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7501 [lbo-talk] Cheney to public: go fuck yourself -- rank: 1000

[from The Note] ABC's Martha Raddatz interviews Vice President Dick Cheney during his Middle East trip. "There's a general consensus that we've made major progress; that the surge has worked," he said. "That's been a major success." Told that two-thirds of the American people tell pollsters that they don't think the war is worth fighting, Cheney responded (with one of THOSE smiles), "So?" Raddatz: "So -- you don't care what the American people think?" ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 19 06:54:44 PDT 2008

7502 [lbo-talk] Charles Murray loves BHO -- rank: 1000

<http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/? q=MjI3MWMyOGFkNmQ2MGFjNzRhYzYwMGVhZWJhMjcyOGM> Have I missed the competition? [Charles Murray] I read the various posts here on "The Corner," mostly pretty ho-hum or critical about Obama's speech. Then I figured I'd better read the text (I tried to find a video of it, but couldn't). I've just finished. Has any other major American politician ever made a speech on race that comes even close to this one? As far as I'm concerned, it i ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 19 06:51:48 PDT 2008

7503 [lbo-talk] GOP sees Rev Wright as key to victory -- rank: 1000

[Gotta love this: the guy who linked Max Cleland with ObL says Obama's consorts with "haters"] <http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0308/9116.html> GOP sees Rev. Wright as pathway to victory By: Jonathan Martin March 19, 2008 06:04 AM EST For months, Republican party officials have watched with increasing trepidation as Barack Obama has shattered fundraising records, packed arena after arena with shrieking fans and pulled in significant Republican and independent votes. Now, ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 19 06:00:10 PDT 2008

7504 [lbo-talk] RM turns 20 -- rank: 1000

[The publisher asked me to forward this.] RETHINKING MARXISM 20th Anniversary Events 20th Anniversary Issue of Rethinking Marxism Volume 20, Issue 4 (October 2008) The special issue commemorating 20 years of Rethinking Marxism s publication will include contributions from Etienne Balibar, Stephen Resnick & Richard Wolff, Kojin Karatani, J. K. Gibson-Graham, Antonio Negri, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak & Benjamin Baer, Susan Jahoda & Jesal Kapadia. The issue will also contain a speci ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 19 04:43:18 PDT 2008

7505 [lbo-talk] Dem nominee advisers weigh in on market turmoil -- rank: 1000

On Mar 18, 2008, at 8:52 PM, B. wrote: > But he thinks the > primary difference between Obama and Clinton is that > Obama made it clear from the outset that he was going > to focus on the economic squeeze on the middle class > and elderly with a plan that would simplify the > tax-filing process, reduce taxes and ensure credit for > interest paid on mortgages. Oh yeah, how is this more "progressive" than Hillary?

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 18 18:11:12 PDT 2008

7506 [lbo-talk] Dem nominee advisers weigh in on market turmoil -- rank: 1000

On Mar 18, 2008, at 8:52 PM, B. wrote: > Daniel Tarullo, a senior economic adviser to Obama That guy MCs a lot of Council on Foreign Relations economic events. He's very sharp, but safely within the realm of orthodoxy. Added to Goolsbee, another reason to question the starry-eyedness of the Obamanians. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 18 18:10:23 PDT 2008

7507 [lbo-talk] FOMC -- rank: 1000

On Mar 18, 2008, at 8:23 PM, Mike Beggs quoted Minsky: > "What we seem to have is a system that sustains instability even as it > prevents the deep depressions of the past. Instead of a financial > crisis > and a deep depression being separated by decades, threats of crisis > and > deep depression occur every few years; instead of a realised deep > depression, we now have chronic inflation..." But we didn't have that for more than 20 years. The Fed was able both t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 18 17:54:08 PDT 2008

7508 [lbo-talk] Recommended Reading -- rank: 1000

On Mar 18, 2008, at 7:31 PM, C. G. Estabrook wrote: > Read it and weep. I couldn't agree more, but the liberals are having Obamagasms over it.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 18 16:58:41 PDT 2008

7509 [lbo-talk] Jeremiah Wright or Wrong? -- rank: 1000

On Mar 18, 2008, at 6:51 PM, Jerry Monaco wrote: > But first let me say that Dennis you are exactly right. It's > because I > don't own a t.v.... Which is why I hoped some people (like Doug) > could > explain to me what the whole hullabaloo was about. It was all over the news. Google news returns 553 hits.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 18 16:52:56 PDT 2008

7510 [lbo-talk] Recommended Reading -- rank: 1000

On Mar 18, 2008, at 4:55 PM, Dwayne Monroe wrote, in the course of an excellent analysis of The Speech: > Quickly followed, lest anyone become too uncomfortable, by more > celebration - > > > "Of course, the answer to the slavery question was already embedded > within our Constitution - a Constitution that had at is very core the > ideal of equal citizenship under the law; a Constitution that promised > its people liberty, and justice, and a union that could be and ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 18 14:17:07 PDT 2008

7511 [lbo-talk] Recommended Reading -- rank: 1000

On Mar 18, 2008, at 4:23 PM, Miles Jackson wrote: > Now, be fair Doug--you highlighted the worst line in the speech. A > lot > of it didn't suck. I follow Slavoj Zizek in arguing that sometimes quoting things out of context really does reveal the speaker's deepest intentions - that context is often used to dress up or disguise. But in any case, you're right that some parts of the speech didn't suck. (My college class listserv, which I use as a guide to the thinking of the liberal P ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 18 13:52:44 PDT 2008

7512 [lbo-talk] cultural history -- rank: 1000

Playboy's history of female pubic hair styles: <http://www.playboy.com/girls/hotmodels/features/waxing-nostalgic/ 1971-1981.html>

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 18 13:39:09 PDT 2008

7513 [lbo-talk] butt end of my days and ways -- rank: 1000

Vodka Brand Wants Call Girl to Be Latest 'Butt Girl' Georgi Offers 'Six Figures' to Have Fallen Governor's Paramour Be Drink's Pinup March 18, 2008 CHICAGO (AdAge.com) -- The owner of Georgi vodka said he is in talks to put the derriere of former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer's call girl on the backside of every bus in New York. Read the full story at <http://adage.com/article?article_id=125794> -- Jeremy Mullman

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 18 13:11:22 PDT 2008

7514 [lbo-talk] Fed structure -- rank: 1000

[here it is from the horse's mouth] <http://federalreserve.gov/generalinfo/faq/faqfrs.htm> Who owns the Federal Reserve? The Federal Reserve System is not "owned" by anyone and is not a private, profit-making institution. Instead, it is an independent entity within the government, having both public purposes and private aspects. As the nation's central bank, the Federal Reserve derives its authority from the U.S. Congress. It is considered an independent central bank because ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 18 12:26:37 PDT 2008

7515 [lbo-talk] FOMC -- rank: 1000

[This is less accommodating than the markets wanted - they wanted 100bps, not 75 - and the language about inflation is surprisingly strong. And the two dissenting votes really stand out.] <http://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/press/monetary/20080318a.htm> Release Date: March 18, 2008 For immediate release The Federal Open Market Committee decided today to lower its target for the federal funds rate 75 basis points to 2-1/4 percent. Recent information indicates that the outlook for e ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 18 12:12:56 PDT 2008