#038;blog=2384303&#038;post=10612&#038;subd=hereticdhammasangha&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Left Loves Fox News</title>
		<link>http://silkroadsandsiamesesmiles.com/2012/05/22/the-left-loves-fox-news/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 13:29:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dawood Khan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[FOX news]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I always find it comical that so many who abhor Fox News seem to be so intimately acquainted with it.  These people then go on to publicize Fox News via their constant yammering about Fox News.  I don&#8217;t watch it.  I don&#8217;t watch any news really.  Not a big TV person anymore.  I get most [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=silkroadsandsiamesesmiles.com&#038;blog=2384303&#038;post=10606&#038;subd=hereticdhammasangha&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Religion, the Divine and the Edge of Chaos</title>
		<link>http://silkroadsandsiamesesmiles.com/2012/05/22/religion-the-divine-and-the-edge-of-chaos/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 18:55:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dawood Khan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was reading about Chaos Theory and came across a theory concerning the “edge of chaos.”  It struck me that religion lies across this nexus.  Religion offers the hope of  becoming something more than what we could be, but, so often makes us something less than what we are.  It offers us the hope of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=silkroadsandsiamesesmiles.com&#038;blog=2384303&#038;post=10601&#038;subd=hereticdhammasangha&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s The Only Good Fight There Is</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 11:26:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dawood Khan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“If you&#8217;re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don&#8217;t even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean derision. It could mean mockery&#8211;isolation. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=silkroadsandsiamesesmiles.com&#038;blog=2384303&#038;post=10592&#038;subd=hereticdhammasangha&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Authority of the Self</title>
		<link>http://silkroadsandsiamesesmiles.com/2012/05/20/the-authority-of-the-self/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2012 18:05:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dawood Khan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Authority]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[be your own authority]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leonardo Da Vinci]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory. Leonardo da Vinci I was &#8220;debating&#8221; with this irksome fellow on my blog not too long ago.  The guy went on and on.  Not an original thought in his head.  Every response was filled from [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=silkroadsandsiamesesmiles.com&#038;blog=2384303&#038;post=10587&#038;subd=hereticdhammasangha&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Ballad of Loco Oh No</title>
		<link>http://silkroadsandsiamesesmiles.com/2012/05/19/the-ballad-of-loco-oh-no/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2012 09:31:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dawood Khan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Boys in the game. Bangkok nights.  No shame. One might come or go. Still twas on with the show. The other three were steady. For the night, quick and ready. Then came the one. The spirit of Ono. The end of the night. No morning, just haze The unholy roller. An emotional craze Misery she [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=silkroadsandsiamesesmiles.com&#038;blog=2384303&#038;post=10579&#038;subd=hereticdhammasangha&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dave the Cook&#8230;NOT!</title>
		<link>http://silkroadsandsiamesesmiles.com/2012/05/16/dave-the-cook-not/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 13:02:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dawood Khan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; No idea what I&#8217;m doing&#8230;but it was funny &#160; Tagged: Mortar and Pestle, Tam, thai food, Thaliand<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=silkroadsandsiamesesmiles.com&#038;blog=2384303&#038;post=10577&#038;subd=hereticdhammasangha&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Student Athlete Conundrum</title>
		<link>http://silkroadsandsiamesesmiles.com/2012/05/16/the-student-athlete-conundrum/</link>
		<comments>http://silkroadsandsiamesesmiles.com/2012/05/16/the-student-athlete-conundrum/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 12:21:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dawood Khan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why do we expect more from Student Athletes than we expect from the general student population? Only 53% of the general student population graduates within 6 years of entering college.  Only 36% graduate within 4 years of entering College.   The average College Student graduates in 6 years if he graduates at all. If a talented [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=silkroadsandsiamesesmiles.com&#038;blog=2384303&#038;post=10574&#038;subd=hereticdhammasangha&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I agree with Obama on Same Sex Marriage</title>
		<link>http://silkroadsandsiamesesmiles.com/2012/05/12/i-agree-with-obama-on-same-sex-marriage/</link>
		<comments>http://silkroadsandsiamesesmiles.com/2012/05/12/i-agree-with-obama-on-same-sex-marriage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 01:27:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dawood Khan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The idea of homosexuality as abomination  originated with the Israelites worship of Ba&#8217;al. In order to keep the Israelites from leaving their GoD and, therefore, their tribe the Judges/Leaders of Israel declared [for GoD] that all activities associated with the worship of Ba&#8217;al were abominations before GoD. One of the primary rites of the Temple [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=silkroadsandsiamesesmiles.com&#038;blog=2384303&#038;post=10566&#038;subd=hereticdhammasangha&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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