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    <title>Friends of Barbara Boxer</title>
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    <description>Welcome to the &quot;Friends of Barbara Boxer&quot; PartyBuilder community. Senator Boxer (D-CA) was re-elected to a third term in 2004 where she received more than 6.9 million votes, the highest total for any Senate candidate in American history. You&#039;re invited to join this group so we can share our thoughts and ideas while building even stronger support for California&#039;s Junior Senator. To learn more, and support Senator Boxer further, please visit these sites as well: 
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            <title>Biden Helping A Working Family: An Untold Stoory</title>
            <description>Very early on the morning that Senator Biden flew to the nation of Georgia as the Russian-Georgian war was cooling down, I received a phone call from a labor activist friend of mine from the Eastern Region of the Laborers (LIUNA) union. The caller was Brian McGlinchey. He asked me if I could get in touch with a certain Laborers Local 199 member who was facing foreclosure and was trying to support a family of ten (now eleven as a new son was born two weeks ago). McGlinchey explained that the Senator Biden personally wanted to discuss the difficulty facing this working family to see if he could be of assistance.&lt;br /&gt;
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I immediately called the wife of James Yetman, the union construction worker whose family was facing the loss of their home, at their house. She explained that James was already on the job. She gave me his cell phone number. As I fired up my coffee pot and started dialing James Yetman, I looked at my clock. It was 6:45am. I thought to myself, “How can a working man already on the job at this hour be facing foreclosure?”&lt;br /&gt;
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I already knew the answer. James had a wife who was unable to work because of a uncurable serious chronic health condition and because she was nearly 8 months pregnant. She had 5 children from a previous marriage when she married James. They had 3 more together (not counting the one on the way at that time). James had been out of work for an extended length of time during the winter. Fuel, food, medical, insurance and heating expenses had exploded during the past year. They were being squeezed from every direction.&lt;br /&gt;
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They had been victims of a mortgage that I had viewed as predatory when I examined it. It was certainly more than they could afford on their income. They had not had many options other than agreeing to the lenders terms since it is almost impossible to find landlords willing to rent to such a large family. Section 8 housing had been severely underfunded by the Bush White House and their Republican allies in Congress. They were going to get no help from the Bush Administration. Maybe, just maybe, Biden might be able to help.&lt;br /&gt;
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I managed to get James on the phone as I sipped on my first cup of coffee. I had great difficulty getting him to agree to meet Senator Biden. James did not want to miss the hours of work. He needed the money. This was before Senator Biden had been selected as the Democratic Vice Presidential candidate. James finally relented when I told him that Biden was on a banking committee in the US Senate and was his best chance of keeping his home.&lt;br /&gt;
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James checked with his boss and called me back after getting approval to leave for the meeting with Biden. I picked him up from his job site in Newark, Delaware. We drove to Wilmington, Delaware to meet Biden at Angelo’s Luncheonette. We arrived a little early. &lt;br /&gt;
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Angelo’s is a really small, working class neighborhood establishment with excellent and inexpensive food. I was surprised that the Senator would pick a place like this to meet. It had no reporters hanging around nor the usual political crowd that frequent the kind of public places where I had normally met other political figures in the past. I liked it immediately.&lt;br /&gt;
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I had ordered lunch for James and myself when three of the leaders of Laborers Local 199 walked in the door. They were Business Manager William Carter, Vice President James Maravelias and Business Agent Toby Lamb. They explained that they were there to show their support for the union member facing foreclosure. &lt;br /&gt;
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They were very concerned about the plight of the family. I understood their position. Non-union members often do not understand that members of the union movement really do consider each other as members of the same union “family.” We call each other brothers and sisters. The really active members and the leaders really mean it!&lt;br /&gt;
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We were all finishing our lunch together when Biden arrived. He had his sister Valerie with him and several staff members. I was really surprised that no press were in attendance although one of the staffers had a camera. We persuaded the staffer to take some photos. I am really glad they did since many friends of the Yetman family refused to believe the story about the meeting without the photos.&lt;br /&gt;
