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12976 [lbo-talk] tug those heartstrings! -- rank: 1000

<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/17/ AR2006091700401.html> Washington Post - September 18, 2006 Print This Article E-Mail This Article RSS News Feeds Top News Politics What is RSS? | All RSS Feeds E-mail Newsletters View a Sample and Sign Up Daily Politics News & Analysis Federal Insider Breaking News Alerts Manage Your Newsletters today in slate News & Politics Zeitgeist Checklist: GOP Rebellion Edition ... DISPATCH FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN BEHAVIO ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 18 09:08:34 PDT 2006

12977 [lbo-talk] microtargeting -- rank: 1000

[link in original <http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/TheNote/story? id=156238&page=3>] In his look at this year's micro-targeting efforts, US News' Dan Gilgoff reports that Michigan Republicans plan to appeal to male snowmobilers who live in the state's rugged Upper Peninsula by blaming the "environmental extremism" of Gov. Jennifer Granholm and Sen. Debbie Stabenow for holding up construction of snowmobile trails.

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Date:	Mon Sep 18 09:04:02 PDT 2006

12978 [lbo-talk] Center right wins in Sweden -- rank: 1000

On Sep 18, 2006, at 11:00 AM, Michael Pugliese quoted: >> ..."Jan Edling's latest Trade Union Confederation Report contains > such politically sensitive figures that the Trade Union Confederation > do not want to approve it, claims Edling. The reason: "According to > Edling only 60% of the Swedes are working". Four out of ten Swedes > have no job and the figures distributed per municipalities give > clear signals that it is about lack of jobs, not extreme hi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 18 08:51:10 PDT 2006

12979 [lbo-talk] In Defense of Pope Benedict -- rank: 1000

On Sep 18, 2006, at 10:51 AM, mike larkin quoted a defense of Rome: > interplay of faith and reason Isn't that nonsensical? As I remember my youthful Catholic training, the point was the superordination of faith over reason. What's reasonable about transubstantiation? Doug

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Date:	Mon Sep 18 08:44:12 PDT 2006

12980 [lbo-talk] Saddam's Man in Niger by the Hitch -- rank: 1000

On Sep 18, 2006, at 10:20 AM, Michael Pugliese wrote: > Weakest > part of the left-liberal case against the war. You write as if there's a reasonable case for the war. Doug

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Date:	Mon Sep 18 08:40:55 PDT 2006

12981 [lbo-talk] Saddam's Man in Niger by the Hitch -- rank: 1000

Michael, what's the point of forwarding this? To show how mad some people can be, or are you following Hitchens in believing there's actually something to this story? Doug

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Date:	Mon Sep 18 07:05:23 PDT 2006

12982 [lbo-talk] Center right wins in Sweden -- rank: 1000

On Sep 17, 2006, at 10:22 PM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > It does not look good, indeed. If this happened in > Sweden, we are looking for years of Republican rule > here. Why? Sweden has had decades of Soc Dem rule. The US has had decades of neoliberal rule. Why does one have any predictive value for the other? Doug

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Date:	Mon Sep 18 06:57:27 PDT 2006

12983 [lbo-talk] Pope "deeply sorry" about reaction to quotesinMuslimworld -- rank: 1000

On Sep 18, 2006, at 9:27 AM, Carl Remick wrote: > To be honest, I'm not sure if Muslims should be protesting or > rolling on the floor laughing at this guy talking about 'reason'. > He believes a wafer and Ribena transubstantiates in the Eucharist > into the body of Christ. With which I completely agree, but it's not as if Islam is the embodiment of reason either, is it? Doug

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Date:	Mon Sep 18 06:35:13 PDT 2006

12984 [lbo-talk] Pope "deeply sorry" about reaction to quotes inMuslimworld -- rank: 1000

On Sep 18, 2006, at 7:13 AM, Jordan Hayes wrote: > Anyone see any analysis of his original speech? Here's a rather partisan one: > VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Al Qaeda militants in Iraq vowed war on > "worshippers of the cross" and protesters burned a papal effigy on > Monday over Pope Benedict's comments on Islam, while Western > churchmen and statesmen tried to calm passions. > > The statement by an umbrella group led by Iraq's branch of al Qaeda > came after the ...

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Date:	Mon Sep 18 06:27:13 PDT 2006

12985 [lbo-talk] Ebay as the new American Jobs Machine!! -- rank: 1000

On Sep 16, 2006, at 10:11 PM, Stephen E Philion wrote: > Max and Doug, it's time to see the new wisdom... > > http://article.nationalreview.com/? > q=OTk0YzMzYzI3YWFkYmE5MzdhN2I5ODIxZjY0MWQ2MTk= > > Our Stealth Jobs Boom > Why the household survey deserves more attention. The right loves this argument. Several problems. The two surveys have different definitions of employment, and annual changes in the population estimates used to inflate the sample results into national ...

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Date:	Sun Sep 17 07:40:50 PDT 2006

12986 [lbo-talk] Oriana -- rank: 1000

<http://direland.typepad.com/direland/2006/09/letter_from_rom.html> Letter from Rome: ORIANA FALLACI--THE ENJOYMENT OF HATE The following was written for this blog by DIRELAND's Rome correspondent, Judy Harris, a veteran expat journalist and a former Italy staffer for the Wall Street Journal and TIME magazine: [...] In recent years, Fallaci became an obsessive, xenophobic racist, producing three short, incendiary post-9/11 books -- rwo of them, The Rage and the Pride and The Force o ...

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Date:	Sat Sep 16 14:13:37 PDT 2006

12987 [lbo-talk] where to report mail crooks ? -- rank: 1000

On Sep 16, 2006, at 10:47 AM, Carrol Cox wrote: > I have been receiving half a dozen or so a day of these paypal frauds > for months. There is really no point in reporting them or doing > anything > except simply deleting them unopened. I have them filtered into trash > now, but of course new frauds appear daily. Apple Mail has a wondrous spam filter (see <http:// www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2004/05/18/spam_pt2.html> for some background). I rarely see this stuff anymore ...

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Date:	Sat Sep 16 13:20:07 PDT 2006

12988 [lbo-talk] Okay so maybe camping out in the Zocalo isn't such a great idea... -- rank: 1000

On Sep 15, 2006, at 9:07 PM, mike larkin wrote: > I don't think so. Most nonvoters I've met are pretty > happy, well adjusted folks. They don't vote because > they're not interested in politics. Period. While this is mostly true, that level of detachment and lack of interest didn't arise spontaneously. 19th century visitors to the US remarked on how engaged people were in politics - where'd that go? Restrictive electoral laws, the dominance of money, deepening alienation from socia ...

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Date:	Sat Sep 16 13:15:57 PDT 2006

12989 [lbo-talk] Housing Bubble to Burst -- rank: 1000

On Sep 16, 2006, at 6:00 AM, James Heartfield wrote: > Comstock Partners, Inc. > The Hard Landing For Housing is Already Here Wow, they're still around? My late friend John Liscio interviewed one of them for a Barron's cover story as the 1980s housing bubble - mere beer froth compared to the recent one - was about to burst. They called it then, but of course past performance is no guarantee of future results. Doug

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Date:	Sat Sep 16 12:50:09 PDT 2006

12990 [lbo-talk] Okay so maybe camping out in the Zocalo isn't such a great idea... -- rank: 1000

On Sep 15, 2006, at 6:32 PM, Eric wrote: > The turnout for the election was 60%. I read that as at least 40% > discontentment, which is more than any of the parties got. But AMLO is no John Kerry, is he?

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Date:	Fri Sep 15 13:39:40 PDT 2006