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	<title>Scientia est potentia</title>
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		<title>Math, and why no one learns it anymore</title>
		<link>http://starfleetcommand.ca/blog/?p=36</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 10:39:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rishi Maharaj</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Math is hardly a contentious subject. It's a topic that's unlikely to evoke any sort of response from most people, beyond a casually dismissive remark like "I was never any good at that stuff."

But for me, math is something I get very upset about. Not math itself - I'm an engineer, not a mathematician, and can lay no claim to anything but the most cursory of knowledge about rigorous math - but the way that people perceive it.  Ask most people and they'll tell you that they aren't any good at math. But I would put money on the fact that almost no one who professes a lack of competency or even an active dislike of mathematics could define "math" for you, or even give you an example of a mathematical theorem or concept. And that - people deriding or dismissing something that they do not understand - is a problem for me.]]></description>
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		<title>Lifecycle of a lie</title>
		<link>http://starfleetcommand.ca/blog/?p=82</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2009 19:26:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rishi Maharaj</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[guns]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Elizabeth Mandelman]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In an entry discussing an interview with Alok Mukherjee, Elizabeth Mandelman wrote this:
Additionally, the current loophole that allows manufacturers to slightly alter a firearm and market it to the public as a new model not needing to be registered (because the list included in the legislation it out of date and contained no measure to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An open letter to Mandelman</title>
		<link>http://starfleetcommand.ca/blog/?p=81</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2009 18:36:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rishi Maharaj</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[guns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elizabeth Mandelman]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Ms. Mandelman:
Throughout your brief tenure in Canada, you have chosen to accomplish your stated ideological goals of civilian disarmament through a combination of outright lies, misrepresentation and selective use of statistics, and fallacious appeals to authority. When selectively quoting statistics failed you, you turned to interviewing fellow gun control advocates under the bizarre impression [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Smokescreen</title>
		<link>http://starfleetcommand.ca/blog/?p=78</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2009 05:12:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rishi Maharaj</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[guns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[concealed carry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[domestic violence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elizabeth Mandelman]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the things that has always struck me about anti-gun activists is how they self-identify. When you call yourself a gun control activist or participate in organizations with rather self-explanatory names (like the Coalition for Gun Control or the International Action Network on Small Arms), you tell everyone that you’ve already made your mind [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One of these things is not like the others</title>
		<link>http://starfleetcommand.ca/blog/?p=66</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 02:38:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rishi Maharaj</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[guns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elizabeth Mandelman]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Shelley Saywell]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Canada and Somalia, can you tell the difference? Elizabeth Mandelman can&#8217;t.
As &#8220;documentary&#8221; film makers like Michael Moore are keenly aware, the medium and format used to present information makes a big difference in the level of credibility that people assign to it. Pulling information out of your hindquarters verbally in a casual conversation isn&#8217;t likely [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First they came for the serial numbers&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://starfleetcommand.ca/blog/?p=57</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2009 05:57:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rishi Maharaj</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[guns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elizabeth Mandelman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IANSA]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[After apparently running out of bogus statistics and fallacious arguments to peddle about guns and domestic violence, Elizabeth Mandelman has moved on to another time-honoured anti-gun talking point: suicides. (School shootings is coming next, I can feel it in my bones).
As per her SOP, Elizabeth&#8217;s latest entry is full of broken logic and half truths, which I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When the truth just isn&#8217;t good enough &#8211; part II</title>
		<link>http://starfleetcommand.ca/blog/?p=45</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2009 09:32:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rishi Maharaj</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[guns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elizabeth Mandelman]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Paul Thiessen]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I couldn&#8217;t resist dissecting this post by  gun control supporter &#8220;Alberta Gordon&#8221; on Elizabeth Mandelman&#8217;s blog. Before I quote it, let me note that this was originally 3 seperate posts by &#8220;Natasha&#8221;, Paul Thiessen and a 3rd poster whose name I don&#8217;t recall. Elizabeth merged them into one post under a 4th name, once again [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When the truth just isn&#8217;t good enough</title>
		<link>http://starfleetcommand.ca/blog/?p=38</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2009 07:44:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rishi Maharaj</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[guns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Like many people, I have a soft spot for ideology. I have many dearly held beliefs of my own, which are both aesthetically appealing to me and confirmed by my personal experiences. That said, nothing is more frustrating than running up against the brick wall of absolute immutable beliefs in a debate about concrete issues. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sheeple</title>
		<link>http://starfleetcommand.ca/blog/?p=33</link>
		<comments>http://starfleetcommand.ca/blog/?p=33#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:21:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rishi Maharaj</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[guns]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sent to the editor in response to this:
This tragic incident is yet another example of a killer who immediately shot himself when confronted by police, much like the Virginia Tech killer. I cannot help but wonder if the brave man who died trying to save his employees might still be with us today if the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lies, damn lies, and statistics</title>
		<link>http://starfleetcommand.ca/blog/?p=31</link>
		<comments>http://starfleetcommand.ca/blog/?p=31#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 06:42:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rishi Maharaj</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[guns]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In response to this gem:
Sir: With all due respect for former Member of Parliament Roger Gallaway, what makes the gun registry a failure?
Deaths caused by firearms have diminished by 28 per cent over 10 years (from 1,125 in 1995 to 818 in 2005). Homicides with rifles and shotguns have been cut by nearly half (61 [...]]]></description>
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