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There were maybe another ten customers and workers in Angelo’s Luncheonette besides the five of us from labor. Biden gave everyone considerable personal time and attention before talking to us. &lt;br /&gt;
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Everyone wanted their photo taken with Biden. Most had personal stories to share or previous personal meetings to discuss with the Senator. It was easy to see that Biden was at home in this middle class and working class neighborhood. He was one of them who had made good and not forgotten them.&lt;br /&gt;
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Eventually, Biden made it to the back of the establishment where we were sitting. He remembered the local union leaders and talked with them briefly. They introduced James Yetman to Senator Biden. James was visibly nervious at first but the Senator quickly put him at ease. Soon they were deeply involved in conversation.</description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 05:49:42 EDT</pubDate>
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            <dc:creator>Stephen Crockett</dc:creator>
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            <title>Levi Johnston Future Palin Son-In-Law QUITS High School</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;Today: Palin&#039;s future son-in-law meets the press Levi Johnston, who&#039;s having a baby with the daughter of Republican vice presidential candidate Gov. Sarah Palin, has dropped out of high school and taken a North Slope job as an apprentice electrician.   He would be a senior had he returned to school.  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/newsreader/story/554608.html%20http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/newsreader/story/554608.html&quot;&gt;http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/newsreader/story/554608.html &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;My son is a senior, and he&#039;s worked for NOAA, as an apprentice his entire junior year, and did Field and Track and helped build a Science Sphere, now housed at Lena Point (modeled after one in Washington DC). I don&#039;t see why his parents would let him quit school to work on the oil slopes with Todd Palin. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;These Palin&#039;s (Todd and Sarah) are &#039;loyal to oil&#039; only,&amp;nbsp; and Alaskans are left out, Alaskan issues are left out, they&#039;re being duped, as well as the right wing party. They&#039;re all about building the oil corporation, look Sarah&#039;s mission is to plant miles of pipeline that will eventually corrode and cost tax payers hundreds of millions. It&#039;s already happened on her beat on the North Slope (Prudhoe Bay)...oil spills and fires. I keep asking &amp;quot;what&#039;s wrong with tanking the gas?&amp;quot; Trucks are easier to maintain and not a national security issue. And what&#039;s wrong with a kid continuing his education? Most girls expecting, HAVE to complete school and go to alternative school to receive a diploma. HE&#039;s not expecting, BRISTOL is. There&#039;s been no mention of Bristol, only that the Palin children are going to the Juneau school district, which is a big hairy lie too. They are NOT in Juneau, maybe in Wasilla, or Anchorage area, but not registered in Juneau, as they claimed. If I were Levi&#039;s mom, I&#039;d be pleading for him to stay in school, or he&#039;s just going to become a survivor, and holding onto the hem of Palin&#039;s skirt. He&#039;ll never be independent. He even said that Sarah better win the election. Why? What&#039;s in it for him? His life should be separate from DC politics, so the statement was strange. It just makes me wonder if he were taught responsibility of using protection, both in relationships and in governing his life (school). We know Sarah didn&#039;t teach her daughter, but what about Levi&#039;s parents? Didn&#039;t they teach him either? What&#039;s wrong with those CONSERVATIVES up north? Ever heard of being conservative with relationships until you can be responsible for one? &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2008 18:49:19 EDT</pubDate>
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            <title>SO MUCH FOR BEING TRANSPARENT SARAH</title>
            <description>Palin&#039;s per diem under review&lt;br /&gt; $17,000: State will look to see if she should pay taxes on money she gets for staying in her Wasilla home.&lt;br /&gt; By BRETT J. BLACKLEDGE&lt;br /&gt; The Associated Press&lt;br /&gt; Published: October 7th, 2008 10:38 PM&lt;br /&gt; Last Modified: October 7th, 2008 03:18 AM&lt;br /&gt; Gov. Sarah Palin&#039;s practice of charging the state when she stays in her home must be reviewed to determine if she should pay taxes on the payments, state Finance Director Kim Garnero said Tuesday.</description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2008 18:09:21 EDT</pubDate>
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            <title>Palin Sews Seeds of Hatred</title>
