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25021 [lbo-talk] FW: Help Defeat Question 3 -- rank: 1000

nathanne at nathannewman.org wrote: >But nonpartisan races do favor conservative Democrats. > >The ideal of conservatives is to have nonpartisan races in highly >Democratic areas, and partisan races in GOP areas. This would lead to >conservative Democrats and rightwing Republicans being the main >politicians. A problem with your model, Nathan, is that Bloomberg was a Democrat who ran as a Repub because he couldn't get on the Dem ballot. He's no conservative, either. He's just ...

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Date:	Sun Nov 2 11:35:17 PST 2003

25022 [lbo-talk] Bush Approval at 56%, Little Sign of Voter Anger -- rank: 1000

Mike "Half Empty" Larkin wrote: >http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A50026-2003Nov1.html The full history. 56 is equal to or below September's numbers, and the "strongly" numbers lower. And compare the spread between strongly approve and strongly disapprove - 41 points in late April, 1 point at the end of October. approve disapprove --------------------- --------------------- no net strongly somew't net strongly somew't opinion 10/29/03 ...

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Date:	Sun Nov 2 09:44:19 PST 2003

25023 [lbo-talk] Re: Help Defeat Question 3 -- rank: 1000

I'm surprised how little fuss has been made about Bloomberg using his own money to promote this campaign. He's created a bogus organization to promote the plan, and has mailed promotional materials to every NYC household. That alone is a good index of how it's a plutocratic, not a democratic, idea. Of course, it plays to the usual "person not party" idiocy of American politics. Doug

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Date:	Sat Nov 1 10:23:19 PST 2003

25024 [lbo-talk] birthdays -- rank: 1000

Only 90 minutes left in the U.S. east, but happy birthday to Walt Whitman, who'd be 184, and Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who'd be 58. Sometimes chance makes the most wonderful pairings. Doug

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Date:	Sat May 31 19:28:03 PDT 2003

25025 [lbo-talk] Hitchens inches toward saying he was wrong -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: > And what he meant by revolution was turning the >established order upside down. That's not revolution, that's nihilism. A revolution is supposed to result in a better order after the disturbance. I don't see much vision of a better order in Hitch's work now. Doug

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Date:	Sat May 31 19:15:04 PDT 2003

25026 [lbo-talk] Hitchens inches toward saying he was wrong -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >He's churlish and begrudging about it, but still: Bremer's Kissinger >connection seems to have unnerved him: > >http://slate.msn.com/id/2083643/ Wow. That's not a very coherent piece of writing. He's no longer making much sense. What's his brand identity now that he's no longer a renegade leftist? Doug

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Date:	Sat May 31 08:58:19 PDT 2003

25027 [lbo-talk] a poem -- rank: 1000

[Sam Smith's quote of the day] Much madness is divinest sense To a discerning eye; Much sense the starkest madness. . . Assent, and you are sane; Demur, - you're straightway dangerous, And handled with a chain. -Emily Dickinson

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Date:	Fri May 30 15:44:50 PDT 2003

25028 [lbo-talk] This guy is no socialist, but he says it plain. -- rank: 1000

Maria Gilmore wrote: >Did you see Chris Matthews on Jon Stewart's show? Where he referred to the >"man on the street" interviews as "peasants under glass"? He said that about focus groups, not vox pop interviews. And no one in the focus group industry is familiar with the phrase, at lesat those on the AAPOR listserv. Doug

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Date:	Fri May 30 13:34:30 PDT 2003

25029 [lbo-talk] limits -- rank: 1000

Uh folks, the posting limits are being egregiously violated. You know who you are. Cool it.

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Date:	Fri May 30 11:25:14 PDT 2003

25030 [lbo-talk] decentralization, Whole Foods style -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >My critique was general, not personal. Did you ever think you're basically a misanthropic crank, and politics really doesn't enter into it at all? Doug

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Date:	Fri May 30 11:24:31 PDT 2003

25031 [lbo-talk] Green Party 2004 -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >As far as cynicism is concerned - it lowers my blood pressure. It's also, as Horkheimer said, the worst kind of conformity. Doug

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Date:	Fri May 30 11:17:21 PDT 2003

25032 [lbo-talk] Stanley -- rank: 1000

andie nachgeborenen wrote: >Didn'y you support Nader, like me? I did. Last time though. Doug

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Date:	Fri May 30 10:50:16 PDT 2003

25033 [lbo-talk] Hearst advises... -- rank: 1000

[This is from a gossip page!] New York Post [Page Six] - May 30, 2003 SEMPER FI PETER Arnett and other journalists who can't remember where their loyalties lie could learn a thing or two from William Randolph Hearst. In a memo written by hand in the late 1930s to his London bureau chief - which just went on sale for $12,500 at momentsintime.com - the legendary publisher advises: "The foreign correspondent must be a loyal & honorable citizen of his own land appreciating fully the influen ...

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Date:	Fri May 30 10:46:29 PDT 2003

25034 [lbo-talk] Profiles In Spinelessness -- rank: 1000

Luke Weiger wrote: >What's your problem with Stanley? His dress isn't as aesthetically pleasing >as your own? He says ridiculous things with great frequency <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Jobless_future.html>. He ran a ludicrous campaign for governor of NYS, which didn't draw the 50,000 votes necessary for the Green Party to stay on the ballot. Etc. Doug

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Date:	Fri May 30 10:28:53 PDT 2003

25035 [lbo-talk] LBO & Google trick -- rank: 1000

Colin Brace wrote: >Search Google for "Slavoj Zizek" > >Up pops: > > Sponsored Links > Zizek speaks > a recent radio interview with SZ on > Iraq, democracy, fantasy - politics > www.leftbusinessobserver.com > >Doug, is Google now on your payroll??? Well I am paying them - this is a "sponsored link," and I'm the sponsor. Doug

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Date:	Fri May 30 07:17:06 PDT 2003