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18571 [lbo-talk] gratuitous anti-Bush jokes -- rank: 1000

<http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2005/7/21alexander.html> ALTHOUGH I LIKE A GOOD GEORGE W. BUSH JOKE AS MUCH AS THE NEXT GUY, SOME OF THEM SEEM GRATUITOUS AND MEAN-SPIRITED. BY MATT ALEXANDER - - - - Q: How many telemarketers does it take to screw in a light bulb? A: Wouldn't a more relevant question be "How many pounds of cocaine has Bush snorted?" - - - - A doctor, a lawyer, and an accountant all die and go to heaven on the same day. When they get to the Pearly Gates, they are greete ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 28 12:29:12 PDT 2005

18572 [lbo-talk] Republicans see opportunity in split -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >To be fair to the Dem side, the chaos Justin described was not due >to uncoordinated GOTV machine -- it was chaos generated by the >Republican's voter suppression tactics strafing us. Well, not exactly. The whole Dem operation in Columbus sounded like what the Italians call a "casino" - an absolutely disorganized madhouse. Doug ---- Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2004 10:27:29 -0800 (PST) From: andie nachgeborenen <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com> To: lbo-talk ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jul 28 12:18:57 PDT 2005

18573 [lbo-talk] Republicans see opportunity in split -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >The present (especially as caught up in a snapshot of opinion) offers a >very uncertain prophecy of the future. That's wrong, most of the time. Most of the time, the future isn't all that unlike the present and recent past. Sometimes there are real breaks, but those are rare. It's like Keynes's distinction between risk, which is statistically quantifable within predictable parameters, and uncertainty, which isn't. Risk is a lot more prevalent than radical uncertainty. Do ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jul 28 10:09:41 PDT 2005

18574 [lbo-talk] AlQ training manual -- rank: 1000

Doug Henwood wrote: >Man, I wonder who the first respondent who'd lecture me on >imperialism would be. I didn't expect it to be you, Carl. > >Two points about the quoted bit: 1) the word "almost," and 2) it was >a fucking joke. I could go on about how imperialism helped create >AlQ, but I'm not in that kind of mood right now. Which isn't to say I think AQ - broadly defined - doesn't suck. It's awful. It's not anti-imperialistic in any admirable or useful way. It's lik ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jul 28 09:09:19 PDT 2005

18575 [lbo-talk] Bob Novak on The Split: Dems will feel the pinch -- rank: 1000

Chicago Sun-Times - July 28, 2005 Unions derailing Dems' gravy train BY ROBERT NOVAK SUN-TIMES COLUMNIST The bolt in Chicago from the AFL-CIO by the Teamsters and Service Employees International Union reflects a long-building reaction to John Sweeney's plans a decade ago when he muscled his way into the labor federation presidency. He wanted to restore union power through politics. His project was a total failure, and the AFL-CIO is in ruins 50 years after its creation. The scenario of the break ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jul 28 09:04:24 PDT 2005

18576 [lbo-talk] Juan Gonzalez on The Split -- rank: 1000

New York Daily News - July 28, 2005 Union divorce ain't pretty Juan Gonzalez Two big unions that broke away this week from the AFL-CIO are moving quickly to launch a new national labor federation by September. "We're looking at Ohio or another Midwest battleground state for the founding convention," a top source in the breakaway group told me yesterday. The regular convention of the AFL-CIO was set to draw to a close today after yesterday's reelection of John Sweeney to his fourth term ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jul 28 09:01:33 PDT 2005

18577 [lbo-talk] tomorrow's CW today: Bush kicking ass -- rank: 1000

<http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/TheNote/story?id=156238> NEWS SUMMARY If the Bush White House weren't so completely distracted by the Wilson leak investigation, perhaps the President would be able to actually get something done - besides sign CAFTA, the highway bill, and the energy bill into law; read all the improving economic figures; celebrate his still-bullet-proof Supreme Court nomination; and continue along semi-stealthily on 2006 fundraising and candidate recruitment. And if the Dem ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jul 28 08:56:30 PDT 2005