            <description>Bill Ayers Palin is Accusing Obama of Palling With Terrorist&lt;br /&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/story/545855.html&quot;&gt;http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/story/545855.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Sarah Palin on Saturday accused Democrat Barack Obama of &amp;quot;palling around with terrorists&amp;quot; because of an association with a former &#039;60s radical, stepping up an effort to portray Obama as unacceptable to American voters. Palin&#039;s reference was to Bill Ayers, one of the founders of the group the Weather Underground. Its members took credit for bombings, including nonfatal explosions at the Pentagon and U.S. Capitol, during the Vietnam War era.&lt;br /&gt; Obama, who was a child when the group was active, has denounced Ayers&#039; radical views and activities. (He was probably in Indonesia or Hawaii and was 8 yrs old when this MAN did was part of these acts against the government). &lt;br /&gt; In 1970, the group was blamed for a pipe bomb in San Francisco that killed a police officer and injured another. Three members of the group were killed in 1970 in an accidental explosion of a bomb in their Greenwich Village basement.&lt;br /&gt; While it is known that Obama and Ayers live in the same Chicago neighborhood, served on a charity board together and had a fleeting political connection, it&#039;s a stretch of any reading of the public record to say the pair ever palled around. And it&#039;s simply wrong to suggest that they were associated while Ayers was committing terrorist acts.</description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2008 18:04:42 EDT</pubDate>
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            <title>Message From Barack</title>
            <description>You can donate here at Party Builder - do it today, there&#039;s only 22 days left. (By the way, stock market rose to over 900 today!)&lt;br /&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.democrats.org/page/contribute/ChangeWeNeed&quot;&gt;https://www.democrats.org/page/contribute/ChangeWeNeed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Here&#039;s a message from Barack Obama about how funds coming in are now DOUBLED, so here goes:&lt;br /&gt; In these final three weeks, our opponents are signaling they will do whatever they can to distract voters and distort the truth, so we need to redouble our efforts.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; The negative ads and smears seem to grow by the day. The most effective way to respond is by reaching out to more people than ever before with the truth -- the stakes in this election are too high not to.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; We need to grow this movement by 100,000 new donors before Friday.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; A previous donor has promised to match your donation to encourage you to give for the first time. This is your last opportunity to partner with a fellow supporter and make your donation go twice as far.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Your donation of $5 will become $10, $25 becomes $50, and $50 becomes $100. Double your impact by making a matched donation today.</description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2008 17:45:13 EDT</pubDate>
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            <title>I TRUST Barack Obama Will Win Another Debate</title>
            <description>Sorry, I&#039;m not feeling the National Enquirer image coming from the other ticket. Calling Barack a terrorist? He&#039;s the one working hard in law school and streets of Chicago to help citizens and remember the other tickets pokes FUN of service to poverty. Amazing. The only terrorist I see in government, is the one who avoids their own criminal investigation and belonging to a church that drives people out of town and one that pushes for a pipeline and to pave the way, let all the animals around it, suffer and die. Environmental terrorist. Saying Barack has no military experience yesterday was another point that bites her tail off, she has absolutely no military experience either. Shooting animals isn&#039;t military experience. Enough of the ugly vision, let&#039;s turn the page to change. Ready? Here&#039;s we go, put your seat belt on, let&#039;s get safe.&lt;br /&gt;
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At the convention, Michelle related the story about how Barack gripped the steering wheel of his car and he drove tentatively down the street, protecting his new little newborn daughter. He checked the review mirror frequently to catch a peek just to make sure things were fine.&lt;br /&gt;
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I trust that Obama checked more than his review mirror on this economy strife and has checked the mirror frequently on other issues as well. I TRUST him fully. He did contact Bill Clinton and others in making his decisions, he keeps informed, and he maintains communication with who he needs to. &lt;br /&gt;
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Barack gets my vote, for being a: slow, steady, reasonable, intelligent man that is successful at rallying America for CHANGE. He&#039;s a uniter, and a man that appears, and acts and WILL emerge as most presidential.&lt;br /&gt;
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Congratulations to Barack and his family for all the hard work in gaining the electorates needed. We&#039;re SIX away. SIX! It touched my heart, when he made a pledge to give his daughters what he had, he&#039;s done a great job in moving that direction, not only for his daughters and family, but the human family. He really cares and is concerned. Can you imagine how happy and proud his daughters will be when their daddy becomes the president? Over joyed, so will I. It&#039;s going to be a huge relief actually, I&#039;ll breath again. He&#039;s already completed a mission to lead a beautiful path for his daughters by working so diligently on this campaign.&lt;br /&gt;
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All Aboard! Calm and Steady as he goes! He&#039;s the beacon of light shining through this fog.</description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 18:37:54 EDT</pubDate>
