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		<title>Comment on Tech Companies Play Defense with Recent Acquisitions by Mark</title>
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		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 18:04:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It&#039;s like the Patent Clash of the Internet Titans. With the advertisements for Clash of the Titans still playing on the television, I keep picturing Facebook as the Medusa&#039;s head. I wonder if that will prove to be an apt analogy.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s like the Patent Clash of the Internet Titans. With the advertisements for Clash of the Titans still playing on the television, I keep picturing Facebook as the Medusa&#8217;s head. I wonder if that will prove to be an apt analogy.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Is Best Buy’s Demise Good for Amazon? by Scott</title>
		<link>http://www.investingblog.org/archives/971/is-best-buy%e2%80%99s-demise-good-for-amazon/comment-page-1/#comment-21168</link>
		<dc:creator>Scott</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Apr 2012 14:25:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I have heard many times that Amazon and others are at an unfair advantage over brick and mortar spots like Bestbuy as a result of the lack of taxes on online retailers. I would hope this would correct itself sooner rather than later for Bestbuy&#039;s sake.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have heard many times that Amazon and others are at an unfair advantage over brick and mortar spots like Bestbuy as a result of the lack of taxes on online retailers. I would hope this would correct itself sooner rather than later for Bestbuy&#8217;s sake.</p>
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		<title>Comment on How Will the 2012 Presidential Election Affect Stocks? by Mark</title>
		<link>http://www.investingblog.org/archives/972/how-will-the-2012-presidential-election-affect-stocks/comment-page-1/#comment-21166</link>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 18:39:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Before this article I never put much thought into how elections might affect stocks. Another great one, Z!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Before this article I never put much thought into how elections might affect stocks. Another great one, Z!</p>
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		<title>Comment on Fire Safe Cigarettes and the Industry (FSC) (carpet glue) by Jesse</title>
		<link>http://www.investingblog.org/archives/594/fire-safe-cigarettes-industry-fsc-carpet-glue/comment-page-1/#comment-21163</link>
		<dc:creator>Jesse</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 21:30:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I just found out that Natural Spirit is FSC but that they use a starch made from seaweed. So they are still completely additive free. This info came straight from their customer service line. I won&#039;t be smoking anything else anymore.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I just found out that Natural Spirit is FSC but that they use a starch made from seaweed. So they are still completely additive free. This info came straight from their customer service line. I won&#8217;t be smoking anything else anymore.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Is Best Buy’s Demise Good for Amazon? by Mark</title>
		<link>http://www.investingblog.org/archives/971/is-best-buy%e2%80%99s-demise-good-for-amazon/comment-page-1/#comment-21162</link>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 18:22:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It&#039;s amazing how much Amazon has grown, from selling books to selling books, electronics, furniture, T-shirts, and basically everything else. A number of bookstores are experiencing their own troubles, with much of it blamed on the success of online sellers like Amazon. If Best Buy is next, I can&#039;t help but wonder what else Amazon may eclipse in the years to come.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s amazing how much Amazon has grown, from selling books to selling books, electronics, furniture, T-shirts, and basically everything else. A number of bookstores are experiencing their own troubles, with much of it blamed on the success of online sellers like Amazon. If Best Buy is next, I can&#8217;t help but wonder what else Amazon may eclipse in the years to come.</p>
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		<title>Comment on How to Make Money in Real Estate by Ryan</title>
		<link>http://www.investingblog.org/archives/963/how-to-make-money-in-real-estate/comment-page-1/#comment-21157</link>
		<dc:creator>Ryan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 18:39:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>How do you guys feel about Canadian REITs? I&#039;ve been looking into quite a few such as Calloway, Artis, Riocan and Boardwalk. Any comments?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>How do you guys feel about Canadian REITs? I&#8217;ve been looking into quite a few such as Calloway, Artis, Riocan and Boardwalk. Any comments?</p>
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		<title>Comment on Obama&#8217;s $2500 College Education Tax Credit Explained by Dan</title>
		<link>http://www.investingblog.org/archives/742/obamas-2500-college-education-tax-credit-explained/comment-page-2/#comment-21155</link>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 13:20:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi,

I hope you can help with this. My wife is attending a graduate program at DeVry University. The first 4 years of college she completed in Europe, so she never applied or received any tax credit for her first 4 years of college.
So my question is: can she now claim the American Opportunity Tax Credit, given that she never benefited from it?

