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16246 [lbo-talk] "Save Darfur": Evangelicals and Official "Jewish Leaders" -- rank: 1000
ravi wrote: >you used to be uneasy about knee-jerk anti-USism (the argument above is >an extension of that emotion, unless you are an out and out pacifist, >which I do not believe you are)! Nope, I'm not. >Where do you guys get "always believe military force is the solution"? I didn't say that. I said that there are a lot of liberals who desperately want to be seen as not-wimps. Thus the enthusiasm for bombing Serbia (see the report of the Dissent confab at <http://www.l ...
Document Size: 6053
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Apr 28 13:28:43 PDT 2006
16247 [lbo-talk] Iraq war: breaking past $300b -- rank: 1000
Mike Ballard wrote: >I don't see anyone taking the war vets medical costs into consideration. Bilmes & Stiglitz <http://www2.gsb.columbia.edu/faculty/jstiglitz/cost_of_war_in_iraq.pdf> estimate them at $91-214 billion. Doug
Document Size: 4854
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Apr 28 13:06:07 PDT 2006
16248 [lbo-talk] it's inevitable -- rank: 1000
Dennis Claxton wrote: >Wojtek wrote: > > >>I also do not think that locking these guys up is necessarily a bad thing. > > >Then we seriously disagree. I'm all for locking up bad guys, like murderers, rapists, and armed robbers. But when the growth in the inmate pop exceeds the growth in the general pop by more than 10/1, something's really wrong. The US doesn't have a particularly high rate of property crime. We do have a high rate of gun violence, but that's not why most ...
Document Size: 5180
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Apr 28 11:38:14 PDT 2006
16249 [lbo-talk] "Save Darfur": Evangelicals and Official "Jewish Leaders" -- rank: 1000
Michael Pugliese wrote: > American Jewish World Service, led by socialist Ruth Messinger. Ha. Once maybe. No more. Plus, she shut down the porn on Manhattan Cable when she was borough pres. Doug
Document Size: 5178
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Apr 28 11:33:40 PDT 2006
16250 [lbo-talk] Fwd: Top Business School Rankings in SSRN eLibrary (Beta) -- rank: 1000
Jerry Monaco wrote: >7 Stephen M. Ross School of Business at University of Michigan The mobbed-up dude who went from running parking garages to Warner? That Steve Ross? Truly America is a land of opportunity. Doug
Document Size: 4970
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Apr 28 11:29:00 PDT 2006
16251 [lbo-talk] another brick in that neolib wall -- rank: 1000
Carrol Cox wrote: >I've had some vicious thoughts in my life, but never, not once, not even >as a first impulse, have I ever, in childhood or as an adult, even >remotely wished that anyone would be fired. And I would bet that there >are at least 50 to 150 million who could say the same thing. Try again. Maybe that's why you're so depressed! Let these hostile thoughts rip! To quote Dr Melfi again, "depression is anger turned inwards." Doug
Document Size: 5079
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Apr 28 11:16:35 PDT 2006
16252 [lbo-talk] another brick in that neolib wall -- rank: 1000
Dennis Claxton wrote: >Doug wrote: > >>One of the things that makes the show so great is how you love and >>hate Tony at the same time, or almost at >>the same time. He's evil and ordinary, charming and horrifying, >>sexy and repulsive. Ditto to a lesser degree the minor characters. >>That's not your usual one-dimensional TV. >> > > >And it's funny as hell. Oh yeah. Every time I watch it I wonder why other TV isn't better. There are a lot of tal ...
