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7381 [lbo-talk] Forrest Gump for Obama -- rank: 1000

On May 5, 2008, at 6:09 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote: > Hanks thinks an Obama presidency could bring > about a "seismic shift," and "live up to the > great promise once shaped by our founding fathers." Ah yes, men of property, many of them slaveowners, all of whom aspired to an empire! Doug

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Date:	Mon May 5 18:11:25 PDT 2008

7382 [lbo-talk] New study: Private equity sucks (for investors) -- rank: 1000

On May 5, 2008, at 6:05 PM, Steven L. Robinson wrote: > What?! We are on this list and subscribe to your newsletter to get > the answer to that question from you. SR Ha. If I knew when bear and bull markets were ending and/or beginning, I'd be running a hedge fund!

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Date:	Mon May 5 18:10:48 PDT 2008

7383 [lbo-talk] New study: Private equity sucks (for investors) -- rank: 1000

On May 5, 2008, at 5:37 PM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote: > Why would you do that in a bear market? Because you probably can't know when a bear market begins and/or ends. Doug

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Date:	Mon May 5 14:54:21 PDT 2008

7384 [lbo-talk] New study: Private equity sucks (for investors) -- rank: 1000

On May 4, 2008, at 1:43 PM, Joseph Catron quoted: > An important reason for this > underperformance is the fact that fund managers can end up skimming > off more than 25 percent of the fund as a fee for their services. The > study does find that some funds do consistently better than the > average, but it's not clear why most funds underperform. Because it's nearly impossible to beat the market consistently, unless your name is Soros or Buffett - even before fees and commissions ...

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Date:	Mon May 5 14:33:12 PDT 2008

7385 [lbo-talk] Adolph Reed's latest -- rank: 1000

On May 5, 2008, at 2:47 PM, Jenny Brown wrote: > So if Michael Eric Dyson supports Obama, that means he's infected > with some kind of irrationality virus? I've never heard anyone say that Obama is a lesser evil, or that he's a tactical choice, or that he's the best we can do in a fallen world. The support is always at 110% enthusiasm, with grand claims of historical transformation should he win, or about the wonderful "movement" he's spawned that transcends a mere candidacy. ...

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Date:	Mon May 5 12:36:23 PDT 2008

7386 [lbo-talk] economist thinks about art -- rank: 1000

NBER Working Paper No. W13939 DAVID W. GALENSON, University of Chicago - Department of Economics, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Scholars of literature have devoted considerable attention to what they have called confessional or personal poetry, in which Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, and a series of other poets, from the 1950s on, made their art out of the experiences of their own lives. Yet art scholars have not analyzed a parallel practice in the visual arts, in which painter ...

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Date:	Mon May 5 10:11:58 PDT 2008

7387 [lbo-talk] Adolph Reed's latest -- rank: 1000

On May 5, 2008, at 12:47 PM, shag wrote: > At 12:32 PM 5/5/2008, Doug Henwood quotes Adolph Reed: > > >> Because he's able to claim racial insider standing, he >> actually goes beyond Clinton and rehearses the scurrilous and >> ridiculous sort of narrative Bill Cosby has made infamous. > > > Which is why I'm flummoxed as to why on earth Michael Eric Dyson > supports > Obama. Because Obamamania is a febrile disorder, not a rational choice. Doug

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Date:	Mon May 5 09:54:04 PDT 2008

7388 [lbo-talk] Kraft: making crappy food even easier to use! -- rank: 1000

[via Gawker] <http://adage.com/article?article_id=126831> Tub of Cool Whip too Challenging? Try the Can Kraft Wants to Prove It Can Innovate by Unveiling Slew of Even-Easier- to-Use Products By Emily Bryson York Published: May 02, 2008 CHICAGO (AdAge.com) -- Kraft Foods, which has made a business out of making meals easy, has heard from consumers that its products still weren't easy enough. And so Kraft is preparing to unveil to grocers some 80 new products at the Food Marketing Institu ...

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Date:	Mon May 5 09:53:20 PDT 2008

7389 [lbo-talk] Adolph Reed's latest -- rank: 1000

Progressive May 2008 Obama No By Adolph Reed Jr., May 2008 Issue I've never been an Obama supporter. I've known him since the very beginning of his political career, which was his campaign for the seat in my state senate district in Chicago. He struck me then as a vacuous opportunist, a good performer with an ear for how to make white liberals like him. I argued at the time that his fundamental political center of gravity, beneath an empty rhetoric of hope and change and new directions, ...

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Date:	Mon May 5 09:32:43 PDT 2008

7390 [lbo-talk] the Ho Chi Minh golf trail -- rank: 1000

[via the Debate list] <http://hochiminhgolftrail.com/> Following the Ho Chi Minh Golf Trail is more than a golf vacation. It s an out-of-the-box exploration of golf, history and culture that reveals tropical Vietnam for what it is one of the most dynamic, affordable, safe destinations on Earth. The golf is world-class, the accommodations trés posh (and often suffused with French colonial charm), but that s only part of the allure. From the bustle of modern Saigon to the languid, th ...

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Date:	Mon May 5 09:18:38 PDT 2008

7391 [lbo-talk] poll shocker: Americans reject gas tax holiday! -- rank: 1000

[poll: <http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/politics/ 20080505_POLL.pdf>] <http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2008/5/4/204737/7867> Americans grow up CBS-Times poll: We reject gas tax holiday Posted by Charles Komanoff (Guest Contributor) at 8:54 PM on 04 May 2008 The margin was narrow -- 4 percentage points. And 5% of those polled didn't choose sides. But a CBS News - NY Times Poll released Sunday just might signal the moment when Americans began to grasp the intertwined real ...

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Date:	Mon May 5 08:54:17 PDT 2008

7392 [lbo-talk] Obama: let my Teamsters go! -- rank: 1000

[from Mike Allen's Politico Playbook] DRIVING THE CONVERSATION - WSJ A1, 'Obama Says Teamsters Need Less Oversight,' By Brody Mullins and Kris Maher: 'Sen. Barack Obama won the endorsement of the Teamsters earlier this year after privately telling the union he supported ending the strict federal oversight imposed to root out corruption, according to officials from the union and the Obama campaign. It's an unusual stance for a presidential candidate. Policy makers have largely treated monit ...

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Date:	Mon May 5 05:12:49 PDT 2008

7393 [lbo-talk] Nicole Richie endorses Obama -- rank: 1000

On May 4, 2008, at 8:04 PM, Robert Wrubel wrote: > It's an old game invented by girls in high school. What an ageist, sexist remark!

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Date:	Sun May 4 19:28:57 PDT 2008

7394 [lbo-talk] Stephanie Luce on LN -- rank: 1000

On May 2, 2008, at 11:38 PM, Mark Rickling wrote: > the CNA had succeeded in denying > over 8,000 hospital workers in Ohio the opportunity to vote to join > our union Wow, SEIU really is a line organization. Just like the Bolsheviks and the Bush admin!

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Date:	Sat May 3 10:50:36 PDT 2008

7395 [lbo-talk] McCain: bridges fall because of wasteful government spending -- rank: 1000

[Will this guy just self-destruct over the summer? From Mike Allen's Politico Playbook] Michael Duffy of TIME magazine on this weekend's "Chris Matthews Show": "The dirty little secret of the McCain veepstakes operation is that the choices just aren't very good. And they got worse this week when McCain said that the bridge that fell in Minneapolis last summer and killed 15 people was the result of wasteful government spending. That made Tim Pawlenty, the Minnesota governor w ...

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Date:	Sat May 3 09:54:42 PDT 2008