A Special Blogger named 'SHENG'

I've met many bloggers in my lifetime, and have crossed paths with them from time to time, but I just wanted to comment openly here about one special such blogger, a special lady who now lives in Australia. She is definitely a very most special person, and a wife to one of the most lucky men in the world. Her name is Sheng. She is a loving wife, and also a most special kind of mom to her son named Kaiden.
In her blog articles, you can sense a touch of very personal feeling, and also a longing sense of a Filipino woman who longs to be in her home country. Instead she has traveled the world, loyal to her husband. She claims that she is loved and blessed with her family, when in actuality, they are blessed to have her. She has traveled from the Philippines, lived in the Middle East and Eastern Europe and South East Asia, and now resides in the 'Land down Under' called Australia. In each case, she has followed her husband as a very loyal wife, putting aside her life for him. Isn't that exactly what married couples need to do, to set aside their lives for each other?  In each town that she calls home, she meets special people that she calls 'a friend'. What actually happens here is that unknowingly at first, the friends that she meets has just meet a person whom they will consider 'a special friend' or 'a best friend' in Sheng.
I would like to take this moment on this blog to congratulate 'Sheng' for being the special person that she is. She is a model that all women should follow.

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Reader Response to Article ' Commentary - Obama Health issue is Nutty '

As promised to my readers of this blog, I would openly publish any comment made on any article that I deemed as very thought provoking and well written. The following comment, made by a reader that calls himself  'Anonymous', has stated his view and has provided other links to prove his statement as fact, concerning his view regarding President Obama's birth certificate.  The following comment is very thought provoking and is well written, hence the reason why it is appearing here at this time.  

A special thanks go out to 'Anonymous' for his comment on the article titled  'Commentary - Obama Health issue is Nutty'

 

Anonymous said...

Every blogger/commenter who feels that there are no issues with Obama's eligibility all raise one issue, over and over again: ""FactCheck.org staffers have now seen, touched, examined and photographed the original birth certificate. We conclude that it meets all of the requirements from the State Department for proving U.S. citizenship. Claims that the document lacks a raised seal or a signature are false." FactCheck took a look at a certificate of live birth issued by the state of Hawaii. The certificate of live birth says, right on it, that it constitutes "prima facie" evidence that Obama was born in Hawaii. Does anyone out there other than lawyers understand what "prima facie" evidence means? It means that it creates a rebuttable presumption that Obama was born in Hawaii - it does NOT constitute irrefutable evidence that he was born in Hawaii. In a court of law, if an attorney is presented with prima facie evidence by the other side, the attorney marshalls evidence to rebut the rebuttable presumption, i.e., to prove otherwise. This whole meme out there that the certificate of live birth constitutes "proof" of anything is the "big lie" that the media keeps repeating. Go ahead - check it out: http://www.factcheck.org/UploadedFiles/birth_certificate_6.jpg.

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Obama seems 'un-stoppable' with his campaign promises, now to include Health Care Reform

The following article is the 'Opinion of the Editor' James

Amidst all the issues of the day, one outlying fact still remains. The so called 'right-wing' Republican party still does not have a truly valid leader that could compete with Barack Obama in the re-election year of 2012. In a CNN report, a prior candidate who never even made it to the RNC, Rudy Giuliani told reporters that what the Republicans need to do is focus on Obama's "left wing" policies. In an attempt to do just that, officials from the left to include one of the most prominent people that may run against President Obama in 2012, Governor Bobby Jindal from Louisiana appeared on 'Larry King Live' and talked about the current issues and the state of the economy in contrast to how President Obama sees the progress.
It is true that the economy does appear to have turned around as many indicators may show, but the facts are that until everyone who lost their job within the last 2 years gets to find another one and starts working again, this country will never be where it was prior to the economic meltdown of 2008 and 2009. The Governor was quick to point out that some of the jobs that have been created by the funds made available in Obama's stimulus bill in 2009 will not exist in a year from now. Many of the jobs founded since Obama's election have been part-time jobs.
Watching the news on TV yesterday, some of these people that now have jobs, whether they are part time or not, are so very thankful to Obama, and truly believe that if it was not for the funds that were made available for job seekers that would also help train these people, then they most likely would still be out on the street.
The republicans cannot deny that fact, as much as they would like too. But President Obama is now nearing his 200th day as President of the United States, and is moving with lightning speed, and the Republicans cannot keep up. Why they complain about the economic stimulus and the job situation, President Obama is about the pass a monumental health care reform bill, something that one of the prior Democratic Presidents, Bill Clinton was unable to do. President Obama did hit kind of a stumbling block at the moment, but he already has most of 'his ducks in order' as the Congress will now take a summer break, and then return in September. Obama was hoping for passage of his health care reform bill in July, but now it will not happen. There was lots of criticism over the bill, as members of Congress have decided that they wanted to truly read this bill before signing off on it, along with many issues with the bill that are debatable. As expected, President Obama did receive opposition from the conservative democrats, but in a last minute push to get the bill back on track, President Obama made a series of Town hall meetings and took his plan right to the public. The meetings were an over-whelming success. Prior to the summer break the Congress will take in August, many of the conservative Democrats now claim that they will now vote for the health plan.
This notion that a bill will actually pass is a 'red flag' for the Republican party, because if Obama was to get this bill passed prior to the beginning of 2010, then most likely they would not have anything to stop him from winning his re-election in 2012. Obama is coming true to one of his campaign promises, and that was to provide health care reform to the citizens of this country, so that everyone can acquire affordable health  care.

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Commentary - Obama birth issue is nutty

By Roland S. Martin
CNN Contributor

Editor's note: A nationally syndicated columnist, Roland S. Martin is the author of "Listening to the Spirit Within: 50 Perspectives on Faith" and "Speak, Brother! A Black Man's View of America." Visit his Web site for more information.

Roland S. Martin says issue of Obama's birth certificate is being pushed by conspiracy theorists.

(CNN) -- The YouTube video of an out-of-control woman yelling and screaming at Republican Congressman Mike Castle's town hall meeting in Delaware, demanding to see the birth certificate of President Barack Obama, is utterly hilarious.

To watch others cheer her insanity, and then boo the congressman who says the president is an American, shows you that we have a serious problem with mental illness in this country.

The nut jobs that continue to promote this story are wacky, right-wing radio and TV talk shows hosts and no-credibility bloggers. They have latched onto this story like bloodsucking leeches, and actually want us to believe this story has legs.

Last week, in a suit filed by perennial presidential loser, Alan Keyes, they even tried to claim a court victory after a federal district judge in California asked to listen to the merits of their case. I'm sure he simply wanted to see for himself how delusional they are.

From the moment President Obama entered the race, he has had to endure the so-called flag-waving American patriots who think they are the arbiters of what's right for the country. What cracks me up is that in order to justify their loony beliefs, they say, "The president could just end this once and for all by producing the birth certificate."
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Do you actually believe these wackos will stop there? They will then accuse the president of doctoring the document and ordering up the state of Hawaii and federal officials to create the birth certificate.

The next thing you know, one of those nut job right-wingers in Congress -- and yes, there are left-wing nut jobs as well -- will demand a federal investigation into the production of the birth certificate.

During the presidential campaign last year, the issue of whether Barack Obama was a "natural born citizen" legally qualified to be president was scrutinized by reporters and researchers who concluded that Obama was born in the United States.

For example, in August, 2008, factcheck.org published the following: "FactCheck.org staffers have now seen, touched, examined and photographed the original birth certificate. We conclude that it meets all of the requirements from the State Department for proving U.S. citizenship. Claims that the document lacks a raised seal or a signature are false."

President Obama is right to ignore these losers. They are right up there with Holocaust deniers like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and the people who insist that the landing on the moon was done in a television studio.

Conspiracy theorists are everywhere. It's just that today, we have to deal with the Internet and all the mess that is disseminated in the name of so-called transparency.

So nut jobs, keep it coming. In such difficult times, we all need a good laugh every now and then, and you provide great comic fodder.

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House Democrats divided on President Obama's Health Care Plan

As expected, negotiations broke down mainly because the Congress now wants to look allot more closely on the proposed Health Care Plan. House Democrats are openly speaking that internal negotiations have failed, so now is the time to take a closer look at the issues. Henry Waxman, the House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman will continue to speak to members of the Blue Dog coalition, fiscal conservatives that are stalling on the bill, but he also make it clear that he intends to move forward with the legislation. He is willing to bypass a committee vote if necessary and take the bill directly to the House floor for a final vote. But I highly doubt that this will take place. Without support of the fiscal conservative democrats, the bill will most likely fail, according to Arkansas Rep. Mike Ross, who is a member of the Blue Dog coalition. President Obama will continue to sell his plan to the Congress, and push the issue in front of the public. The coalition is mainly against government-funded public health insurance and the cost of the plan - $1 trillion. Only one out of ten items of question in the health reform bill have been addressed. Senate Speaker Nancy Pelosi believes that she has enough votes to get it through in the Senate, but many other people disagree. Regardless, the vote will not take place until the August summer break. God forbid if Congress was to miss their vacation. After all, the health plan is not that important. Right? Of course it is important, and President Obama is accepting a delay as long as the Congress keeps working on passing a bill.

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Obama on Health Care Reform: This isn’t about me. This isn’t about politics.

Well, the gloves are off. The Obama administration is not going to let the Republicans or media control the debate on health care reform. Here he is at the Childrens National Medical Center talking about getting legislation passed and taking a certain Senator (Demint) to task for his comments last week:

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President Obama’s press conference addresses health care, Gates arrest

The President gives a conference yesterday to promote plans for health-care reform

Natalie Custodio


On July 22, 2009, President Obama hosted a prime-time televised press conference in an effort to discuss his plans for health-care reform.

He fielded various questions from reporters at the White House about his plans to universalize health care in the United States, citing it as “the driving force behind the national deficit,” according to National Public Radio

He opened with a report on progress from the White House so far, explaining the impact of the Recovery Act and its work with helping families and small business owners with tax breaks in order to keep them afloat.

Obama then announced that the public should not be discouraged, that although the country isn’t ideally back where we need to be, we are on track to total recovery.

He even left the press conference on a glimmer of hope with a gem of honesty, saying that “new hiring is always one of the last things to bounce back after a recession,” according to transcripts.

The President is utilizing his recent public appearances as a way to clarify his plans, citing both the problems with current health-care (expensive, difficult to obtain, often unreliable to hold on to) and then following up with a solution (universal health-care). As momentum for his plans pick up, so does flack from his opponents

He hasn’t had much support from his constituents in Washington D.C., and many conservative figures are busy doubting his abilities altogether.

House Republican Eric Cantor told MSNBC that, “What I heard last night was a president that seems somewhat frustrated that people do not understand what this government health-care plan is all about.”

Though not everyone is against him here.

Recent polls taken show a 50% support rate in favor of Obama’s reform, but a close 43% against it. (The other 7% were indifferent or could not be surveyed) Some conservatives are even giving their own approval rates.

Louisianna Governor Bobby Jindal (a leading Republican figure) also told MSNBC “You listen to what the President said. He said he does not want to increase the deficit, does not want government control of healthcare. He wants people to keep their insurance. He wants to crack down on the abuse…All that’s great, the problem is, that’s not what’s in the House Democrat bill.”

President Obama also made an unexpected dig at Cambridge, Mass. Police in response to a question about the arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates.

Gates was arrested by police after forcefully entering his own home. The charges were later dropped, but when the President was posed with the question of his opinion, he commented on Gates’ arrest in relation to race saying, “...there is a long history in this country of African-Americans and Latinos being stopped by law enforcement disproportionately. That’s just a fact.”

Gates is of African-American descent.

Our Take:

President Obama came along at a very unstable time for the United States, not only economically, but nationally as well. He may experience quite a bit of flack for his ideals and changes, mainly because we are a nation set in our ways. As evidenced by the Harvard professor’s arrest, certain stigmas and fears will never disappear, regardless of who is in office or what progress is being made.

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Obama Special Press Conference on Health Care Reform 7/22/09

Below are questions at a Press Conference to Barack Obama about Health Care Reform. The President felt that due to the overwhelming opposition to his plan, that he face his critics and explain it in a deeper sense.

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Senior Health Care - Almost non-existant in some cases - Congress won't act

President Obama talks about health care, and wants to pass a health care reform bill by the end of this year. Obama originally wanted to have a bill passed before the congress takes a break this summer, but now will most likely not happen until after the break in the fall. People in Congress seem to want to go with the 'status quo' here, thinking that what they have is good enough. I truly believe that most of the congressmen believe that a new plan is desperately needed, but the Republicans along with Conservative Democrats seem to believe that stopping this bill can hurt President Obama, and be his "waterloo". Who are they kidding? Who gets hurt here are all the people who cannot afford health care.
The rich are so worried that they will be paying for the brunt of the health care costs. It is true that they will be taxed more. Obama plans on taxing the rich, the people who can actually afford paying higher taxes. Can he tax the poor? If he could, then maybe these Americans that cannot afford health care at the present costs can afford the care. But the fact is that they cannot afford it.
It is very difficult for seniors to afford health care, such as dental care for example, when all they have is Medicare, no Medicaid, and no way to get into an Advantage program. For example, my mother receives a monthly social security check just slightly below $1,000, but does not qualify for an Advantage program, because she is a dialysis patient. Does that make any sense. So what does this mean. She cannot qualify for any dental assistance for example. A recent expense for her dental, just to pull 4 teeth at age 79, was approximately $2,000 for just about 1 hour of service.
This kind of treatment is disheartening, especially to seniors who cannot afford to pay these high medical bills. Having 'end stage renal disease' makes you not qualify for any dental care? How does a kidney issue reflect on dental coverage?
President Obama wants to pass a bill that would suit all Americans but does this include my mom? The members of Congress are some of the richest people in this country, and they do not want to be taxed more. They do not want to help the people who can't help themselves.
How would mom get dental work done without the help of her family. She just wouldn't except maybe in a free clinic somewhere. Unfortunately, even the free clinics wouldn't preform oral surgery that mom needed to extract just 4 teeth, with the amount payable before the surgery was rendered. 

