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Health Care has passed the house, putting the icing on the cake of Tarp Bailouts and Czars. I have decided to pull in my oars, and will no longer pull. 1. I am buying my food as locally and from small farmers. This keeps $$$ away from large agri-business who fund congressional champains. 2. I moved my money to a small local bank. They are not funding projects out of state, and are as furious as I am about what congress has done lately. 3. I have pushed my 401K up to 12.5 percent, and should have it at 20%...

My wife had to make a long flight to get to her fathers funeral in Maine. Manchester was the only option for us because we have stocked up on hay for the winter. No one would pick her up at the air port and she had to sleep there all night, take the bus to Boston and wait hours for a bus to Maine. When she got there her family stuck her in a run down cottage, and the day after the funeral she discovered her father had left her brother everything. Please pray for her spirits, strength and the...

Bad Times Are Boom Times for Fedco seeds in Maine. Orders are up 42%. This is from a Letter from Co-op CEO, C. Brown. I recieved this with my seed order. "The twin polar bears of old man winter and economic upheaval had us clearly in their grips last week. On Jan. 16 the mercury plunged to minus 29 F, our coldest in at least 15 years... Though spring seemed very far away, it is really not, and you were clearly looking ahead as you ordered in record numbers. Bad times are boom times? Recession? Yes, in the midst of...

The day before a powerful blast sent his headless body flying out of his Gaza home on Thursday, senior Hamas leader Nizar Rayan predicted that the Islamist movement would defeat Israel.