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23356 [lbo-talk] latest Gallup on Bush -- rank: 1000

George W. Bush [by Gallup editor-in-chief Frank Newport] The current poll is not a particularly auspicious one for President George W. Bush. His job approval rating is down to 49% -- the lowest rating of his administration by one point, and below the symbolic 50% level that is so important for an incumbent president seeking re-election. Bush's favorability rating is also at the lowest point of his administration. Just 52% of Americans have a favorable opinion of Bush as a person, well below his ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 3 13:35:44 PST 2004

23357 [lbo-talk] Skull and Bones -- rank: 1000

andie nachgeborenen wrote: >Some folks posted some reports on Skull & Bones here a > while back, you you refer me to the reports or the >URLs? A friens is curious. jks I'm still in the process of updating the LBO website. I haven't announced this addition yet, but the links should work. I interviewed Alexandra Robbins, author of a book on Skull & Bones, for my WBAI fundraiser show the other week, because Bonesman John Kerry had just won in Iowa. I ran an excerpt from my Novembe ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 3 12:28:50 PST 2004

23358 [lbo-talk] Theory of Porn -- rank: 1000

Michael Dawson -PSU wrote: >Carrol Cox....She Carrol's a he. Rather jovial looking (and acting) fellow in real life, believe it or not. Doug

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Date:	Tue Feb 3 10:39:06 PST 2004

23359 [lbo-talk] Theory of Porn -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Anyone who reads a good deall of erotic material from _before_ the 19th >century and then reads the professional pornography produced in >thousands of volumes in the late 19th century in England, and who still >thinks that some major change didn't happen . . . doesn't even know the >meaning of the word "historical." Did you talk like this to your students? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 3 09:51:36 PST 2004

23360 [lbo-talk] 2004 military spending 47 percent of total Federal outlays -- rank: 1000

Diane Monaco wrote: >Where your income tax money really goes. >http://www.warresisters.org/piechart.htm > >[27 percent]: >Current Military, $459B:Military Personnel $99B, Operation and >Maintenance $133B, Procurement $68B, Research and Development $58B, >Construction $6B, Family Housing $4B, Retired Pay $39B, DoE Nuclear >Weapons $16B, 50% NASA $8B, International Security $7B, 60% Homeland >Security $16B, misc. $5B Note: President Bush does not include any >funds fo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 3 07:49:29 PST 2004

23361 [lbo-talk] "full of shit" -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: >OK, I admit to saying that mainly to rile Pugliese. We're supposed to rise above such cheap stimuli.

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Date:	Tue Feb 3 07:32:19 PST 2004

23362 [lbo-talk] "full of shit" -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >http://nyc.indymedia.org/newswire/display/86069/index.php > >Announcement :: Elections & Legislation Support the Revolutionary >Workers Campaign in 2004! Current rating: -3 by Revolutionary >Workers PArty >Email: rwptp_2 (nospam) hotmail.com (unverified!) 27 Jan 2004 A >Bolshevik Alternative in 2004. Vote Revolutionary Worker! Down with >the Two Capitalist Parties! Support the Revolutionary Workers >Campaign in 2004! Michael, what's the poi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 3 07:26:56 PST 2004

23363 [lbo-talk] Lynne Stewart -- rank: 1000

Thomas Seay wrote: >This seems like a contradiction. How can you call him >an "apologist" for the prosecution in one sentence and >then say that you doubt that he "intended" that in the >next? Because intent often has nothing to do with how remarks are interpreted. In this case, quoting some dubious remarks Stewart made makes her indictment seem less outrageous and more reasonable. I.e., maybe she is a TerrSymp. In cases like this, just zip it. Doug

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Date:	Mon Feb 2 10:26:48 PST 2004

23364 [lbo-talk] breast terrorism haunts superbowl -- rank: 1000

Stephen Philion wrote: >http://tinyurl.com/2dwps > > CBS apologizes for breast-baring end to halftime show >At the White House, President Bush said he missed the show. > >``Saw the first half, did not see the halftime -- I was preparing >for the day and fell asleep,'' he told reporters Monday after a >Cabinet meeting. He fell asleep at what, 8 PM? What's wrong with that guy? Doug

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Date:	Mon Feb 2 10:24:11 PST 2004

23365 [lbo-talk] Sharon: settlers out of Gaza -- rank: 1000

[what's this all about?] Sharon stuns settlers, own MPs with plan to evacuate all Gaza settlements JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon (news - web sites) stunned Jewish settlers and members of his own party by revealing that he had ordered plans to be drawn up for the evacuation of all settlements in the Gaza Strip (news - web sites). Sharon told the online edition of the Haaretz daily that he had "given an order to plan for the evacuation" of all 17 settlements in th ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 2 10:20:16 PST 2004

23366 [lbo-talk] hedonic pricing update -- rank: 1000

[this is for you data geeks out there - from Merrill Lynch - very interesting...] Techonomics The Government Stops Reporting Real Computer Figures Reason for Report: Hedonic Pricing Update Highlights: * We previously have pointed out that the government's use of hedonic pricing, a price deflator that translates nominal into real dollars, appears to overstate technology demand. * The problem is mostly in the reporting of computer hardware. For example, applying hedonic pricing for 2000-03 multipl ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 2 10:15:20 PST 2004

23367 [lbo-talk] Bush's Re-election Chances -- rank: 1000

lbo at hvgreens.org wrote: >Ok, fellow LBO'ers, I've been wanting to put the question to this list: What >are the chances Bush will be re-elected in '04. 60/40

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Date:	Mon Feb 2 10:08:46 PST 2004

23368 [lbo-talk] bashing of designated evil regimes -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >http://www.yorku.ca/lefthist/online/arguetw.html > Given the anti-Semitic quotas and high tuitions of Ivy League >universities, the four men ended up being educated at City College >in New York, which was close to home and free. Here they battled >against both the obtusely reactionary administration (which invited >fascist speakers in the late 1930s) and many of their fellow student >radicals (who tended to be in the orbit of the Communist Party). ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 2 10:05:07 PST 2004

23369 [lbo-talk] Why the unemployment rate is really higher than it looks -- rank: 1000

Diane Monaco quoted: >For several months now, economists of all stripes have been forecasting >that payroll jobs?a notorious lagging indicator?would begin to rise >smartly. That's absolutely not true, though it's amazing how often people say it. In most post-WW II business cycles, employment bottomed within a month on either side of the trough. The first departure was the early 1990s, when there was an eleven-month lag between the NBER recession trough and the low in employment; this ti ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 2 08:07:10 PST 2004

23370 [lbo-talk] Kay questions pre-emption -- rank: 1000

Kay Questions U.S. Pre-Emptive Strike Doctrine By Jackie Frank WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The former top U.S. weapons hunter in Iraq (news - web sites), David Kay, said on Sunday flaws in U.S. intelligence in prewar Iraq brought into question President Bush (news - web sites)'s policy of pre-emptive strike against countries deemed a threat to the United States. Bush based his decision to invade Iraq on what he called a "grave and gathering danger" posed by Iraq's biological and chemical we ...

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Date:	Sun Feb 1 14:10:33 PST 2004