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12961 [lbo-talk] Watching Bush on tv tonight... -- rank: 1000

On Sep 19, 2006, at 12:40 PM, Dwayne Monroe wrote: > Begg was initially imprisoned at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan. > Later, he was transferred to Guantanamo where he spent two years - > mostly in solitary confinement, I believe. Yup, mostly in solitary. I asked him what his fellow inmates were like, and he had to remind me that he actually met very few of them. He also said that the soldiers at Gitmo had grown sickened and embarrassed by what they were expected to do, and he actual ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 19 09:51:27 PDT 2006

12962 [lbo-talk] Re: Bush at 44% -- rank: 1000

On Sep 19, 2006, at 11:57 AM, the long-lost-and-rewelcomed joyce brothers wrote: > I got sorta de-kos'ed by the response to the > press conference over there. No understanding of the > American street at all, they thought it would hurt > Bush. Much of Bush's drop in the polls was because of discontent among Republicans; Dems and Inds have hardly moved. So that sorta shit is good for the base - and they need the base to come out in force in November - but it doesn't win any conve ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 19 09:37:15 PDT 2006

12963 [lbo-talk] the Dems problem: alienating the rich -- rank: 1000

<http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/TheNote/story?id=156238&page=3> Former Gov. Mark Warner (D-VA) said on Monday that in order to gain a broader base, Democrats need to stop alienating wealthy Americans, singling out John Kerry's 2004 campaign. Warner said, "I think the Kerry campaign missed something," per the Des Moines Register's Beaumont. <http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article? AID=/20060919/NEWS09/609190391/1001/NEWS>

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Date:	Tue Sep 19 08:20:50 PDT 2006

12964 [lbo-talk] Bush at 44% -- rank: 1000

[as predicted via the proprietary LBO BushNGas model just the other day: "o it wouldn't be surprising to see his approval numbers rise into the mid-40s in the coming weeks" <http:// www.leftbusinessobserver.com/BushNGas.html> - it's looking more like the Dems will blow the fall election] <http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-09-18-bush-poll_x.htm> Poll finds rebound in Bush approval Updated 9/19/2006 10:23 AM ET By Jill Lawrence and Susan Page, USA TODAY WASHINGT ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 19 08:18:36 PDT 2006

12965 [lbo-talk] Center right wins in Sweden -- rank: 1000

On Sep 19, 2006, at 10:54 AM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > The reason why what happened in Sweden (or what is going on in Hungary > http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5359250.stm) is indicative of > broader > popular sentiments worldwide is that the Left got bogged down in > the hundred > year old bread and butter mantra, and does not have much to offer > in the > "identity and values" department. The bread and butter mantra > simply lost > most of their tra ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 19 08:11:27 PDT 2006

12966 [lbo-talk] farmer suicides in India -- rank: 1000

[reviving a topic from some months back...] <http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/19/world/asia/19india.html? hp&ex=1158724800&en=ce312104d42deb70&ei=5094&partner=homepage> New York Times - September 19, 2006 On India's Farms, a Plague of Suicide By SOMINI SENGUPTA BHADUMARI, India Here in the center of India, on a gray Wednesday morning, a cotton farmer swallowed a bottle of pesticide and fell dead at the threshold of his small mud house. The farmer, Anil Kondba Shende, 31, ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 19 06:04:22 PDT 2006

12967 [lbo-talk] frustration in Washington -- rank: 1000

[This contradicts the line, favored by Leninology among others, that the violence is mainly the work of Washington's stooges.] Los Angeles Times - September 16, 2006 U.S. Frustrated by Pace of Change in Iraq Officials praise many of Prime Minister Maliki's goals, including quelling militias. But his political ties make it difficult for him to pursue that aim. By Paul Richter, Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON Four months after Iraq's new government took office, U.S. officials are growing impat ...

