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7201 [lbo-talk] Rove map -- rank: 1000

On May 23, 2008, at 4:29 PM, Jerry Monaco wrote: > I think that the Doug who appears on > this list is not the same Doug who wrote "Wall Street". If Doug > can suffer > through the ideological stupefaction of Rove, and not recognize it as > ideological to its core - a world view imparting no information except > interior to its own ideology -- then I wonder where he himself is > going > politically. There is no outside ideology, comrade. Doug

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Date:	Fri May 23 13:38:37 PDT 2008

7202 [lbo-talk] Ralph's 47-minute indictment of Bush & Cheney on C-SPAN tonight! -- rank: 1000

[I don't know who's writing these email blasts from the Nader campaign, but they do have a curious prose style.] It was a glorious spring morning in Washington, D.C. The sun was out. Tourists were everywhere. And Ralph Nader and the Nader/Gonzalez Team were in front of the White House this morning calling for the resignation of Bush and Cheney. C-Span has just informed us that Ralph's 47-minute indictment of Bush and Cheney will be played on C-Span One about 6:40pm EST. Hope you get a chance ...

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Date:	Fri May 23 13:34:11 PDT 2008

7203 [lbo-talk] SEIU in PR -- rank: 1000

[from Juan Gonzalez' column today on the Puerto Rican Dem primary in the NY Daily News] <http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/ 2008/05/11/2008-05-11_extended_race_great_news_for_puerto_rico-3.html? page=1> Instead, labor unions, especially those affiliated with mainland internationals, are expected to play the biggest role in voter turnout. The United Service Workers, an affiliate of AFSCME in the U.S., has opened three Clinton campaign offices and is spearheading a major Memorial ...

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Date:	Fri May 23 11:36:41 PDT 2008

7204 [lbo-talk] Pat B on post-Christian America -- rank: 1000

[if marriage is supposed to be about procreation, why didn't Pat have any, hmmmm?] <http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=26670> Post-Christian America by Patrick J. Buchanan "A Victory for Equality and Justice," blared the headline above the editorial. "Momentous," "historic," "a major victory for civil rights," "a scrupulously fair ruling based on law, precedents and common sense." This was the ecstatic reaction of The New York Ti ...

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Date:	Fri May 23 07:03:10 PDT 2008

7205 [lbo-talk] Rove map -- rank: 1000

On May 21, 2008, at 8:38 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > I agree with Jerry, which is why I've reduced my > reading of LBO to quick peeks at a sampling of posts. Even shag's > posts > are beginning to be eye-closers. > > It's going to be a dreary year for politics and political discussion. Why is it so hard to process several things at once? Elections don't necessarily change much, though they make some difference on some things - yet they shape the way that most people think about ...

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Date:	Thu May 22 14:35:58 PDT 2008

7206 [lbo-talk] C.W.Miils, was Rove Map -- rank: 1000

On May 22, 2008, at 3:06 PM, Miles Jackson wrote: > That is brings up an interesting sociological question: must the > ruling > class be a coherent social group to function effectively as the ruling > class in a capitalist society? Or is their social function as the > expropriators coherence enough? That's one of my questions. I'm not sure of the answer. But I'm thinking that the Iraq disaster and the subprime crisis are what happens when the pure pursuit of profit and short-te ...

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Date:	Thu May 22 12:23:47 PDT 2008

7207 [lbo-talk] Fwd: using statistics to estimate the elections in Michigan and Florida that didn't happen -- rank: 1000

I forwarded Robert Naiman's query to the AAPOR list, and got this response. > From: Marco Antonio Morales-Barba <marco.morales at NYU.EDU> > Date: May 22, 2008 1:37:27 PM EDT > To: AAPORNET at ASU.EDU > Subject: Re: using statistics to estimate the elections in Michigan > and Florida that didn't happen > Reply-To: Marco Antonio Morales-Barba <marco.morales at NYU.EDU> > List-Archive: <https://lists.asu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?LIST=AAPORNET> > > Some initial t ...

