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6151 [lbo-talk] uninsurance rates by state -- rank: 1000

[Looks like the ten lowest are mostly Dem; the ten highest, mostly Rep. What a funny country. The ranks are all in graphics, which I can't forward, and don't feel like typing.] <http://www.gallup.com/poll/122387/Uninsured-Highest-Percentage-Texas-Lowest-Mass.aspx > Uninsured: Highest Percentage in Texas, Lowest in Mass.Percentage of adults without health insurance is up in several states by Elizabeth Mendes WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Higher percentages of Texas, New Mexico, and Mississippi re ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 19 13:57:39 PDT 2009

6152 [lbo-talk] Ubuntu stuff -- rank: 1000

On Aug 19, 2009, at 4:13 PM, martin wrote: > Those people have to spend a hundred bucks a year for a mobile me > account to sync their new iphone with their laptop AND their desktop > contacts and calendars. It's worth it. It's a terrific feature.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 19 13:27:19 PDT 2009

6153 [lbo-talk] Barney Frank at the top of his form -- rank: 1000

On Aug 19, 2009, at 3:21 PM, C. G. Estabrook wrote: > Wouldn't it have been better if he'd found out why the woman made > the comparison she did and what the source of her information was, > and refuted it, if he could? Turns out she's a LaRouchie, so yes, that would have been even more entertaining! Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 19 12:32:57 PDT 2009

6154 [lbo-talk] health care poll -- rank: 1000

On Aug 19, 2009, at 3:16 PM, M wrote: > But, the media doesn't talk about the way the private enterprise > system actually functions, and I think that has a non-negligible > effect on how people are receptive to arguments about private > enterprise. Of course. This is how "common sense" is formed. But after many generations of very conscious shaping, that common sense is now our inheritance. And it's really hard to do anything with it. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 19 12:24:20 PDT 2009

6155 [lbo-talk] Ubuntu stuff -- rank: 1000

On Aug 19, 2009, at 3:06 PM, Dwayne Monroe wrote: > There *are* restrictions but you haven't done anything to run against > them because (I assume) you keep your media within the FairPlay > compliant world. Also, if you're downloading media which isn't > encrypted using FairPlay you enjoy total portability. As I wrote > before, the cleverness of FairPlay/iTunes is its mixture of open and > closed elements. Right. My point is that the stuff I've downloaded in the last few mon ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 19 12:18:10 PDT 2009

6156 [lbo-talk] Ubuntu stuff -- rank: 1000

On Aug 19, 2009, at 2:49 PM, Andy wrote: > If Steve Albini is to be believed, with record companies it's less > than zero. Yup. Remember that article quite well.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 19 12:02:55 PDT 2009

6157 [lbo-talk] Ubuntu stuff -- rank: 1000

On Aug 19, 2009, at 2:39 PM, Dwayne Monroe wrote: > owever, FairPlay -- a central iTunes component Not so much anymore. There are no restrictions on freshly downloaded songs, at least in my recent experience. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 19 11:50:13 PDT 2009

6158 [lbo-talk] free! -- rank: 1000

Begin forwarded message: > From: Wojtek Sokolowski <wojtek.sokolowski at gmail.com> > Date: August 19, 2009 2:36:38 PM EDT > To: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> > Subject: problems sending message > > Doug, > > I attempted to send the attached message in response to your posting > on lbo-talk. To my surprise, however, yahoo service prevented me from > doing so - first I was asked to enter a series of numbers to "verify" > the message a ...

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Date:	Wed Aug 19 11:39:06 PDT 2009

6159 [lbo-talk] more on Madoff -- rank: 1000

<http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=aV1m83vVjyGM> Winky Dink He sometimes blinked his eyes uncontrollably, leading her to nickname him Winky Dink when she disclosed her affair to some close female friends. At the Willard, Weinstein wrote, she learned one of his many secrets that they discussed by telephone a few days later. Bernie had a very small penis, she wrote. Not only was it on the short side, it was small in circumference. That he was now pointing it ou ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 19 11:29:49 PDT 2009

6160 [lbo-talk] Obama posse stunned, confused by attacks from "left" -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - August 19, 2009 <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/18/AR2009081803655_pf.html > Debate's Path Caught Obama by Surprise Public Option Wasn't Intended as Major Focus By Michael D. Shear and Ceci Connolly Washington Post Staff Writers President Obama's advisers acknowledged Tuesday that they were unprepared for the intraparty rift that occurred over the fate of a proposed public health insurance program, a firestorm that has left the White House ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 19 11:23:36 PDT 2009

6161 [lbo-talk] Ubuntu stuff -- rank: 1000

On Aug 19, 2009, at 1:33 PM, Jordan Hayes wrote: > This is by far the common case; you can (and did) list a small > number of items that people get worked up about, but if a guy like > Doug doesn't seem bothered by the tradeoff presented by iTunes, I > think you're pretty far from establishing the political angle as > being that important. Re: that political angle. Excuse my cynicism, but I think a lot of people who kvetch about paying to download stuff from iTunes or paying for ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 19 10:48:40 PDT 2009

6162 [lbo-talk] Frankfurt on the Hudson -- rank: 1000

[via Lou Proyect] Frankfurt on the Hudson How the fathers of Critical Theory found their way to America By Adam Kirsch | 7:00 am August 18, 2009 It would be hard to overstate the importance of the Frankfurt School in recent American thought. Philosophers, psychologists, and sociologists like Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Herbert Marcuse, Erich Fromm, and Max Horkheimer to name just the best-known members of the group helped to develop a subtle and powerful way of thinking about the probl ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 19 10:35:22 PDT 2009

6163 [lbo-talk] health care poll -- rank: 1000

On Aug 19, 2009, at 12:49 PM, M wrote: > They managed to get half the population believing lies. Which lies do they believe so quickly? The ones that fit with "common sense."

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 19 10:15:44 PDT 2009

6164 [lbo-talk] Barney Frank at the top of his form -- rank: 1000

The video of Barney Frank's "what planet?" exchange: <http://www.politico.com/largevideobox.html?id=34500865001>. He's the most entertaining guy in public life.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 19 08:26:55 PDT 2009

6165 [lbo-talk] riposte -- rank: 1000

[from ABC's The Note] "On what planet do you spend most of your time?" -- Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., responding to a constituent at a town-hall meeting who asked him why he was "supporting this Nazi policy" on health care.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 19 08:19:18 PDT 2009