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8146 [lbo-talk] Koch on Rudy -- rank: 1000

Ed Koch on Rudy's collapse: "The beast is dead."

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 30 13:38:54 PST 2008

8147 [lbo-talk] Republicans moving left!!! -- rank: 1000

Last night, in the post-Florida punditry on Fox, Dick Morris excitedly announced that the Republican party is moving left! The share of self-described conservatives in the exit poll is in decline, and that of moderates and "liberals" (whatever that means in a Republican context) is rising. The FoxHeads didn't want to hear him, but he kept hammering away at this message. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 30 13:33:31 PST 2008

8148 [lbo-talk] Fed cuts -- rank: 1000

[little surprise here - the markets are getting pretty much everything they want: not merely the cut, but language suggesting there's more to come] <http://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/press/monetary/20080130a.htm> Press Release Release Date: January 30, 2008 For immediate release The Federal Open Market Committee decided today to lower its target for the federal funds rate 50 basis points to 3 percent. Financial markets remain under considerable stress, and credit has tightened f ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 30 11:27:28 PST 2008

8149 [lbo-talk] Ralph explores -- rank: 1000

Now playing on a web browser near you: <http://www.naderexplore08.org/>.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 30 10:32:31 PST 2008

8150 [lbo-talk] Maya Angelou writes poem praising Hillary -- here it is: -- rank: 1000

On Jan 30, 2008, at 1:17 PM, B. wrote: > "In recent years she > [Angelou] has controversially even written lines to be > printed inside greetings cards. 'Life is a glorious > banquet, a limitless and delicious buffet,' reads one > of her Hallmark epigrams." Controversial? It seems like the perfect form for her.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 30 10:29:31 PST 2008

8151 [lbo-talk] Volga roadtrip -- rank: 1000

On Jan 29, 2008, at 4:12 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > After you peek around the facade, what city inside capitalism (i.e., > anyplace) isn't grim;? Yeah. Everything like totally sucks, dude.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 29 13:21:22 PST 2008

8152 [lbo-talk] decoupling -- rank: 1000

[more on decoupling - I missed this the other day when it was fresher - rising export dependency really does undermine the decoupling argument - according to one of Roach's later posts, the mood changed at Davos by the end of the week, from gloom to guarded optimism - Fed cuts plus stimulus package seem to have done the trick] <http://blogs.ft.com/davosblog/stephen_roach/index.html> Decoupling or globalisation - but not both Posted by: Stephen Roach, Chairman, Morgan Stanley Asia Dream ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 29 12:14:58 PST 2008

8153 [lbo-talk] Volga roadtrip -- rank: 1000

On Jan 29, 2008, at 1:55 PM, Chris Doss wrote: > Haven't you ever noticed > that whenever a British journalist describes a foreign > country, it's always "grim"? As opposed to that sun-filled, shiny British landscape!

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 29 11:05:39 PST 2008

8154 [lbo-talk] B-Rock & hip-hop -- rank: 1000

<http://blog.flavorpill.com/index.php/posts/2008/01/29/b-rock-and-the- bad-boys/> B-Rock and the Bad Boys Tue Jan 29, 2008, 10:44 am by Leah in Intros This week in the NYC mailer, our Music Editor, Andrew Phillips, examines the Obama-hip-hop connection. When an old-school icon like Afrika Bambaataa is spitting to anything short of a stadium, one thing becomes crystal clear: progressive rap isn't dead, but it is in a state of underground internment. That's not to say that 'Bam's appeara ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 29 11:05:03 PST 2008

8155 [lbo-talk] First black presdinet (tm)? -- rank: 1000

On Jan 28, 2008, at 8:30 PM, shag wrote: > *why* did people say he was the first black > presdinet(tm)? Because he was given such a relentlessly hard time for his, um, complicated personal life.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 28 17:42:49 PST 2008

8156 [lbo-talk] Stalin exonerated! Khrushchev lied!! -- rank: 1000

[the irrepressible Grover Furr reports to the MLG list] Dear MLG friends: My colleague Vladimir Bobrov notifies me from Moscow today that my book is listed on the "top 10 sellers" of the large Moscow publisher, "Algoritm". It is also #6 in the "Russian history" list at Moscowbooks, a major Moscow bookstore that also has an online business. http://www.moscowbooks.ru/catalog/theme.asp?id=++++4F+++&offset=0 *My book -- in Russian only at this point -- gives the evi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 28 12:59:13 PST 2008

8157 [lbo-talk] Intrade -- rank: 1000

On Jan 28, 2008, at 2:52 PM, Shane Mage wrote: > They seem to discount completely the possibility of a multiple-ballot > convention, and therefore give a virtually zero probability that > anyone > but Clinton or Obama would be nominated--even though the most > "electable" possibilities are Gore and Edwards. Is this realistic--or > just freakonomics? Who knows? Intrade doesn't have much of a record. The Iowa Electronic Market <http://www.biz.uiowa.edu/iem/>, wh ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 28 12:07:10 PST 2008

8158 [lbo-talk] Intrade -- rank: 1000

SC didn't put much of a dent in the bettors' evaluation of HRC's chances: <https://www.intrade.com/>. Oh, and they see a near-70% chance the U.S. is in recession.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 28 11:16:20 PST 2008

8159 [lbo-talk] Mac users more creative, more vain -- rank: 1000

<http://adage.com/article?article_id=123350> Mac Owners Are Just Like, Well, the Mac Guy Study: Apple Computer Users Less Modest but More Open Than General (Read: PC) Population By Beth Snyder Bulik YORK, Pa. (AdAge.com) -- So it's not just that Mac guy in the "Get a Mac" ads who thinks he's better than everyone else. Apparently so do many of the people who use Apple's computers. Research from internet ad network Mindset Media confirms the ad's personification of Mac users as ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 28 05:44:10 PST 2008

8160 [lbo-talk] life at the high end -- rank: 1000

[from Page Six] Budget-buster MAYBE Shaquille O'Neal is having his worst NBA season because he's worried about money. An accounting document in the divorce file of Shaq and his wife, Shaunie, obtained by The Palm Beach Post, reveals the Miami Heat star has a routine monthly payout of $875,015 - including $156,116 for mortgages on three homes, $3,345 in phone bills, $1,610 in lawn and pool maintenance, $12,775 for food, $10,065 for electricity, $1,495 for cable TV, $24,300 for gas, $6,730 f ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jan 27 11:59:05 PST 2008