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President Obama pushing HARD for his Health Care Reform Bill - but meeting lots of Resistance

During the Clinton Administration, President Clinton tried to pass a health care reform package. Why did he try to do it. The answer is simple. This country needs it. There are just too many people that cannot afford the coverage. But the answer always seems to be to tax the rich. With a $1 Trillion price tag this go around, and it's a bill that would require allot of work to get such a bill passed. That is the reason why President Obama is taking this issue directly to the people. Now why does he have to do that?  Well this time around, he doesn't even have a majority of democratic support, let alone enough bi-partisan support. The health care reform bill is weighed down with complex problems, and this bill can be one of the most important bills to be sent to his desk for signature. But in this case, it could be one of the most important bills not to reach his desk, unless he gets democrats and republicans alike to sign off on his health care reform plan.

President Obama knows that if he cannot get a majority of democratic support, his plan would be all but doomed. This would be a disaster for President Obama.
President Obama promised that he would get a health care reform bill passed this year, but if it fails, it most likely will get shelved for a long time, just like it did during the President Clinton administration. President Obama is putting his future career on the line here with this bill. The conservatives want to do everything possible to get him pushed out of office, but in this case I think that they still wouldn't have enough muster to get him out. Many people from the left may abandon him also after the failed vote on health care reform, but there should still be enough followers to keep him afloat, even to push him through to his next term.
But don't underestimate the importance of passing this bill in his eyes. He knows that if it does not pass, not only will he have a very difficult time in getting another health care reform bill sent to Congress this year or next year for that matter, he would then loose allot of support for future bills that he wants to put through Congress. His popularity level is going down, but with the failure of the Health Care reform bill, President Obama's popularity most likely will continue to sag. But just remember, he is not even through his first year as President. Do you think that the failure of this bill will kill his desire to pass other measures through Congress. Personally, I think not. He is not afraid to take chances and take his message to the people if he has too. And what better person is there to be a communicator to the people than President Obama. The American people hasn't seen anything like him since the days of the famous communicator Ronald Reagan. President Obama is not a quitter. One of the things he must do, especially since he may loose the health care bill, is to re-win over the conservative Democrats, somewhere totaling near 40. These are the Democrats that can kill any bill they want to kill, and side with the Conservative party on issues as they desire.
When you stop and think about it, President Obama to date has not lost any large bill that he wanted passed. There will be other major trials to come his way as far as new legislation goes, and he has at least 3 1/2 more years to test his Congress. In 2012, the real test will be to see who will run against him, and whether he would desire to re-run for President. As I said, he is not a quitter, and I feel confident that he will run again, regardless of what results are claimed for the health care reform bill.

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Truth-O-Meter Political scorecard

July 20, 2009

Posted: 06:43 AM ET

American Morning - amFIX

Editor’s Note: PolitiFact.com is a project of the St. Petersburg Times that aims to help you find the truth in politics. Every day, reporters and researchers from the Times examine statements by members of Congress, the president, etc. They research their statements and then rate the accuracy on their Truth-O-Meter.

At 6-month mark, Obama has long to-do list

President Obama after six months: 32 promises kept, 7 broken and 300-plus still to work on – according to PolitiFact.com.

By Bill Adair – PolitiFact.com

At the six-month mark of his presidency, Barack Obama has made progress on some of his biggest campaign promises. Of the Top 25 we’re tracking with our Obameter, we’ve rated two as Promise Kept, one as a Compromise and 10 as In the Works. (The rest: one earned a Promise Broken, one Stalled and 10 No Action.)
But when you step back and look at all 515 promises that we’re tracking, it’s clear that Obama still has a huge to-do list: Of the 515, we’ve rated 32 Kept, seven Broken and 10 Compromise. A whopping 376 are still rated No Action.
Monday (July 20, 2009) will be six months since Obama took the oath of office. He has wrestled with the most severe economic crisis since the Great Depression, but as we noted in February, he used the crisis as an opportunity to fullfill many of his campaign promises through the $787 billion economic stimulus bill.
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Health care reform bill jolts the Obameter

President Barack Obama talks about health care at the White House on July 17, 2009 in Washington, DC.

By Angie Drobnic Holan – PolitiFact.com

We’ve heard lots of talk about health care reform over the past few months, but this week we got the actual bill to look at. On Tuesday, Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives introduced major legislation to overhaul the nation’s health care system. The 1,000-plus page bill, called America’s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009, includes most of President Barack Obama’s key proposals on health reform.
That kicked off a flurry of activity on our Obameter. We moved 10 of the president’s campaign promises from No Action to In the Works. We’ll likely find a few more to move as the legislation works its way through the process.
Obameter says: IN THE WORKS

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Bennett says stimulus is spending too much on road signs promoting stimulus

Sen. Robert Bennett (R-UT) speaks during a news conference on the economic stimulus package on Capitol Hill January 29, 2009 in Washington, DC.

“The Obama administration has spent millions of taxpayer dollars for roadside signs to tout the economic stimulus.” Robert Bennett on Wednesday, July 15th, 2009 in a news release.
The Truth-O-Meter Says: HALF TRUE

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President Obama continues to fight for his Health Care Program

President Obama is having his toughest test yet as president who will fight to get his health care program approved. But Obama is now facing Democratic and Republican critics alike. Obama does not plan to back down, and now is planing another speech to the country to promote his health care program. He feels that the timetable needed for passage is very tight, but the legislation he is trying to pass is going under extreme criticism by many politicians. Meanwhile, President Obama's approval rating on how he is handling the economy and health care is dwindling. Obama does to seem moved about his approval ratings on a downward turn. He claims "We can't afford the politics of delay and defeat when it comes to health care," and also says "There are too many lives and livelihoods at stake." He also claims,"This isn't about me. This isn't about politics. It is about a health care system that is breaking American families."
Now he has a big heart, no doubt. Many are now questioning his ablity to get the issue resolved in the way he claims will work. The economy is still in an economic downturn, but there are signs that the economy may bounce back, but at what cost. What is known is that the cost will be higher than ever thought by any government official, including the President of the United States. Details as to the scope on health care and the economy will continue to come in, and will be reported as they happen right here on this website.

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U.S. soldier captured by Taliban: 'I'm afraid'

(CNN) -- A United States soldier captured by the Taliban says in a video posted on the Internet he is "scared I won't be able to go home."

Pfc. Bowe Bergdahl shown here in a video made by his captors, members of the Taliban.

The soldier was identified Sunday by the Pentagon as Pfc. Bowe R. Bergdahl, 23, of Ketchum, Idaho. He was captured June 30 from Paktika province in southeastern Afghanistan.
The Taliban has threatened to kill Bergdahl if foreign troops continue targeting civilians in the name of search operations in Ghazni and Paktika province, Taliban commander Mulvi Sangeen said by telephone Friday after being contacted by CNN at an undisclosed location.
NATO-led forces in Afghanistan and the U.S. military have repeatedly denied targeting civilians.
In the 28-minute video, Bergdahl becomes emotional when he speaks of his family -- his parents, siblings, nieces and nephew -- and the girlfriend he hopes to marry.
"I have a very, very good family that I love back home in America, and I miss them every day that I'm gone," he says. "I miss them and I'm afraid I might never see them again and that I'll never be able to tell them I love them again. I'll never be able to hug them."
He adds that he is "scared. I'm scared I won't be able to go home. It is very unnerving to be a prisoner." However, he says his captors are treating him "like a guest."
It was not clear whether some or all of Bergdahl's remarks were scripted by his captors.

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The last few minutes of the video show him eating a meal.
In a statement released Sunday through the Idaho National Guard, Bergdahl's family said, "We hope and pray for our son's safe return to his comrades and then to our family, and we appreciate all the support and expressions of sympathy shown to us by our family members, our friends and others across the nation. Thank you, and please continue to keep Bowe in your thoughts and prayers."
Asked by his captors if he had any message for Americans, the soldier says, "To my fellow Americans who have loved ones over here, who know what it's like to miss them, you have the power to make our government bring them home. Please, please bring us home so we can be back where we belong and not over here."
The Taliban earlier claimed responsibility for Bergdahl's kidnapping, the military said. Last week, the U.S. military distributed pamphlets in eastern Afghanistan in an effort to locate him.
"As you can see, the American soldier is in good shape and good health, and he is being treated well based on the guidelines of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan regarding war prisoners," said a statement on Islamist Web sites accompanying the video. "Any decision regarding the American soldier will be the specialty of the high order of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, may God protect him."
The military said it believed Bergdahl may have been moved to various locations. In the video, he claims to have been moved from Paktika province to Khandahar, but that claim could not be verified. Asked the date, he says it is July 14.
Two versions of the pamphlets were distributed in Afghanistan, written in the Pashto language. They were made available to CNN by U.S. Forces Afghanistan.
One shows the image of an American soldier shaking hands in a group of kids with the message, "One of our American guests is missing. Return the guest to his home. Call us at" -- and lists a phone number.
The other shows a U.S. soldier kicking down a door, and then an outstretched hand with the superimposed image of a soldier, his head and arms drooping, and the words, "If you do not release the U.S. soldier then ... you will be hunted," the pamphlet says.
Days after Bergdahl went missing, a senior U.S. military official said Bergdahl and the Afghan soldiers were captured by low-level militants and then quickly "sold" to the clan and network led by warlord Siraj Haqqani -- believed to be deeply involved in the action.
The Haqqani clan operates on both sides of the Afghan-Pakistani border and is well known to the U.S. military.
Bergdahl apparently left his small outpost on his own on June 30 with no apparent means of defending himself, the official said. Taliban commander Mulvi Sangeen said he visited a military post in the Yousaf Khel district in the Paktika province, got drunk, and was ambushed while returning to his car.
Sangeen said the soldier was taken to a safe place. CNN could not independently verify Sangeen's claims.
A source with the U.S. military denied the claim that Bergdahl was drunk. "The Taliban are known for lying and what they are claiming (is) not true," the source said.
In the video, Bergdahl says he was captured as he was lagging behind a patrol.
Bergdahl is not a National Guardsman, according to the Idaho National Guard statement, but the organization said it was coordinating with the Department of Defense to provide public affairs duties and other assistance to the Bergdahl family. The family has requested privacy, the statement said.

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Extremely Poor Customer Service at McDonald's in Balch Springs, Texas

This week has been a very dismal week as far as services rendered are concerned for my family. Just recently, I had reported an issue with a home health care company called Attentive-PrimeCare.

This evening, I decided to take a break from writing on this blog, and tend to other chores around the house, and around 10:55PM, I left the house to pick up my wife from her place of employment. When I had arrived, she told me that she was sorry that she didn't call, and that it would be nice that I went to one of the fast food establishments in Balch Springs, Texas to get her a snack as she was going to put in another 8 hours of work because of a no-show at work for the midnight shift. I don't know why, but I chose McDonald's.

At this time of night, at approximately 11:10PM, the lobby was closed, and the only way to get food was thru the drive-in. The line going to the speakerphone where you order the food was long. There were 5 cars ahead of me. So I was already convinced that I would be spending some time getting this food but it was my decision to stay in the line. But what happened from the time that I ordered the food, approximately 15 minutes after I entered the line was almost unimaginable.

Now try to imagine this. It took another 10-15 minutes to get to the window to pay for the food, and at the same window, I waited between 10-15 minutes, before I was told that it would be best for me to drive around, get in line again and when I reached the window, my food would be ready. I told the teller at the window that I didn't want to get back in line, that I would wait up front and asked them to bring my food out to me. The lady at the window agreed. I waited another 5 minutes. So do the math. Almost 50 minutes to get a single order of food. The order was a #11, a chicken select combo meal. While I was at the window, people were blowing their horns because they were also getting impatient.The system to provide good fast food service at the drive thru window at this McDonald's is broken. After waiting 5 minutes in front of the building, I then became very impatient, stepped out of my car, and pounded on the window with my key. A man immediately showed up at the door with my order. A few words were exchanged. His tone was very respectful, but I must honestly say that I wasn't so kind. I did speak to him with a raised voice. I told him that the customer service that I had just received was very poor. I had ordered only one single order.  I told him I wanted to speak to the manager, and then he told me that he was the manager. I told him that I needed to speak to his boss, so with my order still in his hands, he went back inside the establishment, and wrote down what is supposed to be his bosses phone number on a piece of scrap paper. There was no readable name on the piece of paper, just a number that I could almost not even read. So I have elected to travel to this McDonald's in the morning and I will find out who the senior manager is and explain to him what I had experienced tonight.

By the way, after all of this, the fries were cold, the coffee I had received almost 20 minutes earlier was also cold. No plastic ware was included in the bag, and all in all it was just one bad experience. Meanwhile my poor wife waited and waited.

