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5821 [lbo-talk] "great" "conservative" movies -- rank: 1000

On Feb 13, 2009, at 3:24 PM, Chris Doss wrote: > Has anybody else noticed that the conservative (or at least neocon) > deification of Reagan completely ignores his entire second term -- > all those arms deals with the Soviets and taking back his Evil > Empire comment But the Soviet Union collapsed soon after RR left office. And the right credits him for it. Doug

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5822 [lbo-talk] fresh rant -- rank: 1000

<http://doughenwood.wordpress.com/2009/02/13/radio-commentary-february-12-2009/ > Radio commentary, February 12, 2009 Posted by: dhenwood | February 13, 2009 Quite a spectacle in Congress on Wednesday, wasn t it? Watching the assembled CEOs of our biggest banks testifying really put all our pathologies on display. On one side of the table, the bankers looked like dim and evasive hacks it was easy to see how they drove their vehicles into the ditch. But on the other side of the table, m ...

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5823 [lbo-talk] "great" "conservative" movies -- rank: 1000

On Feb 13, 2009, at 1:23 PM, Dennis Perrin wrote: > till, there'd be many more "conservative" films to list if they > expanded their search. They did that in 1994. <http://www.nationalreview.com/conservative_movies/conservative_movies.shtml > It includes How Green Was My Valley, whose screenplay was written by the father of a good friend of mine. He was something of a ComSymp, and he definitely was no conservative. Doug

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5824 [lbo-talk] "great" "conservative" movies -- rank: 1000

On Feb 13, 2009, at 1:08 PM, Dennis Perrin wrote: > What? "The Fountainhead" didn't make it? Is it because Buckley hated > Ayn Rand's ideas, especially her atheism? Almost very right winger I > ever knew loved that film, along with "We The Living." Of the last 25 years. NR was very anti-Rand at one time - dunno about now. Doug

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Date:	Fri Feb 13 10:19:05 PST 2009

5825 [lbo-talk] "great" "conservative" movies -- rank: 1000

<http://www.thesamedame.com/2009/02/national-review-movie-geniuses.html> The National Review = Movie Geniuses Film Criticism has reached its pinnacle in the form of The National Review's "Best Conservative Movies of the last 25 Years." Batman isn't Bruce Wayne, but George W. Bush. The White Witch in "The Chronicles of Narnia" is "a cross between Burgermeister Meisterburger and Kim Jong Il." I can't wait to hear what they say about Slimer! The National Revi ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 13 09:57:46 PST 2009

5826 [lbo-talk] hairy Madonna pic defies the recession -- rank: 1000

On Feb 13, 2009, at 11:53 AM, Dennis Perrin wrote: > Ah, bohemian women. Do they still exist? Yeah. Visit Brooklyn!

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Date:	Fri Feb 13 09:01:36 PST 2009

5827 [lbo-talk] hairy Madonna pic defies the recession -- rank: 1000

<http://gawker.com/5153116/rare-madonna-with-hair-photo-sets-record> Rare 'Madonna With Hair' Photo Sets Record By Hamilton Nolan, 11:38 AM on Fri Feb 13 2009, 162 views That hirstute Madonna nude photo sold for $37,500, more than double its estimate. A-Rod's having a happy Valentine's! True trivia: Madonna got paid $25 for the shoot. Not even enough for Nair.

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Date:	Fri Feb 13 08:48:59 PST 2009

5828 [lbo-talk] Sen. Gregg & Obama, common ground -- rank: 1000

On Feb 13, 2009, at 8:44 AM, Shane Taylor wrote: > [today's New York Times:] > > The Senate majority leader, Harry Reid, Democrat of Nevada, had > recommended Mr. Gregg for commerce secretary. The White House > accepted Mr. Reid s suggestion, in part, because the president had > said he wanted his cabinet to be filled with a variety of viewpoints. > > <http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/13/us/politics/13gregg.html> Also from the same article: > Mr. Obama, traveling i ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 13 08:42:34 PST 2009

5829 [lbo-talk] "A radio station with real hair, sweat and body odor" -- rank: 1000

On Feb 13, 2009, at 9:47 AM, Charles Turner wrote: > The headline says it all as far as the NYT is concerned. A pretty > substantial feature on WBAI circa 1972: > > <http://tinyurl.com/cu49ky> Ha - the headline quote is from Bob Kuttner, former program director. How he's moved on... Leonard Lopate used to do a show on WBAI - and according to station scuttlebut, sometimes in the nude!

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5830 [lbo-talk] Interview with Derrick Jensen, author & eco-activist, on Steal This Radio -- rank: 1000

On Feb 12, 2009, at 3:11 PM, Mitchel Cohen wrote: > These two weeks, an interview with ecology writer Derrick Jensen. Hey Mitch. A friend reports that Derrick sez: > We need people to take out dams and we need people to knock out > electrical infrastructures. We need people to protest and to chain > themselves to trees. We also need people working to ensure that as > many people as possible are equipped to deal with the fallout when > the collapse comes. We need people working ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 12 18:35:10 PST 2009

5831 [lbo-talk] CBO on HR 1 -- rank: 1000

On Feb 12, 2009, at 1:59 PM, SA wrote: > In response to public anger, Obama wagged his finger at CEO bonuses > and grandly announced pay caps. Then in the fine print it turned out > that the caps were carefully designed to be nothing but a giant > loophole. Under what definition of "defusing popular rage" is that > not "defusing popular rage"? When "popular rage" becomes more intense than people bloviating on talk shows and on blogs. Doug

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5832 [lbo-talk] Rep. Kanjorski: $550 Billion Disappeared in "Electronic Run On the Banks" -- rank: 1000

On Feb 12, 2009, at 12:28 PM, Julio Huato wrote: > What else do you know about this? > > http://informationclearinghouse.info/article21964.htm I think he's the first to say it. But 9/15/08 was Lehman day, no? Doug

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5833 [lbo-talk] CBO on HR 1 -- rank: 1000

On Feb 12, 2009, at 12:24 PM, SA wrote: > So the central estimate is that the bill will increase employment by > 1.6 million by the end of 2009. That's 1% of the labor force. It is > not a bad bet, then, that unemployment will reach double digits > despite the stimulus. If it does, how the hell will Obama &co. > prevent the whole idea of stimulus from being discredited politically? They present estimates for the unemployment rate which don't hit double digits. E.g.: 2009 ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 12 09:37:25 PST 2009

5834 [lbo-talk] Examined Life -- rank: 1000

[Posted by Lou Proyect to Marxmail. Astra's a friend of ours, I should say, and I like her and admire her talents a lot. Her Zizek! was terrific. Can't wait to see this one.] http://chronicle.com/weekly/v55/i23/23b01601.htm "Lights, Camera, Introspection! By RUSSELL JACOBY Could a pot-bellied, snub-nosed, bald-headed actor with bulging eyes who waddles play Socrates in a movie? That is what Socrates supposedly looked like. What about Hegel? He has been described as an unimposing profes ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 12 08:22:40 PST 2009

5835 [lbo-talk] 4/11!! -- rank: 1000

The conclusion to a rather odd email I just got: Summary: We were told by "unnamed sources in government" last July that the operation would begin in August and end this coming July. Joe Biden narrowed the window to less than "six months" which would be April 19, 2009 or earlier. The closing markets gave us a heads up and probably activated "Manchurian candidates" in the field. If anybody thinks the markets are not manipulated, to the decimal place, they have n ...

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