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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (630307)	10/3/2011 9:15:09 PM
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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (630307)	10/3/2011 11:49:08 PM
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>A well-functioning economy which rewards smart work, results, innovation, and risk-taking. You don't think a safety net encourages risk-taking? By definition, it does. Many people don't leave their jobs to start their own businesses because they don't want to lose their health insurance, for instance. >You really should be asking yourself why liberals are so fearful of this country losing its "middle class." Especially when the American middle class is so huge, so diverse, and so well-off compared to the rest of the world. I can't totally speak to the comparison, but I can tell you it's shrinking here. That's a big problem -Z

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (630307)	10/4/2011 9:33:18 AM
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Man Tears Out Own Eyes In Church ITALIAN MAN SAYS VOICES TOLD HIM TO DO IT By Rob Quinn, Newser Staff newser.com Posted Oct 4, 2011 12:02 AM CDT (NEWSER) – Hundreds of parishioners looked on in horror as an Italian man ripped out both of his own eyes during Mass on Sunday. Witnesses said the 46-year-old, who told paramedics that he heard voices, calmly stood up and began tearing at his eyes soon after the priest began his sermon, the Daily Mail reports. Churchgoers retrieved the eyes but surgeons were unable to save the man's sight. "In all my 26 years of service, I have never seen anything like this before," a doctor who treated the man says. "He said that he had used his bare hands to tear out his eyeballs after hearing voices telling him to do so. To do something like that requires superhuman strength." The priest continued his sermon after the man was taken away, but by then most of his audience had fled in horror.

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (630307)	10/4/2011 11:45:58 AM
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Obama: No Regrets About Solyndra Loan .......................................................................................................... Monday, 03 Oct 2011 newsmax.com WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama said Monday he does not regret a $528 million loan to a solar energy company that later collapsed, saying officials always knew a clean energy loan program would not back winners 100 percent of the time. "There are going to be some failures, and Solyndra's an example," Obama said in a television interview, referring to a California solar panel maker that declared bankruptcy last month and laid off its 1,100 workers. The company's failure has become a rallying cry for critics of Obama's clean energy program who say the government should not try to predict winners and losers in the volatile renewable energy market. Obama disputed that, saying China is pouring "hundreds of billions of dollars into this space." If the United States wants to compete with China, Germany and other countries that are heavily subsidizing clean energy, "we've got to make sure that our guys here in the United States of America at least have a shot," Obama said. Obama, in an interview with ABC News, was asked whether his administration had ignored warnings about Solyndra, as some congressional Republicans assert. "Well, hindsight is always 20-20," he said. The Solyndra loan, which was approved in 2009, "went through the regular review process and people felt like this was a good bet," Obama said in his first comments on the loan that has caused a headache for his administration. A House energy panel released emails Monday showing that a Democratic fundraiser warned the White House to be "careful" about a planned Obama trip to Solyndra. Steve Westly, a Silicon Valley investor and Energy Department adviser, said in an email that he and others were worried that Solyndra might not "survive long-term." Westly urged Obama to reconsider the trip, but said that if Obama did visit the company, he should avoid any remarks "that could haunt him in the next 18 months if Solyndra hits the wall, files for bankruptcy etc." Two days after the May 24, 2010, email, Obama traveled to Solyndra's Fremont, Calif., headquarters. The Silicon Valley company was the first renewable-energy company to receive a loan guarantee under a stimulus-law program to encourage green energy and was frequently touted by the Obama administration as a model. Energy Secretary Steven Chu attended the company's September 2009 groundbreaking for a new manufacturing plant, and Vice President Joe Biden spoke by satellite at the groundbreaking ceremony. The company's implosion and revelations that the administration hurried Office of Management and Budget officials to finish their review of the loan in time for the 2009 groundbreaking have become an embarrassment for Obama. Even so, the administration has pushed forward with loans, awarding more than $6 billion in the past week alone for seven separate projects. In all, the clean energy loan program has awarded 28 loans worth more than $16 billion since 2009. ___ Associated Press writer Erica Werner contributed to this report. Read more on Newsmax.com: Obama: No Regrets About Solyndra Loan Important: Do You Support Pres. Obama's Re-Election? Vote Here Now!