  If my company gave the same kind of customer service that this McDonald's gave to me, my company would be heading out of business. Customer service is very crucial in a fast food business, and I'm sure that a food chain as big as McDonald's would not normally give this kind of service. So I'm putting this local establishment on notice with this article, and I will make sure that McDonald's will hear about this incident on a national level. In fairness to McDonald's, I will report on this blog anything that they do to try to resolve this issue with me. I will give credit to them when credit is do.

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Health-care 'reform' raises serious issues

Friday, July 17, 2009
By H.L. Schneider Jr. 

 

Here are excerpts from a letter sent July 11 to U.S. Rep. Jo Ann Emerson regarding health care reform:
 
Please. I beg you and your fellow representatives to take your time and give due diligence with respect to proposed health-care reform legislation. The decisions you make will have the potential to bankrupt the country and forever change the political landscape. A public option (son of Medicare) would have enormous consequences, not to mention the cost to taxpayers and the country. I fear many providers (physicians) might retire, productivity would drop and work satisfaction might be negatively affected. Make sure the cure is not worse than the disease.
What is really meant by "reform"? Is it the need to insure every American? The need to cut the per-capita expenditure for health care? Both? The 42 million to 50 million uninsured includes about 8 million illegal aliens. Some proposals do not cover this group. These individuals get care through the emergency medical system where they cannot be turned away.
I get the impression that emphasis is put on the coverage of all Americans and we'll worry about costs later. In reality, cost is the real problem.
If the government creates a Medicare clone, I fear it would eventually force private-sector companies out of business. There are more than 1,500 insurance plans available nationwide. Should we overhaul the system for the 15 percent who do not have health insurance, or is this a ruse so that eventually the U.S. moves to a national health-care system monitored and paid for by taxpayers?
The private sector competing with the government is like playing football and the opposing team is both player and referee. Government subsidies and tax credits will allow negotiation with suppliers not available to the private sector.
The government is great at hiding the true cost of running a business. The public option will not have to make a profit to stay in business, similar to the U.S. Postal Service or Amtrak.
Will our elected representatives and senators require the legislative, judicial and executive branches, as well as all federal employees, to use the public option before it is forced on the people they represent?
Medicine has never been a free-market enterprise. If you participate in the Medicare and Medicaid programs, balance billing is forbidden. What most people do not know is that the difference between the billed charges and the amount Medicare pays is the Medicare adjustment or write-off, not a loss or tax deduction for the physician. When I entered the field gastroenterology, the physician fee for a diagnostic upper endoscopy was reimbursed about $340 from Medicare. Today that same procedure is reimbursed at around $110. In my 20-plus years of medical practice my cost of keeping a clinic open has increased yearly, yet payment for services has not increased proportionately or in some cases has not increased at all due to contractual arrangements.
Cost is probably the meat on the chopping block. It is true that the U.S. spends more per capita on health care than any other country. With innovation and research come new medicines, new treatment guidelines and new equipment or devices. These improvements result in a longer life span, the ability to work and less pain and, in many cases, avoid surgery or allow for a less invasive form of surgery. Several nemeses play a significant role in medical cost, such as chronic illnesses for which there is no cure but improved treatment, the noncompliant patient and one's responsibility for self. A significant portion of health-care dollars are confined to four chronic conditions: diabetes, obesity, cancer and cardiovascular disease. How will reform address patient responsibility?
The current administration would like for you to believe there is significant waste within the health-care system. The operational nature of our current system accounts for a significant amount of U.S. health-care cost. The largest area for spending appears to be administration. Hospital care is also a significant expense. Technology can be a blessing or a problem. Technologies in some cases outpace our ability to evaluate them. Coverage for using these technologies normally is based on evidence that they work, not on cost-effectiveness criteria.
Ultimately, the goal is to spend less per capita, and I fear that one way this can occur is to ration care, control access and decrease availability of care. The other method is flat-out cost control across the board, or caps on total costs.
You cannot expand care for 40 million people plus improve quality and rein in costs. All Americans must remember one thing: The government that can give you everything is the government that can take everything -- and, with government-run health care, even your life.

H.L. Schneider Jr. is a Cape Girardeau gastroenterologist who has served on the Blue Cross Blue Shield adviser board for best practices and was a reviewer for the Texas Medical Foundation.

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Michelle Obama's prom date describes their high school romance

The first boyfriend of Michelle Obama has provided new insights into the First Lady, not to mention a prom night photograph of her in a satin dress with plunging neckline and a high slit.

By Tom Leonard in New York
Published: 3:41PM GMT 06 Mar 2009

David Upchurch escorted the then 18-year-old Michelle Robinson to the prom at Whitney M Young High School in Chicago in 1982.
Now a customer service representative and divorced father of three living in a modest house in Colorado Springs, he said that their romance went nowhere.
"I was a screw-up, plain and simple," he told the Enquirer magazine.
He claimed he had "pretty much forgotten" their prom date together and couldn't even recall if it ended with a kiss.
Mr Upchurch, the first of Mrs Obama's former boyfriends to speak publicly about their relationship, knew her family from an early age as they were both raised in Chicago's South Side.
"I grew up with Michelle and her brother Craig. We were neighbors and our families were close."
After his father died, Michelle's father, Fraser, took him "under his wing" and helped him to deal with his loss, he said.
They "began dating" when Michelle was in the middle of her junior year at high school –when she would have been 16 or 17 – and continued to see each other for a year and a half, until she graduated, he said.
"Michelle and I really liked each other, but you know how some high school boys are," he told the magazine.
"We're not ready to be responsible and we screw up. I was a screw-up, plain and simple! At that point, I just didn't take my life or my future seriously."

Michelle Obama: It was taken seven years before she met her future husband Barack at the Sidley Austin law firm in Chicago Photo: SPLASH

 

"But Michelle knew what she wanted, and after graduation she was off to Princeton. I couldn't stand in her way. I wished the best for Michelle because she's always been a wonderful person."
Mrs Obama's siblings have said that their parents taught them to have high standards.
Craig Robinson, her brother, has said he used to vet the boys she dated but stressed that she never had too many long-term boyfriends.
She met Barack Obama when she was a 25-year-old lawyer at a corporate law firm, having just left Harvard Law School.
"I always knew Michelle was special and would make a difference in the world," said Mr Upchurch.

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ATTENTIVE-PRIMECARE Home-Health Care - or the lack of - from a provider that was a 'NO-SHOW'

 A factual story from the editor of  'Obama in the White House' blog

With health care being a very hot topic in Washington today, some of the stories that you may hear regarding current home health care can be very alarming. Below is a personal home health care experience that is directly affecting my mother, who desperately needs good, reliable home health care.

Recently, I dismissed a home health care agency called ATTENTIVE-PRIMECARE, because the therapists did not show up on a regular basis. This is unfortunate, because as I just mentioned,my mother at age 79, is in desperate need of good, reliable health care at home. Their responsibility was to provide physical therapy, occupational therapy and nursing care at home. I can honestly say that the nursing staff that ATTENTIVE-PRIMECARE uses is A-1, and I am sorry to see them not return. So why then did I dismiss this home health care agency.
To put the issue in a nutshell, their therapists did not arrive to take care of my mother as they should on a regular basis. This was the major reason I hired them in the first place. The issue began with an occupational therapist named Leslie, who appeared to be one of the best occupational therapists my mother has ever had. She was extremely knowledgeable, caring, sincere at her job and a perfect match for my mom. Unfortunately, one day she told me that that do to some other circumstance, that she would not be able to take care of mom anymore. To me at the time, that was understandable, as she told me that she would make sure that another therapist was assigned to my moms case. Leslie's last visit was February 20th, 2009, and I called the ATTENTIVE-PRIMECARE office several times asking them to re-assign another person to take Leslie's place. on May 18th, 2009, it was again documented in a flow chart kept at our home, that I had requested that someone come out and re-evaluate my mother for Occupational therapy.Finally after the re-evaluation, another therapist was assigned.
I thought my problems were over, because now mom had a steady nurse to visit her each week, an occupational therapist, and a physical therapist. So what do you think happened next. At the end of of May, the Physical therapist stopped showing up. I was patient for 2 months, and did not get a response from ATTENTIVE-PRIMECARE during that time, even when I had asked the nurse and the occupational therapist to tell the agency to please send another Physical therapist. No-one ever showed, so finally on July 15th, I told  ATTENTIVE-PRIMECARE that I no longer needed their services, because as far as I was concerned, they were not providing a service that I could live with. I thought they would dispute my claim, and at least call me back, but they never did. Basically, they just did not care.
They were recommended by the Baylor Hospital system in Garland, Texas, as my mother has been a frequent patient of the hospital.
 What is upsetting about all this, these heath care agencies get paid directly from my mothers Medicare benefits, and they most likely have been collecting their money whether they show up or not. For example, they were relieved of their services this week, as only the Occupational therapist showed up on Wednesday the 15th, just within an hour or so after my mother returned from receiving dental surgery. Of course she was in no mood and no condition to accept any kind of therapy, as she was in pain, and still very sluggish from the anestesia she received prior to the surgery. Obviously nothing was done, but I was to sign paperwork that the occupational therapist has me sign each time that they visit. Medicare had to pay for a visit where no services were rendered. But, I had failed to call the therapist prior to her scheduled arrival time that day to inform her that her services were not needed. I didn't have to worry about the Physical therapist, because I still didn't have one assigned. I then immediately called the company that day on July 15, 2009, and informed them that I no longer needed their services. I also called the Nurse and Occupational therapist that I was not dealing with ATTENTIVE-PRIMECARE any longer. I have the documentation to prove my claim as the logs will prove as to what I am saying is true.
Now this is unfortunate. I will again search and find another agency to take care of mom. She will have to be re-evaluated before the therapists will show up. There seems to always be a continued delay with the home health care system. I hope President Obama weeds out the companies such as ATTENTIVE-PRIMECARE from providing such unjust services to seniors, who live day to day in some cases, and is the case of my mom. It is very difficult for me to understand why home care services are so difficult to receive.

If any readers have any stories to tell about their home health care agencies, I would be glad to post that story here, as long as there was factual information supplied.  Also, if anyone could recommend any good reliable home health care agencies in the Dallas Texas area that I may be able to use, please send me a comment to this article.

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Walter Kronkite dies at age 92 at his home

At the age of 92 the most famous CBS evening news anchor dies at his home in New York in the presence of his family. In news coverage of his death, the reports about Walter Cronkite became the hottest news topic since the death of Michael Jackson. He was known for presenting the facts and figures, a stickler of accuracy and honesty. He was a very humble man, born in the year 1916. He covered all the major events in the country since the beginning of the 1960's,and was forced to retire in 1981 at the mandatory retirement age of 65 at CBS news. He became the most trusted man in the news in 1972, long before the modern reporting means such as cable TV, CNN, MSNBC,
1972, the most trusted man in America.

1981, steps down as news anchor.
he reported news such as the Kennedy assignation, men landing on the moon,,  the Watergate affair,the resignation of President Nixon, and the announcement of Nixon's vice-president now becoming the new  President; the assassination of Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King. He was a frequent visitor of several Presidents in the White House. He was a student of history; he made people understand him. He was the most down to earth reporter of all time. He was Walter Cronkite, and every news reporter strives to be like him. His replacement, Dan Rather called him a 'living legend' and says 'he defined the role of network anchor', and the present CBS news anchor Katie Couric echos the same sentiments of Walter Kronkite. President Obama called him family, and claims that he will be truly missed. Below is a recent picture just before his health faded just before he died.

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Obama Speaks at the 100th Aniversary of the NAACP

In a speech below, President Obama gave a very lifting speech on a night that marked 100 years of the existance of the NAACP. Watch the speech in its entirety.

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The State of the Obama Presidency - Polls going down as expected

Opinion of the Editor 'James' of Obama in the White House blog

 The Obama presidency will be judged on what is accomplished, especially heading into the re-election of the president in 2012. But now, the latest polls indicate that President Obama now has an approval rating below 60 percent. The CNN Poll of Polls now show 57% of Americans surveyed approve of the job Obama's doing as president and 36% disapprove of his job as President. Since June, it dropped 5 %, as of that time his approval rating was 62 percent. As stated in earlier articles about the success of Barack Obama's presidency, the main issue that he will be facing for re-election will be the state of the economy. Already, the public's perception of how he is handle the economy is becoming a major issue. As if that may be not enough for President Obama to handle, he now is trying to push through his health care plan,which also will tax the richest of all people, the top 1%, people making over $280,000 and up, even higher if you make more,  and it seems that he is having problems with that. Conservative Senator democrats, a total of 40, are questioning his plan. Another issue is unemployment. Unemployment is nearing 10%.. Sixteen states have unemployment over 10%. Michigan has unemployment above 15%. Confidence is dropping.. 53% believe that President Obama has a clear plan to bring back employment, down from 64% at the beginning of his presidency.
Another issue that keeps coming up is the stimulus money that was so urgently needed just a few months ago. The problem is that most of the money has not even been spent. So why the rush.
The stimulus money definitly helped the banks get out of trouble, and also helps automakers, but people are still not able to borrow money from the banks, as it is still very difficult to acquire a loan. But in retrospect, now that the banks are able to operate with a little more ease and can give loans, construction for new homes is now up by 3.7 percent in June, mainly because people purchasing homes can benefit from the eight thousand dollar first time buyer bonus. But there is a hitch to that. If you owned a home within the last 3 years, you do not qualify. If you do qualify, you must buy before January 2010.
Now it's time to give President Obama credit. It may be too soon to determine how he is doing regarding the economy, employment, housing, and other key issues. But at least he is facing the problems head on, and is putting his future career as a re-elected president in 2012 at risk. His actions will determine his fate. If jobs are created, if the economy returns, if most people gain a health care plan, then he most likely he will get re-elected, regardless of what the conservatives or Republicans say.  Unlike another most recent past president Bush, Obama is tackling the issues here at home and is working for the people, not just trying to manage a war in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Obama to Speak at an NAACP outing on their 100th Anniversary

 
Today marks the 100th Anniversary of the birth of the NAACP, and whoever can be more fitting to give a speech before the annual convention tonight in New york, besides President Obama? Actually noone, as this day marks the 100th year anniversary of the NAACP with the first black President, Barack Obama. In contrast to our prior president Bush, our prior president declined repeated invitations by the NAACP for 5 years in a row. I guess you can call that relationship if any between President Bush and the NAACP as 'strained' if at all any. Bush spoke in 2000, but did not return until 2006. The speech given at the event will be captured in its entirty here, so please return and watch the speech to the NAACP by Barack Obama tomorrow.

