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		<title>Lisa Hannigan</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A beautiful young woman with a beautiful voice, an incredible vibrato and a smile that can  melt a heart &#8211; and she&#8217;s now got lots to smile about. She just got the Colbert Bump. She just became a star. Looking forward to hearing more from her.

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		<title>Irony</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 07:28:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a bit of irony to the story of my foray into the world of health insurance. Shortly after making the post immediately preceeding this, I was contacted by a guy I met online, while trying to grok the insurance game. 
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><p>There&#8217;s a bit of irony to the story of my foray into the world of health insurance. Shortly after making the post immediately preceeding this, I was contacted by a guy I met online, while trying to grok the insurance game. </p>
<p>While trying to find his way through the insurance maze, he tried a bit of dabbling in web design. He had offered to help a prominent insurance pro with his web site, but soon found himself over his head..and so he called me to help. </p>
<p>I took over the task, became friends with the insurance professional and built several Sites for him, as well as conducting a major (successful) SEO campaign.</p>
<p>And the story doesn&#8217;t end there. The agent I mentioned, was so happy with the work I&#8217;d done for him, he turned me on to a man who had just begun an association of independent insurance agents. Long story short, I built the Site for the new organization as well as the Web Sites for a dozen or so of it&#8217;s members, with more calling daily. As the association grows, so does my business and I&#8217;ve become the Internet consultant to life and health insurance agents all over the country.</p>
<p>When I was a boy, my mom used to say,&#8221;sometimes when a door closes, a window opens&#8221;. I don&#8217;t know whether she was first to coin it, but, as proven here, it&#8217;s often quite true.</p>
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		<title>Sometimes You Have To Re-examine Long Held Beliefs.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Oct 2006 05:21:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Know Why I Haven&#8217;t Spent More Time Here</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Oct 2006 00:52:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t know why I haven&#8217;t been spending more time (or any time) working this blog until now.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><p>I don&#8217;t know why I haven&#8217;t been spending more time (or any time) working this blog until now.</p>
<p>Instead I&#8217;ve put all my energies into two of my other blogs: <a target="_blank" title="Master of My Fate" href="http://master-of-my-fate.org" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/master-of-my-fate.org');">Master of My Fate</a> and <a target="_blank" title="Simplitudes" href="http://simplitudes.com" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/simplitudes.com');">Simplitudes</a>. I&#8217;m proud of both, the latter being a joint venture with my ex wife, promoting the virtues of simplicity, and the former, a blog and mega site about self employment.</p>
<p>These Sites/blogs, may seem at odds. but they&#8217;re both about getting free and regaining some kind of control of one&#8217;s own life. One Site offers information on starting and running a business, while the other offers tips on eliminating unnecessary expenditures and superfluous bullsht.</p>
<p>I believe a combined application of both can help buy your freedom from the corporate overlords whose omnipresent control continues to choke the life from us.</p>
<p>This Site, along with <a target="_blank" title="Savage Visions" href="http://savagevisions.com" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/savagevisions.com');">Savage Visions</a>, another Site I began and immediately neglected, are places that will permit me to vent and I really need to vent. These are weird days and I&#8217;ve got plenty to say.</p>
<p>But not now. Right now I&#8217;ve got to watch Keith Olbermann. He, along with Jon Stewart and Steve Colbert, are all that keep me from running screaming naked down the street.</p>
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