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20596 [lbo-talk] Venezuelan Sumate Exit Polls -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: ><URL: http://blogs.salon.com/0001330/2004/08/26.html > Gosh, rigorous proof that the results were different. Very helpful.

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Date:	Wed Sep 1 18:58:16 PDT 2004

20597 [lbo-talk] Communists for Kerry -- rank: 1000

[a "joke" - thanks to Michael Pug for pointing this out] <URL: http://www.communistsforkerry.com/ > Uncle Joe rocks, http://www.communistsforkerry.com/Tshirts/Stalin_TShirt_Medal.jpg

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Date:	Wed Sep 1 17:25:36 PDT 2004

20598 [lbo-talk] anti-fascist agitation -- rank: 1000

Dennis Redmond wrote: > > There is also no threat to the US globally in the foreseeable future, > >Sure there is. The US dollar could melt. Those towering US current/trade >deficits could implode. Its net international investment position could >turn toxic. Just let's seem them furrin pansies come try to collect on the debt. BOOM! Doug

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Date:	Wed Sep 1 16:33:33 PDT 2004

20599 [lbo-talk] on-line banking -- rank: 1000

Traffic on this list is very high, and I'm not sure that people's individual experiences with online banking are of broad interest. A query about it is fine, but answers should be offlist. Listmom

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Date:	Wed Sep 1 15:58:11 PDT 2004

20600 [lbo-talk] Bzzzt... Bzzzzt -- rank: 1000

Leigh Meyers wrote: Five posts so far today - the limit is three. Doug

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Date:	Wed Sep 1 15:48:10 PDT 2004

20601 [lbo-talk] Re: keynesian elitism -- rank: 1000

frank scott wrote: >"...How can I adopt a creed which, preferring the mud to the fish, >exalts the boorish proletariat above the bourgeois and the >intelligentsia who, with whatever faults, are the quality in life and >surely carry the seeds of all human advancement?..." > >no wonder so many progressives (formerly liberals, before rebranding) - >love this guy... Oh, there's more where that came from! "I do not mean that Russian Communism alters, or even seeks ...

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Date:	Wed Sep 1 12:19:24 PDT 2004

20602 [lbo-talk] David Brooks: sad, lonely, pathetic -- rank: 1000

<http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2004/08/31/the_dope_on_prolific_writers/> [Christopher] Buckley worries that, somewhere, someone is more prolific than he. He even knows who that someone is: David Brooks, New York Times columnist, book writer, magazine contributor, and PBS talking head. "He's in every issue of The Atlantic Monthly, then he's on the TV show, and he gives speeches on the side," says Buckley, sounding overmatched. "I'd like to know what he's on." R ...

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Date:	Wed Sep 1 11:43:49 PDT 2004

20603 [lbo-talk] Fwd: Arrested at Ground Zero -- rank: 1000

[As I was walking from the subway to the office this morning, I passed a photo shoot of a rather absurdly dressed model on the sidewalk. They'd claimed about half a block of sidewalk and a lane of the street, and were guarded by a couple of cops. I stopped to see what was going on, and one of the assistants who always guard the perimeters of these things told me I had to move along. I said, "Fuck you, it's a public sidewalk," and he replied, "But we have a permit." So it's ok ...

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Date:	Wed Sep 1 11:19:35 PDT 2004

20604 [lbo-talk] Re: meat for 9/11 conspiracists] -- rank: 1000

Shane Mage wrote: >When Diogenes told Alexander of Macedon "stop blocking my sun" >was he "playing along anyway?" I give up. Was he?

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Date:	Wed Sep 1 11:06:01 PDT 2004

20605 [lbo-talk] Goldman on income & poverty -- rank: 1000

DAILY FINANCIAL MARKET COMMENT 8/31/04 Goldman Sachs Economics * Last week, the Census Bureau released its annual report on income, poverty, and health insurance coverage in 2003. It found real median income stayed about the same while both the number and percentage of Americans living in poverty and without health insurance increased between 2002 and 2003. * While a major reason for the weak 2003 numbers was the slow economic recovery, especially in the labor market, these indicators of well-be ...

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Date:	Wed Sep 1 07:19:37 PDT 2004

20606 [lbo-talk] the Bush twins... -- rank: 1000

...were really rude! They said nothing positive about their dad's policies and made fun of grandma. <http://abcnews.go.com/sections/politics/TheNote/TheNote.html> >Republican National Convention: the twins: > >What did Barbara and Jenna Bush do after their (not terribly >well-received) convention debut? > >They displaced a group of hard-partying television producers at >Whiskey Bar on Sixth Avenue. > >The Secret Service came in and checked out the place and told ...

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Date:	Wed Sep 1 07:13:28 PDT 2004

20607 [lbo-talk] Moore: $20m for me! -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - September 1, 2004 MOORE'S MOMENT DOLLAR signs were flashing in Michael Moore's eyes as boos rained down on the portly provocateur during Sen. John McCain's address to the Republican National Convention. "I just made another $20 million," Moore told his seatmate, conservative radio commentator Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, who tells PAGE SIX: "I asked him, 'how do you feel about getting booed like this?' And he said, 'Well, first of all it's flattering. These pe ...

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Date:	Wed Sep 1 07:05:07 PDT 2004

20608 [lbo-talk] Re: meat for 9/11 conspiracists] -- rank: 1000

martin wrote: >Cynicism and skepticism preclude radicalism? Cynicism is the worst kind of conformity, as Max Horkheimer said - unlike the naif, the cynic knows things are rotten, but plays along anyway. Doug

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Date:	Wed Sep 1 06:40:28 PDT 2004

20609 [lbo-talk] Tariq Ali Endorses Kerry . . . for the Battleground States -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Changing only the occupants of the White House without changing the >most egregious policies of the present occupant -- the root cause of >much of anti-incumbent (aka ABB) sentiments -- is largely symbolic. >What's purely symbolic is leftists such as yourself and Thomas >voting for John Kerry in such one-party states as New York and >California, when your votes do NOT even contribute to "evicting the >present occupant of the White House" AT ...

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Date:	Sun Oct 31 21:04:02 PST 2004

20610 [lbo-talk] Re: David McReynolds on US election -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >Glad to be of service, Yoshie. Unless Chuck "Rather Hawkish" >Schumer gets a brain transplant by Tuesday you can be assured that I >will be voting for McReynolds. Me too - that's at least 2 votes for DMcR! Doug

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Date:	Sun Oct 31 19:17:41 PST 2004