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Obama officially kicks off his new Health Care Plan with commercials

In a wave resembling Obama's election campaign, Obama's political operation begins again, this time not for his own personal election, but to support his health care plan, driven with ads aimed at centrist Republicans and fellow Democrats in a move to get them to support the his plan on health care reform this year. Obama needs this health care plan desperately, as it will be one of the reasons why he gets elected in 2012 or gets defeated. Commercials will begin in Washington, D.C., then Arkansas, Indiana, Florida, Louisiana, Maine, North Dakota, Nebraska and Ohio for the next two weeks. People in the commercial represent hundreds of thousands of people who share their stories with the OFA(Obama's Organizing for America). There will be plans for news conferences, town halls meeting and other grassroots events that will highlight health care reform. All this hopefully will be to get a health care reform bill to pass by October.

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One Health Care Proposal passes in the Senate committee today

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- One of several proposals to overhaul the U.S. health care system passed a Senate committee Wednesday, with its ailing chairman praising the $600 billion plan as a step toward his longtime goals.

Committee chairman Sen. Edward Kennedy in a statement praised the bill. He voted by proxy.

The 13-10 vote in the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee split along party lines, with its top Republican arguing it costs too much and would ration care to Americans. But Sen. Edward Kennedy, its chairman, said, "We have done the hard work that the American people sent us here to do."
"We know, however, that our work is not over -- far from it," Kennedy said in a written statement. The senator is battling cancer and voted by proxy.
"As we move from our committee room to the Senate floor, we must continue the search for solutions that unite us, so that the great promise of quality affordable health care for all can be fulfilled," Kennedy said in the statement.
Health care has long been one of the Massachusetts Democrat's pet issues. Connecticut Sen. Chris Dodd, who led the committee in Kennedy's absence, said the bill is the first of several proposals "to grapple with the issue that has defied resolution through seven presidents and many Congresses since the 1940s."
It is also one of President Obama's top legislative goals, and the bill that cleared Kennedy's committee closely tracks the framework Obama has outlined for a health care bill. It includes a government-run health insurance program that would compete with private insurers, requires companies with more than 25 employees to provide medical coverage for their workers and sets up an "exchange" that would let people choose among a variety of insurance options.
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office reported it would cost $615 billion over 10 years, far less than estimates for other legislation. But the estimate did not include the cost of a proposed expansion of the federally funded Medicaid system for low-income families, which could add several hundred billion dollars to the overall tab.

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Sen. Mike Enzi, the health committee's top Republican, called the measure "a prescription for failure." He said the real cost would be about $1 trillion, and the measure would drive up cost and ration health care on lines similar to Britain.
Under the British health care system, "The older you are, the longer you have to wait to see a doctor, the longer you have to wait for tests, the longer you have to wait to get treatment," said Enzi, of Wyoming. "The people die. That's not the system we'll buy in America."
Obama and top congressional Democrats met Monday to discuss how to pay for a sweeping health care overhaul. Meanwhile, the Senate Finance Committee is working on another health care bill, and Democratic leaders in the House of Representatives released their own proposal Tuesday.
In a Rose Garden appearance after Wednesday's vote, Obama said the proposals "will offer stability and security to Americans who have coverage today, and affordable options for Americans who don't."
"This progress should make us hopeful, but it shouldn't make us complacent," he said. "It should instead provide the urgency for both the House and the Senate to finish their critical work on health reform before the August recess."

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Michael Jackson - Video - Hair on Fire in Pepsi video over 25 years ago

Rumors are now floating around that Michael Jackson death may have been a homicide. He may have taken medicine that could have been only given inside a hospital. That may implicate that it may be possible that his personal physician who was present when he died may have administered the medicine that was illegal to administer at his home.
Michael Jackson become addicted to pain killers in 1985 and his addiction may have started after becoming a victim of a hair fire during a pepsi video pre-shoot. The actual video is below, and has been hidden for over 25 years, but made available today.

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Obama's teleprompter comes crashing down

President Obama's teleprompter came crashing down Monday. Wolf Blitzer has some advice for the commander-in-chief. Even though it came crashing down, there was a backup. So the President continued his speech as almost as if nothing had happened.

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Obama’s thoughts on Michael Jackson’s death

Looks like there will be no formal statement from President Obama on Michael Jackson's death. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs told reporters that Obama sent his condolences to the Jackson family and fans. When asked why a formal statement would not be released, Gibbs said, "Because I just said it."

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By Jimmy Orr | 06.26.09

What’s President Obama’s reaction to the death of pop superstar Michael Jackson? White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs was asked about it this afternoon.
“I talked to him about it this morning,” Gibbs said. “He said to me that obviously Michael Jackson was a spectacular performer and a music icon and I think everybody remembers hearing his songs and watching him moonwalk on television during Motown’s 25th anniversary.”
“But the president also said aspects of his life were sad and tragic,” Gibbs continued. “His condolences went out to the Jackson family and to fans that mourned his loss.”
Why no statement?
“Because I just said it,” Gibbs said.
Does it seem odd to you that there is no official statement from the White House?  We talked a bit about that here.

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Judge Sotomayor's Opening Statement

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Judge Sotomayor's Opening Statement

Posted by Cammie Croft

Yesterday, the Senate Judiciary Committee kicked off the confirmation hearings for Supreme Court Nominee, Judge Sonia Sotomayor. In her opening statement, Judge Sotomayor pledged a "fidelity to the law:"


In the past month, many Senators have asked me about my judicial philosophy. It is simple: fidelity to the law. The task of a judge is not to make the law -- it is to apply the law. And it is clear, I believe, that my record in two courts reflects my rigorous commitment to interpreting the Constitution according to its terms; interpreting statutes according to their terms and Congress's intent; and hewing faithfully to precedents established by the Supreme Court and my Circuit Court. In each case I have heard, I have applied the law to the facts at hand.

Check out the full video of Judge Sotomayor's opening statement here:



Judge Sotomayor's confirmation hearings continue today with the first round of questioning. For the last 17 years, Judge Sotomayor has approached judging from the real world. You'll see this down-to-earth style throughout the hearings -- with direct and precise answers. You can learn more about Judge Sotomayor throughout Whitehouse.gov:

Judge Sotomayor Slideshow 

Scroll through our candid photogallery of Judge Sotomayor that includes images from her early childhood in the South Bronx and more recent images with her family.

Weekly Address: The Experience of Judge Sotomayor
 
Watch the President discuss Sotomayor's personal and professional experience in the Weekly Address from May 29th, 2009.

Judge Sotomayor's Questionnaire to the Senate Judiciary Committee 

Check out Judge Sotomayor's responses to the Senate Judiciary Committee's questions in a guest blog post by White House Counsel, Greg Craig.

VIDEO: Watch the President's Nomination of Judge Sotomayor 

Take a look back at the President's press conference announcing Judge Sotomayor as his nominee to the Supreme Court.

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Obama’s Dream

During his speech in the beginning of June 2009 in Cairo, President Barack Obama laid out his vision for how he sees the world.

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“And I want to particularly say this to young people of every faith, in every country - you, more than anyone, have the ability to remake this world.
All of us share this world for but a brief moment in time. The question is whether we spend that time focused on what pushes us apart, or whether we commit ourselves to an effort - a sustained effort - to find common ground, to focus on the future we seek for our children, and to respect the dignity of all human beings.
It is easier to start wars than to end them. It is easier to blame others than to look inward; to see what is different about someone than to find the things we share. But we should choose the right path, not just the easy path. There is also one rule that lies at the heart of every religion - that we do unto others as we would have them do unto us. This truth transcends nations and peoples - a belief that isn’t new; that isn’t black or white or brown; that isn’t Christian, or Muslim or Jew. It’s a belief that pulsed in the cradle of civilization, and that still beats in the heart of billions. It’s a faith in other people, and it’s what brought me here today.
We have the power to make the world we seek, but only if we have the courage to make a new beginning.”

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Bailed-out banks

The Treasury Department has invested about $200 billion in hundreds of banks through its Capital Purchase Program in an effort to prop up capital and support new lending. Here’s a list of the banks that got bailed out.

  DENOTES THE BANK HAS PAID TREASURY  BACK (32 Banks to date)

