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6616 [lbo-talk] earmarks, Alaska style -- rank: 1000

Ben Smith has published a new story: Palin's earmarks: Not just for the halibut Alaska has been spectacularly successful in getting earmarks. And though she sounds a different tune now, Sarah Palin often supported them. read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0908/13353.html

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 10 15:34:06 PDT 2008

6617 [lbo-talk] taxes -- rank: 1000

[from ABC news] There are some interesting nuggets on taxes in our latest ABC/Post Poll: Registered voters by a 17-point margin are more apt to think their taxes would rise under Barack Obama than under John McCain, a perception that cuts closely to vote preference. So why are they even overall? Because Obama makes it back among those who see a positive or neutral tax impact. Read the latest ABC News blog here http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenumbers/

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Date:	Wed Sep 10 14:45:10 PDT 2008

6618 [lbo-talk] Thoughts on Palin and Sexism -- rank: 1000

On Sep 10, 2008, at 4:56 PM, Charles Brown wrote: > If it comes from _The Enquirer_ its good gossip ? They're not always right, but they've got, you know, reporters.

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Date:	Wed Sep 10 14:14:43 PDT 2008

6619 [lbo-talk] authentically working class -- rank: 1000

On Sep 10, 2008, at 4:58 PM, James Heartfield wrote: > I would be a fool if I had no sympathy for the problems they face. > > 'Fuck 'em'? No, that's not how I feel. You really should spend some time here to get a full taste of it. Yeah, I have some sympathy for the problems "they" face. If we're referring to the 40 million or so conservative evangelicals in the U.S., then their response to those problems is, how to put it?, singularly unhelpful. Embracing McCain-Palin will ...

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Date:	Wed Sep 10 14:13:59 PDT 2008

6620 [lbo-talk] the U.S.: the somewhat more dispensable nation -- rank: 1000

On Sep 10, 2008, at 4:39 PM, ulisse mangialaio wrote: > if they had only H&N's EMPIRE,...a few hundred thousands lifes might > have been spared. Ha, but all the old Marxists told them H&N were wrong!

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Date:	Wed Sep 10 13:48:25 PDT 2008

6621 [lbo-talk] Thoughts on Palin and Sexism -- rank: 1000

On Sep 8, 2008, at 2:51 PM, Rudy Fichtenbaum wrote: > So Sambo beat the bitch! > > This is how Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin > described Barack Obama s win over Hillary Clinton to political > colleagues in a restaurant a few days after Obama locked up the > Democratic Party presidential nomination. > > According to Lucille <http://gawker.com/5046884/sarah-palin-conspiracy-theories-the-ultimate-guide > Sarah Palin is racist! She said "Sambo b ...

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Date:	Wed Sep 10 13:24:01 PDT 2008

6622 [lbo-talk] the U.S.: the somewhat more dispensable nation -- rank: 1000

[via Lou Proyect's Marxmail] Washington Post - September 10, 2008 <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/09/AR2008090903302.html > Reduced Dominance Is Predicted for U.S. Analyst Previews Report to Next President By Joby Warrick and Walter Pincus Washington Post Staff Writers An intelligence forecast being prepared for the next president on future global risks envisions a steady decline in U.S. dominance in the coming decades, as the world is reshaped by globalizat ...

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Date:	Wed Sep 10 12:10:51 PDT 2008

6623 [lbo-talk] authentically working class -- rank: 1000

On Sep 10, 2008, at 10:48 AM, sawicky at verizon.net wrote: > You will find out if you haven't yet, you can't control kids. Of course. The annoying thing is when the fundies mount the pulpit and prescribe for the rest of us, when their own lives are hardly models. Fuck 'em.

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Date:	Wed Sep 10 08:02:03 PDT 2008

6624 [lbo-talk] authentically working class -- rank: 1000

<http://gawker.com/5047794/teen-daughter-pregnant-son-on-drugs-whats-next > PALINS. Teen Daughter Pregnant. Son On Drugs. What's Next? The National Enquirer's scoop today raises the undermining question: Did American Army hero Track Palin only join the military to escape a life of drugs and crime back home in Alaska? Track, the athletically- named son of VP nominee Sarah Palin who was portrayed as a symbol of patriotism onstage at the Republican Convention, gets the full investigative ...

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Date:	Wed Sep 10 07:32:09 PDT 2008

6625 [lbo-talk] Fwd: ABC News/Washington Post Poll: After the Conventions -- rank: 1000

Post-Convention Contest is Even; White Women Shift to McCain John McCain s taken the better boost from the presidential nominating conventions, eroding Barack Obama s advantage on change, improving on enthusiasm, moving away from George W. Bush and advancing among white women with help from his surprise vice presidential pick. Some of McCain s biggest gains in this ABC News/Washington Post poll are among white women, a group to which hockey mom Sarah Palin has notable appeal: Sixty-seve ...

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Date:	Mon Sep 8 17:58:12 PDT 2008

6626 [lbo-talk] Speaking of female candidates... -- rank: 1000

On Sep 8, 2008, at 12:29 PM, John Thornton wrote: >> i noticed right off that they were using hockey mom and wondered >> how it so easily seemed to replace soccer mom. i assume soccer's >> far more ubiquitous since a lot less expensive to play. > > This authors description fits what I was told. > > Hockey is seen as "unpretentious, hardscrabble, working class and > white." Yeah, and soccer is sort of European and faggy, no? And "cosmopolitan," ...

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Date:	Mon Sep 8 08:49:11 PDT 2008

6627 [lbo-talk] Thoughts on Palin and Sexism -- rank: 1000

On Sep 7, 2008, at 8:22 PM, Sandy Harris wrote: > Rubbish! Humans have been hunters for tens of thousands > of years. Eating moose is no weirder than eating cow. As > for shooting wolves, I don't know enough about Alaskan > conditions to criticise. Hunting is one thing. Chasing wolves in a helicopter until they keel over is another. Doug

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Date:	Sun Sep 7 17:58:42 PDT 2008

6628 [lbo-talk] Where Have I Seen Sarah Palin Before?] -- rank: 1000

<http://www.antiwar.com/orig/kamangeer.php?articleid=13417> September 6, 2008 Where Have I Seen Sarah Palin Before? by Arash Kamangeer I grew up in Iran and immigrated to US to avoid living in a theocracy. Lately though, the trajectory of US politics is something to worry about, not only to me, but also to many others in my predicament. Wednesday night at the Republican convention was an especially poignant moment. I was watching Sarah Palin deliver her acceptance speech. As I was watc ...

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Date:	Sun Sep 7 14:45:01 PDT 2008

6629 [lbo-talk] Speaking of female candidates... -- rank: 1000

On Sep 5, 2008, at 6:45 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > The central image of evil that runs through this list is The Uppity > Woman -- who must, whenever she appears, be crushed by overwhdlming > blasts sof contempt. Wow. What a bag of shit. Doug

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Date:	Fri Sep 5 18:51:56 PDT 2008

6630 [lbo-talk] Palin update -- rank: 1000

<http://gawker.com/5046129/sexy-palin-ethics-investigation-update> SCANDAL, SEX, SEXY SEX, SARAH PALIN, ALASKA, CAMPAIGNS, FAMILY MATTERS Sexy Palin Ethics Investigation Update Governor Sarah Palin is, according to the Anchorage Daily News, "stonewalling" the investigation into allegations that she abused her power by firing the Alaska public safety commissioner. They also say Palin's lawyer is threatening to sic the secret service on the Alaska legislature's investigator. AB ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 5 14:14:35 PDT 2008