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6676 [lbo-talk] Gallup: little evidence of youth surge -- rank: 1000

<http://www.gallup.com/poll/111685/Update-Little-Evidence-Surge-Youth-Vote.aspx > Gallup polling in October finds little evidence of a surge in young voter turnout beyond what it was in 2004. While young voter registration may be up slightly over 2004, the reported level of interest in the election and intention to vote among those under 30 are no higher than they were that year. ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Oct 31 13:37:55 PDT 2008

6677 [lbo-talk] Mccain releases ad where he's praised by Islamo-Marxist Obama -- rank: 1000

On Oct 31, 2008, at 3:22 PM, B. wrote: > someone who the blacks want to get in power so whitey will finally > get his Got a taste of that last weekend when I took my father's car in for service to his long-time mechanic in NJ. (He's 92, and I've pretty much taken over the car.) I asked him what hours he was usually around on Saturday mornings, and he said "Until noon. But not for much longer. We're going to have a black president, so I'll be a minority and take Saturdays off.&qu ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Oct 31 12:35:17 PDT 2008

6678 [lbo-talk] Peggy Noonan waxes weird -- rank: 1000

<http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122539802263585317.html> Obama and the Runaway Train The race, the case, a hope for grace. By PEGGY NOONAN The case for Barack Obama, in broad strokes: He has within him the possibility to change the direction and tone of American foreign policy, which need changing; his rise will serve as a practical rebuke to the past five years, which need rebuking; his victory would provide a fresh start in a nation in which a fresh start would come as a national re ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Oct 31 10:19:16 PDT 2008

6679 [lbo-talk] Wallerstein on Iraq -- rank: 1000

This is very interesting. It's looking like the puppet government is moving some limbs on its own. I'll be posting my interview with Patrick Cockburn on all this later today. He says that even if the SOFA is agreed to, it involves a timetable that would require the U.S. to be out in a couple of years. Carrol Cox said this would never happen. Wonder who'll be proved right? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Oct 31 09:32:30 PDT 2008

6680 [lbo-talk] would McCain read Faulkner? -- rank: 1000

[from a piece by Ben Smith on all the rumors that the respectable press ignored during the campaign] <http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=4F62FA8D-18FE-70B2-A8E0E2C01AB75EDF > HOLIDAY IN FIJI A widely circulated e-mail, forwarded innumerable times to many reporters, contains a long, first-person narrative of John McCain behaving extremely badly on a holiday to Fiji before his first run for president, insulting his fellow vacationers with a range of behaviors, the mildest of wh ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 30 18:13:28 PDT 2008

6681 [lbo-talk] ana marie cox, incurious mccain worshipper -- rank: 1000

On Oct 30, 2008, at 5:45 PM, shag wrote: > What a jackass Cox is. You'd think she'd noticed a little thing like > a book cover that clearly indicates that Salter is a co-author, This fact has appeared in most profiles of McCain. Irony and cleverness have their limitations, I guess. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 30 16:20:24 PDT 2008

6682 [lbo-talk] Palin's the commie -- rank: 1000

<http://wonkette.com/tag/pt-secret-communists/> SARAH THE MARXIST: She takes the oil companies hard-earned money and redistributes it to shiftless Alaskans! [W]e re set up, unlike other states in the union, where it s collectively Alaskans own the resources. So we share in the wealth when the development of these resources occurs, she told the elite socialist rag The New Yorker. That means every Alaskan gets $3,269 a year from the State, just for living and breathing on that los ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 30 10:17:18 PDT 2008

6683 [lbo-talk] Liza Featherstone on SBUX -- rank: 1000

<http://www.thebigmoney.com/articles/saga/2008/10/29/starbucks-blues?page=0,0 > Starbucks Blues Lean times and labor pains are tarnishing the coffee giant s image. By Liza Featherstone Posted Wednesday, October 29, 2008 - 9:12pm Fall is pumpkin-latte season for those who can still afford to indulge, but for Starbucks workers, it's been a season of discontent. The coffee giant has recently responded to hard times with scheduling changes that are likely to inflict misery on its employees. ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 30 09:16:59 PDT 2008

6684 [lbo-talk] Reps to move right? -- rank: 1000

[from Mike Allen] SCOOP THE NEW NEW RIGHT -- REPUBLICANS LIKELY TO STEER RIGHT AFTER DRUBBING CONSERVATIVES PLAN SECRET POST-ELECTION STRATEGY SESSION IN THE VIRGINIA COUNTRYSIDE Politico's Jonathan Martin: 'Two days after next week's election, top conservatives will gather at the Virginia weekend home of one of the movement's most prominent members to begin a conversation about their role in the GOP and how best to revive a party that may be out of power at both ends of Pennsylvania ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 29 08:32:59 PDT 2008

6685 [lbo-talk] "a whack job" -- rank: 1000

[from Mike Allen, Mr Playbook himself] In convo with Playbook, a top McCain adviser one-ups the priceless 'diva' description, calling her 'a whack job.'

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 28 06:50:15 PDT 2008

6686 [lbo-talk] my weekend in "real" virginia -- rank: 1000

On Oct 27, 2008, at 8:38 PM, shag wrote: > There was a mall on a street called Barracks Rd. It would have been > like any other strip mall save for a sprinkling of shops that either > weren't chains or were from obscure chains. IOW, the mall was not > the same mall you can find anywhere and the chains were more upscale > than even the so-called upscale malls in other cities where I've > lived. Well that's sure changed. The Barracks Rd mall used to be a standard- issue mall (and ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 27 17:57:36 PDT 2008

6687 [lbo-talk] rift -- rank: 1000

<http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/1008/Going_rogue.html> October 26, 2008 Going rogue Another data point on the growing gap between Palin's and McCain's camps: TAMPA, Fla. (CNN) Ensuring that news of the Republican National Committee's sartorial spending spree will remain in the headlines for at least one more news cycle, Sarah Palin on Sunday sounded off on the $150,000 wardrobe that was purchased for her in September, denouncing the report as "ridiculous" and decla ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 27 13:21:17 PDT 2008

6688 [lbo-talk] my weekend in "real" virginia -- rank: 1000

On Oct 27, 2008, at 12:30 PM, Charles Brown wrote: > Where were the plantations in Virginia ? Good point. Duh for me.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 27 11:44:54 PDT 2008

6689 [lbo-talk] my weekend in "real" virginia -- rank: 1000

On Oct 27, 2008, at 1:00 PM, Thomas Seay wrote: > I know Doug wrote that in jest, but if you go to my hometown of > Welch, West Virginia (much hillier and more mountainous than > anyplace in Virginia), just over the mountain than those places I > mentioned, there are a fairly high percentage of blacks. So, the > fact that those places in southern Virginia have so few blacks has > got more to do with the lingering legacy of the Confederacy. Well the whole state was the capital ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 27 10:22:48 PDT 2008

6690 [lbo-talk] High voter turnout / 'real' VA questions -- rank: 1000

On Oct 27, 2008, at 10:08 AM, shag wrote: > As for the 'real' virginia stuff, are Staunton, Swoope and > Waynesboro not > the real VA? What about Boyd Tavern, Rugby, Hebron, Shadwell, > Fisherville? > > Waynesboro looked completely down and out. It was "real" back when I used to visit there. You could get some very fine barbecue there. Charlottesville and much of its surrounding county, Albemarle, was pretty unreal in my day, but even parts of the county were prett ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 27 08:25:30 PDT 2008