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4411 [lbo-talk] Max Blumenthal parties with the teabaggers -- rank: 1000

On Sep 17, 2009, at 4:44 PM, SA wrote: > http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2009/09/15/max-blumenthal-covers-the-teabagger-protest/ > > Wow. Hey, James Heartfield. Tell us how these people aren't contemptible? Doug

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4412 [lbo-talk] [Fwd: Re: MoveOn = wankers] -- rank: 1000

On Sep 17, 2009, at 9:13 PM, SA wrote: > A suggestion: You should have a debate between one of these people > and a single payer advocate on your show. Or a roundtable: one > policy person and one activism person from each side. I don't think > I've ever seen something like that done before. Good idea. We're doing an "emergency" fundraiser next week, so god knows what I'll be pitching. Maybe the week after, if the fundraiser doesn't kill me.

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Date:	Thu Sep 17 18:28:34 PDT 2009

4413 [lbo-talk] MoveOn = wankers -- rank: 1000

MoveOn spokestool Ilyse Hogue got all pissy with me when I criticized their ludicrous mobilization email on her Facebook page. Seems I should have contacted her first to find out what they were up to. As if their idiotic document didn't speak for itself.

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Date:	Thu Sep 17 17:54:57 PDT 2009

4414 [lbo-talk] something good to read -- rank: 1000

On Sep 17, 2009, at 8:09 PM, Mike Beggs wrote: > Who knows what will come of it. A revival of the left? It's all hanging on you, comrade!

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Date:	Thu Sep 17 17:53:13 PDT 2009

4415 [lbo-talk] Elizebath Warren -- rank: 1000

On Sep 17, 2009, at 1:47 PM, Chuck Grimes wrote: > Anyway. According to the lbo archives Doug has interviewed her > before. I > was thinking it would be great to hear from her again and try to get > an > update. I've tried. Never had a problem booking her when she was just a bankruptcy pundit. But now that she's the TARP overseer, no such luck. Nothing against her - she's an extremely friendly and generous person. She's just got a lot on her hands.

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4416 [lbo-talk] MoveOn = wankers -- rank: 1000

On Sep 17, 2009, at 1:54 PM, Patrick Bond wrote: > So why do these big NGOs mount campaigns that are so badly thought > through? Basically because they take orders from their bosses, the Dem politicians. I hear that word has come down from the top - meaning the Obama admin - saying that the unions have to keep quiet and stay in line. Or, in the words of a hardcore song I heard once, long ago, on WFMU: "pull your weight/stay straight/don't masturbate."

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4417 [lbo-talk] Baucus health plan -- rank: 1000

On Sep 17, 2009, at 1:47 PM, Wojtek S wrote: > BTW, I heard that the venal AARP is selling out their members again by > supporting the Baucus proposal. I already renounced their > membership when > they sold out to Bush, and I think that others should do the same. > They are > a mouthpiece of the insurance industry anyway Minor correction: they aren't merely a mouthpiece for the industry, they *are* an insurance company. Doug

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4418 [lbo-talk] MoveOn = wankers -- rank: 1000

[Do these people have any idea what's in this "reform"? Are they lying, naive, or stupid?] Dear MoveOn member, Health and insurance interests are spending nearly $5 million per week to oppose health care reform,1 fighting to keep a broken system because it benefits their bottom line. But what we've got right now skyrocketing premiums, denial of treatment, canceling coverage when you get sick is a disaster for regular people. It's time to call Big Insurance out because if they win, ...

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Date:	Thu Sep 17 09:10:42 PDT 2009

4419 [lbo-talk] Signs of the Times -- rank: 1000

On Sep 16, 2009, at 6:19 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote: > I got the impression Taylor liked him a lot, or found him the most > engaging anyway, after Zizek, which I thought was strange. Didn't > she use West as a kind of coda to the whole thing? She did. Astra likes West. I love Astra, but I don't share this weakness of hers.

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Date:	Wed Sep 16 17:17:48 PDT 2009

4420 [lbo-talk] Signs of the times -- rank: 1000

On Sep 16, 2009, at 7:33 PM, Mr. X wrote: > A lot of pagans I have known over the years have come out of the > Morman faith. So its not all one-way. But there's a continuity of bullshit.

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4421 [lbo-talk] Signs of the Times -- rank: 1000

On Sep 16, 2009, at 5:21 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote: > I was responding to the assumption that there are zero intellectuals > among Baptists. I saw that Astra Taylor movie Examined Life earlier > this year and it was kind of a jolt when Baptist Cornel West talked > about his Christianity, but there it is. He was laugh-out-loud, fall-out-of-your-seat ridiculous in that. "I am a bluesman in the life of the mind, a jazzman in the world of ideas."

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Date:	Wed Sep 16 15:12:48 PDT 2009

4422 [lbo-talk] Signs of the Times -- rank: 1000

On Sep 16, 2009, at 4:30 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote: > King had a Ph.D. Does that count? So do Newt Gingrich and Phil Gramm. Not to take anything away from MLK, but I'm not sure what the PhD proves.

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Date:	Wed Sep 16 13:41:55 PDT 2009

4423 [lbo-talk] Van Jones speaks... (response to Doug) -- rank: 1000

On Sep 16, 2009, at 4:16 PM, Anthony Kennerson wrote: > The last thing I would be doing if I were in Jones' shoes would be > to be > ringing flowers on those who abandoned me...unless they were laced > with > angry wasps. But it's all Glenn Beck's fault, don't you see?

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4424 [lbo-talk] is BHO the antichrist? 8% of Garden Staters say yes -- rank: 1000

<http://publicpolicypolling.blogspot.com/2009/09/extremism-in-new-jersey.html > Extremism in New Jersey We've been uncovering a remarkable level of anger toward Barack Obama in a lot of our recent polling so for New Jersey we decided to go a step further in determining how extreme some people's feelings are about the President and asked respondents if they think he is the Anti- Christ. 8% said yes. 13% aren't sure. Among Republicans 14% said yes and 15% weren't sure. Pretty eye popping ...

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4425 [lbo-talk] Signs of the Times -- rank: 1000

On Sep 16, 2009, at 3:39 PM, wrobert at uci.edu wrote: > at this point, the average > protestant where I'm from knows very little about the Bible I was stunned when I taught English at UVa way back in 1979 that I - a lapsed Catholic - knew the bible better than any of the Proddies in my classes. Even a cliche like "the sun also rises" was lost on them.

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Date:	Wed Sep 16 13:11:30 PDT 2009