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7021 [lbo-talk] Obama's newest fan: Linda Tripp -- rank: 1000

<http://gawker.com/5086470/linda-tripp-still-in-the-mouth+blown- business> Linda Tripp Still in the 'Mouth-Blown' Business Today marks the first time older-lady (and oddly capitalized) website wowOwow has actually contributed something important to the Internet. They tracked down Linda Tripp! You know, the grouchy lady who ratted out Monica Lewinsky's blow-job confessions. She's running a craft store in Virginia. It's called Christmas Sleigh, and features we assume this is a Freudian ...

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Date:	Thu Nov 13 18:16:57 PST 2008

7022 [lbo-talk] New Deals -- rank: 1000

On Nov 13, 2008, at 3:59 PM, Charles Brown wrote: > When classmates in college asked me just what a community organizer > did, I couldn't answer. them directly. Instead, I'd pronounce on the > need for change. Plus ca change, eh?

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Date:	Thu Nov 13 13:06:54 PST 2008

7023 [lbo-talk] New Deals -- rank: 1000

On Nov 13, 2008, at 3:15 PM, Charles Brown wrote: > Yeah, Barry said he's going to have an astrologer in the House like > Nancy Reagan. That was a pretty funny crack he made about not wanting to convene a seance to communicate with Reagan. Too bad he apologized for it. Doug

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Date:	Thu Nov 13 12:31:01 PST 2008

7024 [lbo-talk] New Deals -- rank: 1000

On Nov 13, 2008, at 2:45 PM, Dennis Perrin wrote: > Obama is no FDR, as so many claim. Nor is he JFK, as Ace Cockburn > insists. No my friends, the Big O is the liberal Ronald Reagan -- > which would make Clinton the liberal Nixon, I suppose, only Bubba > had sex in the White House. Who knows? Things are kinda fluid these days.

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Date:	Thu Nov 13 12:13:08 PST 2008

7025 [lbo-talk] New Deals -- rank: 1000

On Nov 13, 2008, at 2:36 PM, B. wrote: > So Shlaes's whole career now is just about nit-picking away at the > New Deal? Whatever little niche you can find, I guess... The right is going to be reduced to this sort of nonsense for some time to come. Ha. Fuck 'em.

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Date:	Thu Nov 13 11:46:54 PST 2008

7026 [lbo-talk] Gay marriage -- rank: 1000

On Nov 13, 2008, at 2:17 PM, Michael Pollak wrote: > But boy was he ever hoist by his own petard. Normality turns out to > be the most threateningly radical demand gays have ever made. Yeah. The reaction of the Christian right was a clue on how radical the demand was. They understood that it challenged something fundamental in their world view. If solidarity (a la Carrol Cox, a position I entirely agree with) and justice weren't compelling enough reasons to support the demand, then an ...

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Date:	Thu Nov 13 11:40:35 PST 2008

7027 [lbo-talk] Ted Nugent, RINO hunter -- rank: 1000

On Nov 13, 2008, at 12:52 PM, Dwayne Monroe wrote: > <http://tinyurl.com/6c8hbt> > > > A listing of huffy, puffy conservative sites (in a burst of East Coast > elitism, I pictured an army of red faced, beer bellied men, constantly > shouting about something). Yikes. I'd rather look at and think about your neighbor, Stoya: <http://www.citypaper.net/articles/2008/11/13/meet-south-phillys-stoya>. Doug

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Date:	Thu Nov 13 10:14:06 PST 2008

7028 [lbo-talk] Nichols: Lieberman not so bad after all -- rank: 1000

[The hilarity is now well underway. You have to wonder if Nichols knows what "bemused" means.] <http://www.thenation.com/blogs/thebeat/383151> Keep Lieberman in the Caucus (For Now) [John Nichols] This writer has worn out several computers criticizing Senator Joe Lieberman, going back to the days when he was mounting a conservative- backed challenged to progressive Republican Senator Lowell Weicker. In 1988, Lieberman was a Democrat in good standing with a party that was will ...

