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18256 [lbo-talk] I made it! -- rank: 1000

I'm tickled pink! I made Tomlinson's list of Now guests <http://www.npr.org/documents/2005/jun/cpb_pdfs/now.chart.pdf>, identified as "author of the Left Business Journal," and classifed as "liberal/Democrat" and "oppose administration." Doug

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Date:	Thu Jun 30 09:54:52 PDT 2005

18257 [lbo-talk] Ward Churchill strikes again -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >He did not intend to suggest the 9-11 victims were "little Eichmanns" >he claims now. Instead, he blamed the grammar checker for changing >what he says he actually wrote: "little Entenmanns" -- referring to >the brand of pastries. This is a joke, right? Doug

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Date:	Thu Jun 30 08:00:20 PDT 2005

18258 [lbo-talk] odds favor no SS bill -- rank: 1000

House Republican Leaders, Thomas at Odds Over Social Security By Jeff Bliss June 30 (Bloomberg) -- A rare internal battle is brewing among House Republicans, pitting some top party leaders against Ways and Means Committee Chairman Bill Thomas, over whether to shore up Social Security's solvency or just focus on new retirement benefits. Republican leaders will oppose legislation that contains benefit cuts, a retirement age increase or a rise in taxes to improve the system's solvency, said a senio ...

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Date:	Thu Jun 30 07:33:11 PDT 2005

18259 [lbo-talk] focus-grouping the war -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - June 30, 2005 Bush Words Reflect Public Opinion Strategy By Peter Baker and Dan Balz When President Bush confidently predicts victory in Iraq and admits no mistakes, admirers see steely resolve and critics see exasperating stubbornness. But the president's full-speed-ahead message articulated in this week's prime-time address also reflects a purposeful strategy based on extensive study of public opinion about how to maintain support for a costly and problem-plagued military mis ...

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Date:	Thu Jun 30 07:28:46 PDT 2005

18260 [lbo-talk] George Soros, felonious druggie -- rank: 1000

[from ABC's The Note] "We finally got a winning team. Now they're going to hand it over to a convicted felon who wants to legalize drugs and who lives in New York and spent $5 million trying to defeat the president? How's he going to get him out to the opening game?" - Rep. Tom Davis (R-VA) on George Soros's bid for the Nats, in the New York Times <http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/30/politics/30nats.html> (Note that Soros is appealing his conviction for insider trading in France.)

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Date:	Thu Jun 30 07:24:27 PDT 2005

18261 [lbo-talk] General Odom (Ret.) on Iraq -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese quoted: >How do we escape this awful predicament? Useful first steps would be >to remove the barriers in front of the White House and the Capitol, And why not those in front of the Time Warner Center in NYC, too? There must be some corporate narcissism at work - are you iconic enough to be the target of a car bomb?

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Date:	Thu Jun 30 07:20:06 PDT 2005

18262 foxy! Re: [lbo-talk] noonan on obama -- rank: 1000

Jim Farmelant wrote: >Good to hear it. Some of us, of course, had never forgotten >how much Democrats suck. I never did. As I said about a thousand times last year, what I was hoping for were some marginally better policies and a better discursive and organizing environment. Nothing more. > Imagine, if you can, what >would have happened if John Kerry was now sitting in >the White House, instead of the guy from Crawford. I suspect, >we would, right now, be debating whether Ke ...

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Date:	Thu Jun 30 06:50:26 PDT 2005

18263 foxy! Re: [lbo-talk] noonan on obama -- rank: 1000

Luke Weiger wrote: >From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> > >>Include me out. I'm hating Democrats again, and it feels so good. >> >> Doug > >Alex Cockburn: "I love it when lefties try to think like infants." Did you happen to see Biden on tv the other night, going on about how he wants the president to "succeed" in Iraq? What crap. Doug

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Date:	Thu Jun 30 06:40:52 PDT 2005

18264 foxy! Re: [lbo-talk] noonan on obama -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >He sure is foxy, and he's been given the run of the chicken coop it >seems from the gushing on this list. Include me out. I'm hating Democrats again, and it feels so good. Doug

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Date:	Wed Jun 29 18:41:46 PDT 2005

18265 [lbo-talk] US "intelligence" -- rank: 1000

Paul wrote: >Don't you agree this *seems* to go beyond "bungling"? Both things could be true - the Berlusconi could have given them the nod, and they still could have fucked up, leaving a big trail for the magistrate to follow. There's not much exculpatory about this kind of fuck-up, so I don't see a motive for the "intelligence community" to jerk around Reuters. Doug

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Date:	Wed Jun 29 16:37:38 PDT 2005

18266 [lbo-talk] Zaps: A letter of explanation...or, perhaps, farewell -- rank: 1000

Steven Gotzler wrote: > more than 98% approved the new step Is this credible? How can you get >98% of people to agree on much of anything, much less a "new step"? Doug

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Date:	Wed Jun 29 15:44:11 PDT 2005

18267 [lbo-talk] US "intelligence" -- rank: 1000

Paul wrote: >This article really does miss the point. The Italian press has >pointed out that the flagrant "openness" in their actions implies >that the US had some level of acquiescence from the Italian >authorities How do you know the Italian press is right? It could be, but who knows? Doug

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Date:	Wed Jun 29 15:23:44 PDT 2005

18268 [lbo-talk] Re afghan :boogieman? -- rank: 1000

frank scott wrote: >>"...Give me one instance of a terrorist attack being >>planned in Afghanistan in the last four years..." >> > >is there evidence of one being planned there in the previous four years? So 9/11 was planned in Langley?

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Date:	Wed Jun 29 14:56:34 PDT 2005

18269 [lbo-talk] US "intelligence" -- rank: 1000

CIA abduction in Italy shows U.S. bungling-experts WASHINGTON (Reuters) - CIA agents charged with kidnapping a Muslim cleric in Milan appear to have bungled their way into an international incident by ignoring the most basic rules of the spy trade, experts say. Far from the suave discretion of James Bond, experts say the operatives who snatched radical Muslim cleric Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr on Feb. 17, 2003, sound more like the bumbling secret agent Austin Powers of movie fame. "Instead of ...

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Date:	Wed Jun 29 14:41:07 PDT 2005

18270 [lbo-talk] Zaps: A letter of explanation...or, perhaps, farewell -- rank: 1000

<http://irlandesa.blogspot.com/> EZLN: A letter of explanation...or, perhaps, farewell Originally published in Spanish by the EZLN ******************************** Translated by irlandesa Zapatista Army of National Liberation Mexico. June 21, 2005. To National and International Civil Society: Seņora, seņorita, seņor, young person, boy, girl: This is not a letter of farewell. At times it is going to seem as if it is, that it is a farewell, but it is not. It is a letter of explanation. Well, ...

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Date:	Wed Jun 29 14:28:53 PDT 2005