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17671 [lbo-talk] Pew: Bush approval down to 43% -- rank: 1000

[and prefacing a SS question with Bush's name knocks 14 points off the net approval] Economy, Iraq Weighing Down Bush Popularity Country Losing Ground on Most National Problems Americans are critical of President Bush’s job performance in many policy areas, but negative opinions of his handling of the economy and Iraq are doing the most damage to his overall approval rating, which now stands at 43%. Just 35% approve of the president’s handling of the economy, down from 43% in February and 45% in ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 20 07:20:59 PDT 2005

17672 [lbo-talk] Gorgeous George Galloway and "saddamist money" -- rank: 1000

Dennis Redmond wrote: >Documents which were flagrantly forged. I could swear I remember Nixon saying on one of the White House tapes something like "We could fix the typewriter, like we did in the Hiss case." Anyone else remember that? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 20 06:52:19 PDT 2005

17673 [lbo-talk] celebrate yourself! sing yourself! -- rank: 1000

Because May is National Masturbation Month: <http://www.babeland.com/sexinfo/features/masturbate-with-sex-toys>. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 20 06:50:05 PDT 2005

17674 [lbo-talk] Galloway to Senate: FOAD -- rank: 1000

Cseniornyc at aol.com wrote: >Fine, but the left in this country is too minuscule and weak to >afford incessant intrafights.Better to channel all the available >energy against the right, plenty of targets out there. There's also a matter of timing and context. There was plenty of time to criticize Ward Churchill before he became a cause celebre; after he did, the importance of that critique should have fallen pretty far down on the to-do list. Ditto Galloway - what's the point, other th ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 20 06:42:18 PDT 2005

17675 [lbo-talk] Getting Fired for Not Making Trouble (An Appeal to the U.S. Antiwar Movement) -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >As a matter of fact, almost all US workers are let go today not >because of industrial and other political actions but because of >dearth of them The US labor market is very volatile In an average year the US economy both creates and destroys something like 30-35 million jobs a year in the private sector. Net gains in a good year - like the roughly 2 million during the boom - would be the result of 35 million new jobs and 33 million jobs destroyed. The net losse ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 19 19:09:42 PDT 2005

17676 [lbo-talk] bonobo condo; blue balls -- rank: 1000

At 6:43 PM +0100 5/19/05, POPBITCH wrote: > >> Bonobos bounce back << > Chimps get top-notch council house > > Last year, we launched a Save the Bonobo campaign. > The pygmy chimps who live in the Congo and > have sex on average every 90 minutes are facing > extinction. Finally, someone else is joining us > in trying to help these dirty little beasts. > > A group of Bonobos are getting a $10 million, > 18-ro ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 19 18:53:35 PDT 2005

17677 [lbo-talk] Gorgeous George Galloway and "saddamist money" -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >Do not forget the "missing records" of Bush's service in the NG, which >miraculously surfaced during the last presidential campaign, only to be >proved a forgery - which cost Dan Rather his job. The records of Poppy Bush's Zapata Petroleum had disappeared from the SEC when Jonathan Kwitny was looking into some fishy stuff for Barron's in 1992. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 19 18:51:04 PDT 2005

17678 [lbo-talk] Galloway to Senate: FOAD -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: > But, the Miriam Appeal docs. in Jordan. Why not release them? Why do you care about this shit? Bush & his towel boy Blair launch a criminal war, and you're obsessing about hotel receipts. Between this and the endless URLs pointing to loons, don't you have any sense of priority or perspective? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 19 05:23:09 PDT 2005

17679 [lbo-talk] Cramer's new show -- rank: 1000

John Adams wrote: >Are you sure? What color +was+ the handkerchief, anyway? White. It'd be funny if Cramer was a memeber of the yellow hanky brigade though! Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 19 05:18:52 PDT 2005

17680 [lbo-talk] Cramer's new show -- rank: 1000

We watched the new James Cramer show on CNBC last night - Mad Money. There's a segment in which callers name stocks and Cramer is required to comment on them and declare buy or sell. He does it at an incredibly manic pace - ringing cash registers, cueing onscreen bulls and bears (which roar and growl approrpriately), bouncing around like a madman, mopping his sweating brow with a handkerchief. Mania and capitalism. Where's Ted Winslow? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 18 16:16:52 PDT 2005

17681 [lbo-talk] me on Fox -- rank: 1000

Catherine Driscoll wrote: >So were you on? > >I particularly despise Neil Cavuto so I'll be sure to watch the repeat. Yup, I was on. The segment was about 5 mins long, with me as the anti-Greenspan character, and some idiot talk show host as the pro-Greenspan guy. You couldn't talk for more than 15 seconds without Cavuto interrupting. At the end, though, Cavuto said I did well and he agreed with what I had to say, which he acknowledged might worry me. Off camera, Cavuto's pretty friendl ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 18 15:52:41 PDT 2005

17682 [lbo-talk] Re: FT say what? (Was Galloway) -- rank: 1000

John Bizwas wrote: >FT NOT LEFT. No shit, really? Sometimes I learn so much from this list. The publication is not left. It's not Red Dawn or Workers Vanguard, or even The Nation. It has a lot of left-leaning people who write and edit it. They are not fond of many aspects of US culture. That attitude fits with upperish-class British disdain for American culture. There are many such people who write and edit the FT. Both influences show. > Wish someone would with moderation duties would te ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 18 15:50:38 PDT 2005

17683 [lbo-talk] Soviet Union had plans for first use of N-weapons in Europe -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: > Doug, why this need to portray left crit of Stalinism as >anti-Marxist? KM would haqve called JVS a "barracks communist" > You aren't a Stalinist, by any means. Like I just told you offlist, it's all tiresome, old, pointless. The USSR has been gone for almost 15 years. Why the endless obsession with its faults? Why assume the worst about Galloway, with no evidence? Skepticism and iconoclasm are wonderful, but when they become a reflex, there's a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 18 15:15:12 PDT 2005

17684 [lbo-talk] FT say what? (Was Galloway) -- rank: 1000

John Bizwas wrote: >I suppose one might be convinced to believe 'someone in a position >to know' if one's starting point was the WSJ or something. I've read the FT practically every day since 1986. The WSJ since 1981. The person who told me this was a former FT employee who knew the place quite well. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 18 14:55:32 PDT 2005

17685 [lbo-talk] Soviet Union had plans for first use of N-weapons in Europe -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: > Leninism was not destroyed by "Stalinism" -- it >was subsumed into a wider ideology brought about by >Russian culture, material conditions in the country >and the pressing need to industrialize the country >ASAP. This is too subtle, and too historically rooted. You're ignoring the demonic quality of Stalin and the poisonous inheritance from Lenin (and ultimately, from Marx). Clearly you've been away from the USA for too long. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 18 14:15:41 PDT 2005