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8341 [lbo-talk] Kuchinich explains backing Obama over Edwards -- rank: 1000

On Jan 8, 2008, at 4:41 PM, Max B. Sawicky wrote: > I like some kind of cap, though it should be indexed and rise > gradually over time. The reason is to support the social insurance > rationale for the program. A smart person told me long ago - though I haven't fact-checked this myself - that the Congressional debate on SS made it clear that it was supposed to be financed by labor and not capital. Since incomes above a certain level are conceptually returns to capital, that's the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 8 13:52:03 PST 2008

8342 [lbo-talk] Gravel's drug counseling -- rank: 1000

[from The Note] "I'm sure a lot of you have tripped out on alcohol. . . . It's a lot safer to do it on marijuana." -- Presidential candidate Mike Gravel, D-Alaska, offering some advice to the students of Phillips Exeter Academy.

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Date:	Tue Jan 8 12:08:27 PST 2008

8343 [lbo-talk] None of the above ? -- rank: 1000

On Jan 8, 2008, at 12:42 PM, Chuck wrote: > I'll bet that voter turnout in the November presidential election will > go below 50% again to the usual levels of non-participation. Lots of > Republicans will be staying home and I'm sure that across the board > people will be annoyed and bored by the final options. Not so far. The turnout in Iowa was a record, and this is from The Note this AM: > New Hampshire Deputy Secretary of State Dave Scanlan told ABC News > that turnout is ...

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Date:	Tue Jan 8 12:00:01 PST 2008

8344 [lbo-talk] Kuchinich explains backing Obama over Edwards -- rank: 1000

On Jan 8, 2008, at 2:04 PM, Max B. Sawicky wrote: > O.K., one at a time. > > 1. His depiction of the SS 'crisis' is no different than the other > Democrats. Unlike Hillary, who would punt it to a bipartisan > commission (sic), he proposed to lift the payroll tax cap. This > position, which I do not support, is better than Hillary's and no > worse than Edwards. You show a touching faith that a candidate's platform actually has something to do with what he does in office. ...

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Date:	Tue Jan 8 11:56:19 PST 2008

8345 [lbo-talk] 12%, plus -- rank: 1000

On Jan 8, 2008, at 1:38 PM, Marta Russell wrote: > Doesn't China hold the strings on this one since Scrub used China's > money to finance Iraq war? China's important, but they're not the only players. There's just so much dollar bearishness around that it's hard to see the market discounting any more bad news.

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Date:	Tue Jan 8 11:46:29 PST 2008

8346 [lbo-talk] Kuchinich explains backing Obama over Edwards -- rank: 1000

On Jan 8, 2008, at 1:42 PM, John Thornton wrote: > Obama uses the Republican talking point when discussing the Social > Security "crisis" and referred to the SEIU as a special interest group > in a rather negative way. It wouldn't surprise me at all if he, or some other Dem, took office amidst recession and declining tax revenues and declared that Bush left behind a fiscal mess that means all options are on the table. Blue-ribbon bipartisan panel duly appointed, recommends ...

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Date:	Tue Jan 8 11:43:37 PST 2008

8347 [lbo-talk] Dept. of WTF: Protesters demand Hillary iron theirshirts -- rank: 1000

On Jan 8, 2008, at 1:14 PM, Dennis Perrin wrote: > As I've said, Obama is perfect for the moment. Yup. Who better to launch an austerity program, privatize Social Security, and lead a 40-year war against the Muslim world? Doug

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Date:	Tue Jan 8 11:39:41 PST 2008

8348 [lbo-talk] Dept. of WTF: Protesters demand Hillary iron their shirts -- rank: 1000

> I am not an "Obama fan" - but I do think that he > is likely to be somewhat less servile to corporate > interests than the rest of the pack. Why on earth do you think this? Hedge fund Greenwich was in love with him last April. Paul Tudor Jones is supporting him. So are George Soros and Orin Kramer. > Not voting for > the war on Iraq, whereas Clinton & Edwards did, > suggests that he may be more willing to resist > "barking with the pack." He was ...

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Date:	Tue Jan 8 11:38:48 PST 2008

8349 [lbo-talk] everyone loves Obama! even Bill Bennett!! he doesn't play the race card!!! -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - January 8, 2008 <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/07/ AR2008010702939_pf.html> Even Conservative Media Chorus Sings Obama's Praises By Howard Kurtz Washington Post Staff Writer Barack Obama, now the media's odds-on favorite to win the White House, is drawing effusive praise from the chattering classes. "You'd have to have a heart of stone not to be moved by this. . . . This is a huge moment," one commentator wrote. An unreconstructe ...

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Date:	Tue Jan 8 11:33:29 PST 2008

8350 [lbo-talk] 12%, plus -- rank: 1000

On Jan 8, 2008, at 12:28 AM, Marta Russell wrote: > But what do you say to those who claim the dollar is going to > collapse and gold will not? It wouldn't surprise me if the dollar ended the year higher than it is now. Everyone's saying the dollar has to decline, so that may well mean it won't. Doug

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Date:	Tue Jan 8 05:10:47 PST 2008

8351 [lbo-talk] Kuchinich explains backing Obama over Edwards -- rank: 1000

On Jan 8, 2008, at 6:35 AM, Max B. Sawicky wrote: > Obama is against SS privatization For now. Wanna bet a Dem president brings it up in the first half of 2009? Doug

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Date:	Tue Jan 8 04:54:24 PST 2008

8352 [lbo-talk] Israeli technological triumph -- rank: 1000

Ha'aretz - January 6, 2008 Report: IDF develops tiny bulldozer for combat inside Palestinian cities By The Associated Press The Israel Defense Forces have developed a tiny bulldozer for combat operations inside Palestinian cities, a military publication reported. The little machine is designed for rumbling down narrow roads and paths in the closer quarters of Palestinian cities, where old sections are warrens of crowded alleyways between rundown concrete block buildings. In previous operation ...

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Date:	Mon Jan 7 18:53:05 PST 2008

8353 [lbo-talk] 12%, plus -- rank: 1000

On Jan 7, 2008, at 8:34 PM, John Thornton wrote: > Goldbugs are strange people. Extremely. I went to a gathering of them once, many years ago. Weirder group than the Left Forum, though obviously better-heeled. Doug

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Date:	Mon Jan 7 18:48:14 PST 2008

8354 [lbo-talk] 12%, plus -- rank: 1000

On Jan 7, 2008, at 7:48 PM, Jordan Hayes wrote: >>> pre-1933 gold that is "untraceable." >> >> All gold is pre-1933, no? > > I suspect she's talking about coins that were minted before the US > stopped minting gold coins in 1933 Yup. That's what The Google leads me to believe. What's the coin premium like? Pro-cyclical, or random? > Some people like coins because they are > separable: try selling half an ingot if you want to go to the Super > Bo ...

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Date:	Mon Jan 7 16:57:34 PST 2008

8355 [lbo-talk] NEJM: docs have no business at executions -- rank: 1000

<http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/NEJMe0800032> Published at www.nejm.org January 7, 2008 (10.1056/NEJMe0800032) Physicians and Execution Gregory D. Curfman, M.D., Stephen Morrissey, Ph.D., and Jeffrey M. Drazen, M.D. This spring the U.S. Supreme Court in Baze v. Rees1 will rule on the constitutionality of the three-drug regimen currently used for lethal injection in most state executions. The Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution prohibits punishment that is "cruel an ...

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Date:	Mon Jan 7 16:47:18 PST 2008