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14626 [lbo-talk] Blogosphere [was Re: Karl Rove Beats The Rap] -- rank: 1000

On Jun 16, 2006, at 1:55 PM, ravi wrote: > In the general (average) case, I think I would much rather take the > bloggers over the "MSM" any day. What would bloggers know if they hadn't read it in a newspaper (or, no doubt, a paper's website)? What news do bloggers actually gather? Do they travel, interview people, read anything longer than another blog entry? I guess it's like American Protestantism - anyone can join who claims to be saved. Who needs to know anything? Doug

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Date:	Fri Jun 16 12:00:49 PDT 2006

14627 [lbo-talk] the world according to Kos -- rank: 1000

<http://www.thestranger.com/blog/2006/06/kos_maureen_dowd_is.php> Kos: Maureen Dowd is an Insecure, Catty Bitch POSTED BY ELI SANDERS AT 11:33 AM I just finished a brief interview with Markos Moulitsas, the man behind DailyKos, and he s a bit upset with Marueen Dowd. His take on her column in this morning s New York Times: Maureen Dowd is an insecure, catty bitch. Moulitsas tells me that he s going to be posting his own version of his interview with Dowd on DailyKos soon, and says he s ...

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Date:	Fri Jun 16 10:02:01 PDT 2006

14628 [lbo-talk] Krugman: you can't have a wage/price spiral w/o wages -- rank: 1000

On Jun 16, 2006, at 12:38 PM, Michael Pollak quoted Paul Krugman: > Fed officials now seem worried that we may be seeing the start of > another round of self-sustaining inflation. But is that a realistic > fear? Only if you think we can have a wage-price spiral without, > you > know, the wages part. This is true for hourly workers, but there's been a considerable pickup in wage growth at the high end. Skilled workers, say employers, are in short supply, and their pay ...

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Date:	Fri Jun 16 09:50:13 PDT 2006

14629 [lbo-talk] Hitch on the BJ -- rank: 1000

In Praise of the Blowjob by Christopher Hitchens <http://www.vanityfair.com/features/general/articles/060607fege05> VANITY FAIR: As American as Apple Pie Ten years ago this spring, an intern named Monica Lewinsky was transferred out of the White House, and the nation became obsessed, once again, with the subject of, well, fellatio. From the Wild West to the wild White House, the author explores the blowjob's long and storied history and its emergence as the nation's signature sex act [ ...

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Date:	Fri Jun 16 09:41:16 PDT 2006

14630 [lbo-talk] Wal-Mart could hike pay and keep prices low -- rank: 1000

On Jun 16, 2006, at 11:31 AM, Ira Glazer wrote: > Wal-Mart Stores Inc. could significantly increase employee wages > and benefits without raising prices, and still earn a healthy -- > albeit smaller -- profit, research released on Thursday concluded. Yeah, that'll go down real well in Bentonville & on the trading desks. Doug

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Date:	Fri Jun 16 08:43:59 PDT 2006

14631 [lbo-talk] SEIU looks to megachurch -- rank: 1000

<http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news? pid=washingtonstory&sid=aQH6UvOQEwoI> Stern's Union Looks to a Church for Inspiration (Update1) By Kim Chipman June 16 (Bloomberg) -- In its quest for ideas to revive the power of organized labor, the Service Employees International Union is going to church. Earlier this year, about 20 union leaders descended upon Radiant Church in Surprise, Arizona, near Phoenix. Their goal: learn how a small fellowship founded by a Microsoft Corp. engineer eig ...

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Date:	Fri Jun 16 08:42:44 PDT 2006

14632 [lbo-talk] more Rep thinking -- rank: 1000

[further from The Note] VPOTUS on Hannity: In an interview on Sean Hannity's radio program, Vice President Cheney said Thursday that GOPers will prevail in the midterm elections because of a strong economy and the ability of the Bush Administration to prevent another terrorist attack. LINK "You can't guarantee there won't be further attacks," said Cheney, "but I think the track record is remarkable."

