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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (8702)	2/9/2012 10:25:29 AM
From: longnshort	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 85487

Oklahoma Democrat Constance Johnson introduces bill to ban jerking off How are far left Marxist Democrats responding to the outrage over Obama’s war against the Catholic church? They mock it by proposing a bill to stop masturbation. The amendment to a pro life bill was introduced for far left state senator, Constance Johnson. Of course this would be every young progressive liberal’s nightmare. Down in mommy’s basement while they aren’t occupying or vandalizing something, that’s all they have in addition to popping their shoulder zits.

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (8702)	2/9/2012 10:26:08 AM
From: Murrey Walker	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 85487

If we had a president for domestic, and a president for dealing with the rest of the world, I'd go with Bernie Sanders and RP. Regardless of who is president come next January, we're still in deep stuff. Money owns D.C. and as long as that's the case, we're going to get more and more of the same. Here's what's floating around this morning: blog.heritage.org And yes, I'm on SS (but I was one of those that got to match every one of my employee's withholdings, so I can say, "Yes I paid more than my fair share).

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (8702)	2/9/2012 10:28:53 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Respond to of 85487

Bank of England Says to Evaluate Fossil-Fuel Investment Risk By Alex Morales - Feb 7, 2012 4:03 AM PT The Bank of England will evaluate whether the U.K.’s exposure to investments in greenhouse gas-emitting industries poses a risk to financial stability, Governor Mervyn King said. Responding to a Jan. 19 letter from Climate Change Capital Ltd. and more than 20 other investors, academics and campaign groups urging a probe, King said that while there is a“question” about whether any danger exists, he’ll try to investigate investments in polluting industries further. “There is clearly a scope for further evaluation of these issues,” King wrote in his Feb. 1 reply, posted on the Climate Change Capital website and confirmed by the bank. “We will endeavor to include this in the list of topics we regularly discuss with market participants to assess whether or not this is a risk of which they are aware and the extent to which they are taking it into account in their investment decisions.” Banks, funds and institutional investors may end up with“stranded assets and poor returns” because of investments in industries with high carbon emissions, Climate Change Capital said in the earlier letter to the bank. The signatories, who included Aviva Investors Chief Executive Officer Paul Abberley noted that five of the 10 biggest companies in the U.K.’s benchmark stock index, the FTSE 100, were “almost exclusively high-carbon.” The value of U.K. pensions could be at risk because of investments that may lose value as “policy and technology work consistently over time to reduce returns in high carbon areas while supporting low carbon ones,” according to the first letter. bloomberg.com