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            <title>BLIZZARD of LIES</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;Turn the page, but GET YOUR NOSE out AND HAVE A LIE-IN Fest Tonight! &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pinocchiopolitics.org/index.html&quot;&gt;http://www.pinocchiopolitics.org/index.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://s234.photobucket.com/albums/ee244/MPern/?action=view&amp;amp;current=TRUTHINESS_290.jpg&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i234.photobucket.com/albums/ee244/MPern/TRUTHINESS_290.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;Photobucket&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://s234.photobucket.com/albums/ee244/MPern/?action=view&amp;amp;current=nycsmall0005.jpg&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i234.photobucket.com/albums/ee244/MPern/nycsmall0005.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;Photobucket&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://pinocchiopolitics.org/costume.htm &quot;&gt;http://pinocchiopolitics.org/costume.htm  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;PURCHASE A NOSE HERE: buycostumes.com anytimecostumes.com eddiestrickshop.com And slide whistles too: &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://pinocchiopolitics.org/costume.htm &quot;&gt;http://pinocchiopolitics.org/costume.htm &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; Most ship same day, if you order before 2pm. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; DOWN LOAD YOUR NOSE:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;(Where it while you drive, paint your car windows, grab attention to these lies) &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://pinocchiopolitics.org/images/noseKit.pdf&quot;&gt;http://pinocchiopolitics.org/images/noseKit.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:38:31 EDT</pubDate>
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            <title>Baloney Detection Kit</title>
            <description>Based on the book The Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagan &lt;br /&gt;
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Test the logic of statements made by homophobic organizations against these criteria. &lt;br /&gt;
Common fallacies of logic and rhetoric:&lt;br /&gt;
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Ad homonym - attacking the arguer and not the argument. (I SEE THIS HERE ALLOT. :)&lt;br /&gt;
Argument from &quot;authority&quot;. &lt;br /&gt;
Argument from adverse consequences (putting pressure on the decision maker by pointing out dire consequences of an &quot;unfavorable&quot; decision). &lt;br /&gt;
Appeal to ignorance (absence of evidence is not evidence of absence). &lt;br /&gt;
Special pleading (typically referring to god&#039;s will). &lt;br /&gt;
Begging the question (assuming an answer in the way the question is phrased). &lt;br /&gt;
Observational selection (counting the hits and forgetting the misses). &lt;br /&gt;
Statistics of small numbers (such as drawing conclusions from inadequate sample</description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:23:40 EDT</pubDate>
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            <title>QUIT YER WHININ&#039; !!! - - -  KEATIN&#039; 5!!!</title>
            <description>The Keating Five were five United States Senators accused of corruption in 1989, igniting a major political scandal as part of the larger Savings and Loan.&lt;br /&gt; 1.Alan Cranston (D-CA)&lt;br /&gt; 2.Dennis DeConcini (D-AZ)&lt;br /&gt; 3.John Glenn (D-OH)&lt;br /&gt; 4.John McCain (R-AZ)&lt;br /&gt; 5.Donald W. Riegle (D-MI)&lt;br /&gt; -----------------------&lt;br /&gt; Alan Cranston (D-CA)&lt;br /&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://s234.photobucket.com/albums/ee244/MPern/?action=view&amp;amp;current=150px-AlanCranston.jpg&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i234.photobucket.com/albums/ee244/MPern/150px-AlanCranston.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;Photobucket&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt; He was reprimanded by the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Ethics for &amp;quot;improper conduct&amp;quot; on November 20, 1991 after he accepted $1 million in campaign contributions from the Lincoln Savings head, Charles Keating. Keating had wanted federal regulators to stop &amp;quot;hounding&amp;quot; his savings and loan association. The committee deemed Cranston&#039;s misconduct the worst among the Keating Five. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Cranstonhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Cranston&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Cranston&lt;/a&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:07:00 EDT</pubDate>
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            <title>Corruption Coverage</title>
