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6706 [lbo-talk] dressing a moose -- rank: 1000

On Oct 22, 2008, at 6:53 PM, martin wrote: > How far away is the nearest Wal-Mart ? Wal-Mart Store #3520 400 Park Place Secaucus, NJ 07094 (201) 325-9280 8.80 miles

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Date:	Wed Oct 22 18:17:14 PDT 2008

6707 [lbo-talk] what not to wear when field dressing a moose -- rank: 1000

On Oct 22, 2008, at 6:03 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote: > I don't think so. Target sells stuff designed by that queer cousin > of Sylvain Sylvain. Moving to Brooklyn, I've belatedly discovered Target - there's one a little over a mile away. I'm pretty impressed. A lot of the stuff looks very good for not much money. A nice antidote to Wal-Mart's ugliness. Never thought I'd have a Michael Graves dishbrush. Doug

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Date:	Wed Oct 22 15:11:56 PDT 2008

6708 [lbo-talk] Why the Dems lost the White Working Class -- rank: 1000

On Oct 22, 2008, at 5:03 PM, Michael Pollak wrote: > > On Wed, 22 Oct 2008, Doug Henwood wrote: > >> I know this is the Internet, where it's sometimes hard to read a >> whole paper, so I'll just quote some more from Bartels. Reading >> these papers, and reading Jeffrey Stonecash's book, has forced me >> to rethink a lot of things I used to believe. E.g., 1) the Dems >> would do better by taking a more "populist" economic position > > How doe ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 22 14:14:38 PDT 2008

6709 [lbo-talk] London's Concervative Mayor backs Barack -- rank: 1000

On Oct 22, 2008, at 8:40 AM, James Heartfield wrote: > Chris Doss wrote: "People in the UK are STILL idealizing the United > States like this? " > > Hey, that's what I think about the US, too. Wow. Why? Doug

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Date:	Wed Oct 22 11:39:50 PDT 2008

6710 [lbo-talk] movie news -- rank: 1000

[The clip is pretty ordinary, though the star looks a lot like the original.] <http://fleshbot.com/5067106/breaking-paylin-gets-nailed> Breaking: Paylin Gets Nailed! Been eagerly anticipating the release of "Who's Nailin' Paylin"? (Um, haven't we all?) Hustler's been busy churning out scenes and releasing them online but if you're looking for just a taste of a Russian- Paylin-Russian sandwich, check below the fold for a special preview clip. We're pretty sure that seeing th ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 22 10:54:29 PDT 2008

6711 [lbo-talk] Why the Dems lost the White Working Class -- rank: 1000

On Oct 22, 2008, at 12:56 PM, SA wrote: > But there is - potentially - a slow and arduous populist/social dem > route to success that they're ignoring because it's hard, uncertain > and offers few short-term rewards. They have absolutely no reason to do anything like that if it means they're going to lose. On principle, the DLC was wrong, but on electoral politics it may well have been right. It hurts me to say that. The slow and arduous task is for people like us, not them. Doug

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Date:	Wed Oct 22 10:05:25 PDT 2008

6712 [lbo-talk] Piper and LV -- rank: 1000

Amazing, if not Photoshopped: Piper Palin with a $790 Louis Vuitton: <http://deceiver.com/2008/10/22/sarah-palin-real-american-mom/>

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Date:	Wed Oct 22 10:00:34 PDT 2008

6713 [lbo-talk] Why the Dems lost the White Working Class -- rank: 1000

On Oct 21, 2008, at 6:22 PM, Charles A. Grimes wrote: > There is something seriously wrong with this study. The only economic > positions the Republicans offer is lower taxes, and that's a just a > lie. I know this is the Internet, where it's sometimes hard to read a whole paper, so I'll just quote some more from Bartels. Reading these papers, and reading Jeffrey Stonecash's book, has forced me to rethink a lot of things I used to believe. E.g., 1) the Dems would do better by taking ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 22 09:02:23 PDT 2008

