<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/d9d549fd-365c-4c4a-a51b-1a9be366ccab/D0B91229-2474-44BA-B6F6-E4B356176C32/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/07/for_the_children.html" href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/07/for_the_children.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.americanthinker.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/07/for_the_children.html"><FONT size="3"><STRONG>It might be a rip-off</STRONG>.  Maybe you've heard of Bernie Madoff or R. Allen Stanford.  They were both investment fund managers, but arrested this past year for ripping off their customers for billions of dollars.  Madoff was recently convicted.  They both gave big to politicians, over a million dollars combined, <EM>with <A href="http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/03/madoff_stanford_give_big_to_de.html">almost all of it going to Democrats</A></EM>.</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/07/for_the_children.html"><FONT face="times new roman,times" size="3">Although the Bob Dylan song <EM><A href="http://www.lyricsfreak.com/b/bob+dylan/like+a+rolling+stone_20021169.html,">Like a Rolling Stone</A></EM> is old now it's still considered pretty cool.  Ponder these lyrics from that song.</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/07/for_the_children.html"><BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><FONT face="times new roman,times" size="3">"Ain't it hard when you discover that<BR />He really wasn't where it's at<BR />After he took from you everything he could steal."</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/07/for_the_children.html"><FONT face="times new roman,times" size="3">The rip-off, small or large, is an old, old game.  The best test of whether someone is ripping you off is not how nice his smile is; it's whether he's asking you to give him something.</FONT></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/D0B91229-2474-44BA-B6F6-E4B356176C32/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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