            <description>AlaskaReport&#039;s ongoing Alaska corruption coverage:&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Ben Stevens Fined $150 &amp;amp; $150: APOC Blind to Corruption&lt;br /&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://alaskareport.com/stephen-taufen30004.htm&quot;&gt;http://alaskareport.com/stephen-taufen30004.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Alaska Senate president Ben Stevens has accepted bribes from seafood processors, according to Ray Metcalfe&lt;br /&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://alaskareport.com/benstevens10044.htm&quot;&gt;http://alaskareport.com/benstevens10044.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Judge rules &amp;quot;Corrupt Bastards&amp;quot; be tried separately&lt;br /&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://alaskareport.com/news907/z46636_corrupt_bastard_trial.htm&quot;&gt;http://alaskareport.com/news907/z46636_corrupt_bastard_trial.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Ted Stevens under criminal investigation for corruption&lt;br /&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://alaskareport.com/z46129_ted_stevens_corruption.htm&quot;&gt;http://alaskareport.com/z46129_ted_stevens_corruption.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Ted Stevens &amp;amp; Corruption: Move Over Duke Cunningham&lt;br /&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://alaskareport.com/stephen-taufen30009.htm&quot;&gt;http://alaskareport.com/stephen-taufen30009.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Ted Stevens and Don Young Fail to Provide &#039;Honest Services&#039;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://alaskareport.com/stephen-taufen30012.htm&quot;&gt;http://alaskareport.com/stephen-taufen30012.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; FBI in Alaska closing in on Ted Stevens&#039; son Ben&lt;br /&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://alaskareport.com/z45886.htm&quot;&gt;http://alaskareport.com/z45886.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Legislators still stumping for VECO - By Ray Metcalfe&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://alaskareport.com/z45863.htm&quot;&gt;http://alaskareport.com/z45863.htm&lt;/a&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 20:13:40 EDT</pubDate>
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            <title>Ted Stevens Contributed to the Meltdown</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;Stevens&amp;rsquo; Latest Problem: Supporting Wall Street Donors As Alaskans Face Consequences Of Fiscal Meltdown From a Campaign Money Watch press release&lt;br /&gt; Today Campaign Money Watch, a nonpartisan campaign finance watchdog group, criticized Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK) for siding with wealthy Wall Street, banking, and&lt;u&gt; insurance industry donors who have given him $595,279 in political donations&lt;/u&gt; since 1989 instead of the Alaska voters who are struggling to get by in a troubled economy that is now in the midst of a financial crisis.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://alaskareport.com/news98/x61635_stevens_fiscal.htmhttp://alaskareport.com/news98/x61635_stevens_fiscal.htm&quot;&gt;http://alaskareport.com/news98/x61635_stevens_fiscal.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;u&gt;Ted Stevens helped lay groundwork for current financial crisis&lt;/u&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Headlines across the country highlight the troubles of Wall Street and the economy, yet Senator Ted Stevens has been close to Wall Street firms for years.&lt;br /&gt; &amp;quot;Senator Stevens helped lay the groundwork for today&#039;s financial crisis. How unfortunate that Stevens is on trial for&lt;u&gt; seven felony counts related to accepting illegal gifts&lt;/u&gt; instead of helping fix this mess,&amp;quot; said Bethany Lesser, spokeswoman for the Alaska Democratic Party. &amp;quot;Stevens supported wealthy Wall Street banking institutions, the insurance industry, and financial services industry at the expense of Alaska . &lt;u&gt;Alaska families are struggling to get by in a troubled economy&lt;/u&gt; that is now in the midst of a financial crisis. We need a new direction that demands accountability from Wall Street and enforces oversight.&amp;quot; (There&#039;s been an exodus and the media doesn&#039;t even talk about it.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;there&#039;s more.... &lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:45:26 EDT</pubDate>
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            <title>McCain &amp; Condi Rice Pals In Georgia</title>
            <description>McCain and Condi&lt;br /&gt; No one in Washington is more closely aligned with the Bush administration&#039;s decision to invade Iraq than prominent neoconservatives, who for years had regime change in Iraq as a goal as part of their philosophy that the United States shouldn&#039;t be reluctant to use its power, both diplomatic and military, to spread democracy and to guarantee world order. &lt;br /&gt; Now, McCain and other politicians who pushed for the invasion are seeking to emphasize the progress, albeit fragile, of the current troop surge in Iraq. &lt;br /&gt; Scheunemann was on board with the Project for the New American Century, whose letter to Bush nine days after the Sept. 11 attacks pointed to Iraq as a possible link to the terrorists. &lt;br /&gt; The letter said American forces must be prepared to support &amp;quot;by all means necessary&amp;quot; the U.S. government&#039;s commitment to opponents of Saddam Hussein. &lt;br /&gt; Scheunemann was among the letter&#039;s 37 signers, a Who&#039;s Who of neoconservative luminaries including William Kristol and Richard Perle. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; More military:&lt;br /&gt; The exercises were held less than a month before the outbreak of the 2008 South Ossetia war. Almost concurrently, Russia conducted it&#039;s own military exercises in the north Caucasus (including North Ossetia), called Caucasus Frontier 2008.</description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:39:21 EDT</pubDate>
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            <title>It&#039;s Over...!</title>
