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22306 [lbo-talk] good job Doug! -- rank: 1000

John Lacny wrote: >I don't have cable, but watch 19th Century Fox every chance I get >(usually in hotels). I would probably pay money to see Doug go on >O'Reilly and take bets on how long it would take O'Reilly to bring >up the time Doug referred to the Soviet Union as "a good try." To quote another Yalie, Bring It On! Doug

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Date:	Tue Jun 15 15:12:27 PDT 2004

22307 [lbo-talk] Venezuela recall -- rank: 1000

Just spoke with some Venezuelans who were visiting my office neighbors, NACLA. They say that the country, in preparation for the Chavez recall, just bought some electronic voting machines from...Florida! Doug

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Date:	Tue Jun 15 14:58:42 PDT 2004

22308 [lbo-talk] good job Doug! -- rank: 1000

Curtiss Leung wrote: >Is there video/transcript available anywhere? Hardly worth it. The segment was about two minutes. Barely time to speak. Was almost going to be on the Lehrer Newshour this evening, also about Greenspan, but they chose Jeff Faux instead. Damn. Doug

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Date:	Tue Jun 15 14:49:55 PDT 2004

22309 [lbo-talk] good job Doug! -- rank: 1000

snit snat wrote: >Oh, and nice suit from what I saw of it. Thanks. Got it for $140 at a now-defunct discount place on the Upper West Side. Wore my *French* shirt and tie (Agnes B) for the Foxies! Doug

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Date:	Tue Jun 15 14:43:35 PDT 2004

22310 [lbo-talk] Cheney like a young Jewish girl trying to hide from the Nazis -- rank: 1000

WHITE HOUSE ANGER AFTER TIME MAGAZINE DETAILS LOCATION OF CHENEY'S 'SECRET BUNKER' Tue Jun 15 2004 11:11:34 ET Top White House officials expressed anger after TIME magazine detailed the location of Vice President Dick Cheney's secret bunker, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned. In new editions, TIME revealed "Site R," an underground bunker on the Maryland-Pennsylvania border where the Vice President spent much of his time in 2001. TIME wrote: "Deep under Raven Rock Mountain, Site R is a ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 15 14:37:52 PDT 2004

22311 [lbo-talk] Moore had advance info on Abu Ghraib -- rank: 1000

Newsday - June 15, 2004 Moore Stayed Quiet About Prisoner Footage By Associated Press June 15, 2004, 8:03 AM EDT SAN FRANCISCO -- Filmmaker Michael Moore had footage of prisoner abuse in Iraq long before the atrocities captured international attention, but decided to stay quiet until his new movie came out. Now he's questioning that decision. "I had it months before the story broke on '60 Minutes,' and I really struggled with what to do with it," Moore told the San Francisco Chronicle. ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 15 10:06:54 PDT 2004

22312 [lbo-talk] me on Fox -- rank: 1000

snit snat wrote: >At 11:03 AM 6/15/2004, Doug Henwood wrote: >>I'm going to be on the Neil Cavuto show on Fox News this afternoon >>dis'ing Greenspan. >> >>Doug > > >what time is the fat head usually on? 4 EST or something. I just heard - my segment is on at 4:02 eastern U.S. time. Doug

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Date:	Tue Jun 15 09:43:03 PDT 2004

22313 [lbo-talk] Moore results -- rank: 1000

So Michael Moore's pretty popular here after all. Final results (number of votes in parens): approve strongly 57% (52) approve mildly 29% (27) neutral 8% ( 7) disapprove mildly 4% ( 4) disapprove strongly 2% ( 2) total votes 92 An 86% total approval rating is pretty darn good. Final screen snapshot at <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/MoorePoll.html>. Doug

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Date:	Tue Jun 15 09:37:56 PDT 2004

22314 [lbo-talk] me on Fox -- rank: 1000

I'm going to be on the Neil Cavuto show on Fox News this afternoon dis'ing Greenspan. Doug

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Date:	Tue Jun 15 08:03:48 PDT 2004

22315 [lbo-talk] supreme court gossip -- rank: 1000

'Underneath Their Robes': Federal Judiciary Smut # Some days we start work and think, "The internet? That's for shut-in halfwits, chunkily chugging their non-diet sodas, manipulating their dirty parts to slash fiction of Ray Romano and The Bachelor." Then, rarely, something beautiful happens. For all the lawyers in the hizzouse -- and I know there's a shockingly large number of you -- we direct you immediately to Underneath Their Robes, a new weblog devoted entirely to gossip about the ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 15 07:58:46 PDT 2004

22316 [lbo-talk] public opposed to putting Ronnie on money -- rank: 1000

ABC NEWS POLL: REAGAN CURRENCY - 6/13/04 EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE AFTER 6 a.m. Tuesday, June 15, 2004 Reaganomics Revisited: Change the Currency? Ronald Reagan may be missed, but the idea of honoring him on currently occupied currency doesn't add up for most Americans. By 54 to 36 percent, most people oppose replacing Alexander Hamilton's portrait on the $10 bill with Reagan's. And 59 percent oppose another proposal, ousting Franklin D. Roosevelt from the dime to make way for Reagan. The sawbuck sw ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 15 07:12:08 PDT 2004

22317 [lbo-talk] Moore poll -- rank: 1000

A reminder - if you haven't voted in the lbo-talk Michael Moore poll, voting closes in a bit under two hours (noon NYC time). Current results: What's your opinion of Michael Moore? approve strongly 54% 44 approve mildly 32% 26 neutral 7% 6 disapprove mildly 5% 4 disapprove strongly 2% 2 82 votes total VOTE AT: <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/MoorePoll.html> Doug

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Date:	Tue Jun 15 07:06:27 PDT 2004

22318 [lbo-talk] W = the antichrist? -- rank: 1000

I have to dig out Revelations (or Apocalpyse, as the Catholics say) later but I thought the Antichrist was supposed to be seductive, not some Satanic-seeming figure. Anyone here up on the Antichrist? Doug

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Date:	Mon Jun 14 17:01:51 PDT 2004

22319 [lbo-talk] religious right: stronger than ever? -- rank: 1000

<http://www.sojo.net/index.cfm?action=magazine.article&mode=printer_friendly&issue=soj0407&article=040720> Sojourners Magazine - July 2004 The Right Stuff Many people think the Religious Right has faded into obscurity and political powerlessness. In fact, it just might be stronger than ever. by David Batstone and Mark Wexler In the mid-1990s, following Bill Clinton's second electoral ride to the White House, the vibrancy of Religious Right organizations appeared to be on the wa ...

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Date:	Mon Jun 14 16:28:02 PDT 2004

22320 [lbo-talk] backward glance -- rank: 1000

[a memento of the Reagan era, courtesy Sam Smith's Progressive Review] THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary PRESS BRIEFING BY LARRY SPEAKES October 15, 1982 The Briefing Room 12:45pm EDT Q: Larry, does the President have any reaction to the announcement - the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, that AIDS is now an epidemic and have over 600 cases? MR. SPEAKES: What's AIDS? Q: Over a third of them have died. It's known as "gay plague." (Laughter.) No, it is. I mean it's a p ...

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Date:	Mon Jun 14 14:28:26 PDT 2004