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23911 [lbo-talk] Gallup poll: 98% cooperation rate -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi blogged: >If any independent film-maker is plotting a satirical attack on the >US occupation of Iraq, I'd suggest that the film's protagonist (or >rather its straight man) be a hapless Iraqi surveyor employed by an >American polling firm. Gallup reports on its methodology page: >The Gallup Poll of Iraq > >Sample Design > >The strict, probability-based sample design Gallup used to conduct >this survey projects with scientific accuracy to all adults ( ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 29 10:19:04 PDT 2004

23912 [lbo-talk] TV station owner orders affiliate not to run Nightline -- rank: 1000

<http://poynter.org/forum/?id=misc> Sinclair stations won't run "Nightline" tribute 4/29/2004 10:59:30 AM NewsBlues.com is reporting [no free link] that Sinclair Broadcast Group has ordered its ABC-affiliated stations not to carry tomorrow's "Nightline," which will air the names and photos of soldiers who have been killed in combat in Iraq. Sinclair General Counsel Barry Faber tells the site: "We find it to be contrary to the public interest." The boycott will ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 29 10:01:02 PDT 2004

23913 [lbo-talk] A Very American Occupation (new Gallup poll) -- rank: 1000

John Lacny wrote: >Munson: > >> I think you meant this message for Lacny > >Etymologically, I've been told that "lacny" means "hungry" or >"cheap" in a number of Slavic languages. (Though, while it's a >well-known if not common name among Poles, it apparently means >nothing in Polish -- it's just a name. Help me out here, Wojtek). >Hence I like Doug's free advertising. > >In all seriousness, though, if people want me to cut-and-p ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 29 09:55:51 PDT 2004

23914 [lbo-talk] A Very American Occupation (new Gallup poll) -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Here's my blog entry I should start charging you advertising fees. Doug

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Date:	Thu Apr 29 08:35:15 PDT 2004

23915 [lbo-talk] Arnaud de Borchgrave to vote for Kerry? -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - April 29, 2004 HE'S NO NEO-CON ADD Arnaud de Borchgrave to the list of conservative Republicans who are disaffected with President Bush. "I'll probably vote Democratic for the first time in 40 years," the aristocratic journalist confided, citing Bush policies in Iraq and Israel. De Borchgrave was at the St. Regis roof on Tuesday for a dinner sponsored by United World Colleges, along with Queen Noor of Jordan, Shelby and Gale Davis (they have donated $45 milli ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 29 07:42:42 PDT 2004

23916 [lbo-talk] RE: new Gallup poll -- rank: 1000

Shane Mage wrote: >Doug wrote: >>joanna bujes wrote: >> >>>Dog almighty, I sure do loathe polls. When exactly did the idea of >>>polls replace the idea of democracy? >>> >>>Why do leftists bother to quote them? Fuck polls. >> >>Uh, there is no democracy in Iraq right now, and this is the >>closest approximation we've got to a picture of what Iraqis are >>thinking. Does that matter to you? > >An excellent approximati ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 29 07:30:14 PDT 2004

23917 [lbo-talk] cuffing granny -- rank: 1000

[via Sam Smith's Progressive Review <http://prorev.com>] POST CONSTITUTIONAL AMERICA http://www.local6.com/news/3245574/detail.html CHANNEL 6, HIGHLAND PARK, Texas - Police in the Dallas suburb of Highland Park handcuffed a 97-year-old woman and hauled her to jail in a squad car last week for having an expired registration sticker. Police said they have a no-exceptions policy. Everyone gets treated the same -- arrested, handcuffed, and taken to jail -- even on minor traffic warrants. Dolly ...

