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		<title>By: staffing1</title>
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		<dc:creator>staffing1</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Dec 2009 06:04:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: staffing1</title>
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		<dc:creator>staffing1</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Dec 2009 00:04:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thank you for the post, i liked reading it.&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.staffingpower.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;www.staffingpower.com&lt;/a&gt;</description>
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		<title>By: captainsteve</title>
		<link>http://iowaindependent.com/18456/grassley-government-shouldnt-decide-when-to-pull-the-plug-on-grandma/comment-page-3#comment-19392</link>
		<dc:creator>captainsteve</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 21:43:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Nice words but you didn&#039;t address any facts.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I said obummer is a liar.  I stand by my comment. Did you watch the video?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I said he&#039;s a fraud. . .that&#039;s true. . .he is.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I said he&#039;s anti American. . .true&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;former coke fiend. . .true.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;racist. . .true&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Kenyan usurper. . .true&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;dirt-bag. . .admittedly my opinion&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Chicago. . .true&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;thug. . .true. . .look at the people around him.  Mostly thugs.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Re your Christian justification for supporting him. . .let me assure you.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Charity is wonderful when it comes from you own wealth, but Jesus never said steal stuff from other people and then give it away. . .that is not real charity.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In every biblical example of charity, they gave something that belonged to themselves!&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Thou shall not steal.  Thou shall not covet.  You are doing or condoning both!&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Don&#039;t be a thief!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Nice words but you didn&#39;t address any facts.</p>
<p>I said obummer is a liar.  I stand by my comment. Did you watch the video?</p>
<p>I said he&#39;s a fraud. . .that&#39;s true. . .he is.</p>
<p>I said he&#39;s anti American. . .true</p>
<p>former coke fiend. . .true.</p>
<p>racist. . .true</p>
<p>Kenyan usurper. . .true</p>
<p>dirt-bag. . .admittedly my opinion</p>
<p>Chicago. . .true</p>
<p>thug. . .true. . .look at the people around him.  Mostly thugs.</p>
<p>Re your Christian justification for supporting him. . .let me assure you.</p>
<p>Charity is wonderful when it comes from you own wealth, but Jesus never said steal stuff from other people and then give it away. . .that is not real charity.</p>
<p>In every biblical example of charity, they gave something that belonged to themselves!</p>
<p>Thou shall not steal.  Thou shall not covet.  You are doing or condoning both!</p>
<p>Don&#39;t be a thief!</p>
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		<title>By: captainsteve</title>
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		<dc:creator>captainsteve</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 19:43:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Nice words but you didn&#039;t address any facts.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I said obummer is a liar.  I stand by my comment. Did you watch the video?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I said he&#039;s a fraud. . .that&#039;s true. . .he is.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I said he&#039;s anti American. . .true&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;former coke fiend. . .true.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;racist. . .true&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Kenyan usurper. . .true&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;dirt-bag. . .admittedly my opinion&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Chicago. . .true&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;thug. . .true. . .look at the people around him.  Mostly thugs.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Re your Christian justification for supporting him. . .let me assure you.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Charity is wonderful when it comes from you own wealth, but Jesus never said steal stuff from other people and then give it away. . .that is not real charity.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In every biblical example of charity, they gave something that belonged to themselves!&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Thou shall not steal.  Thou shall not covet.  You are doing or condoning both!&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Don&#039;t be a thief!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Nice words but you didn&#39;t address any facts.</p>
<p>I said obummer is a liar.  I stand by my comment. Did you watch the video?</p>
<p>I said he&#39;s a fraud. . .that&#39;s true. . .he is.</p>
<p>I said he&#39;s anti American. . .true</p>
<p>former coke fiend. . .true.</p>
<p>racist. . .true</p>
<p>Kenyan usurper. . .true</p>
<p>dirt-bag. . .admittedly my opinion</p>
<p>Chicago. . .true</p>
