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12496 [lbo-talk] Bush's evil powers -- rank: 1000

Reuters headline: "Bush visits wrecked Minnesota bridge" Guy can't do anything right!

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Aug 4 18:30:48 PDT 2007

12497 [lbo-talk] AFGHANISTAN: South Korea Pleads with US to Save Hostages -- rank: 1000

On Aug 3, 2007, at 12:02 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > If you actually > cared about the lives of these people, you know what you should do. > Otherwise, no more crocodile tears, please. You're trying my patience even more. You're like some superradical version of Samantha Power, who is just so much more sensitive and knowing than us poor selfish benighted fools, issuing pronouncements from the comfort and safety of Ohio rather than Cambridge. What are you doing besides posting hard ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Aug 4 12:58:13 PDT 2007

12498 [lbo-talk] Fixers -- rank: 1000

On Aug 2, 2007, at 11:18 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > If Doug were actually curious about why the fixer who had worked for > Christian Parenti was killed, he could ask Parenti or find out about > it on the Net. You're really trying my patience. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Aug 4 12:54:33 PDT 2007

12499 [lbo-talk] more cruise -- rank: 1000

Oh yeah, Salt Lake City mayor Rocky Anderson is a really good guy - politics as good as anyone who could ever hold elective office, smart, and really likable. He left the Mormon church when he was about 18 and really has no time for the thing now. He pointed out that the church still officially believes that people of color bear the Mark of Cain and no one ever calls Mitt Romney on this. A woman who's part of a team making a documentary about him says that under Mormon doctrine, when a ma ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Aug 4 11:11:19 PDT 2007

12500 [lbo-talk] cruise update: the Ralph angle -- rank: 1000

Man, is Ralph Nader odd up close. His funereal demeanor almost never lifts except when he's laughing at his own occasional jokes. The laughter of children leaves him uncharmed. He had some factotum running around announcing when he'd be holding audiences - he'd come to tables in the bar at 10:30 and disclose that Ralph would be speaking in the library in 10 minutes - when almost everyone was interested in chatting and having a nightcap. He refused to come to a speakers' dinner last night ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Aug 4 10:57:18 PDT 2007

12501 [lbo-talk] cruise "blog" -- rank: 1000

On Aug 3, 2007, at 8:19 AM, Chuck wrote: > I hope at least that Ivan, Liza and you are having a good time! A really good time. We'll be pulling into Victoria, BC, in a few hours, and Seattle tomorrow morning. Yeah, I know the whole cruise thing is both hilarious and questionable, but it does raise about $250,000 for the mag. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Aug 3 08:36:38 PDT 2007

12502 [lbo-talk] Obama says something sane; proves he's unqualified -- rank: 1000

[from The Note] Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., could welcome them in style if he didn't find himself explaining what looks like his second foreign-policy flub in as many weeks. Asked about whether he'd consider nuclear weapons to take out terrorists in Pakistan, Obama said, "I think it would be a profound mistake for us to use nuclear weapons in any circumstance." He paused before adding (and can't you just see his mind working here?), "involving civilians." ("Scratch t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Aug 3 08:29:55 PDT 2007

12503 [lbo-talk] cruise "blog" -- rank: 1000

On Aug 3, 2007, at 7:11 AM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > Emigrant laborers are the lucky > ones, not the exploited ones - they leave voluntarily and quite > eagerly to > earn better wages than they would have at home. Easy for you to say. You're not at sea for months on end, with infant children you've never seen, making our cruising lives comfortable. Yeah, I know it's not a bad deal for them, considering Indonesia's role in the global hierarchy, but the global hierarchy kind of su ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Aug 3 08:10:58 PDT 2007

12504 [lbo-talk] young women in NYC and now earning more than men -- rank: 1000

New York Times - August 3, 2007 <http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/03/nyregion/03women.html? ref=nyregion&pagewanted=print> For Young Earners in Big City, a Gap in Women's Favor By SAM ROBERTS Young women in New York and several of the nation's other largest cities who work full time have forged ahead of men in wages, according to an analysis of recent census data. The shift has occurred in New York since 2000 and even earlier in Los Angeles, Dallas and a few other cities. Economists c ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Aug 3 08:07:57 PDT 2007

12505 [lbo-talk] cruise "blog" -- rank: 1000

Reports from Alaska: <http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070813/henwood> <http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070813/henwood2> And Annabelle Gurwitch's original to which the ending of #2 was a response: <http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070813/gurwitch2>

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Aug 3 06:09:05 PDT 2007

12506 [lbo-talk] Fixers -- rank: 1000

On Aug 1, 2007, at 5:45 PM, Michael Smith wrote: > On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 14:51 -0800, Doug Henwood wrote: >> Christian Parenti's "fixer" in Afghanistan had his head cut off by >> the Taliban earlier this year. For supporting "humanitarian >> imperialism" no doubt. > > > No doubt at all, I'd say. With or without the quotes. That's really nasty. How do you know that? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Aug 2 15:07:15 PDT 2007

12507 [lbo-talk] Fixers -- rank: 1000

Christian Parenti's "fixer" in Afghanistan had his head cut off by the Taliban earlier this year. For supporting "humanitarian imperialism" no doubt. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 1 15:51:52 PDT 2007

12508 [lbo-talk] cruise report -- rank: 1000

On Aug 1, 2007, at 8:46 AM, Carl Remick wrote: > Gravel says that a feature called the "prebate" -- a tax > reimbursement "on > the essentials of life (food, shelter, clothing, medicine)" -- > would keep > his consumption tax (a/k/a the "Fair Tax") from being regressive. > Is this > just smoke and mirrors? Yeah. It would soften the blow, but still be regressive - and a windfall for the rich. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 1 13:16:06 PDT 2007

12509 [lbo-talk] cruise report -- rank: 1000

On Jul 31, 2007, at 8:01 PM, Michael Perelman wrote: > Why does nobody mention Gravel? He supports a consumption tax.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 1 08:43:56 PDT 2007

12510 [lbo-talk] cruise report -- rank: 1000

On Jul 31, 2007, at 7:43 PM, Mike Ballard wrote: > Dennis Kucinich, at least he has a plan for universal healthcare > which isn't > based on "cancer for profit". I think this came up in 2004, but he's short, weird, and has big ears. Even though he snagged a tall, hot wife, he's never going to get beyond 2%, sorry to say. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 1 08:43:36 PDT 2007