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Anitra is a 59 year old married woman from Seattle, Washington, USA.

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MotherJones Blog: Five Alternative Bailout Plans: Sep 28, 12:27pm (1 review) economics, politics http://www.motherjones.com/mojoblog/arch...; Five ways to meet the financial crisis. The major problem with the two best alternatives? Nobody's backing them!

How Wall Street Can Bail Itself Out Without Destroying The Dollar | CommonDream...: Sep 28, 12:22pm (3 reviews) economics, investing, politics http://www.commondreams.org/view/2008/09...; There are other alternatives besides "bailout" or "do nothing"! From the page: "Create an agency to fund the bailout, loan that agency the money from the treasury, and then have that agency tax Wall Street to pay us (the treasury) back. It's been done before, and has several benefits."

Sinfest: Sep 28, 12:16pm (19 reviews) politics, satire http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?...; "Samakin Skywalker, learn the Corporate side of the Force, and you can save Lady Liberty." Inventive analogy. I don't know anything about this site in general, but I couldn't resist giving this story a thumbs-up.

Friday House Line: The Top 25! - The Fix: Sep 28, 12:08pm (1 review) politics, election-2008 http://voices.washingtonpost.com/thefix/...; The 25 most closely contested races in the U.S. House of Representatives. I'm keeping my eye on Dave Reichert vs Darcy Burner!

Political Radar: Hearing-Gate Exposed! McCain Has Worse Afghanistan Hearing...: Sep 28, 11:50am (3 reviews) politics, obama, fact-check, election-2008, mccain http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/...; John McCain, the top Republican on the Senate Armed Service Committee, has attended zero of his committee's six hearings on Afghanistan over the last two years. Meanwhile, Obama attended the full Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Afghanistan in March 2007, He asked Gen. James L. Jones, then the commander of NATO, about Pakistan. Jones also came before the Senate Armed Services Committee that week. McCain was a no-show.