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14596 [lbo-talk] Cheney's wit -- rank: 1000

[from Romenesko] Cheney recalls his role in a '76 practical joke on Naughton Chicago Tribune Dick Cheney says he called then New York Times reporter Jim Naughton the morning after the election in 1976 and offered him an exclusive interview with President Ford on what it was like to lose. "It was because Naughton had been so outrageous," says the vice president. "For a couple of years he'd managed to make everybody the butt of the joke. What was especially rewarding was that w ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 20 09:54:34 PDT 2006

14597 Spooks (Was Re: [lbo-talk] Alex Cockburn going the Hitchens way?) -- rank: 1000

On Jun 20, 2006, at 11:28 AM, ravi wrote: > Doug, its good to have you back among the proles. For a while, with > all > your talk of 'empire' and such, I was afraid you had drunk a bit too > much of the LBO Kool-Aid ;-). <hic> I assume you mean Hardt & Negri's Empire, not the US empire as conventionally understood. I haven't given up on the cap-E version by any means. In fact, all the people who were kicking H&N while they thought they were down during the run-up to ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 20 09:51:15 PDT 2006

14598 Spooks (Was Re: [lbo-talk] Alex Cockburn going the Hitchens way?) -- rank: 1000

On Jun 20, 2006, at 11:28 AM, ravi wrote: > Doug, its good to have you back among the proles. For a while, with > all > your talk of 'empire' and such, I was afraid you had drunk a bit too > much of the LBO Kool-Aid ;-). <hic> I assume you mean Hardt & Negri's Empire, not the US empire as conventionally understood. I haven't given up on the cap-E version by any means. In fact, all the people who were kicking H&N while they thought they were down during the run-up to ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 20 09:50:48 PDT 2006

14599 [lbo-talk] Trust Fund Sluts -- rank: 1000

[Muffy Potter-Aston must be related somehow to Gussie Fink-Nottle] New York Post [Page Six]- June 20, 2006 MADISON Avenue preppie-duds boutique owner Andrew Parker has broken up with his porn star girlfriend Heather Pink - jeopardizing the release of "Trust Fund Sluts," an X-rated flick based on the fictionalized love lives of real Manhattan socialites. Pink tells Page Six that Parker dumped her on Memorial Day after his mother learned that Parker had been financing the production ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 20 08:27:54 PDT 2006

14600 [lbo-talk] Trust Fund Sluts -- rank: 1000

[Muffy Potter-Aston must be related somehow to Gussie Fink-Nottle] New York Post [Page Six]- June 20, 2006 MADISON Avenue preppie-duds boutique owner Andrew Parker has broken up with his porn star girlfriend Heather Pink - jeopardizing the release of "Trust Fund Sluts," an X-rated flick based on the fictionalized love lives of real Manhattan socialites. Pink tells Page Six that Parker dumped her on Memorial Day after his mother learned that Parker had been financing the production ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 20 08:27:00 PDT 2006

14601 [lbo-talk] dude can still raise big money -- rank: 1000

<http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/TheNote/story?id=156238&page=3> The President's Dinner: Last night in Washington, DC President Bush raised around $27 million dollars for candidates in the November midterm elections, reports Reuters. LINK With a gargantuan model of Congress as the backdrop, the message of the NRCC's elaborate President's Dinner last night was clear: keep Congress. Lasers, bottomless wine, and Gretchen Wilson music (yes, she even played "Redneck Woman") tr ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 20 08:10:30 PDT 2006

14602 [lbo-talk] AP: Pentagon classifies homosexuality as mental disorder -- rank: 1000

On Jun 20, 2006, at 3:03 AM, B. wrote: > Pentagon lists homosexuality as disorder Apropos of which, my guru on gay politics, Ken Sherrill of Hunter College, comments: > If you note, Scully says the military's policy classifiying > homosexuality as > a mental illness was dated Nov. 14, 1996, barely a week after Bill > Clinton > was re-elected. Doug

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Date:	Tue Jun 20 07:58:17 PDT 2006

