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16336 [lbo-talk] Why Eric Umansky doutbs Hersh on nukes -- rank: 1000

Stuart Elliott wrote: >A week ago Eric Umansky blogged >"Why I don't trust Hersh's latest >The Boston Phoenix Mark Jurkowitz calls for Sy Hersh to add some >needed context to his big recent report that the White House is >considering using tactical nukes against Teheran. I'll second that. Look people, Hersh's article got through the New Yorker's fact-checkers, editors, and lawyers. Why some blogger pulling on his pud has any credibility is beyond me. Doug

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Date:	Wed Apr 19 21:36:23 PDT 2006

16337 [lbo-talk] Dean Baker on immigration -- rank: 1000

Marta Russell wrote: >On Apr 19, 2006, at 2:17 PM, Doug Henwood wrote: > >>Marta Russell wrote: >> >> >>> >> >>The most recent data for California health expenditures >><<http://www.cms.hhs.gov/NationalHealthExpendData/downloads/nhestatehealthaccountstables.pdf>http://www.cms.hhs.gov/NationalHealthExpendData/downloads/nhestatehealthaccountstables.pdf> >>was $126 billion in 2000. If that's increased in line with national >> ...

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Date:	Wed Apr 19 21:29:44 PDT 2006

16338 [lbo-talk] Roy Medvedev wails on Kagarlitsky -- rank: 1000

Doug Henwood wrote: >Jim Devine wrote: > >>K is a Marxist, while M is not, right? need we say more? > >Bob Avakian is a Marxist, and Anatol Lieven is a liberal. I'd much >rather read Anatol Lieven. I should also say I like Boris Kagarlitsky and a lot of his work. But he's sometimes very excitable - quick to believe in crisis and disbelieve in a boom. So I'm curious what a critic might say about him. Doug

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Date:	Wed Apr 19 15:25:58 PDT 2006

16339 [lbo-talk] Roy Medvedev wails on Kagarlitsky -- rank: 1000

Jim Devine wrote: >K is a Marxist, while M is not, right? need we say more? Bob Avakian is a Marxist, and Anatol Lieven is a liberal. I'd much rather read Anatol Lieven. Doug

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Date:	Wed Apr 19 15:24:27 PDT 2006

16340 [lbo-talk] Roy Medvedev wails on Kagarlitsky -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: >Again damn. He really, really seems to dislike >Kagarlitsky. (I can translate the relevant passage if >anyine wants -- actually I probably will even if I >don't get any feedback.) Ooh please do. Doug

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Date:	Wed Apr 19 14:46:57 PDT 2006

16341 [lbo-talk] Dean Baker on immigration -- rank: 1000

Doug Henwood wrote: >>What do you think about this: >>A study by the Federation for American Immigration Reform estimated >>that in 2004 the annual uncompensated cost of medical care for >>illegal immigrants in California was $1.4 billion. > >The most recent data for California health expenditures ><http://www.cms.hhs.gov/NationalHealthExpendData/downloads/nhestatehealthaccountstables.pdf> >was $126 billion in 2000. If that's increased in line with natio ...

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Date:	Wed Apr 19 14:27:09 PDT 2006

16342 [lbo-talk] Re: Gender equality = better sex? -- rank: 1000

BklynMagus wrote: >Dear List: > >>The study was led by sociologist Edward Laumann, >considered a top authority on the sociology of sex, >who believes the findings show that relationships >based on equality lead to more satisfaction for both >genders. > >Wonder how many kinksters he included. LOL. Ha. But even the biggest pervs can be radical egalitarians outside the bedroom (or dungeon). Doug

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Date:	Wed Apr 19 14:21:34 PDT 2006

16343 [lbo-talk] Dean Baker on immigration -- rank: 1000

Marta Russell wrote: >On Apr 18, 2006, at 10:49 AM, Miles Jackson wrote: > >>Marta, >> >>I think the point many of us are trying to make (some more >>tactfully than others) are that the problems you point out about >>SSI and health care have little or nothing to do with immigration. >>Yes, they are serious problems, and yes, we should solve them. >>However, even with the harshest immigration policies--boot 'em all >>out, no social services--a ...