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Date:	Mon Sep 18 16:13:52 PDT 2006

12968 [lbo-talk] deletion -- rank: 1000

Jordan & I have gotten several requests lately to delete posts from the lbo-talk archive. This is a lot of work for Jordan, and in most cases, we're not going to do it. He doesn't get paid to host the list, the archives, or my radio archives, and he's already massively generous enough with his time and bandwidth. If something is going to cause you trouble, don't post it, or post it anonymously. Sorry to be so harsh, but this is the price of living in a google-able world. Doug

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Date:	Mon Sep 18 15:21:54 PDT 2006

12969 [lbo-talk] Saddam's Man in Niger by the Hitch -- rank: 1000

On Sep 18, 2006, at 12:30 PM, Michael Pugliese cited a bunch of undigested URLs. Do you read this stuff before you cite it? It makes claims that even the Bush admin won't make! <<http://archive.salon.com/politics/feature/2001/09/21/iraq/ index.html?pn=1> > A Saddam connection? > While the world focuses on Osama bin Laden, some experts argue that > Iraq was a likely conspirator. > > - - - - - - - - - - - - > By David Neiwert > > Sept. 21, 2001 | Even as the Bush ...

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Date:	Mon Sep 18 13:46:53 PDT 2006

12970 [lbo-talk] Saddam's Man in Niger by the Hitch -- rank: 1000

On Sep 18, 2006, at 12:30 PM, Michael Pugliese wrote: > http://www.janes.com/security/international_security/news/fr/ > fr010919_1_n.shtml A doc dated 9/19/01, in which we read: > Israel s military intelligence service, Aman, suspects that Iraq is > the state that sponsored the suicide attacks on the New York Trade > Center and the Pentagon in Washington. Directing the mission, Aman > officers believe, were two of the world s foremost terrorist > masterminds: the Lebanese Im ...

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Date:	Mon Sep 18 13:38:26 PDT 2006

12971 [lbo-talk] bagels, etc. reprise: oreo -- rank: 1000

On Sep 17, 2006, at 4:58 PM, Jesse Lemisch wrote: > One of the strongest arguments I have seen for the virtues of > fusion is > "Limited Edition Oreo Dulce de Leche Caramel Creme Chocolate Sandwich > Cookies." A fine example of a traditional archetypal anglo food > made better. > Note that the name implies that "dulce de leche" still needs > translation," > unlike with the ice cream. I hope you're not dis'ing the Oreo, one of the great cookies o ...

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Date:	Mon Sep 18 13:20:59 PDT 2006

12972 [lbo-talk] India's GINI Index -- rank: 1000

On Sep 17, 2006, at 3:59 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > I was wondering why India's GINI index in the UNDP Human Development > Reports (32.5, compared to Iran's 43.0 and Venezuela's 49.1 at > <http://hdr.undp.org/statistics/data/indicators.cfm?x=148&y=2&z=1>) > looked so good -- too good to be true! -- but this article solves the > mystery. Except that it doesn't reveal what the income gini is for India, or the consumption ginis for Iran or Venezuela, so we still don ...

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12973 [lbo-talk] Since 2001, the health-care industry has added 1.7 million jobs. The rest of the private sector? None -- rank: 1000

On Sep 17, 2006, at 11:01 PM, mike larkin wrote: > But the very real problems with the health-care system > mask a simple fact: Without it the nation's labor > market would be in a deep coma. Since 2001, 1.7 > million new jobs have been added in the health-care > sector, which includes related industries such as > pharmaceuticals and health insurance. Meanwhile, the > number of private-sector jobs outside of health care > is no higher than it was five years ago. Hmm, well ...

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12974 [lbo-talk] Christian jihad -- rank: 1000

<http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=2455343&page=1> Film Shows Youths Training to Fight for Jesus New Documentary Features Controversial Bible Camp, Evangelical Movement By DAN HARRIS Sept. 17, 2006 - An in-your-face documentary out this weekend is raising eyebrows, raising hackles and raising questions about evangelizing to young people. Speaking in tongues, weeping for salvation, praying for an end to abortion and worshipping a picture of President Bush -- these are some of the ...

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12975 [lbo-talk] Lamont returns DSA check -- rank: 1000

New York Post - September 18, 2006 SOCIALIST GROUP BACKS SEN. JOE FOE IN CONN. By MAGGIE HABERMAN Connecticut upstart Democrat Ned Lamont's campaign got a donation recently from the self-described leading Democratic socialist group in the country, federal election records show. Lamont - whose family's political history has drawn attention because of his socialist great-uncle, Corliss Lamont - received the $100 check from the Democratic Socialists of America political-action committee on Jun ...

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