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33091 Nation endorses wanker Mark Green for NYC mayor -- rank: 1000

Not really. Bloomberg would probably be "better" than Rudy, and no worse than Green. The Dem machine in NYC is awful, truly awful, and must be destroyed before anything good can happen. Doug Max Sawicky wrote: >TWTB Alert! > >mbs >(Chmn Mao: 'The Worse, The Better') > >--------------- > >>Doug, have you ever supported a candidate who had a chance of winning >>office? > >-I'm thinking of voting for Bloomberg, because I think that any hope >-for ...

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Date:	Tue Aug 14 12:29:03 PDT 2001

33092 Nation endorses wanker Mark Green for NYC mayor -- rank: 1000

Dennis wrote: >Actually, when it looked like Messinger and Rev. Al were going to go to a >run-off in the last election, I urged all my friends to vote for Sharpton so >that he would be the Dem nominee. "I never liked Jerry Brown. If he were, by some miracle, to get the Democratic nomination, it would destroy the Democratic Party. If he were, by some greater miracle, to be elected president, it would destroy the United States. That's why I'm for Jerry Brown." - Andy Kopkind, qu ...

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Date:	Tue Aug 14 13:07:59 PDT 2001

33093 winners and losers -- rank: 1000

Alec Ramsdell wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote: > >> But otherwise, I'm proud to >> support only losers! > >Is it sympathy for the underdog, or principled >consideration of right and wrong that motivate your >support? Or are political ties that strong for you? It was mainly a joke. I am pretty certain, though, that any candidate nominated by the Dems is going to be awful and not worthy of support. Doug

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Date:	Tue Aug 14 12:26:33 PDT 2001

33094 Nation endorses wanker Mark Green for NYC mayor -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Contracts to negotiate- what a terrible thing for unions to concentrate on, >especially when decent wages are one of the best ways to pump money into >low-income communities. It is your scorn for union contracts as a solution >to low-income poverty that is a big part of your whole political position. That is just totally untrue. I'm pretty uncompromising in my support for unions. Even bad ones are better than no unions at all. I even belong to one, and have fo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 14 11:21:30 PDT 2001

33095 Capitalism's rate of decay ( Communication) -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >Are you saying "lets hurry up and end capitalism" ? Or that because >it hasn't had an accelerated rate of decay, it will never end ? I'm all for ending capitalism. It's not likely to end itself. Doug

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Date:	Tue Aug 14 09:55:23 PDT 2001

33096 Nation endorses wanker Mark Green for NYC mayor -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >How do you clear neighborhoods of beggars? How about affordable housing, >health care and better funding of drug treatment and mental health centers-- >all of which Green supports. Right. And I'll bet you $100 he doesn't do anything substantial to make those a reality. If and when he took office, we'd hear about economic realities and the need to make tough choices, etc. etc., just like his models, Clinton & Blair. >And obviously unions, ACORN and a host of ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 14 09:52:14 PDT 2001

33097 Nation endorses wanker Mark Green for NYC mayor -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Johannes Schneider wrote: >> >> "Just as Clinton and Blair learned from Reagan but remained center-left >> leaders, I will keep the best of Giuliani's policies and go beyond him." >> >> -- Mark Green >> >> quoted in today's Washington Post >> > >Never in the history of u.s. politics has any politician so utterly >condemned himself. Oh, but you see Green was endorsed by the Working Families Party, which a ...

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Date:	Tue Aug 14 09:48:28 PDT 2001

33098 Fwd: Aug. 15, 1971 -- rank: 1000

[speaking of anniversaries, Jude Wanniski writes...] Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 11:50:17 -0400 To: politics at polyconomics.com From: Jude Wanniski <jwanniski at polyconomics.com> Subject: Aug. 15, 1971 Please note tomorrow, the 15th, is the 30th anniversary of Nixon taking the dollar off the gold standard. Over the weekend, Barron's published a 1200-word commentary I wrote for it, recollecting how I covered the event for the old National Observer. For those of you who were not active in journ ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 14 09:43:23 PDT 2001

33099 Nation endorses wanker Mark Green for NYC mayor -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Yes-- all to the nice rhetoric, just as Bush is a "compassionate >conservative." What policies that Green is proposing- other than expanding >health care for children, jailing abusive cops, defending labor unions right >to organize, and expanding affordable housing - do people find so >objectionable. Bet you $100 that these policies will be mainly rhetorical, and that almost nothing of substance will come of them. >I remember meeting with Doug n ...

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Date:	Tue Aug 14 08:12:51 PDT 2001

33100 filtration -- rank: 1000

More corporate censorship. This filter doesn't like nasty words. In retaliation, the obscene name of the corporation has been censored. Doug >X-From_: administrator@*.com Tue Aug 14 10:55:01 2001 >From: administrator@*.com >To: owner-lbo-talk at dont.panix.com >Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 10:51:59 -0400 (EDT) >Subject: RE:Re: Metahabermassification (was: Re: lbo-talk-digest V1 #4737) >MIME-Version: 1.0 > >Your e-mail to *@*.com > regarding "Re: Metahabermassification ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 14 08:00:03 PDT 2001

33101 Metahabermassification (was: Re: lbo-talk-digest V1 #4737) -- rank: 1000

Johannes Schneider wrote: > > >> The End. Fin. Die Ende. >> > >Die Ente, aber das Ende. Sorry. My German is very rusty, and the first thing that went was the noun genders. Which is, of course, of no psychological significance. Doug

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Date:	Tue Aug 14 07:52:47 PDT 2001

33102 Metahabermassification (was: Re: lbo-talk-digest V1 #4737) -- rank: 1000

Gordon Fitch wrote: >But now we have entered the phase of the metadiscussion, the >arguing about the argument, which means we are near the end >anyway. Does anyone want to take issue with that? The End. Fin. Die Ende.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 14 07:22:36 PDT 2001

33103 boomer bashing -- rank: 1000

Lawrence wrote: >I thought it was unfair that my generation was being blamed for America's >industrial decline. We had been too young to have any influence on any of >the important decisions. We had not chosen to run up 2 trillion in Federal >debt, we had not decided to build an economy that sucked too much oil, we >had not chosen to let the Savings and Loans industry speculate in real >estate. It was reactionary to blame the young for the nation's problems, >though I unders ...

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Date:	Tue Aug 14 07:04:22 PDT 2001

33104 Habermas -- rank: 1000

Gar Lipow wrote: >Does all this Habermas discussion make anyone miss the "Buffy the >Vampire Slayer" thread? Yup, me for one. Maybe I'm misjudging the audience, but it seems to me that the Habermas thing has long outlived its interest to nonparticipants. Doug

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Date:	Tue Aug 14 06:50:59 PDT 2001

33105 Communication -- rank: 1000

Ian Murray wrote: >"Information economics has made us realize how much of standard >economics is based on foundations resting on quicksand." >[Joseph Stiglitz] "Why do people buy those stocks?" - Joseph Stiglitz, in the midst of the dot.com mania

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Date:	Tue Aug 14 06:29:56 PDT 2001