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15646 [lbo-talk] right disappointed in SOTU -- rank: 1000

<http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/TheNote/story?id=156238> Four establishment conservative voices, after a day to think things over, are declaring their lack of enthusiasm (to say the least) for the President's State of the Union address: the Wall Street Journal's editorial page; Bob Novak; George Will; and Peggy Noonan. Does this matter? Only time will tell. First, the Journal's twin editorial take on the speech: One editorial takes the White House to task for focusing too much on polls in ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 2 07:40:50 PST 2006

15647 [lbo-talk] Fwd: Tales From the crypt -- rank: 1000

Yonkers Journal-News - January 27, 2006 Scarsdale man charged with bribing union officials By TIMOTHY O'CONNOR THE JOURNAL NEWS NEW YORK - A Westchester-based construction firm raked in tens of millions of dollars while paying off union officials to avoid using union workers, a federal prosecutor said yesterday. John Amicucci, 54, of Scarsdale, the president of the firm, DeFoe Corp., is on trial in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, charged with bribery, fraud and conspiracy. He is accused of pay ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 2 07:38:36 PST 2006

15648 [lbo-talk] Media Concentration database--where's it at? -- rank: 1000

Michael Perelman wrote: >Not a database, but what about Mark C. Miller's centerfold from the >Nation? I know >Doug loves him dearly. What does this sort of thing tell you about how the media operate? Really? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 2 07:21:56 PST 2006

15649 [lbo-talk] Re: Brokeback for gay men and small girls? -- rank: 1000

John Mage wrote: >Every movie i can recall having watched in the last >year involved some assfucking (except Astra Taylor's "Zizek!") I'm sure it was there, if you look close enough. At least dissimulated assfucking. Zizek is, after all, a major obsessive-compulsive. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 1 20:52:55 PST 2006

15650 [lbo-talk] socialized medicine (was: OK, Nathan) -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >So while the "government-run national health care >system" might not sail very far in this country, that >might change if the government (Congress) sets up a >nonprofit (501c1) corporation (like Amtrak, for >example) If you said "like Amtrak," that would doom it, but it would make little sense to have mutliple entities running a nationalized system, since you'd lose a lot of the administrative efficiencies. Some sort of semiautonomous ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 1 16:50:37 PST 2006

15651 [lbo-talk] socialized medicine (was: OK, Nathan) -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: > >> I doubt pollsters ask questions like that, but it'd >> be interesting to >> give it a try. Got $20-30,000? > > >Well, I would not dismiss it too lightly - he might be >up to something. I think it would be worthwhile to >run a poll testing popular responses to various terms >and concepts in reference to health care. Perhaps >'socialized' sounds too much like 'soci ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 1 16:47:21 PST 2006

15652 [lbo-talk] Fwd: Brokeback & gay press? -- rank: 1000

info at pulpculture.org wrote: >http://rosengrouppr.com/ >(the home page for Rosen Group PR) > >If they are cheap fan blades .. uh.. why? The message? > >"Blowin' in the Wind?" They provide the hot air to get the windmills turning? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 1 15:10:40 PST 2006

15653 [lbo-talk] David Ehrenstein On Ang Lee's BM -- rank: 1000

BklynMagus wrote: >He must have been talking to Bitch Lab. > >http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-ehrenstein01feb01,0,2740219.story?coll=la-news-comment-opinions I'm wondering, though - it's Hollywood. What do you expect? Militance? Complexity? Profundity? From Hollywood? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 1 14:43:19 PST 2006

15654 [lbo-talk] OK, Nathan -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >CB; What are the polls on "socialized medicine" like ? That terminology was >banished so long ago, the current masses might not have been very >brainwashed on it. We can use this historical amnesia of the People to our >advantage in some ways. I doubt pollsters ask questions like that, but it'd be interesting to give it a try. Got $20-30,000? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 1 14:38:20 PST 2006

15655 [lbo-talk] Fwd: Brokeback & gay press? -- rank: 1000

[right up Brian's alley] >Subject: Brokeback & gay press? >Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 17:09:02 -0500From: "Margaret Bensfield" ><margaret at rosengrouppr.com> >To: <dhenwood at panix.com> > >Dear Doug, > >Director Ang Lee's recent Golden Globe-winning Brokeback Mountain >may be a lyrical, heartrending love story - but the film's marketing >and publicity team certainly didn't embrace the theme; Fade In >magazine explores how, in an effort to m ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 1 14:24:51 PST 2006

15656 [lbo-talk] OK, Nathan -- rank: 1000

John Lacny wrote: >Doug Henwood to Nathan Newman: > >> So you're saying the mob did the unions a favor? >> Would you advocate future joint ventures between >> organized crime and organized labor, or was this >> just a one-off thing? > >Doug, would you please just stop this bullshit? You know damn well that >that's not what Nathan is saying. At 3:38 PM -0500 2/1/06, Nathan Newman wrote: >Workers all spoke fondly of the mob owners in >comparison to ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 1 13:43:05 PST 2006

15657 [lbo-talk] Media Concentration database--where's it at? -- rank: 1000

Leigh Meyers wrote: >How come we don't know more about media concentration? Yeah, gotta love competition, doncha? That's why the media were so good in...um, when was it? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 1 13:38:36 PST 2006

15658 [lbo-talk] OK, Nathan -- rank: 1000

andie nachgeborenen wrote: > > Frankly, New York City is a special case-- it's >> unions have had a higher >> degree of corruption than most of the rest of the > > country. Your views on >> both electoral politics and unions are pretty skewed >> from taking atypical >> New York City conditions as representative of the >> rest of the country. > > >Ahem. Hello? anyone heard about a little town on the >shores of Lake Michigan tha ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 1 13:35:05 PST 2006

15659 [lbo-talk] OK, Nathan -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >As a former organizer in Las Vegas and someone who's read a bunch of >histories of the city and the unions, you just need to read the history >better. So you're saying the mob did the unions a favor? Would you advocate future joint ventures between organized crime and organized labor, or was this just a one-off thing? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 1 12:56:45 PST 2006

15660 [lbo-talk] OK, Nathan -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >This is one reason I actually lean towards incremental improvements of the >existing system And that wouldn't be because that's what hack Dems and union hacks prefer? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 1 12:44:05 PST 2006