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Date	Financial Institution	City	State	Amount
10/28/2008	Wells Fargo & Co.	San Francisco	Calif.	$25,000,000,000
10/28/2008	State Street Corp.	Boston	Mass.	$2,000,000,000
10/28/2008	Bank of America Corp.1	Charlotte	N.C.	$15,000,000,000
10/28/2008	JPMorgan Chase & Co.	New York	N.Y.	$25,000,000,000
10/28/2008	Citigroup Inc.	New York	N.Y.	$25,000,000,000
10/28/2008	Morgan Stanley	New York	N.Y.	$10,000,000,000
10/28/2008	Goldman Sachs Group Inc.	New York	N.Y.	$10,000,000,000
10/28/2008	Bank of New York Mellon Corp.	New York	N.Y.	$3,000,000,000
11/17/2008	Regions Financial Corp.	Birmingham	Ala.	$3,500,000,000
11/17/2008	UCBH Holdings Inc.	San Francisco	Calif.	$298,737,000
11/17/2008	Bank of Commerce Holdings	Redding	Calif.	$17,000,000
11/17/2008	Broadway Financial Corp.	Los Angeles	Calif.	$9,000,000
11/17/2008	SunTrust Banks Inc.	Atlanta	Ga.	$3,500,000,000
11/17/2008	Northern Trust Corp.	Chicago	Ill.	$1,576,000,000
11/17/2008	Provident Bancshares Corp.	Baltimore	Md.	$151,500,000
11/17/2008	U.S. Bancorp	Minneapolis	Minn.	$6,599,000,000
11/17/2008	TCF Financial Corp.	Wayzata	Minn.	$361,172,000
11/17/2008	BB&T Corp.	Winston-Salem	N.C.	$3,133,640,000
11/17/2008	1st FS Corp.	Hendersonville	N.C.	$16,369,000
11/17/2008	Valley National Bancorp	Wayne	N.J.	$300,000,000
11/17/2008	KeyCorp	Cleveland	Ohio	$2,500,000,000
11/17/2008	Huntington Bancshares	Columbus	Ohio	$1,398,071,000
11/17/2008	Umpqua Holdings Corp.	Portland	Ore.	$214,181,000
11/17/2008	First Horizon National Corp.	Memphis	Tenn.	$866,540,000
11/17/2008	Comerica Inc.	Dallas	Texas	$2,250,000,000
11/17/2008	Zions Bancorporation	Salt Lake City	Utah	$1,400,000,000
11/17/2008	Capital One Financial Corp.	McLean	Va.	$3,555,199,000
11/17/2008	Washington Federal Inc.	Seattle	Wash.	$200,000,000
11/17/2008	Marshall & Ilsley Corp.	Milwaukee	Wis.	$1,715,000,000
11/21/2008	City National Corporation	Beverly Hills	Calif.	$400,000,000
11/21/2008	Pacific Capital Bancorp	Santa Barbara	Calif.	$180,634,000
11/21/2008	Heritage Commerce Corp.	San Jose	Calif.	$40,000,000
11/21/2008	First PacTrust Bancorp, Inc.	Chula Vista	Calif.	$19,300,000
11/21/2008	Nara Bancorp, Inc.	Los Angeles	Calif.	$67,000,000
11/21/2008	Webster Financial Corporation	Waterbury	Conn.	$400,000,000
11/21/2008	Centerstate Banks of Florida Inc.	Davenport	Fla.	$27,875,000
11/21/2008	Ameris Bancorp	Moultrie	Ga.	$52,000,000
11/21/2008	Taylor Capital Group	Rosemont	Ill.	$104,823,000
11/21/2008	Porter Bancorp Inc.	Louisville	Ky.	$35,000,000
11/21/2008	Boston Private Financial Holdings, Inc.	Boston	Mass.	$154,000,000
11/21/2008	Severn Bancorp, Inc.	Annapolis	Md.	$23,393,000
11/21/2008	Trustmark Corporation	Jackson	Miss.	$215,000,000
11/21/2008	First Niagara Financial Group	Lockport	N.Y.	$184,011,000
11/21/2008	Western Alliance Bancorporation	Las Vegas	Nev.	$140,000,000
11/21/2008	First Community Corporation	Lexington	S.C.	$11,350,000
11/21/2008	HF Financial Corp.	Sioux Falls	S.D.	$25,000,000
11/21/2008	First Community Bankshares Inc.	Bluefield	Va.	$41,500,000
11/21/2008	Banner Corporation	Walla Walla	Wash.	$124,000,000
11/21/2008	Cascade Financial Corporation	Everett	Wash.	$38,970,000
11/21/2008	Columbia Banking System, Inc.	Tacoma	Wash.	$76,898,000
11/21/2008	Heritage Financial Corporation	Olympia	Wash.	$24,000,000
11/21/2008	Associated Banc-Corp	Green Bay	Wis.	$525,000,000
12/5/2008	Superior Bancorp Inc.	Birmingham	Ala.	$69,000,000
12/5/2008	Manhattan Bancorp	El Segundo	Calif.	$1,700,000
12/5/2008	East West Bancorp	Pasadena	Calif.	$306,546,000
12/5/2008	Cathay General Bancorp	Los Angeles	Calif.	$258,000,000
12/5/2008	CVB Financial Corp	Ontario	Calif.	$130,000,000
12/5/2008	Bank of Marin Bancorp	Novato	Calif.	$28,000,000
12/5/2008	Oak Valley Bancorp	Oakdale	Calif.	$13,500,000
12/5/2008	Coastal Banking Company, Inc.	Fernandina Beach	Fla.	$9,950,000
12/5/2008	TIB Financial Corp	Naples	Fla.	$37,000,000
12/5/2008	FPB Bancorp, Inc.	Port St. Lucie	Fla.	$5,800,000
12/5/2008	United Community Banks, Inc.	Blairsville	Ga.	$180,000,000
12/5/2008	MB Financial Inc.	Chicago	Ill.	$196,000,000
12/5/2008	First Midwest Bancorp, Inc.	Itasca	Ill.	$193,000,000
12/5/2008	Old National Bancorp	Evansville	Ind.	$100,000,000
12/5/2008	Blue Valley Ban Corp	Overland Park	Kan.	$21,750,000
12/5/2008	Iberiabank Corporation	Lafayette	La.	$90,000,000
12/5/2008	Central Bancorp, Inc.	Somerville	Mass.	$10,000,000
12/5/2008	Eagle Bancorp, Inc.	Bethesda	Md.	$38,235,000
12/5/2008	Sandy Spring Bancorp, Inc.	Olney	Md.	$83,094,000
12/5/2008	Old Line Bancshares, Inc.	Bowie	Md.	$7,000,000
12/5/2008	Great Southern Bancorp	Springfield	Mo.	$58,000,000
12/5/2008	Southern Missouri Bancorp, Inc.	Poplar Bluff	Mo.	$9,550,000
12/5/2008	Southern Community Financial Corp.	Winston-Salem	N.C.	$42,750,000
12/5/2008	Bank of North Carolina	Thomasville	N.C.	$31,260,000
12/5/2008	Unity Bancorp, Inc.	Clinton	N.J.	$20,649,000
12/5/2008	State Bancorp, Inc.	Jericho	N.Y.	$36,842,000
12/5/2008	First Defiance Financial Corp.	Defiance	Ohio	$37,000,000
12/5/2008	Central Federal Corporation	Fairlawn	Ohio	$7,225,000
12/5/2008	Southwest Bancorp, Inc.	Stillwater	Okla.	$70,000,000
12/5/2008	Popular, Inc.	San Juan	Puerto Rico	$935,000,000
12/5/2008	South Financial Group, Inc.	Greenville	S.C.	$347,000,000
12/5/2008	First Financial Holdings Inc.	Charleston	S.C.	$65,000,000
12/5/2008	Encore Bancshares Inc.	Houston	Texas	$34,000,000
12/5/2008	Wesbanco Bank Inc.	Wheeling	W.Va.	$75,000,000
12/5/2008	Sterling Financial Corporation	Spokane	Wash.	$303,000,000
12/12/2008	Bank Of the Ozarks Inc.	Little Rock	Ariz.	$75,000,000
12/12/2008	SVB Financial Group	Santa Clara	Calif.	$235,000,000
12/12/2008	Center Financial Corp.	Los Angeles	Calif.	$55,000,000
12/12/2008	Wilshire Bancorp Inc.	Los Angeles	Calif.	$62,158,000
12/12/2008	First Litchfield Financial Corp.	Litchfield	Conn.	$10,000,000
12/12/2008	Wilmington Trust Corp.	Wilmington	Del.	$330,000,000
12/12/2008	The Bancorp Inc.	Wilmington	Del.	$45,220,000
12/12/2008	Indiana Community Bancorp	Columbus	Ind.	$21,500,000
12/12/2008	HopFed Bancorp	Hopkinsville	Ky.	$18,400,000
12/12/2008	LSB Corp.	Andover	Mass.	$15,000,000
12/12/2008	Northeast Bancorp	Lewiston	Maine	$4,227,000
12/12/2008	Citizens Republic Bancorp Inc.	Flint	Mich.	$300,000,000
12/12/2008	Independent Bank Corp.	Ionia	Mich.	$72,000,000
12/12/2008	Capital Bank Corp.	Raliegh	N.C.	$41,279,000
12/12/2008	NewBridge Bancorp	Greensboro	N.C.	$52,372,000
12/12/2008	Citizens South Banking Corp.	Gastonia	N.C.	$20,500,000
12/12/2008	Signature Bank	New York	N.Y.	$120,000,000
12/12/2008	LNB Bancorp Inc.	Lorain	Ohio	$25,223,000
12/12/2008	Susquehanna Bancshares Inc.	Lititz	Pa.	$300,000,000
12/12/2008	National Penn Bancshares Inc.	Boyertown	Pa.	$150,000,000
12/12/2008	Fidelity Bancorp Inc.	Pittsburgh	Pa.	$7,000,000
12/12/2008	Pinnacle Financial Partners Inc.	Nashville	Tenn.	$95,000,000
12/12/2008	Sterling Bancshares Inc.	Houston	Texas	$125,198,000
12/12/2008	TowneBank	Portsmouth	Va.	$76,458,000
12/12/2008	Valley Financial Corp.	Roanoke	Va.	$16,019,000
12/12/2008	Virginia Commerce Bancorp	Arlington	Va.	$71,000,000
12/12/2008	Pacific International Bancorp	Seattle	Wash.	$6,500,000
12/19/2008	BancTrust Financial Group, Inc.	Mobile	Ala.	$50,000,000
12/19/2008	Community West Bancshares	Goleta	Calif.	$15,600,000
12/19/2008	Summit State Bank	Santa Rosa	Calif.	$8,500,000
12/19/2008	Santa Lucia Bancorp	Atascadero	Calif.	$4,000,000
12/19/2008	First California Financial Group, Inc	Westlake Village	Calif.	$25,000,000
12/19/2008	Pacific City Finacial Corporation	Los Angeles	Calif.	$16,200,000
12/19/2008	Exchange Bank	Santa Rosa	Calif.	$43,000,000
12/19/2008	NCAL Bancorp	Los Angeles	Calif.	$10,000,000
12/19/2008	CoBiz Financial Inc.	Denver	Colo.	$64,450,000
12/19/2008	The Connecticut Bank and Trust Company	Hartford	Conn.	$5,448,000
12/19/2008	Seacoast Banking Corporation of Florida	Stuart	Fla.	$50,000,000
12/19/2008	Synovus Financial Corp.	Columbus	Ga.	$967,870,000
12/19/2008	Fidelity Southern Corporation	Atlanta	Ga.	$48,200,000
12/19/2008	Heartland Financial USA, Inc.	Dubuque	Iowa	$81,698,000
12/19/2008	Intermountain Community Bancorp	Sandpoint	Idaho	$27,000,000
12/19/2008	Wintrust Financial Corporation	Lake Forest	Ill.	$250,000,000
12/19/2008	Marquette National Corporation	Chicago	Ill.	$35,500,000
12/19/2008	Bridgeview Bancorp, Inc.	Bridgeview	Ill.	$38,000,000
12/19/2008	Horizon Bancorp	Michigan City	Ind.	$25,000,000
12/19/2008	FFW Corporation	Wabash	Ind.	$7,289,000
12/19/2008	Fidelity Financial Corporation	Wichita	Kan.	$36,282,000
12/19/2008	Citizens First Corporation	Bowling Green	Ky.	$8,779,000
12/19/2008	FCB Bancorp, Inc.	Louisville	Ky.	$9,294,000
12/19/2008	Whitney Holding Corporation	New Orleans	La.	$300,000,000
12/19/2008	Wainwright Bank & Trust Company	Boston	Mass.	$22,000,000
12/19/2008	Berkshire Hills Bancorp, Inc.	Pittsfield	Mass.	$40,000,000
12/19/2008	OneUnited Bank	Boston	Mass.	$12,063,000
12/19/2008	Tri-County Financial Corporation	Waldorf	Md.	$15,540,000
12/19/2008	Patapsco Bancorp, Inc.	Dundalk	Md.	$6,000,000
12/19/2008	Enterprise Financial Services Corp.	St. Louis	Mo.	$35,000,000
12/19/2008	Hawthorn Bancshares, Inc.	Lee's Summit	Mo.	$30,255,000
12/19/2008	Monadnock Bancorp, Inc.	Peterborough	N.H.	$1,834,000
12/19/2008	Flushing Financial Corporation	Lake Success	N.Y.	$70,000,000
12/19/2008	The Elmira Savings Bank, FSB	Elmira	N.Y.	$9,090,000
12/19/2008	Alliance Financial Corporation	Syracuse	N.Y.	$26,918,000
12/19/2008	Mid Penn Bancorp, Inc.	Millersburg	Pa.	$10,000,000
12/19/2008	VIST Financial Corp.	Wyomissing	Pa.	$25,000,000
12/19/2008	AmeriServ Financial, Inc	Johnstown	Pa.	$21,000,000
12/19/2008	Bancorp Rhode Island, Inc.	Providence	R.I.	$30,000,000
12/19/2008	Security Federal Corporation	Aiken	S.C.	$18,000,000
12/19/2008	Tidelands Bancshares, Inc	Mt. Pleasant	S.C.	$14,448,000
12/19/2008	Tennessee Commerce Bancorp, Inc.	Franklin	Tenn.	$30,000,000
