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	Behind Scenes, Battle for Face Time As Regulators Craft Rule's Wording (Volcker)
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	http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204450804576625432135278322.html<br />
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***Note this article requires subscription to read in full****<br />
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&quot;Financial-industry representatives met with the Treasury Department, Federal Reserve, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., Securities and Exchange Commissi...
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	http://journals.democraticunderground.com/sinkingfeeling/34
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	Tue, 18 Oct 2011 15:42:00
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	Ohio Senate passes collective bargaining overhaul bill by a single vote!
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	http://www.thelantern.com/campus/ohio-senate-passes-collective-bargaining-overhaul-bill-1.2044228?utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=The_Lantern_2&amp;utm_campaign=The_Lantern_2_201133027<br />
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The Ohio Senate voted 17-16 Wednesday to pass a bill that has stirred weeks of protests at the Stateho...
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	http://journals.democraticunderground.com/sinkingfeeling/33
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	Thu, 03 Mar 2011 08:51:34
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	Oh, the beauty of the US health care system! I am two years out from my cancer diagnosis and 
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	my ENT just set up an appointment for a PET scan to be done in April. My insurance company requires a 'pre-approval' for such an expensive test. That's all fine, but what gets me is the approval comes from a 'vendor' named CareCore, radiology benefits management firm. Who's concerned about 'benefit ...
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	http://journals.democraticunderground.com/sinkingfeeling/32
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	Fri, 28 Jan 2011 11:13:01
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	Here's a billboard in New Jersey that we'll hear more about...
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	http://www.salon.com/life/feature/2010/11/29/atheist_war_on_christmas/md_horiz.jpg<br />
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http://www.salon.com/news/atheism/?story=/mwt/feature/2010/11/29/atheist_war_on_christmas...
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	http://journals.democraticunderground.com/sinkingfeeling/31
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	Mon, 29 Nov 2010 14:50:29
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	Here's some good news. Missouri's 'Puppymill Initiative' wins.
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	http://www.ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php/Missouri_Dog_Breeding_Regulation_Initiative,_Proposition_B_(2010)<br />
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Yes  992,094    51.5%  <br />
No   932,615  48.5% <br />
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http://content.usatoday.com/communities/pawprintpost/post/2010/11/puppy-mill-measure-prop-b-passes-in-missouri/1<br />
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The Tea Party opposed ...
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	http://journals.democraticunderground.com/sinkingfeeling/29
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	Wed, 03 Nov 2010 10:40:14
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	Pages 59-195
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	<br />
 Page 59: The federal government will have direct, real-time access to all individual bank accounts for20electronic funds transfer.<br />
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This again, is in regards to reducing costs within the private health insurance industry and says exactly this, &quot;enable electronic funds transfers, in order to all...
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	http://journals.democraticunderground.com/sinkingfeeling/28
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	Fri, 31 Jul 2009 15:43:38
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	Pages 1 through 58...
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	These all fall into Title I of the bill: TITLE I—PROTECTIONS AND STANDARDS FOR QUALIFIED<br />
HEALTH BENEFITS PLANS (QHBP)<br />
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The entire title is about the reform of for-profit health insurance. Setting new rules for private insurers, including employers who self-insure and what constitutes 'essential b...
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	http://journals.democraticunderground.com/sinkingfeeling/27
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	<pubDate>
	Fri, 31 Jul 2009 14:22:49
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	Here's a chart that might help.
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	http://healthcarevoices.org/page/-/images/2009%2007%2021%20HCV%20commonwealth%20graph2.png<br />
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From this site: http://healthcarevoices.org/news/articles/new-reports-highlight-two-ways-a-public-health-plan-can-save-money/<br />
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And there's some great stuff here: http://healthcarevoices.org/news/articles/...
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	http://journals.democraticunderground.com/sinkingfeeling/26
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	Thu, 30 Jul 2009 15:14:37
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	Let's pass a DU resolution to rename the Republican Party! I say we will take nominations for the
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	new name and then hold a poll vote on the top 5.<br />
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Any one ?...
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	http://journals.democraticunderground.com/sinkingfeeling/25
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	<pubDate>
	Wed, 13 May 2009 14:13:58
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	This bothers me: Walton College to Establish Center in Faith and Spirituality in the Workplace
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	http://dailyheadlines.uark.edu/15000.htm<br />
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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Through a $2 million gift from the Tyson Family Foundation and Tyson Foods Inc., the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas is establishing the Tyson Center for Faith and Spirituality in the Workplace.<br />
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Judit...
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	http://journals.democraticunderground.com/sinkingfeeling/24
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	Thu, 07 May 2009 15:15:30
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	My thoughts after surgery and diagnosis of cancer.
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	I'm 60 years old and have the standard employer provided insurance; you know, pay a $750 a year deductible and then it's 20% for you and 80% for the insurance company to pay. I've always had employer provided insurance since I started working in 1967. The best was during the first 20 years I worked ...
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	http://journals.democraticunderground.com/sinkingfeeling/23
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	Mon, 02 Feb 2009 16:38:38
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	My final tribute to George W. Bush is now in my front yard....
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	http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c283/davisbg/Jan2009001.jpg<br />
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http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c283/davisbg/Jan2009002.jpg...
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	http://journals.democraticunderground.com/sinkingfeeling/22
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	<pubDate>
	Tue, 06 Jan 2009 11:16:38
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	Let's counter the GOP meme: &quot;It's all the Democrats' fault.&quot;
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	On every online comment section and discussion board I've looked at in the last two days, at least a dozen yahoos have claimed one or two of the following:<br />
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  1.  &quot;It's the Dems fault because that stopped S.190 (to reform the regulation of Fannie and       Freddie)in 2005.&quot; <br />
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   2. &quot;It's all the...