14603 Spooks (Was Re: [lbo-talk] Alex Cockburn going the Hitchens way?) -- rank: 1000

On Jun 20, 2006, at 10:26 AM, Carl Remick wrote: > Somewhat anomalously for a corporate lawyer, you are touchingly > naive. This isn't a lodestone for idealists -- such as the Peace > Corps -- that we're talking about. This is the CIA, a magnet for > sly, secretive sorts who enjoy playing evil games. Wake up and > smell the intrigue, counsellor. No it's not the Peace Corps, but really, you've got to understand how The Pig System sucks in decent people who think they're doing t ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 20 07:45:34 PDT 2006

14604 Spooks (Was Re: [lbo-talk] Alex Cockburn going the Hitchens way?) -- rank: 1000

On Jun 20, 2006, at 9:41 AM, andie nachgeborenen wrote: > More importantly, you > missed the news about the fundamental problem: bad > system, not bad people (mostly). Carl's Emersonianism is showing - it's all individuals, not institutions. Doug

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Date:	Tue Jun 20 06:51:47 PDT 2006

14605 [lbo-talk] Alex Cockburn going the Hitchens way? (bis) -- rank: 1000

On Jun 19, 2006, at 11:01 PM, Michael J. Smith wrote: > I forgot to mention: my successful CIA guy is -- what else? -- > a Democrat, and self-identified as a "liberal" and a "progressive". That's not unusual, is it? A lot of CIA types are liberal internationalists who believe in the basic goodness of the empire, even if you've got to get your hands dirty now & then. That was certainly the culture of the early CIA, coming out of the "Oh So Social" OSS. ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jun 19 20:09:29 PDT 2006

14606 [lbo-talk] that explains it! -- rank: 1000

Here's an AP headline explaining today's US stock market action: > Dow ends down 72 on lack of economic news That's creative! They couldn't just say that the market had to do something, and falling 72 was as plausible as rising 72. Humankind cannot bear very much randomness, as TS Eliot might have said. Doug

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Date:	Mon Jun 19 15:51:07 PDT 2006

14607 [lbo-talk] Alex Cockburn going the Hitchens way? (and other responses) -- rank: 1000

On Jun 19, 2006, at 4:15 PM, ravi wrote: >> Bush's approval is off its lows, but aside from the year after 9/11, >> it's been a straight downtrend. > > > Well, in the time after 9/11 IIRC his approval rating was in the 80+ > range. I would assume the future could only offer a downtrend, yes? No. If you do a regression trendline that excludes the year after 9/11, it's still a downtrend. If you were an LBO subscriber, you'd have seen the graph. Doug

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Date:	Mon Jun 19 13:23:56 PDT 2006

14608 [lbo-talk] Alex Cockburn going the Hitchens way? -- rank: 1000

On Jun 19, 2006, at 12:27 PM, ravi wrote: > > > Today, I had the opportunity to read Cockburn's piece at CounterPunch, > and what stood out most in his rant was its similarity in style to > Hitchens' fling rage in all directions with a drunken sneer (and hope > something sticks). > > He writes: > >> The war grinds on, but the pwog Democrats prefer to talk about other >> matters, such as the fact that Rove is not going to be indicted. >> Thank God. th ...

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Date:	Mon Jun 19 11:17:28 PDT 2006

14609 [lbo-talk] Krugman: you can't have a wage/price spiral w/o wages -- rank: 1000

On Jun 19, 2006, at 1:02 PM, Julio Huato wrote: > But the hostages of > high rates and a strong dollar are not just average manufacturers, or > regular folks with mortgages and maxed out credit cards. It's also > the federal government, the guy with the money printer. Oh yeah, something that has grown is the debt of quasi-gov't entities like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Their debts are big, but nothing that a few repossessions and reschedulings couldn't deal with. Doug

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Date:	Mon Jun 19 11:05:46 PDT 2006

14610 [lbo-talk] Krugman: you can't have a wage/price spiral w/o wages -- rank: 1000

On Jun 19, 2006, at 1:02 PM, Julio Huato wrote: > But the hostages of > high rates and a strong dollar are not just average manufacturers, or > regular folks with mortgages and maxed out credit cards. It's also > the federal government, the guy with the money printer. Yeah, but the federal debt burden just isn't that great. Gross debt is around 66% of GDP, which is where it was in 1993, just before Clinton started whittling away at it, and well below the 1946 peak of 108%. And a ...

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