12/19/2008	Plains Capital Corporation	Dallas	Texas	$87,631,000
12/19/2008	Patriot Bancshares, Inc.	Houston	Texas	$26,038,000
12/19/2008	Community Bankers Trust Corporation	Glen Allen	Va.	$17,680,000
12/19/2008	Community Financial Corporation	Staunton	Va.	$12,643,000
12/19/2008	Monarch Financial Holdings, Inc.	Chesapeake	Va.	$14,700,000
12/19/2008	StellarOne Corporation	Charlottesville	Va.	$30,000,000
12/19/2008	Union Bankshares Corporation	Bowling Green	Va.	$59,000,000
12/31/2008	SunTrust Banks, Inc.	Atlanta	Ga.	$1,350,000,000
12/31/2008	West Bancorporation, Inc.	West Des Moines	Iowa	$36,000,000
12/31/2008	First Banks, Inc.	Clayton	Mo.	$295,400,000
12/31/2008	CIT Group Inc.	New York	N.Y.	$2,330,000,000
12/31/2008	Fifth Third Bancorp	Cincinnati	Ohio	$3,408,000,000
12/31/2008	The PNC Financial Services Group Inc.	Pittsburgh	Pa.	$7,579,200,000
12/31/2008	Hampton Roads Bankshares, Inc.	Norfolk	Va.	$80,347,000
1/9/2009	Commerce National Bank	Newport Beach	Calif.	$5,000,000
1/9/2009	Security California Bancorp	Riverside	Calif.	$6,815,000
1/9/2009	Security Business Bancorp	San Diego	Calif.	$5,803,000
1/9/2009	Mission Community Bancorp	San Luis Obispo	Calif.	$5,116,000
1/9/2009	Valley Community Bank	Pleasanton	Calif.	$5,500,000
1/9/2009	Colony Bankcorp, Inc.	Fitzgerald	Ga.	$28,000,000
1/9/2009	The Queensborough Company	Louisville	Ga.	$12,000,000
1/9/2009	Central Pacific Financial Corp.	Honolulu	Hawaii	$135,000,000
1/9/2009	North Central Bancshares, Inc.	Fort Dodge	Iowa	$10,200,000
1/9/2009	American State Bancshares, Inc.	Great Bend	Kan.	$6,000,000
1/9/2009	Farmers Capital Bank Corporation	Frankfort	Ky.	$30,000,000
1/9/2009	First Financial Service Corporation	Elizabethtown	Ky.	$20,000,000
1/9/2009	MidSouth Bancorp, Inc.	Lafayette	La.	$20,000,000
1/9/2009	Community Trust Financial Corporation	Ruston	La.	$24,000,000
1/9/2009	Independent Bank Corp.	Rockland	Mass.	$78,158,000
1/9/2009	Shore Bancshares, Inc.	Easton	Md.	$25,000,000
1/9/2009	Rising Sun Bancorp	Rising Sun	Md.	$5,983,000
1/9/2009	The First Bancorp, Inc.	Damariscotta	Maine	$25,000,000
1/9/2009	Redwood Financial Inc.	Redwood Falls	Minn.	$2,995,000
1/9/2009	Centrue Financial Corporation	St. Louis	Mo.	$32,668,000
1/9/2009	Cadence Financial Corporation	Starkville	Miss.	$44,000,000
1/9/2009	Bank of America Corp. (Footnote 1)	Charlotte	N.C.	$10,000,000,000
1/9/2009	Crescent Financial Corporation	Cary	N.C.	$24,900,000
1/9/2009	Carolina Bank Holdings, Inc.	Greensboro	N.C.	$16,000,000
1/9/2009	First Bancorp	Troy	N.C.	$65,000,000
1/9/2009	Sound Banking Company	Morehead City	N.C.	$3,070,000
1/9/2009	Surrey Bancorp	Mount Airy	N.C.	$2,000,000
1/9/2009	Peapack-Gladstone Financial Corporation	Gladstone	N.J.	$28,685,000
1/9/2009	Sun Bancorp, Inc.	Vineland	N.J.	$89,310,000
1/9/2009	Center Bancorp, Inc.	Union	N.J.	$10,000,000
1/9/2009	American Express Company	New York	N.Y.	$3,388,890,000
1/9/2009	New York Private Bank & Trust Corporation	New York	N.Y.	$267,274,000
1/9/2009	FirstMerit Corporation	Akron	Ohio	$125,000,000
1/9/2009	LCNB Corp.	Lebanon	Ohio	$13,400,000
1/9/2009	F.N.B. Corporation	Hermitage	Pa.	$100,000,000
1/9/2009	Codorus Valley Bancorp, Inc.	York	Pa.	$16,500,000
1/9/2009	Independence Bank	East Greenwich	R.I.	$1,065,000
1/9/2009	GrandSouth Bancorporation	Greenville	S.C.	$9,000,000
1/9/2009	Congaree Bancshares, Inc.	Cayce	S.C.	$3,285,000
1/9/2009	First Security Group, Inc.	Chattanooga	Tenn.	$33,000,000
1/9/2009	Texas National Bancorporation	Jacksonville	Texas	$3,981,000
1/9/2009	Eastern Virginia Bankshares, Inc.	Tappahannock	Va.	$24,000,000
1/9/2009	C&F Financial Corporation	West Point	Va.	$20,000,000
1/16/2009	Home Bancshares, Inc.	Conway	Ark	$50,000,000
1/16/2009	Southern Bancorp, Inc.	Arkadelphia	Ark.	$11,000,000
1/16/2009	Community 1st Bank	Roseville	Calif.	$2,550,000
1/16/2009	Pacific Coast National Bancorp	San Clemente	Calif.	$4,120,000
1/16/2009	Community Bank of the Bay	Oakland	Calif.	$1,747,000
1/16/2009	Redwood Capital Bancorp	Eureka	Calif.	$3,800,000
1/16/2009	Syringa Bancorp	Boise	Idaho	$8,000,000
1/16/2009	Idaho Bancorp	Boise	Idaho	$6,900,000
1/16/2009	Old Second Bancorp, Inc.	Aurora	Ill.	$73,000,000
1/16/2009	First Bankers Trustshares, Inc.	Quincy	Ill.	$10,000,000
1/16/2009	MainSource Financial Group, Inc.	Greensburg	Ind.	$57,000,000
1/16/2009	Morrill Bancshares, Inc.	Merriam	Kan.	$13,000,000
1/16/2009	Bar Harbor Bankshares/Bar Harbor Bank & Trust Bar	Harbor	Maine	$18,751,000
1/16/2009	United Bancorp, Inc.	Tecumseh	Mich.	$20,600,000
1/16/2009	Pulaski Financial Corp Creve	Coeur	Mo.	$32,538,000
1/16/2009	Dickinson Financial Corporation II	Kansas City	Mont.	$146,053,000
1/16/2009	ECB Bancorp, Inc./East Carolina Bank	Engelhard	N.C.	$17,949,000
1/16/2009	Yadkin Valley Financial Corporation	Elkin	N.C.	$36,000,000
1/16/2009	Bank of Commerce	Charlotte	N.C.	$3,000,000
1/16/2009	State Bankshares, Inc.	Fargo	N.D.	$50,000,000
1/16/2009	BNCCORP, Inc.	Bismarck	N.D.	$20,093,000
1/16/2009	New Hampshire Thrift Bancshares, Inc.	Newport	N.H.	$10,000,000
1/16/2009	Somerset Hills Bancorp	Bernardsville	N.J.	$7,414,000
1/16/2009	OceanFirst Financial Corp.	Toms River	N.J.	$38,263,000
1/16/2009	Carver Bancorp, Inc	New York	N.Y.	$18,980,000
1/16/2009	S&T Bancorp	Indiana	Pa.	$108,676,000
1/16/2009	Citizens & Northern Corporation	Wellsboro	Pa.	$26,440,000
1/16/2009	First BanCorp	San Juan	Puerto Rico	$400,000,000
1/16/2009	SCBT Financial Corporation	Columbia	S.C.	$64,779,000
1/16/2009	Texas Capital Bancshares, Inc.	Dallas	Texas	$75,000,000
1/16/2009	MetroCorp Bancshares, Inc.	Houston	Texas	$45,000,000
1/16/2009	TCB Holding Company, Texas Community Bank	The Woodlands	Texas	$11,730,000
1/16/2009	Treaty Oak Bancorp, Inc.	Austin	Texas	$3,268,000
1/16/2009	United Financial Banking Companies, Inc.	Vienna	Va.	$5,658,000
1/16/2009	Centra Financial Holdings, Inc./Centra Bank, Inc.	Morgantown	W.Va.	$15,000,000
1/16/2009	Washington Banking Company / Whidbey Island Bank	Oak Harbor	Wash.	$26,380,000
1/16/2009	Puget Sound Bank	Bellevue	Wash.	$4,500,000
1/16/2009	The Baraboo Bancorporation	Baraboo	Wis.	$20,749,000
1/16/2009	First Manitowoc Bancorp, Inc.	Manitowoc	Wis.	$12,000,000
1/22/2009	Liberty Bancshares, Inc.	Jonesboro	Ark.	$57,500,000
1/22/2009	Commonwealth Business Bank	Los Angeles	Calif.	$7,701,000
1/22/2009	CalWest Bancorp	Rancho Santa Margarita	Calif.	$4,656,000
1/22/2009	Fresno First Bank	Fresno	Calif.	$1,968,000
1/22/2009	First ULB Corp.	Oakland	Calif.	$4,900,000
1/22/2009	California Oaks State Bank	Thousand Oaks	Calif.	$3,300,000
1/22/2009	WSFS Financial Corporation	Wilmington	Del.	$52,625,000
1/22/2009	Seaside National Bank & Trust	Orlando	Fla.	$5,677,000
1/22/2009	Alarion Financial Services, Inc.	Ocala	Fla.	$6,514,000
1/22/2009	Princeton National Bancorp, Inc.	Princeton	Ill.	$25,083,000
1/22/2009	Midland States Bancorp, Inc.	Effingham	Ill.	$10,189,000
1/22/2009	Southern Illinois Bancorp, Inc.	Carmi	Ill.	$5,000,000
1/22/2009	1st Source Corporation	South Bend	Ind.	$111,000,000
1/22/2009	FPB Financial Corp.	Hammond	La.	$3,240,000
1/22/2009	Crosstown Holding Company	Blaine	Minn.	$10,650,000
1/22/2009	BankFirst Capital Corporation	Macon	Miss.	$15,500,000
1/22/2009	Calvert Financial Corporation	Ashland	Mo.	$1,037,000
1/22/2009	AB&T Financial Corporation	Gastonia	N.C.	$3,500,000
1/22/2009	First Citizens Banc Corp	Sandusky	Ohio	$23,184,000
1/22/2009	Stonebridge Financial Corp.	West Chester	Pa.	$10,973,000
1/22/2009	Moscow Bancshares, Inc.	Moscow	Tenn.	$6,216,000
1/22/2009	Farmers Bank	Windsor	Va.	$8,752,000
1/22/2009	Pierce County Bancorp	Tacoma	Wash.	$6,800,000
1/30/2009	Goldwater Bank, N.A.	Scottsdale	Ariz.	$2,568,000
1/30/2009	Rogers Bancshares, Inc.	Little Rock	Ark.	$25,000,000
1/30/2009	Peninsula Bank Holding Co.	Palo Alto	Calif.	$6,000,000
1/30/2009	Central Valley Community Bancorp	Fresno	Calif.	$7,000,000
1/30/2009	Plumas Bancorp	Quincy	Calif.	$11,949,000
1/30/2009	Valley Commerce Bancorp	Visalia	Calif.	$7,700,000
1/30/2009	Ojai Community Bank	Ojai	Calif.	$2,080,000
1/30/2009	Beach Business Bank	Manhattan Beach	Calif.	$6,000,000
1/30/2009	Bankers' Bank of tde West Bancorp, Inc.	Denver	Colo.	$12,639,000
1/30/2009	First Soutdern Bancorp, Inc.	Boca Raton	Fla.	$10,900,000
1/30/2009	Metro City Bank	Doraville	Ga.	$7,700,000
1/30/2009	PrivateBancorp, Inc.	Chicago	Ill.	$243,815,000
1/30/2009	AMB Financial Corp.	Munster	Ind.	$3,674,000
1/30/2009	UBT Bancshares, Inc.	Marysville	Kan.	$8,950,000
1/30/2009	Equity Bancshares, Inc.	Wichita	Kan.	$8,750,000
1/30/2009	Katahdin Bankshares Corp.	Houlton	Maine	$10,449,000
1/30/2009	First United Corporation	Oakland	Md.	$30,000,000
1/30/2009	Annapolis Bancorp, Inc.	Annapolis	Md.	$8,152,000
1/30/2009	Monument Bank	Betdesda	Md.	$4,734,000
1/30/2009	Flagstar Bancorp, Inc.	Troy	Mich.	$266,657,000
1/30/2009	Firstbank Corporation	Alma	Mich.	$33,000,000
1/30/2009	Guaranty Federal Bancshares, Inc.	Springfield	Mo.	$17,000,000
1/30/2009	Oak Ridge Financial Services, Inc.	Oak Ridge	N.C.	$7,700,000
1/30/2009	Nortdway Financial, Inc.	Berlin	N.H.	$10,000,000
1/30/2009	Parke Bancorp, Inc.	Sewell	N.J.	$16,288,000
1/30/2009	Stewardship Financial Corporation	Midland Park	N.J.	$10,000,000
1/30/2009	Community Partners Bancorp	Middletown	N.J.	$9,000,000
1/30/2009	Hilltop Community Bancorp, Inc.	Summit	N.J.	$4,000,000
1/30/2009	Adbanc, Inc	Ogallala	Neb.	$12,720,000
1/30/2009	Country Bank Shares, Inc.	Milford	Neb.	$7,525,000
1/30/2009	Peoples Bancorp Inc.	Marietta	Ohio	$39,000,000
1/30/2009	DNB Financial Corporation	Downingtown	Pa.	$11,750,000
1/30/2009	First Resource Bank	Exton	Pa.	$2,600,000
1/30/2009	Greer Bancshares Incorporated	Greer	S.C.	$9,993,000
1/30/2009	F & M Bancshares, Inc.	Trezevant	Tenn.	$4,609,000
1/30/2009	Central Bancshares, Inc.	Houston	Texas	$5,800,000
1/30/2009	Central Virginia Bankshares, Inc.	Powhatan	Va.	$11,385,000
1/30/2009	Middleburg Financial Corporation	Middleburg	Va.	$22,000,000
1/30/2009	WashingtonFirst Bank	Reston	Va.	$6,633,000