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	http://journals.democraticunderground.com/sinkingfeeling/21
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	Tue, 23 Sep 2008 11:03:01
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	We failed. 
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	I'm a child of the sixties. I was a wanna be hippie, because I was really a married college dropout when the Summer of Love took place. I gave up my scholarships to Ohio State and went to key punch school for a few weeks before taking a job so that my husband could continue in college and keep his d...
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	http://journals.democraticunderground.com/sinkingfeeling/20
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	<pubDate>
	Fri, 05 Sep 2008 12:50:17
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	And when this 20-year-old correspondence law school student can, by sight,  
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	tell me which one of these is the human, maybe her 'law' will make some sense. <br />
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http://www.ul.ie/~equines/Lecture%2011-12%20Embryology_files/image002.gif<br />
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http://www.actavetscand.com/content/figures/1751-0147-49-28-3.gif...
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	http://journals.democraticunderground.com/sinkingfeeling/19
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	Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:20:59
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	Mark writes what I think and feel in almost every one of his columns.
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	&quot;Of course, all the widespread boredom and ennui is completely understandable, similar to having some sort of inoperable tumor growing deep in your heart for so many years it eventually becomes the norm, The Thing That's Always There, so ingrained and embedded into your being that you can't even rem...
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	http://journals.democraticunderground.com/sinkingfeeling/18
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	Fri, 28 Mar 2008 11:04:19
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	That's not right. About 48% of our national debt is held by private 
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	investors. Down from 60% in 1998. Individual income tax amounted to about $1.2 trillion last year and interest on our debt was about $244 billion. See here: <br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_federal_budget,_2007<br />
<br />
 http://zfacts.com/p/461.html<br />
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The eye-popping $9 trillion gross nationa...
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	http://journals.democraticunderground.com/sinkingfeeling/17
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	Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:17:16
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	There was a knock on my door last evening and a man, I didn't know was standing there.
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	He was dressed in one of those navy blue 'uniforms', with 'Case' embroidered over the pocket. And he said he was there to thank me.<br />
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He said that he and his wife often walked past my yard to the local video store and had noticed my yard signs over the years.I put up a 'tally' board in August 2004....
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	http://journals.democraticunderground.com/sinkingfeeling/15
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	<pubDate>
	Tue, 02 Oct 2007 10:40:16
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	My 10,000th post is here...
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	I SHAKE WITH ANGER:<br />
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At what is being done in my name around the world. At the sight of Dick Cheney's sneer. At the sound of George W. Bush's voice. At the LTTEs I read in the local paper. At the votes taken in the Senate and House. At the lies repeated on my TV. At the 'I can't recall' excuses in...
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	http://journals.democraticunderground.com/sinkingfeeling/14
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	Wed, 26 Sep 2007 14:27:15
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	Why do GOP Senators hate the troops so much? They blocked the
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	Webb Amendment to set 'stay at home time' for war-weary troops who have had multiple tours of duty. Yet they cried like babies last January when Nancy told the GOP House members they would have longer work weeks.<br />
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Remember Rep. Kingston?<br />
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“Keeping us up here eats away at families,” said Rep. J...
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	http://journals.democraticunderground.com/sinkingfeeling/13
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	<pubDate>
	Thu, 20 Sep 2007 14:41:10
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	I love the land of America and have resided in many different parts of it.
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	The mid-West, Southwest, Southeast, and North. It has a beautiful landscape and breath-taking places. However, I do not esteem our society nor government. We are racists, capitalists, and obsessed with consumerism and religiousity. None of those triats are extremely attractive. I have traveled the w...
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	http://journals.democraticunderground.com/sinkingfeeling/11
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	<pubDate>
	Tue, 03 Jul 2007 15:25:22
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	My first encounter with a rabid Freeper!!
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	I'm a 59 yr. old woman. I took two of my dogs to the vet's this morning, early before 7AM. I pulled out on to our main drag, a 5 lane street that runs north through our town. There were no other cars on the street going in my direction and I stop at the first intersection for a red light, in the rig...
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	http://journals.democraticunderground.com/sinkingfeeling/10
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	Wed, 27 Jun 2007 10:14:23
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	'Another number': 3500 dead in Iraqi Occupation
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	http://icasualties.org/oif/<br />
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Will Tony Snow tell us, as he did on June 15, 2006, not to sweat it because, &quot;It's just a number'?  ...
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	http://journals.democraticunderground.com/sinkingfeeling/9
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	<pubDate>
	Wed, 06 Jun 2007 14:40:00
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	Is there something wrong with me?
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	Last evening, as I sat on my porch, I saw and heard my neighbor encouraging his two sons, ages 11 and 9, to repeatedly shoot a squirrel with an air rifle. They succeeded to gleefully shoot it 4 times. They were screaming, &quot;Come here, Dad and look at this!&quot; And, &quot;We got it!!&quot; He kept yelling back, &quot;S...
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	http://journals.democraticunderground.com/sinkingfeeling/8
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	<pubDate>
	Wed, 16 May 2007 12:29:57
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	Dear Mr. Prezident, Why not try 'fightin' 'em over here'?
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	I've a been thinkin' that maybe it might work out a lot better to fight them dang-blamed terraists over here, on our soil, than in I-rack. It don't seem to be workin' out real good fightin' em over there. I mean, we got us about 278,000,000 firearms in 'Merika and there's a good 30% of us that have ...
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	http://journals.democraticunderground.com/sinkingfeeling/7
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	<pubDate>
	Wed, 28 Mar 2007 16:54:38
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