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7696 [lbo-talk] sprinting rightwards -- rank: 1000

On Jun 28, 2008, at 10:47 AM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Can someone explicate the category of "The Well-Informed"? > > Is it actually a viable concept? Oh yeah, you're right. It's not important to know who the Chief Justice is, or what country the U.S. invaded in the Middle East, or whether Saddam Hussein had anything to do with 9/11, or that black people are poorer on average than white people, or that George Bush opposes the Kyoto Protocol, or anything like that. It's only eli ...

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Date:	Sat Jun 28 07:59:29 PDT 2008

7697 [lbo-talk] Wal-Mart to become Walmart.. -- rank: 1000

...with a new logo, to spice up its image: <http:// www.bizjournals.com/slideshow/1660341.html?page=2>.

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Date:	Sat Jun 28 07:54:58 PDT 2008

7698 [lbo-talk] sprinting rightwards -- rank: 1000

On Jun 28, 2008, at 10:21 AM, Marvin Gandall wrote: > It's the white working > class and lower middle class constituency which sees the Democrats > as the > party of frightening blacks, ball-busting feminists, mincing gays, > selfish > trade unionists, tree huggers, rich Jewish eggheads and other > "elitists", > illegal immigrants, athiests, gun control freaks, and flag-burners > who hate > their country and make excuses for terrorists. You might have the ...

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Date:	Sat Jun 28 07:46:17 PDT 2008

7699 [lbo-talk] why vote when God runs the show? -- rank: 1000

<http://www.livescience.com/strangenews/080625-faith-politics.html> Non-Voters: It's All In God's Hands By Jeanna Bryner, Senior Writer posted: 25 June 2008 11:20 am ET People who believe that God is involved in worldly affairs are less likely to participate in national elections than others, according to a new survey. The study, which included nearly 1,700 U.S. men and women with an average age of 53, suggests that a person's view of God is a variable that determines whether he or she ...

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Date:	Sat Jun 28 07:43:53 PDT 2008

7700 [lbo-talk] nonvoters: the scary perspective -- rank: 1000

<http://thetyee.ca/Views/2006/05/17/NonVoters/> America's Scary Non-Voters A growing, disaffected tribe And the alarm they raise for Canadians. By Barbara McLintock Published: May 17, 2006 Call them Democrats vs Republicans in the U.S., or New Democrats vs Conservatives here in Canada. Ask any random sample of citizens, and the answer would almost certainly be the same: voters for these parties are representative of big divides in the key values of our society. Those who believe in the ...

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Date:	Sat Jun 28 07:41:22 PDT 2008

7701 [lbo-talk] happy Stonewall -- rank: 1000

[from Tom Heald's Pridelets] Pridelets: Now & Then for June 28 THEN: On this day in 1969, the blame game begins in the aftermath of the Stonewall rioting. While one writer suggests "Judy (Garland's) death inspired those Stonewall queens," others blame the full moon. And nobody can quite decide who cast the first stone. Some say it was a lesbian, others say a drag queen and still others say it was a straight Puerto Rican who urged gays to "get in there and get those cops." ...

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Date:	Sat Jun 28 07:35:47 PDT 2008

7702 [lbo-talk] sprinting rightwards -- rank: 1000

On Jun 28, 2008, at 9:05 AM, Eric wrote: > It's as if > nonvoters don't exist, and what they are practicing can't in any way > be politics. In the U.S., it's not really practicing politics. Nonvoters are generally poorly informed. Of course there are people like you and Chuck0 for whom nonvoting is something of a positive statement, but that's not true of most. Doug

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Date:	Sat Jun 28 06:49:09 PDT 2008

7703 [lbo-talk] sprinting rightwards -- rank: 1000

On Jun 28, 2008, at 12:05 AM, Marvin Gandall wrote: > Doug would know better what percentage of the population doesn't vote. In the U.S, it's about half in a presidential election. Turnout in the primaries was about 15%. > Somewhere in my files I have a clipping identifying these voters as > having > the most backward social views. Perceptions vary on this. In at least one study, their views were pretty much the same as voters. But in general, nonvoters are not well informed and a ...

