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3541 [lbo-talk] corporate personhood -- rank: 1000

On Jan 27, 2010, at 11:35 PM, Mike Beggs wrote: > I think SA is completely right that socialism means Soviet Russia by > default in the public imagination and it is ridiculous to not think or > talk about the nuts and bolts of socialist economic organisation. I used to think that but now I wonder how many people have an idea about what the USSR was. It going on 20 years since it fell apart. Doug

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Date:	Thu Jan 28 06:21:36 PST 2010

3542 [lbo-talk] What are we waiting for? -- rank: 1000

On Jan 27, 2010, at 10:56 PM, Michael Smith wrote: > I can improve on that, I think. The hell with > "education" This is the guy who objected to "bon mots" the other day? Doug

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Date:	Wed Jan 27 20:27:54 PST 2010

3543 [lbo-talk] Howard Zinn, historian who challenged status quo, dies at 87 -- rank: 1000

The capitalist hyena press has such trouble dealing with radicals. "Challenged status quo." Imagine that!

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Date:	Wed Jan 27 17:36:47 PST 2010

3544 [lbo-talk] corporate personhood -- rank: 1000

On Jan 27, 2010, at 1:52 PM, SA wrote: > Why is an unincorporated business better than a corporation? Because it's small and cute rather than big and ugly.

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3545 [lbo-talk] liveblogging SOTU -- rank: 1000

I'll be liveblogging the State of the Union at the IPA website: http://ipaccuracy.wordpress.com/

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Date:	Wed Jan 27 10:50:10 PST 2010

3546 [lbo-talk] termitude -- rank: 1000

On Jan 27, 2010, at 10:27 AM, Max Sawicky wrote: > But the numbers say Federal non-defense spending is robust, even > granting the Obama budget proposal. In 1991 it was 15.1% of GDP, > a peak after some hits during the Reagan administration (roughly > 3% of GDP, which is big in this context). Bush I nearly restored it > to pre-Reagan levels. Clinton took it down to as low as 13.6. > Bush II brought it back to 15.3, nearly the post-WWII peak. The > projected level after th ...

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3547 [lbo-talk] corporate personhood -- rank: 1000

On Jan 26, 2010, at 11:53 PM, Eubulides wrote: > Morris Cohen, Louis Brandeis and Robert Hale are more important to > them than Marx and Keynes. Is that good, bad, indifferent, or all three, or something else?

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Date:	Tue Jan 26 20:59:12 PST 2010

3548 [lbo-talk] termitude -- rank: 1000

On Jan 26, 2010, at 5:30 PM, Dennis Perrin wrote: > Oh, grow up Doug. According to Rick Hertzberg in the exciting new > issue of The Nation, such statements are "infantile." You don't want > to be a juvenile delinquent, do you? I loved the layout that put Hertzberg's douchebaggy remarks next to Adolph Reed's. It's like the editors wanted to calm the nerves of their loyal readers. Doug

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3549 [lbo-talk] termitude -- rank: 1000

On Jan 26, 2010, at 2:55 PM, James Heartfield wrote: > Doug: 'he's going to be a shitty one-term president, the way things > are going' > > I am intrigued. It doesn't look so bad from over here. Do you mean > bad relative to the expectations in him, or bad relative to the > previous incumbent? Well, his policies - from health care to Gitmo to Afghanistan - have mostly sucked, his approval ratings are quite low, political discourse is careening toward the right, and it looks l ...

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3550 [lbo-talk] termitude -- rank: 1000

On Jan 26, 2010, at 12:47 PM, martin wrote: > On Jan 26, 2010, at 8:51 AM, Doug Henwood wrote: > >> I want to abandon ship. > > Do you have a plan? If I could work out a convenient, sustainable plan of exile, I would.

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Date:	Tue Jan 26 09:58:48 PST 2010

3551 [lbo-talk] termitude -- rank: 1000

Obama: "The one thing I'm clear about is that I'd rather be a really good one-term president than a mediocre two-term president." But he's going to be a shitty one-term president, the way things are going. And he'll be succeeded by something truly horrible. I want to abandon ship.

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Date:	Tue Jan 26 08:51:52 PST 2010

3552 [lbo-talk] the retrenchment begins -- rank: 1000

On Jan 26, 2010, at 10:54 AM, farmelantj at juno.com wrote: > Isn't that what bipartisanship has always meant in > the USA? I think this is actually worse than Clinton. Under Clinton, military spending fell from 4.4% of GDP to 3.0%. The scumbags at Obama's OMB no longer distinguish between domestic and foreign discretionary spending in their budget tables, but total discretionary spending as percent of GDP rose by 0.2 points. Today's NYT piece on this abomination says that domestic di ...

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Date:	Tue Jan 26 08:31:37 PST 2010

3553 [lbo-talk] the journey of a thousand miles... -- rank: 1000

So the discretionary spending freeze is meant to be just an overture. From the NYT story today: > But one administration official said that limiting the much smaller > discretionary domestic budget would have symbolic value. That > spending includes lawmakers earmarks for parochial projects, and > only when the public believes such perceived waste is being wrung > out will they be willing to consider reductions in popular > entitlement programs, the official said. > > B ...

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Date:	Tue Jan 26 08:12:51 PST 2010

3554 [lbo-talk] Obama advisor: business is not a partisan issue -- rank: 1000

<http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0110/31805.html> Valerie Jarrett: 'Business is really not a partisan issue' By JOHN F. HARRIS & EAMON JAVERS | 1/25/10 10:56 PM EST White House senior adviser Valerie Jarrett vowed that President Barack Obama will keep up his aggressive outreach to the business community, even as the president steps up his attacks against irresponsible players on Wall Street and in the insurance industry. Business is really not a partisan issue, Jarrett said in ...

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Date:	Tue Jan 26 04:42:00 PST 2010

3555 [lbo-talk] corporate campaign spending limits, he dead -- rank: 1000

On Jan 25, 2010, at 9:56 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > And there is no kind of fault in any kind > of personal consumption unless it involves breaking a seriou organized > boycott or picket line. I thought we had gotten rid of this sort of > arrant pompous nonsense after the first couple years of this list. The > left is about organized collective activity, not fussing about how > individuals spend or dont't spend their time or their money. I couldn't agree more. I always tell peop ...

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Date:	Mon Jan 25 19:16:54 PST 2010