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Date:	Wed Apr 28 17:49:47 PDT 2004

23918 [lbo-talk] Bill O'Reilly: Now It's Time to Boycott....Canada -- rank: 1000

Travis Fast wrote: >All depends, the bourgeoisie in Canada did quite well for themselves >with the nation building rhetoric of the late 19th century. As for >me I would like to use Canadian nationalism towards promoting a >truly perverse dependency on the US. We would become a self >actualized nation of self organizing freaks which, with open arms, >welcomes all cultural refugees from the US. If you American lefties >would just give up on your manifest destiny and come no ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 28 16:34:05 PDT 2004

23919 [lbo-talk] RE: new Gallup poll -- rank: 1000

joanna bujes wrote: >Dog almighty, I sure do loathe polls. When exactly did the idea of >polls replace the idea of democracy? > >Why do leftists bother to quote them? Fuck polls. Uh, there is no democracy in Iraq right now, and this is the closest approximation we've got to a picture of what Iraqis are thinking. Does that matter to you? Doug

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Date:	Wed Apr 28 16:26:10 PDT 2004

23920 [lbo-talk] Indian Outsourcing Firms Outsource To E. Europe -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese quoted: >By Daniel W. Drezner (the blogger) >http://www.foreignaffairs.org/ >http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20040501faessay83304/daniel-w-drezner/the-outsourcing-bogeyman.html >>...As for the jobs that can be sent offshore, even if the most >>dire- sounding forecasts come true, the impact on the economy will >>be negligible. The Forrester prediction of 3.3 million lost jobs, >>for example, is spread across 15 years. That would mean 220,000 >> ...

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Date:	Wed Apr 28 16:14:04 PDT 2004

23921 [lbo-talk] Bill O'Reilly: Now It's Time to Boycott....Canada -- rank: 1000

Ted Winslow wrote: >Doug wrote: > >>You never did answer Bob Brenner's question - just what do you >>Canadians hope to accomplish with your nationalism? > >Are answers permitted that don't assume (a) that all Canadians are >the same and (b) like everyone else everywhere and always "rational" >pursuers of "self-interest"? All answers that address the question are permitted. Doug

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Date:	Wed Apr 28 14:57:48 PDT 2004

23922 [lbo-talk] Bill O'Reilly: Now It's Time to Boycott....Canada -- rank: 1000

T Fast wrote: >I wish O'Reilly all the success in the world with his boycott >...beats waiting for a tide of bourgeois nationalism to sever the >deep dependency. You never did answer Bob Brenner's question - just what do you Canadians hope to accomplish with your nationalism? Doug

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Date:	Wed Apr 28 13:54:35 PDT 2004

23923 [lbo-talk] new Gallup poll of Iraq -- rank: 1000

[I'm curious how the skeptics about the last poll will react to this one.] April 28, 2004 Gallup Poll of Iraq: Liberated, Occupied or in Limbo? by Richard Burkholder, International Bureau Chief More than a year after the U.S.-led invasion -- and seven months after Gallup reported the results of the first scientific survey of opinion in Baghdad -- much has changed in Iraq. Gallup, in partnership with CNN and USA Today, conducted 3,444 70-minute, in-home, in-person interviews with a nationally rep ...

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Date:	Wed Apr 28 13:53:48 PDT 2004

23924 [lbo-talk] in Geras' black and white world, is this guy a terrorist? -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: > In Steve's black and white world... > > Rahul Mahujan below says foreign Wahhabis are fighting in Falluja. >Do you ever not knee jerk? Michael, the same could be said of your knee. You constantly police sources for being suspiciously rightwing or stalinist or whatever. To me, things are simple on one level, and not so simple on another. On the simple level, the U.S. must get its ass seriously kicked for invading Iraq so it doesn't try anything like that ...

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Date:	Wed Apr 28 11:52:31 PDT 2004

23925 [lbo-talk] passports -- rank: 1000

joanna bujes wrote: >Are the number of passports issued growing proportional to population growth? Passports issued as percent of U.S. population: 1974 1.1% 1975 1.1% 1976 1.3% 1977 1.4% 1978 1.5% 1979 1.4% 1980 1.3% 1981 1.4% 1982 1.6% 1983 1.8% 1984 2.0% 1985 2.1% 1986 1.7% 1987 2.0% 1988 1.7% 1989 1.5% 1990 1.5% 1991 1.3% 1992 1.3% 1993 1.6% 1994 1.9% 1995 2.0% 1996 2.1% 1997 2.3% 1998 2.4% 1999 2.4% 2000 2.6% ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 27 18:32:07 PDT 2004