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17536 [lbo-talk] Ferrer vs. Bloomberg: Juan Gonzalez thinks there is one hell of a difference -- rank: 1000

Gar Lipow wrote: >Ferrer vs. Bloomberg: Juan Gonzalez thinks there is one hell of a >difference. What is more, he seems to think that those differences >are specifically on class issues - taxing the fat boys a bit >included. Doug, care to comment? Ferrer is a dismal candidate with no movement behind him. His adminstration would almost certainly be full of hacks. And without a serious popular movement behind him, he wouldn't be able to dampen the fat boys, much less soak them. The c ...

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Date:	Thu Nov 3 16:21:40 PST 2005

17537 [lbo-talk] young materialists -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Yes. The 'twenties. Eighty years ago. Sometime between then and now we >seem to have gone back up to the top of the slide so we can slide down >again to the _current_ decadence. Which is precisely the problem with >the metaphor of decadence for capitalist societies. They are always >starting over again. Just a few weeks ago Doug was emphasizing the >"flexibility" of capitalism in an area where there is in fact, no >flexibility, that of global war ...

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Date:	Thu Nov 3 16:18:22 PST 2005

17538 [lbo-talk] meanwhile, on the war on terror front.... -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: > Apologize? How have I insulted you? > You've posted on Lee Harvey Oddball, the WTC towers being blown up >from within and the airline stock options and other aspects of the >9-11 case. You're confusing Shane Mage and John Mage. They're brothers, and neighbors, but they're significantly different people. Doug

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Date:	Thu Nov 3 16:09:44 PST 2005

17539 [lbo-talk] The Empire's Freedom -- rank: 1000

JBrown72073 at cs.com wrote: >Hmm, so basically feminism is just a boat anchor. Cut it loose and suddenly >working class consciousness and unity will appear on the horizon. Except, uh, >for women who are, as we know, an insignificant majority. Some opposition to >abortion could be "cultural" but abortion itself is decidedly economic, as in >production, who does it, when, and under what conditions. A lot of the "cultural" issues are deeply material. It doesn' ...

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Date:	Thu Nov 3 16:06:42 PST 2005

17540 [lbo-talk] meanwhile, on the war on terror front.... -- rank: 1000

Shane Mage wrote: >Why are two-lone-nuts theorists Dunno about you, but nuts ain't lonely. Doug

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Date:	Thu Nov 3 15:51:26 PST 2005

17541 [lbo-talk] meanwhile, on the war on terror front.... -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >David Brooks, stand up comic>...Harry Reid sits alone at his kitchen >table at 4 a.m., Brooks has become a full-blown idiot. He had some modest appeal when he was a just plagiarizing Tom Frank, but this is crazy shit. Doug

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Date:	Thu Nov 3 15:49:07 PST 2005

17542 [lbo-talk] new lows for W and his war -- rank: 1000

ABC NEWS/WASHINGTON POST POLL: BUSH - 11/2/05 EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE AFTER 5 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 3, 2005 On Iraq, Economy and Ethics, a Perfect Storm Bedevils Bush An increasingly unpopular war, an ethics cloud and broad economic discontent have pushed public opinion of the Bush administration from bad to worse, infecting not only the president's ratings on political issues but his personal credentials for honesty and leadership as well. George W. Bush's approval ratings for handling his job, Ira ...

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Date:	Thu Nov 3 15:38:01 PST 2005

17543 [lbo-talk] meanwhile, on the war on terror front.... -- rank: 1000

Shane Mage wrote: >>Four "dangerous enemy combatants" have escaped from the main US base in >>Afghanistan, the US military has said. >> >>http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/4671481.stm >> >>Wojtek > >"escaped?" Yeah, the empire never fucks up. Whenever something "bad" happens, it's all part of a larger imperial plot. See also: JFK Assasination; 9/11. Doug

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Date:	Thu Nov 3 13:22:38 PST 2005

17544 [lbo-talk] The Empire's Freedom -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >If you gave me the choice of the political makeup of the Democrats in 1937 >or 1965 or the politics of today's Democrats, but with the total numbers >from 1937 or 1965, I'd keep today's Dems in a heartbeat. Nathan's right about this. It's long been an article of left faith that the Dems have moved to the right, but that depends on your point of comparison. If it's the early 1970s, maybe. If it's just about any other time in American history, the case is much harder ...

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Date:	Thu Nov 3 13:03:00 PST 2005

17545 [lbo-talk] Rove's future in doubt -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - November 3, 2005 Rove's Future Role Is Debated White House May Seek Fresh Start In Wake of Leak By Jim VandeHei and Carol D. Leonnig Washington Post Staff Writers Top White House aides are privately discussing the future of Karl Rove, with some expressing doubt that President Bush can move beyond the damaging CIA leak case as long as his closest political strategist remains in the administration. If Rove stays, which colleagues say remains his intention, he may at a minimum hav ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 3 08:01:34 PST 2005

17546 [lbo-talk] The Empire's Freedom -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > >I fundamentally agree with the above, but I am not sure how that can explain >a total meltdown of the Democratic Party. One would think that, given that >level of elite decadence, Democrats would have it easy but they do not. >After all the brouhaha about Bush popularity sinking, the Repugs still have >no problems winning local elections >http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/yahoo/bal-md.frederick02nov02,0,5401701.sto >ry?coll=bal-newsaol-headline ...

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Date:	Thu Nov 3 07:54:44 PST 2005

17547 [lbo-talk] young materialists -- rank: 1000

BN 00:15 For Manhattan Teens, Dad's Bonus Means Money in the (Prada) Bag By Cotten Timberlake and Lisa Kassenaar Nov. 3 (Bloomberg) -- When Sydney Ramsden complained she didn't have a purse for her 13th birthday dinner at Manhattan's `21' Club last year, her mother bought her a black nylon bag -- a $230 Prada ``pochette.'' ``It went perfectly with my outfit,'' says Sydney, an eighth-grader at a private, Upper East Side girls' school who has since added a pink Prada pocketbook to her accessory w ...

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Date:	Thu Nov 3 07:51:31 PST 2005

17548 [lbo-talk] ...And it taste awful tool! -- rank: 1000

Wendy Lyon wrote: >On 11/3/05, Leigh Meyers <leighcmeyers at gmail.com> wrote: > >> In a poll of 10,000 single men, 68 per cent preferred natural >>beauty to women who were plastered in cosmetics > >Of course they would tell a pollster that! And I'll bet a lot of men (me included) couldn't tell when a woman was wearing light makeup, and might take it for "natural." "Plastered with" sounds like something a drag queen would do. Doug

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Date:	Thu Nov 3 07:25:36 PST 2005

17549 [lbo-talk] soft support for Alito (not that it matters) -- rank: 1000

ABC NEWS/WASHINGTON POST POLL: SCOTUS - 11/2/05 EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE AFTER 7 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 3, 2005 Tempered Support for Alito Americans offer modest support for the latest U.S. Supreme Court nominee: Forty-nine percent say the U.S. Senate should confirm Samuel Alito, far more than oppose him, but lower than the initial support for newly installed Chief Justice John Roberts. Alito may be feeling a spillover effect from George W. Bush's popularity problems and the derailed nomination of Har ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 3 07:17:10 PST 2005

17550 [lbo-talk] Brown emails -- rank: 1000

Brownie's Katrina emails are at <http://www.melancon.house.gov/SupportingFiles/documents/Brown_Emails.pdf>. Roll up your sleeves! says the PR person - even the president does it (though only just below the elbow). Doug

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Date:	Thu Nov 3 07:09:02 PST 2005