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17626 [lbo-talk] DIRELAND: Two Slaps for George Lakoff -- rank: 1000

New from DIRELAND, May 26, 2005 http://direland.typepad.com/direland/2005/05/two_slaps_at_ge.html TWO SLAPS FOR GEORGE LAKOFF George Lakoff's Don't Think of an Elephant is a best-seller among Democratic progressives seeking a way out of their post-election doldrums. Frankly, Lakoff's New Age-y psycholinguistics leave me cold, and many of the reasons why can be found in two new articles that offer sound critiques of him. Longtime author-activist Frances Moore Lappé has penned "Time for Progr ...

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Date:	Thu May 26 06:24:26 PDT 2005

17627 [lbo-talk] Interview with Robert Fisk in June _Progressive_ -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >HE (Hersh) DOESN'T HAVE TO GO THERE, BUT BY GOD, WE'RE LEARNING WHAT'S >HAPPENING FROM HIM. > >And that is declared by a man who wasn't thre for a few weeks or a few >months but for 30 years! Do you know how Hersh does his work? He talks mainly to people in the US national security establishment - i.e., disgruntled officials in Washington. He knows what the policies are and the inside reaction to them. He's not talking to Iraqis and getting their POV. Of course ...

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Date:	Wed May 25 15:17:25 PDT 2005

17628 [lbo-talk] Re: parenti ( not michael) -- rank: 1000

frank scott wrote: >this is the kind of anecdotal evidence that would lose a college >student points... So you've acquired your expertise from an even greater distance than Cde Cox. You guys are soooo impressive. Who needs to talk to anyone when you've got enough 'tude to kill everyone in Jersey. Doug

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Date:	Wed May 25 14:00:39 PDT 2005

17629 [lbo-talk] The Fed's own Don Ho -- rank: 1000

Tom Walker wrote: >One of the truly memorable utterances of Chariman Greenspan and not >a peep about it on LBO. > >"There are a few things that suggest, at a minimum, there's a little >froth in this [housing] market," Greenspan told the New York >Economic Club Friday. While "we don't perceive that there is a >national bubble," he said "it's hard not to see that there are a lot >of local bubbles." > >http://www.hawaiian-music.com/real2/b ...

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Date:	Wed May 25 12:41:09 PDT 2005

17630 [lbo-talk] A new turn in US military strategy in Iraq? -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >I would >tend to classify CP under that very common type since Europe began to >expand over the globe: the traveller who spends a few weeks to a year or >two in a strange territory and then proceeds to proclaim himself an >expert on it. Beats someone who never leaves Illinois and presents himself as an expert on everything, everywhere! Doug

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Date:	Wed May 25 11:32:00 PDT 2005

17631 [lbo-talk] Hoffa plays with W -- rank: 1000

Detroit News - May 25, 2005 May 25, 2005 Social Security debate lauded Teamsters leader Hoffa commends Bush for bringing issue to forefront. By Brian Tumulty / Gannett News Service WASHINGTON -- In a break with other union leaders who have opposed Social Security reform, Teamsters President James P. Hoffa commended President Bush on Tuesday for starting a national conversation on the issue. "Social Security is a major problem in this country," Hoffa said during an interview in his offi ...

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Date:	Wed May 25 09:52:50 PDT 2005

17632 [lbo-talk] Democrats lost again -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Because of the damage to the left which the ABB >forces inflicted What left is there excluding the ABBs? The mass of 5,000 at the Million Worker March? Hard to damage that much more than it already is damaged. Doug

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Date:	Wed May 25 09:43:39 PDT 2005

17633 [lbo-talk] Pelosi on Israel & Iran -- rank: 1000

[it feels good to hate Democrats again!] Nancy Pelosi Speech to American Israel Public Affairs Committee; Text of Remarks 5/24/2005 12:11:00 PM Contact: Brendan Daly or Jennifer Crider, both of Office of House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, 202-226-7616; Web: <http://democraticleader.house.gov> WASHINGTON, May 24 /U.S. Newswire/ -- House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi addressed the American Israel Public Affairs Committee at their 2005 Policy Conference last night. Pelosi discussed the re ...

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Date:	Wed May 25 09:27:20 PDT 2005

17634 [lbo-talk] Hillary out-hawks Sharon -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - May 25, 2005 OBSERVER Hillary's stance To be more Catholic than the pope is not the appropriate metaphor but Senator Hillary Clinton managed yesterday to upstage Ariel Sharon, the Israeli prime minister, in being tough on Mahmoud Abbas, the new Palestinian president. Not too surprising perhaps, as both were in the capital to address the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the influential Jewish lobby group. Clinton has her New York seat to defend next year, even before th ...

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Date:	Wed May 25 09:23:58 PDT 2005

17635 [lbo-talk] Democrats lost again -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >But the statement that "the Democrats lost" is exactly the kind of reductive >analysis that makes me despair of this list. People can analyze the nuances >of the crimes of the Soviet Union, but can't even notice that this deal >involved only 7 out of 44 Democrats. And once those Dems swung to the deal, >there was little the rest of the caucus could do since they wouldn't have >the votes to sustain a filibuster. > >This deal was the triump ...

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Date:	Wed May 25 09:13:10 PDT 2005

17636 [lbo-talk] GOP pornsters -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - May 25, 2005 LIFE OF THE PARTY PORN star Mary Carey (above) is set to spice up the National Republican Congressional Committee's "Salute to Freedom" dinner with President Bush next month. The former fringe candidate for California governor and star of "Lesbian Big Boob Bangeroo 2" and "Thumpin' Melons" will be the guest of her boss, Kick Ass Pictures president Mark Kulkis, an honorary chairman of the NRCC's Business Advisory Council. The p ...

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Date:	Wed May 25 08:57:10 PDT 2005

17637 [lbo-talk] A new turn in US military strategy in Iraq? -- rank: 1000

Leigh Meyers wrote: >Have you ever considered that Christian Parenti is just another >western social commentator with his head up his ass? No, though I have wondered about the location of your head from time to time. He spent many months in Iraq and talked to hundreds of people. Many bloviators on this list and elsewhere just read a few blogs and think they know it all. Doug

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Date:	Wed May 25 08:48:06 PDT 2005

17638 [lbo-talk] A new turn in US military strategy in Iraq? -- rank: 1000

Marvin Gandall wrote: >I'd call the car bombings "barbaric", but I wouldn't call them "nihilistic". Christian Parenti's used the word "nihilistic" too - the insurgents he'd talked to had no positive vision for Iraq at all. When he asked them what their ideology was, they said "Islam" and "Ba'athism." When he asked what that meant, they couldn't elaborate. He said they'd rather destroy Iraq than let the US have it. Doug

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Date:	Wed May 25 06:43:46 PDT 2005

17639 [lbo-talk] Anti-Communism: enumerate SU's virtues when discussing its vices -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >Highlights of SU world historic advances: Enough on this. Really. It's not productive, it's not timely, and it's not really very interesting. Doug

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Date:	Wed May 25 06:37:38 PDT 2005

17640 [lbo-talk] Anti-communism -- rank: 1000

Enough on the Nazi-Soviet comparisons! Enough!

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Date:	Tue May 24 14:19:50 PDT 2005