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6751 [lbo-talk] Why not let McCain win? -- rank: 1000

On Oct 16, 2008, at 2:28 PM, Peter Lavelle wrote: > Sounds like you all believe in the system. This is all entertaining > for > someone like me who lives far away and for a long time. Living here in > Russia I watch a show where it is hardly possible to see anything new > in American politics. > > > > Keeping pounding away at me. This is nothing. I work for "Kremlin TV" > after all! This is all good sport and entertainment as far as I am > concerned.... ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 16 11:40:05 PDT 2008

6752 [lbo-talk] Why not let McCain win? -- rank: 1000

On Oct 16, 2008, at 2:17 PM, Bill O'Connor wrote: > "Mark Rickling" <mrickling at gmail.com> writes: > >> On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 1:57 PM, Peter Lavelle >> <untimely_thoughts at yahoo.com> wrote: >> >>> The system is failing - let it completely belly up before real >>> change is on offer. >> >> The worse the better! Why hasn't anyone thought of this before . . . > > Why, that's just crazy enough to... be absolutel ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 16 11:25:21 PDT 2008

6753 [lbo-talk] good news for unions? -- rank: 1000

On Oct 16, 2008, at 12:18 PM, Steven L. Robinson wrote: > You figure that ALL the Dems would vote for EFCA? The Dems have had > similar majorities before, yet there have always been some who voted > against such measures. I'm just reporting Wall Street's conventional wisdom.

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Date:	Thu Oct 16 09:24:14 PDT 2008

6754 [lbo-talk] A picture is worth a thousand words -- rank: 1000

On Oct 16, 2008, at 9:25 AM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/us_elections_2008/7671116.stm > > scroll to the middle of the article to see McCains monkey face. Fuller context: <http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/slideshow/photo//081016/ids_photos_ts/r1772410910.jpg/ >. > That aside, I was disappointed by Obama inability to effectively > counter the right wing framing of issues spewed by McCain. > > When McCain accused Obama of "excessive s ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 16 09:14:32 PDT 2008

6755 [lbo-talk] good news for unions? -- rank: 1000

The Washington branch of ISI, the consulting firm headed by Wall Street's favorite economist, Ed Hyman, thinks that the Dems are increasingly likely to get 60 Senate seats, which would be news for pharma stocks (drug price controls more likely), and would virtually assure passage of the Employee Free Choice Act (which would eliminate the need for secret ballots in union organizing drives) - bad news for Wal-Mart and FedEx. Doug

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Date:	Thu Oct 16 09:08:55 PDT 2008

6756 [lbo-talk] Kondratieff cycles -- rank: 1000

On Oct 16, 2008, at 11:53 AM, James Heartfield wrote: > Somehow, I was always put off by the 'Kondratieff Cycles' - they > seemed to me to be an argument that reality should subordinate > itself to a theory, rather than a theory that captured real laws of > social development - but maybe I was wrong. Does anyone understand > the method behind the Kondratieff cycle? It's based on a sample of, what, two or three? I've been hearing that we're on the downcycle of a K-wave since the e ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 16 09:05:04 PDT 2008

6757 [lbo-talk] Halperin says McCain won debate; early poll shows independents agree -- rank: 1000

On Oct 16, 2008, at 6:18 AM, B. wrote: > Mark Halperin of TIME says McCain won the debate, but barely Oh, and Stan Greenberg's focus group of undecideds went heavily for BO, as did the CNN poll.

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Date:	Thu Oct 16 04:45:29 PDT 2008

6758 [lbo-talk] Halperin says McCain won debate; early poll shows independents agree -- rank: 1000

On Oct 16, 2008, at 6:18 AM, B. wrote: > Mark Halperin of TIME says McCain won the debate, but barely Wow, he sure is partisan. On Fox, only Hannity looked pumped. Fred Barnes looked like he was going to cry. Doug

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Date:	Thu Oct 16 04:44:58 PDT 2008

6759 [lbo-talk] Who's Nailin' Palin script? -- rank: 1000

<http://www.tmz.com/2008/10/08/get-a-load-of-this-whos-nailin-palin-script-1/ >

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Date:	Wed Oct 15 10:02:41 PDT 2008

6760 [lbo-talk] Americans very bummed -- rank: 1000

<http://www.gallup.com/poll/111169/Americans-Satisfaction-New-AllTime-Low.aspx > Americans Satisfaction at New All-Time Low of 7% President George W. Bush s disapproval rating of 71% sets Gallup record again by Elizabeth Mendes WASHINGTON, D.C. -- A mere 7% of Americans say they are satisfied with the way things are going in the United States, the lowest satisfaction reading in Gallup history. This finding, from a weekend USA Today/ Gallup poll conducted Oct. 10-12 after a week of deva ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 15 09:44:09 PDT 2008

6761 [lbo-talk] Bradley effect seems not to exist -- rank: 1000

<http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenumbers/> The Numbers A Run at the Latest Data from ABC's Poobah of Polling, Gary Langer Barack Obama s lead over John McCain has reignited debate about the alleged Bradley effect the notion that, in polls, white people lie about voting for a black candidate. It remains, at best, what I called it nine months ago: a theory in search of data. The Bradley effect and its variants (Wilder effect, Dinkins effect), attempt to explain why the level of support f ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 15 08:38:28 PDT 2008

6762 [lbo-talk] medical catastrophes -- rank: 1000

On Oct 14, 2008, at 4:46 PM, Thomas Seay wrote: > How about antibiotics-which are a good thing and have saved tons of > lives- when overused give rise to a super-resistant bug that will > wipe out large numbers of people? Three-quarters full, or one-quarter empty?

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Date:	Tue Oct 14 16:14:02 PDT 2008

6763 [lbo-talk] Chris Buckley packs it in -- rank: 1000

<http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2008-10-14/sorry-dad-i-was-fired > Christopher Buckley, in an exclusive for The Daily Beast, explains why he left The National Review, the magazine his father founded. I seem to have picked an apt title for my Daily Beast column, or blog, or whatever it's called: "What Fresh Hell." My last posting (if that's what it's called) in which I endorsed Obama, has brought about a very heaping helping of fresh hell. In fact, I think it c ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 14 13:24:44 PDT 2008

6764 [lbo-talk] Roubini's design sense -- rank: 1000

<http://gawker.com/5063337/the-secret-pleasures-of-dr-doom> The image of Dr. Doom may satisfy the needs of the media and partygoers this Halloween but Roubini's personality is far from dour. The Iranian-Jewish economist is a promiscuous Facebook friend who draws a cosmopolitan crowd to the frequent parties at his Tribeca loft an apartment with walls indented with plaster vulvas, incidentally.

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Date:	Tue Oct 14 13:20:49 PDT 2008

6765 [lbo-talk] medical catastrophes -- rank: 1000

Joanna Bujes wrote: > I think at this point, given the eco-catastrophes and the medical > catastrophes of the "advanced" world What medical catastrophes exactly? People live longer than ever. Diseases that used to be fatal aren't anymore. Sure, our health care system can be massively fucked up, but I don't get this kind of fatalism. Doug

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Date:	Tue Oct 14 13:12:27 PDT 2008