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Date:	Thu May 22 10:53:26 PDT 2008

7208 [lbo-talk] Lichtenstein on SEIU -- rank: 1000

On May 22, 2008, at 11:09 AM, Mark Rickling quoted Nelson Lichtenstein: > But Stern and his allies within the SEIU believe that with a > Democratic Party landslide in the offing this November, unions are on > the verge of an historic breakthrough. That's funny.

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Date:	Thu May 22 09:51:58 PDT 2008

7209 [lbo-talk] Rove map -- rank: 1000

On May 22, 2008, at 12:31 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote: > At 07:04 AM 5/22/2008, Jerry Monaco wrote: > > >> But I don't mistake it for anything but gossip. > > > Whoever said otherwise? Missed that in the original. I haven't posted this in three years! > ...listen: I know Matthew Arnold is not > > far off: he's going to come roaring out of the woods, deeply > offended by the briars and limber limbs, and mount up on a > high stone chair and declaim to the woods: ...

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Date:	Thu May 22 09:47:58 PDT 2008

7210 [lbo-talk] McCain's other crazy pastor -- rank: 1000

<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/05/21/mccain-backer-hagee- said_n_102892.html> McCain Backer Hagee Said Hitler Was Fulfilling God's Will (AUDIO) Sam Stein May 21, 2008 01:24 PM John Hagee, the controversial evangelical leader and endorser of Sen. John McCain, argued in a late 1990s sermon that the Nazis had operated on God's behalf to chase the Jews from Europe and shepherd them to Palestine. According to the Reverend, Adolph Hitler was a "hunter," sent by God, who was ta ...

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Date:	Thu May 22 07:18:41 PDT 2008

7211 [lbo-talk] those troublesome clerics -- rank: 1000

[from The Note] Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., is set to dominate a news cycle or two -- starting with a new pastor problem. Meet Pastor Rod Parsley, whom the McCain campaign was more than happy to trot out as an endorser in February: "As the senior pastor of the World Harvest Church in Columbus, Ohio, Parsley has made no secret of his feelings that Islam is the enemy," ABC's Brian Ross reported on "Good Morning America" Thursday. Two choice Parsley quotes: "Islam is an ...

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Date:	Thu May 22 07:15:00 PDT 2008

7212 [lbo-talk] "State of the Unions: Why labor still rules in New York and what that will mean this November" -- rank: 1000

On May 21, 2008, at 11:55 PM, Joseph Catron wrote: > Election Day 2006 was a cold one in Albany, so Danny Donohue, > president of the Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA), wore a > sweatshirt when he went out to wave a sign above his head, urging > drivers to head to the polls on their way home. The sweatshirt was > from Sen. Hillary Clinton's re-election campaign. The sign was from > State Sen. Joseph Bruno's. > > "People stopped and said 'Are you confused?'&q ...

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7213 [lbo-talk] the flag pin, etc. -- rank: 1000

On May 22, 2008, at 12:16 AM, WD wrote: > All this suggests is that a vibrant anti-military culture can thrive > even with a draft. Well sure. But it took more than six years and > many thousands of U.S. dead (roughly 48k btw. '64 and '70) in Vietnam > to get to the point where the esteemed Colonel was writing. But this is why the r.c. doesn't want a draft army - too many social problems. Now, they get the cream of the working class (or did, until Iraq gave them recruitment probl ...

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Date:	Thu May 22 05:34:57 PDT 2008

7214 [lbo-talk] C.W.Miils, was Rove Map -- rank: 1000

On May 21, 2008, at 10:49 PM, Miles Jackson wrote: > Okay, I can see why you want to pitch it that way, but dish: what's > the > book really about? WHo the American ruling class is today, if such a thing exists as a coherent social formation. Sociology, economics, and gossip. So it really is Mills + VF.

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7215 [lbo-talk] C.W.Miils, was Rove Map -- rank: 1000

On May 21, 2008, at 10:04 PM, (Chuck Grimes) wrote: > Did you ever do anything with the material, such as consider > re-writing The Power Elite to update or give it more current profile? I'm wrapping up the book proposal in the next copula days. We'll see where it goes from there. It's CW Mills meets Vanity Fair. Doug

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