            <description>The only plausible think the government has to do is CLOSE the market for at least one week until they decide declare the country economy in recession and take the necessary approach to handle this economic overturn.&lt;br /&gt;
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Percy H Florez</description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 12:08:04 EDT</pubDate>
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            <title>The Name&#039;s of The Fallen / Part 16 / Total Count as a today 5/25/2008 4177 Soldiers are Dead / Names In Reverse order from:  4158 to 4177</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;img src=&quot;http://www.atlatinos.net/upload/usa.gif&quot; alt=&quot;God Bless America&quot; width=&quot;68&quot; height=&quot;50&quot; /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.atlatinos.net/upload/candle.gif&quot; alt=&quot;God Bless You All&quot; width=&quot;64&quot; height=&quot;178&quot; /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.atlatinos.net/upload/usa.gif&quot; alt=&quot;God Bless America&quot; width=&quot;68&quot; height=&quot;50&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;img src=&quot;http://www.atlatinos.net/upload/usa.gif&quot; alt=&quot;God Bless America&quot; width=&quot;68&quot; height=&quot;50&quot; /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.atlatinos.net/upload/usa.gif&quot; alt=&quot;God Bless America&quot; width=&quot;68&quot; height=&quot;50&quot; /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.atlatinos.net/upload/usa.gif&quot; alt=&quot;God Bless America&quot; width=&quot;68&quot; height=&quot;50&quot; /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.atlatinos.net/upload/usa.gif&quot; alt=&quot;God Bless America&quot; width=&quot;68&quot; height=&quot;50&quot; /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.atlatinos.net/upload/usa.gif&quot; alt=&quot;God Bless America&quot; width=&quot;68&quot; height=&quot;50&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;img src=&quot;http://www.atlatinos.net/upload/usa.gif&quot; alt=&quot;God Bless America&quot; width=&quot;68&quot; height=&quot;50&quot; /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.atlatinos.net/upload/usa.gif&quot; alt=&quot;God Bless America&quot; width=&quot;68&quot; height=&quot;50&quot; /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.atlatinos.net/upload/usa.gif&quot; alt=&quot;God Bless America&quot; width=&quot;68&quot; height=&quot;50&quot; /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.atlatinos.net/upload/usa.gif&quot; alt=&quot;God Bless America&quot; width=&quot;68&quot; height=&quot;50&quot; /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.atlatinos.net/upload/usa.gif&quot; alt=&quot;God Bless America&quot; width=&quot;68&quot; height=&quot;50&quot; /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.atlatinos.net/upload/usa.gif&quot; alt=&quot;God Bless America&quot; width=&quot;68&quot; height=&quot;50&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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The Name&#039;s of The Fallen / Part 16 / Total Count as a today 5/25/2008 4177 Soldiers are Dead / Names In Reverse order from:  4158 to 4177&lt;br /&gt;
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4177 9/29/2008 Specialist Christopher T. Fox 21 Memphis TN&lt;br /&gt;
4176 9/27/2008 Private 1st Class Jamel A. Bryant 22 Belleville IL&lt;br /&gt;
4175 9/24/2008 Captain Michael J. Medders 25 Ohio OH&lt;br /&gt;
4174 9/25/2008 Staff Sergeant Ronald Phillips Jr 33 Conway SC&lt;br /&gt;
4173 9/23/2008 1st Lieutenant Thomas J. Brown 26 Burke VA&lt;br /&gt;
4172 9/14/2008 Chaplain (Col.) Sidney J. Marceaux Jr 69 Beaumont TX&lt;br /&gt;
4171 9/21/2008 Staff Sergeant Matthew J. Taylor 25 Charleston SC&lt;br /&gt;
4170 9/18/2008 1st Lieutenant Robert Vallejo II 28 Richland Hills TX&lt;br /&gt;
4169 9/18/2008 Corporal Michael E. Thompson 23 Harrah OK&lt;br /&gt;
4168 9/18/2008 Chief Warrant Officer Brady J. Rudolf 37 Oklahoma City OK&lt;br /&gt;
4167 9/18/2008 1st Sergeant Julio C. Ordonez 54 San Antonio TX&lt;br /&gt;
4166 9/18/2008 Sergeant Anthony L. Mason 37 Springtown TX&lt;br /&gt;
4165 9/18/2008 Sergeant Daniel M. Eshbaugh 43 Norman OK&lt;br /&gt;
4164 9/18/2008 Chief Warrant Officer Corry A. Edwards 38 Kennedale TX&lt;br /&gt;
4163 9/17/2008 Captain Darrick D. Wright 37 Nashville TN&lt;br /&gt;
4162 9/17/2008 Private 1st Class Leonard J. Gulczynski I 19 Carol Stream IL&lt;br /&gt;
4161 9/14/2008 Lt. Colonel Ralph J. Marino 46 Houston PA&lt;br /&gt;
4160 9/14/2008 Sergeant Wesley R. Durbin 26 Hurst TX&lt;br /&gt;
4159 9/14/2008 Staff Sergeant Darris J. Dawson 24 Pensacola FL&lt;br /&gt;
4158 9/15/2008 Sergeant 1st Class Daniel R. Sexton 53 Wentzville MO&lt;br /&gt;
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Total Count as a today @ 5:50 PM 10/2/2008 : : 4177 soldiers are dead&lt;br /&gt;
More Information please visit our data base: : &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.atlatinos.net/newsticker/thefallen.asp&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;The Name&#039;s of the Fallen&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Or you can visit the DoD web site: : &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.defenselink.mil/releases/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;US DoD News Release&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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S T O P  T H E  W A R&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.atlatinos.net/upload/RT.gif&quot; align=&quot;center&quot; alt=&quot;STOP THE WAR&quot; width=&quot;150&quot; height=&quot;48&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Stop the War &amp; Bring Troops Home&lt;br /&gt;
