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13711 [lbo-talk] What the results tell us... -- rank: 1000

On Nov 8, 2006, at 11:46 PM, Michael Pollak wrote: > So they are married to getting a non-exception ban to the Supreme > court. And whenever they pass them, they'll drive the mushy center > leftwards. On the O'Reilly Show last night, Dick Morris said that if the SC overturns Roe, that would hand the 2008 election to Hillary. When O'R pointed to the SD vote as an argument against the SC overturning Roe, Morris said, "But the court is to the right of South Dakota voters." Wh ...

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Date:	Thu Nov 9 04:32:50 PST 2006

13712 [lbo-talk] How come nobody talks about the New socialist senator -- rank: 1000

On Nov 8, 2006, at 10:56 PM, Michael McIntyre wrote: > I do remember that, quite a few years ago now, during my > introduction to rational choice theory Jon Elster called our > attention to a psychology experiment demonstrating that, when > exposed to a fixed game, only depressed participants were able to > identify the game as fixed. It may be fixed for individuals, but collectives have a chance to unfix the game, and they're not going to try to unfix it if they take a strictly ...

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Date:	Wed Nov 8 21:16:49 PST 2006

13713 [lbo-talk] $300 for a drink with Greg Palast! -- rank: 1000

Max Palevsky and Jodie Evans, Lyn & Norman Lear, Marge Tabankin & Earl Katz, Paul & Deborah Haggis, Jackson Browne, Theresa and Blaise Bonpane, Cindy & Ed Asner, Ben Veeren & Larry David Invite you to meet the award-winning New York Times Bestselling author and Investigative Journalist, Greg Palast. Palast and his international team of award winning researchers and producers are launching a new series of investigations too difficult, risky, costly, and controversial for ...

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Date:	Wed Nov 8 19:24:37 PST 2006

13714 [lbo-talk] WMT subsidizes queers! -- rank: 1000

AMERICAN FAMILY ASSOCIATION Donald E. Wildmon Founder and Chairman November 9, 2006 ======================================================================== ============================== Please help us get this information into the hands of as many people as possible by forwarding it to your entire email list of family and friends. Wal-Mart Contributes 5% Of Online Sales To Homosexual Group Sign the pledge not to shop at Wal-Mart or Sam's Club on the Friday and Saturday following Thanksgivin ...

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Date:	Wed Nov 8 18:50:40 PST 2006

13715 [lbo-talk] How come nobody talks about the New socialist senator -- rank: 1000

On Nov 8, 2006, at 8:57 PM, tfast wrote: > Sure but he does have a perfect voting record on union > legislation. I know > I know. But CCs commentary aside (which is wrong because aparently > Sanders > does a pretty good job at helping his poorer constiuents) the > question is > how such an non-establishment character who self describes as a > socialist > manages to keep getting elected? And the answer to that question > is hopeful > no? It is, though Vermont i ...

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Date:	Wed Nov 8 18:45:38 PST 2006

13716 [lbo-talk] How come nobody talks about the New socialist senator -- rank: 1000

On Nov 8, 2006, at 5:46 PM, tfast wrote: > What do "real" socialists gain by saying Saunders is not a socialist? > _ If you read Alex Cockburn's stuff in Counterpunch, Sanders is worse than the libertarian nut - goldbug, fundie, right-to-lifer - Ron Paul! Doug

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Date:	Wed Nov 8 18:02:12 PST 2006

13717 [lbo-talk] Marx on stage -- rank: 1000

On Nov 8, 2006, at 8:18 PM, John Norem wrote: > Collective puts Marx's Das Kapital on stage > Hope it's better than Zinn's awful Marx In Soho play. Doug

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Date:	Wed Nov 8 17:58:45 PST 2006

13718 [lbo-talk] How come nobody talks about the New socialist senator -- rank: 1000