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Date:	Wed Apr 19 14:17:11 PDT 2006

16344 [lbo-talk] Dean Baker on immigration -- rank: 1000

Marta Russell wrote: >Massey cannot know that because illegals going to hospitals do not >a;ways say they are illegals and hospitals do not track such >information, therefore there is no way to know how much is spent on >their healthcare. See: Just happened to be poking around for some studies on this. The GAO says it cannot estimate the impact of undoc'd immigrants on hospitals' uncompensated care costs <http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d04472.pdf>. But emergency Medicaid expen ...

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Date:	Wed Apr 19 14:09:22 PDT 2006

16345 [lbo-talk] trendspotting: the cougar -- rank: 1000

<http://www.nypost.com/entertainment/62609.htm> New York Post - April 18, 2006 COUGAR HUNTING PROWL INTO N.Y.C.'S HOTTEST SCENE: OLDER WOMEN, YOUNG GUYS By MICHAEL KANE Shhhh. Be very, very quiet. We're tracking cougar. Urban cougar. Felinae metropolitanus. Ah! There's one now, down at the end of the bar. Ain't she a beaut, mate? About 45 years old and a real ferocious hellcat, she is. We'll just wait till she leans in for a sip and then ... "Hi there, would you pass me a napkin?" ...

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Date:	Wed Apr 19 07:18:34 PDT 2006

16346 [lbo-talk] Still free? -- rank: 1000

B. wrote: >Of course, that video is fake: > >http://www.boingboing.net/2006/04/18/excellent_faked_vide.html > >-B. The "legal disclaimer" at <http://www.stillfree.com/links.html>: Please read the language set forth herein carefully as it may affect, inhibit, modify or otherwise influence the interests or perceptions of any end user (hereinafter "you" or "end user") viewing the preceeding video (also referred to herein and hereas as "The Sti ...

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Date:	Wed Apr 19 06:37:28 PDT 2006

16347 [lbo-talk] US gives up on Doha -- rank: 1000

<http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-na-appoint19apr19,1,5361677.story?coll=la-news-a_section> Los Angeles Times - April 19, 2006 Bush Shifts Top Trade Negotiator to Budget Office By Joel Havemann, Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON - President Bush shuffled part of the White House economic team Tuesday, naming his chief trade negotiator to be his budget director and appointing a new person to lead the nation's trade negotiations. If confirmed by the Senate as expected, Rob Por ...

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Date:	Wed Apr 19 07:33:54 PDT 2006

16348 [lbo-talk] ex-NEJM ed on Mass faith-based health plan -- rank: 1000

Boston Globe - April 17, 2006 Healthcare plan needs dose of common sense By Marcia Angell | April 17, 2006 IF GOVERNOR Romney thinks the state's new plan for universal health coverage will carry him to the White House, he should think again. This Rube Goldberg contraption won't even get him off the ground because it doesn't touch the underlying problem -- our reliance on multiple private insurance companies. Private insurers compete not by offering better healthcare, but by avoiding high-risk ...

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Date:	Wed Apr 19 07:41:36 PDT 2006

16349 [lbo-talk] Chomsky on Hersh & the leaked info he reported -- rank: 1000

Mike Ballard wrote: >I think oil was over $70 a barrel today. Cui bono? Schrub's Texan oilman >pals? Certainly not Bush's approval ratings, which are strongly negatively correlated with the price of gas. A simple linear regression of the nominal gas price against W's Gallup approval rating has an r2 of .69; of the log of the gas price, .75. Based on this, should gas hit $3.00, W's approval rating could hit 30% or below (latest is 37%). Doug

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Date:	Wed Apr 19 12:41:43 PDT 2006

16350 [lbo-talk] Judt: time to rethink Israel relationship -- rank: 1000

[The Times put a misleading headline on this, which was a real surprise to read on such a dull op-ed page.] New York Times - April 19, 2006 A Lobby, Not a Conspiracy By TONY JUDT IN its March 23rd issue the London Review of Books, a respected British journal, published an essay titled "The Israel Lobby." The authors are two distinguished American academics (Stephen Walt of Harvard and John Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago) who posted a longer (83-page) version of their text on ...

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