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Percy H Florez</description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 18:02:26 EDT</pubDate>
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            <title>True &amp; False - about the bailout &amp; the campaign of terror!</title>
            <description>&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;They said:&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;If the bailout does not pass the people are going to loose the money in his bank accounts.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;FALSE: THEY ARE INSURED BY THE FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;If the bailout does not pass is the end of the world, it&amp;rsquo;s a financial catastrophe.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;FALSE: nothing like that is going to happen because this crisis is a failure of CORRUPTED financial institutions and they are small in number compare with those who are playing by the rules. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;If the bailout does not pass the economy are going to sink in to a deep recession.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;FALSE: This is another argument they use to hidden the real true and scare the people in &amp;ldquo;MAIN STREET&amp;rdquo;. This economy of this country is &amp;ldquo;IN CONTRACTION STATUS&amp;rdquo;, this means the power of acquired good for the people every day is less than before. This could be corrected with a good and strong policies reinforcing the INCOME of every American and reinforcing this sectors of the economy that are capable to generate more employment. A good example could be investing this 700 billion in infrastructure around the nation.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;If this bailout does not pass you can not get loans to buy house, cars and you can loose your credit card.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;FALSE: One of the main problems of this crisis is THE ABUSE and the BAD USE of the credit. They buy houses they couldn&amp;rsquo;t afford to pay. They buy cars they couldn&amp;rsquo;t afford to pay. They misused his / her credit card and they couldn&amp;rsquo;t afford to pay. All this happen for the ambition and mismanaged of the CEOs of this corrupted bankers or institutions. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;So what kind of bailout (CORRECTION) would be this, if this money go again to the market with the same purpose as is the mantra of the government and the lawmakers who are supporting this legislation.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;Moreover if you want a loan and have a good credit and you can afford and pay your debts do so, but if not, don&amp;rsquo;t do it!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;      &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;If this bailout does not pass the entirely banking system are going to crash and people in Main St., are going to suffer for a lot!&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;FALSE: As I said before, this particular crisis can be solving by the market as is. In this country there are very serious banking institutions that are capable to absorb the failure of the others in a very intelligent manner without compromising his capital. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;Bank of America, JP Morgan and other banks are a good example and they will be very happy receiving those people looking loans for homes, cars, boats and credit cards!, working people who are capable and can afford to pay on time his bills.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;These bailouts has to pass, to secure more liquidity to the banking systems buying his negative assets and generate the reactivation of the economy, them people in Main St., can get more loans of any kind.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;FALSE: The economy of this country is IN CONTRACTION STATUS, people can afford pay his bill because the power of the dollar is less than before. Essentially this MODEL can&amp;rsquo;t afford print more dollars with the deficit the country had. Actually the difference between this country and countries around the world less wealthy is his ability to PRINT MONEY. This NEGATIVE economic behavior is the main concern of economists around the world. I have no doubt Mr. Paulson and Mr. Bernanke know very well about it, but they prefer to buy time instead to try and get the right solution for this crisis.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;If this bailout does not pass the economy could be worsened&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;TRUE: The economy will be worsened but not because the bailout could be pass or not. The economy is in a bad shape and the solution has to come with a structural correction of the deficit and a best economic practice with the conscientious study of the factors that are generating this contraction in the economy and come up with good, reliable and stable economic practice solutions.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;People must remember this on November 4 and remove this politician with the &amp;quot;POWER OF THE VOTE&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;Percy H Florez&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <title>True &amp; False - about the bailout &amp; the campaign of terror! | TERROR # 6</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;If this bailout does not pass the economy could be worsened &lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;TRUE: The economy will be worsened but not because the bailout could be pass or not. The economy is in a bad shape and the solution has to come with a structural correction of the deficit and a best economic practice with the conscientious study of the factors that are generating this contraction in the economy and come up with good, reliable and stable economic practice solutions.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;People must remember this on November 4 and remove this politician with the &amp;quot;POWER OF THE VOTE&amp;quot;  Percy H Florez &lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 15:49:45 EDT</pubDate>
