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25666 [lbo-talk] no second thoughts, please, we're Americans! -- rank: 1000

[Not much new here, but the Gephardt and Bowman quotes are beauts.] Financial Times - June 11, 2003 WMD dispute highlights transatlantic differences By Edward Alden, James Politi and Jean Eaglesham Richard Gephardt, the former House Democratic leader and now US presidential hopeful, has long been a caustic critic of George W. Bush's administration. But as accusations have mounted that the US exaggerated its intelligence about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction to build the case for war, he rushe ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 11 11:16:40 PDT 2003

25667 [lbo-talk] Hey Nathan -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: >For some reason, my computer is not letting me send mail to >nathanne at nathannewman.org, so I'm using this as a venue. > >You emailed a letter with the title "RE: followup" to my address, >which clearly was meant for a different receipient. That's a virus I think - I got one too. Probably some infected computer impersonating Nathan. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 11 09:53:37 PDT 2003

25668 [lbo-talk] the real meaning of Santorum -- rank: 1000

Michael Perelman wrote: >I thought John Kerry solved that puzzle long ago. Didn't he claim that >Santorum was Latin for asshole? That was Bob Kerrey. This is from Ken Silverstein's listing of the 10 dumbest members of Congress in the March 1998 Progressive <http://www.progressive.org/dimmarch.htm>: >No. 1 > >SENATOR RICK SANTORUM > >Republican, Pennsylvania > >The boy blunder of American politics and a one-time lobbyist for the >World Wrestling Federation, th ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 11 09:52:26 PDT 2003

25669 [lbo-talk] Another Poll -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >And again I note that people on this list then mostly thought Gore was >inevitable With a strong economy and a high approval rating for Clinton, Gore should have won big, He blew it, though it's a lot more convenient to blame Nader. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 11 09:35:49 PDT 2003

25670 [lbo-talk] the real meaning of Santorum -- rank: 1000

[Dan Savage ran a contest through his column to come up with the best sex-related meaning for the word "Santorum". Here's the winner.] Hey, everybody: We have a winner. Savage Love readers, by a wide margin, want Senator Rick Santorum's name to stand for . . . that frothy mixture of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the by-product of anal sex! It was a landslide for that frothy mixture; the runner-up, farting in the face of someone who's rimming you, came in a distant second. So ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 11 09:33:03 PDT 2003

25671 [lbo-talk] Another Poll -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >The ruling class has decided it is going to be >Bush in 2004 That's premature. If the economy stays weak and the rest of the world continues to hate the U.S., there could well be a rethink. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 11 09:25:13 PDT 2003

25672 [lbo-talk] Socialism by any other name? -- rank: 1000

Michael Perelman wrote: >Doesn't he have his own company? Shiller's a partner in a firm, Case Shiller Weiss <http://www.cswv.com/>, that put out house price indexes and offers house valuations. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 11 09:23:33 PDT 2003

25673 [lbo-talk] economy & elections -- rank: 1000

<http://www.thehill.com/campaign/061103_mellman.aspx> CAMPAIGN 2004 2004 election: it's still the economy, stupid Mark S. Mellman Politicians have long known that economic circumstances help determine electoral outcomes. Some 30 years before the Clinton campaign hung its famous "it's the economy, stupid" war-room sign, Richard Nixon acknowledged that fact of political life. "I know from bitter experience how in both 1954 and 1958, [economic] slumps contributed to substantial ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 11 09:18:36 PDT 2003

25674 [lbo-talk] 3,240 -- rank: 1000

Thiago Oppermann wrote: >That's not counting the million or so who died as a result of the >sanctions... you know, the ones which turned out to be utterly pointless and >sadistic. > >I feel sick. That's because you can't think and argue like a ruler. If there were no WMDs in Iraq after all it's because the sanctions worked. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 11 08:51:13 PDT 2003

25675 [lbo-talk] Recent Dem Poll -- rank: 1000

Kevin Robert Dean wrote: >Dunno if this was mentioned before, but Gallup did a poll >for Democrats on who they want to win....20% want Bush Lite >to win. > >More telling (but not surprising) is the fact that people >would rather vote for someone who has a chance of beating >Bush than voting for someone they agree with >politically.... > >http://www.gallup.com/poll/releases/pr030609.asp The best news for us Sharpton fans is: >The New York-based Rev. Al Sharpton is ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 11 06:40:04 PDT 2003

25676 [lbo-talk] Socialism by any other name? -- rank: 1000

Grant Lee wrote: > > >> The insurance company that raised money by issuing such securities >> would use the proceeds to buy securities linked to a lot of other >> countries' GDPs. So it would end up with payouts linked to its own >> country's GDP, but income linked to other countries' GDPs. Get it? >> Provided all countries didn't go into recession at the same time, the >> company would have shifted some of the risk of a local recession. >> ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 11 06:31:49 PDT 2003

25677 [lbo-talk] Emailer setting request -- rank: 1000

martin schiller wrote: >I've been trying to imagine a government composed of list members. Doug >Henwood is the minister of information. Miles as minister of culture. >Justin as minister of justice. The only way I'd want to serve in government is if I could have people shot. I've got a little list here in fact...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 11 06:27:44 PDT 2003

25678 [lbo-talk] Emailer setting request -- rank: 1000

andie nachgeborenen wrote: >I don't have html on, just Yahoo plaintext. jks That's what you may think! Turning on Eudora's "blah blah blah" feature one sees: At 8:08 PM -0700 6/10/03, andie nachgeborenen wrote: ><x-html><!x-stuff-for-pete base="" src="" id="0" charset=""><DIV>I >don't have html on, just Yahoo plaintext. jks<BR><BR><B><I>Doug >Henwood &lt;dhenwood at panix.com&gt;</I ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 11 06:19:01 PDT 2003

25679 [lbo-talk] more repression -- rank: 1000

Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 16:40:52 -0400 (EDT) From: Drug Policy Alliance <alerts at actioncenter.drugpolicy.org> Subject: DEA Uses RAVE Act to Shut Down Fundraiser ** DEA Uses RAVE Act to Stop a Benefit to Raise Money for Marijuana Reform **Fax the DEA and Tell Acting Administrator William Simpkins to Stop Using the RAVE Act Against Political Events http://actioncenter.drugpolicy.org/ctt.asp?u=14118&l=2008 Only two months after the RAVE Act was passed by Congress it has been used by the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 10 13:51:13 PDT 2003

25680 [lbo-talk] Chalabi -- rank: 1000

mike larkin wrote: >Anybody ask him what he did with all that money he >embezzled from the Jordanian bank? Could rebuild the >country with those funds alone:) Of course not! Press were not allowed to ask questions (and unlike my last CFR visit, we didn't even get breakfast!). Only members of the CFR were allowed to ask questions. Though one of the members is a Newsweek reporter, and asked him a moderately tough question on WMDs. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 10 11:51:11 PDT 2003