<?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/'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9749480.post5158601819615861962..comments</id><updated>2008-11-07T16:48:00.242-08:00</updated><category term='pictures'/><category term='reading'/><category term='prize'/><category term='technology'/><category term='stress'/><category term='apple'/><category term='politics'/><category term='camping'/><category term='happy'/><category term='school'/><category term='home'/><category term='economics'/><category term='travel'/><category term='paris'/><category term='energy'/><category term='hiking'/><category term='church'/><category term='verbiage'/><category term='thoughts'/><category term='europe'/><category term='family'/><category term='canyoneering'/><category term='internet'/><category term='london'/><category term='skiing'/><category term='love'/><category term='mountaineering'/><category term='google'/><category term='friends'/><title type='text'>Comments on Monologue of a Connoisseur of Superfluous Verbiage: I voted</title><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blog.brucec.net/feeds/5158601819615861962/comments/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9749480/5158601819615861962/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blog.brucec.net/2008/11/i-voted.html'/><author><name>Bruce</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07502523874797156919</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_zR6SBLW7I7E/SG8dzZn6ifI/AAAAAAAALfo/lb96l9dKaKc/S220/me.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>4</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9749480.post-3194473781580202405</id><published>2008-11-07T16:48:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-11-07T16:48:00.000-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Another thing on the ethanol thing--unless things ...</title><content type='html'>Another thing on the ethanol thing--unless things change dramatically and overnight in the farming industry, increasing the production of corn in the world will increase carbon emissions. There goes the whole purpose.</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9749480/5158601819615861962/comments/default/3194473781580202405'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9749480/5158601819615861962/comments/default/3194473781580202405'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blog.brucec.net/2008/11/i-voted.html?showComment=1226105280000#c3194473781580202405' title=''/><author><name>cindy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07535093398610225098</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_fVESafu6Uos/SKpV-xdKTTI/AAAAAAAAABQ/zQ44dHlLg0k/S220/smile.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='http://blog.brucec.net/2008/11/i-voted.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9749480.post-5158601819615861962' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9749480/posts/default/5158601819615861962' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='blogger.itemClass' value='pid-1163792091'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9749480.post-7071860778581739282</id><published>2008-11-05T12:45:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-11-05T12:45:00.000-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Michelle, I'm cautiously hopeful about the future....</title><content type='html'>Michelle, I'm cautiously hopeful about the future. I'm not one of the ones running down the hall and jumping excitedly because of the outcome of the elections.</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9749480/5158601819615861962/comments/default/7071860778581739282'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9749480/5158601819615861962/comments/default/7071860778581739282'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blog.brucec.net/2008/11/i-voted.html?showComment=1225917900000#c7071860778581739282' title=''/><author><name>Bruce</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07502523874797156919</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_zR6SBLW7I7E/SG8dzZn6ifI/AAAAAAAALfo/lb96l9dKaKc/S220/me.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='http://blog.brucec.net/2008/11/i-voted.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9749480.post-5158601819615861962' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9749480/posts/default/5158601819615861962' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='blogger.itemClass' value='pid-2016493089'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9749480.post-5237755582799991580</id><published>2008-11-05T11:33:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-11-05T11:33:00.000-08:00</updated><title type='text'>congrats... he won &lt;br&gt;not a big fan about a lot o...</title><content type='html'>congrats... he won &lt;BR/&gt;not a big fan about a lot of things. Still trying to be optimistic. If all doesn't work out-it only means the second comings is closer than we think.</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9749480/5158601819615861962/comments/default/5237755582799991580'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9749480/5158601819615861962/comments/default/5237755582799991580'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blog.brucec.net/2008/11/i-voted.html?showComment=1225913580000#c5237755582799991580' title=''/><author><name>Michelle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00308118445886362218</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='16272642505929990464'/><gd:image xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AhG8D_uaZUo/SNa6EBa3lnI/AAAAAAAAAAY/dhYbUs3UHE8/S220/MICHELLE+RUBIO.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='http://blog.brucec.net/2008/11/i-voted.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9749480.post-5158601819615861962' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9749480/posts/default/5158601819615861962' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='blogger.itemClass' value='pid-232245661'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9749480.post-1524311440714453733</id><published>2008-11-04T13:53:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-11-04T13:53:00.000-08:00</updated><title type='text'>I'm voting in Colorado this year, and I registered...</title><content type='html'>I'm voting in Colorado this year, and I registered to be a permanent absentee voter because I really liked the way Oregon does it.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I haven't voted yet, (but I will soon), but I have my ballot in hand already, so I don't need to wait in lines to stand in a booth, just drop it off at one 6 nearby locations.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;It is interesting to see the news reports of electronic voting, and voting machines that are broken, and this and that.  All the complexities of other state's complicated voting systems are reduced by an all mail-in-voting system that Oregon has.</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9749480/5158601819615861962/comments/default/1524311440714453733'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9749480/5158601819615861962/comments/default/1524311440714453733'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blog.brucec.net/2008/11/i-voted.html?showComment=1225835580000#c1524311440714453733' title=''/><author><name>jacob</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07109445810389711476</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='20' src='http://jacobbrunson.com/files/2007/11/picture.thumbnail.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='http://blog.brucec.net/2008/11/i-voted.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9749480.post-5158601819615861962' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9749480/posts/default/5158601819615861962' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='blogger.itemClass' value='pid-721132263'/></entry></feed>
