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13486 [lbo-talk] LBO 2008 Dem POTUS poll -- rank: 1000

On Nov 28, 2006, at 3:07 PM, ravi wrote: > At around 28/11/06 2:45 pm, Doug Henwood wrote: >> On Nov 28, 2006, at 12:18 PM, ravi wrote: >> >>> http://www.demochoice.org/dcgridvballot.php?poll=LBODemPri1 >>> (vote only once!) >> >> You didn't include "I'd rather drill holes in my head" as a choice, >> > > Done! Thanks! I see two others beat me to the vote. Doug

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13487 [lbo-talk] LBO 2008 Dem POTUS poll -- rank: 1000

On Nov 28, 2006, at 12:18 PM, ravi wrote: > For the heck of it: > > http://www.demochoice.org/dcgridvballot.php?poll=LBODemPri1 > > (vote only once!) You didn't include "I'd rather drill holes in my head" as a choice, which is far more preferable to those wankers. Doug

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13488 [lbo-talk] Iraq: game over -- rank: 1000

Declares today's Note: > Politically, American involvement in the war in Iraq is over it > is just that no one has told President Bush yet.

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Date:	Tue Nov 28 10:57:48 PST 2006

13489 [lbo-talk] what the Dems must do -- rank: 1000

On Nov 27, 2006, at 7:07 PM, Auguste Blanqui wrote: > Why aren't you writing more econ stories! Ask the editor! Doug

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13490 [lbo-talk] Iraq: bleaker than ever -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - November 28, 2006 Anbar Picture Grows Clearer, and Bleaker By Dafna Linzer and Thomas E. Ricks Washington Post Staff Writers The U.S. military is no longer able to defeat a bloody insurgency in western Iraq or counter al-Qaeda's rising popularity there, according to newly disclosed details from a classified Marine Corps intelligence report that set off debate in recent months about the military's mission in Anbar province. The Marines recently filed an updated version of th ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 28 08:58:43 PST 2006

13491 [lbo-talk] knocking the halo off Europeans -- rank: 1000

Europeans accused of obstructing CIA prison probe By Darren Ennis BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European countries knew about U.S. secret jails for terrorism suspects and have obstructed an investigation into the transport and illegal detention of prisoners, a draft European Parliament report said on Tuesday. The report by a European Parliament committee criticized a string of top EU officials including foreign policy chief Javier Solana and counter-terrorism coordinator Gijs de Vries, and complaine ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 28 08:46:47 PST 2006

13492 [lbo-talk] A Day When Mahdi Army Showed Its Other Side -- rank: 1000

On Nov 28, 2006, at 11:23 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > The Sadrist movement is unlikly to be as good as the Iranian > Revolution, for it has no competition from a sizable organized Marxist > left in Iraq, unlike religious revolutionaries in Iran who had to > compete with -- and absorbed many of their social, economic, and > political ideas from -- Marxists Whom they jailed and killed. Or have you forgotten? Doug

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13493 [lbo-talk] Pastor Who? -- rank: 1000

[best news in ages!] Major Christian Leaders Are Widely Unknown, Even Among Christians The Barna Group November 27, 2006 (Ventura, CA) A new survey conducted by The Barna Group found that the most positive feelings Americans had toward 16 public figures, including politicians, entertainers and ministers, were awarded to actor Denzel Washington. The least favorable image was associated with singer Britney Spears. The range of opinions was significant: 85% had a favorable view of Mr. Washin ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 28 08:35:29 PST 2006

13494 [lbo-talk] Correa: not so radical, sez NYT -- rank: 1000

[in the print ed, this was set ragged right, so we know it's not hard news!] New York Times - November 28, 2006 News Analysis Ecuador Vote: Leader Forges Middle Road Among Leftists By SIMON ROMERO QUITO, Ecuador, Nov. 27 The walls in the office of Rafael Correa, the economist who seems almost certain to be this oil-exporting country s next president, are decorated with photos of leftist leaders in Latin America whom he admires, including Hugo Chávez of Venezuela and Evo Morales of Bolivia ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 28 04:56:50 PST 2006

13495 [lbo-talk] A Day When Mahdi Army Showed Its Other Side -- rank: 1000

On Nov 27, 2006, at 9:41 PM, Marvin Gandall wrote: > The point is that political Islam - at least in the Shia community > - is a > contradictory movement which reminds some people of fascism and > others of > social democracy, as we can see every day on this list. Social democracy? Eh? Could you elaborate on that? Social democracy to me is secular and gender-egalitarian. Political Islam is the opposite. Doug

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13496 [lbo-talk] nomination for author of almost as stupid as thomas friedman book of the year -- rank: 1000

I was on a panel about the stock market with him at the now-defunct Office of Technology Assessment back in the late 1980s. It was mostly Wall Street types, so he tried bonding with me as a fellow leftist. His stuff seems pretty lightweight these days. Doug On Nov 27, 2006, at 6:33 PM, Michael Perelman wrote: > He used to be on pen-l. Now he is famous. > > On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 05:58:39PM -0500, bitch wrote: >> >> >> discuss. >> >> http://www.creative ...

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13497 [lbo-talk] Afghanistan Combat Will Define NATO's Future at Summit in Riga -- rank: 1000

On Nov 27, 2006, at 6:00 PM, Angelus Novus wrote: > Doug Henwood wrote: > >> Easy for you to say. It's very hard to imagine the >> US political system ever accepting such a thing >> gracefully. > > Do you really think there is such unity across the > political spectrum? On the need for US pre-eminence? Absolutely. Not a whimper of dissent at the elite level. The masses, well, hard to say. But the swells are 100% united. Doug

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Date:	Mon Nov 27 15:26:57 PST 2006

13498 [lbo-talk] Kramnik vs Deep Fritz -- rank: 1000

On Nov 27, 2006, at 5:56 PM, ravi wrote: > Absolutely! I think Kramnik never realised the danger of 26. Qe4, > considering it merely a somewhat ad-hoc save (I am not sure Fritz had > h7 on its mind with the move, but nonetheless, Black should have > noticed > it immediately). I (utter amateur) also think Kramnik got a spare move > of sorts with 29. Rf1, enabling him to respond 29... Qa7. But I think > that was his undoing... IMHO, it put him in a position of power to > at ...

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13499 [lbo-talk] what the Dems must do -- rank: 1000

[Sometimes I wonder what planet these things are filed from. What about the Dem party makes Greider thinks they're likely to listen to any of this? Ankle-biting enforcers?] <http://www.thenation.com/docprint.mhtml?i=20061204&s=greider> The Nation - December 4, 2006 Watershed by WILLIAM GREIDER The Democratic Party was not really ready for this. Democrats have been in the wilderness so long--since Ronald Reagan launched the conservative era twenty-five years ago--that older liberals ...

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13500 [lbo-talk] Afghanistan Combat Will Define NATO's Future at Summit in Riga -- rank: 1000

On Nov 27, 2006, at 5:18 PM, Angelus Novus wrote: > It will just mean that the U.S. will have to > relinquish a little bit of its power to other state > actors. Easy for you to say. It's very hard to imagine the US political system ever accepting such a thing gracefully. I think I've quoted this observation from Wall Street economist Albert Wojnilower before, but it's worth quoting again: "Americans are and show every sign of remaining, in contrast with Japan, a short- term orie ...

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