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6166 [lbo-talk] health care poll -- rank: 1000

<http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE57I01T20090819> Views unchanged on Obama's healthcare plans: poll WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Americans remain skeptical of President Barack Obama's healthcare reform drive, but their views have not changed much after weeks of sometimes angry protests at public meetings, according to an NBC poll released on Tuesday. Obama's approval rating on healthcare was at 41 percent, unchanged from last month, while 36 percent believed his reform plans wer ...

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Date:	Wed Aug 19 08:15:30 PDT 2009

6167 [lbo-talk] most Americans no fan of stimulus program -- rank: 1000

On Aug 19, 2009, at 4:52 AM, John Gulick wrote: > Yeah, my impression (and it's only an impression) is that the hard > right media > (in its myriad incarnations) consciously tried to steer inchoate > populist anger > about the Wall Street bailout into ideological spleen against big > guv, as if the > bailout was the sine qua non of state intervention. To some extent > this probably > explains the cognitively dissonant insurgency against health care > "reform.&q ...

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Date:	Wed Aug 19 04:50:07 PDT 2009

6168 [lbo-talk] most Americans no fan of stimulus program -- rank: 1000

On Aug 18, 2009, at 6:39 PM, M wrote: > What the public got were news stories about how the stimulus money > was going to go to Wall Street and Banks That's not the stimulus program, of course.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 18 17:51:03 PDT 2009

6169 [lbo-talk] most Americans no fan of stimulus program -- rank: 1000

On Aug 18, 2009, at 4:28 PM, Miles Jackson wrote: > I don't know how to say this without sounding condescending, but > I'll let it fly: how do we make informed decisions in a democratic > society when so many are this fucking clueless? I'm sure Carrol Cox could lecture you on why this is so wrong, but I'll leave that to him. I think this is a good question. I wish I knew an answer. Doug

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Date:	Tue Aug 18 13:44:21 PDT 2009

6170 [lbo-talk] most Americans no fan of stimulus program -- rank: 1000

<http://www.gallup.com/poll/122372/Americans-Stimulus-Costs-Not-Benefits.aspx > August 18, 2009 Many Americans See Stimulus Costs, Not Benefits Slim majority thinks it would be better to spend less on stimulus by Jeffrey M. Jones PRINCETON, NJ -- Several months after it was passed, Americans have their share of reservations about the economic stimulus plan. A slim majority of Americans, 51%, including most Republicans and independents, say it would have been better for the government t ...

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Date:	Tue Aug 18 12:57:27 PDT 2009

6171 [lbo-talk] Larry Pratt speaks for the gun owner -- rank: 1000

[This is from the right-wing PR shop Special Guests. Alex Cockburn wrote a glowing profile of Pratt in Counterpunch about 10 years ago.] WEARING THEIR RIGHTS ON THEIR HIPS; Gun Advocates Attend Town Halls Openly Armed (Pratt is in DC) CONTACT: For an interview call: Amy Reis or Lynne Campbell of Special Guests at: 630-848-0750. TV inquiries: Jerry McGlothlin, 212-699-2518, jerry at specialguests.com Already fuming from the idea of being forced into a government run healthcare system, gun own ...

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Date:	Tue Aug 18 12:54:58 PDT 2009

6172 [lbo-talk] Ubuntu stuff -- rank: 1000

On Aug 18, 2009, at 12:52 PM, Miles Jackson wrote: > Well, that's just my point. In my ideal socialist society, there > are no wages, so yes, people would not be paid to do programming. > (I can dream, can't I?) No wages? Really? That's communism, not socialism. Sorry to split hairs, but that world is, to put it gently, a ways away. Meanwhile, in this world, people have to pay their bills. How does "free" software cope with that? My computer is full of little shareware prog ...

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Date:	Tue Aug 18 10:34:22 PDT 2009

6173 [lbo-talk] Bernie Madoff, winky dink -- rank: 1000

http://gawker.com/5339802/lets-discuss-bernie-winky-dink-madoffs-penis-size

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Date:	Tue Aug 18 10:25:54 PDT 2009

6174 [lbo-talk] Ubuntu stuff -- rank: 1000

On Aug 18, 2009, at 12:07 PM, shag carpet bomb wrote: > is there a *social* advantage to doing things the open source way? I'm not sure how it's exactly "socialist." The programmers do their work for free, meaning they have to have other means of support. So they're doing the work in their spare time. That really doesn't transform social relations, does it? Is our model a world in which programmers - and musicians and writers - don't get paid for their work? Doug

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Date:	Tue Aug 18 09:16:37 PDT 2009

6175 [lbo-talk] Boehner: PhRMA appeases left, threatening freedom -- rank: 1000

<http://www.politico.com/blogs/glennthrush/0809/Boehner_pens_I_told_you_so_to_PhRMA.html > Boehner pens "I told you so" to PhRMA [Glenn Thrush] The prescription-drug industry started turning its back on congressional Republicans shortly after the GOP lost its hold on Congress in 2006, spending time and money in the interim to woo Democrats at both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue. That lovefest culminated a few months ago when PhRMA agreed to back the president's health care push ...

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Date:	Tue Aug 18 09:11:24 PDT 2009

6176 [lbo-talk] What is Paul Krugman smoking, and can I have some? -- rank: 1000

On Aug 18, 2009, at 7:43 AM, double bluff quoted: > I think that Paul Krugman is one of those absurd guys that has no > idea what in the hell he is talking about and who owes his > undeserved prominence to being a real butt-kissing sucker-upper to > Alan Greenspan and his Federal Reserve, and now he's doing the same > thing to the laughable Ben Bernanke and his disastrous Federal > Reserve, although I will admit that I don't know why anybody listens > to this guy. > > ...

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Date:	Tue Aug 18 08:22:27 PDT 2009

6177 [lbo-talk] Ubuntu stuff -- rank: 1000

On Aug 17, 2009, at 9:59 PM, Dwayne Monroe wrote: > But the point is, it's possible to achieve seamless operation without > this restrictiveness -- restrictiveness is not a force multiplier of > usability. This is almost like saying you must have Singaporean > levels of micro-management to enjoy clean streets. Of course. But the kind of easy to use and nice to look at stuff that Apple specializes in is really rare in this world. Why? I do wonder if overpriced and restrictive has i ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 17 19:10:25 PDT 2009

6178 [lbo-talk] Ubuntu stuff -- rank: 1000

On Aug 17, 2009, at 9:22 PM, Mike Beggs wrote: > I was about to get an ipod touch until I found out how tied > in to itunes it was To most people, that "restriction" makes the thing easier to use. I'm not a technological naif, and I'm no friend of IP restrictions, but I really like how seamless, smooth, and bulletproof the iPhone-iTunes ecology is. And it looks so much nicer than that crap on a Blackberry. Doug

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Date:	Mon Aug 17 18:32:03 PDT 2009

6179 [lbo-talk] selective outrage & the Whole Foods brouhaha -- rank: 1000

Selective outrage and the Whole Foods brouhaha: http://bit.ly/fjazF

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 17 18:20:42 PDT 2009

6180 [lbo-talk] Ubuntu stuff -- rank: 1000

On Aug 17, 2009, at 7:16 PM, Mike Beggs wrote: > I've never had a problem I couldn't fix within a > couple of hours It takes a certain kind of person to find that not annoying.

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Date:	Mon Aug 17 17:51:40 PDT 2009