On Nov 8, 2006, at 7:47 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > Have you taken a look at Bernie Sanders' voting records? You're willing to make all kinds of excuses for a regime that stones adulterous women, yet you find Bernie Sanders, who is about as good a mainstream politician as you can find in the US, too right wing? That's really fucked up. Doug

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Date:	Wed Nov 8 17:52:20 PST 2006

13719 [lbo-talk] How come nobody talks about the New socialist senator -- rank: 1000

Carrol sometimes confuses the symptoms of depression with a political outlook. Which may be more accurate, but it's still not going to get us anywhere. Doug On Nov 8, 2006, at 6:55 PM, tfast wrote: > Sometimes I think the left needs a variant viagra to deal with > premature > defeat syndrome. > > Travis W Fast >> Carrol >> Can anyone tell me how one socialist in the Senate can even add one >> kopeck to a ruble for one unemployed person in the u.s.? I mean, > ...

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Date:	Wed Nov 8 17:48:45 PST 2006

13720 [lbo-talk] What the elections mean for the unions -- rank: 1000

On Nov 8, 2006, at 5:17 PM, Jim Straub wrote: > I hope I don't have to phone bank for a dem again for a real long > time now... > Eeek, how could you!?!?!??! I kept struggling with my inner Trotskyist last night. I'd quietly cheer each projected Dem victory and then the Trot at the back of my mind would say "It doesn't matter. They're just two wings of the same party of capital." The inner debate is still going on today. I predict the inner Trot will score strong gains whe ...

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Date:	Wed Nov 8 14:34:14 PST 2006

13721 [lbo-talk] How come nobody talks about the New socialist senator -- rank: 1000

On Nov 8, 2006, at 4:33 PM, Michael J. Smith wrote: > On Wednesday 08 November 2006 15:57, tfast wrote: > >> How did Sanders do it? Are there any lessons >> for would be electoral leftists from Saunders success? > > Stop being a leftist? 1) What's a leftist? 2) How is Sanders not one? 3) Could a leftist by your definition, assuming Sanders isn't one, ever win an election outside Woodstock or Berkeley, or even there? Doug

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Date:	Wed Nov 8 13:47:07 PST 2006

13722 [lbo-talk] Viguerie says Republicans have "Failed the People of This Country" -- rank: 1000

** MEDIA ALERT ** ELECTION-RELATED COVERAGE ** Conservative RICHARD VIGUERIE Available for Interviews Richard Viguerie Says: MESSAGE TO REPUBLICAN CONGRESSIONAL LEADERS: "YOU'RE FIRED!" Entire Republican Leadership in Congress Should be Replaced Election was Referendum on Bush, GOP Leaders, and 'Neoconservatives' NOVEMBER 8, 2006 (Manassas, VA) - At a news conference in Washington D.C. today, conservative strategist Richard A. Viguerie reacted strongly to yesterday's elections by sta ...

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Date:	Wed Nov 8 13:26:50 PST 2006

13723 [lbo-talk] Pew: the centrists done it -- rank: 1000

On Nov 8, 2006, at 3:51 PM, Charles Brown wrote: > Are centrist and independent the same thing ? they overlap

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Date:	Wed Nov 8 13:05:52 PST 2006

13724 [lbo-talk] Virginia gossip -- rank: 1000

[a friend writes] I thought you would be interested in some "inside" info about Virginia. The value of this info will expire in a couple hours, but it is exciting. It was thought that there were 30,000 absentee ballots yet to be counted based on the way it happened in 2004. And those absentee votes would like be more Republican. However, in calling 2/3 the counties, the AP is finding that there is very little absentee vote left to be accounted. So it is becomming increasingly cert ...

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Date:	Wed Nov 8 13:05:02 PST 2006

13725 [lbo-talk] Iraq in exit poll -- rank: 1000

U.S. troops in Iraq send more 17% same as now 21% withdraw some 26% withdraw all 29%

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Date:	Wed Nov 8 12:46:27 PST 2006