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		<title>A Message From the Queen to the U.S.A</title>
		<link>http://www.lawsonsyucatan.com/2011/03/03/a-message-from-the-queen-to-the-u-s-a/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2011 04:22:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>WilliamLawson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just had this sent to me on Facebook and thought it worthy of republication here. God Save the Queen. Subject: A Message from Queen Elizabeth To the citizens of the United States of America from Her Sovereign Majesty Queen Elizabeth II In light of your failure in recent years to nominate competent candidates for President [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Travel Warning &#8211; British Columbia, Canada</title>
		<link>http://www.lawsonsyucatan.com/2011/01/23/travel-warning-british-columbia-canada/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Jan 2011 19:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>WilliamLawson</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[is Yucatan safe]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Mexican Tourism Counter-Propaganda Council is advising travelers from this country to avoid travel to Canada and British Columbia in particular due to the increasing risk of physical harm and possible death from overly aggressive police forces in the province. Arbitrary beatings, kicking and assault on defenseless victims by the so-called keepers of the peace [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More on the Cell Phone Debacle</title>
		<link>http://www.lawsonsyucatan.com/2010/04/15/more-on-the-cell-phone-debacle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 18:06:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>WilliamLawson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many Mexicans were surprised that there was no &#8216;prorroga&#8216; (extension) on the deadline for registering your cell phone; in fact, anyone who has lived in this country for any length of time knows that any new law requiring anything to be done on the part of the populace, ends up getting postponed and those who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Canada&#8217;s Harper Has Been a Bad Boy</title>
		<link>http://www.lawsonsyucatan.com/2010/04/13/canadas-harper-has-been-a-bad-boy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 17:34:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>WilliamLawson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nada que Ver]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I absolutely love this photograph, taken when Barack Obama told Stephen Harper a thing or two, after Stephen insisted that he really enjoyed the Bush/Cheney years and was sorry that they had come to an end. Before Barack chewed him out, Stephen also was trying to convince Barack that the neo-con, right wing policies Stephen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>El Que No Tranza, No Avanza &#8211; Español</title>
		<link>http://www.lawsonsyucatan.com/2010/03/15/el-que-no-tranza-no-avanza-espanol/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:44:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>WilliamLawson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is an email sent to me before Calderón was elected. At the time there was to be a mass protest by Mexicans against the CFE in which everyone was to turn off their lights at a certain hour to deprive the state monopoly of revenues for that hour. It is a very though-provoking email. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Boost our Governors Sagging Popularity</title>
		<link>http://www.lawsonsyucatan.com/2010/02/23/how-to-boost-our-governors-sagging-popularity/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lawsonsyucatan.com/2010/02/23/how-to-boost-our-governors-sagging-popularity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:13:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>WilliamLawson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In case you haven&#8217;t heard about it, our Yucatan governor Ivonne Ortega Pacheco suffered a reality check last weekend when she appeared in the ring prior to a boxing match between Elio Rojas and Guty Espadas Jr. in our Kukulkan stadium; she was roundly whistled at and booed by the 8000 fans there. Visibly shaken [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No More Tenencia?</title>
		<link>http://www.lawsonsyucatan.com/2010/01/29/no-more-tenencia-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lawsonsyucatan.com/2010/01/29/no-more-tenencia-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 13:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>WilliamLawson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those of you who do not have the privilege of owning a vehicle in Mexico, this will be of little interest. For those that do, you probably know it already: in Mexico we have to pay a tenencia, or tax just to own a car. This on top of all the other taxes that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another Shirt Idea</title>
		<link>http://www.lawsonsyucatan.com/2009/07/19/another-shirt-idea/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2009 23:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>WilliamLawson</dc:creator>
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		<title>More on the Canadian Visa</title>
		<link>http://www.lawsonsyucatan.com/2009/07/17/more-on-the-canadian-visa/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lawsonsyucatan.com/2009/07/17/more-on-the-canadian-visa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 22:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>WilliamLawson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my previous post I stated why I thought the Canadians finally clamped down on the Mexicans. I blamed all the Mexicans who took advantage of Canada&#8217;s relaxed immigration policies and ruined it for everyone. Now it&#8217;s the Canadian governments turn. Who is the Canadian Brain Surgeon/Rocket Scientist who came up with this idiotic, one-day-to-the-next [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Canada Requires Mexicans to Acquire Visa</title>
		<link>http://www.lawsonsyucatan.com/2009/07/17/canada-requires-mexicans-to-acquire-visa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>WilliamLawson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There has been a lot of talk around town on the subject of the recent announcement by the government of Canada to require Mexicans entering Canada to have a visa. Some people understand this measure; others express indignation that those nasty Canadians would be so hostile towards Mexicans. As a Canadian, my only observation is [...]]]></description>
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