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3166 [lbo-talk] Texas school board drops Jefferson, adds Calvin -- rank: 1000

On Mar 21, 2010, at 11:01 AM, C. G. Estabrook wrote: > And I wouldn't exculpate postmodernism - among other things a non- > innocent way of avoiding dangerous questions. Given the horrified reactions of so many to "postmodernism" - which I thought had been getting obsolete, but evidently not - I don't get this claim. It seems to make lots of people, mainstream and Marxist, very uncomfortable. And I'm not really sure to whom this vague word is supposed to apply - Foucault? He ...

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Date:	Sun Mar 21 08:13:12 PDT 2010

3167 [lbo-talk] Texas school board drops Jefferson, adds Calvin -- rank: 1000

On Mar 20, 2010, at 11:41 PM, Jeffrey Fisher wrote: > But I admit I kept my mouth shut. Which in general I should do more > often. Not here, I hope. Doug

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Date:	Sun Mar 21 07:25:35 PDT 2010

3168 [lbo-talk] it's done -- rank: 1000

POLITICO Breaking News: ----------------------------------------------------- House Democratic Caucus Chairman John Larson says Democrats have clinched the 216 votes they need to pass President Barack Obama's health-reform plan. "We have the votes now -- as we speak," Larson told ABC's "This Week." "President Roosevelt passed Social Security. Lyndon Johnson passed Medicare. Today, Barack Obama will pass health- care reform. Pressed if some Democrats may lose their s ...

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Date:	Sun Mar 21 07:23:51 PDT 2010

3169 [lbo-talk] why liberal Dems are absolutely useless or worse -- rank: 1000

On Mar 19, 2010, at 7:58 PM, SA wrote: > I've long thought it's unfortunate that FDL is, apparently, the > leading voice of opposition to the bill from the left. I don't find > their arguments all that impressive. I think they're usually full of > holes and I have to confess I don't really trust them to get their > facts right. In this list they don't cite any sources or define any > of their terms. I see a lot of footnotes and links within the main table. And the sources look ...

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Date:	Sat Mar 20 05:18:08 PDT 2010

3170 [lbo-talk] interview of the day -- rank: 1000

http://www.viceland.com/wp/2010/03/what-makes-a-fart/

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Date:	Fri Mar 19 13:24:52 PDT 2010

3171 [lbo-talk] why liberal Dems are absolutely useless or worse -- rank: 1000

On Mar 19, 2010, at 4:11 PM, Somebody Somebody wrote: > Winging it has helped produce the atrocious health indicators that > make the U.S. the embarrassment of the industrialized world. I'll bet poverty and insecurity have contributed at least as much. Doug

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Date:	Fri Mar 19 13:16:12 PDT 2010

3172 [lbo-talk] why liberal Dems are absolutely useless or worse -- rank: 1000

On Mar 19, 2010, at 4:00 PM, Matthias Wasser wrote: > Then why do they oppose it now? They do? I thought they'd been pretty quiet. They wrote the draft of the Senate bill, which is pretty much what they're voting on now. Wall Street seems happy with events: over the last year, Aetna stock is up 40%; United Health, almost 60%; Wellpoint, almost 80%; and Cigna, 100%. All but Aetna are outperforming the S&P, which is up just 50%. Doug

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Date:	Fri Mar 19 13:14:18 PDT 2010

3173 [lbo-talk] why liberal Dems are absolutely useless or worse -- rank: 1000

On Mar 19, 2010, at 3:33 PM, Somebody Somebody wrote: > Is forcing people to buy health insurance, with the assistance of > significant subsidies, worse than the status quo? Only if you buy > into the libertarian notion that Americans should be free to choose > or not choose to buy and sell products and services as they see fit. Forcing people to buy shitty insurance from private vendors is outrageous. Subsidizing that is also outrageous. Nice if you're an insco, though.

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Date:	Fri Mar 19 12:37:03 PDT 2010

3174 [lbo-talk] why liberal Dems are absolutely useless or worse -- rank: 1000

On Mar 19, 2010, at 10:34 AM, SA wrote: > But in the end, the progressives got maneuvered into an up or down > vote where they would kill the bill for good if they voted no. Just > to clarify, if the bill passes 30 million people get health > insurance, if it fails, they don't. You seem to think it's obvious > that for an earnest liberal killing the bill is the best thing to do An impressive list of reasons why this bill sucks and should fail: <http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/ ...

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Date:	Fri Mar 19 11:42:54 PDT 2010

3175 [lbo-talk] why liberal Dems are absolutely useless or worse -- rank: 1000

On Mar 19, 2010, at 10:34 AM, SA wrote: > Just to clarify, if the bill passes 30 million people get health > insurance, if it fails, they don't. You seem to think it's obvious > that for an earnest liberal killing the bill is the best thing to > do, but that doesn't seem so clear to me. One of the reasons the right has been so successful is that they don't mind driving the train off the rails, or threatening to. I admire their maximalism in defense of their principles. Liberal Demo ...

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Date:	Fri Mar 19 11:13:35 PDT 2010

3176 [lbo-talk] green consumers: thieving pricks -- rank: 1000

On Mar 19, 2010, at 11:23 AM, Miles Jackson wrote: > I'm making no heroic assumptions; I'm just passing along what every > statistics student learns in their first course on probability. If > you randomly assign people to two groups, the potential confounds > are also randomly distributed across the groups, and it is not > plausible to argue that the groups systematically differ. Really, > it's Probability 101. Random assignment to experimental condition > is a very power ...

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Date:	Fri Mar 19 10:16:54 PDT 2010

3177 [lbo-talk] why liberal Dems are absolutely useless or worse -- rank: 1000

On Mar 19, 2010, at 7:01 AM, Max B. Sawicky wrote: > There's nothing wrong with holding out for a deal and ultimately > relenting > when it is not forthcoming. The Blue Dogs, etc., threatened to vote no and meant it. They got what they wanted. The pwog never do, and never do.

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Date:	Fri Mar 19 04:23:33 PDT 2010

3178 [lbo-talk] the Kultur Krisis -- rank: 1000

On Mar 18, 2010, at 10:58 PM, shag carpet bomb wrote: > no shit. what a hand-wringing, henny penny turd of an article, turd > of a thesis. *shudder* That's a compellingly argued refutation, I gotta say.

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Date:	Thu Mar 18 20:26:31 PDT 2010

3179 [lbo-talk] why liberal Dems are absolutely useless or worse -- rank: 1000

<http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0310/Rahm_vindicated.html> March 17, 2010 Categories: Healthcare Rahm, vindicated? Greg Sargent notes a new poll today indicating that liberal voters are totally unified behind passing the health care plan. A mere three percent oppose it. That's a public sentiment that makes it a whole lot easier for even Dennis Kucinich to come along. But if the bill passes with unified, if grumbly, support on the left, it would seem to vindicate the White House ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 18 18:38:55 PDT 2010

3180 [lbo-talk] teacher union bashing -- rank: 1000

On Mar 18, 2010, at 8:27 PM, Wojtek S wrote: > I recently talked to several liberal Democrats who engaged in > teacher union > bashing, expressing variants of the opinion that public schools are > full of > bad teachers protected by powerful unions. This has traditionally > been a > Repug trope, so hearing this from the liberal quarters comes as a > bit of a > surprise. Any thoughts? A lot of "liberal Democrats" don't like unions. My Yale class is full of ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 18 18:15:43 PDT 2010