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19261 [lbo-talk] Re: Bush polling badly on SS -- rank: 1000

Doug Henwood wrote: >[Gallup's 57% approval rating is 12 points higher than the AP/Ipsos >poll. Wonder if their GOP bias is showing again?] Check that - that was an early-Feb Gallup reading; the latest, with interviews completed on Feb 10, has Bush's approve/disapprove at 49/48, down 8 points in about a week. Evidently the SOTU/Iraq election bounce didn't last very long. Doug

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Date:	Tue Feb 15 12:44:27 PST 2005

19262 [lbo-talk] Bush polling badly on SS -- rank: 1000

[Gallup's 57% approval rating is 12 points higher than the AP/Ipsos poll. Wonder if their GOP bias is showing again?] February 15, 2005 Bush's Social Security Ratings in the Red by Lydia Saad, Senior Gallup Poll Editor If you were President George W. Bush, the one piece of poll data on Social Security you might be paying the closest attention to right now is basic public approval of your handling of the issue. Just as overall job approval is an important summary indicator of public support for a ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 15 12:22:32 PST 2005

19263 [lbo-talk] Horowitz rants -- rank: 1000

[yes, the fascist vermin are truly undoing themselves! too bad Horowitz doesn't know how to spell "site"] Subject: America's Enemies Lie Within Date: 15 Feb 2005 17:32:57 -0000 From: David Horowitz <info at frontpagemag.com> - From the Desk of David Horowitz - "I want the state gone: transform the situation to U.S. out of North America. U.S. off the planet. Out of existence altogether." -- Colorado University professor Ward Churchill, author of "On the Justice of R ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 15 12:16:21 PST 2005

19264 [lbo-talk] another $87b for war -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - February 15, 2005 President Requests More War Funding Money for Iraqi Forces Rises Sharply By Jonathan Weisman Washington Post Staff Writer President Bush asked Congress yesterday for $82 billion in emergency spending for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and for the Indian Ocean tsunami, making good on a pledge to dramatically scale up efforts to train and equip Iraqi security forces ahead of an eventual U.S. withdrawal. The package includes $74.9 billion for U.S. military forc ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 15 11:55:12 PST 2005

19265 [lbo-talk] Dean = Lynne Stewart -- rank: 1000

<http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/TheNote/story?id=156238> It is true that GOP state parties have access to a suspiciously large amount of opposition research against Dean; over the weekend, we received e-mails from the Republican Party of Iowa and the North Carolina Republican Party featuring a list of allegedly controversial statements Dean has made. The North Carolina e-mail starts with Dean's feigned wish to be the first gay president and the "fact" that Dean is an infrequent c ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 15 11:51:25 PST 2005

19266 [lbo-talk] Churchill's complaint -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >Doug, but you (and Max) are missing his main point, that we tend to apply >double standards: it is "collateral damage" when brown skinned people are >killed by our bombs on the other hemisphere, but is personal and >raw-nerve-touching when our neighbors are killed by brown skinned people >from the other hemisphere. > >If you apply truly universal standards, as most claim to do, you should >apply the same standards in both situations. M ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 15 11:41:37 PST 2005

19267 [lbo-talk] Churchill's Complaint -- rank: 1000

arash at riseup.net wrote: >In the first few days following 9-11, weren't there a number of reprisals >against Sikhs in NYC? From the accounts I recall, some people in the city >quite vividly exercised their revenge against anything taliban-looking. >Kind of xenophobic, don't you think? Other than for taking a cheapshot at >the heartland, I don't see any important insight coming from dumping the >burden of misguided vengenace on rural America alone. Kind of suprised >Doug ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 15 10:26:01 PST 2005

19268 [lbo-talk] Bush to POWs: tortured? tough! -- rank: 1000

Los Angeles Times - February 15, 2005 White House Turns Tables on Former American POWs Gulf War pilots tortured by Iraqis fight the Bush administration in trying to collect compensation. By David G. Savage Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON - The latest chapter in the legal history of torture is being written by American pilots who were beaten and abused by Iraqis during the 1991 Persian Gulf War. And it has taken a strange twist. The Bush administration is fighting the former prisoners of war in cou ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 15 09:42:53 PST 2005

