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8356 [lbo-talk] 12%, plus -- rank: 1000

On Jan 7, 2008, at 7:23 PM, Marta Russell wrote: > pre-1933 gold that is "untraceable." All gold is pre-1933, no? If you melt it down and pour it into a mold, how can you tell where the ingots came from? Doug

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Date:	Mon Jan 7 16:37:02 PST 2008

8357 [lbo-talk] Sub-prime crisis in Kansas City -- rank: 1000

On Jan 7, 2008, at 5:25 PM, Jordan Hayes wrote: > Yes, and this is important: the sub-prime market didn't come about > as a > way to dupe people with lower credit scores than the primes; it came > about because it once you get your risk-management systems in > order, you > can calculate fairly well what a particular drop in creditworthiness Well yeah, but this also is like Milken's classic junk bond math. He discovered that the default rates on pre-1980s junk was lower than t ...

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Date:	Mon Jan 7 14:43:13 PST 2008

8358 [lbo-talk] Brit model Naomi Campbell interviews Chavez, calls him "rebel angel" -- rank: 1000

On Jan 7, 2008, at 12:28 PM, Chris Doss wrote: > Dude, he was fishing, it was hot, and he took off his > shirt. It's inane. Being photographed does not mean > you were posing. C'mon. When you're a celeb, you're always posing. You're dreaming if you didn't think that Pootey-Poot didn't want to show off his muscles. So I was in Lucky Strike, a once-semi-trendy joint in Soho, having a solitary dinner last night, when the (bad, very untrendy) DJ walks in with a copy of Time. On the cover ...

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Date:	Mon Jan 7 10:43:36 PST 2008

8359 [lbo-talk] Taibbi on Colbert -- rank: 1000

As it happens, the email I read literally before opening this one was from Matt Taibbi, saying he's going on the show after all. And he's going to be a regular on Bill Maher's show, which also involves scabbing. Doug On Jan 7, 2008, at 12:23 PM, Jerry Monaco wrote: > That's good.... ! > > On Jan 5, 2008 12:27 AM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: > >> I wrote Matt Taibbi to ask if he was really going on Colbert. He's >> not. >> >> Doug > ...

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Date:	Mon Jan 7 10:34:33 PST 2008

8360 [lbo-talk] not since Lincoln... -- rank: 1000

On Jan 7, 2008, at 10:43 AM, Dwayne Monroe wrote: > > Perhaps I should compare him to George Washington. One was the > 'father of our country' and the other can be described as the father > of our multi-cultural, "post-race" country. Poor Newt Gingrich, the forgotten pioneer. He argued back in 1997 that race in America had moved far beyond black and white and into the realm of Tiger Woods! Speech excerpt from the Congressional Record reprinted at <http://www.multiraci ...

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Date:	Mon Jan 7 08:04:43 PST 2008

8361 [lbo-talk] not since Lincoln... -- rank: 1000

I'm not supposed to forward posts to the American Society for Public Opinion Research list; lemme just say that one member has now compared Obama's rise to Lincoln's. Doug

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Date:	Mon Jan 7 07:02:41 PST 2008

8362 [lbo-talk] My soul is made of uranium hexafluoride -- rank: 1000

On Jan 6, 2008, at 6:06 PM, Joanna wrote: > Doug wrote >> >> I hear this sort of thing a lot and I'm not sure what it means. In >> 1974, second-wave feminism was still pretty young, and the level of >> gender consciousness was extremely low. Organized labor was largely >> the domain of grumpy, socially conservative white guys. Those with >> "identity" issues - basically everyone who wasn't one of those grumpy >> white guys - had something re ...

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Date:	Sun Jan 6 15:21:10 PST 2008

8363 [lbo-talk] Hillary making change: two actualities -- rank: 1000

[all these people need to open an account at Jordan's bank - Terry McAuliffe!] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 6, 2008 Contact: Press Office, 703-875-1271 press at hillaryclinton.com Radio Actuality: Terry McAuliffe and Kathy Sullivan on Hillary s History of Making Change Terry McAuliffe is the former Chairman of the Democratic National Committee and is the Clinton Campaign National Chairman I've been friends with Hillary Clinton for over twenty years and I know without a doubt that she is the ...

