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20401 [lbo-talk] Kitty on Bush -- rank: 1000

[via Sam Smith's Progressiv Review <http://prorev.com>] CHOICE BITS FROM KITTY KELLEY'S BOOK http://slate.com/id/2106773/ Page 252: George H.W. Bush comes to the rescue when his sons run afoul of Andover honor codes. Jeb violates the school's alcohol ban, but he's allowed to finish his degree after his father intervenes. Years later, Kelley writes, school officials catch W.'s younger brother Marvin with drugs, but dad talks them out of expulsion and secures for his son an "honorary tr ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 16 15:54:37 PDT 2004

20402 [lbo-talk] Re: Powerless religious right? -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >Ditch your assumptions and open your eyes. The evidence is all >around you. You probably even have some stuff in your files. > >Sometimes you get so involved in an issue that you can't step back >and see the bigger picture. The big picture is that the religious >right is dying out and has been on the wane since the mid 1990s. Chuck, I'm afraid you're the one who isn't offering any evidence. You keep asserting this, but with no backup. When presented with evidence ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 16 15:40:45 PDT 2004

20403 [lbo-talk] campaigning in a bubble -- rank: 1000

R wrote: >has our moratorium on campaign discussion become flexible? It's hard to be rigid in enforcing it. What I don't want to see is the same old "Dems suck/no, Nader sucks" stuff. That's static and unproductive. If there's actual news, that's ok. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 16 15:39:43 PDT 2004

20404 [lbo-talk] Pew: Bush lead gone, pres race "dead even" -- rank: 1000

Kerry Support Rebounds, Race Again Even Strong Interest in Debates Voter opinion in the presidential race has seesawed dramatically in the first two weeks of September. Following a successful nominating convention, George W. Bush broke open a deadlocked contest and jumped out to a big lead over John Kerry. However, polling this past week finds that Bush's edge over his Democratic rival has eroded. Reflecting this new volatility in the race, the size of the swing vote has increased slightly since ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 16 13:23:44 PDT 2004

20405 [lbo-talk] tactics -- rank: 1000

Hey, Mitch - could you check with Naomi & Jeremy to see if the CIA is behind this stuff too? From an AFP story: >Two French journalists kidnapped nearly a month ago were still being >held by a Sunni Arab militant group despite relentless efforts by >Paris to secure their release. > >More than 100 foreigners are thought to have been abducted in Iraq >since April and more than 20 murdered, in a new insurgent tactic >alongside their longstanding diet of mortar and rocket-pr ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 16 10:53:30 PDT 2004

20406 [lbo-talk] from smut to salami -- rank: 1000

Dennis Perrin wrote: >Does Goldstein still do "Midnight Blue" on Manhattan Cable? That was one of >my fave shows -- marvelously low-budget, crude, funny, crass. And in the >center of it all sat Goldstein, usually very overweight, wheezing from his >daily cigar habit, ranting about whatever pissed him off, no matter how >trivial it was. Alas, no. When Ruth Messinger was borough pres of Manhattan, she cracked down on cable access pron. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 16 10:44:36 PDT 2004

20407 [lbo-talk] Re: Powerless Religious Right? -- rank: 1000

Bradley Mayer wrote: >C'mon Doug, you are AGAINST Nader because in truth you are FOR the >Democrats, like the rest of the Left. Unlike the rest of the left, >you're just less than honest about it. I know you don't really listen to anyone but yourself, but here's what I actually think. Click on URL for a nice pic of Stassen. Doug ---- <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Election2004.html> Ralph 'n' stuff Twice before, in 1996 and again in 2000, this mighty page endorsed Ralph Nad ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 16 10:37:41 PDT 2004

20408 [lbo-talk] UPDATE on Hostages in Iraq -- rank: 1000

mitchelcohen at mindspring.com wrote: >Below, I reprint an investigatory article from today's British >"Guardian" newspaper by Naomi Klein and Jeremy Scahill which >buttresses the claim I made That's not an "investigation" - it's a series of propositions and leading questions. This possibility: >a revival of Saddam's mukhabarat disappearances is entirely consistent with a bunch of old Ba'athists doing the deed, not the CIA. And this: >What we do know is this: i ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 16 10:13:28 PDT 2004

20409 [lbo-talk] campaigning in a bubble -- rank: 1000

[our leaders live in bubbles!] Bush hasn't taken a question from campaign journos in weeks <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24541-2004Sep15.html> Washington Post John Kerry isn't any better. He hasn't held a formal news conference or even answered questions from smaller groups of reporters -- an "avail" in campaign-speak -- in more than a month, writes Paul Farhi. "The two vice presidential candidates are not much different from their bosses," he reports.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 16 10:00:59 PDT 2004

20410 [lbo-talk] policymaking by thesaurus -- rank: 1000

WSJ.com - September 16, 2004 Fed Study Calls Strategy Based on Promise a Success Economy Benefited From Pledge to Keep Rates Low for 'Considerable Period' By JOSEPH REBELLO WASHINGTON -- The unusual strategy adopted by the Federal Reserve in the summer of 2003 for stoking the U.S. economy without cutting interest rates was a clear success, researchers at the U.S. central bank have concluded in a new study. The study, led by Fed Governor Ben Bernanke, says the central bank managed to exert powerf ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 16 09:52:07 PDT 2004

20411 [lbo-talk] from smut to salami -- rank: 1000

At 10:18 AM -0400 9/16/04, <newsfeed at mediabistro.com> wrote: >TRADING SMUT FOR SALAMI >Al Goldstein, the once portly clown prince of porn who made a mint >publishing outrageous raunch in Screw magazine, is now a host at the >2nd Avenue Deli in Manhattan. >http://www.thevillager.com/villager_72/expornkingtradessex.html

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 16 09:40:19 PDT 2004

20412 [lbo-talk] GOTV -- rank: 1000

[I thought the Dems had the advantage in the get out the vote operation, but here's a bit from a new ABC News poll in Pennsylvania] About one in five registered voters in Pennsylvania, 21 percent, say they've been contacted by a representative of the Bush campaign asking for their support. That compares with 14 percent who've been contacted by the Kerry campaign. The difference is a small but real one - and in a tight race, this kind of retailing can be crucial to turnout.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 15 14:27:19 PDT 2004

20413 [lbo-talk] Million Worker March? -- rank: 1000

Huh? Max B. Sawicky wrote: >Right arm. > > >-----Original Message----- >From: lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org [mailto:lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org] >On Behalf Of Yoshie Furuhashi >Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2004 2:33 PM >To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org; furuhashi.1 at osu.edu >Subject: [lbo-talk] Million Worker March? > >Anyone going to the Million Worker March ><http://www.millionworkermarch.org/>? It's the last big mobilization before >the el ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 15 14:22:28 PDT 2004

20414 [lbo-talk] Zizek Watch -- rank: 1000

The full run of Scott McLemee's Zizek Watch, which originally appeared in the Chronicle of Higher Ed, is at <http://www.mclemee.com/id117.html>. Enjoy!

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 15 10:36:35 PDT 2004

20415 [lbo-talk] cell phones & polling -- rank: 1000

An AAPORite reports that 7% of the U.S. pop has only cell phones, which are unreachable by pollsters (unsolicited calls to a cell phone are illegal, since they can cost money). They're disproportionally young. So this may introduce a systematic error to polls - and it's thought that this is also a Dem-leaning population. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 15 10:33:18 PDT 2004