Thanks</description>
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<p>I hope you can help with this. My wife is attending a graduate program at DeVry University. The first 4 years of college she completed in Europe, so she never applied or received any tax credit for her first 4 years of college.<br />
So my question is: can she now claim the American Opportunity Tax Credit, given that she never benefited from it?</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
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		<title>Comment on Fire Safe Cigarettes and the Industry (FSC) (carpet glue) by Cathy</title>
		<link>http://www.investingblog.org/archives/594/fire-safe-cigarettes-industry-fsc-carpet-glue/comment-page-1/#comment-21141</link>
		<dc:creator>Cathy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2012 19:30:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>my insurance company didn&#039;t waste too much on me did couple blood tests then told me what do you expect when you smoke...quit smoking and go see shrink cause it&#039;s all in my head</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>my insurance company didn&#8217;t waste too much on me did couple blood tests then told me what do you expect when you smoke&#8230;quit smoking and go see shrink cause it&#8217;s all in my head</p>
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		<title>Comment on Fire Safe Cigarettes and the Industry (FSC) (carpet glue) by Mark Ingersoll</title>
		<link>http://www.investingblog.org/archives/594/fire-safe-cigarettes-industry-fsc-carpet-glue/comment-page-1/#comment-21133</link>
		<dc:creator>Mark Ingersoll</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2012 00:22:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>OK - let&#039;s get to the bottom line. NO ONE is going to take up the FSC issue except insurance companies. They are the only ones getting hit in the pocket with paying. The FDA, nor any other agency will take on this politically sensitive issue. So, sending your health woes to the FDA is an exercise in futility. Your voice will not be heard.

File complaints with your insurance company. Call them. Write them. Let them know that the FSC laws that were passed using the emotionally tilted &quot;deaths of 900 innocent children&quot; parade banner is costing them THOUSANDS and THOUSANDS in medical costs.

I, too, had the symptoms of a heart attack after just two packs of Marlboro lights. Seven hours later of emergency room care - and the symptoms dissipated. On the way home, I had a couple cigarettes - and wham - the symptoms were back. I threw them in the trash and I now roll my own (American Spirit) one at a time.

Again - there is no government agency who is going to intervene as there is nothing in it for them. Insurance companies and the god almighty dollar is the winning ticket.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>OK &#8211; let&#8217;s get to the bottom line. NO ONE is going to take up the FSC issue except insurance companies. They are the only ones getting hit in the pocket with paying. The FDA, nor any other agency will take on this politically sensitive issue. So, sending your health woes to the FDA is an exercise in futility. Your voice will not be heard.</p>
<p>File complaints with your insurance company. Call them. Write them. Let them know that the FSC laws that were passed using the emotionally tilted &#8220;deaths of 900 innocent children&#8221; parade banner is costing them THOUSANDS and THOUSANDS in medical costs.</p>
<p>I, too, had the symptoms of a heart attack after just two packs of Marlboro lights. Seven hours later of emergency room care &#8211; and the symptoms dissipated. On the way home, I had a couple cigarettes &#8211; and wham &#8211; the symptoms were back. I threw them in the trash and I now roll my own (American Spirit) one at a time.</p>
<p>Again &#8211; there is no government agency who is going to intervene as there is nothing in it for them. Insurance companies and the god almighty dollar is the winning ticket.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Big Changes to IRS Form 1099 in 2011, 2012 by ZANSIGN</title>
		<link>http://www.investingblog.org/archives/637/big-changes-to-irs-form-1099-in-2011-2012/comment-page-1/#comment-21115</link>
		<dc:creator>ZANSIGN</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:26:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Wow, really! And as we open up a new tax season, for most of us, we are heading into more and more fear of oppression. I would like to see our disassembled gov&#039;t actually try to track all these 1099&#039;s. I can already smell all the confusion. And, so what about people being audited? I mean, the tax code, business owners keep receipts like insulin, and this keeps things fair. You know what, let&#039;s fix all the fraud of the social welfare programs. Why go after the working people, why? I worked in social welfare after being self employed, wow, what an f*uped mess with a bunch of selfish idiots running everything and or ice-skating job fed pay. So, your either a fed. employee or on welfare, I am pretty sure this is about when USSR collapsed. I went back to being an entrepreneur and struggle with all this stuff everyday. You want to  balance out federal projects and belly programs and agencies. 

Stop all the welfare fraud, woman shouldn&#039;t be giving birth only for a continued paycheck, I was paying out 2-10yr. old kids with adhd (bullsh*t, healthy kids) left and right 100 thousand or more $ in back pay all day long. 