<p>thug. . .true. . .look at the people around him.  Mostly thugs.</p>
<p>Re your Christian justification for supporting him. . .let me assure you.</p>
<p>Charity is wonderful when it comes from you own wealth, but Jesus never said steal stuff from other people and then give it away. . .that is not real charity.</p>
<p>In every biblical example of charity, they gave something that belonged to themselves!</p>
<p>Thou shall not steal.  Thou shall not covet.  You are doing or condoning both!</p>
<p>Don&#39;t be a thief!</p>
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		<title>By: Blessedandhighlyfavored</title>
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		<dc:creator>Blessedandhighlyfavored</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 17:08:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Everything u just said about Obama is a sin because you are supposed to LOVE everyone and SATAN is speaking through you. If Bush stayed put we wouldnt be in SO MUCH DEBT. Obama is trying to help the people who cannot get medical help and are dying because they are poor and cannot afford help. I didnt AGree with Bush but i respected him because he was the President. Nothing Obama is doing is Mandatory if it doesnt apply to u STAY OUT OF It read the Bible please because it talks about the Rich getting Richer and the Poor Getting Poorer because of EVIL people who are SELFISH and only care about THEMSELVES. God is on his way.. Your words depict it. I will pray for you. God said he RULES OVER goverment and we should submit to Government and Leaders its in (1 Peter). so Obey God&#039;s Word and BE QUIET if u Have NOTHING good to say. AND DO NOT JUDGE. becaue U R NOT GOD he Knows ALL &amp; u know NOTHING. Have a blessed Day.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Everything u just said about Obama is a sin because you are supposed to LOVE everyone and SATAN is speaking through you. If Bush stayed put we wouldnt be in SO MUCH DEBT. Obama is trying to help the people who cannot get medical help and are dying because they are poor and cannot afford help. I didnt AGree with Bush but i respected him because he was the President. Nothing Obama is doing is Mandatory if it doesnt apply to u STAY OUT OF It read the Bible please because it talks about the Rich getting Richer and the Poor Getting Poorer because of EVIL people who are SELFISH and only care about THEMSELVES. God is on his way.. Your words depict it. I will pray for you. God said he RULES OVER goverment and we should submit to Government and Leaders its in (1 Peter). so Obey God&#39;s Word and BE QUIET if u Have NOTHING good to say. AND DO NOT JUDGE. becaue U R NOT GOD he Knows ALL &#038; u know NOTHING. Have a blessed Day.</p>
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		<title>By: marjorum</title>
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		<dc:creator>marjorum</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 20:34:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;Death Panels&quot; are not a myth: they exist in most every insurance company in the land. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I have a friend who works on one of them.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Perhaps the most well-known, outrageous, recent death panel decision involved Kaiser Permanente Hospital in California a few years back in which a teenage girl was denied a liver transpant because it was &quot;experimental.&quot; (Hey, liver transplants have been done for decades and persons who do not have a functioning liver for whatever reason need a new one.) The insurance company finally relented due to public pressure, but the girl died 2 hours after her transplant was approved. Her&#039;s was a death by insurance company, though I&#039;m sure the death certificate said something else. (Isn&#039;t it convenient the greedy insurance company ended up looking very charitable; but I have a feeling the transplant was only approved after the girl&#039;s death was inevitable.) There are hundreds of similar incidents. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;This does not, however,  begin to illustrate insureds&#039; deaths where the insurance company has denied coverage because the company has researched a previously insured individual and found the insured suffered from a prior medical condition as trivial as acne, migraine, etc., but because they now have breast cancer or some other morbid condition, they are no longer covered because it was the insurance company&#039;s mistake to give them insurance in the first place because of the prior condition. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Insurance companies steal 31 cents out of every healthcare dollar for themselves. The only service they provide for that 31 cents is to pass patients&#039; payments through to real healthcare providers. They provide no healthcare themselves. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The USA is one of just a handfull of countries that have insurance companies involved in healthcare at all:  those countries prohibit the insurance company (by law) from realizing a profit on their healthcare activities, much less 31 cents out of every dollar.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Think of what we could have if all healthcare dollars went toward healthcare.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Death Panels&#8221; are not a myth: they exist in most every insurance company in the land. </p>
<p>I have a friend who works on one of them.</p>
