<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27706056</id><updated>2011-07-29T02:15:02.255-07:00</updated><category term='Economy'/><category term='Ralph Waldo Emerson'/><category term='Quo'/><category term='Scene'/><category term='Widening'/><category term='Society'/><category term='Way'/><category term='Care'/><category term='Control'/><category term='Turning'/><category term='Conservative'/><category term='Change'/><category term='Reform'/><category term='Science'/><category term='Problem'/><category term='Bill Tallmon'/><category term='Health'/><category term='Status'/><category term='Warming'/><category term='Gyre'/><title type='text'>Pure Opinion</title><subtitle type='html'>Weblog</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://carlbrandon.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27706056/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://carlbrandon.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Carl Brandon</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>2</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27706056.post-5017724220646673432</id><published>2009-09-29T07:04:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-09-29T07:04:19.775-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ralph Waldo Emerson'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Health'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Society'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Control'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Way'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Conservative'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bill Tallmon'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Quo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Care'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Change'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Status'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Reform'/><title type='text'>My Take on Health Care Reform - When Does Talk Become Action?</title><summary type='text'> In the 1800's Ralph Waldo Emerson told us that the world is made of two camps of individuals. He called them conservatives and reformers. Conservatives are quite happy with the way things are. They have established themselves in positions of power and influence in society and control government, institutions, and money.   Control   and   Status Quo   are the key words of a conservative. The </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://carlbrandon.blogspot.com/feeds/5017724220646673432/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=27706056&amp;postID=5017724220646673432' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27706056/posts/default/5017724220646673432'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27706056/posts/default/5017724220646673432'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://carlbrandon.blogspot.com/2009/09/my-take-on-health-care-reform-when-does.html' title='My Take on Health Care Reform - When Does Talk Become Action?'/><author><name>Carl Brandon</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27706056.post-1504068399692188054</id><published>2009-09-28T12:19:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-09-28T12:19:11.157-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Problem'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Science'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Scene'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Economy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Widening'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Turning'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Gyre'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Warming'/><title type='text'>Things Falling Apart</title><summary type='text'> "Turning and turning in the widening gyre   The falcon cannot hear the falconer;   Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;   Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,"    This was Yeats' grim observation of the political scene, after the First World War, captured incisively in the poem The Second Coming.    Unfortunately, these words apply not merely to the political scene but to everything and </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://carlbrandon.blogspot.com/feeds/1504068399692188054/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=27706056&amp;postID=1504068399692188054' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27706056/posts/default/1504068399692188054'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27706056/posts/default/1504068399692188054'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://carlbrandon.blogspot.com/2009/09/things-falling-apart.html' title='Things Falling Apart'/><author><name>Carl Brandon</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry></feed>