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Date:	Sat Jun 28 06:09:04 PDT 2008

7704 [lbo-talk] sprinting rightwards -- rank: 1000

On Jun 27, 2008, at 8:13 PM, Marvin Gandall wrote: > I've made my own views known many times on on why the urban workers > vote > Democratic, even in the so-called red states, but I'd like to hear > how Doug > and others explain it. It's the best they have on offer, though the American voter's understanding of the relation between politicians and policy is pretty underdeveloped. I'm not opposed to lesser evil arguments - I'm opposed to anything that pretends that a Dem is anyth ...

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Date:	Fri Jun 27 19:18:14 PDT 2008

7705 [lbo-talk] High Fuel Prices--Environmentalism's Millennium? -- rank: 1000

On Jun 27, 2008, at 6:41 PM, pward at peterhartward.com wrote: > No one seems to be able to explain why prices are so high--at any > rate, no one > who might be suspected of having any kind of political ax to grind. Here's an intelligent bourgeois opinion: <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#080626>. Doug

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Date:	Fri Jun 27 15:52:14 PDT 2008

7706 [lbo-talk] new radio product -- rank: 1000

BEHIND THE NEWS with Doug Henwood podcast: <http://shout.lbo-talk.org/lbo/radio-feed.php> iTunes: <http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/ viewPodcast?id=73801817> or <http://tinyurl.com/3bsaqb> "Best Music on an Economics & Politics Radio Show" Village Voice Best of NYC 2005 -------------------------------------------------- Recently posted to my radio archive <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html>: June 26, 2008 Greg Smith of the Pew F ...

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Date:	Fri Jun 27 15:31:16 PDT 2008

7707 [lbo-talk] decoupling argument? -- rank: 1000

On Jun 27, 2008, at 9:16 AM, shag wrote: > there was some debate on the list about how the economic meltdown > in the > u.s. won't hurt countries that are detached from the global > circuits of > capital. that being outside or detached makes them less dependent > and, i > guess, they'll survive and maybe even triumph as the current > imperial world > order crashes and burns. > > i was hearing on the radio yesterday, the china's being hit hard by > our > lac ...

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Date:	Fri Jun 27 13:06:18 PDT 2008

7708 [lbo-talk] decoupling argument? -- rank: 1000

On Jun 27, 2008, at 9:16 AM, shag wrote: > there was some debate on the list about how the economic meltdown > in the > u.s. won't hurt countries that are detached from the global > circuits of > capital. that being outside or detached makes them less dependent > and, i > guess, they'll survive and maybe even triumph as the current > imperial world > order crashes and burns. > > i was hearing on the radio yesterday, the china's being hit hard by > our > lac ...

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7709 [lbo-talk] sprinting rightwards -- rank: 1000

On Jun 27, 2008, at 3:46 PM, sawicky at verizon.net wrote: > I'd say that's way premature. > > At least give the guy a chance to sell out first. So what would your standard for "selling out" be? He's already leased a few body parts - what more does he have to do to convince you? Not that "selling out" is the right term, since I never thought they guy was anything like a principled pwogwessive in the first place. Doug

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7710 [lbo-talk] sprinting rightwards -- rank: 1000

On Jun 27, 2008, at 2:30 PM, Chris Doss wrote: > Right. Obama lives in a society in which public opinion matters. > Ergo, if he wants to get anywhere, he has to cater to public > opinion. What a surprise. Isn't that how democracies are supposed > to function? > > --- On Fri, 6/27/08, Wojtek Sokolowski <swsokolowski at yahoo.com> wrote: >> >> I am really surprised that otherwise intelligent people >> fail to understand this basic fact. This is the god's ...

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Date:	Fri Jun 27 11:41:58 PDT 2008