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22981 [lbo-talk] gossip... -- rank: 1000

...Todd Gitlin is hosting a Clark fundraiser. Doug

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Date:	Thu Jan 8 20:23:18 PST 2004

22982 [lbo-talk] Dismissing the I.M.F. Report on the U.S. Deficit -- rank: 1000

mike larkin wrote: >Aren't we getting a little desperate when we start making excuses >for the deficit by reference to Japan (not to mention France and >Germany)? And Japan's deficit is more than financed internally. The U.S. needs gobs of foreign capital every day. Doug

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Date:	Thu Jan 8 12:30:56 PST 2004

22983 [lbo-talk] Dick Cheney's Christmas Card -- For real! -- rank: 1000

Dennis Perrin wrote: >Isn't this a comfy stereotype for lefties? Apart from the brimstone crowd -- >always delirious -- I've noticed in my travels extended tolerance toward >Muslims, Buddhists, What-Have-You-ists from Christians and Jews (and most >Buddhists I've known were/are Jewish). The country is a bit more fluid and >complicated than is sometimes represented here, where, if you took some >posters' words seriously, you'd think we were under a Christian Nazi boot >with b ...

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Date:	Thu Jan 8 11:12:40 PST 2004

22984 [lbo-talk] The Claremont Institute: Utopia's Victims (Polemic against The Nation pwoggies, the gist.) -- rank: 1000

Jeffrey Fisher wrote: >On Thursday, January 8, 2004, at 11:30 AM, Michael Pugliese wrote: > >>On Thu, 08 Jan 2004 04:10:04 -0500, Chris Doss >><itschris13 at hotmail.com> wrote: >> >>>Stalin was very popular. >> >> >>http://www.foothilltech.org/rgeib/am-ex/coldwar/inspiration/stalins- >>method.jpg >> > >uh, oh. here we go again. No we don't. Please, none of this tired fight over Stalin. As Eminem put it, "you're too ...

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Date:	Thu Jan 8 10:59:25 PST 2004

22985 [lbo-talk] Madonna endorses Clark -- rank: 1000

<http://www.drudgereport.com/flash.htm> Madonna Urges Others to Support Clark; 'Future is At Risk' Wed Jan 07 2004 23:59:59 ET I've never done this before. But life is about taking risks is it not? I know that people seem to pay attention to everything I do. Big or Small. Ridiculous or Sublime. So I am hoping they pay attention to this: I am supporting General Wesley Clark for President. Not only as a "celebrity" but as an American citizen and as a mother. I want my children to g ...

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Date:	Thu Jan 8 10:42:58 PST 2004

22986 [lbo-talk] Howard Dean, freak show impresario -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: > I was interested to note that the Club for Growth prominently >identifies Larry Kudlow as one of its members. ...who has the manner, as Michael Thomas once put it, of a 1930s Argentine tango instructor. Doug

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Date:	Thu Jan 8 09:30:37 PST 2004

22987 [lbo-talk] Howard Dean, freak show impresario -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >Priceless: > >Real Player -- >http://www.clubforgrowth.org/video/backtovermont.ram?clubforgrowth=d4edd6b652879cf002b98c666f1e43a4 > >Windows -- >http://www.clubforgrowth.org/video/backtovermont.wmv?clubforgrowth=d4edd6b652879cf002b98c666f1e43a4 That's incredibly stupid, even by the standards of American political discourse. And don't lots of non-liberals drink latte? Doug

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Date:	Thu Jan 8 08:49:52 PST 2004

22988 [lbo-talk] Hindu extremists go on a rampage -- rank: 1000

Chronicle of Higher Education (web) - January 8, 2004 Vandals Attack Research Center in India in Retaliation for Help It Gave to American Scholar By MARTHA ANN OVERLAND Angry Hindu activists ransacked India's prestigious Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute on Monday, tearing pages out of rare Sanskrit manuscripts, breaking windows, and smashing equipment. The protesters attacked the institute because it had given research assistance to an American professor whose recent book questions the hi ...

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Date:	Thu Jan 8 08:33:56 PST 2004

22989 [lbo-talk] Dollar Slide Accelerates; Risks of Rout Increase -- rank: 1000

Conrad Herold wrote: >Doug: My questions are: Technically, in terms of how the markets >work, can it occur suddenly, that is, feed itself in the space of a >few days? Can there be a "great dumping" of U.S. Treasury bonds? Yes, that's quite possible. You could have panic selling of dollar assets (and people don't just hold "dollars" - they hold instruments denominated in dollars, like Treasury bonds) - a collapse in bond prices and the dollar's value. It's also possi ...

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Date:	Thu Jan 8 08:24:09 PST 2004

22990 [lbo-talk] Gallup's Burkholder clarifies... -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, Richard Burkholder was quoted as saying: > >> Furthermore, a substantial 85% of Baghdad's residents said they agree >> with the assertion that "some people believe if the U.S. were to pull >> out its troops any time soon, Iraq will fall into anarchy." Just 11% >> said they disagree with this assessment. > >I'm a big fan of your Burkholder interview. I was very impressed by how >seriously he had thou ...

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Date:	Thu Jan 8 07:35:47 PST 2004

22991 [lbo-talk] volume -- rank: 1000

Today's count of overposters: Michael Pugliese 7 Stephen Philion 6 /dave/ 4

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Date:	Wed Jan 7 16:33:21 PST 2004

22992 [lbo-talk] smoking makes you stupid? -- rank: 1000

frank scott wrote: >having experienced smoking tobacco, and having sex, I quit the first >and much prefer the second, but feel no oppression because it isn't >allowed in public places, like restaurants or bars...does that make me a >republican? Not necessarily, but why is your tone always so belligerent? Doug

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Date:	Wed Jan 7 16:04:06 PST 2004

22993 [lbo-talk] the plasticity of "race" -- rank: 1000

This is from a query posted to the AAPOR listserv by a pollster looking to do a survey in the UK. He wanted to know if there were "standard" classifications, having come across these two pre-existing templates. Amazing how many categories there can be, and how they look rather unfamiliar to an American. >White >Mixed >Indian >Pakistani >Bangladeshi >Other Asian >Black Caribbean >Black African >Black other >Chinese >Other > >English >Scottish &g ...

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Date:	Wed Jan 7 15:05:09 PST 2004

22994 [lbo-talk] re New Poll in Iraq: 48% View US Positively -- rank: 1000

Stephen Philion wrote: >if they love us so, why are we shooting up civilians like there is no >tomorrow? No one said they love "us." But even if it's just one in five Iraqis who hate the U.S., that's a lot of people who can do a lot of damage. And if another one or two out of the five don't care much either way, then they're not going to turn anyone in. From the soldier's point of view, looking into a crowd where 20% or 40% of the members would like to kill you, you'd be tempted ...

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Date:	Wed Jan 7 13:09:01 PST 2004

22995 [lbo-talk] State-run oil company is being weighed for Iraq, By Chip Cummins, Wall Street Journal -- rank: 1000

Jeffrey Fisher wrote: >conversely, it's not like big oil will not still make money dealing >with an iraqi state oil company, right? They'll make money, but it means the Iraqi state will capture most of the rents (i.e., the difference between the world price, now around $30/barrel, and the cost of production in Iraq, which is probably only a couple of dollars a barrel). When I interviewed Raad AlKadiri, the economist with PFC Energy, he said that Big Oil didn't push for the Iraq war, so may ...

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Date:	Wed Jan 7 12:14:29 PST 2004