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3151 [lbo-talk] Texas school board drops Jefferson, adds Calvin -- rank: 1000

On Mar 22, 2010, at 2:52 PM, C. G. Estabrook wrote: > Insofar as that's so, it stems from the now-deceased pomo's being > much more a mood and an attitude in various lit & social science > faculties, than a defense of certain texts and ideas therein > contained. That's just what Eagleton said, and it's nonsense. I often found the atmosphere in the graduate lounge at the UVa English department annoying - a friend decided to drop out of the program after he heard someone describ ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 22 11:59:58 PDT 2010

3152 [lbo-talk] JPMorgan Chase gets dumped on -- rank: 1000

[The pic of three cops standing around the pile of shit is priceless.] <http://www.theawl.com/2010/03/east-village-chase-bank-gets-giant-piles-of-manure > East Village Chase Bank Gets Giant Piles of Manure by Choire posted @1:00 PM "The protest happened yesterday. Chase is one of the biggest investors in mountain top removal mining. The protesters said they would leave a mountaintop in every Chase. They did. I think it was pretty baller. Also didn t hurt that the bulk of the protes ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 22 11:23:50 PDT 2010

3153 [lbo-talk] Texas school board drops Jefferson, adds Calvin -- rank: 1000

On Mar 22, 2010, at 2:16 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote: > I have also noticed, as we see here in the last few days and as the > lbotalk archives will bear out with many rounds over the years, that > critics of postmodernism, so-called, largely avoid the slightest > attention to the texts they are criticizing. As did Terry Eagleton. Doug

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Date:	Mon Mar 22 11:20:56 PDT 2010

3154 [lbo-talk] more Halperin -- rank: 1000

more from Mark Halperin: But fighting back against a supposedly hostile press is old hat for the GOP. A far greater challenge will come from a new quarter. Large segments of the American business community are going to present a formidable ally for Obamacare, either with outspoken support or notable silence. From businesses that have been crushed by rising health care costs, to pharmaceutical companies cleverly co-opted by the White House early on in the process, to the doctors' organizati ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 22 08:53:42 PDT 2010

3155 [lbo-talk] Mark Halperin: Obama wins -- rank: 1000

[Tomorrow's conventional wisdom today, from uber-hack Mark Halperin.] http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1974005,00.html The President, however, may be indifferent to the acrid fussing of his Republican foes. He will be able to bask once again in the glow of positive press coverage (accented by a momentous signing ceremony), which will focus on four areas helpful to the Democrats' prospects in November: the masterful display of White House patience and competence that got the job ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 22 08:50:21 PDT 2010

3156 [lbo-talk] PNHP on The Bill -- rank: 1000

[from a release by Physicians for a National Health Program] The hype surrounding the new health bill is belied by the facts: * About 23 million people will remain uninsured nine years out. That figure translates into an estimated 23,000 unnecessary deaths annually and an incalculable toll of suffering. * Millions of middle-income people will be pressured to buy commercial health insurance policies costing up to 9.5 percent of their income but covering an average of only 70 percent of their ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 22 08:20:58 PDT 2010

3157 [lbo-talk] chutzpah -- rank: 1000

[from Mike Allen] Plouffe said on ABC's 'This Week' that the party doesn't plan to play 'pinata' in the midterms, and will accuse Republicans of 'siding with the insurance companies.'

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 22 08:06:40 PDT 2010

3158 [lbo-talk] HC reform and increase in profits -- rank: 1000

On Mar 22, 2010, at 8:53 AM, James Leveque wrote: > Has > anybody seen any stats on the projected increase in profits for > insurance > companies after the mandate takes effect? No doubt Wall Street is doing such - and the stock market obviously expects good times for them. But I'd take any of these estimates with a grain of salt. We just do not know how it's going to shake out. Doug

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Date:	Mon Mar 22 08:04:51 PDT 2010

3159 [lbo-talk] Texas school board drops Jefferson, adds Calvin -- rank: 1000

On Mar 22, 2010, at 7:56 AM, Ted Winslow wrote: > Your "seeing and judging" of "our embeddedness in society" is > determined by an inescapable "epistemological frame," so to claim to > know that "that frame is created by our embeddedness in society, > discourse, etc." is self-contradictory. How is this profoundly different from the Freudian concept of the unconscious? Doug

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Date:	Mon Mar 22 08:03:26 PDT 2010

3160 [lbo-talk] The Market passes judgment -- rank: 1000

www.marketwatch.com BULLETIN: U.S. stock benchmarks move lower, but health-care sector gains in wake of House vote 03/22/2010 09:41:23 AM EDT Visit http://marketwatch.com/bulletins/redirect/go?g=67611FB017B540DE9A734DB2B678544A&d=bnbt for updates to this story and more

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 22 08:02:45 PDT 2010

3161 [lbo-talk] Meet up -- rank: 1000

Sorry I had to evaporate - family responsibilities, of which I have a lot these days. Hope y'all had a good time. Doug

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Date:	Mon Mar 22 08:01:26 PDT 2010

3162 [lbo-talk] Texas school board drops Jefferson, adds Calvin -- rank: 1000

On Mar 21, 2010, at 10:14 PM, Ted Winslow wrote: > If my "seeing and judging" is determined by an inescapable > "epistemological frame," then what I see and judge isn't reality as > it is in itself which, on this assumption about my "seeing and > judging," is unknowable. That frame is created by our embeddeness in society, discourse, etc. It's not some random personal thing. > So any knowledge claim that goes beyond my own existence now, e.g a > k ...

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Date:	Sun Mar 21 20:37:14 PDT 2010

3163 [lbo-talk] Susie Bright reviews the Runaways movie -- rank: 1000

http://susiebright.blogs.com/susie_brights_journal_/2010/03/my-little-runaway.html ... I'll tell you why dyke rock'n'roll legacy is important. Because in order to stand up to the shitheads who tried to keep young women out of EVERYTHING, you had to NOT GIVE A SHIT ABOUT THEIR SEXUAL APPROVAL. You had to NOT want to get married and have babies with a nice boy. You had to be FINISHED with "virtue." We did not care if the guys called us "sluts" and accused us of "wishin ...

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Date:	Sun Mar 21 18:38:00 PDT 2010

3164 [lbo-talk] Texas school board drops Jefferson, adds Calvin -- rank: 1000

On Mar 21, 2010, at 6:52 PM, Ted Winslow wrote: > I've done that before, e.g. <http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/2008/2008-June/009861.html > > > >> Here is a long extract from "Giving an Account of Oneself' setting >> out the position, including the idea that the inescapable >> "epistemological frame" is "an operation of power." >> >> I find that the only way to know myself is precisely through a >> mediation that takes plac ...

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Date:	Sun Mar 21 16:00:33 PDT 2010

3165 [lbo-talk] why liberal Dems are absolutely useless or worse -- rank: 1000

On Mar 20, 2010, at 8:35 PM, SA wrote: > I'm not an expert, but my understanding is that the regulatory > agency supposedly empowered to sanction companies that do > rescissions is the administrator of the health insurance exchange. > He or she has the power to exclude a company from the exchange if it > breaks the rules. I asked David Himmelstein and Steffie Woolhandler what they make of all this. Their answer: > As we understand it the Senate bill's language on recission is ...

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Date:	Sun Mar 21 14:45:45 PDT 2010