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11161 [lbo-talk] Sun beams from billionaire's behind -- rank: 1000

On Jun 21, 2007, at 12:06 AM, Michael Smith wrote: >> 1. The Democrats will not go away, wither away, >> disappear, or otherwise do our work for us if they >> lose the next election....They will just shift further right again, > > Indeed. And what will they do if they win? Answer: the very same > thing! > Conclusion? Left as an exercise. I know that "the Dems have moved to the right" is a standard line, but relative to what? Political scientists who code ...

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Date:	Thu Jun 21 05:41:43 PDT 2007

11162 [lbo-talk] Sun beams from billionaire's behind -- rank: 1000

On Jun 20, 2007, at 6:27 PM, ravi wrote: > Bloomberg's impact will be on the Democrats, more so than Nader, for > two reasons: he is a liberal who will take away a lot more Democratic > votes than GOP ones, and second his "bipartisanship" moderate > platform is a natural one that bests the contrived triangulation to > the same positions by the Democrats. So perhaps Bloomberg will be the > final act in cementing the Democrats' ideological irrelevancy. E.J. Dionne, whos ...

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Date:	Wed Jun 20 15:36:45 PDT 2007

11163 [lbo-talk] Sun beams from billionaire's behind -- rank: 1000

On Jun 20, 2007, at 6:14 PM, Michael Smith wrote: > I think it worked out very well. It denied the Democrats a victory. > True, like > the Bourbons, they've still learned nothing and forgotten nothing, > and for > the same reason, but perhaps if we keep doing it to them they will > fall apart > and clear the ground. For what? Just what are the Dems blocking? The revolutionary urge of the masses? When they fall, this frustrated and hitherto unexpressed revolutionary urge wi ...

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Date:	Wed Jun 20 15:28:33 PDT 2007

11164 [lbo-talk] the WSWS does The Nation -- rank: 1000

<http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/jun2007/natn-j18.shtml> <http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/jun2007/nati-j19.shtml> <http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/jun2007/nati-j20.shtml>

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Date:	Wed Jun 20 14:54:08 PDT 2007

11165 [lbo-talk] Sun beams from billionaire's behind -- rank: 1000

On Jun 20, 2007, at 2:54 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote: >>> NPR suggested that he'd campaign as an independent. We'd be able to >>> relive the whole Nader thing again. >> >> Yeah, except he could spend a billion. >> >> Doug > > > That got Perot almost 20% of the popular vote. Perot spent only about $60 million, though.

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Date:	Wed Jun 20 12:19:19 PDT 2007

11166 [lbo-talk] Class -- rank: 1000

On Jun 19, 2007, at 10:56 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Class cannot be defined or explained or recognized by the functions > performed by its members, for a class consists not just of functioning > adults. > > A Class includes infants. It includes retired but active grandfathers. > It includes grandmothers in nursing homes. It includes daughters and > granddaughters. It includes second cousins existing on handouts from > their relatives. It includes unmarried older sisters. In ...

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Date:	Wed Jun 20 12:00:54 PDT 2007

11167 [lbo-talk] Sun beams from billionaire's behind -- rank: 1000

On Jun 20, 2007, at 2:27 PM, Andy F wrote: > NPR suggested that he'd campaign as an independent. We'd be able to > relive the whole Nader thing again. Yeah, except he could spend a billion. Doug

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11168 [lbo-talk] Israel's Roaring Economy -- rank: 1000

On Jun 20, 2007, at 1:57 AM, Jonathan Nitzan wrote: > These explications, whether plausible or not, all fall into the same > trap: they believe the capitalist media. They rush to explain why the > Israeli economy is roaring without ever stopping to ask whether it is > roaring. According to the IMF, Israeli GDP growth has averaged 5% since 2004. That's not China, but it's still pretty strong. Population is growing about 2% a year, so per capita, it's around 3%. Not the top of the w ...

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Date:	Wed Jun 20 11:35:34 PDT 2007

11169 [lbo-talk] Annette Rubenstein dies -- rank: 1000

P L E A S E F O R W A R D W I D E L Y The Brecht Forum ________________________________________________________________ Our dear friend and teacher Annette T. Rubinstein died in her sleep last night at the age of 97. Annette began working with The Brecht Forum/New York Marxist School when we first opened our doors in the Fall of 1975 and continued to teach wonderful classes on literature, drama and politics until her last class on Brecht s Galileo this Spring. She was a constant insp ...

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Date:	Wed Jun 20 11:22:14 PDT 2007

11170 [lbo-talk] Sun beams from billionaire's behind -- rank: 1000

On Jun 20, 2007, at 12:32 PM, Carl Remick wrote: > NYC mayor and multibillionaire Mike Bloomberg has announced that he's > leaving the Republican party, and speculation is that he intends to > run for > president as an independent. According to the media, he's willing > to spend > $500 million of his own money on a presidential bid. > > It's interesting to note NY Times blog responses to this news. > Overwhelmingly, posters see Bloomberg as a brilliant and selfless &g ...

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Date:	Wed Jun 20 11:10:34 PDT 2007

11171 [lbo-talk] books -- rank: 1000

On Jun 19, 2007, at 6:31 PM, MICHAEL YATES wrote: > Consider the fate of Jack Valenti s recent memoir. Valenti was a > political mover and shaker, with deep ties in Hollywood. He had > planned most of the PR for his book, with appearances by him and > his friends on major TV shows. Then he died, and none of this > happened. His book, as of last week, had sold about 1,000 copies, > much to the chagrin of his publisher (what does this say about the > book s quality?. You d thi ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 19 15:44:18 PDT 2007

11172 [lbo-talk] Hillary's song -- rank: 1000

Holy god, this is awful: <http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=ionFwC1UUUw>. There are no limits to her awfulness.

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Date:	Tue Jun 19 15:41:35 PDT 2007

11173 [lbo-talk] today's socialites work hard! -- rank: 1000

<http://blogs.wsj.com/wealth/2007/06/19/what-do-socialites-do-all-day/> June 19, 2007, 11:03 am What Do Socialites Do All Day? Socialites used to be just socialites. They lunched. They threw parties. They shopped. And they kept lists A-lists and B-lists, and lists of people who could never make the lists. But in today s new-money world, with millions of freshly minted, constantly striving millionaires, socialites want more. They re no longer content with being ladies of leisure they ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 19 13:20:36 PDT 2007

11174 [lbo-talk] morsels from The Note -- rank: 1000

[The Note isn't anywhere near as entertaining as it used to be under Mark Halperin, but every now and then there's some good stuff - links to sources at original] <http://www.abcnews.go.com/Politics/TheNote/Story?id=3105288&page=3> Newsday's Craig Gordon has the back story of why former mayor Rudolph Giuliani, R-N.Y., left the Iraq Study Group last May: He missed a pair of two-day meetings that conflicted with paid appearances and was told he would have to either start showing up ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 19 12:21:58 PDT 2007

11175 [lbo-talk] Yalies hate the poors -- rank: 1000

<http://gawker.com/news/class-war/yale-hates-the-poors-270140.php> class war Yale Hates The Poors For her Yale senior project, financial aid student Aurora Nichols took pictures of three months' worth of her mundane purchases and displayed them alongside her classmates' abstract paintings. This prompted quite a bit of attention for Aurora on campus, including a profile in the Hartford Courant in which Aurora revealed some less- than-flattering assessments of class dynamics at her alma ...

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