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The European budget debate stepped up a notch today as Italy, Spain Warned on Budget . After Italy rebuffed warnings about its budget, euro-area finance ministers late Friday agreed to give the country additional opportunities to show it can make savings and bolster revenue.
SongFacts comments on Stuck In The Middle With You by Stealers Wheel. Also known simply as "Stuck In The Middle", this Stealers Wheel classic was co-written by the group’s guitarist Gerry Rafferty and keyboard player Joe Egan. In his obituary of Rafferty for the January 5, 2011 issue of the Daily Telegraph , Martin Chilton said of this song that it was "Written as a parody of Bob Dylan’s paranoia, it ridiculed a music industry cocktail party, with the lyrics: ‘Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, here I am, stuck in the middle with you.’ To Rafferty’s utter disbelief his parody, composed as little more than a joke but with a catchy pop arrangement, struck gold, selling more than a million copies.
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57,730 Washington State Obamacare Sign-Ups, 51,368 of Them for Medicaid; Obamashock Theory and Practice It is quite amazing as to what state and federal officials tout as Obamacare "success" stories. For example, in the state of Washington, of the 57,730 who have signed up, a whopping 51,368 were for "free" Medicaid services. Given that Medicaid is jointly funded by the state and federal government, this is bound to put a hole in the state budget
Portland Local News reports 18,000 applications, 0 enrolled . With all the problems facing the rollout of President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul, nowhere is the situation worse or more surprising than in Oregon, a progressive state that has enthusiastically embraced the federal law but has so far failed to enroll a single person in coverage through the state’s insurance exchange.
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Link if video does not play: U.S. crushes 6 tons of confiscated ivory to send message to poachers Africa’s elephants are being slaughtered at a record pace by poachers who hope to get rich by selling their ivory tusks
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