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3286 [lbo-talk] Obama gives Blue Dogs what they want - will they buy it? -- rank: 1000

<http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/blue-dog-dream> A Blue Dog Dream Obama just offered moderates everything. Will they flip? Neera Tanden So, rather inevitably, the fate of health care reform now rests largely with a group of Blue Dog Democrats in the House. More specifically, the question is: Can Nancy Pelosi convince a small fraction of her caucus to endorse the Senate version of the bill, even though they initially rejected the House s iteration? She ll need to flip these members ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 3 15:01:54 PST 2010

3287 [lbo-talk] life at the top -- rank: 1000

Yuck: http://www.vanityfair.com/business/features/2010/04/lehman-wives-201004?currentPage=1

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Date:	Wed Mar 3 09:33:58 PST 2010

3288 [lbo-talk] what America's most obese metro areas have in common -- rank: 1000

<http://www.gallup.com/poll/126242/America-Obese-Metro-Areas- Common.aspx> March 2, 2010 What America's Most Obese Metro Areas Have in Common Montgomery, Ala., and Stockton, Calif., Tie for Most Obese in U.S. by Elizabeth Mendes Gallup and Healthways started collecting BMI data as part of the Well- Being Index in January of 2008 and surveyed in 187 metro areas in 2009. This is the first in a two-part series reviewing the most and least obese metro areas in the United States. Gallup will ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 2 10:04:01 PST 2010

3289 [lbo-talk] Philip Mirowski - Social Physicist -- rank: 1000

On Mar 2, 2010, at 9:24 AM, B. wrote: > I began as a Sociology major and I'll be honest, thanks to some of > the particular/individual teachers I had, it opened ideological > doors, but also introduced me to vocabulary like "Intersectionality" > and "multiplicity of oppressions," and "subaltern," etc., - even > "surplus value" - that folks outside academia - to whom these terms > referred, btw - has had zero impact in my relating to peopl ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 2 08:26:50 PST 2010

3290 [lbo-talk] Philip Mirowski - Social Physicist -- rank: 1000

On Mar 2, 2010, at 12:47 AM, Joanna wrote: > All my reading and research in middle ages, high middle ages, and > renaissance completely supports this view. A lot of the > "Renaissance" was a counterrevolution. It is far too easy to be liberal at the expense of the Middle Ages. - Marx

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Date:	Tue Mar 2 05:27:54 PST 2010

3291 [lbo-talk] "Norma Rae" hated Bruce Raynor -- rank: 1000

<http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0310/Norma_Rae_criticized_old_ally.html > 'Norma Rae' criticized old ally [Ben Smith] Crystal Lee Sutton, the late labor hero fictionalized as "Norma Rae," bitterly criticized a prominent labor leader who made his name organizing her North Carolina textile mill, according to an interview in a new book on labor organizing. Sutton, who died last fall, defied the management of J.P. Stephens' Roanoke Rapids plant, and was fired for backing ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 1 12:58:37 PST 2010

3292 [lbo-talk] Van Jones, in comeback, courts GOP, becomes colleague of MHL -- rank: 1000

On Mar 1, 2010, at 12:48 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Max Sawicky wrote: >> >> Speaking from experience, when you're young you do crazy shit. > > Your experience may not be universal. When young, I enlisted in the > USAF > to stay out of the infanrtry And I was in the party of the right! According to what I hear, people in the green world likes Jones very much because he's an attention hog and a real expert at kissing the program officers' ass. Glenn Beck doesn't deserve ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 1 11:26:49 PST 2010

3293 [lbo-talk] Van Jones, in comeback, courts GOP, becomes colleague of MHL -- rank: 1000

On Mar 1, 2010, at 6:34 AM, John Adams wrote: > I read this quote yesterday and liked this sentence in particular: > "I love you and you cannot do anything about it." That's nice > rhetoric. Don't you think Jones got the best of this exchange? No. Beck is right to give him a hard time about STORM. The guy was a revolutionary Maoist and now he's kissing the ass of the GOP. Isn't that just a teensy bit repulsive?

