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10891 [lbo-talk] Spiegel interviews Sharpton -- rank: 1000

On Mar 22, 2007, at 11:43 AM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > For the record, I am against all populism, not just Black. Bush is a > populist, Berlusconi is a populist, Le Pen is a populist, current > right wing > Polish government is populist - enough already! You may say that > Chavez is > a populist too, and I would not have an easy answer to that > counterexample - > but my gut reaction is that nothing good has ever came out of populist > politics - only pogroms, lync ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 22 08:56:45 PDT 2007

10892 [lbo-talk] more of Obama on war funding -- rank: 1000

<http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=2970930&page=1> Obama Changed Position on War Funding Democratic Presidential Contender Opposed War Funding in 2003 but Has Voted Four Times for Funding in Senate By JAKE TAPPER and JONATHAN GREENBERGER March 21, 2007 - In a conference call with reporters Wednesday, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., said that his votes to fund the war in Iraq do not contradict his opposition to the war. "Once we were in, we were going to have some responsibili ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 22 08:42:12 PDT 2007

10893 [lbo-talk] Spiegel interviews Sharpton -- rank: 1000

On Mar 22, 2007, at 11:20 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > You know Sharpton supports _any kind_ of candidate in the end, as long > as the candidate is a Democrat True enough. I love the Rev Al, but he's got some flaws. Doug

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Date:	Thu Mar 22 08:40:15 PDT 2007

10894 [lbo-talk] Spiegel interviews Sharpton -- rank: 1000

On Mar 22, 2007, at 10:56 AM, Dwayne Monroe wrote: > Wojtek: > > > This is precisely the reason I am inclined to vote for > Obama. Had he been what Sharpton calls "our kind," > what I presume means "Black populist," I would > definitely NOT vote for him and I would be in a > significant majority for a change. > > ................ > > > > What if by "our kind" Sharpton does NOT mean "Black > populist" but 'candi ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 22 08:14:23 PDT 2007

10895 [lbo-talk] DK brouhaha -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - March 22, 2007 Punk Conscience LEGENDARY punk rockers the Dead Kennedys are alive and fighting. Last week, frontman Jello Biafra blasted former bandmates East Bay Ray, Klaus Flouride and D.H. Peligro for licensing their song "Too Drunk to [Bleep]" to play during a rape scene in Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez's new "Grindhouse." Biafra fumed, "Some people will do anything for money . . . I'd sure love to be a fly on the wall when [ ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 22 08:11:40 PDT 2007

10896 [lbo-talk] Obama on Iraq: not one penny for reconstruction! -- rank: 1000

[what a thug - we fucked up the country, but we don't owe them anything - from Ben Smith @ Politico] <http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0307/ Obamas_Shift_on_War_Funding.html> In a conference call today (for Iowa and New Hampshire reporters only, grumble grumble), Obama made the case that he hasn't moved on the war. "Once we were in, we were going to have some responsibility to try to make it work as best we can. More importantly, you make sure the troops are supported," ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 21 19:17:13 PDT 2007

10897 [lbo-talk] False comparisons, false hopes, false tsctics -- rank: 1000

On Mar 21, 2007, at 8:52 PM, Jim Straub wrote: > The Democrats were capital's go-to team It wouldn't surprise me if we're heading back in that direction. The Reps are looking ragged and discredited, and incapable of dealing with long-term things like climate change, about which big capital seems ever-more concerned. It'll be interesting to watch the evolution of this - and not the least entertaining part will be watching left-liberals deal with it. Doug

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Date:	Wed Mar 21 19:05:20 PDT 2007

10898 [lbo-talk] Spiegel interviews Sharpton -- rank: 1000

On Mar 21, 2007, at 6:15 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote: > > SPIEGEL: Does it not count that he himself is black? > > SHARPTON: He's certainly an impressive figure, but he cannot just get > the support of all of the black community because he's black. We > are no > longer intoxicated by having the first black president. We had the > first > black secretary of state and the second black secretary of state and > they brought us the most wicked war in our lifetime. So you ha ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 21 16:03:54 PDT 2007

10899 [lbo-talk] Fed leaves rates unchanged -- rank: 1000

[a little on the hawkish side, or so it seems to me - stock traders seem to think otherwise] <http://www.federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/press/monetary/2007/20070321/> For immediate release The Federal Open Market Committee decided today to keep its target for the federal funds rate at 5-1/4 percent. Recent indicators have been mixed and the adjustment in the housing sector is ongoing. Nevertheless, the economy seems likely to continue to expand at a moderate pace over coming quarters. Re ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 21 11:29:41 PDT 2007

10900 [lbo-talk] fighting Nancy Pelosi threatens antiwar legislators... -- rank: 1000

...who won't vote *for* her Iraq appropriations bill! <http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/its-tough-to-get-218-votes-so- speaker-gets-tough-too-2007-03-20.html> It's tough to get 218 votes, so Speaker gets tough, too By Jonathan E. Kaplan March 21, 2007 Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is holding the implied threat of lost committee seats over the heads of Democratic Caucus members who may vote against her $124 billion Iraq war supplemental bill. Faced with the possibility of losing the ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 21 08:23:49 PDT 2007

10901 [lbo-talk] racializing the foreclosure boom -- rank: 1000

Print this article | Close this window Blacks suffer most in U.S. foreclosure surge Tue Mar 20, 2007 1:14PM EDT By Jason Szep BOSTON (Reuters) - Barbara Anderson and her husband know racism. Among the first blacks to move into an Ohio neighborhood 25 years ago, she watched in horror as white neighbors burned her garage nearly to the ground. Fast-forward to 2007 and Anderson talks of a different sort of discrimination: brokers of subprime mortgages who prey on borrowers with weak credit hist ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 21 06:19:15 PDT 2007

10902 [lbo-talk] Merle Haggard kinda likes Hillary -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - March 21, 2007 Hold The Mud COUNTRY music legend Merle Haggard may be courting controversy for supporting Hillary Clinton with his song "Hillary." But he's not ready to commit to voting for her. "I don't know. It depends on if she holds her mud between now and the time to vote," Haggard told The Post's Billy Heller before pulling into town for tomorrow's Radio City "Last of the Breed" show with Willie Nelson and Ray Price. Pressed to ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 21 06:13:06 PDT 2007

10903 [lbo-talk] new radio product -- rank: 1000

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Date:	Tue Mar 20 16:10:37 PDT 2007

10904 [lbo-talk] where are the women? -- rank: 1000

I was just looking at the sex ratios for the populations of various countries, and discovered an amazing thing - the extraordinarily low percentage of women in certain Arab countries. Where did all the women go? I understand the predominance of the fSU countries at the other end, though - the men drank themselves to death. COUNTRIES RANKED BY SHARE OF FEMALES IN POPULATION 2005 data, World Bank lowest ------ United Arab Emirates 31.9% Qatar 32.7 Kuwait ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 20 14:01:20 PDT 2007

10905 [lbo-talk] 10 milliseconds: too slow -- rank: 1000

[from Merrill Lynch chief investment strategist Richard Berntstein] 10 milliseconds is way too slow Financial historians often point out that one common characteristic of speculative periods in financial markets is the desire to trade more frequently. In other words, market participants can't get enough of a good thing. A recent example is the popularity of day trading during the Technology bubble. Even with that sense of history, a recent article in the Financial Times still came as a sh ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 20 12:48:16 PDT 2007