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Date:	Sun Jan 6 15:02:09 PST 2008

8364 [lbo-talk] Kagan on Obama -- rank: 1000

On Jan 6, 2008, at 1:29 PM, C. G. Estabrook wrote: > http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=90&ItemID=14612 Following a link from which we get to: <http://chrisdodd.com/media/releases/happy-%28belated%29-anniversary,- senator-obama> Today, the Obama campaign is celebrating the 5th anniversary of the speech that then-State Senator Barack Obama gave opposing the invasion of Iraq. But unfortunately, they forgot to celebrate another anniversary. July 26th marked the 3r ...

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Date:	Sun Jan 6 14:40:24 PST 2008

8365 [lbo-talk] My soul is made of uranium hexafluoride -- rank: 1000

On Jan 6, 2008, at 5:18 PM, Joanna wrote: > My "critique" goes back to 1974 when I saw something like an emerging > working class movement unwinding into many useless threads of > identity. I hear this sort of thing a lot and I'm not sure what it means. In 1974, second-wave feminism was still pretty young, and the level of gender consciousness was extremely low. Organized labor was largely the domain of grumpy, socially conservative white guys. Those with "identity&qu ...

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Date:	Sun Jan 6 14:31:11 PST 2008

8366 [lbo-talk] Obama & the unions -- rank: 1000

On Jan 6, 2008, at 3:59 PM, Miles Jackson wrote: > This is pretty disgusting. Is there any republican talking point that > Obama won't embrace? What's next, railing about the Death Tax? Hey, he voted for tort reform, according to Glen Ford. Doug

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Date:	Sun Jan 6 14:17:36 PST 2008

8367 [lbo-talk] Obama & the unions -- rank: 1000

On Jan 6, 2008, at 1:37 PM, Julio Huato wrote: > Yesterday though, Edwards and Obama joined forces against the > candidate of the "status quo": > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-dQ4U-sRUI [from a special Sunday edition of The Note] Suddenly Clinton was alone, angry, and lecturing. The words themselves don't do the moment justice, but here they are: "I want to make change, but I've already made change. I will continue to make change. I'm not just running on a prom ...

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Date:	Sun Jan 6 10:48:04 PST 2008

8368 [lbo-talk] further evidence of Obama's bogosity -- rank: 1000

On Jan 6, 2008, at 12:37 PM, Shane Mage wrote: > "Bogosity"??? What can this word (not in any dictionary) mean? <http://devpit.org/jargon/html/B/bogosity.html> bogosity: /bohˇgo´s@ˇtee/, n. 1. [orig. CMU, now very common] The degree to which something is bogus. Bogosity is measured with a bogometer; in a seminar, when a speaker says something bogus, a listener might raise his hand and say My bogometer just triggered . More extremely, You just pinned my bogometer means y ...

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Date:	Sun Jan 6 09:53:30 PST 2008

8369 [lbo-talk] further evidence of Obama's bogosity -- rank: 1000

[from AP, via Mike Allen's Politico Playbook] Bill Bradley, a former presidential hopeful and senator, planned to endorse Barack Obama for president on Sunday aides said. Bradley, a hall of fame professional basketball player, will campaign on Monday for Obama, Obama aides told The Associated Press. The aides, speaking on condition of anonymity in advance of the formal announcement, said they hope the endorsement will help Obama end the national front- runner status for Clinton, who placed ...

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Date:	Sun Jan 6 08:49:21 PST 2008

8370 [lbo-talk] Kagan on Obama -- rank: 1000

[ok, it's eight months old, but it is a corrective to all the breathlessness] Washington Post - April 29, 2007 Obama the Interventionist By Robert Kagan America must "lead the world in battling immediate evils and promoting the ultimate good." With those words, Barack Obama put an end to the idea that the alleged overexuberant idealism and America- centric hubris of the past six years is about to give way to a new realism, a more limited and modest view of American interests, capa ...

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