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8416 [lbo-talk] BBC 1/1/08: NASA attacked on air safety study -- rank: 1000

On Jan 1, 2008, at 10:53 AM, Rick Kisséll wrote: > NASA attacked on air safety study > > > > A survey of air safety by the US space agency, > NASA, has come in for criticism from members of Congress. > > > The 16,000-page document has been presented in a way that makes > it difficult to analyse, members of Congress have said. > > > NASA has also been criticised for releasing only parts of its > findings on New Year's Eve - an atte ...

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Date:	Tue Jan 1 08:02:05 PST 2008

8417 [lbo-talk] one is very white, the other whiter still -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - January 1, 2008 <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/31/ AR2007123102492_pf.html> An Odd Couple With Big Influence By Joel Achenbach Washington Post Staff Writer GRUNDY CENTER, Iowa -- Two states guard the campaign trail as though they own it. Their influence on national politics is wildly disproportionate to their modest populations. Neither has anything that could be called a large city, or a slum, or a sprawling suburb. Both are dotted with ...

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Date:	Tue Jan 1 07:57:33 PST 2008

8418 [lbo-talk] Nader endorses Edwards -- rank: 1000

On Jan 1, 2008, at 10:27 AM, bitch at pulpculture.org wrote: > what made him go for edwards and not kucinich d'y'spose? Because Kucinich polls down in Nader territory, around 2%? Doug

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8419 [lbo-talk] Allen, racism, fascism and beyond -- rank: 1000

On Jan 1, 2008, at 2:10 AM, (Chuck Grimes) wrote: > All of which reminds me, why do you suppose the primary elections > always start in Iowa and New Hamshire? Well because they are among the > whitest places in the country Yup. Though of course rarely remarked upon - it's just part of the national political unconscious that these states are the "real America," even though they're far whiter and more rural than the places most of us live. I just read that the turnout at the ...

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Date:	Tue Jan 1 07:26:47 PST 2008

8420 [lbo-talk] Nader endorses Edwards -- rank: 1000

<http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1207/7647.html> Nader throws support to Edwards By: David Paul Kuhn Dec 31, 2007 08:18 PM EST MUSCATINE, Iowa Ralph Nader unleashed on Hillary Rodham Clinton Monday - criticizing her for being soft on defense spending and a chum of big business - and expressed his strong support for John Edwards. In an 11th hour effort to encourage liberal Iowans to "recognize" Edwards by "giving him a victory," the activist and former presid ...

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Date:	Tue Jan 1 06:56:17 PST 2008

8421 [lbo-talk] WFB, again -- rank: 1000

On Feb 29, 2008, at 10:21 PM, Michael Smith wrote: > Maybe the operative word is "anything but" -- as in, > what's the point of talking about how good or bad > a harpsichordist he was, or whether it would have been > fun to split a pitcher of Martinis with him, or just how > gay he was, or or or... Because he was a bad influence > etc. and that's all that counts. He was a scumbag, but I'm all for gossip.

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8422 [lbo-talk] WFB, again -- rank: 1000

On Feb 29, 2008, at 6:10 PM, Jerry Monaco wrote: > Why should anyone on the left pretend he was anything but a bad > influence on U.S. intellectual culture? Who does pretend that? Doug

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Date:	Fri Feb 29 17:56:15 PST 2008

8423 [lbo-talk] Chavez: slow down -- rank: 1000

On Feb 29, 2008, at 4:25 PM, Eric wrote: > I know we've been at this before, so it's probably not very > productive, but oh well. You want to evaluate, eg, the Zapatistas, > who are trying to create something more or less "new" in politics, > but you use political criteria that are at least 100 years old? The > Zapatistas want to NOT take state power, but you criticize them > because of who has taken control of the Mexican state? That's doesn't > make any fucking s ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 29 13:41:26 PST 2008

8424 [lbo-talk] Goolsbee gushing over Brooks -- rank: 1000

[from a piece on Obama's microwonks] <http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=4d40a39e-8f57-4054- bd99-94bc9d19be1a> Like their intellectual godfather Thaler, the Obama wonks aren't particularly interested in tearing down existing paradigms, just adjusting and extending them when they become outdated. (Thaler urges his students to master the same traditional, mathematical models their colleagues do if they want to be taken seriously.) For example, a central tenet of the economic thi ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 29 13:37:53 PST 2008

8425 [lbo-talk] ooops -- rank: 1000

Some incredibly smug bull was on CNBC this morning when I was pedaling away on the stationary bicycle bragging about how wonderfully wonderful it was that the stock market was holding up this week despite a barrage of bad economic news. "Unless we close down 240 points today," a prospect he clearly thought near- impossible, "we'll be up on the week." Well.... > MARKET ALERT > from The Wall Street Journal. > > > Feb. 29, 2008 > > The Dow Industrials dr ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 29 13:27:26 PST 2008

8426 [lbo-talk] econ policy, HRC vs BHO -- rank: 1000

Nomi Prins writes: <http://www.motherjones.com/news/update/2008/02/obama-vs-clinton- economic-policy.html> As a practical matter of readability, Clinton's document is a clear 12-page report, with nonduplicative points and slightly less detail. Obama's is a 48 page thesis in which several key ideas appear multiple times with slightly different descriptions each time. But that's stylistic choice. On the economic substance, Clinton beats Obama 5-to-3 and ties on 2 topics.

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Date:	Fri Feb 29 12:54:50 PST 2008

8427 [lbo-talk] Chavez: slow down -- rank: 1000

On Feb 29, 2008, at 3:15 PM, Paul Papadeas wrote: > I think there is an "army" of disenchanted people who want more - > and the powers that be are worrying about us on a constant basis. Really? The Zapatistas have been at it for more than a decade with worldwide attention - and Mexico has had two right-wing presidents in a row. This anti-statist stuff, as charming as it is (and I really mean that), is a dead end. Doug

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Date:	Fri Feb 29 12:30:28 PST 2008

8428 [lbo-talk] post-partisanship -- rank: 1000

On Feb 29, 2008, at 2:59 PM, Charles Brown wrote: > CB: O is post-Black , too. He denounced Farakhan. It's a ritual all black politicians have to go through. It'd be nice if Hillary had to denouce Bill O'Reilly. Doug

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8429 [lbo-talk] BHO "open to" vouchers -- rank: 1000

New York Sun - February 15, 2008 <http://www.nysun.com/article/71403> Obama Open to Private School Vouchers By ELIZABETH GREEN Staff Reporter of the Sun Senator Obama said this week that he is open to supporting private school vouchers if research shows they work. "I will not allow my predispositions to stand in the way of making sure that our kids can learn," Mr. Obama, who has previously said he opposes vouchers, said in a meeting with the editorial board of the Milwaukee J ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 29 12:14:05 PST 2008

8430 [lbo-talk] BHO sez y'all -- rank: 1000

<http://www.suntimes.com/news/sweet/819177,CST-NWS-sweet29.article> Obama tells Blacks: Shape up LYNN SWEET | Crowd cheers advice to turn off TV, skip Popeyes for breakfast February 29, 2008 BY LYNN SWEET Sun-Times Columnist FORT WORTH, Texas -- On the campaign trail, Democratic front-runner Sen. Barack Obama talks about how he would use the bully pulpit if president, and he offered a demonstration Thursday when he drew wild cheers as he told a mostly African-American crowd that parent ...

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