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2416 [lbo-talk] Cui malo? -- rank: 1000

On Aug 3, 2011, at 1:59 PM, Andy wrote: > On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 1:50 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: >> >> On Aug 3, 2011, at 1:39 PM, Andy wrote: >> >>> Does anybody know of a decent semi-comprehensive account of what's >>> getting axed in the $900B? >> >> white house fact sheet: http://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheet-victory-bipartisan-compromise-economy-american-people > > All they say is $350B from defense. Is tha ...

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2417 [lbo-talk] Cui malo? -- rank: 1000

On Aug 3, 2011, at 1:39 PM, Andy wrote: > Does anybody know of a decent semi-comprehensive account of what's > getting axed in the $900B? white house fact sheet: http://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheet-victory-bipartisan-compromise-economy-american-people

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Date:	Wed Aug 3 10:50:46 PDT 2011

2418 [lbo-talk] BobboSphere is not disillusioned with Obama -- rank: 1000

On Aug 3, 2011, at 10:52 AM, Julio Huato wrote: > Doug Henwood asked: > >> Do you approve of this piece of nonsense, or are you forwarding it the >> way a pathologist might want to share an interesting lesion (a "fascinoma," >> I once heard) with colleagues? > > I have stated my own views on Obama. This, however, is a viewpoint > that I respect. I believe that these views reflect the needs of > comrades who are involved in working class organizing, ...

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Date:	Wed Aug 3 07:59:20 PDT 2011

2419 [lbo-talk] [Pen-l] BobboSphere is not disillusioned with Obama -- rank: 1000

On Aug 3, 2011, at 9:59 AM, Julio Huato wrote: > http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/08/02/1002524/-Why-I-am-not-disillusioned-with-Barack-Obama > > When you are in a coalition and you re comfortable. You know you are > not in a broad enough coalition. Bernice Reagon > > The fractious and divided American left should get used to the idea > that the non-revolutionary Left and the revolutionary Left should > really be on the same team, just playing different positions. T ...

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2420 [lbo-talk] Administrivia ... -- rank: 1000

> i fucking hate gmail. what a turd that email program is. Why do so many people use it?

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2421 [lbo-talk] Administrivia ... -- rank: 1000

On Aug 2, 2011, at 4:40 PM, Jordan Hayes wrote: >> Checking on the LBO-Talk options page: >> http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/options/lbo-talk >> >> I found on that page an option for: >> Receive your own posts to the list? > > This is on by default for everyone, and I don't think it's a very common feature to turn off. I just checked SA's and a few others - they're on. So that's not the prob.

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2422 [lbo-talk] The myth of Obama blunders and weakness -- rank: 1000

On Aug 2, 2011, at 2:42 AM, Dennis Claxton wrote: > ravi wrote: > > > >> You know what should be history? This: >> >> X-Mailer: Microsoft Windows Live Mail 15.4.3508.1109 > > > ooh! snap! How'd you do that? Like this: > X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 7.1.0.9 Eudora? That's so 20th century.

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2423 [lbo-talk] the consensus -- rank: 1000

Ed Hyman, walking embodiment of Wall Street's conventional wisdom, writes: > Debt Deal Likely To Pass; Defense Stocks Most At Risk

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Date:	Mon Aug 1 06:48:31 PDT 2011

2424 [lbo-talk] American Idiocracy redux -- rank: 1000

On Apr 30, 2011, at 8:52 PM, // ravi wrote: > If Wisconsin can swing from Feingold to Walker But that's been the story of Wisconsin forever. La Folette and McCarthy. Walker and Feingold. The state is evenly divided, and elections are decided by a few percentage points. Doug

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Date:	Sat Apr 30 21:44:01 PDT 2011

2425 [lbo-talk] American Idiocracy redux -- rank: 1000

On Apr 30, 2011, at 11:39 AM, Wojtek S wrote: > http://www.gallup.com/poll/147338/Americans-Blame-Wasteful-Government-Spending-Deficit.aspx > > [WS:] It seems that most Americans believe in flat earth economics. > In this light, Obama's administration should be admired for their > heroic stand against the idiocy of the American popular "wisdom." The question is also very tendentiously worded, using the word "wasteful." If they'd asked specific questions, e.g. a ...

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Date:	Sat Apr 30 10:52:28 PDT 2011

2426 [lbo-talk] Google, so helpful -- rank: 1000

Search for Karl Marx on Google and you now get this helpful suggestion in the sidebar: > Something different > adam smith > john locke > lenin > nietzsche > hegel

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Date:	Sat Apr 30 06:17:28 PDT 2011

2427 [lbo-talk] "Natural Capitalism" -- rank: 1000

On Apr 30, 2011, at 4:16 AM, Dennis Claxton wrote: > Doug wrote: > > >>> Smith & Hawken <http://www.smithandhawken.com/> used to be an upscale brand (thus Cockburn's epithet), but they now seem to be vending through Target. > > > Sounds like part of their "Designer Collaborations" gimmick The website says "exclusively" at Target. Doug

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2428 [lbo-talk] Atlas Flopped -- rank: 1000

On Apr 30, 2011, at 3:02 AM, Catherine Driscoll wrote: > I'm personally from a small asteroid somewhere in the vicinity of Pluto, or was it Mercury? Either way I'm sure that explains a great deal. Really? I thought you were from Australia, which is even more quirky & remote! Doug

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Date:	Sat Apr 30 06:03:42 PDT 2011

2429 [lbo-talk] "Natural Capitalism" -- rank: 1000

On Apr 29, 2011, at 8:04 PM, Ismail Lagardien wrote: > I was invited to a meeting to launch this book, today. Would like to know what > people think of this. The invitation came with a copy of a 1999 essay, "Roadmap > for Natural Capitalism" published in the Harvard Business Review, if anyone is > interested. Not sure if I could/should attach it. > > Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution > by Paul Hawken, Amory B. Lovins, and L. Hunter Lovins ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 29 17:46:59 PDT 2011

2430 [lbo-talk] Blow a Whistle, Go to Jail - For 30 Years -- rank: 1000

On Apr 29, 2011, at 3:09 PM, John Wesley wrote: > Those "republicans" again (lol)! > Bring on Cromwell! That's your sixth dazzling witticism of the day. Yesterday you did five. The limit on posts of all kinds, dazzling, witty, and/or otherwise, is three. Doug

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