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            <dc:creator>Percy H Florez</dc:creator>
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            <title>True &amp; False - about the bailout &amp; the campaign of terror! | TERROR # 5</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;These bailouts has to pass, to secure more liquidity to the banking systems buying his negative assets and generate the reactivation of the economy, them people in Main St., can get more loans of any kind. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;FALSE: The economy of this country is IN CONTRACTION STATUS, people can afford pay his bill because the power of the dollar is less than before. Essentially this MODEL can&amp;rsquo;t afford print more dollars with the deficit the country had. Actually the difference between this country and countries around the world less wealthy is his ability to PRINT MONEY. This NEGATIVE economic behavior is the main concern of economists around the world. I have no doubt Mr. Paulson and Mr. Bernanke know very well about it, but they prefer to buy time instead to try and get the right solution for this crisis. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt; People must remember this on November 4 and remove this politician with the &amp;quot;POWER OF THE VOTE&amp;quot;  Percy H Florez &lt;/p&gt;</description>
            <link>http://www.democrats.org/page/community/post/karin/CGW7</link>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 15:30:26 EDT</pubDate>
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            <dc:creator>Percy H Florez</dc:creator>
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            <title>True &amp; False - about the bailout &amp; the campaign of terror! | ARGUMENT OF TERROR # 4</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;If this bailout does not pass the entirely banking system are going to crash and people in Main St., are going to suffer for a lot! &lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;FALSE: As I said before, this particular crisis can be solving by the market as is. In this country there are very serous banking institutions that are capable to absorb the failure of the others in a very intelligent manner without compromising his capital. Bank of America, JP Morgan, and other banks who are trembled with this financial crisis, they would be very happy good people come to his office requesting loans for homes, cars, boat and credit cards!, the only concern is that they want people who are capable and can afford to pay his loans.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;People must remember this on November 4 and remove this politician with the &amp;quot;POWER OF THE VOTE&amp;quot;  Percy H Florez &lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 14:50:47 EDT</pubDate>
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            <dc:creator>Percy H Florez</dc:creator>
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            <title>True &amp; False - about the bailout &amp; the campaign of terror! | ARGUMENT OF TERROR # 3</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;If the bailout does not pass the economy are going to sink in to a deep recession. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt; FALSE: This is another argument they use to hidden the real true and scare the people in &amp;ldquo;MAIN STREET&amp;rdquo;. This economy of this country is &amp;ldquo;IN CONTRACTION STATUS&amp;rdquo;, this means the power of acquired good for the people every day is less than before. This could be corrected with a good and strong policies reinforcing the INCOME of every American and reinforcing this sectors of the economy that are capable to generate more employment. A good example could be investing this 700 billion in infrastructure around the nation.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;People must remember this on November 4 and remove this politician with the &amp;quot;POWER OF THE VOTE&amp;quot;  Percy H Florez &lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 14:14:31 EDT</pubDate>
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            <title>True &amp; False - about the bailout &amp; the campaign of terror! | ARGUMENT OF TERROR # 2</title>
            <description>They said:&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; If the bailout does not pass is the end of the world, it&amp;rsquo;s a financial catastrophe.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;blockquote&gt;FALSE: nothing like that is going to happen because this crisis is a failure of CORRUPTED financial institutions and they are small in number compare with those who are playing by the rules. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt; &lt;br /&gt; People must remember this on November 4 and remove this politician with the &amp;quot;POWER OF THE VOTE&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Percy H Florez</description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:57:48 EDT</pubDate>
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