<p>Perhaps the most well-known, outrageous, recent death panel decision involved Kaiser Permanente Hospital in California a few years back in which a teenage girl was denied a liver transpant because it was &#8220;experimental.&#8221; (Hey, liver transplants have been done for decades and persons who do not have a functioning liver for whatever reason need a new one.) The insurance company finally relented due to public pressure, but the girl died 2 hours after her transplant was approved. Her&#39;s was a death by insurance company, though I&#39;m sure the death certificate said something else. (Isn&#39;t it convenient the greedy insurance company ended up looking very charitable; but I have a feeling the transplant was only approved after the girl&#39;s death was inevitable.) There are hundreds of similar incidents. </p>
<p>This does not, however,  begin to illustrate insureds&#39; deaths where the insurance company has denied coverage because the company has researched a previously insured individual and found the insured suffered from a prior medical condition as trivial as acne, migraine, etc., but because they now have breast cancer or some other morbid condition, they are no longer covered because it was the insurance company&#39;s mistake to give them insurance in the first place because of the prior condition. </p>
<p>Insurance companies steal 31 cents out of every healthcare dollar for themselves. The only service they provide for that 31 cents is to pass patients&#39; payments through to real healthcare providers. They provide no healthcare themselves. </p>
<p>The USA is one of just a handfull of countries that have insurance companies involved in healthcare at all:  those countries prohibit the insurance company (by law) from realizing a profit on their healthcare activities, much less 31 cents out of every dollar.</p>
<p>Think of what we could have if all healthcare dollars went toward healthcare.</p>
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		<title>By: captainsteve</title>
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		<dc:creator>captainsteve</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 02:03:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>No argument from me.  The Saudis and most of the OPEC pepople want to kill us with the weapons they buy with our oil money.  Bush didn&#039;t get it, but obummer is 1000 times worse.  He doesn&#039;t just &quot;not get it.&quot;  HE SYMPATHIZES WITH THEM!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>No argument from me.  The Saudis and most of the OPEC pepople want to kill us with the weapons they buy with our oil money.  Bush didn&#39;t get it, but obummer is 1000 times worse.  He doesn&#39;t just &#8220;not get it.&#8221;  HE SYMPATHIZES WITH THEM!</p>
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		<title>By: cbarneym</title>
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		<dc:creator>cbarneym</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 01:27:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>If you think Obama bowing to Saudi King is something then how about GW Bush KISSING Saudi oil prince. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Check out the kiss&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/911review/293457625/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.flickr.com/photos/911review/293457625/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Check out the HAND HOLDING&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.spiegel.de/international/0%2C1518%2Cgrossbild-463749-360658%2C00.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,gros...&lt;/a&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you think Obama bowing to Saudi King is something then how about GW Bush KISSING Saudi oil prince. </p>
<p>Check out the kiss<br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/911review/293457625/" rel="nofollow">http://www.flickr.com/photos/911review/293457625/</a></p>
<p>Check out the HAND HOLDING<br /><a href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/0%2C1518%2Cgrossbild-463749-360658%2C00.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,gros&#8230;</a></p>
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		<title>By: denisejurgens</title>
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		<dc:creator>denisejurgens</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2009 21:56:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>IF YOU&#039;RE LOOKING FOR A &quot;DEATH PANEL&quot;  I AM AFRAID THE ONLY ONE YOU WILL FIND IN THESE UNTIED STATES IS THE ONE IN TEXAS,  SIGNED INTO LAW BY ONE GOVERNOR GEORGE W. BUSH.  IT IS KNOWN AS THE &quot;FUTILE CARE LAW&quot;.  WHILE THE REPUBLICANS WERE INSERTING THEMSELVES IN THE TERRI SCHIAVO CASE, A 6 MONTH OLD BOY ON LIFE SUPPORT IN TEXAS HAD THE PLUG PULLED ON HIS LIFE UNDER THIS LAW, AGAINST HIS MOTHERS WISHES, SIMPLY BECAUSE SHE WAS POOR.   DISGRACEFUL.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>IF YOU&#39;RE LOOKING FOR A &#8220;DEATH PANEL&#8221;  I AM AFRAID THE ONLY ONE YOU WILL FIND IN THESE UNTIED STATES IS THE ONE IN TEXAS,  SIGNED INTO LAW BY ONE GOVERNOR GEORGE W. BUSH.  IT IS KNOWN AS THE &#8220;FUTILE CARE LAW&#8221;.  WHILE THE REPUBLICANS WERE INSERTING THEMSELVES IN THE TERRI SCHIAVO CASE, A 6 MONTH OLD BOY ON LIFE SUPPORT IN TEXAS HAD THE PLUG PULLED ON HIS LIFE UNDER THIS LAW, AGAINST HIS MOTHERS WISHES, SIMPLY BECAUSE SHE WAS POOR.   DISGRACEFUL.</p>
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		<title>By: denisejurgens</title>
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		<dc:creator>denisejurgens</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2009 21:44:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>HEY IOWA!  TIME TO THROW THIS LYING CORPORATE WHORE OUT OF OFFICE AND VOTE SOMEONE IN WHO STANDS FOR AVERAGE AMERICANS HEALTH AND WELL BEING!  I LIVED IN IOWA LONG ENOUGH TO KNOW THAT YOU&#039;RE NOT ALL THAT BLIND.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>HEY IOWA!  TIME TO THROW THIS LYING CORPORATE WHORE OUT OF OFFICE AND VOTE SOMEONE IN WHO STANDS FOR AVERAGE AMERICANS HEALTH AND WELL BEING!  I LIVED IN IOWA LONG ENOUGH TO KNOW THAT YOU&#39;RE NOT ALL THAT BLIND.</p>
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