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Date:	Fri Jun 16 08:28:21 PDT 2006

14633 [lbo-talk] debating people, not events -- rank: 1000

[Rep thinking on Iraq, from Ron Brownstein of the LA Times, via The Note] "'We think we can win that debate,' said one senior GOP strategist familiar with White House thinking, who requested anonymity when discussing internal party deliberations. 'We won it in 2004, and the Iraq war was not particularly popular then. It is better when we debate other people instead of debating events.'"

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Date:	Fri Jun 16 08:25:39 PDT 2006

14634 [lbo-talk] Latest Iraq Survey data: Secularism and Nationalism -- rank: 1000

On Jun 15, 2006, at 6:44 PM, Kevin Robert Dean wrote: > But at the same time, significantly more Iraqis support democratic > values, including the separation of religion and politics. > > In 2004, 27 percent of the 2,325 Iraqi adults surveyed strongly > agreed that Iraq would be a better place if religion and politics > were separated. In 2006, 41 percent of 2,701 adults surveyed > strongly agreed. > > "The findings of this second survey show that even though Iraq ...

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Date:	Fri Jun 16 08:20:10 PDT 2006

14635 [lbo-talk] Blogosphere [was Re: Karl Rove Beats The Rap] -- rank: 1000

On Jun 16, 2006, at 10:41 AM, Dwayne Monroe wrote: > Having said that, there are some stand-out political > commentators such as our own Dennis Perrin, your > skilled and genial host at Red State Son > <http://redstateson.blogspot.com/> Oh yes. The real problem is wankers like Kos, which tout their netroots activism - but with minimal (or malignant) actual political content. Doug

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14636 [lbo-talk] Karl Rove Beats The Rap -- rank: 1000

On Jun 15, 2006, at 5:07 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Add Cockburn's voice to those who are not particularly bothered by the > Rove & the Plame affair. > > http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060703/cockburn > > "Thank God Rove is not to be indicted, so the left will have to talk > about something else for a change. As a worthy hobbyhorse for the > left, > the whole Plame scandal has never made any sense. What was it all > about > in the first analysis? Outing a C ...

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Date:	Fri Jun 16 06:11:06 PDT 2006

14637 [lbo-talk] violent crime up -- rank: 1000

On Jun 16, 2006, at 7:42 AM, Ted Winslow wrote: > Doug Henwood wrote: > >> How's that? You have some examples that show both similiarities >> and differences. Similarity: lots of guns. Differences: on the >> dependent side, murders; on the independent side, imperial >> history, frontier culture, inequality, racial heterogeneity... You >> control for the similarities and try to see if the dissimilarities >> are significant. That sounds like standard stats ...

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14638 [lbo-talk] those damned Iraqis -- rank: 1000

On Jun 15, 2006, at 4:35 PM, Chuck Grimes wrote: > It's a desert stupid. Dirt is valuable. You grow things in dirt, > remember? > > Besides, (just guessing) the Army Engineers probably bought topsoil > from a US contractor so grass would grow in it. In other words it was > expensive dirt. > > As far as Iraqis being difficult raw material for self-government, it > seems to me, they are doing their best under difficult > circumstances. After all > the US and its pu ...

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Date:	Thu Jun 15 12:52:32 PDT 2006

14639 [lbo-talk] violent crime up -- rank: 1000

On Jun 15, 2006, at 2:39 PM, Miles Jackson wrote: > Matt and Jordan seems to assume that anyone who even raises the > question of some causal impact of gun ownership on homicide rates > is advocating more stringent gun control. Yeah. I'm all for licensing and wait periods, but I'm not for banning gun ownership. Doug

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14640 [lbo-talk] those damned Iraqis -- rank: 1000

George Will <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/ 2006/06/14/AR2006061402004.html>: But it did not take three years of Zarqawi and terrorism and sectarian violence to turn Iraqis into difficult raw material for self-government. For that, give another devil his due: Saddam Hussein's truly atomizing tyranny and terror. On June 20, 2003, just 72 days after the fall of Baghdad, The Post reported this from Fallujah: "Military engineers recently cleared garbage from a f ...

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