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6541 [lbo-talk] Pew: public supports bailout 2-1 -- rank: 1000

<http://pewresearch.org/pubs/963/wall-street-bailout-approval> <http://pewresearch.org/pubs/963/wall-street-bailout-approval> Most Approve of Wall Street Bailout and See Obama as Better Able to Address Crisis Interest in the Economy Highest in Nearly 20 Years September 23, 2008 By a margin of almost two-to-one the American public thinks the government is doing the right thing in investing billions of dollars to try to keep financial institutions and markets secure. Reacting to in ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 23 16:11:25 PDT 2008

6542 [lbo-talk] AP: "Millions spend half of income on housing, " Dean Baker quoted -- rank: 1000

On Sep 23, 2008, at 3:30 PM, Matt wrote: > On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 03:25:36PM -0400, Doug Henwood wrote: >> >> On Sep 23, 2008, at 3:01 PM, B. wrote: >> >>> I know from experience many apartments will not let you rent unless >>> you can show you make at least 3 or 4 times the rent per month >> >> In NYC, they want an annual income of 40 times the monthly rent. > > Aren't these about the same? Yup. I'm just saying what the metric they use h ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 23 13:48:22 PDT 2008

6543 [lbo-talk] AP: "Millions spend half of income on housing, " Dean Baker quoted -- rank: 1000

On Sep 23, 2008, at 3:48 PM, Bill O'Connor wrote: >> In NYC, they want an annual income of 40 times the monthly rent. > > *Nobody* has that much money. Eh? We got an apartment 2 months ago.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 23 13:10:57 PDT 2008

6544 [lbo-talk] Amerika the delusional -- rank: 1000

On Sep 23, 2008, at 3:39 PM, Shane Mage wrote: > McNothing's pit bull rhymes-with-witch is herself nothing but insult > comedy on the grossest scale. Making fun of people's names is a little juvenile, don't you think?

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 23 12:51:23 PDT 2008

6545 [lbo-talk] AP: "Millions spend half of income on housing, " Dean Baker quoted -- rank: 1000

On Sep 23, 2008, at 3:01 PM, B. wrote: > I know from experience many apartments will not let you rent unless > you can show you make at least 3 or 4 times the rent per month In NYC, they want an annual income of 40 times the monthly rent.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 23 12:25:36 PDT 2008

6546 [lbo-talk] Amerika the delusional -- rank: 1000

On Sep 23, 2008, at 2:40 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Shane has convinced me, for one, that he is not offended by > Palin's politics but really fears a woman in high office, ANY woman. Isn't this the attribution of motive you criticize when others do it? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 23 11:48:09 PDT 2008

6547 [lbo-talk] Amerika the delusional -- rank: 1000

On Sep 23, 2008, at 3:22 PM, John Thornton wrote: > However I do believe that generally the higher ones level of > education the higher ones level of indoctrination with regards to > supporting the state. Well, the higher one's level of education, the more likely the state is to reflect your interest, too. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 23 11:32:19 PDT 2008

6548 [lbo-talk] Amerika the delusional -- rank: 1000

On Sep 23, 2008, at 2:06 PM, Shane Mage wrote: > Oh, I remember now--a quayle not worth hunting. But not a bimbo?

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 23 11:25:51 PDT 2008

6549 [lbo-talk] Amerika the delusional -- rank: 1000

On Sep 23, 2008, at 1:11 PM, Shane Mage wrote: > On Sep 23, 2008, at 12:54 PM, Doug Henwood wrote: > >> >> On Sep 23, 2008, at 12:39 PM, Shane Mage wrote: >> >>> [McNothing's] pit bull bitch >> >> Annoying turn of phrase. > > What would be a better one? What would you have called Dan Quayle?

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 23 10:32:41 PDT 2008

6550 [lbo-talk] Obama debating Alan Keyes -- rank: 1000

If only McCain promised to be this entertaining: <http://gawker.com/5053630/obama-debate-flashback>

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 23 10:10:56 PDT 2008

6551 [lbo-talk] Amerika the delusional -- rank: 1000

On Sep 23, 2008, at 12:39 PM, Shane Mage wrote: > pit bull bitch Annoying turn of phrase.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 23 09:54:40 PDT 2008

6552 [lbo-talk] Palin must be borrowing Cheney's VP bunker -- rank: 1000

[from The Note] "Sarah Palin swooped into New York Monday night to meet world leaders, but New York won't be meeting her," Richard Sisk writes in the New York Daily News. "The GOP veep hopeful has served as a crowd magnet in other parts of the country -- she drew 60,000 to a Florida rally on Sunday. But the Alaska governor will be kept largely under wraps during her stay in New York, where Dems outnumber GOPers 5 to 1." Does she need a tutorial? "John McCain's campa ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 23 09:44:55 PDT 2008

6553 [lbo-talk] Dodd bill -- rank: 1000

On Sep 23, 2008, at 2:12 AM, Michael Pollak wrote: > But one essential thing seem to be missing: a deep and comprehensive > new regulatory power. Even if we leave out the details, isn't this > the moment to pass it? I don't think there's time for that. Even in a much better world, figuring out a new regulatory order would be really complicated. You could probably add something about "systemic stability" to the Fed's mandate, but even that would take time. Doug

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Date:	Tue Sep 23 04:51:07 PDT 2008

6554 [lbo-talk] race costing Obama about 6 points -- rank: 1000

On Sep 22, 2008, at 8:28 PM, shag wrote: > earlier today, at lunch, i was reviewing the write ups around this > poll. AP's chief political correspondent, Ron Fournier, is purported to be some sort of Republican. So, by doing this poll, AP gets to inject race into the campaign - i.e, remind white people, in case they hadn't noticed, that Obama's black. Not to be cynical or anything. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 22 17:48:16 PDT 2008

6555 [lbo-talk] McCain camp, setting the record straight, actually twists it some more -- rank: 1000

<http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0908/13747.html> McCain camp criticism rife with errors By BEN SMITH | 9/22/08 3:58 PM EDT Senator John McCain s top aides convened a conference call today to complain of being called liars. They pressed the media to scrutinize specific elements of Senator Barack Obama s record. But the call was so rife with simple, often inexplicable misstatements of fact that it may have had the opposite effect: Deepening the perception, dangerous to McCain, th ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 22 13:18:51 PDT 2008