18578 [lbo-talk] Republicans see opportunity in split -- rank: 1000

Michael Hoover wrote: >fwiw: some mainstream poli sci people claim there is little >difference in political attitudes of voters and non-voters, thus, >they assert that markedly higher turnout would produce few >differences in already existing outcomes... Yup. I presented some evidence of that a while back and was roundly denounced by Nathan & Co. Apropos turnout benefiting the Dems: the standard wisdom I was citing was that of pundits, not political scientists. Doug

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Date:	Thu Jul 28 08:52:36 PDT 2005

18579 [lbo-talk] housing bubble -- rank: 1000

[html coding and a lot of high-ascii characters made this twice as big and significantly less readable than it had to be - I'm going to start trashing stuff that bounces because coding pushes it over the length limit - this is 9k plain text, and 22k coded] From: Sunil/Dissident Voice <dissent at sbcglobal.net> Subject: Doomsday: The Final Months of the Housing Bubble To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Doomsday: The Final Months of the "Housing Bubble" by Mike Whitney www.dissidentvoice ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jul 28 08:48:58 PDT 2005

18580 [lbo-talk] AlQ training manual -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >>From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> >> >>... If this is the anti-imperialism of our >>time, well, it's almost enough to make >>imperialism look good. > >Shaky logic, Doug – like saying: That’s an >awful effect; it’s enough to make you prefer the >cause. Man, I wonder who the first respondent who'd lecture me on imperialism would be. I didn't expect it to be you, Carl. Two points about the quoted bit: 1) the word "a ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 28 08:36:15 PDT 2005

18581 [lbo-talk] Republicans see opportunity in split -- rank: 1000

John Lacny wrote: >Michael Pollak (commenting on ACT's recent strategies): > >> That sounds like a huge improvement -- parachuted in out- >> of-staters seemed to be at a big disadvantage compared to >> Republican locals > >Please remember that the twin notions of (1) a surge in the evangelical >yahoo vote and (2) a well-run Republican turnout machine based on personal >contact are largely mythical. The election was lost for the background >reason that wa ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jul 28 06:33:51 PDT 2005

18582 [lbo-talk] AlQ training manual -- rank: 1000

Jordan Hayes wrote: >http://www.usdoj.gov/ag/trainingmanual.htm If this is real - you can never be sure with the DoJ, can you? - it's interesting how they link socialism with godlessness, and assert that an Islamic society can never be established democratically, but only with bullets and bombs. If this is the anti-imperialism of our time, well, it's almost enough to make imperialism look good. Doug

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Date:	Thu Jul 28 06:23:56 PDT 2005

18583 [lbo-talk] Teixeira: Bush's collapsing pillars -- rank: 1000

Public Opinion Watch - July 27, 2005 In this edition of Public Opinion Watch: Main Political Supports of Bush Presidency Seriously Weakened Bush may very well get his Supreme Court nominee through without much trouble. But that's likely to help him only marginally, because the Pew Research Center has just released two new reports on their latest poll,<http://en.groundspring.org/EmailNow/pub.php?module=URLTracker&cmd=track&j=37515884&u=342186>"Republicans Uncertain on Rove ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jul 27 15:06:17 PDT 2005

18584 [lbo-talk] Shot dead in London -- rank: 1000

Joseph Wanzala wrote: >ok, then what about the fact that they first allowed him to board a >bus and then only set upon him when he was about to board a train - >assuming that the concern about trains and buses as terrorist >targets is equal, how would explain this anomaly - why did they not >stop him from boarding the bus? Orders from the Mossad? Doug

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Date:	Wed Jul 27 12:12:07 PDT 2005

18585 [lbo-talk] Republicans see opportunity in split -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >I thought one of the big lessons of the last campaigns -- and of >that article you posted earlier on GOP geeks kicking ass -- was that >the Repugs derived a big advantage from centralizing all GOTV >operations in the party apparatus, and that the Dems' lets a >thousand GOTV operations bloom idea pure and simply got beat. Yup. I was impressed on re-reading Ferguson & Rogers Right Turn (orig from 1986) a month or two ago by how many of the themes of 2004 w ...

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Date:	Wed Jul 27 12:04:02 PDT 2005