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	<description>Wesley R. Elsberry's personal weblog, talking about falconry, science, antievolution, computation, and the broken body he lives in.</description>
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		<title>On the Home Front: Ryobi and Batteries</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Back in 2004, Diane was looking at getting a reciprocating saw. Despite the indications that one simply should get the Milwaukee Sawzall and be done with it, we instead got a kit of Ryobi power tools that included a reciprocating saw. Ryobi is the Home Depot&#8217;s own brand of power tools, and occasionally Home Depot [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taking Questions from Students</title>
		<description><![CDATA[William Demsbki includes credit in his course for students for participating in online exchanges. Someone claiming to be a student of his has shown up at AtBC and asked some questions. I felt moved to provide some answers.

BJRay:
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Dembski has in fact mentioned “respectful treatment” in so [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://austringer.net/wp/index.php/2010/03/16/taking-questions-from-students/</link>
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		<title>Zimmerman on Rick Santorum</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rick Santorum is a man with his eye on making a run for the presidency. He&#8217;s also known for his Catholocism and for his promotion of &#8220;intelligent design&#8221; creationism. Michael Zimmerman, the organizer behind the Clergy Letter Project, has a post up at the Huffington Post noting the hypocrisy of Santorum criticizing someone for ignoring [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://austringer.net/wp/index.php/2010/03/08/zimmerman-on-rick-santorum/</link>
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		<title>State of Zen for Sage Grouse</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Los Angeles Times reports on how the US Interior Department made a decision about sage grouse:

The Interior Department declared Friday that an iconic Western bird deserves federal protection under the Endangered Species Act, but declined to offer that protection immediately &#8212; a split decision that will allow oil and gas drilling to continue across [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://austringer.net/wp/index.php/2010/03/07/state-of-zen-for-sage-grouse/</link>
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		<title>Reagan, Grant, Roosevelt, and Currency</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Republican legislators are looking for another memorial for former President Ronald Reagan: put his face on US currency. They&#8217;ve encountered resistance for two denominations that have been suggested so far: the dime (displacing Franklin D. Roosevelt) and the $50 bill (displacing Ulysses S. Grant). 
I can see Reagan&#8217;s visage on a piece of US currency, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://austringer.net/wp/index.php/2010/03/04/reagan-grant-roosevelt-and-currency/</link>
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		<title>Texas: Don McLeroy is Out</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Don McLeroy, former chairman of the Texas State Board of Education and pusher of &#8220;intelligent design&#8221; creationism, has lost the Republican primary election for the District 9 seat on the SBOE to Thomas Ratliff.
Hat tip to &#8220;carlsonjok&#8221; at AtBC. (But a point off for spelling McLeroy&#8217;s name wrong, and one off for me not catching [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://austringer.net/wp/index.php/2010/03/03/texas-don-mcelroy-is-out/</link>
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		<title>Spoonbill Bowl on March 6th, 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The regional National Ocean Sciences Bowl, the Spoonbill Bowl, happens this next Saturday, March 6th, 2010. The location is at the USF Marine Sciences and Fish and Wildlife Institute (100 SE 8th Ave., St. Petersburg, Florida 33701). It gets going pretty early in the morning. This is a quiz competition with each game pitting  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://austringer.net/wp/index.php/2010/03/01/spoonbill-bowl-on-march-6th-2010/</link>
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		<title>Pics of Our New (Old) Home</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, we got busy with the fixing-up of the fixer-upper in Palmetto. While Sam worked on the electrical panel, I made a photographic record of the state of the house. We plan to ask Manatee County for a re-appraisal as the house is currently not ready for occupancy. So I have about 3.5 GB of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://austringer.net/wp/index.php/2010/02/28/pics-of-our-new-old-home/</link>
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		<title>Home, Sweet Home: Florida</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We looked at a property last September that stood out as a candidate for a home purchase. It had a house on 7 acres of land, and we could afford the asking price&#8230; barely. Now that might be ringing all sorts of bells, and to be sure there is a laundry list of issues to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://austringer.net/wp/index.php/2010/02/24/home-sweet-home-florida/</link>
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		<title>Rob Crowther, Again</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rob Crowther&#8217;s latest post over at the DI&#8217;s propaganda page is quite short.

Darwin was wrong.
Missing links still missing.
There is no such thing as junk DNA.
Birds did not descend from Dinosaurs.
Irreducible complexity is still irreducibly complex.
Tiktaalik has been invalidated by an earlier ancestor.
Haeckel’s embryo drawings are still fake (and still in textbooks).
Yet, evolution is a fact?

Yes, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://austringer.net/wp/index.php/2010/02/15/rob-crowther-again/</link>
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