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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.
Eurozone Flash PMI Shows Slight Growth, France Back in Contraction The rosy eurozone growth estimates of a few months ago have bitten the dust already with the possible exception of Germany. The Markit Flash Eurozone PMI signals slowing growth for second successive month in November, with France leading the way. Flash Eurozone PMI Composite Output Index at 51.5 (51.9 in October)
CNBC reports Obamacare bombshell: IT official says HealthCare.gov needs payment feature Another day, another big, bad black eye for HealthCare.gov. A crucial system for making payments to insurers from people who enroll in that federal Obamacare marketplace has yet to be built, a senior government IT official admitted Tuesday.
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
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Unsurprisingly, Brussels does not believe the promises made by Hollande . While Paris was planning to back below 3% in two years (2.9% to be exact), Brussels predicts it ..
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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