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Date:	Thu Nov 13 09:37:05 PST 2008

7029 [lbo-talk] WSJ assumes "capital strike" -- rank: 1000

On Nov 13, 2008, at 11:56 AM, Carrol Cox wrote: >> Lenders aren't lending because they're afraid they're not going to >> get >> their money back. It's not very complicated. > > What is the evidence for this? Or are you just reading their minds? I follow Wall Street pretty closely. I read their favorite economists every day. I talk to hedge fund traders even. If they're lying, they're lying to themselves as well as the general public. Doug

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Date:	Thu Nov 13 09:10:43 PST 2008

7030 [lbo-talk] tracking changeiness -- rank: 1000

[from The Note] Change is so hard to track -- with new faces like Rahm Emanuel, John Podesta, Larry Summers, Madeleine Albright, Ron Klain, Tom Daschle, John Kerry, James Steinberg . . . (Think the Netroots are happy about this?) Your new players (hope you kept your old program): "The Obama transition team yesterday rolled out a new list of officials who will help guide the process, singling out the Treasury, Defense and State departments as its first three areas of focus," Anne ...

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Date:	Thu Nov 13 09:09:09 PST 2008

7031 [lbo-talk] New Deals -- rank: 1000

Wow, this Depression consciousness is everywhere. The cover of the next Time will have BHO as FDR. And the Gourmet Garage, a small chain of moderately upscale food stores in New York, is calling its sale items "New Deals," the signs decorated with a caricature profile of FDR with his cigarette holder. The official NBER-certified bottom of the 1929-33 contraction was March 1933, when FDR was inaugrated. Wonder if the cyclical magic will transfer to Obama? Doug

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Date:	Thu Nov 13 09:02:04 PST 2008

7032 [lbo-talk] Speaking of fakes (was Re: turnout, GMU e-mail spoof update) -- rank: 1000

On Nov 12, 2008, at 9:39 PM, Michael Pollak wrote: > They have a pdf version online: > > http://www.nytimes-se.com/nytse/wp-content/uploads/NYTimes-SE_spreads.pdf Server was totally overloaded yesterday. I got some press releases from them, but couldn't get the doc. Of course it'd have been nicer to get the real paper. I still have my Off the Wall Street Journal from like 1981. Doug

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Date:	Thu Nov 13 08:57:06 PST 2008

7033 [lbo-talk] Ted Nugent, RINO hunter -- rank: 1000

<http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=29458> Rino Season Is Now Open by Ted Nugent 11/12/2008 Like any entity that abandons basic quality control, political parties rot from within. It happened to the Democrats long ago, and now has become the case with the Republican Party, which has strayed from its conservative underpinnings. There are really only four things I have a strong aversion to: unloaded guns, dull knives, banjos, and Republicans in Name Only (RINOs). The Nugent fami ...

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Date:	Thu Nov 13 08:12:14 PST 2008

7034 [lbo-talk] Gay marriage -- rank: 1000

On Nov 12, 2008, at 9:30 PM, John Thornton wrote: > Why would anyone want identical legal protections going under two > different names, one for heterosexual couples and one for homosexual > couples? > What benefit could one possibly derive from this circumstance? The point is to make one lesser than the other. Bill can't seem to accept that. Doug

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Date:	Thu Nov 13 08:05:13 PST 2008

7035 [lbo-talk] a review of the polls -- rank: 1000

[lots of skepticism was expressed about the ability of pollsters to call this election - in the end, they did quite a good job] Letter from Britain 12 November 2008 To the American pollsters and the media which (mis)report them Never have so many trees been sacrificed to produce acres of newsprint and hours of broadcast media time wasted on anything before as the sum total of sceptical reporting of opinion polls in the America presidential election. It seems that every pundit and commentato ...

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Date:	Thu Nov 13 07:50:43 PST 2008