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	<title>Big Jim Donovan! &#187; California</title>
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	<description>More Wit And Wisdom From The Boy Who Would (Still) Be A DJ</description>
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		<title>Will The Bank Buy-In Buy Us A Recession Bye?</title>
		<link>http://bigjimdonovan.com/2008/10/15/will-the-bank-buy-in-buy-us-a-recession-bye/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 17:10:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Big Jim</dc:creator>
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The federal government&#8217;s quarter-trillion-dollar bank buy-in plan is being embraced by the industry as a means to get them back to the business of lending again, but many experts believe it won&#8217;t provide a quick fix to the nation&#8217;s economic problems.&#160; In my experience, depending on a bank to really help me with my problems [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Big Bounce</title>
		<link>http://bigjimdonovan.com/2008/10/14/the-big-bounce/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Big Jim</dc:creator>
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The stock market returned to its wild ride Monday, as news of a global plan for buying directly into banks sent prices surging everywhere&#8211;including the US, where the Dow posted a gigantic 932 point gain, it&#8217;s biggest one-day bump in history.&#160; Brokers everywhere celebrated by taking off their homeless person disguises&#8230;
President Bush said he would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bailing Out On the Bailout?</title>
		<link>http://bigjimdonovan.com/2008/09/26/bailing-out-on-the-bailout/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 15:30:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Big Jim</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[California]]></category>
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The White House&#8217;s bailout plan to avoid a financial meltdown suffered one of its own Thursday, as&#160;hopes that&#160;Congress&#160;would pass&#160;the $700 billion fix&#160;were dashed&#8211;by the president&#8217;s own party, who refused to send a negotiator to a late-night meeting aimed at working out a deal.&#160; I understand the president had to convince Dick Cheney&#160;not to take all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Trillion Dollar Solution</title>
		<link>http://bigjimdonovan.com/2008/09/20/the-trillion-dollar-solution/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2008 16:11:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Big Jim</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Houston]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mark Foley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Jersey]]></category>

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Congressional leaders say they will act quickly on a plan from Fed chairman Ben Bernanke and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson to buy up bad mortgages and other investments that are putting banks and other financial institutions in danger of collapse.&#160; Of course, now that the price tag is somewhere just south of a trillion bucks, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fay Is On The Way</title>
		<link>http://bigjimdonovan.com/2008/08/18/fay-is-on-the-way/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 17:02:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Big Jim</dc:creator>
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Residents and tourists in Key West are making preparations to evacuate as Tropical Storm Fay heads for the Florida coast, with expectations it will reach there by Monday night and reach wind speeds sufficient for a&#160;Category 1 hurricane, the region&#8217;s first since Wilma struck in 2005.&#160; I guess you could call it the calm before [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yes, Virginia, There Really Is An Obama</title>
		<link>http://bigjimdonovan.com/2008/08/14/yes-virginia-there-really-is-an-obama/</link>
		<comments>http://bigjimdonovan.com/2008/08/14/yes-virginia-there-really-is-an-obama/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 17:35:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Big Jim</dc:creator>
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Barack Obama has chosen a Virginia senate candidate&#160;to deliver a keynote address at the Democratic National Convention, suggesting the importance of the state to his election and the possibility he may choose Virginia governor Tim Kaine as his running mate.&#160; If Virginia really is that important, maybe he ought to rethink his decision to quit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Inconvenient Act</title>
		<link>http://bigjimdonovan.com/2008/08/12/an-inconvenient-act/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:50:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Big Jim</dc:creator>
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The Bush administration wants to&#160;relax provisions of the Endangered Species Act so federal agencies can decide for themselves what actions would harm&#160;endangered animals and plants, so&#160;the Act&#160;couldn&#8217;t be&#160;used to regulate the&#160;causes of&#160;global warming.&#160; In a press conference Monday, Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne said, &#34;We need to focus our efforts where they will do the most [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dems Don&#8217;t Give Bush Gas</title>
		<link>http://bigjimdonovan.com/2008/07/31/dems-dont-give-bush-gas/</link>
		<comments>http://bigjimdonovan.com/2008/07/31/dems-dont-give-bush-gas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:39:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Big Jim</dc:creator>
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President Bush said Thursday that Congress is letting down the American people over their refusal to allow the opening of off-shore waters to oil drilling.&#160; Bush acknowledged that results from any drilling would be years away, but called it an even more compelling reason to begin now&#8211;he figures it&#8217;ll be just in time for Jeb&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Extreme Senator&#8217;s Home Makeover: The Lobbyist Edition</title>
		<link>http://bigjimdonovan.com/2008/07/31/extreme-senators-home-makeover-the-lobbyist-edition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:26:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Big Jim</dc:creator>
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Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska&#8211;the nation&#8217;s longest-serving Republican senator&#8211;was indicted by federal prosecutors on seven felony counts of concealing a quarter-million dollars in home renovations and other gifts from a major oil contractor that has lobbied Stevens.&#160; Stevens has flatly denied that he knowingly broke any law&#8211;well, at least any law he felt he should [...]]]></description>
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		<title>And You Thought &#8220;Enemy Of The State&#8221; Was Scary</title>
		<link>http://bigjimdonovan.com/2008/07/10/and-you-thought-enemy-of-the-state-was-scary/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 16:35:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Big Jim</dc:creator>
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The Senate has signed off on a major expansion of the government&#8217;s surveillance powers, enhancing intelligence agencies&#8217; ability to wiretap and to provide legal immunity for phone companies that cooperate with it.&#160; Not to worry&#8211;just as long as you don&#8217;t say or do anything that someone incredibly paranoid might think is even a little suspicious, [...]]]></description>
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