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Date:	Mon Mar 1 04:07:44 PST 2010

3294 [lbo-talk] workers take pay in virtual coin -- rank: 1000

On Jun 30, 2010, at 6:38 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > If you are unemployed, one of the rather important secondary effects is > the demoralization of sitting around doing nothing. Someone says if you > do a little work for me I'll pay for your video game time. Both the work > and the play seem a better deal than sitting home staring at daytime tv. Well yeah. But I took this as yet another example of how the working class - and not only in the U.S. - has barely uttered a peep of protest wh ...

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Date:	Wed Jun 30 15:44:53 PDT 2010

3295 [lbo-talk] When Empires Lose It -- rank: 1000

On Jun 29, 2010, at 9:25 AM, Carrol Cox wrote: > It is really detached from reality to speak of the "fall" of modern > empires or of the "decadence" of capitalism. The organic metaphor of > decadence was relevant only to empires based on coercion-grounded > exploitation. It has no relevance to capitalism, which is endlessly > self-renewing through the very ccatastrophes that tempt weak-minded > anti-capitalists to shout hurrah, capitalism is falling. This is ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 29 08:41:29 PDT 2010

3296 [lbo-talk] Move On: We Betray Ourselves -- rank: 1000

On Jun 28, 2010, at 11:29 AM, SA wrote: > I think there's a certain unhealthy rhetorical outbidding that takes place on the US left (totally absent in France, AFAICT) concerning "The Democrats." No one wants to be left vulnerable to the accusation that they're "soft on democrats." Really? No one? A lot of pretty sophisticated leftists drank the Obama Kool-Aid, and it's only now that some of them are recovering. The Nation magazine, which is certainly part of the U.S. left, ...

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Date:	Mon Jun 28 08:48:00 PDT 2010

3297 [lbo-talk] Move On: We Betray Ourselves -- rank: 1000

On Jun 25, 2010, at 8:53 PM, Michael Pollak wrote: > Yet, MoveOn kept that ad up on its website for three years . . . > until a few days ago when it decided to remove it. Ha! Noticed that myself the other day. It's still cached in Google, though. It's a dumb ad.

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Date:	Fri Jun 25 18:06:58 PDT 2010

3298 [lbo-talk] Garry Wills does nice short summary of RS article -- rank: 1000

On Jun 25, 2010, at 4:17 PM, Eric Beck wrote: > So you're saying Obama and his team want chaos? PS: There's a certain impulse to assert that any outcome is what the planners wanted, because they're so wise & powerful. Doug

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Date:	Fri Jun 25 13:33:52 PDT 2010

3299 [lbo-talk] Garry Wills does nice short summary of RS article -- rank: 1000

On Jun 25, 2010, at 4:17 PM, Eric Beck wrote: > Dennis' question is a good one, not just because of its immediate > content but because it says we should look about what's actually > happened rather than at elites' ideologies. Trying to describe what's > happened by divining the aims of "US planning" and "central planners" > -- which are comically corny phrases in 2010 -- guarantees you end up > with a very partial description. The declarations about the pla ...

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Date:	Fri Jun 25 13:25:47 PDT 2010

3300 [lbo-talk] Garry Wills does nice short summary of RS article -- rank: 1000

On Jun 25, 2010, at 1:46 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote: > At 06:01 AM 6/25/2010, Carrol Cox wrote: > > >> Think of "keeping a friendly climate for business" (not just U.S. >> business but world business). Think of the threat to that business >> climate by serious chaos in the Middle East & South Asia, and of how >> vital Middle-East oil is for the whole global economy. > > > So how does creating serious chaos meet that goal? Maybe Carrol and Car ...

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Date:	Fri Jun 25 12:24:43 PDT 2010