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19576 [lbo-talk] Toys for Dems Drive -- rank: 1000

Michael Hoover wrote: > >>> dhenwood at panix.com 12/08/05 11:05 AM >>> >Michael Hoover wrote: >><http://www.agi-usa.org/pubs/teen_stats.html> >>pregnancies per 1,000 women aged 15-19 >>1972 95.1 >>1990 116.9 >>2000 83.6 >><<<<<>>>>> >> >>and i'm sure that some social scientists found above to be >>statistically significant... > >That's a 23% increase ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 8 10:50:36 PST 2005

19577 [lbo-talk] what Mike Wallace would ask W -- rank: 1000

<http://www.boston.com/ae/media/articles/2005/12/08/at_87_wallace_still_tells_it_like_it_is/> Boston Globe - December 8, 2005 At 87, Wallace still tells it like it is By Suzanne C. Ryan, Globe Staff Mike Wallace and his hard-hitting brand of journalism have been synonymous with ''60 Minutes" since CBS introduced the program in 1968. Now 87 years old, Wallace, who has interviewed everyone from Malcolm X to Johnny Carson, has written his second memoir. Wallace was in Brookline, his home ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 8 10:39:19 PST 2005

19578 [lbo-talk] Ann Coulter shut up -- rank: 1000

[fetching pic of Coulter at orig: <http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/12/07/D8EBR6D00.html>] Hecklers Cause Coulter to Cut UConn Speech By SHELLEY K. WONG Associated Press Writer Dec 07 11:14 PM US/Eastern STORRS, Conn. - Conservative columnist Ann Coulter gave up trying to finish a speech at the University of Connecticut on Wednesday night when boos and jeers from the audience became overwhelming. Coulter cut off the talk after 15 minutes and instead held a half-hour question-and-answer s ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 8 09:47:51 PST 2005

19579 [lbo-talk] Toys for Dems Drive -- rank: 1000

Michael Hoover wrote: ><http://www.agi-usa.org/pubs/teen_stats.html> >pregnancies per 1,000 women aged 15-19 >1972 95.1 >1990 116.9 >2000 83.6 ><<<<<>>>>> > >and i'm sure that some social scientists found above to be >statistically significant... That's a 23% increase followed by a 28% decline. I don't think that's small. The social significance is something else, though. Doug

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Date:	Thu Dec 8 08:05:21 PST 2005

19580 [lbo-talk] more Dem clarity on Iraq -- rank: 1000

<http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/TheNote/story?id=156238> While appearing on CNN's "American Morning," DNC Chairman Howard Dean was asked about his San Antonio radio comments and said his words were taken "a little out of context" and compared it to the way intelligence was "cherry picked" before the war began. "We can only win the war, which we have to win, if we change our strategy dramatically," Dean said. "The Democrats are coalescing around ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 8 08:02:27 PST 2005

19581 [lbo-talk] billboard -- rank: 1000

Text of a giant billboard on the side of a building at the corner of Varick & Grand in lower Manhattan: HOWARD STERN IS COMING... ...ALL OVER AMERICA 1/9/06 SIRIUS

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 8 07:48:25 PST 2005

19582 [lbo-talk] Brooks: right out of steam -- rank: 1000

New York Times - December 8, 2005 Running Out of Steam By DAVID BROOKS Conservatives are in power but out of sorts. Fifty years after the founding of the modern right, conservatives hold just about every important government job, yet the conservative agenda has stalled. Federal spending has surged. Social Security reform is dead. And when voters are asked which party they trust on key issues, they decisively reject conservative ideas. On the economy, Democrats are trusted more, 56 to 34. On educ ...

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Date:	Thu Dec 8 07:45:30 PST 2005

19583 [lbo-talk] O'Reilly targets Jon Stewart as enabler of secularist anti-Xmas agenda -- rank: 1000

There's something cheering about this. It's so weird and bilious that it almost seems like the eruption of someone who's feeling marginalized and desperate for attention. Fuck 'em. Doug B. wrote: >Check out this rhetoric: > >"I am not going to let oppressive, totalitarian, >anti-Christian forces in this country diminish and >denigrate the holiday and the celebration. I am not >going to let it happen. I'm gonna use all the power >that I have on radio and television to br ...

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Date:	Thu Dec 8 07:43:52 PST 2005

19584 [lbo-talk] Porn: By Men for Men -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Even under capitalism, I don't see any reason why pornographers >can't cater to more women. Plenty of that at <http://www.babeland.com/videos-and-dvds>. Doug

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Date:	Thu Dec 8 07:36:38 PST 2005

19585 [lbo-talk] volume -- rank: 1000

Posts so far today: Travis Fast 9 Bitch | Lab 5 Yoshie Furuhashi 5 boddi satva 4 The limit is three. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 8 07:27:36 PST 2005

19586 [lbo-talk] Pinter's Nobel speech -- rank: 1000

[Video at <http://nobelprize.org/literature/laureates/2005/pinter-lecture.html>.] <http://nobelprize.org/literature/laureates/2005/pinter-lecture-e.html> [...] The truth is something entirely different. The truth is to do with how the United States understands its role in the world and how it chooses to embody it. But before I come back to the present I would like to look at the recent past, by which I mean United States foreign policy since the end of the Second World War. I believe ...

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Date:	Thu Dec 8 07:13:13 PST 2005

19587 [lbo-talk] And Now For Something Completely Different -- rank: 1000

Thomas Seay wrote: >--- Ira Glazer <ira at yanua.com> wrote: > >> Happy Birthday Doug !!! >> >> And many happy returns. > >I wish I had thought to say that ;) What are these returns that people are always talking about? Doug

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Date:	Wed Dec 7 14:10:42 PST 2005

19588 [lbo-talk] Toys for Dems Drive -- rank: 1000

Michael Hoover wrote: >teen pregnancy rates haven't changed much for decades have >they <http://www.agi-usa.org/pubs/teen_stats.html> pregnancies per 1,000 women aged 15-19 1972 95.1 1990 116.9 2000 83.6

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 7 12:49:10 PST 2005

19589 [lbo-talk] Goldman on Greenspan & the US c/a deficit -- rank: 1000

boddi satva wrote: >Okay Doug, tell me how US military superiority makes the American >mortgage-backed securities market the biggest securities market in the >world. You can't consider a single market in isolation - the MBS market depends on the Treasury market, and the Treasury market depends rather significantly on the US government. The major packagers of mortgage securities are government-sponsored enterprises like Fannie Mae; they'd barely exist if it weren't for the USG guarantee. ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 7 12:44:59 PST 2005

19590 [lbo-talk] Harvey -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >Wasn't the crisis for the regime of the 1970's a crisis for a tiny rich >minority and the richest corps , and not for the working masses of the world >? Real wages for American workers peaked in 1973 and started falling. Inflation was no picnic for them. Poor countries were socked with huge oil import bills. And almost no one likes inflation - soft lefties who don't worry so much about inflation really underestimate what a potent political issue it can be. Doug

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Date:	Wed Dec 7 12:10:57 PST 2005