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7666 [lbo-talk] post-partisanship -- rank: 1000

On Mar 2, 2008, at 7:41 PM, shag wrote: > At 03:15 PM 2/29/2008, Doug Henwood wrote: > >> On Feb 29, 2008, at 2:59 PM, Charles Brown wrote: >> >>> CB: O is post-Black , too. He denounced Farakhan. >> >> It's a ritual all black politicians have to go through. It'd be nice >> if Hillary had to denouce Bill O'Reilly. >> >> Doug > > I think the parallel is more like Chomsky or Nader. As far as I can > see, > she denounces Bush ever ...

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Date:	Sun Mar 2 17:55:32 PST 2008

7667 [lbo-talk] Chavez: slow down -- rank: 1000

On Mar 2, 2008, at 10:29 AM, Eric wrote: >> I think that these conversations become somewhat problematic >> when >> the conversation operates on an assumption of equivalence. The >> Zapatista movement is a regional, indigenous movement coming out of >> the most impoverished region of Mexico (The land that the Mexican >> Revolution forgot, as a professor of mine once referred to it.) > > (By the way, this whole post is very good.) I think what both ...

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7668 [lbo-talk] Nader's typewriter -- rank: 1000

On Mar 2, 2008, at 9:07 AM, Dennis Perrin wrote: > the former abolitionist mag In the late 19th/early 20th century, The Nation was the house organ for the rising urban bourgeosie. Its editor, E.L. Godkin, was one of the leaders of a movement to restrict the right to vote in New York state to property owners. So it could be worse. Doug

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Date:	Sun Mar 2 07:07:21 PST 2008

7669 [lbo-talk] Ralph's writing device -- rank: 1000

On Mar 1, 2008, at 4:46 PM, Michael Smith wrote: > On Saturday 01 March 2008 16:13:57 Doug Henwood wrote: >> Ralph Nader says: "I'm really not online; I have an Underwood >> typewriter." Puh-leeze. > > 'Samatter? They're very good typewriters, Underwoods. Why use a typewriter, and a manual one at that? It's just silly.

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7670 [lbo-talk] Ralph's writing device -- rank: 1000

Ralph Nader says: "I'm really not online; I have an Underwood typewriter." Puh-leeze.

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Date:	Sat Mar 1 13:13:57 PST 2008

7671 [lbo-talk] Imperialism -- rank: 1000

On Mar 1, 2008, at 1:31 PM, Angelus Novus wrote: > Doug Henwood: > >> So how would you describe the U.S. relation to, say, > >> Latin America? > > It depends on whether you would want a moral > description or an analytical one. I think an > analytical, empirical study of a history of economic > relationships between the U.S. and Latin America *and* > military interventions could be conducted without > using the empty phrase "imperialism." I do ...

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7672 [lbo-talk] Imperialism -- rank: 1000

On Mar 1, 2008, at 1:14 PM, Angelus Novus wrote: > imperialism is a moral term, not an analytical one So how would you describe the U.S. relation to, say, Latin America? Doug

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7673 [lbo-talk] econ policy, HRC vs BHO -- rank: 1000

On Mar 1, 2008, at 10:26 AM, Max B. Sawicky wrote: > Doug Henwood wrote: >> On Mar 1, 2008, at 1:09 AM, Max B. Sawicky wrote: >> >> How about Goolsbee telling the Canadian gov that all that NAFTA talk >> is just election year bullshit, eh? >> Doug > > > That's been debunked. No, it's been officially denied, which of course means we should believe it. CTV's source is a senior Canadian gov official and they're not retracting it. Doug

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7674 [lbo-talk] econ policy, HRC vs BHO -- rank: 1000

On Mar 1, 2008, at 1:09 AM, Max B. Sawicky wrote: > You happened to land on the most important difference between them, > one where BHO's position, on paper at least, is correct. How about Goolsbee telling the Canadian gov that all that NAFTA talk is just election year bullshit, eh? Doug

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Date:	Sat Mar 1 06:22:58 PST 2008

7675 [lbo-talk] Effective political infighting (3) -- rank: 1000

On Jun 30, 2008, at 9:49 PM, Julio Huato wrote: > http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ari-melber/obama-network-organizes- > a_b_109882.html > > And I'll stop here, since I don't want to test the patience of people > on the list. Hey, even if we don't disagree with you, you're not testing patience. Doug

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Date:	Mon Jun 30 20:00:46 PDT 2008

7676 [lbo-talk] sprinting rightwards -- rank: 1000

On Jun 30, 2008, at 3:06 PM, shag wrote: > it seem like you're getting your back up for nothing. no one in this > conversation has denigrated catholics or fraternities or seen them as > completely untenable as a place for people concerned with social > justice > issues. But it's a staple of that tough guy rhetoric, just like mocking the pointy-heads. It's almost a reflex. Doug

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Date:	Mon Jun 30 12:18:55 PDT 2008

7677 [lbo-talk] more on the new political geography -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - June 29, 2008 <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/28/ AR2008062802124_pf.html> A New Political Geography Role Reversals in Virginias Reflect National Shifts By Alec MacGillis Washington Post Staff Writer When Sen. Barack Obama chose the Nissan Pavilion in the outer suburbs of Northern Virginia to kick off his general-election campaign, one of the 10,000 supporters there was David Bruzas, who recently moved to the fastest-growing part of a stat ...

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Date:	Mon Jun 30 08:45:17 PDT 2008

7678 [lbo-talk] what's the matter with Connecticut? (cont.) -- rank: 1000

<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008/06/29/ ST2008062900131.html> The Wealthiest States In 1976, ten of the 12 richest states votes for Republican presidential candidate Gerald R. Ford. In 2004, they went for Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kerry.

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Date:	Mon Jun 30 08:38:03 PDT 2008

7679 [lbo-talk] exercise harder, earn more -- rank: 1000

The positive effect of leisure time sports activities on earnings DP6886 Long-run Labour Market Effects of Individual Sports Activities URL: www.cepr.org/DP6886 Author(s): Michael Lechner The positive effects of physical activity on individual health are widely recognised. The author of CEPR DP6886 analyses this relationship and goes beyond to discover the effects of participation in leisure time sports on individual labour market outcomes, specifically earnings. Using data from the German S ...

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Date:	Mon Jun 30 07:55:06 PDT 2008

7680 [lbo-talk] Obama hearts Gates, says diff with Hillary negligible -- rank: 1000

[via Lou Proyect] <http://www.thenation.com/blogs/dreyfuss/333240/ gates_to_join_obama_uh_oh> Gates to Join Obama? Uh Oh posted by Robert Dreyfuss on 06/29/2008 @ 10:52am According to insiders, Barack Obama's campaign is debating how long it can leave ambiguous the notion of "residual forces" in Iraq after a presumed Obama-ordered withdrawal of combat troops begins in January 2009. But there are worrying signs, perhaps the ugliest being the rumor that Obama might recruit Secr ...

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