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6121 [lbo-talk] Americans think about the public option -- rank: 1000
On Aug 25, 2009, at 1:12 AM, Chuck Grimes wrote: > I am sorry to disagree. The They, certainly do understand this down to > the infinitesimal monad. The corporate + right think tank industrial > complex know exactly how to word these polls to get the result they > want. That's what the battle field is all about. > > Create conflicting polls, fog the rhetoric, mobilize the reactionary > sentiments of the resentful, and destroy any light of day against the > darkling glass ...
Document Size: 5789
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Aug 25 04:34:29 PDT 2009
6122 [lbo-talk] (no subject) -- rank: 1000
On Aug 25, 2009, at 6:57 AM, Alan Rudy wrote: > Doug probably meant, by no one, few if any > of the likely-to-be-polled public yup
Document Size: 4613
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Aug 25 04:32:02 PDT 2009
6123 [lbo-talk] it's Helicopter Ben, again -- rank: 1000
News Alert from The Wall Street Journal President Barack Obama will announce Tuesday that he is nominating Ben Bernanke for a second four-year term as chairman of the Federal Reserve, White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel said. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125116264837455591.html?mod=djemalertNEWS
Document Size: 4904
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Aug 24 18:22:54 PDT 2009
6124 [lbo-talk] Americans think about the public option -- rank: 1000
On Aug 24, 2009, at 8:58 PM, Michael Pollak wrote: > If only something medicare-like were on offer! Suggests single > payer -- which is what medicare-like means -- really is more popular > than any public option (which are nothing like medicare in any way). I first started looking at health care polls in the early 1990s. Even then, they were extremely sensitive to wording an context. For example, if you started by asking people about their own situation, then moved onto policy, you' ...
Document Size: 5556
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Aug 24 18:18:37 PDT 2009
6125 [lbo-talk] Americans think about the public option -- rank: 1000
The Numbers A Run at the Latest Data from ABC's Poobah of Polling, Gary Langer Views on a Public Option: Let the Fur Fly August 24, 2009 4:35 PM Fur flew last week over public opinion on the proposal that's emerged as the single most contentious point of debate in health care reform a "public option," or government-created alternative to private insurance. It's an argument on which proponents of reform have been losing ground and trying to claw it back. Attacking polls usually ...
Document Size: 12335
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Aug 24 17:28:41 PDT 2009
6126 [lbo-talk] oh no! Obama wants to ruin 9/11!! -- rank: 1000
<http://spectator.org/archives/2009/08/24/obamas-plan-to-desecrate-911/> Obama's Plan to Desecrate 9/11 By Matthew Vadum on 8.24.09 @ 6:08AM The Obama White House is behind a cynical, coldly calculated political effort to erase the meaning of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks from the American psyche and convert Sept. 11 into a day of leftist celebration and statist idolatry. This effort to reshape the American psyche has nothing to do with healing the nation and everything to do wi ...
Document Size: 8504
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Aug 24 10:39:41 PDT 2009
6127 [lbo-talk] Chazelle: Jury Duty Democracy -- rank: 1000
Ya gotta wonder if a Congress chosen like this would end up being all that different from the elected kind. Wouldn't institutional structures and the power of money push the random members to behave more or less like the present lot? Doug
Document Size: 4790
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Aug 24 05:12:12 PDT 2009
6128 [lbo-talk] America's singularly depraved culture -- rank: 1000
On Aug 23, 2009, at 1:30 AM, Michael Pollak wrote: > On Sat, 22 Aug 2009, Doug Henwood wrote: > >> > What Hughes was really referring to there was the depraved >> culture of > the 1980s art market. Which is true, but that whole >> scene is kind of > marginalized here now. >> I sorta miss that cultural depravity - it was sorta fun. Now, what >> do we have? > > A 100 times more of it with less to-do? Attitudes toward porn have > become so muc ...
Document Size: 5638
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sun Aug 23 05:42:13 PDT 2009
6129 [lbo-talk] on fiscal stimulus -- rank: 1000
[from the WSJ's Real Time Economics] <http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2009/08/22/economists-give-fiscal-stimulus-mixed-grades > Economists Give Fiscal Stimulus Mixed Grades By Jon Hilsenrath Economists at the Federal Reserve s Jackson Hole Symposium in Wyoming gave the Obama administration s fiscal-stimulus program a mixed review, saying it wasn t as well targeted as it could have been and pointing to the challenges of balancing stimulus against long-term deficit worries. In a paper bei ...
Document Size: 6891
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sat Aug 22 14:53:36 PDT 2009
6130 [lbo-talk] America's singularly depraved culture -- rank: 1000
On Aug 22, 2009, at 5:01 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Tje [jrase "singularly depraved culture" encapsulates two rather > remarkable claims on the part of the critic: (a) he/she is familiar > with > a huge variety of cutlures as a basis for separating American culture > from all others, and (b) the claim to know, to know with > unchallengeable > authority, an absolute standard according to which all cultures can be > measured. If the critic demurs from such a claimof ...
Document Size: 5401
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sat Aug 22 14:49:59 PDT 2009
6131 [lbo-talk] America's singularly depraved culture -- rank: 1000
On Aug 22, 2009, at 4:49 PM, Michael Pollak wrote: > What Hughes was really referring to there was the depraved culture > of the 1980s art market. Which is true, but that whole scene is > kind of marginalized here now. I sorta miss that cultural depravity - it was sorta fun. Now, what do we have? Tom DeLay on Dancing With the Stars? Doug
Document Size: 5022
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sat Aug 22 14:49:16 PDT 2009
6132 [lbo-talk] America's singularly depraved culture -- rank: 1000
<http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/fbe0ba50-8de1-11de-93df-00144feabdc0.html> Lunch with the FT: Jeff Koons By Peter Aspden ... Critical opinion is divided, to say the least, over Koons s work. He is castigated for the slickness of his product, and the pretentious claims he makes for it; but he is also lauded for his cleverness in combining the monumental effect of high art with the cheap pleasures of the banal. He has, according to veteran critic Robert Hughes, the slimy assurance ... of a ...
Document Size: 5416
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sat Aug 22 13:04:12 PDT 2009
6133 [lbo-talk] The Progressive needs money -- rank: 1000
On Aug 21, 2009, at 9:40 PM, Michael McIntyre wrote: > Finkelstein has the details here: > http://www.normanfinkelstein.com/article.php?pg=3&ar=67 > > Looking over the material, I see that Rothschild's smears came in a > letter rather than a publication, so "libel" is probably not the right > word. But slimy nonetheless. Well fuck 'em then. I hadn't known this. Doug
Document Size: 5081
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Aug 21 18:48:09 PDT 2009
6134 [lbo-talk] Calley apologizes -- rank: 1000
[via Susie Bright] <http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/news/story/813820.html> William Calley apologizes for My Lai massacre By Dick McMichael - Special to the Ledger-Enquirer William Calley, the former Army lieutenant convicted on 22 counts of murder in the infamous My Lai Massacre in Vietnam, publicly apologized for the first time this week while speaking in Columbus. "There is not a day that goes by that I do not feel remorse for what happened that day in My Lai," Calley told m ...
Document Size: 9484
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Aug 21 18:32:22 PDT 2009
6135 [lbo-talk] The Progressive needs money -- rank: 1000
On Aug 21, 2009, at 9:24 PM, Michael McIntyre wrote: > Matthew Rothschild libeled > Norman Finkelstein He did? How?
Document Size: 4679
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Aug 21 18:29:38 PDT 2009
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