You want to control drug problems, drug test randomly welfare and ssi and ss recipients and penalize them for life if so (of course aside from their medicine), stop doctors and clinics and counseling agencies and nursing home and home health leg companies from bilking our funds of bilions and billions of dollars every year, stop illegal immigration and tax seasonal workers at a higher rate and make sure their documented, stop attacking the small business people and all this non-sense why would a company want to stay in the us? 

Stop giving top notch care to welfare ricipents give veterans this care and make the ssi and ss recipients use the va clinics system instead and treat our veterans with respect, yet retrieve the right for those of medical necessity, create a grocery store for people on food stamps (wic) to only shop there and only offer nutritous foods, make people on these food stamp programs pack their kids lunches instead of getting free lunches from our broke school systems. 

It is the first of the month here, I go to grocery store to get food for my family on a small budget and by the end of month we have no food, yet you know who welfare recipient is pulling two or more grocery carts full of food and throw it out the window-yes, you fucking lobbysit this go&#039;s to you too for corp greed and it will all come back soon as people wil realize this and not buy into it. 

Hey, those are just a few ideas, yes, ideas they are and or if they are right or not, or politically and totally left-winged or right-winged is not a mention. The point is, there is soooo many ways to create a more healthy and balanced gov&#039;t then go after the small business people who are the ones that keep our country afloat. 

