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3196 [lbo-talk] monied shunning Obama - blame Desiree? -- rank: 1000

<http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0310/34467.html> Elite donors dodge the DNC By: Jeanne Cummings March 16, 2010 04:53 AM EDT Former White House social secretary Desiree Rogers took plenty of blame for the gate crashers at President Barack Obama s first state dinner and for posing for fashion shoots in glossy magazines. But a previously undisclosed gripe about her provides another explanation for her abrupt departure last month: Some of Obama s biggest fundraisers, already chafing ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 16 13:25:29 PDT 2010

3197 [lbo-talk] FOMC statement -- rank: 1000

[Still with the "exceptionally low" and "extended period." They're getting ready to get ready to withdraw some stimulus....] <http://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/press/monetary/20100316a.htm> Press Release Release Date: March 16, 2010 For immediate release Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in January suggests that economic activity has continued to strengthen and that the labor market is stabilizing. Household spending is expandin ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 16 12:50:32 PDT 2010

3198 [lbo-talk] fates -- rank: 1000

Obamamania transformed into a ballot line for a face-slasher: http://www.theawl.com/2010/03/a-slice-of-life-from-queens-on-election-day

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Date:	Tue Mar 16 12:26:04 PDT 2010

3199 [lbo-talk] Texas school board drops Jefferson, adds Calvin -- rank: 1000

On Mar 16, 2010, at 2:23 PM, Michael Smith wrote: > I've always thought Jefferson was overrated -- a provincial Sir Oracle > with a bad case of France envy. Like I say, I'm no fan of Jefferson. But he's pretty important to the evolution of American politics, no? Doug

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Date:	Tue Mar 16 11:30:34 PDT 2010

3200 [lbo-talk] Texas school board drops Jefferson, adds Calvin -- rank: 1000

On Mar 16, 2010, at 1:20 PM, Chris Doss wrote: > To be fair, while taking Jefferson out is weird, you can't really > understand the Enlightenment without including its twin, the > Protestant Reformation, and without including what both were > reacting to, Aquinas. No you can't. Of course people should study Aquinas and Calvin. And I'm no fan of Jefferson. But you know the reason he was taken out is that he was secular. Doug

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Date:	Tue Mar 16 11:24:05 PDT 2010

3201 [lbo-talk] green consumers: thieving pricks -- rank: 1000

On Mar 16, 2010, at 9:58 AM, Matthias Wasser wrote: > I can't buy the "apple logo increases creativity" finding, but > hilarious it > certainly is. <http://www.informationweek.com/news/internet/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=206904786 > Apple's Logo Makes You More Creative Than IBM's Researchers with Duke University and Canada's University of Waterloo claim a mere 30-millisecond exposure to famous brand logos can influence view behavior. By Thomas Claburn InformationWeek ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 16 07:10:24 PDT 2010

3202 [lbo-talk] Texas school board drops Jefferson, adds Calvin -- rank: 1000

<http://tfninsider.org/2010/03/11/blogging-the-social-studies-debate- iv/> Blogging the Social Studies Debate IV By TFN 9:20 The State Board of Education will resume debate and amending proposed new social studies curriculum standards for Texas public schools this morning. Board members are getting a short lesson on parliamentary procedure right now. 9:27 The board is taking up remaining amendments on the high school world history course. 9:30 Board member Cynthia Dunbar wants to ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 16 07:08:09 PDT 2010

3203 [lbo-talk] Hitch: group sex with Bill C -- rank: 1000

Oh yes, the Hitchens excerpt also includes memories of romping with Bill Clinton & his lesbic girlfriend.

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Date:	Tue Mar 16 06:51:14 PDT 2010

3204 [lbo-talk] Hitch's sexual history -- rank: 1000

An excerpt from Christopher Hitchens' memoirs - sex at boarding school, etc.: http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/book_extracts/article7060908.ece

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Date:	Tue Mar 16 06:48:55 PDT 2010

3205 [lbo-talk] green consumers: thieving pricks -- rank: 1000

Guardian - March 15, 2010 <http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/mar/15/green-consumers-more-likely-steal > How going green may make you mean Ethical consumers less likely to be kind and more likely to steal, study finds Kate Connolly in Berlin When Al Gore was caught running up huge energy bills at home at the same time as lecturing on the need to save electricity, it turns out that he was only reverting to "green" type. According to a study, when people feel they have b ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 16 06:12:52 PDT 2010

3206 [lbo-talk] more on who the TPers are -- rank: 1000

On Mar 16, 2010, at 8:56 AM, Marv Gandall wrote: > I agree with Doug's point, but don't see how it extends to the bank > bailouts, which is what James is criticizing. A proper policy to me > would have been to direct massive state lending and spending in the > first place at household debt relief and the maintenance of jobs and > mass purchasing power. How much persuasive evidence is there that > the entire international financial edifice would have been brought > down if a ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 16 06:10:06 PDT 2010

3207 [lbo-talk] Remember Colombia? -- rank: 1000

On Mar 15, 2010, at 8:26 PM, Grammenos, Dennis wrote: > Remember Colombia? > > by Dennis Grammenos Housekeeping note: this was sent to the list as formatted HTML that somehow swelled to 196k. When stripped of all the formatting and turned into a plain text file, it was 15k. PLAIN TEXT, PLEASE! Ok? Doug

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Date:	Mon Mar 15 18:08:27 PDT 2010

3208 [lbo-talk] more on who the TPers are -- rank: 1000

On Mar 15, 2010, at 8:09 PM, James Heartfield wrote: > I am just surprised that included in those right wing views is a > negative opinion of massive subsidies to capitalism, while the left > must adopt the role of defending welfare handouts for billionaire > bankers. That's one way to put it. Another way would be to say that the left has supported state intervention to prevent depressions while the right has followed the Mellon "liquidate, liquidate, liquidate" line. Dou ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 15 18:02:13 PDT 2010

3209 [lbo-talk] more on who the TPers are -- rank: 1000

On Mar 15, 2010, at 5:34 PM, ken hanly wrote: > Lots of former leftwingers such as Trotskyists have become right > wingers. Why is it impossible to go the other way. Isn't that what > happened to one Doug Henwood? For me, my sojourn on the right was a detour. I became a Marxist in 8th grade, in the way that an 8th grader can become a Marxist, of course. Doug

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Date:	Mon Mar 15 14:51:12 PDT 2010

3210 [lbo-talk] more on who the TPers are -- rank: 1000

On Mar 15, 2010, at 4:35 PM, James Heartfield wrote: > Doug posts on the tea-baggers: > > 'That ideological rigidity bore itself out when respondents .. > blast .. the Troubled Asset Relief Program (a favorite > target of tea partiers)' > > Yup, plainly they are vicious right-wingers. Why else would they > object to Washington shovelling shedloads of money into the pockets > of the wealthiest people in the USA Ah, ellipses are so useful: Not only did respondents blast ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 15 13:43:57 PDT 2010