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16861 [lbo-talk] where's Dick? -- rank: 1000

Jim Farmelant wrote: >Journalists should start paying me >for my ideas. Send 'em a bill! Or threaten litigation. They'll never volunteer the cash. Doug

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Date:	Wed Sep 7 11:48:10 PDT 2005

16862 [lbo-talk] Why the anti-reality bubble won't break -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: > "Hear Me, Oh Preacher Michael Parenti, Gloria LaRiva, Dennis >Bernstein! Save Me from communicating w/ the Those I Have The Truth >For Here In Counterpunch! 'Yea Though I Walk Through The Valley of >Suburbia I Shall Not Fear Dialogue with Those Unlike Me, Who Shops At >Whole Foods, Wears Birkenstocks, Sends My Kids to Private Schools, >Reads Utne Reader, is a, "Trainer, " or Consultant, And Just Got Back >>From A Seminar In Sedo ...

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Date:	Wed Sep 7 11:46:28 PDT 2005

16863 [lbo-talk] ooops, wrong Charleston -- rank: 1000

[not surprising, given that Chertoff thinks Louisiana is a city] <http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/06/katrina.charleston/index.html?section=cnn_latest> Right city, wrong state FEMA accused of flying evacuees to wrong Charleston Tuesday, September 6, 2005; Posted: 11:29 p.m. EDT (03:29 GMT) (CNN) -- Add geography to the growing list of FEMA fumbles. A South Carolina health official said his colleagues scrambled Tuesday when FEMA gave only a half-hour notice to prepare for the arrival of a plan ...

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Date:	Wed Sep 7 11:16:16 PDT 2005

16864 [lbo-talk] Why the anti-reality bubble won't break -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: > True that Mayor Nagin was a $ contributor to Bush campaign 2000? Yup - $1,000 in 1999 to Bush, and $2,000 to Billy Tauzin <http://opensecrets.org/indivs/search.asp?NumOfThou=0&txtName=nagin&txtState=LA&txtZip=&txtEmploy=&txtCand=&txt2000=Y&Order=N>. Doug

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Date:	Wed Sep 7 11:05:16 PDT 2005

16865 [lbo-talk] where's Dick? -- rank: 1000

[NY Daily News gossiper Lloyd Grove asks the same question as Jim F] Where is Dick? The mediapolitical complex has been buzzing about the unexplained absence of Vice President Cheney from the Bush administration's belated display of compassion for the victims of Hurricane Katrina. Aside from his fleeting appearance last Thursday during a crisis meeting with the President, Cheney has been missing from the Katrina photo ops that have featured President Bush on two camera-ready Katrina pilgrimages, ...

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Date:	Wed Sep 7 09:57:38 PDT 2005

16866 [lbo-talk] Monica off to LSE -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - September 7, 2005 LONDON CALLING MONICA Lewinsky is leaving New York. "I'm thrilled to be returning to London, a city I love," she informed PAGE SIX yesterday. "I am delighted I have been accepted as a candidate for a master's degree in Social Psychology at the London School of Economics." The former White House intern said she was fascinated by psychology 10 years ago when she graduated from Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Ore. "The sam ...

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Date:	Wed Sep 7 09:47:23 PDT 2005

16867 [lbo-talk] anxious -- rank: 1000

Cseniornyc at aol.com wrote: >Doug Henwood declares:" Yeah, but people have been saying things >like this for 30 years. Know the enemy, man." >^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >Saying things like what? 30 years ago the US wasn't facing twin >deficits approaching one trillion dollars. The financial sector was >at the service of a powerful industrial one instead of being the >leader of the ec ...

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Date:	Wed Sep 7 09:00:49 PDT 2005

16868 [lbo-talk] press fries McClellan -- rank: 1000

<http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001055403> White House Press Briefing: Angry Reporters Hit McClellan Hard on Hurricane, Ask if Heads Will Roll By E&P Staff Published: September 06, 2005 5:35 PM ET NEW YORK White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan had not had a full-length press briefing in Washington, D.C. for weeks, and after today, may have wished he had postponed this one. With almost unprecedented vigor, the press corps attacked ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 6 16:07:43 PDT 2005

16869 [lbo-talk] anxious -- rank: 1000

Cseniornyc at aol.com wrote: >Boy you could make a lot of money cheerleading for CNN or Business >Week.The thing to do is,in addition to consider that these figurer's >are politically constructed, In what sense? In the sense that all conceptual categories in the social sciences are politically constructed, or in the sense that they're cooked? > to ask :well how did the economy supposedly got there? By virtue >of what? Which sectors actually grew, where is new employment coming ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 6 15:50:59 PDT 2005

16870 [lbo-talk] Bush: 2 point bounce! -- rank: 1000

Kevin Robert Dean wrote: >Because to 'somewhat approve' means that for the most part, you >disapprove, but there is a small amount that you approve of. Same >goes with 'somewhat disapprove'---You only slightly disapprove. No - it's supposed to be like a 5-point scale, ranging from love through indifference to hate. So somewhat approve is more positive than neutral, and less than strongly approve. Doug

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Date:	Tue Sep 6 15:45:38 PDT 2005

16871 [lbo-talk] Bush: 2 point bounce! -- rank: 1000

Kevin Robert Dean wrote: > >---- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: >> <http://www.rasmussenreports.com/Bush_Job_Approval.htm> >> ___________________________________ >> http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk > > >See this wording in polling always confuses me, > >Bush Job Approval > >Strongly Approve 23% >Somewhat Approve 23% >Somewhat Disapprove 14% >Strongly Disapprove 39% > > >To me "som ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 6 15:31:38 PDT 2005

16872 [lbo-talk] Bush: 2 point bounce! -- rank: 1000

<http://www.rasmussenreports.com/Bush_Job_Approval.htm>

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Date:	Tue Sep 6 13:59:42 PDT 2005

16873 [lbo-talk] US stock market: disasters are so bullish! -- rank: 1000

At 8:17 PM +0000 9/6/05, MarketWatch Alerts wrote: >Breaking News Bulletin: Dow, Nasdaq post biggest one-day gains since >July as oil retreats >http://marketwatch.com/r.asp?g=BA3096823A984EAE9A9BEA15BA2E6B00&d=bnb

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Date:	Tue Sep 6 13:35:14 PDT 2005

16874 [lbo-talk] Evacuating half a million people -- rank: 1000

John Lacny wrote: >The spectacle of government officials appealing for volunteers and >donations to the Red Cross and so on is sickening beyond words for >any decent person, when clearly it was the government's >responsibility to get on this immediately. Even now, they're crowing about the $400m pledge to various charities. That's lovely, but in a few hours, even our dumbass Congress appropriated $10.5b, or 26 times as much. There's really no substitute for the public sector in somet ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 6 13:05:09 PDT 2005

16875 [lbo-talk] help wanted: labor lawyer -- rank: 1000

Opening for Labor Attorney The United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE) seeks a staff attorney with at least 2 years experience (preferably in labor law) and a demonstrated commitment to unions to work in its National Office Legal Department in Pittsburgh. The UE is a one of the original CIO unions and has maintained its progressive, rank and file stance since it was founded in the 1930s. Excellent research and writing skills are required. Send cover letter, resume and two ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 6 12:14:38 PDT 2005