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8596 [lbo-talk] I'll be voting in TX Dem primary - who should I votefor? -- rank: 1000

On Feb 14, 2008, at 12:41 PM, Jordan Hayes wrote: > Nooo ... you misunderstood Max. He was saying that -- today -- no one > would go for single payer, single provider. So this is the next best, > logical step. I agree, and so does Krugman. "No one" is an extreme exaggeration. Considering the absence of an organized campaign or political leadership, single payer polls pretty well. >> Also, if Obama says that people must be REQUIRED to >> have insurance, does th ...

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8597 [lbo-talk] de gustibus... -- rank: 1000

"I thought Cher was pretty hot." -- Obama, in the issue of People magazine that's out Friday.

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8598 [lbo-talk] Hillary in meltdown? -- rank: 1000

[from The Note] Things don't look good from the inside, either (and when stories like this make it outside the room, what does that say about where things are headed?). "The campaign has something of a shellshocked feel, as staffers privately chew over a blowup last week where internal frictions flared into the open," Monica Langley and Amy Chozick writes in The Wall Street Journal. "Clinton campaign operatives say it happened as top Clinton advisers gathered in Arlington, V ...

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8599 [lbo-talk] I'll be voting in TX Dem primary - who should I vote for? -- rank: 1000

On Feb 14, 2008, at 9:05 AM, Max B. Sawicky wrote: >> For most people without health insurance, there's no such thing as >> an affordable kind. In Massachusetts, a 60-year-old single man >> would pay $4,600 a year for the state plan. How many people of >> modest means have $400 a month to spare? > > Like I said, you haven't seen the prices (and subsidies) yet, so WTF? These are the actual prices in Mass under MittCare. So they seem like a reasonable guide to this s ...

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8600 [lbo-talk] I'll be voting in TX Dem primary - who should I vote for? -- rank: 1000

On Feb 14, 2008, at 8:20 AM, Max B. Sawicky wrote: > What's so bad about health insurance priced at community rating > levels (otherwise not available) and available to all? Why not > wait until you see the prices before you bitch about whether it's > affordable? For most people without health insurance, there's no such thing as an affordable kind. In Massachusetts, a 60-year-old single man would pay $4,600 a year for the state plan. How many people of modest means have $400 a mo ...

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8601 [lbo-talk] I'll be voting in TX Dem primary - who should I vote for? -- rank: 1000

On Feb 14, 2008, at 3:41 AM, B. wrote: > In Hillary's ads, to my surprise, she is > flat-out, unequivocally, stating she supports and will > fight for universal health care. Via mandates. Obama has a bullshit program without mandates, and Hillary has a bullshit program with mandates. How people will afford the insurance they're required to by is not disclosed. Doug

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8602 [lbo-talk] economists do religion -- rank: 1000

"Religious Conversion in 40 Countries" NBER Working Paper No. W13689 <http://www.nber.org/papers/w13689> ROBERT J. BARRO, Harvard University - Department of Economics, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) JASON HWANG, Harvard University - Department of Economics Questions about current and prior religion adherence from the International Social Survey Program and the World Values Survey allow us to calculate country-level religious-conversion rates for 40 countries. The ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 13 19:43:33 PST 2008

8603 [lbo-talk] Shiney happy people -- rank: 1000

On Feb 13, 2008, at 4:04 PM, Max B. Sawicky wrote: > If this doesn't push you to Obama's side, nothing will: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FvyGydc8no&eurl > > Can anyone doubt any longer the satanic nature of the HRC campaign? Clearly a dirty trick produced by the Obama campaign. Doug

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8604 [lbo-talk] E Franklin Frazier -- rank: 1000

On Feb 13, 2008, at 3:35 PM, Charles Brown wrote: > One thought I have is that he probably isn't using "bourgeois" in the > strict Marxist sense. There were very few if any Black members of the > ruling class in the 1950's . Might be better termed _The Black Petit > Bourgeoisie_. Oh yeah. I've read the first 50 pages, and it's clear that that's who he had in mind. He's rather scathing about the delusions of the black elite of the immediate post-WW II decade; apparently ...

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8605 [lbo-talk] I'll be voting in TX Dem primary - who should I vote for? -- rank: 1000

On Feb 13, 2008, at 2:53 PM, Bill O'Connor wrote: > I don't know if you're writing with tongue in cheek, or complaining > that > the ballot didn't actually state that Clinton is part of > the DLC > leadership team and Obama has repeatedly spurned their attempts to > even > include his name on their membership rolls. His economic advisor, Austan Goolsbee, is the DLC's senior economist (and a Bonesman): <http://www.dlc.org/ndol_ci.cfm?kaid=86&subid=191&c ...

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8606 [lbo-talk] I'll be voting in TX Dem primary - who should I vote for? -- rank: 1000

On Feb 13, 2008, at 1:31 PM, Bill O'Connor wrote: > I voted against the DLC in New York. I didn't know that option was on the ballot, otherwise I'd have voted. Doug

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Date:	Wed Feb 13 10:47:57 PST 2008

8607 [lbo-talk] E Franklin Frazier -- rank: 1000

Anyone here have any thoughts on how E. Franklin Frazier's book on the black bourgeoisie is regarded today? Doug

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8608 [lbo-talk] indicator -- rank: 1000

On Feb 13, 2008, at 12:34 PM, shag at cleandraws.com wrote: > there are way > fewer jesus people here Head west, up into the hills. No doubt the country around Charlottesville (not the city or its immediate environs, the country) is full of 'em. And then over the hills past Waynesboro, or down I-81 towards the southwestern part of the state. Plenty of Jesus fans out that way. Doug

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8609 [lbo-talk] BHO wins over Camille Paglia -- rank: 1000

<http://www.salon.com/opinion/paglia/2008/02/13/political_wars/> This disarray among Republicans, which may depress voter turnout or even spawn a protest splinter party, offers a fantastic opening to Democrats, if the party can only seize it. The galvanizing energy aroused by Barack Obama's thrilling coast-to-coast victories gives Democrats a clear shot at regaining the White House. However, the three-faced Hillary, that queen of triangulation, would be a nice big gift to Republicans ...

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8610 [lbo-talk] I'll be voting in TX Dem primary - who should I vote for?] -- rank: 1000

On Feb 13, 2008, at 10:18 AM, shag at cleandraws.com wrote: > you know what bothered me Obama's speech last night. The way he > emphasizes > how much you have to work hard to have the american dream. Yup - this is one of the points of that wonderful quote from Adolph Reed I posted earlier. Now I've got a conclusin and a source: his column from the Village Voice in 1995 or 1996, reprinted in his book Class Notes with the title "The Curse of Community." > In Chicago, for i ...

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