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5581 [lbo-talk] a blog -- rank: 1000

On Jan 19, 2009, at 1:33 PM, Dennis Perrin wrote: > A "blog" eh? I've heard of those. How long before you start posting > YouTube vids of No Wave bands, and pix of Liza and Ivan? That's what Facebook is for, no? Doug

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Date:	Mon Jan 19 11:09:47 PST 2009

5582 [lbo-talk] a blog -- rank: 1000

On Jan 19, 2009, at 1:48 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote: > What's that tie you're sporting? Agnes B. Shirt too. Got married in that tie (along with a lot of other Agnes B stuff). Doug

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Date:	Mon Jan 19 10:53:15 PST 2009

5583 [lbo-talk] [Fwd: this is big news] -- rank: 1000

On Jan 19, 2009, at 1:10 PM, SA wrote: > I should have added that the time to recognize a unity government > was when the Palestinians actually had a fucking unity govt, in > 2006. Now it may be too late. Maybe that's why BHO gave it the nod.

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Date:	Mon Jan 19 10:28:26 PST 2009

5584 [lbo-talk] a blog -- rank: 1000

Egad, I've moistened my toe. I've just posted the texts of my radio commentaries since October 30, 2008, to a "blog": <http://doughenwood.wordpress.com>. It's very rudimentary right now; more to come as time permits. Doug

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Date:	Mon Jan 19 10:27:26 PST 2009

5585 [lbo-talk] gloom: freshly posted -- rank: 1000

[from LBO #119, just posted to web] Gloomy, w/ a 15% chance of depression LBO has often described the U.S. economy by invoking the old Timex watch slogan from the 1950s, Takes a licking and keeps on ticking. Crash follows upon panic follows upon bust, and yet the thing keeps getting up again to binge some more. These remarkable feats of renewal, though, have always come with big help from the U.S. government, either multibillion dollar bailouts or long rounds of indulgent monetary policy ...

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Date:	Mon Jan 19 10:25:41 PST 2009

5586 [lbo-talk] targeted strikes -- rank: 1000

On Jan 19, 2009, at 6:25 AM, SA wrote: > It's an old New York Times tradition to wait tactfully until after > the event to tell its readers, elliptically, what was really going on: > > > http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/19/world/middleeast/19assess.html?partner=rss&emc=rss > >> The caution is at least in part because Hamas wants to keep ruling >> in Gaza, not return to its previous role as a pure resistance >> movement. Therefore, Israeli officials say, an o ...

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Date:	Mon Jan 19 08:54:59 PST 2009

5587 [lbo-talk] Obama reaching out to McCain -- rank: 1000

[If McCain won, would he be doing this? Money quotes: "many of these appointments [McCain] would have made himself" and "Obama does not want to be the guy who lost Iraq when it is close to being won."] New York Times - January 19, 2009 <http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/19/us/politics/19mccain.html> Obama Reaches Out for McCain s Counsel By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK WASHINGTON Not long after Senator John McCain returned last month from an official trip to Iraq and Pakistan ...

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Date:	Mon Jan 19 06:38:57 PST 2009

5588 [lbo-talk] Ways to close Gaza's tunnels -- and why they all won't quite work -- rank: 1000

On Jan 19, 2009, at 9:12 AM, Michael Pollak wrote: > It's kind of amazing, really. It seems like yet another testament > to Dwayne's postulate that in the long term there is no > technological fix that can stop determined low-tech human > inventiveness. Yeah, but that probably won't stop the Israelis (or Americans, in different places) from bombing anyway, will it? Doug

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Date:	Mon Jan 19 06:34:36 PST 2009

5589 [lbo-talk] BHO's seduction of right far more extensive than thought -- rank: 1000

[via Lou Proyect - Jonathan "J. Mart" Martin covered the Reps during the recent campaign] <http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0109/17532.html> Obama tries to seduce Republicans By: Jonathan Martin January 17, 2009 10:25 AM EST It's no secret Barack Obama is trying to seduce Republicans these days. But his conservative courting runs much deeper and wider than is publicly known. Obama has had meetings with his former opponent John McCain, GOP congressional leaders and some of ...

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Date:	Sun Jan 18 18:42:37 PST 2009

5590 [lbo-talk] Indie 103 RIP -- rank: 1000

On Jan 18, 2009, at 7:25 PM, Dennis Claxton quoted: > Sovell also blamed the station s poor PPM or Portable People Meter, > an Arbitron-made device used to monitor how many people are > listening to a station rating, despite Indie s fervent fanbase of > listeners who attended events. All stations with eclectic > programming don t register well with PPM, Sovell said. PPM is not > even certified in Los Angeles but Arbitron pushed it through early > because they make more ...

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Date:	Sun Jan 18 18:16:44 PST 2009

5591 [lbo-talk] buy Madonna's crotch -- rank: 1000

A hirsute pic, from 1979, that is: <http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=searchresults&intObjectID=5176357&sid=6e6cf1e0-1265-4b5c-ba6e-e996895d46c7 > [via Gawker]

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Date:	Sat Jan 17 18:27:50 PST 2009

5592 [lbo-talk] Friedman on Gaza -- rank: 1000

On Jan 17, 2009, at 12:18 PM, Michael Pollak wrote: > On Sat, 17 Jan 2009, shag carpet bomb wrote: > >>> the Flatman >> >> great nickname for the guy! but, oh, it's so hard to read even >> mockery of Friedman sometimes because I end up missing Carl Remick. > > That wasn't true of me before you said it but it is now. How > poignantly sad. We should mark his anniversary somehow. We just missed the anniversary of his death - January 7, 2008. I didn't lea ...

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Date:	Sat Jan 17 11:47:37 PST 2009

5593 [lbo-talk] this recession thing is serious! -- rank: 1000

<http://gawker.com/5133671/new-waverly-inn-reservation-strategy-walk-in-ask-for-a-table > RESTAURANTS New Waverly Inn Reservation Strategy: Walk In, Ask for a Table By Gabriel Snyder, 11:21 AM on Sat Jan 17 2009, 2,251 views Danger Graydon Carter, your oh-so-exclusive Waverly Inn brand is slipping. The West Village paparazzi-magnet restaurant just seated a blogger. Who walked in off the street. To launch a new restaurant review series for Examiner.com, Phil Anschutz's experiment in citi ...

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Date:	Sat Jan 17 11:27:58 PST 2009

5594 [lbo-talk] Connie Praises Negroponte -- rank: 1000

On Jan 16, 2009, at 8:06 PM, Ismail Lagardien wrote: > In her farewell speech to state department employees Connie Rice said: > > I want to say thanks to John Negroponte, my > wingman, who does exemplify not just the finest in the Foreign > Service, > but the finest in the Foreign Service for a very, very long time. > John, > thank you for serving for 44 years. (Applause.) > > http://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2009/01/115155.ht Nice. The angry liberals on MSNBC can' ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 16 18:13:29 PST 2009

5595 [lbo-talk] How Politics Ruined My Life: Was Fuck Hope -- rank: 1000

On Jan 16, 2009, at 6:00 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > But I find it easy to > admire a work just for its power in presenting a worldview I despise. More readings of poetry, please, Carrol. You said the other day: "What are the qualities of "modern life" (or developed capitalism in the west) that make it possible for Fascism to be _the_ metaphor for clarity for one of the greatest poets of the age?" Well, why do you think? Doug

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Date:	Fri Jan 16 18:12:07 PST 2009