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	<title>Random musings of Scott McGregor</title>
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	<description>These are the personal musings of Scott McGregor</description>
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		<title>Disruptive Innovation Strategies Applied to Job Search</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Xanax onlineAdderall onlineLevitraviagra without prescriptionadderall onlineadderall without prescriptionPhentermine onlinetramadol onlinevalium online Recently I&#8217;ve been coaching several people recently on how to get a job in this down economy, and I would like to share them with you as well. The people I have been coaching with these techniques include new college grads and non- grads [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.smcgregor.com/blog/?p=15</link>
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		<title>My Career Goals and Measures of Success</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;We can&#8217;t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.&#8221; &#8211;Albert Einstein A recent discussion about a potential business opportunity led the client to ask about my career goals. I thought it might be useful to share these goals and measures with my readers here as well. The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.smcgregor.com/blog/?p=14</link>
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		<title>Intertwingled Synchronicity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of my mentors, Ted Nelson, co-inventor of hypertext, is noted for saying: &#8220;Everything is deeply intertwingled&#8221;. On May 14, 2010, I personally experienced this kind intertwingling in a profound way. It was as if some sort of quantum entanglement of strange attractors separated distantly in time and space, were suddenly connected in a single [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.smcgregor.com/blog/?p=13</link>
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		<title>Where is the political party of the Small Businessman and Entrepreneur?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Where is the political party of the Small Businessman and Entrepreneur? Tying health care coverage to employment is a disaster for entrepreneurs, the self-employed and small businesses. But these are the people who drive the engines of innovation. Today, inability to get affordable and comprehensive individual health policies is a huge disincentive to people contemplating [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.smcgregor.com/blog/?p=12</link>
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		<title>&#8216;Will Marry for Health Insurance&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Background The article Feb 5th 2010 Lemondrop article by Allie Townsend entitled &#8216;Will Marry for Health Insurance&#8217; &#8212; One Woman&#8217;s Desperate Quest&#8216;, tells the unfortunate story of Terri Carlson. Ms. Carlson suffers from a genetic disease that greatly impairs her immune system requiring life long care. Until recently, Ms. Carlson, who had been a stay [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.smcgregor.com/blog/?p=11</link>
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		<title>A simple, constitutional solution to Campaign Finance Reform</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court recently decided that campaign finance laws that limited contributions made by corporations violated their constitutional guarantees of free political speech.  By striking these laws down, the doors are open for unlimited amounts of corporate dollars to flow into campaigns.   Many people are rightly concerned that this would effectively allow  large corporations to spend so much money that they could buy the election results that they want, by effectively drowning out all the other voices.   

Is there a constitutional way to prevent such an undesireable result, while still allowing corporations unfettered ability to exercise their freedom of speech?   I think so.  In fact, I think that there is a way to do so that will actually increase access to effective political speech for everyone.    

Here's how...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.smcgregor.com/blog/?p=10</link>
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		<title>Wishing Everyone a PROSPEROUS New Year!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you are in the innovation game, in Silicon Valley — high tech innovation central, you have to expect a lot of change, market turmoil, and financial ups and downs. But 2009 was harsher than any year we have seen before here in the valley. And it has take an emotional toll on many of our best and brightest. But we aren’t quitters here. Here in Silicon Valley, we create the change we want in the world. So in wishing us all greater prosperity in 2010, I thought it would be useful to review what made 2009 so tough and look forward to what we can do, or at least what I can do, to make 2010 better for all of us.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.smcgregor.com/blog/?p=9</link>
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		<title>On the Internet and the future of Civil Political Discourse</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On the Internet and the future of Civil Political Discourse In today&#8217;s blog, I am referring to a number of incident of false information, spread by the Internet, which have achieved wide dissemination and resulted in increased polarization and scapegoating of individuals and groups in our society. This blog is now about these incidents per [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.smcgregor.com/blog/?p=8</link>
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		<title>The American Plan – a new health insurance alternative</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The American Plan – a new health insurance alternative Abstract This article describes a seven-point plan for a private health care insurance option that meets the goals that the proposed public health insurance option was designed to address, but which are not met by today’s existing private employer paid system. This article further challenges private [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.smcgregor.com/blog/?p=5</link>
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		<title>The American Plan: a private alternative for universal health insurance coverage</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The American Plan – a new health insurance alternative Summary This article describes a seven-point plan for a private health care insurance option that meets the goals that the proposed public health insurance option was designed to address, but which are not met by today’s existing private employer paid system. This article further challenges private [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.smcgregor.com/blog/?p=4</link>
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