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6511 [lbo-talk] political analysis from the bluegrass roots -- rank: 1000

Why elect an Ay-rab president when we're at war with the Ay-rabs? <http://wonkette.com/403090/kentucky-rednecks-have-edifying-insight-about-this-hussein-ay-rab-preznint >

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Sep 27 07:23:59 PDT 2008

6512 [lbo-talk] Wapo: Economists Question Basis of Paulson's Plan -- rank: 1000

On Sep 27, 2008, at 1:08 AM, Michael Pollak wrote: > "The premise appears to be that the market is irrationally > pessimistic," wrote Greg Mankiw, a Harvard University economist and > another former Bush economic adviser, on his blog this week. "That > might be so. Nonetheless, one has to be at least a bit skeptical > about > the idea that government policymakers gambling with other people's > money are better at judging the value of complex financ ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Sep 27 07:14:24 PDT 2008

6513 [lbo-talk] high school and lefties (Re: Palin explains it all to Katie Couric) -- rank: 1000

On Sep 26, 2008, at 7:30 PM, Joseph Catron wrote: > I mean, we all agree that Doug's dalliance with the Party of the > Right was pretty funny, correct? And thank god there are no pix of me in lederhosen!

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Sep 26 20:06:19 PDT 2008

6514 [lbo-talk] Mind-boggling contempt for Bush -- rank: 1000

On Sep 26, 2008, at 9:38 AM, Dennis Perrin wrote: > I seriously doubt that the majority of American adults really cares > about these "debates," which really aren't debates Not sure about that. A record number of people say they plan to watch the debate, and there's some evidence that they can be decisive in close elections. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Sep 26 13:41:34 PDT 2008

6515 [lbo-talk] Rewriting Metaphors -- rank: 1000

On Sep 26, 2008, at 3:59 AM, Michael Pollak wrote: > But the whole of my post was about gender, namely that the McCain > campaign made a big mistake choosing Couric to interview her > precisely because it neutralized the image of Palin being bullied. > So what stood out instead was the quantum leap difference in their > verbal skills and preparedness. It wasn't like the difference > between a smart person and a dumb on It seems like a reprise of the choice of Charlie Gibson - s ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Sep 26 04:07:03 PDT 2008

6516 [lbo-talk] Palin explains it all to Katie Couric -- rank: 1000

On Sep 25, 2008, at 5:12 PM, Chris Doss wrote: > To provide an iota of a smidgeon of a defense of Palin, it's > possible that she did have interaction with Russian authorities in > Chukotka. Fishing and "native" issues and cross-border law > enforcement and things like that. Did you watch the clip? She can't cite any actual events.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 25 14:25:55 PDT 2008

6517 [lbo-talk] so what do "we" think of the bailout? -- rank: 1000

<http://tbm.thebigmoney.com/articles/making-bail/2008/09/25/do-we-love-bailout > Do We Love the Bailout? By Liza Featherstone Last week, we the American people didn't seem to like the notion of a bailout, not one bit. A Rasmussen opinion poll [1] released Sept. 17 found that just 7 percent of Americans favored "using taxpayer funds to keep a large institution solvent." Rasmussen's results tend to skew conservative compared with other pollsters, but it was still a dramatic fi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 25 13:21:58 PDT 2008

6518 [lbo-talk] the mess we're in -- rank: 1000

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20081013/henwood Crisis of a Gilded Age By Doug Henwood It looks like someday finally arrived. For the past two or three decades skeptics watched as deregulated finance got ever more reckless, as the gap between rich and poor widened to a chasm not seen since the turn of the last century, and they said, "Someday there's going to be hell to pay for all this." But despite a few nasty hiccups every few years--the 1987 stock market crash, the savings and l ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 25 12:37:37 PDT 2008

6519 [lbo-talk] real estate bust hits Manhattan -- rank: 1000

[From a newspaper about to publish its last issue.] <http://www.nysun.com/real-estate/the-default-phenomenon-comes-to-ny/86556/ > The Default Phenomenon Comes to N.Y. City Gets a Taste Of the Housing Slowdown By CANDACE TAYLOR, Staff Reporter of the Sun | September 25, 2008 Manhattan is getting an unwanted taste of South Florida. Developers of new condominiums are finding that apartments they thought had sold are unexpectedly coming back into their hands as buyers not just layoff vict ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 25 11:53:52 PDT 2008

6520 [lbo-talk] Palin explains it all to Katie Couric -- rank: 1000

Wow, no wonder they're keeping her under wraps: <http://gawker.com/5054861/palin-stop-making-fun-of-me>

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 25 11:41:50 PDT 2008

6521 [lbo-talk] Dodd bill -- rank: 1000

On Sep 25, 2008, at 1:13 PM, Eric wrote: >> Since your plan has little chance of adoption under the present >> political circs, let's talk utopias for a moment. Your scheme would >> help out debtors, but not really change the institutional structure >> or the preposterous fetishization of homeownership - in fact, it'd >> reinforce the latter. A bailout of the financial institutions with >> lots of strings attached (remember I said this was utopian) at >> ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 25 10:38:59 PDT 2008

6522 [lbo-talk] Dodd bill -- rank: 1000

On Sep 25, 2008, at 12:33 PM, Shane Mage wrote: > The local banker, good or bad, was at least a human being. The > "mortgage banker" is a 21st-century monstrosity. Scratch a Trotskyist and find a petit bourgeois sentimentalist? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 25 09:50:20 PDT 2008

6523 [lbo-talk] Dodd bill -- rank: 1000

On Sep 25, 2008, at 11:23 AM, Shane Mage wrote: > Well, abhorrence of landlords may sometimes be an "irrational" > motivation but its never an unsympathetic one. So why substitute the payment of tribute to mortgage bankers? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 25 08:28:39 PDT 2008

6524 [lbo-talk] how Taibbi fails -- rank: 1000

Someone shares Dennis Perrin's disdain for Matt Taibbi: <http://www.portfolio.com/views/blogs/mixed-media/2008/09/24/why-americas-hottest-young-political-writer-fails > MIXED MEDIA by Jeff Bercovici Why America's Hottest Young Political Writer Fails What is the point of Matt Taibbi? I'm asking this earnestly, not in snark. Rolling Stone's youthful national-affairs columnist is one of the hot political writers of the season, frequently described as a latter-day Hunter S. Thompson. He eve ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 25 08:09:34 PDT 2008

6525 [lbo-talk] Dodd bill -- rank: 1000

On Sep 24, 2008, at 5:01 PM, Julio Huato wrote: > I may not have a good understanding of the social or political > toxicity of home ownership fetishism. But when I talk about home > ownership, I'm not arguing in favor of McMansions, each with an > Olympic size swimming pool and a 10 acre backyard to keep the > neighbors out of sight. I'm talking about people at the bottom of > society. I'm not talking about McMansions, or real mansions either. I'm talking about how American ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 25 07:58:46 PDT 2008