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17116 [lbo-talk] Re: we all be dummies dept -- rank: 1000

frank scott wrote: >am not familiar with their particular scientific credentials, but if >they find that some people vote based on rainfall, i'd be willing to >bet that group is equal in number to the one that votes based on >bunions... Once again, Frank, I'm in awe of how much smarter you are than everyone else. You must be very proud of yourself. Doug

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Date:	Sun Oct 9 19:05:45 PDT 2005

17117 [lbo-talk] Facts in KPFA Dispute Hard to Grasp -- rank: 1000

Joseph Wanzala wrote: >This is not be true, and you offer nothing to back up your assertion >other than a vague reference to arbitrons. An objective measure of >listenership is money raised from listeners. This figure has only >increased over the last two decades. Increased by how much? Total personal income in the US is up by 192% over the last two decades. It's funny how the Arbitrons are used. At WBAI, when the went up from one quarter to the next, management bragged like crazy. W ...

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Date:	Sun Oct 9 19:05:45 PDT 2005

17118 [lbo-talk] Suicide Girl hack -- rank: 1000

[not sure what this all means, but...] >I was tipped off to this "culture jam", an act of political speech on >the Suicide Girls web site... through the addition of a new Suicide >Girl. > >A "Real Suicide Girl." > ><<http://suicidegirls.com/members/RealSuicideGirl/>http://suicidegirls.com/members/RealSuicideGirl/ > > >I don't know how long this will stay up, so I archived what I found >when I visited: > ><http://www.machinati ...

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Date:	Sat Oct 8 20:26:53 PDT 2005

17119 [lbo-talk] Facts in KPFA Dispute Hard to Grasp -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >The music on say WFMU is far more adventurous. The best radio station in the world! Doug

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Date:	Sat Oct 8 12:23:30 PDT 2005

17120 [lbo-talk] CBS Poll: Bush approval at 37% -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Rasmussen aggregates the Strongly Approve and the Somewhat Approve >categories into his overall Approval rating , which means it's probably not >completely comparable to other polls with a yes-no question. > >Since Rasmussen gives four options, unlike some other polls, I think he >tilts towards approval since folks with mixed feelings can grab onto the >"somewhat approve" slot. Good point. It's bad polling practice to offer an even number of c ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 7 09:04:37 PDT 2005

17121 [lbo-talk] Miers proved Cheney wasn't a Texan -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - October 7, 2005 Obscure Texas Case Offers Peek Into Role Of Court Nominee Amid 2000 Election Turmoil, Harriet Miers Took On A Constitutional Battle By JESS BRAVIN Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL WASHINGTON -- President Bush cites many accomplishments of Harriet Miers to explain her nomination to the Supreme Court. One the White House doesn't mention is her successful argument during the disputed 2000 election that Dick Cheney is definitely not a Texan. The way she ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 7 08:54:44 PDT 2005

17122 [lbo-talk] Re: 911..still, again, yet -- rank: 1000

frank scott wrote: >actually, if our side of the spectrum provided and communicated its >framework and thoughts to a general public better than we do, many >concerned and anxious folks would not have to rush after conspiracy >theorists to try to make clear to themselves just what the fuck is >going on... But if people vote based on fucking rainfall, as Bartels & Achen argue, then you're really expecting too much here. Doug

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Date:	Thu Oct 6 22:11:08 PDT 2005

17123 [lbo-talk] Bartels -- rank: 1000

Michael Hoover wrote: >lazasfeld, berelson (with several other co-authors whose names >escape me) set 'tone' for social-psychological approach, while >reference to converse is apropos given that his stuff (often written >with angus campbell, warren miller, donald stokes) is generally >cited as having set 'standard' for concluding that voters lack >coherent views, there exists a body of research indicating that >his/their criteria were too rigid and that, in fact, percentage ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 6 22:04:48 PDT 2005

17124 [lbo-talk] CBS Poll: Bush approval at 37% -- rank: 1000

mike larkin wrote: >"....President Bush's job approval rating has fallen >to his lowest rating ever. 37 percent now approve of >the job he is doing as president, while 58 percent >disapprove. Hmm, the Rasmussen daily poll has him at 46, up from 45 the first two days of October. Must be the liberal media. Doug

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Date:	Thu Oct 6 21:58:26 PDT 2005

17125 [lbo-talk] Ann Coulter loses it over Miers too -- rank: 1000

Dennis Perrin wrote: >>If Ann Coulter is writing stuff like this rant and this mirrors a >>conservative movement that is fracturing . . . > >>Chuck > >I wouldn't get too excited about that happening, at least to the >degree you suggest. The rightwing movement has shifted so much to >their end over the past 25-plus years that a semi-revolt within the >ranks over Miers isn't gonna "fracture" their political power and >clout. If the trogs ditch Bush, ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 6 13:46:45 PDT 2005

17126 [lbo-talk] Mills's Power Elite -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >>Has anyone written illuminatingly on C. Wright Mills's The Power Elite? > >Your old pal Stanley Aronowitz was recently entrusted with editing a >three volume collection of essays on Mills. He recently wrote a >fairly long article on Mills and his context (perhaps his >introductory essay to that collection) for an online journal called >Logos: > >http://www.logosjournal.com/aronowitz.htm > >I haven't read it. But bibliographic essays l ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 6 13:44:12 PDT 2005

17127 [lbo-talk] Middle Class -- rank: 1000

turbulo at aol.com wrote: >I know the social democratic mind has a hard time digesting this, >but history has known sudden leaps--both in society--revolutions, >they are called--and the necessary leaps in consciousness >that accompany them. Really? Do tell. I've never heard of these revolution thingys before. > Maybe it's been so long sinch such an event has taken place that we >tend to forget they ever happened. But progress will never happen >unless large numbers of peopl ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 6 13:22:26 PDT 2005

17128 [lbo-talk] Ann Coulter loses it over Miers too -- rank: 1000

Steven L. Robinson wrote: >But this leaves unanswered the question of WHY. Miers may not be >qualified to sit on the SC, but from all appearances she can be >counted on to vote with 'Scalia and Thomas.on all the important >issues. So why would folks like Coulter care? (Coulter's reasoning >that the SC is where you put ivy league conservative lawyers is >really strained). The fact that she was once a Democrat is also >irrelevant as almost everyone 60 or older in the South ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 6 13:19:28 PDT 2005

17129 [lbo-talk] spat -- rank: 1000

ravi wrote: > > [hey you techies, is this as odd as it seems?] >> >> At 1:53 PM -0400 10/6/05, MOTD [Panix] wrote: >> >>> (The following article has been automatically mirrored from MOTD) >>> >>> (Posted by Ed Ravin [staff]) Thu, Oct 06 2005 -- 1:44 PM >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> >>> Some sites on the Internet hosted by Cogent Networks have been >>> ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 6 13:13:45 PDT 2005

17130 [lbo-talk] What's the Matter With Kansas Redux -- rank: 1000

Michael Hoover wrote: >would it be too stodgy, or too naive, or too deterministic >to suggest that the problem with kansas (for that matter, >the problem with u.s., uk edition of frank's is, in fact, >titled _what's the matter with america_) to small >organized labor movement... Just send all those workers over to Carrol Cox. He'll sign them up for the antiwar movement, and then all that will be behind us. Doug

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Date:	Thu Oct 6 13:06:59 PDT 2005