1/30/2009	W.T.B. Financial Corporation	Spokane	Wash.	$110,000,000
1/30/2009	Anchor BanCorp Wisconsin Inc.	Madison	Wis.	$110,000,000
1/30/2009	Legacy Bancorp, Inc.	Milwaukee	Wis.	$5,498,000
2/6/2009	Alaska Pacific Bancshares, Inc.	Juneau	Alaska	$4,781,000
2/6/2009	US Metro Bank	Garden Grove	Calif.	$2,861,000
2/6/2009	First Western Financial, Inc.	Denver	Colo.	$8,559,000
2/6/2009	Community Holding Company of Florida, Inc.	Miramar Beach	Fla.	$1,050,000
2/6/2009	Georgia Commerce Bancshares, Inc.	Atlanta	Ga.	$8,700,000
2/6/2009	PGB Holdings, Inc.	Chicago	Ill.	$3,000,000
2/6/2009	MidWestOne Financial Group, Inc.	Iowa City	Iowa	$16,000,000
2/6/2009	The Freeport State Bank	Harper	Kan.	$301,000
2/6/2009	Citizens Commerce Bancshares, Inc.	Versailles	Ky.	$6,300,000
2/6/2009	Todd Bancshares, Inc.	Hopkinsville	Ky.	$4,000,000
2/6/2009	Liberty Financial Services, Inc.	New Orleans	La.	$5,645,000
2/6/2009	Mercantile Capital Corp.	Boston	Mass.	$3,500,000
2/6/2009	Monarch Community Bancorp, Inc.	Coldwater	Mich.	$6,785,000
2/6/2009	The First Bancshares, Inc.	Hattiesburg	Miss.	$5,000,000
2/6/2009	Carolina Trust Bank	Lincolnton	N.C.	$4,000,000
2/6/2009	F & M Financial Corporation	Salisbury	N.C.	$17,000,000
2/6/2009	The Bank of Currituck	Moyock	N.C.	$4,021,000
2/6/2009	Centrix Bank & Trust	Bedford	N.H.	$7,500,000
2/6/2009	Lakeland Bancorp, Inc.	Oak Ridge	N.J.	$59,000,000
2/6/2009	Pascack Community Bank	Westwood	N.J.	$3,756,000
2/6/2009	First Express of Nebraska, Inc.	Gering	Neb.	$5,000,000
2/6/2009	Banner County Ban Corporation	Harrisburg	Neb.	$795,000
2/6/2009	Hyperion Bank	Philadelphia	Pa.	$1,552,000
2/6/2009	Stockmens Financial Corporation	Rapid City	S.D.	$15,568,000
2/6/2009	CedarStone Bank	Lebanon	Tenn.	$3,564,000
2/6/2009	Lone Star Bank	Houston	Texas	$3,072,000
2/6/2009	First Market Bank, FSB	Richmond	Va.	$33,900,000
2/6/2009	First Bank of Charleston, Inc.	Charleston	W.Va.	$3,345,000
2/13/2009	Corning Savings and Loan Association	Corning	Ark.	$638,000
2/13/2009	Westamerica Bancorporation	San Rafael	Calif.	$83,726,000
2/13/2009	1st Enterprise Bank	Los Angeles	Calif.	$4,400,000
2/13/2009	Santa Clara Valley Bank, N.A.	Santa Paula	Calif.	$2,900,000
2/13/2009	First Choice Bank	Cerritos	Calif.	$2,200,000
2/13/2009	ColoEast Bankshares, Inc.	Lamar	Colo.	$10,000,000
2/13/2009	QCR Holdings, Inc.	Moline	Ill.	$38,237,000
2/13/2009	Bern Bancshares, Inc.	Bern	Kan.	$985,000
2/13/2009	The Bank of Kentucky Financial Corporation	Crestview Hills	Ky.	$34,000,000
2/13/2009	Hometown Bancshares, Inc.	Corbin	Ky.	$1,900,000
2/13/2009	Carrollton Bancorp	Baltimore	Md.	$9,201,000
2/13/2009	State Capital Corporation	Greenwood	Miss.	$15,000,000
2/13/2009	DeSoto County Bank	Horn Lake	Miss.	$1,173,000
2/13/2009	Security Bancshares of Pulaski County, Inc.	Waynesville	Mo.	$2,152,000
2/13/2009	Reliance Bancshares, Inc.	Frontenac	Mo.	$40,000,000
2/13/2009	Gregg Bancshares, Inc.	Ozark	Mo.	$825,000
2/13/2009	Midwest Regional Bancorp, Inc.	Festus	Mo.	$700,000
2/13/2009	Liberty Bancshares, Inc.	Springfield	Mo.	$21,900,000
2/13/2009	FNB United Corp.	Asheboro	N.C.	$51,500,000
2/13/2009	PremierWest Bancorp	Medford	Ore.	$41,400,000
2/13/2009	Meridian Bank	Devon	Pa.	$6,200,000
2/13/2009	BankGreenville	Greenville	S.C.	$1,000,000
2/13/2009	Regional Bankshares, Inc.	Hartsville	S.C.	$1,500,000
2/13/2009	F&M Financial Corp.	Clarksville	Tenn.	$17,243,000
2/13/2009	Peoples Bancorp	Lynden	Wash.	$18,000,000
2/13/2009	Northwest Bancorporation, Inc.	Spokane	Wash.	$10,500,000
2/13/2009	Northwest Commercial Bank	Lakewood	Wash.	$1,992,000
2/13/2009	First Menasha Bancshares, Inc.	Neenah	Wis.	$4,797,000
2/13/2009	Financial Security Corporation	Basin	Wyo.	$5,000,000
2/20/2009	Hometown Bancorp of Alabama, Inc.	Oneonta	Ala.	$3,250,000
2/20/2009	White River Bancshares Company	Fayetteville	Ark.	$16,800,000
2/20/2009	Sonoma Valley Bancorp	Sonoma	Calif.	$8,653,000
2/20/2009	The Private Bank of California	Los Angeles	Calif.	$5,450,000
2/20/2009	United American Bank	San Mateo	Calif.	$8,700,000
2/20/2009	Premier Service Bank	Riverside	Calif.	$4,000,000
2/20/2009	Florida Business BancGroup, Inc.	Tampa	Fla.	$9,495,000
2/20/2009	Liberty Shares, Inc.	Hinesville	Ga.	$17,280,000
2/20/2009	CBB Bancorp	Cartersville	Ga.	$2,644,000
2/20/2009	Hamilton State Bancshares, Inc.	Hoschton	Ga.	$7,000,000
2/20/2009	Northern States Financial Corporation	Waukegan	Ill.	$17,211,000
2/20/2009	First BancTrust Corporation	Paris	Ill.	$7,350,000
2/20/2009	First Merchants Corporation	Muncie	Ind.	$116,000,000
2/20/2009	Market Bancorporation, Inc.	New Market	Minn.	$2,060,000
2/20/2009	Lafayette Bancorp, Inc.	Oxford	Miss.	$1,998,000
2/20/2009	BancPlus Corporation	Ridgeland	Miss.	$48,000,000
2/20/2009	Security State Bancshares, Inc.	Charleston	Mont.	$12,500,000
2/20/2009	Guaranty Bancorp, Inc.	Woodsville	N.H.	$6,920,000
2/20/2009	Royal Bancshares of Pennsylvania, Inc.	Narberth	Pa.	$30,407,000
2/20/2009	First Priority Financial Corp.	Malvern	Pa.	$4,579,000
2/20/2009	Central Community Corporation	Temple	Texas	$22,000,000
2/20/2009	Mid-Wisconsin Financial Services, Inc.	Medford	Wis.	$10,000,000
2/20/2009	Crazy Woman Creek Bancorp, Inc.	Buffalo	Wyo.	$3,100,000
2/27/2009	California Bank of Commerce	Lafayette	Calif.	$4,000,000
2/27/2009	Community Business Bank West	Sacramento	Calif.	$3,976,000
2/27/2009	FNB Bancorp South	San Francisco	Calif.	$12,000,000
2/27/2009	California Bank of Commerce	Lafayette	Calif.	$4,000,000
2/27/2009	Community Business Bank West	Sacramento	Calif.	$3,976,000
2/27/2009	FNB Bancorp South	San Francisco	Calif.	$12,000,000
2/27/2009	Columbine Capital Corp.	Buena Vista	Colo.	$2,260,000
2/27/2009	Columbine Capital Corp.	Buena Vista	Colo.	$2,260,000
2/27/2009	BNC Financial Group, Inc.	New Canaan	Conn.	$4,797,000
2/27/2009	BNC Financial Group, Inc.	New Canaan	Conn.	$4,797,000
2/27/2009	Midtown Bank & Trust Company	Atlanta	Ga.	$5,222,000
2/27/2009	Midtown Bank & Trust Company	Atlanta	Ga.	$5,222,000
2/27/2009	D.L. Evans Bancorp	Burley	Idaho	$19,891,000
2/27/2009	D.L. Evans Bancorp	Burley	Idaho	$19,891,000
2/27/2009	Lakeland Financial Corporation	Warsaw	Ind.	$56,044,000
2/27/2009	Integra Bank Corporation	Evansville	Ind.	$83,586,000
2/27/2009	Lakeland Financial Corporation	Warsaw	Ind.	$56,044,000
2/27/2009	Integra Bank Corporation	Evansville	Ind.	$83,586,000
2/27/2009	National Bancshares, Inc.	Bettendorf	Iowa	$24,664,000
2/27/2009	Green Circle Investments, Inc.	Clive	Iowa	$2,400,000
2/27/2009	National Bancshares, Inc.	Bettendorf	Iowa	$24,664,000
2/27/2009	Green Circle Investments, Inc.	Clive	Iowa	$2,400,000
2/27/2009	PSB Financial Corporation	Many	La.	$9,270,000
2/27/2009	PSB Financial Corporation	Many	La.	$9,270,000
2/27/2009	Howard Bancorp, Inc.	Ellicott City	Md.	$5,983,000
2/27/2009	Howard Bancorp, Inc.	Ellicott City	Md.	$5,983,000
2/27/2009	Private Bancorporation, Inc.	Minneapolis	Minn.	$4,960,000
2/27/2009	Private Bancorporation, Inc.	Minneapolis	Minn.	$4,960,000
2/27/2009	First M&F Corporation	Kosciusko	Miss.	$30,000,000
2/27/2009	First M&F Corporation	Kosciusko	Miss.	$30,000,000
2/27/2009	Green City Bancshares, Inc.	Green City	Mo.	$651,000
2/27/2009	Green City Bancshares, Inc.	Green City	Mo.	$651,000
2/27/2009	Catskill Hudson Bancorp, Inc	Rock Hill	N.Y.	$3,000,000
2/27/2009	Catskill Hudson Bancorp, Inc	Rock Hill	N.Y.	$3,000,000
2/27/2009	First Gothenburg Bancshares, Inc.	Gothenburg	Neb.	$7,570,000
2/27/2009	First Gothenburg Bancshares, Inc.	Gothenburg	Neb.	$7,570,000
2/27/2009	Regent Capital Corporation	Nowata	Okla.	$2,655,000
2/27/2009	Regent Capital Corporation	Nowata	Okla.	$2,655,000
2/27/2009	TriState Capital Holdings, Inc.	Pittsburgh	Pa.	$23,000,000
2/27/2009	The Victory Bank	Limerick	Pa.	$541,000
2/27/2009	TriState Capital Holdings, Inc.	Pittsburgh	Pa.	$23,000,000
2/27/2009	The Victory Bank	Limerick	Pa.	$541,000
2/27/2009	Southern First Bancshares, Inc.	Greenville	S.C.	$17,299,000
2/27/2009	Southern First Bancshares, Inc.	Greenville	S.C.	$17,299,000
2/27/2009	Community First Inc.	Columbia	Tenn.	$17,806,000
2/27/2009	Avenue Financial Holdings, Inc.	Nashville	Tenn.	$7,400,000
2/27/2009	Community First Inc.	Columbia	Tenn.	$17,806,000
2/27/2009	Avenue Financial Holdings, Inc.	Nashville	Tenn.	$7,400,000
2/27/2009	First State Bank of Mobeetie	Mobeetie	Texas	$731,000
2/27/2009	Central Bancorp, Inc.	Garland	Texas	$22,500,000
2/27/2009	First State Bank of Mobeetie	Mobeetie	Texas	$731,000
2/27/2009	Central Bancorp, Inc.	Garland	Texas	$22,500,000
2/27/2009	Medallion Bank	Salt Lake City	Utah	$11,800,000
2/27/2009	Medallion Bank	Salt Lake City	Utah	$11,800,000
2/27/2009	Ridgestone Financial Services, Inc.	Brookfield	Wis.	$10,900,000
2/27/2009	Ridgestone Financial Services, Inc.	Brookfield	Wis.	$10,900,000
3/6/2009	First Federal Bancshares of Arkansas, Inc.	Harrison	Ark.	$16,500,000
3/6/2009	ICB Financial	Ontario	Calif.	$6,000,000
3/6/2009	First Southwest Bancorporation, Inc.	Alamosa	Colo.	$5,500,000
3/6/2009	Highlands Independent Bancshares, Inc.	Sebring	Fla.	$6,700,000
3/6/2009	Pinnacle Bank Holding Company, Inc.	Orange City	Fla.	$4,389,000
3/6/2009	Marine Bank & Trust Company	Vero Beach	Fla.	$3,000,000
3/6/2009	Regent Bancorp, Inc.	Davie	Fla.	$9,982,000
3/6/2009	Citizens Bancshares Corporation	Atlanta	Ga.	$7,462,000
3/6/2009	PeoplesSouth Bancshares, Inc.	Colquitt	Ga.	$12,325,000
3/6/2009	First Busey Corporation	Urbana	Ill.	$100,000,000
3/6/2009	Blue River Bancshares, Inc.	Shelbyville	Ind.	$5,000,000
3/6/2009	Community Bancshares of Kansas, Inc.	Goff	Kan.	$500,000
3/6/2009	Blue Ridge Bancshares, Inc.	Independence	Mo.	$12,000,000
3/6/2009	AmeriBank Holding Company	Collinsville	Okla.	$2,492,000
3/6/2009	HCSB Financial Corporation	Loris	S.C.	$12,895,000
3/6/2009	First Reliance Bancshares, Inc.	Florence	S.C.	$15,349,000
3/6/2009	Merchants and Planters Bancshares, Inc.	Toone	Tenn.	$1,881,000
3/6/2009	Germantown Capital Corporation, Inc.	Germantown	Tenn.	$4,967,000
3/6/2009	First Texas BHC, Inc.	Fort Worth	Texas	$13,533,000
