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6211 [lbo-talk] BAR: The Peculiar Class Solidarity of Barack Obama and Skip Gates -- rank: 1000

On Aug 9, 2009, at 3:26 PM, c b wrote: > The peculiar stupidity of BAR, trying to give class analysis a bad > name. Still flogging the Obama horse after all these months, Charles? Really. Doug

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Date:	Sun Aug 9 14:19:08 PDT 2009

6212 [lbo-talk] Paris Hilton builds a $325k house - for her dogs! -- rank: 1000

Time to roll up the sleeves, hoist the black flag, and start slitting throats. From the WSJ's real estate blog: "Paris Hilton built a $325,000 home (it s pink) for her dogs Tinkerbell, Marilyn Monroe, Prince Baby Bear, Harajuki, Dolce and Prada, reports Life & Style Magazine."

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Date:	Sat Aug 8 19:01:56 PDT 2009

6213 [lbo-talk] Liza Featherstone, counseling editrix -- rank: 1000

On Aug 8, 2009, at 5:02 PM, Gar Lipow wrote: > Does this mean that one year subscriptions will taking around 12 > months to expire? More frequent newsletters for us, more revenue for > you. Sounds like what is called, in corporate speak, "a win-win > situation". That's our fondest hope, and Liza's going to make it happen, unless I go totally pathological. Doug

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Date:	Sat Aug 8 18:50:04 PDT 2009

6214 [lbo-talk] Unpaid Work, but They Pay for Privilege -- rank: 1000

On Aug 8, 2009, at 6:23 PM, Bill O'Connor wrote: > Small wonder the stock market goes up when unemployment is high. Not right now. The stock market rises when employment news comes in better than expected, as it did yesterday. The consensus was that payrolls would decline by 325,000-350,000; instead, they were down 250,000, and the market rallied. Ditto the weekly unemployment claims numbers. Laura Flanders got this way wrong the other day. Doug

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Date:	Sat Aug 8 18:49:05 PDT 2009

6215 [lbo-talk] Liza Featherstone, counseling editrix -- rank: 1000

LBO news: Liza Featherstone appointed counseling editrix: http://doughenwood.wordpress.com/2009/08/08/liza-featherstone-counseling-editrix/

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Date:	Sat Aug 8 07:59:41 PDT 2009

6216 [lbo-talk] fresh punditry -- rank: 1000

Gotten out of the habit of posting radio punditry. Now I'm back: <http://doughenwood.wordpress.com/2009/08/07/radio-commentary-august-8-2009/ >

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Date:	Fri Aug 7 14:12:58 PDT 2009

6217 [lbo-talk] Creationist theme park seized by IRS -- rank: 1000

On Aug 6, 2009, at 3:14 PM, mart wrote: > i really am employed by god, but i am self-employed As I recall, Emerson said that Jesus was the only person in history to appreciate humanity fully enough because he thought he was God. Doug

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Date:	Thu Aug 6 12:21:42 PDT 2009

6218 [lbo-talk] Black scholar arrest angers Obama -- rank: 1000

I'm away on something of a vacation, so I haven't been following things as closely as usual, but impression is that this one is played. Cashed. Finito. Doug

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Date:	Wed Aug 5 15:40:00 PDT 2009

6219 [lbo-talk] emails on Blackwater story -- rank: 1000

<http://gawker.com/5330712/mcclatchy-dc-editor-accidentally-forwards-all-these-emails-about-blackwater-murders > McClatchy DC Editor Accidentally Forwards All These Emails About Blackwater Murders By Hamilton Nolan, 2:10 PM on Wed Aug 5 2009, 2,472 views This is interesting mostly just for being a candid look into how your news stories get made: McClatchy DC's online managing editor Mark Seibel accidentally forwarded this email chain to a marketing list, woops. It's a convo between Sei ...

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Date:	Wed Aug 5 12:28:52 PDT 2009

6220 [lbo-talk] Blue Dogs cashing in -- rank: 1000

On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 1:11 PM, Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> wrote: > Post-Protestant? Most Americans are Protestants. Barely. 51% in 2008 (assuming all non-Catholic Christians are Proddies), down from 60% in 1990. <http://www.americanreligionsurvey-aris.org/reports/ ARIS_Report_2008.pdf>. "...Americans are slowly becoming less Christian and...in recent decades the challenge to Christianity in American society does not come from other world religions or new rel ...

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Date:	Wed Aug 5 10:31:22 PDT 2009

6221 [lbo-talk] Barbara Epstein & MR -- rank: 1000

On Aug 2, 2009, at 11:38 AM, Chris Doss wrote: > There isn't a necessary contradiction between "the Iranian > government is really nasty" and "the Iranian government is > realistically the best possible one for Iran." Don't you think the rigging of the election, not to mention the whole system of mullahs vetting candidates, has something to do with the range of possible Iranian governments? Doug

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Date:	Sun Aug 2 08:42:20 PDT 2009

6222 [lbo-talk] Iranian hardliners accuse opposition of treason -- rank: 1000

Iran hardliners accuse opposition of 'treason' by Jay Deshmukh 18 mins ago TEHRAN (AFP) Iranian hardliners accused opposition leaders of treason on Sunday as defeated presidential challenger Mir Hossein Mousavi said the authorities used "medieval torture" to force confessions from protesters on trial over the election unrest. Former president Mohammad Khatami also said Saturday's mass trial of 100 protesters and prominent reformists was against the constitution, putting him at ...

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Date:	Sun Aug 2 08:32:47 PDT 2009

6223 [lbo-talk] Barbara Epstein & MR -- rank: 1000

On Aug 2, 2009, at 9:15 AM, Chris Doss wrote: > I haven't really been following Yoshiana, But you're going to comment anyway? Kind of Coxian. > but what has she said that is so absurd? My understanding is that > her basic position is that, given the internal situation in Iran, > the best realistic government is that of the A-man and the forces > behind him. This might be wrong, but there's nothing obviously > ridiculous about it What's odious is her publishing apologetics for a ...

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Date:	Sun Aug 2 08:17:36 PDT 2009

6224 [lbo-talk] RAND: recession not a game-changer for international politics -- rank: 1000

[from the WSJ's Real Time Economics - RAND study at: <http://www.rand.org/pubs/occasional_papers/2009/RAND_OP275.pdf >.] Study: Recession Not Game Changer for International Politics Economists aren't the only ones scrambling to predict what the world will look like after the recession. Political pundits are also squinting too see into the future - their question: Will the global economic meltdown change the game in international politics? "Not much," says a new RAND Corp. stud ...

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Date:	Sat Aug 1 14:45:13 PDT 2009

6225 [lbo-talk] Barbara Epstein & MR -- rank: 1000

On Aug 1, 2009, at 3:42 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Of course, nothing that any U.S. citizen has to say about Iran, either > way, is of any political importanc Nothing human is alien to me, as the Old Man liked to say. Your chivalrous defense of Yoshie, though, is always touching. Doug

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Date:	Sat Aug 1 13:52:22 PDT 2009