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Bailed-Out Banks Give America The Finger

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Can you tell us how you used the money? Can we get an accounting of the money we gave you?

"We have not disclosed that to the public. We're declining to," he said.
-- Kevin Heine, spokesman for Bank of New York Mellon (BK)

Success in Stopping Immigrant Trafficking includes Multilingualism

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The plan for stopping human trafficking of immigrants is not working in Las Vegas, even as the Bush Administration has given a million dollars in two years to the police and a faith-based non-profit to understand trafficking and to locate immigrant slaves.

Cures for Failure to Stop in Immigrant Trafficking: Multilingualism

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The cause of stopping human trafficking of immigrants is not working in Las Vegas, even as the Bush Administration has given a million dollars in two years to the police and a faith-based non-profit to understand trafficking and to locate immigrant slaves.

[bleep], Meet Fan

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Oh gosh darnit, you betcha:

Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin abused her power as Alaska's governor in the firing of her public safety commissioner, but violated no laws, a report for the state Legislature concluded Friday.

No Time for Sighs of Relief: The Effects of $700 Billion Need to Be Accounted for Locally

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Now that the federal government has authorized the bail out of the financial industry, I hope the municipal leaders who were encouraging support for this will be passing along regular and substantive reports on the local effects on capital spending as they occur when the federal money starts rolling in.

Sitting in Her Nowhere Land

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Governor Sarah Palin kept the Bridge to Nowhere earmark after Congress ended the project and she spent it on other projects in Alaska.

She built an access road with federal money on the beach where the bridge would have gone had Congress not stopped it.

Palin and McCain carry on the Republican tradition of lying, obstruction, bad decisions, abuse of power, and hypocrisy

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Thank you John McCain for your VP nomination. You couldn't have served up an easier more inept target than Sarah Palin. In just 20 months as Governor, Palin has shown she is truly in the Republican religious right wing conservative mode of hypocrisy, corruption, abuse of power, and cronyism.

Metro schools miss out on federal funds

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Money held over concerns about use
By JAIME SARRIO • Staff Writer • September 3, 2008

Metro schools went without millions in federal grants last school year because of a misfire during the application process that eventually led to a shakeup of top-ranked administrators.

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