6714 [lbo-talk] Al Qaeda's candidate: McCain -- rank: 1000

<http://www.politico.com/blogs/michaelcalderone/1008/The_terrorist_endorsement.html > October 22, 2008 Categories: Campaign Trail [Michael Calderone] The terrorist endorsement Forget whiny editorial board writers! Who are the terrorists endorsing in the presidential race? The Washington Post reported on commentary found on a website closely linked to Al-Qaeda that said the group "will have to support McCain in the coming election" because he'd continue the "failing march ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 22 08:51:00 PDT 2008

6715 [lbo-talk] what not to wear when field dressing a moose -- rank: 1000

<http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1008/14805.html> RNC shells out $150K for Palin fashion By JEANNE CUMMINGS | 10/22/08 11:13 AM EDT Updated: 10/22/08 11:13 AM EDT The Republican National Committee has spent more than $150,000 to clothe and accessorize vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin and her family since her surprise pick by John McCain in late August. According to financial disclosure records, the accessorizing began in early September and included bills from Saks Fifth Ave ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 22 08:41:59 PDT 2008

6716 [lbo-talk] Goldbugs/ Marx As Anal Retentive -- rank: 1000

On Oct 21, 2008, at 5:55 PM, Cseniornyc at aol.com wrote: > " Goldbugs tend to be very strange people - paranoid anal > retentive. Go to a > gold bug conference and you'll want to take a shower soon after. " > Major problem with this statement is that Marx is a self-confessed > gold bug > and therefore a major "anal retentive". Marx makes it clear right at > the > beginning of Chapter 3 -Section 1 of Volume 1 as he states > unequivocally: > &quo ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 21 15:19:56 PDT 2008

6717 [lbo-talk] Why the Dems lost the White Working Class -- rank: 1000

On Oct 21, 2008, at 4:20 PM, Michael Pollak wrote: > But this was addressed directly in a post from Lane Kenworthy's blog > that was posted to LBO-talk by Shane Taylor: > > http://lanekenworthy.net/2007/12/17/how-the-democrats-lost-their- > class/ > > and the gist of the answer is: Bartels confined himself to > presidential voting patterns, which have problems. Whereas > Kenworthy and crew looked at which party self-identification, which > is a different dataset Vo ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 21 13:31:33 PDT 2008

6718 [lbo-talk] de-privatization -- rank: 1000

<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7682877.stm> Argentina 'to take over pensions' The Argentine government is expected to announce plans to nationalise the country's 10 private pension funds. The move will put the government in control of almost $30bn (£18bn) of investments, and is aimed at protecting them from the global market turmoil. But expectations of the announcement has sent Argentine shares 12% lower, as investors fear what impact the decision will have on the stock market. ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 21 13:13:05 PDT 2008

6719 [lbo-talk] the latest race/class angle -- rank: 1000

[Yeah, I know this isn't a Marxist definition of class. Thanks in advance for the pointer.] <http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1000/obama-lead-widens> Obama also has drawn even with McCain among white voters (45% to 45%). In the Sept. 9-14 survey, the first conducted after the party conventions, McCain led Obama among white voters by 14 points (52% to 38%). Notably, McCain's advantage among white non-college graduates also has almost disappeared over this period (from 16 points in mid- Sept ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 21 12:59:58 PDT 2008

6720 [lbo-talk] Ha'aretz confirms that Jews run US politics -- rank: 1000

<http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1029302.html> 36 Jews who have shaped the 2008 U.S. election By Bradley Burston and J.J. Goldberg The John McCain-Barack Obama contest has been one in which the issues of Wall Street and fitness for the presidency have far overshadowed the subject of Israel. But the Jewish vote remains a key element in battleground states, and, playing a wide variety of roles, Jews have helped to shape the campaigns. Thirty-six of them are mentioned below. This lis ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 21 10:22:59 PDT 2008