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16321 [lbo-talk] Re: Kos [was: the political wing of the organized working class] -- rank: 1000

info at pulpculture.org wrote: >Really, have you people even read his book. he does not care about >grassroots anything. it is a book full of key words and hot air. Too bad Nathan's no longer here to tell us how great it is that Kos gets a million hits a day and leaves stodgy old things like The Nation in the digital dust. Doug

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Date:	Thu Apr 20 16:19:26 PDT 2006

16322 [lbo-talk] Dean Baker on immigration -- rank: 1000

jthorn65 at sbcglobal.net wrote: >So it's OK with you if I lash out against gays because this list >seldom, if ever, tackles Native American >issues? I hope not. If you'd like to bring some up, I'd welcome it. Doug

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16323 [lbo-talk] The Myth of a Coherent Left , was ...immigration -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >P.S. Perhaps an analogy. Someday someone talking to a person suffering >from depression is going to say for the 999th time "You just need to get >some sunshine; go out and have some fun; think happy thoughts." And that >depressed person is going to pick up a baseball bat and beat that >wellwisher's head until his brains spurt out like soda pop. "Depression is rage turned inwards." - Dr Melfi to Tony Soprano

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Date:	Thu Apr 20 12:04:56 PDT 2006

16324 [lbo-talk] gender gap -- rank: 1000

[more from Teixeira's latest] The Reemergence of the Gender Gap In the 2004 election, men favored George Bush by 55 percent to 44 percent, while women favored Kerry by just 51 percent to 48 percent, a notably modest gender gap by recent standards. This led some observers to speculate that the gender gap may be on its way out, as "security moms" and other GOP-leaning women cut into the Democrats' advantage among women. But recent data suggest that the gender gap is returning with a veng ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 20 11:59:29 PDT 2006

16325 [lbo-talk] Bush's numbers & the 2006 elections -- rank: 1000

[relevant to some things that came up earlier today - the latest from Ruy Teixeira] <http://www.tcf.org/list.asp?type=NC&pubid=1272> Updating the 2006 Election Outlook At the end of last month, I published a lengthy piece, "2006 Election Outlook: The Macro and the Micro." Here are some updates to that piece. 1. In that piece, I pointed out that low congressional job approval generally is considered a very unfavorable indicator for the incumbent party in midterm elections and, ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 20 11:56:55 PDT 2006

16326 [lbo-talk] Chomsky interviewed by Ali G - wow -- rank: 1000

B. wrote: >I have to admit, this is pretty hilarious though I >feel pretty bad for Noam. This would be funny to do to >someone like Bush, but with Noam it feels kind of evil >and wrong. > >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOIM1_xOSro&search=ali%20g%20noam%20chomsky Noam comes off pretty humor-impaired, but patient & gracious. So in this case, Ali G comes off as kind of a one-note jerk. Doug

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Date:	Thu Apr 20 11:47:12 PDT 2006

16327 [lbo-talk] LBO keywords HA! -- rank: 1000

For a "male-dominated" list that allegedly doesn't give a fuck about disability, those aren't really bad numbers. We could always do better, but I'm not about to hang my head in shame. Doug info at pulpculture.org wrote: >real quick: I did a search on keywords for all posts from the 1st of >the year. it's only one metric, so it's imperfect, but it's still >telling > > > 98: disabled (most of these came up in the baker thread) > 85: disability > 1: a ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 20 11:37:39 PDT 2006

16328 [lbo-talk] Chomsky interviewed by Ali G - wow -- rank: 1000

Wendy Lyon wrote: >On 4/20/06, Jim Devine <jdevine03 at gmail.com> wrote: > >> doesn't Noam C. know that Ali G. is a satire? > >Steven Pinker describes Chomsky in one of his books as "a >pencil-and-paper theoretician who wouldn't know Jabba the Hutt from >the Cookie Monster". I would not be surprised at all if he had never >heard of Ali G. When I last interviewed Chomsky, I quoted something Jon Stewart had said on The Daily Show. It was clear from his ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 20 11:32:27 PDT 2006

16329 [lbo-talk] stupid press release of the day -- rank: 1000

[the things you get when you're listed in talk show directories] Dear Doug, I would like to extend to you a personal invitation to speak with tinsel town's most beloved pet of all time ~ Lassie. Thursday, May 4th works for herŠ.. Following your personal meeting, she would like you to join her for her after party at the W in Union SquareŠ She would like to sit with you and discuss how she's back in the spotlight with her new movie, starring Peter O'Toole, as well as her new venture, an all natura ...

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16330 [lbo-talk] Dean Baker on immigration -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >Doug: >> I dunno, but when someone launches into a sustained attack on >> immigrants as parasites and germ warfare delivery systems, >> that's not the first thing that comes to mind. It would have >> been a lot more constructive if Marta had said something >> like, "It's great to see the immigrant mobilization and the >> solidarity it's earned from others - could we see the same >> for another marginalized group, ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 20 09:58:57 PDT 2006

16331 [lbo-talk] Dean Baker on immigration -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >>So there would be no social conflicts without capitalism? > >No. I just think there would be more *interesting* social conflicts >without capitalism. I loved the remark of someone on a Freud-Marx panel at the Rethinking Marxism 2000 conference: it's not like all our problems would go away with socialism, but we look to socialism for a better set of problems. Doug

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Date:	Thu Apr 20 09:57:31 PDT 2006

16332 [lbo-talk] Dean Baker on immigration -- rank: 1000

info at pulpculture.org wrote: >Same thing here: it didn't help that no one bothered to >acknowledgement the sad fact that disability rights issues are >important. I dunno, but when someone launches into a sustained attack on immigrants as parasites and germ warfare delivery systems, that's not the first thing that comes to mind. It would have been a lot more constructive if Marta had said something like, "It's great to see the immigrant mobilization and the solidarity it's earned ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 20 08:50:57 PDT 2006

16333 [lbo-talk] the political wing of the organized working class -- rank: 1000

[So the Reps had actual grassroots volunteers and the unions and the party of the people had paid operatives...] <http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/TheNote/story?id=156238> House of Labor: In a briefing with political reporters held Wednesday by the AFL-CIO, AFSCME's Gerald McEntee praised the "neighbor-to-neighbor" voter mobilization program that the GOP ran in 2004 and contrasted it with the "stranger-to-stranger" program run by Democratic allies. The Wall Street Journal ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 20 07:28:25 PDT 2006

16334 [lbo-talk] Chomsky on Hersh & the leaked info he reported -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >W. is in his second term and doesn't have to hustle to get re-elected, >so he probably no longer cares about his approval rating. Yes he does - and so do his comrades in Congress. His domestic agenda is pretty dead now, and every Republican running for re-election is scared. Doug

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Date:	Thu Apr 20 07:02:57 PDT 2006

16335 [lbo-talk] Dean Baker on immigration -- rank: 1000

Jim Farmelant wrote: >Well, if the truth be told, the Left's record on immigration issues >is not a whole lot better than its record on disability records. >The only reason the Left has been getting up in arms about >immigration lately is because of the emergence of the recent >emergence of the immigrants' movement, a movement which >seems to have gotten underway, largely without the help of >the Left. Isn't that the truth. The record of organized labor in the U.S. on immigr ...

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