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	<description>Life in Fort Langley, BC, Canada (near Vancouver)</description>
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		<title>Tax Time: Feels like Punitive Punishment to me.</title>
		<link>http://www.thomasso.com/2012/01/28/tax-time-feels-like-punitive-punishment-to-me/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 01:57:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomasso</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes sir, it is that time of year again, when my frustration from doing my annual income tax return comes out from the usually four hours of pen, paper and calculator, game I have to play. This year was not that bad compared to "tax pain sessions" in the past, but the feeling of just how much I got "raked over the coals," from paying the MAN, really sinks in when you are grinding away at these tax forms. ]]></description>
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		<title>Stupid Says, &#8220;I&#8217;m Stuck.&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.thomasso.com/2012/01/15/stupid-says-im-stuck/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 22:12:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomasso</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here we are in mid January, living in South Western Canada, at a time of year when snow sometimes falls, and stays on the ground, and creates these winter like environments that are talked about during Climate Change conferences. Although, over the last few years, snow has become a foreign concept to most, snow does fall, and blankets the ground every once in while. We are living in one such moment in time when snow has invaded our land, and it appears that it will stay for at least the next few days to come.]]></description>
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		<title>No Grumpy People Here Please</title>
		<link>http://www.thomasso.com/2011/12/26/no-grumpy-people-here-please/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 20:41:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomasso</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oh yes, 'tis the season of anger and unpleasantries, and with all those who focus on the martial rather than the seasonal time off to spend with friends and family I say to you, "go get a life, and spoil someone else's good time."  I am referring to the unruly shoppers, and consumers who want to be first in the line-ups; those who demand that they be given first priority when seeking customer services; those who push and shove other people on the sidewalls as they walk through.I am shacking my head at just but a few who cast a shadow of darkness on festive environment. ]]></description>
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		<title>The Crow and My Nissan Pathfinder</title>
		<link>http://www.thomasso.com/2011/12/25/the-crow-and-my-nissan-pathfinder/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Dec 2011 18:09:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomasso</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While I was doing my morning chores, I heard the familiar sounds of the gang of Crows perched on the trees cawing away. As usual, they were making their morning racket of noise. This means that they are anticipating food, or one of my deviant neighbours had just fed them peanuts. Either way we go to great lengths to scare them away becuase they cause havoc for the rest of us - the Crows leave their droppings on everything. ]]></description>
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		<title>The Electric Lazy Boy</title>
		<link>http://www.thomasso.com/2011/11/07/the-electric-lazy-boy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 05:19:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomasso</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[People and electricity have one very common attribute: both will always travel the path of least resistance. Sometimes this path of least resistance may not mean taking the shortest route. In some cases, this behaviour takes on the most illogical behaviour that baffle even the most brilliant minds who study human behaviour; but once the data are added up, then this behaviour makes sense, or takes on a pattern that can be replicated, then we can learn from it. An example that I am looking at are people who work, and are performing a tasked that they simply do not wish to undertake. I use the task of taking out the garbage as my case example.]]></description>
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		<title>Going to the Polls &#8211; Civic Election Langley</title>
		<link>http://www.thomasso.com/2011/11/03/going-to-the-polls-civic-election-langley/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 23:27:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomasso</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One would think that there is an election going on with the sudden crop of election signs that just popped up along every roadway and field throughout town. According to my sources on Twitter, and verified on the various webpages that I read, we have one coming up on November 19, 2011, a Saturday. If that was not enough, I have being approached by two friends who have friends of their own who asked if I would help out planting election signs with them. I had to decline becuase of my super busy schedule, but they gave me the "dirt" based on their perspectives and ideologies about the upcoming election, and why it is so important to get the word out and get people to vote.]]></description>
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		<title>Social Apathy, or a Psychological Problem</title>
		<link>http://www.thomasso.com/2011/10/29/social-apathy-or-a-psychological-problem/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Oct 2011 19:46:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomasso</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been desensitized over the years with news stories of human suffering and tragedy. In my academic studies in criminology, I have read, encountered, and studied both the purely bad and truly evil acts that humans have done, and through this, I have built up a resistance from these deviants, and often criminal cases. However, once in a while, a case pops up that adds a new level to this playing field that supersedes my definition of sick and twisted. The news story of two year old Wang Yueyue who was run over twice on October 13th, 2011, and then eight passers-by walked by her as she lay in the back alley injured from the first vehicle impact (CBCnews, ABC news &#038; BBC news Television, October 14th to October 21, 2011). All of this was captured on a security video camera. ]]></description>
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		<title>The Rightness of Wrongness: The Canadian Right</title>
		<link>http://www.thomasso.com/2011/10/25/the-rightness-of-wrongness-the-canadian-right/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 04:59:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomasso</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier today I sat in on a gathering of people who talked about the changing evolution of corrections (prisons) that Canadian society was moving towards. A lot of what was said falls into the category of classical social fear; crime is getting out of control and safety for property and person were at the top of the list from almost every speaker who lead the discussion. The dynamics of the meeting was subtle, but from person to person who gave their input, I could see that each changed to fit the "group think" attitudes that prevailed until everyone just agreed.]]></description>
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		<title>Looking at the Money Tree</title>
		<link>http://www.thomasso.com/2011/10/07/looking-at-the-money-tree/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 19:30:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomasso</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have being giving this a lot of thought lately as our economic world falls into the abyss. Everyone is touting that Canada is doing so good in terms of economics, saying that we will weather the bad times and continue on without any devastating crashes compared to the other countries that we stand beside. But for some strange reason, I feel we are not doing as well as our elected and non-elected official are saying.]]></description>
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		<title>X-ing Hell</title>
		<link>http://www.thomasso.com/2011/08/29/x-ing-hell/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 04:39:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I was crossing Glover Road at Mary Street in Fort Langley when out of no where a cyclist darted out in front of me when I was halfway across the crosswalk. This is not the first time that I have had near misses at this cross walk. Over the years, I can recall three other instances when people either kept on driving, never even slowing while I was crossing, or they would slow down then try to accelerate through the crosswalk before I crossed into the lane that they are in, and one woman even stopped, then sped onwards while I waited for her vehicle to come to a complete stop before I entered the crosswalk.]]></description>
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