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6781 [lbo-talk] David Brooks, so worried -- rank: 1000

On Oct 13, 2008, at 1:00 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Even from here it really ought to be obvious, as I once pointed out > (non-tautologically) that capitalism is capitalism. Easy for you to say, dude.

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Date:	Mon Oct 13 10:10:03 PDT 2008

6782 [lbo-talk] who's nailin' Palin? -- rank: 1000

Scenes from the set: <http://fleshbot.com/5062500/on-the-set-of-whos-nailin-paylin>

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Date:	Mon Oct 13 09:46:40 PDT 2008

6783 [lbo-talk] quote of the day -- rank: 1000

This from Ed Hyman, Wall Street's favorite economist, whose stock in trade is offering tomorrow's conventional wisdom today: "It's a question of when, not if, the policy response gets the upper hand." Doug

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Date:	Mon Oct 13 09:31:54 PDT 2008

6784 [lbo-talk] David Brooks, so worried -- rank: 1000

On Oct 13, 2008, at 11:57 AM, Angelus Novus wrote: > --- Angelus Novus <fuerdenkommunismus at yahoo.com> > wrote: > >> And here in the last fifteen years, the post office >> and telephone service are to be privatized. > > Should read "HAVE BEEN privatized". My grammar goes > to when I'm angry I can understand your annoyance with Americans' idealization of the EU, but I don't think you really appreciate how primitive things in the U.S. can be. You ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 13 09:23:40 PDT 2008

6785 [lbo-talk] David Brooks, so worried -- rank: 1000

On Oct 11, 2008, at 7:23 PM, andie nachgeborenen wrote: > Of course, we should be talking, hmmm? It's not like our side didn't > have its w Huh? There was a left Reagan in the White House? Did I miss it? Doug

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Date:	Sat Oct 11 18:06:12 PDT 2008

6786 [lbo-talk] David Brooks, so worried -- rank: 1000

Man, it's really interesting how disillusioned conservative intellectuals are. Back when I was one, we didn't really have anyone in public life to popularize our agenda - we all felt very lonely and defeated. We all took that quote from Whittaker Chambers to heart: "It is idle to talk about preventing the wreck of Western civilization. It is already a wreck from within." Reagan changed that - though I'd left the fold, the fold felt very happy to have a real movement conservative ...

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Date:	Sat Oct 11 13:49:57 PDT 2008

6787 [lbo-talk] How the key loophole got inscribed into the Paulson Plan by reference -- rank: 1000

At last night's Nation-sponsored panel on the financial crisis at the Brecht Forum in NYC, the moderator, Chris Hayes, called on someone in the audience - named Rob Walker if I'm remembering right - who was one of the Congressional staffers involved in drafting the bailout law. He said that it was their intent to include language that would allow equity infusions. No doubt Frank, who's a very smart fellow, was part of this discussion. Doug

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Date:	Sat Oct 11 13:28:23 PDT 2008

6788 [lbo-talk] must the molecules fear? -- rank: 1000

On Oct 10, 2008, at 6:35 PM, John Thornton wrote: > Speaking of the good old days has anyone recently been doing any > reading about late 19th century capitalism? > I read Martin Sklar's excellent book "The Corporate Reconstruction > of American Capitalism" many years ago but that's really the only > book related to the subject I have read. > I'm looking for writing concerning the social history of American > capitalism before the Progressive Era which Sklar's book ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 10 14:45:23 PDT 2008

6789 [lbo-talk] Vid of angr man at McCain raly ranting about "socialists taking over" -- rank: 1000

On Oct 10, 2008, at 1:33 PM, Doug Henwood wrote: > The latest Intrade is like 78/22 on the pop vote, and the electoral > vote is 353-185. Make that 364-174.

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Date:	Fri Oct 10 14:21:43 PDT 2008

6790 [lbo-talk] must the molecules fear? -- rank: 1000

On Oct 10, 2008, at 4:23 PM, Eric wrote: >> Naomi Klein, a white woman well under 50, makes a big deal of it. > > Yeah. What's her story anyway? She seems to want to make the "neoliberal" era seem like more of a break with its predecessor than is warranted. So now the capitalists just lie and steal, unlike the good old days when they ran production? Doug

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Date:	Fri Oct 10 13:32:49 PDT 2008

6791 [lbo-talk] must the molecules fear? -- rank: 1000

On Oct 10, 2008, at 3:50 PM, Eric wrote: > Accumulation by dispossession is a concept recognizable only to > white men over 50. Naomi Klein, a white woman well under 50, makes a big deal of it. Though it seems to me that it's a pretty longstanding feature of capitalism. Doug

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Date:	Fri Oct 10 13:03:52 PDT 2008

6792 [lbo-talk] Chris Buckley endorses Obama -- rank: 1000

<http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2008-10-10/the-conservative-case-for-obama > Sorry Dad, I'm Voting for Obama Christopher Buckley The son of William F. Buckley has decided shock! to vote for a Democrat. Let me be the latest conservative/libertarian/whatever to leap onto the Barack Obama bandwagon. It's a good thing my dear old mum and pup are no longer alive. They'd cut off my allowance. Or would they? But let's get that part out of the way. The only reason my vote would ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 10 10:36:53 PDT 2008

6793 [lbo-talk] Vid of angr man at McCain raly ranting about "socialists taking over" -- rank: 1000

On Oct 10, 2008, at 1:23 PM, Thomas Seay wrote: > I, on the other hand, find White Trash on Steroids to be hilarious. Do these cranks feel like History is turning against them? Last night on CNN, Ed Rollins said it was all over for McCain, and a Dem landslide was a good possibility. The latest Intrade is like 78/22 on the pop vote, and the electoral vote is 353-185. The Iowa vote share is 55-45, and the winner take all is 85-15. The daily Gallup tracking poll has Obama ahead by 10. Doug

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Date:	Fri Oct 10 10:33:33 PDT 2008

6794 [lbo-talk] 3rd party candidates drawing minimal support -- rank: 1000

There's a lot of noise in numbers like these, and there are also rounding issues when you're dealing with numbers 2% and below. So it's really hard to say who went where. Third party support usually dwindles as Election Day approaches, too. On Oct 10, 2008, at 12:36 PM, shag wrote: > the widening of the gap occured because people said they wouldn't > vote, not because mccain voters shifted to obama. is this common > across the board? or just this poll? > > At 12:19 PM 10/10/2008 ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 10 10:13:51 PDT 2008

6795 [lbo-talk] the stars say... -- rank: 1000

[This is from Henry Weingarten, the leading astrological analyst of the financial markets.] READER: this looks just like 1974 which means the market should have only about 5-10% downside bottom rally then retest in December HW: except retest in November. JNJ is cheap. GE is cheap. IBM is reasonable. Note: Watch GE and IBM are market bell weathers. GE above 20 and IBM above 90and market is safe . Under 18 and 85 dangerous. In between wild. We are buying more stocks as we hit 8000. While ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 10 09:40:32 PDT 2008