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6031 [lbo-talk] diversity: the bureaucrats weigh in -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - December 10, 2009 Send Us Your Tired, Your Poor, But Only if They're 'Culturally Unique' Immigration Caseworker AA0089 Has Some Thoughts About What Is Art By MIRIAM JORDAN LOS ANGELES -- When Jordan Peimer booked an Argentine band that fuses Jewish Klezmer music with tango, he thought he had the perfect act to headline his "Fiesta Hanukkah" concert. "It is hard to imagine any band more fitting than Orquesta Kef," says Mr. Peimer, the program's directo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 10 08:15:20 PST 2009

6032 [lbo-talk] criteria -- rank: 1000

On Dec 9, 2009, at 9:48 PM, Shane Mage wrote: > the "non-kitchy" works of Sibelius What might those be, and how do they compare with the B Minor Mass? Doug

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Date:	Wed Dec 9 20:02:10 PST 2009

6033 [lbo-talk] Ooops Sent to the wrong listRe: TSE on Henry James -- rank: 1000

On Dec 9, 2009, at 8:33 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > But one actual interest the queries might have is historical. Eliot's > early criticism enjoyed a weird sort of hegemony for several decades, > but as he himself nearly admits in some of his later essays, that > criticism may have been merely flippant The remark you quote sounds like something a very clever undergraduate poet would say. I speak from experience, having had two college roommates who were very clever poets, though obviou ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 9 17:42:08 PST 2009

6034 [lbo-talk] Ooops Sent to the wrong listRe: TSE on Henry James -- rank: 1000

On Dec 9, 2009, at 8:00 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Not inteded for this list Too bad. It was interesting.

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Date:	Wed Dec 9 17:10:32 PST 2009

6035 [lbo-talk] the politics of framing -- rank: 1000

On Dec 9, 2009, at 12:33 PM, Sean Andrews wrote: > On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 11:31, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: > >> >> Engels. Lenin deals with it at some length in State & Revolution. >> >> > where in Engels? Origins of the Family. Lenin's discussion is here: http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/staterev/ch01.htm#s2

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Date:	Wed Dec 9 09:41:01 PST 2009

6036 [lbo-talk] the politics of framing -- rank: 1000

On Dec 9, 2009, at 12:22 PM, Sean Andrews wrote: > On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 19:49, Michael Smith <mjs at smithbowen.net> > wrote: > >> On Tue, 8 Dec 2009 20:12:47 -0500 >> Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: >> >>> Special bodies of armed men >> >> How I love that phrase. Been years since I've heard anybody >> quote it. >> > > What's it from? Lakoff? Engels. Lenin deals with it at some length in State & Revol ...

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Date:	Wed Dec 9 09:31:14 PST 2009

6037 [lbo-talk] great moments in sacred music -- rank: 1000

http://gawker.com/5422060/sen-orrin-hatch-expresses-love-of-jews-through-terrible-song

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Date:	Wed Dec 9 06:40:25 PST 2009

6038 [lbo-talk] the politics of framing -- rank: 1000

On Dec 8, 2009, at 5:38 PM, Eric Beck quoted: > Particularly egregious in this respect was Democratic Party framing > strategist and self-styled movement guru George Lakoff. If I had more ambition, I'd tie this to Lakoff's lack of appreciation of the relationship between "framing" and power. But to do that, I'd have to read more Lakoff, which would be painful. It's all rhetorical to him, isn't it? Special bodies of armed men don't figure, right? Doug

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Date:	Tue Dec 8 17:12:47 PST 2009

6039 [lbo-talk] Obama, deficit hawk -- rank: 1000

<http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/remarks-president-job-creation-and-economic-growth > So one of the central goals of this administration is restoring fiscal responsibility. Even as we have had to spend our way out of this recession in the near term, we've begun to make the hard choices necessary to get our country on a more stable fiscal footing in the long run. So let me just be clear here. Despite what some have claimed, the cost of the Recovery Act is only a very smal ...

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Date:	Tue Dec 8 10:44:53 PST 2009

6040 [lbo-talk] TARP & stimulus spending -- rank: 1000

[re: Jordan's comment about the legal issues surrounding TARP, this from Politico's Morning Money] HOW TO LEGALLY DEPLOY TARP FOR JOBS: One of the questions Republicans are asking about Obama's jobs speech today is how he can legally deploy TARP dollars to fund a new stimulus bill. After all, the TARP law was fairly clear that the money had to be used for purchases of toxic assets. The Administration was able to squeeze the car maker bailout under that rubric, but it is not so clear that a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 8 09:25:34 PST 2009

6041 [lbo-talk] insco dude: we win -- rank: 1000

<http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/1209/Insurance_industry_insider_We_win.html > December 07, 2009 Categories: Healthcare Insurance industry insider: 'We win' With the Senate shifting sharply away from a "pure public option," an insurance industry insider who has been deeply involved in the health care fight emails to declare victory. "We WIN," the insider writes. "Administered by private insurance companies. No government funding. No government insurance c ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 8 09:12:29 PST 2009

6042 [lbo-talk] frontiers in polling -- rank: 1000

[from Rasmussen's daily update] Santa, Take Note: 9% Naughty, 77% Nice Santa is making his list and checking it twice, with a little help from Rasmussen Reports. According to our latest national telephone survey, just nine percent (9%) of Americans say they've been naughty this year, while 77% say they've been nice. Fourteen percent (14%) claim they're not sure.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 8 09:03:01 PST 2009

6043 [lbo-talk] happy birthday -- rank: 1000

On Dec 7, 2009, at 4:53 PM, Chuck Grimes wrote: > And let me say, the Newsletters lately have been great reads. Thanks. Michael Pollak says the new, more timely pubs are breezier. I certainly anguish a lot less over writing them. > That was > true even about you-know-who. While we exchanged a few blows, the > whole > topic opened up a lot of interesting things to think about and get > into > in follow-ups with slightly different focus. Yup, and thanks for saying that. Doug

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Date:	Mon Dec 7 14:44:45 PST 2009

6044 [lbo-talk] Greek demonstrator respectfully disagrees with cop -- rank: 1000

If this had happened here, this guy would be full of holes a millisecond later. http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Slideshows/_production/ss-091206-athens-protests/ss-091206-athens-01.ss_full.jpg or http://bit.ly/4LLftM

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Date:	Mon Dec 7 12:23:20 PST 2009

6045 [lbo-talk] Tea Party beats GOP -- rank: 1000

[Not sure what to make of this, but...] http://bit.ly/8tOQOL Tea Party Tops GOP on Three-Way Generic Ballot Monday, December 07, 2009 Running under the Tea Party brand may be better in congressional races than being a Republican. In a three-way Generic Ballot test, the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds Democrats attracting 36% of the vote. The Tea Party candidate picks up 23%, and Republicans finish third at 18%. Another 22% are undecided. Among voters not affiliated w ...

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Date:	Mon Dec 7 11:20:09 PST 2009