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7726 [lbo-talk] God Bless (the Bank of) America -- rank: 1000

[guess the taxpayers don't get any equity upside on this deal - from Bloomberg] Bank of America, led by Chief Executive Officer Kenneth Lewis, can use tax write-offs to pay for Countrywide, the country's biggest mortgage lender, said Robert Willens, a former managing director at Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. who now runs his own accounting firm. Taxpayers may pick up about $5 billion of Countrywide's losses over 20 years, he said. Countrywide shareholders approved the sale today.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 25 10:19:12 PDT 2008

7727 [lbo-talk] black primary turnout -- rank: 1000

On Jun 24, 2008, at 5:12 PM, sawicky at verizon.net wrote: > Yes and the War on Poverty ended a long time ago, round about 1979. It did, but the 70s were hardly a great decade for poverty. I mean poverty reduction.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 24 14:32:46 PDT 2008

7728 [lbo-talk] Savage Mules: Viva Los Muertos! -- rank: 1000

On Jun 24, 2008, at 3:59 PM, Dennis Perrin wrote: > Kos already turned down an offer to debate me (proposed by someone > who books > Hitchens, among others), saying that I was not serious nor on his > level. > He's probably right. Yeah, who'd want to be a bottom-feeder like him?

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 24 13:33:39 PDT 2008

7729 [lbo-talk] black primary turnout -- rank: 1000

On Jun 24, 2008, at 3:36 PM, sawicky at verizon.net wrote: > http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/poverty/histpov/hstpov2.html > > > > Head Start started in 1965. Picky, picky. The poverty rate is higher now than it was in 1969.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 24 12:47:06 PDT 2008

7730 [lbo-talk] further evidence of the decline of civilization -- rank: 1000

<http://gawker.com/tag/overshares/?i=396950&t=mary-rambin-videoblogs- her-colonic> Mary Rambin Videoblogs Her Colonic Hey, have you guys ever heard of a colonic? Dating columnist Julia Allison's best friend, "handbag designer" and failed-reality-show veteran Mary Rambin, has a very important public-service announcement to make: colonics are good for you! She made a video about them! [Style by Mary] <http://stylebymaryrambin.com/post/39608791/share-my-scare-of-the- colon ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 24 12:33:30 PDT 2008

7731 [lbo-talk] Steve Schwarzman news -- rank: 1000

<http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=a7mg06V9WPH8> Female Nudes Crafted From Financial Times Lure Bank Barons By Trista Kelley June 23 (Bloomberg) -- Dorrit Moussaieff, Iceland's first lady, struggled to find the perfect gift when her friend turned 60. What does one give Stephen Schwarzman, the billionaire chairman of Blackstone Group LP? When Moussaieff met London artist Natasha Archdale, she found just the thing. Archdale creates nude female figures from coral- ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 24 10:36:34 PDT 2008

7732 [lbo-talk] If you support AT&T - you support Bush -- rank: 1000

On Jun 24, 2008, at 11:37 AM, Jordan Hayes wrote: >> Just received this in my inbox: > > That's funny, I 'just' received it on May 20: > > http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/pipermail/lbo-talk/Week-of- > Mon-20080519/008678.html That was a plea from Alternet. This is from The Nation. Guess The Nation moves a little more slowly.

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Date:	Tue Jun 24 10:03:21 PDT 2008

7733 [lbo-talk] black primary turnout -- rank: 1000

On Jun 24, 2008, at 10:55 AM, sawicky at verizon.net wrote, with an almost poetic concept of linespacing: > The block grant movement was a Nixon device to transition Federal > spending > away > > from uppity community action types towards state and local governments > (sweetening > > the pot in the process). So you could argue it was a concession to > social > movements > > and a Democrat-dominated Congress. And, according to Wikipedia (for what that's worth ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 24 08:36:41 PDT 2008

7734 [lbo-talk] black primary turnout -- rank: 1000

On Jun 24, 2008, at 9:30 AM, Charles Brown wrote: > CB; So, how did Community Develop Block Grants get there in the first > place ? Or headstart ? They came after huge popular mobilizations that threatened systemic stability. You may have noticed that we don't have anything comparable now. By the way, the CDBG was created during the Ford administration. Doug

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Date:	Tue Jun 24 07:18:28 PDT 2008

7735 [lbo-talk] If you support AT&T - you support Bush -- rank: 1000

On Jun 24, 2008, at 9:28 AM, Mark Rickling wrote: > Just received this in my inbox: > > > Does your cell phone speak for you? > From: Teresa Stack, President (info at thenation.com) > > > Dear Friend of The Nation: > I am writing to you because I believe you to be someone who cares > about progressive values and someone who would like to know about > companies that support sustainability and social change. Yeah, I just got that too. I just wrote a note of complai ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 24 07:16:16 PDT 2008

7736 [lbo-talk] black primary turnout -- rank: 1000

On Jun 24, 2008, at 9:13 AM, Charles Brown wrote: > Wow. So, assuming Obama wins, how long a honeymoon will you give him > before you realize that none of this is going to happen in any > meaningful way? > > Doug > > ^^^ > CB: Wow. How do you know that ? Oh, from about 40 years of following American politics. Doug

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Date:	Tue Jun 24 06:22:45 PDT 2008

7737 [lbo-talk] Michael Jackson has "strong feminist views on porn" -- rank: 1000

[from a profile of the Ronson family, now most famous for providing Lindsay Lohan with (adorable) girlfriend Sam] <http://gawker.com/tag/celebrity/?i=396849&t=a-guide-to-the-weird- ronson-family> Mark, 32, a DJ: He grew up in London down the street from the McCartneys until age 8. At 14, he got an internship at Rolling Stone. (Jann Wenner's wife was friends with his mom). He started DJing professionally as a senior at Collegiate prep school. He's been labeled a "trust-fund DJ ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 24 06:21:40 PDT 2008

7738 [lbo-talk] Obama: today's state of play -- rank: 1000

<http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/TheNote/Story?id=3105288&page=2> Yet for all the inclusiveness -- Obama seems interested in a big tent only so long as he can paint the sides of it. The New York Times' Andrea Elliott has details of a canceled December Obama campaign event that was to be held at a mosque. The country's first Muslim congressman, Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., recalls the words spoken by an Obama aide: "We have a very tightly wrapped message." Per Elliott: &quo ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 24 05:55:57 PDT 2008

7739 [lbo-talk] black primary turnout -- rank: 1000

On Jun 23, 2008, at 6:21 PM, Charles Brown wrote: > O is for socalled Black issues, like money for the cities, urban > policy. He can be trusted to give any individual Black person or > group > of Black people a fair decision to the extent he would have to make > them > were he Pres. Wow. So, assuming Obama wins, how long a honeymoon will you give him before you realize that none of this is going to happen in any meaningful way? Doug

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Date:	Tue Jun 24 05:31:38 PDT 2008

7740 [lbo-talk] religion in the US -- rank: 1000

On Jun 24, 2008, at 12:21 AM, WD wrote: > So why do so many people get a kick out of picking on Mormons > but not Christian Scientists -- or Catholics, for that matter? Hey, I'll play that game. Christian Science is hilarious, when it isn't killing people. And Catholicism! How can you beat a church organized around a hierarchy of robed celibates? Doug

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Date:	Tue Jun 24 05:27:09 PDT 2008