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16906 [lbo-talk] Fwd: Financial Impact of Katrina -- rank: 1000

-----Original Message----- From: "Paul Levy"<plevy at citizen.org> Sent: 02/09/05 3:35:48 PM To: "dave at farber.net"<dave at farber.net> Subject: Re: Financial Impact of Katrina This message raises an important question about disaster relief that deserves to be answered. National credit card companies and financial institutions are constantly running to Congress for protection from this and that form of state regulation (for example, National Bank Act preemption ...

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Date:	Sat Sep 3 08:02:52 PDT 2005

16907 [lbo-talk] Mike Davis, seer -- rank: 1000

<http://www.motherjones.com/news/update/2004/09/09_414.html> Poor, Black, and Left Behind NEWS: On the fortieth anniversary of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the United States seems to have returned to degree zero of moral concern for the majority of descendants of slavery and segregation. By Mike Davis September 24, 2004 The evacuation of New Orleans in the face of Hurricane Ivan looked sinisterly like Strom Thurmond's version of the Rapture. Affluent white people fled the Big Easy in their S ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 2 15:19:07 PDT 2005

16908 [lbo-talk] silver-tongued W -- rank: 1000

<http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/09/20050902-6.html> Q Sir, you talk about fixing what's wrong and you talk about the results not being acceptable, but there are a lot of people wondering why you weren't fixing the problems yesterday or the day before, and why the richest country on Earth can't get food and water to those people that need it? THE PRESIDENT: The levees broke on Tuesday in New Orleans. On Wednesday, we -- and Thursday we started evacuating people. A lot of peopl ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 2 14:14:24 PDT 2005

16909 [lbo-talk] Norquist: the cure for Katrina is death tax repeal -- rank: 1000

[also thanks to Michael Pug, who rightly comments, you can't make this shit up] <http://www.atr.org/content/pdf/2005/sep/090205ot-ggn_deathtax_memo.pdf> MEMORANDUM From: Grover G. Norquist, Americans for Tax Reform To: Members of the United States Senate Date: 09/02/05 Re: Death Tax Repeal/Katrina In light of this week's tragic hurricane in Louisiana, some politicians have suggested that tax cuts in general and death tax repeal specifically should not move forward. This is a simila ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 2 14:00:39 PDT 2005

16910 [lbo-talk] Norquist's bathtub -- rank: 1000

Michael Pug just sent me this offlist: an excellent illustration of Grover Norquist's famous observation that he'd like to shrink government so small it could be drowned in a bathtub: <http://images.dailykos.com/images/user/3/bathtub.jpg>. Doug

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Date:	Fri Sep 2 13:47:09 PDT 2005

16911 [lbo-talk] new radio product -- rank: 1000

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Date:	Fri Sep 2 12:32:45 PDT 2005

16912 [lbo-talk] Vegetarianism -- rank: 1000

ravi wrote: >Carrol Cox wrote: >>ravi wrote: >> >>>>look, here's where you are indeed being facetious ;-). i think its >>> >>>because you believe, as in mathematics, that providing an alternate >>>scenario, however unlikely/unimaginable, disproves your opponent's thesis. >>> >>>but the reality is that in order to come up with rules and theories in >>>ethics, we have to start somewhere >> >>Yes, we have t ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 2 11:57:26 PDT 2005

16913 [lbo-talk] Bush speaks: "out of the rubbles of Trent Lott's house..." -- rank: 1000

[if this guy were a movie character he wouldn't be believable] THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary (Mobile, Alabama) ___________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release September 2, 2005 REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT DURING BRIEFING ON HURRICANE KATRINA Mobile Regional Airport Mobile, Alabama 10:35 A.M. CDT THE PRESIDENT: Well, first I want to say a few things. I am incredibly proud of our Coast Guard. We have got courageous people risking their lives to save l ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 2 11:16:06 PDT 2005

16914 [lbo-talk] Nagin's rant -- rank: 1000

[audio at <http://www.atypical.net/mm/nagin.mp3>] <http://www.wonkette.com/politics//nagins-nightmare-full-transcript-123683.php> CNN airs WWL Radio interview with New Orleans Mayor Ray; This is a rush transcript and may not be in its final format. RAY NAGIN, MAYOR OF NEW ORLEANS: I told him we had an incredible crisis here and that his flying over in Air Force One does not do it justice. And that I have been all around this city, and I am very frustrated because we are not able to m ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 2 11:12:55 PDT 2005

16915 [lbo-talk] Andrea's last night -- rank: 1000

[researching Ariel Levy in prep for interview her about her strange but interesting new book, Female Chauvinist Pigs, I came across her obit for Andrea Dworkin <http://newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/news/people/features/11907/> - I think the fact that AD had her last supper chez Hitch has come up here already, but I'm not sure the rest of the guest list did] [...] Their big, bright apartment in D.C., in a Deco building with a vaguely old-Hollywood feel, is all on one level, so it was easier for ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 2 10:48:47 PDT 2005

16916 [lbo-talk] Waiting for a Leader / Genocide -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >Fox News should be blown off the face of the earth. Last night, O'Reilly actually asked, "Where's the National Guard?" Doug

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16917 [lbo-talk] FEMA cronyism -- rank: 1000

[bounced because HTML coding pushed this to 25k] From: Marta Russell <ap888 at lafn.org> Subject: Fwd: How Can.... Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2005 10:00:48 -0700 There are not words to describe the disgust I feel with the GOP and the way they have cut FEMA and the way they are stalling and bungeling aid to those poor mainly black people dying in the City of New Orleans. Ire should be directed to the White House from ALL fronts. Use your media contacts. Marta Russell <http://www.washingtonmonthl ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 2 10:40:09 PDT 2005

16918 [lbo-talk] Palast on Huey Long and LA 1927 -- rank: 1000

Mark Bennett wrote: >Michael Pollak >Palast: "That was yesterday. Today he played golf. No kidding." > >------------------------------------ >Is this true? Did Bush play golf yesterday? This can't be true. He >played fucking GOLF? You gotta be careful with Palast - he's a little, um, hasty sometimes. Doug

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Date:	Fri Sep 2 09:49:56 PDT 2005

16919 [lbo-talk] Waiting for a Leader / Genocide -- rank: 1000

amadeus amadeus wrote: >The UN General Assembly in 1948 defined genocide as >"any of the following acts committed with intent to >destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, >racial or religious group, as such: > > (a) Killing members of the group; > (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to >members of the group; > (c) Deliberately inflicting on the group >conditions of life calculated to bring about its >physical destruction in whole ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 2 09:24:22 PDT 2005

16920 [lbo-talk] $100b in losses? -- rank: 1000

<http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?siteid=mktw&dist=nwtam&guid=%7B5BAF8843%2D43C6%2D472A%2DAE56%2D50A9D5503B20%7D> Katrina's economic cost put at $100B Flooding, slow response exacerbating losses, RMS says By Alistair Barr, MarketWatch Last Update: 11:12 AM ET Sept. 2, 2005 SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) - Katrina and the flooding of New Orleans will probably cost more than $100 billion in total economic losses, Risk Management Solutions, a leading catastrophe risk-modeling fi ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 2 09:23:09 PDT 2005