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Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Apr 28 11:01:05 PDT 2006
16253 [lbo-talk] "Save Darfur": Evangelicals and Official "Jewish Leaders" -- rank: 1000
Steven L. Robinson wrote: >Funny, how Americans, both liberal AND Conservative, always seem to >believe military force is the solution to a crisis. It seems like liberals are always looking for a military operation the can get behind. If not Iraq, then Iran; if not Iran, then Darfur. They're desperate to be seen as not-wimps. Doug
Document Size: 5253
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Apr 28 10:54:54 PDT 2006
16254 [lbo-talk] it's inevitable -- rank: 1000
Dennis Claxton wrote: >>Though a recent report showed a decline in California's recidivism >>rate, officials said the state's overall population expansion >>inevitably means more people breaking the law. Except that Calif's pop was up 50% from 1980 to 2003 - while the number of prisoners was up 569%. Doug
Document Size: 4756
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Apr 28 10:52:26 PDT 2006
16255 [lbo-talk] another brick in that neolib wall -- rank: 1000
Dennis Claxton wrote: >>Which is why Tony Soprano is the hero of our time. >> >>Joanna > > >I don't think it's the way Tony makes a living that enthralls >people. That's been done a million times. I think it's the way he >makes a living combined with his seeing a psychiatrist. Now he's >even recommending his doctor to a friend. Like Tony told Carmela >"cunnilingus and psychiatry have brought us to this." But he's not really a hero. One of the ...
Document Size: 5472
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Apr 28 09:43:28 PDT 2006
16256 [lbo-talk] United 93 -- rank: 1000
Carl Remick wrote: >I'm still waiting for the feel-bad movie about the civilian plane >that definitely was shot down by the US, i.e.: Iran Air Flight 655 >(IR655), a commercial flight from Tehran to Bandar Abbas to Dubai, >which on July 3, 1988 was shot down by the guided missile cruiser >USS Vincennes between Bandar Abbas and Dubai, killing all 290 >passengers and crew aboard. Carl, they were Iranians, and therefore deserved it! Doug
Document Size: 4875
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Apr 28 09:10:15 PDT 2006
16257 [lbo-talk] Tax receipts up ... -- rank: 1000
Jordan Hayes wrote: >I've been seeing headlines about this over the last few days, but >today's big one was from California: an 'extra' $1.5B of tax revenue >showed up this month than they were expecting (sort of a drop in the >bucket, since Arnold's recent budget was $125B, but still), and >total revenues for the month of April (with a few days left) might >be an all-time high. It's happening at a lot of states, and the likely causes are bonuses and higher managerial salaries. ...
Document Size: 5324
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Apr 27 15:39:41 PDT 2006
16258 [lbo-talk] Steve Perry in trouble! -- rank: 1000
[from today's Romenesko] Paper blasted for naming crystal meth as "best cheap thrill" <http://www.startribune.com/789/story/395820.html> Minneapolis Star Tribune | City Pages City Pages chose crystal meth as "best cheap thrill" for its annual "Best Of the Twin Cities" issue, and health department officials aren't pleased. "Was that supposed to be wry humor?" asked the Minneapolis meth program coordinator. "I'd like to try their 'best coffee' and ...
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Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Apr 27 12:31:59 PDT 2006
16259 [lbo-talk] Iraq war: breaking past $300b -- rank: 1000
Washington Post - April 27, 2006 Projected Iraq War Costs Soar Total Spending Is Likely to More Than Double, Analysis Finds By Jonathan Weisman Washington Post Staff Writer The cost of the war in Iraq will reach $320 billion after the expected passage next month of an emergency spending bill currently before the Senate, and that total is likely to more than double before the war ends, the Congressional Research Service estimated this week. The analysis, distributed to some members of Congress on ...
Document Size: 11785
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Apr 27 11:43:33 PDT 2006
16260 [lbo-talk] driving home a point -- rank: 1000
Washington Post - April 27, 2006 Going a Short Way to Make a Point By Dana Milbank Ladies and gentlemen, start your engines. Gas prices have gone above $3 a gallon again, and that means it's time for another round of congressional finger-pointing. "Since George Bush and Dick Cheney took over as president and vice president, gas prices have doubled!" charged Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), standing at an Exxon station on Capitol Hill where regular unleaded hit $3.10. "They are too c ...
Document Size: 10395
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Apr 27 11:42:34 PDT 2006
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