If any of you people read this and disagree or think its all wrong what I wrote this you probably have not much of a real understanding of what is actually going on in our country. Hey, most posts above reflected in the same ways as my comments and feelings as they know-so if you don&#039;t, wake up!
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wow, really! And as we open up a new tax season, for most of us, we are heading into more and more fear of oppression. I would like to see our disassembled gov&#8217;t actually try to track all these 1099&#8242;s. I can already smell all the confusion. And, so what about people being audited? I mean, the tax code, business owners keep receipts like insulin, and this keeps things fair. You know what, let&#8217;s fix all the fraud of the social welfare programs. Why go after the working people, why? I worked in social welfare after being self employed, wow, what an f*uped mess with a bunch of selfish idiots running everything and or ice-skating job fed pay. So, your either a fed. employee or on welfare, I am pretty sure this is about when USSR collapsed. I went back to being an entrepreneur and struggle with all this stuff everyday. You want to  balance out federal projects and belly programs and agencies. </p>
<p>Stop all the welfare fraud, woman shouldn&#8217;t be giving birth only for a continued paycheck, I was paying out 2-10yr. old kids with adhd (bullsh*t, healthy kids) left and right 100 thousand or more $ in back pay all day long. </p>
<p>You want to control drug problems, drug test randomly welfare and ssi and ss recipients and penalize them for life if so (of course aside from their medicine), stop doctors and clinics and counseling agencies and nursing home and home health leg companies from bilking our funds of bilions and billions of dollars every year, stop illegal immigration and tax seasonal workers at a higher rate and make sure their documented, stop attacking the small business people and all this non-sense why would a company want to stay in the us? </p>
<p>Stop giving top notch care to welfare ricipents give veterans this care and make the ssi and ss recipients use the va clinics system instead and treat our veterans with respect, yet retrieve the right for those of medical necessity, create a grocery store for people on food stamps (wic) to only shop there and only offer nutritous foods, make people on these food stamp programs pack their kids lunches instead of getting free lunches from our broke school systems. </p>
<p>It is the first of the month here, I go to grocery store to get food for my family on a small budget and by the end of month we have no food, yet you know who welfare recipient is pulling two or more grocery carts full of food and throw it out the window-yes, you fucking lobbysit this go&#8217;s to you too for corp greed and it will all come back soon as people wil realize this and not buy into it. </p>
<p>Hey, those are just a few ideas, yes, ideas they are and or if they are right or not, or politically and totally left-winged or right-winged is not a mention. The point is, there is soooo many ways to create a more healthy and balanced gov&#8217;t then go after the small business people who are the ones that keep our country afloat. </p>
<p>If any of you people read this and disagree or think its all wrong what I wrote this you probably have not much of a real understanding of what is actually going on in our country. Hey, most posts above reflected in the same ways as my comments and feelings as they know-so if you don&#8217;t, wake up!</p>
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		<title>Comment on Meredith Whitney’s Failed Municipal Bond Call by Nobaloney</title>
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		<dc:creator>Nobaloney</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:39:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Meredith Whitney was wrong on many levels.  She completely misunderstood the political reality of not allowing municipal governments to go into default or bankrupt.  Municipalities all over the nation are doing what everybody else is doing, deleveraging.  That means borrowing less and that is clearly showing up in the greatly reduced new supply of muni bonds on the market.  Anybody who believed Whitney was foolish but unfortunately many lost as much as 30% of their muni investment when they sold and then couldn&#039;t buy back in on the upswing.  As they say, a fool and his money were lucky to get together in the first place.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Meredith Whitney was wrong on many levels.  She completely misunderstood the political reality of not allowing municipal governments to go into default or bankrupt.  Municipalities all over the nation are doing what everybody else is doing, deleveraging.  That means borrowing less and that is clearly showing up in the greatly reduced new supply of muni bonds on the market.  Anybody who believed Whitney was foolish but unfortunately many lost as much as 30% of their muni investment when they sold and then couldn&#8217;t buy back in on the upswing.  As they say, a fool and his money were lucky to get together in the first place.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Fire Safe Cigarettes and the Industry (FSC) (carpet glue) by Cathy</title>
		<link>http://www.investingblog.org/archives/594/fire-safe-cigarettes-industry-fsc-carpet-glue/comment-page-1/#comment-21111</link>
		<dc:creator>Cathy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 10:39:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I have been smoking for over 40 years without issue. I went to the gym 3 to 4 times a week (ran on treadmill, used rowing machine, rode stationary bike, etc...)now I can barely walk from my bedroom to the kitchen without being short of breath and dizzy. I have lost 20 pounds and look like I have aged 25 yearssince they changed the cigarttes. It&#039;s crazy and my hubby thinks I&#039;m nuts when I say it&#039;s the cigs. He says onyou been smoking forever can&#039;t be them go to dr and get checked out. Well I go they do every blood test they can think of and tell me nothing wrong just a little anemic and low on a few vitamins. Been doing everything dr told me to do (except quit smoking) and still feel like death warmed over. First we can&#039;t smoke any where now I think they are trying to kill off us smokers, guess regular cigarettes aren&#039;t doing it fast enough!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have been smoking for over 40 years without issue. I went to the gym 3 to 4 times a week (ran on treadmill, used rowing machine, rode stationary bike, etc&#8230;)now I can barely walk from my bedroom to the kitchen without being short of breath and dizzy. I have lost 20 pounds and look like I have aged 25 yearssince they changed the cigarttes. It&#8217;s crazy and my hubby thinks I&#8217;m nuts when I say it&#8217;s the cigs. He says onyou been smoking forever can&#8217;t be them go to dr and get checked out. Well I go they do every blood test they can think of and tell me nothing wrong just a little anemic and low on a few vitamins. Been doing everything dr told me to do (except quit smoking) and still feel like death warmed over. First we can&#8217;t smoke any where now I think they are trying to kill off us smokers, guess regular cigarettes aren&#8217;t doing it fast enough!</p>
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		<title>Comment on Meredith Whitney’s Failed Municipal Bond Call by Truth Dealer</title>
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		<dc:creator>Truth Dealer</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 22:02:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Payment defaults last year, depending on who you asked, ranged from $1.7 billion (Hallacy) to $2.6 billion (Fabian).</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Payment defaults last year, depending on who you asked, ranged from $1.7 billion (Hallacy) to $2.6 billion (Fabian).</p>
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		<title>Comment on Obama&#8217;s $2500 College Education Tax Credit Explained by Rose</title>
		<link>http://www.investingblog.org/archives/742/obamas-2500-college-education-tax-credit-explained/comment-page-2/#comment-21107</link>
		<dc:creator>Rose</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 05:26:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>To my knowledge (based on what I&#039;ve read about is credit) I qualify. I just started college August of 2011. I just received my 1098-T and it states that the college has billed me for 3000 and I have a pell grant of 2500. I haven&#039;t made any payments on my loan and won&#039;t until after I graduate. When I filed my taxes, it says that I am not qualified for any college credits. I&#039;m a little confused by this, if possible could you clarify?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>To my knowledge (based on what I&#8217;ve read about is credit) I qualify. I just started college August of 2011. I just received my 1098-T and it states that the college has billed me for 3000 and I have a pell grant of 2500. I haven&#8217;t made any payments on my loan and won&#8217;t until after I graduate. When I filed my taxes, it says that I am not qualified for any college credits. I&#8217;m a little confused by this, if possible could you clarify?</p>
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		<title>Comment on Groupon IPO:  Stock Options Just Around the Corner! by James Stanley</title>
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		<dc:creator>James Stanley</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 16:49:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Groupon&#039;s financials have been found to be inflated.  There is no sound basis from which the company can grow.</description>
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