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22411 [lbo-talk] D-Day -- rank: 1000

John Lacny wrote: >Of course, Reagan's whitewashing of fascism was no one-time faux pas. POS started his 1980 campaign in Philadelphia, Miss., no? Doug

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Date:	Mon Jun 7 16:19:02 PDT 2004

22412 [lbo-talk] Bush losing some of his base? -- rank: 1000

http://www.tnr.com/blog/campaignjournal?pid=1709 Campaign Journal 05.28.04 BUSH'S DETERIORATING BASE?: Pollster Stanley Greenberg has released an update http://www.greenbergresearch.com/publications/reports/r_still2americas052704.pdf of the data presented in his excellent book The Two Americas. One of his main findings from interviewing 8,000 likely voters between January and April 2004 is that Bush is suffering a small but very significant erosion among his most loyal supporters. As the blogger ...

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Date:	Mon Jun 7 16:06:38 PDT 2004

22413 [lbo-talk] sucker punch -- rank: 1000

Chip Berlet wrote: >The articles by Bob Feldman about the vast liberal/CIA conspiracy are >ludicrous examples of the spiderweb approach to guilt by association. Feldman is an idiot. He briefly showed up on this list and was quickly shown the door. His claims about The Nation, an institution I know something about, were ludicrous. Anyone who cites his work risks damaging his or her own reputation. Doug

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Date:	Mon Jun 7 16:05:12 PDT 2004

22414 [lbo-talk] Begin The Maggie Thatcher Death Watch Now! -- rank: 1000

Bradley Mayer wrote: >So why stop with the already dead. What about that batty old hag, Maggie >Thatcher? Whe is she going to gloriously croak? Thatcher's the one >who really got this reactionary Anglo-American counterrevolution >going in the first place. Well, she reportedly has Alzheimer's too. So her clock is ticking. Doug

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Date:	Mon Jun 7 15:58:55 PDT 2004

22415 [lbo-talk] jobs -- rank: 1000

R wrote: >while i'm as excited as everyone else about all these new jobs being >reported, i have some nagging questions. maybe i'm just naive, but >i wonder: > >how many are part time and temporary? Temp: about 1 in 10, since employment growth started accelerating in Feb. Historically, accelerations in temp employment have presaged accelerations in permanent employment by several months. Part time: the count of part-time jobs comes from the household survey, so the numbers aren' ...

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Date:	Mon Jun 7 15:47:40 PDT 2004

22416 [lbo-talk] lost in translation...not translating? -- rank: 1000

Jeffrey Fisher wrote: >i'm starting to think i'm one of two people in the world who liked >this movie. i actually thought murray's performance was outstanding >(reminded me of him in rushmore) and found coppola's direction >superb. indeed, all the commentary i heard on this movie went on and >on about its "politics" (it's anti-feminist, i guess) and none of >them liked it, and the people i listened to coming out of the >theater hated it, so maybe it *is* just me an ...

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Date:	Mon Jun 7 15:36:45 PDT 2004

22417 [lbo-talk] jobs -- rank: 1000

R wrote: >when you do your analysis, please report how many of these jobs are "defense >industry" and "defense" related, doug. Not many, really. More extensive analysis of the economic effects of W's military buildup in the next ish of LBO, though. Doug

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Date:	Mon Jun 7 15:02:06 PDT 2004

22418 [lbo-talk] further meltdown? -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >So how reliable is Thompson and Capitol Hill Blue? What's their >background? Someone on my Yale '75 listserv says he's been following the pub for years and finds it highly reliable. Doug

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Date:	Mon Jun 7 14:57:47 PDT 2004

22419 [lbo-talk] strap on the barf bag: DLC on RR -- rank: 1000

============================================= THE NEW DEM DAILY, June 07, 2004 Political commentary & analysis from the DLC ============================================= [ New Democrats Online: http://www.ndol.org ] Ronald Reagan, RIP Many great political leaders are remembered less for their specific accomplishments than for their involvement in key turning points in history. That is definitely true of America's 40th president, Ronald Reagan, who died this weekend after a long struggle with ...

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Date:	Mon Jun 7 10:27:47 PDT 2004

22420 [lbo-talk] Fw: Greg Palast: Bye-Bye Ronnie Reagan -- Killer, Coward, Conman -- rank: 1000

Lance Murdoch wrote: >If John Kerry is of and for the working people of the US, why will >so many blue collar workers be voting against him? I trust their >judgement more than these intellectuals. What This World Needs Is A Few More Rednecks [The Charlie Daniels Band] What this world needs is a few more rednecks Some people ain't afraid to take a stand What this world needs is a little more respect For the Lord and the law and the workin' man We could use a little peace and satisfactio ...

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Date:	Mon Jun 7 09:44:30 PDT 2004

22421 [lbo-talk] the wheels of accumulation pause in Ronnie's honor... -- rank: 1000

At 4:33 PM +0000 6/7/04, CBS MarketWatch Alerts wrote: >Breaking News Bulletin: NYSE to close Friday for Reagan tribute >http://cbs.marketwatch.com/news/newsfinder/default.asp?siteid=mktw&dist=bnb

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Date:	Mon Jun 7 09:40:35 PDT 2004

22422 [lbo-talk] Hitchens -- rank: 1000

paul childs wrote: >My guess too is that it's some lingering English class based >resentment about Clinton carrying on with someone 'beneath' his >office, or Monica for daring to snog someone 'above' her station. But Hitch is of middle-class origins, so some of that class-based resentment would be of the arriviste variety, an anxiety about falling. Doug

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Date:	Mon Jun 7 09:35:39 PDT 2004

22423 [lbo-talk] Deathbed for Bonzo -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >What progress is there in the death of a vegetable, as R has been for >some time? I'm puzzled by anyone even bothering to notice the shit's >passing. Earth to Carrol: we've only begun an official week-long period of national mourning. Reagan's death is highly political, and massive quantities of lies are being manufactured and distributed as we speak. Like it or not, lots of people are paying attention. Doug

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Date:	Mon Jun 7 08:13:17 PDT 2004

22424 [lbo-talk] Castro on Reagan's lies about Grenada -- rank: 1000

[Damn, I love the web. Was trying to remember this last night - I think MR published the text of the speech at the time. But Google found it for me in seconds...] <http://lanic.utexas.edu/la/cb/cuba/castro/1983/19831114> ... What placed Cuba in a morally complex and difficult situation was the announcement that Yankee naval forces were moving toward Grenada. Under these conditions we, under no circumstances, could abandon the country. If imperialism really intended to attack Grenada our, d ...

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Date:	Mon Jun 7 08:12:03 PDT 2004

22425 [lbo-talk] legalities of torture -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - June 7, 2004 Pentagon Report Set Framework For Use of Torture Security or Legal Factors Could Trump Restrictions, Memo to Rumsfeld Argued By JESS BRAVIN Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Bush administration lawyers contended last year that the president wasn't bound by laws prohibiting torture and that government agents who might torture prisoners at his direction couldn't be prosecuted by the Justice Department. The advice was part of a classified report on interro ...

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