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10861 [lbo-talk] Development of Political Underdevelopment (was electability) -- rank: 1000

On Mar 24, 2007, at 2:57 PM, John Thornton wrote: > .49 hours spent on "Food preparation and cleanup" but 1.2 hours > eating? > Since when does it take more time to eat a meal than to prepare it and > cleanup? When you nuke it (or, as I learned from Anthony Bourdain, "give it some radar love"), or order takeout. Also, note the next columns - while almost everybody eats, just 37% of men do prep/cleanup, and 66% of women do. Check out table 2. An average of .3 hou ...

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Date:	Sat Mar 24 11:16:17 PDT 2007

10862 [lbo-talk] horrific affiliation -- rank: 1000

"the Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom at The Heritage Foundation"

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Date:	Sat Mar 24 11:05:48 PDT 2007

10863 [lbo-talk] Development of Political Underdevelopment (was electability) -- rank: 1000

On Mar 23, 2007, at 11:46 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > Those who don't have time -- the bottom half of America -- don't vote > at all. Electoral politics is a game of the top half. You've issued an average of 43.7 of these pronunciamenti per day over the last couple of weeks, in addition to the 52.6 per day on how the Jesus and Mohammed have replaced Marx in the hearts of the Third World poor. Could you maybe devote several of your 17.3 remaining posts per day to what this all means? ...

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Date:	Sat Mar 24 09:34:13 PDT 2007

10864 [lbo-talk] Development of Political Underdevelopment (was electability) -- rank: 1000

On Mar 23, 2007, at 10:39 PM, joanna wrote: > Maybe. A lot of it is simply lack of time. > > Work (including commute) takes 10 to 11 hours a day for most. > > Then there's kids, eating, sleeping.... I used to think that but the BLS time use survey doesn't confirm it at all <ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/news.release/atus.txt>. The average American has about 5 hours of leisure time a day, half of which is spent watching TV. Doug

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Date:	Sat Mar 24 09:31:13 PDT 2007

10865 [lbo-talk] Obama rebuffs Soros on AIPAC -- rank: 1000

New York Sun - March 21, 2007 <http://www.nysun.com/article/50846> Obama Rebuffs Soros Billionaire's Comments on Aipac Are Scored BY ELI LAKE - Staff Reporter of the Sun WASHINGTON - Leading Democrats, including Senator Obama of Illinois, are distancing themselves from an essay published this week by one of their party's leading financiers that called for the Democratic Party to "liberate" itself from the influence of the pro-Israel lobby. The article, by George Soros, publish ...

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Date:	Sat Mar 24 09:28:51 PDT 2007

10866 [lbo-talk] new radio product -- rank: 1000

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 23 16:33:50 PDT 2007

10867 [lbo-talk] Ehrenstein on Obama -- rank: 1000

On Mar 23, 2007, at 6:45 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > On 3/23/07, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: >> >> On Mar 23, 2007, at 6:03 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >> >>> All I'm saying is that Democratic voters can't complain of not >>> having >>> an anti-war candidate in the caucuses and primaries. >> >> Sadly he's a funny-looking oddball without a prayer of getting into >> the mid-single digits. > > If Democra ...

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Date:	Fri Mar 23 16:07:08 PDT 2007

10868 [lbo-talk] electability (was elite-bashing) -- rank: 1000

On Mar 23, 2007, at 6:34 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > As far as Americans are concerned, most of them don't really believe > in being the same in god's sight or equal opportunity or level playing > fields, despite what religion or the constitution says. Why do I > know that? Because they believe in "electability." What is > electability but the fact of having enough support of the ruling class > and therefore having a shot at high office? The dominant ideology i ...

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Date:	Fri Mar 23 15:55:58 PDT 2007

10869 [lbo-talk] Ehrenstein on Obama -- rank: 1000

On Mar 23, 2007, at 6:03 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > All I'm saying is that Democratic voters can't complain of not having > an anti-war candidate in the caucuses and primaries. Sadly he's a funny-looking oddball without a prayer of getting into the mid-single digits. Doug

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Date:	Fri Mar 23 15:23:32 PDT 2007

10870 [lbo-talk] re. subprpime suburbs -- rank: 1000

On Mar 23, 2007, at 5:50 PM, Jason wrote: > Ireland has enjoyed housebuilding on > something like the scale that you've argued is needed in Britian. I just happened to read in The Economist that housebuilding accounts for 15% of national income and 12% of employment in Ireland. That's nuts. Doug

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Date:	Fri Mar 23 15:22:11 PDT 2007

10871 [lbo-talk] re. subprpime suburbs -- rank: 1000

On Mar 23, 2007, at 5:28 PM, James Heartfield wrote: > I should have known that the relatively high home ownership in the > US would > be transformed into proof of Americans' low incomes. (file under > quaint > beliefs of the LBOers: US immiseration) > > Doug writes: > > " it's interesting > that the countries with the highest ownership rates are on the > periphery, historically poorer countries like Ireland and Spain, and > the lowest are at the core, li ...

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Date:	Fri Mar 23 15:20:44 PDT 2007

10872 [lbo-talk] Gallup: US public values environment over energy -- rank: 1000

<http://www.galluppoll.com/content/?ci=26941> March 22, 2007 Public Favors Environment Protection Over Energy Production as Priority for U.S. Concern about energy remains high by Jeffrey M. Jones Page: 1, 2 Next GALLUP NEWS SERVICE PRINCETON, NJ -- Even though public concern about the energy situation in the United States remains high, Gallup's annual Environment Poll finds that Americans are more likely than ever to say that the government should put a higher priority on protectin ...

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Date:	Fri Mar 23 14:30:31 PDT 2007

10873 [lbo-talk] David Ehrenstein on Obama -- rank: 1000

On Mar 23, 2007, at 5:01 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > Dennis Kucinich will be on the ballot in the DP caucuses and > primaries, but most "anti-war" DP voters won't vote for him. I > conclude that they don't have the courage of their convictions. You make it sound like a moral failing, or some sort of other personal defect. Most people sympathetic with Kucinich's politics think he doesn't have a prayer - not merely of winning, but even scoring above 5%. Yes, that's self-fu ...

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Date:	Fri Mar 23 14:26:01 PDT 2007

10874 [lbo-talk] elite-bashing -- rank: 1000

On Mar 23, 2007, at 10:26 AM, James Heartfield wrote: > Doug writes: > >> Naomi Klein is a very smart person, but her Canadianness is showing >> here. If only this were true... > > I think Canadianness grants more insight into US anti-elitism than > you do. How's that? Because you can take a few remarks out of context, turn them into a column, publish it in a British paper, and no one will ever know? > There is a lot of elite-bashing out there, but it is entirely ...

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Date:	Fri Mar 23 12:39:47 PDT 2007

10875 [lbo-talk] subprime suburbs -- rank: 1000

On Mar 23, 2007, at 1:11 PM, Jason wrote: > I don't understand why everyone is so down on home ownership. There > is a housing crisis in Ireland at the minute because of vastly > inflated house values. They're not unrelated. If you've got a society full of people chasing homeownership and an accommodating financial system, then prices are going to rise, and you will create a constituency for ever-rising prices and a consciousness that views that as a good thing. Why is it a good thi ...

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Date:	Fri Mar 23 12:30:01 PDT 2007