3/6/2009	Farmers & Merchants Bancshares, Inc.	Houston	Texas	$11,000,000
3/6/2009	BOH Holdings, Inc.	Houston	Texas	$10,000,000
3/6/2009	Park Bancorporation, Inc.	Madison	Wis.	$23,200,000
3/13/2009	BancIndependent, Inc.	Sheffield	Ala.	$21,100,000
3/13/2009	First Northern Community Bancorp	Dixon	Calif.	$17,390,000
3/13/2009	Salisbury Bancorp, Inc.	Lakeville	Conn.	$8,816,000
3/13/2009	1st United Bancorp, Inc.	Boca Raton	Fla.	$10,000,000
3/13/2009	First Intercontinental Bank	Doraville	Ga.	$6,398,000
3/13/2009	Discover Financial Services	Riverwoods	Ill.	$1,224,558,000
3/13/2009	Butler Point, Inc.	Catlin	Ill.	$607,000
3/13/2009	Haviland Bancshares, Inc.	Haviland	Kan.	$425,000
3/13/2009	Madison Financial Corporation	Richmond	Ky.	$3,370,000
3/13/2009	St. Johns Bancshares, Inc.	St. Louis	Mo.	$3,000,000
3/13/2009	First American International Corp.	Brooklyn	N.Y.	$17,000,000
3/13/2009	IBW Financial Corporation	Washington DC	n/a	$6,000,000
3/13/2009	Bank of George	Las Vegas	Nev.	$2,672,000
3/13/2009	First Place Financial Corp.	Warren	Ohio	$72,927,000
3/13/2009	Provident Community Bancshares, Inc.	Rock Hill	S.C.	$9,266,000
3/13/2009	Moneytree Corporation	Lenoir City	Tenn.	$9,516,000
3/13/2009	Sovereign Bancshares, Inc.	Dallas	Texas	$18,215,000
3/13/2009	First National Corporation	Strasburg	Va.	$13,900,000
3/13/2009	Blackhawk Bancorp, Inc.	Beloit	Wis.	$10,000,000
3/20/2009	Heritage Oaks Bancorp	Paso Robles	Calif.	$21,000,000
3/20/2009	Premier Bank Holding Company	Tallahassee	Fla.	$9,500,000
3/20/2009	Farmers & Merchants Financial Corporation	Argonia	Kan.	$442,000
3/20/2009	Farmers State Bankshares, Inc.	Holton	Kan.	$700,000
3/20/2009	First NBC Bank Holding Company	New Orleans	La.	$17,836,000
3/20/2009	Citizens Bank & Trust Company	Covington	La.	$2,400,000
3/20/2009	Kirksville Bancorp, Inc.	Kirksville	Mo.	$470,000
3/20/2009	First Colebrook Bancorp, Inc.	Colebrook	N.H.	$4,500,000
3/20/2009	Community First Bancshares Inc.	Union City	Tenn.	$20,000,000
3/20/2009	Peoples Bancshares of TN, Inc.	Madisonville	Tenn.	$3,900,000
3/27/2009	SBT Bancorp, Inc.	Simsbury	Conn.	$4,000,000
3/27/2009	CSRA Bank Corp.	Wrens	Ga.	$2,400,000
3/27/2009	Trinity Capital Corporation	Los Alamos	N.M.	$35,539,000
3/27/2009	Clover Community Bankshares, Inc.	Clover	S.C.	$3,000,000
3/27/2009	Pathway Bancorp	Cairo	Neb.	$3,727,000
3/27/2009	Colonial American Bank West	Conshohocken	Pa.	$574,000
3/27/2009	MS Financial, Inc.	Kingwood	Texas	$7,723,000
3/27/2009	Triad Bancorp, Inc.	Frontenac	Mo.	$3,700,000
3/27/2009	Alpine Banks of Colorado	Glenwood Springs	Colo.	$70,000,000
3/27/2009	Naples Bancorp, Inc.	Naples	Fla.	$4,000,000
3/27/2009	CBS Banc-Corp.	Russellville	Ala.	$24,300,000
3/27/2009	IBT Bancorp, Inc.	Irving	Texas	$2,295,000
3/27/2009	Spirit BankCorp, Inc.	Bristow	Okla.	$30,000,000
3/27/2009	Maryland Financial Bank	Towson	Md.	$1,700,000
4/3/2009	First Capital Bancorp, Inc.	Glen Ellen	Va.	$10,958,000
4/3/2009	Tri-State Bank of Memphis	Memphis	Tenn.	$2,795,000
4/3/2009	Fortune Financial Corporation	Arnold	Mo.	$3,100,000
4/3/2009	BancStar, Inc.	Festus	Mo.	$8,600,000
4/3/2009	Titonka Bancshares, Inc	Titonka	Iowa	$2,117,000
4/3/2009	Millennium Bancorp, Inc.	Edwards	Colo.	$7,260,000
4/3/2009	TriSummit Bank	Kingsport	Tenn.	$2,765,000
4/3/2009	Prairie Star Bancshares, Inc.	Olathe	Kan.	$2,800,000
4/3/2009	Community First Bancshares, Inc.	Harrison	Ark.	$12,725,000
4/3/2009	BCB Holding Company, Inc.	Theodore	Ala.	$1,706,000
4/10/2009	City National Bancshares Corporation	Newark	N.J.	$9,439,000
4/10/2009	First Business Bank, N.A.	San Diego	Calif.	$2,211,000
4/10/2009	SV Financial, Inc.	Sterling	Ill.	$4,000,000
4/10/2009	Capital Commerce Bancorp, Inc.	Milwaukee	Wis.	$5,100,000
4/10/2009	Metropolitan Capital Bancorp, Inc.	Chicago	Ill.	$2,040,000
4/17/2009	Bank of the Carolinas Corporation	Mocksville	N.C.	$13,179,000
4/17/2009	Penn Liberty Financial Corp.	Wayne	Pa.	$9,960,000
4/17/2009	Tifton Banking Company	Tifton	Ga.	$3,800,000
4/17/2009	Patterson Bancshares, Inc	Patterson	La.	$3,690,000
4/17/2009	BNB Financial Services Corporation	New York	N.Y.	$7,500,000
4/17/2009	Omega Capital Corp.	Lakewood	Colo.	$2,816,000
4/24/2009	Mackinac Financial Corporation / mBank	Manistique	Mich.	$11,000,000
4/24/2009	Birmingham Bloomfield Bancshares, Inc	Birmingham	Mich.	$1,635,000
4/24/2009	Vision Bank - Texas	Richardson	Texas	$1,500,000
4/24/2009	Oregon Bancorp, Inc.	Salem	Ore.	$3,216,000
4/24/2009	Peoples Bancorporation, Inc.	Easley	S.C.	$12,660,000
4/24/2009	Indiana Bank Corp.	Dana	Ind.	$1,312,000
4/24/2009	Business Bancshares, Inc.	Clayton	Mo.	$15,000,000
4/24/2009	Standard Bancshares, Inc.	Hickory Hills	Ill.	$60,000,000
4/24/2009	York Traditions Bank	York	Pa.	$4,871,000
4/24/2009	Grand Capital Corporation	Tulsa	Okla.	$4,000,000
4/24/2009	Allied First Bancorp, Inc.	Oswego	Ill.	$3,652,000
4/24/2009	Frontier Bancshares, Inc.	Austin	Texas	$3,000,000
5/1/2009	Village Bank and Trust Financial Corp.	Midlothian	Va.	$14,738,000
5/1/2009	CenterBank	Milford	Ohio	$2,250,000
5/1/2009	Georgia Primary Bank	Atlanta	Ga.	$4,500,000
5/1/2009	Union Bank & Trust Company	Oxford	N.C.	$3,194,000
5/1/2009	HPK Financial Corporation	Chicago	Ill.	$4,000,000
5/1/2009	OSB Financial Services, Inc.	Orange	Texas	$6,100,000
5/1/2009	Security State Bank Holding-Company	Jamestown	N.D.	$10,750,000
5/8/2009	Highlands State Bank	Vernon	N.J.	$3,091,000
5/8/2009	One Georgia Bank	Atlanta	Ga.	$5,500,000
5/8/2009	Gateway Bancshares, Inc.	Ringgold	Ga.	$6,000,000
5/8/2009	Freeport Bancshares, Inc.	Freeport	Ill.	$3,000,000
5/8/2009	Investors Financial Corporation of Pettis County, Inc.	Sedalia	Mo.	$4,000,000
5/8/2009	Sword Financial Corporation	Horicon	Wis.	$13,644,000
5/8/2009	Premier Bancorp, Inc.	Wilmette	Ill.	$6,784,000
5/15/2009	Mercantile Bank Corporation	Grand Rapids	Mich.	$21,000,000
5/15/2009	Northern State Bank	Closter	N.J.	$1,341,000
5/15/2009	Western Reserve Bancorp, Inc	Medina	Ohio	$4,700,000
5/15/2009	Community Financial Shares, Inc.	Glen Ellyn	Ill.	$6,970,000
5/15/2009	Worthington Financial Holdings, Inc.	Huntsville	Ala.	$2,720,000
5/15/2009	First Community Bancshares, Inc	Overland Park	Kan.	$14,800,000
5/15/2009	Southern Heritage Bancshares, Inc.	Cleveland	Tenn.	$4,862,000
5/15/2009	Foresight Financial Group, Inc.	Rockford	Ill.	$15,000,000
5/15/2009	IBC Bancorp, Inc.	Chicago	Ill.	$4,205,000
5/15/2009	Boscobel Bancorp, Inc	Boscobel	Wis.	$5,586,000
5/15/2009	Brogan Bankshares, Inc.	Kaukauna	Wis.	$2,400,000
5/15/2009	Riverside Bancshares, Inc.	Little Rock	Ark.	$1,100,000
5/15/2009	Deerfield Financial Corporation	Deerfield	Wis.	$2,639,000
5/15/2009	Market Street Bancshares, Inc.	Mt. Vernon	Ill.	$20,300,000
5/22/2009	The Landrum Company	Columbia	Mo..	$15,000,000
5/22/2009	First Advantage Bancshares Inc.	Coon Rapids	Minn.	$1,177,000
5/22/2009	Fort Lee Federal Savings Bank	Fort Lee	N.J.	$1,300,000
5/22/2009	Blackridge Financial, Inc.	Fargo	N.D.	$5,000,000
5/22/2009	Illinois State Bancorp, Inc.	Chicago	Ill.	$6,272,000
5/22/2009	Universal Bancorp	Bloomfield	Ind.	$9,900,000
5/22/2009	Franklin Bancorp, Inc.	Washington	Mo.	$5,097,000
5/22/2009	Commonwealth Bancshares, Inc.	Louisville	Ky.	$20,400,000
5/22/2009	Premier Financial Corp	Dubuque	Iowa	$6,349,000
5/22/2009	F & C Bancorp, Inc.	Holden	Mo.	$2,993,000
5/22/2009	Diamond Bancorp, Inc.	Washington	Mo.	$20,445,000
5/22/2009	United Bank Corporation	Barnesville	Ga.	$14,400,000
5/29/2009	Community Bank Shares of Indiana, Inc.	New Albany	Ind.	$19,468,000
5/29/2009	American Premier Bancorp	Arcadia	Calif.	$1,800,000
5/29/2009	CB Holding Corp.	Aledo	Ill.	$4,114,000
5/29/2009	Citizens Bancshares Co.	Chillicothe	Mo.	$24,990,000
5/29/2009	Grand Mountain Bancshares, Inc.	Granby	Colo.	$3,076,000
5/29/2009	Two Rivers Financial Group	Burlington	Iowa	$12,000,000
5/29/2009	Fidelity Bancorp, Inc	Baton Rouge	La.	$3,942,000
5/29/2009	Chambers Bancshares, Inc.	Danville	Ark.	$19,817,000
6/5/2009	Covenant Financial Corporation	Clarksdale	Miss.	$5,000,000
6/5/2009	First Trust Corporation	New Orleans	La.	$17,969,000
6/5/2009	OneFinancial Corporation	Little Rock	Ark.	$17,300,000
6/12/2009	Berkshire Bancorp, Inc.	Wyomissing	Pa.	$2,892,000
6/12/2009	First Vernon Bancshares, Inc.	Vernon	Ala.	$6,000,000
6/12/2009	SouthFirst Bancshares, Inc.	Sylacauga	Ala.	$2,760,000
6/12/2009	Virginia Company Bank	Newport News	Va.	$4,700,000
6/12/2009	Enterprise Financial Services Group, Inc.	Allison Park	Pa.	$4,000,000
6/12/2009	First Financial Bancshares, Inc.	Lawrence	Kan.	$3,756,000
6/12/2009	River Valley Bancorporation, Inc.	Wausau	Wis.	$15,000,000
6/12/2009	Berkshire Bancorp, Inc.	Wyomissing	Pa.	$2,892,000
6/12/2009	First Vernon Bancshares, Inc.	Vernon	Ala.	$6,000,000
6/12/2009	SouthFirst Bancshares, Inc.	Sylacauga	Ala.	$2,760,000
6/12/2009	Virginia Company Bank	Newport News	Va.	$4,700,000
6/12/2009	Enterprise Financial Services Group, Inc.	Allison Park	Pa.	$4,000,000
6/12/2009	First Financial Bancshares, Inc.	Lawrence	Kan.	$3,756,000
6/12/2009	River Valley Bancorporation, Inc.	Wausau	Wis.	$15,000,000
6/19/2009	Merchants and Manufacturers Bank Corporation	Joliet	Ill.	$3,510,000
6/19/2009	RCB Financial Corporation	Rome	Ga.	$8,900,000
6/19/2009	Manhattan Bancshares, Inc.	Manhattan	Ill.	$2,639,000
6/19/2009	Biscayne Bancshares, Inc.	Coconut Grove	Fla.	$6,400,000
6/19/2009	Duke Financial Group, Inc.	Minneapolis	Minn.	$12,000,000
6/19/2009	Farmers Enterprises, Inc.	Great Bend	Kan.	$12,000,000
6/19/2009	Century Financial Services Corporation	Santa Fe	N.M.	$10,000,000
6/19/2009	NEMO Bancshares Inc.	Madison	Mo.	$2,330,000
6/19/2009	University Financial Corp, Inc.	St. Paul	Minn.	$11,926,000
6/19/2009	Suburban Illinois Bancorp, Inc.	Elmhurst	Ill.	$15,000,000
Total purchase amount:			$199,566,890,000
Total repaid:			-$70,124,589,000
Capital Purchase Program total investment:			129,442,301,000

¹Initially allocated to Merrill Lynch, which Bank of America purchased on Jan. 1, 2009
Source: Treasury Dept.

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