19269 [lbo-talk] Churchill's complaint -- rank: 1000

Max B. Sawicky wrote: >In politics, it not only what you mean, it's >what you say, and even what you almost say. >By Churchill's classification, if some members >of this list happened to work in the WTC, they >would fall into the category of "little Eichmanns." >In the Spring before 9-11, I did a talk in the >WTC in front of a class taught by the very Marxist >Tom Dickins. We could have been LEs too. Yup. I talked to Tom's class several times in the WTC. My mot ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 15 07:33:04 PST 2005

19270 [lbo-talk] love those cars! -- rank: 1000

ABC NEWS/TIME MAGAZINE/WASHINGTON POST POLL: TRAFFIC - 1/31/05 EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE AFTER 7 a.m. Sunday, Feb. 13, 2005 A Look Under the Hood of a Nation on Wheels Freeways get clogged, minutes tick by and tempers sometimes flare, but there's another side to the daily commute for millions of Americans: Most of them actually like it. So it goes (and stops-and-goes) in the nation's love-hate relationship with the daily task of getting around. In a country where 220 million adults average an hou ...

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Date:	Sun Feb 13 12:17:05 PST 2005

19271 [lbo-talk] Alan "What Me Worry?" G on home equity withdrawal -- rank: 1000

Jordan Hayes wrote: > > The savings rate doesn't include which accounts? > >I said in that message: > >>> (i.e., IRAs, 401(k)s, etc.) > >You follow with: > >> Employer contribs to retirement funds are "other labor income" >> and are included as personal income. > >I didn't say "employer contribs" -- I said IRAs, 401(k)s, etc. 401k's don't include employer contribs? > > The point of looking at the low savings rate i ...

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Date:	Sat Feb 12 07:41:33 PST 2005

19272 [lbo-talk] Fwd: Okrent Charges Extra! With "Distortion" -- rank: 1000

FAIR-L Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting Media analysis, critiques and activism http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2059 MEDIA ADVISORY: Okrent Charges Extra! With "Distortion" February 11, 2005 Daniel Okrent, public editor of the New York Times, today sent a letter to Extra! editor Jim Naureckas in response to Extra!'s story, "The Emperor's New Hump: The New York Times Killed a Story That Could Have Changed the Election-- Because It Could Have Changed the Election," by Dav ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 11 13:23:21 PST 2005

19273 [lbo-talk] Coulter: kill journalists! -- rank: 1000

<http://mediamatters.org/items/200502100010> From the February 7 edition of CNBC's Kudlow & Cramer: LAWRENCE KUDLOW (host): We got a couple of seconds before the break when you guys are all going to come back, but, Ann, I just want to give you first whack at this. Eason Jordan, top news executive at CNN -- I mean, to me, this is absolutely incredible -- this guy says at a big conference in Davos that the U.S. military is deliberately targeting and assassinating American journalists. Hu ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 11 12:05:15 PST 2005

19274 [lbo-talk] Why are corporate profits increasing? -- rank: 1000

Mike Ballard wrote: >Is it just that the rate of exploitation is increasing >or is it more to do with monopoly or what? Any ideas? > >I'm tempted to say the reason has to do with the lack >of class conscious organization amongst the workers of >the world. I'd agree, with U.S. workers in the lead for both exploitation and lack of consciousness and organization. Between 2000 and 2004, productivity was up 3.9% a year, hourly compensation up 1.5% a year, and direct pay up just 0.6% ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 11 11:47:20 PST 2005

19275 [lbo-talk] Lynn Stewart convicted of aiding terrorists -- rank: 1000

andie nachgeborenen wrote: >This is blaming the victim, Nathan, and piling on >irrelevant distractions. It really sounds like you're >saying, she asked for it and we should flush her and >forget her as an embarassment. Or denounce her for >her actions. And you forgot to mention her apologetics >for Stalinism. Stewart said some stuff I don't agree with, and she may have acted badly with her client, but I just don't care about any of that right now. The point is the federal gove ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 11 09:33:23 PST 2005