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The McCain supporter is not being straight. By all accounts less than 20 percent of foreclosures come from minorities and low-income homeowners. About 40 percent come from affluent Americans who wanted too much house. Those are the facts.

The crisis comes from unregulated "derivatives" -- bundled mortgage securities that were "swapped" as investment products that had not relation to the true value of assets. Republicans never wanted to regulate this shell game.

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Here's the dirty little secret about flyfishing: Study after study shows a fairly high mortality rate in catch and release fisheries, some as high as 14 percent. Hooking a fish, fighting it, handling it and removing the hook obviously takes a toll. Add to that those who do none of this very gently. Bottom line is that in streams in which we are trying to restore native runs (Metolious for example) fishing should be prohibited.

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