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9796 [lbo-talk] Rudy's right-wing advisors -- rank: 1000

[This guy's really gathering some loons about him. Love this detail: Bill Simon, son of financier William Simon, who inspired a generation of leveraged buyouts with the money he made on the 1982 Gibson Greeting Card deal ($330,000 turned into $86 million in 18 months), was awakened as a child by his father dumping a bucket of cold water on his head.] Washington Post - October 26, 2007 <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/25/ AR2007102502893_pf.html> Giuliani's ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Oct 26 07:29:41 PDT 2007

9797 [lbo-talk] Hillary finally winning over her own demographic -- rank: 1000

[Hillary as working-class candidate, Obama the PMC candidate, and Edwards as the classless candidate might screw up some preconceptions.] <http://news.nationaljournal.com/articles/071025nj1.htm> Educated Women Climb Aboard By Ronald Brownstein, National Journal © National Journal Group Inc. Thursday, Oct. 25, 2007 An irony of Hillary Rodham Clinton's political career is that the women who resemble her most have often appeared to support her the least. Hillary Clinton's surge in the poll ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Oct 26 06:46:39 PDT 2007

9798 [lbo-talk] another thug endorses another right-winger -- rank: 1000

[from Page Six] Dope Dealers For Rudy! Rudy Giuliani has received two endorsements he'd probably rather forget - from two of the most notorious heroin kingpins in New York City history, Nicky Barnes and Frank Lucas. Barnes was doing life in prison until he ratted out more than 100 pushers and killers, prompting then-Mayor Giuliani to ask for his early release, which came in 1998. "I think Giuliani would make a good president because he's a principled guy," Barnes told filmmaker M ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Oct 26 06:08:54 PDT 2007

9799 [lbo-talk] A. Cockburn writes... -- rank: 1000

<http://www.counterpunch.org/cockburn10132007.html> It's As Ridiculous As If They'd Given Goebbels One in 1938 Al Gore's Peace Prize

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 25 19:15:57 PDT 2007

9800 [lbo-talk] Iran poll results -- rank: 1000

On Oct 25, 2007, at 6:07 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote: > Can you take the cumquats out of your mouth 'cause I don't know _what > the fuck_ you're talking about? It's easy. Regardless of specific content, it alays reduces to "I'm smart, tough, and militant; you're a dumb, squishy wanker."

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 25 15:22:56 PDT 2007

9801 [lbo-talk] Colbert polling in double digits -- rank: 1000

<http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/ election_2008__1/2008_presidential_election/ comedian_colbert_reaches_double_digits_as_third_party_candidate> Comedian Colbert Reaches Double Digits As Third-Party Candidate Wednesday, October 24, 2007 Comedian Stephen Colbert is not a threat to win the presidency, but the odds are that that his satire will win plenty of laughs and maybe even some votes. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that Colbert is pref ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 25 14:51:03 PDT 2007

9802 [lbo-talk] Iran poll results -- rank: 1000

On Oct 25, 2007, at 4:53 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > If leftists in the West trust "the people of Iran to condemn the > crimes committed by their own government and deal with them > appropriately in due course," they must then _refrain from usurping_ > the Iranian people's right to do so at their pleasure. > > It's possible that there is a silent majority of leftists who actually > think like you and me.... In other words, you're right, even when you're wrong. Ev ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 25 14:26:06 PDT 2007

9803 [lbo-talk] Islamofascism Awareness Week -- rank: 1000

On Oct 25, 2007, at 4:59 PM, Jerry Monaco wrote: > What you would like to do, I gather, > is to say that we have as much effect on the governments of our > official enemies and of the governments "over there" as the state > institutions here. This is completely irrelevant, as I've pointed out to you several times. No one on this list has expressed any desire to change the Iranian government. That is the business of Iranians. Why do you keep saying this? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 25 14:16:29 PDT 2007

9804 [lbo-talk] this guy says he had sex with Larry Craig... -- rank: 1000

...and it was gross: <http://wonkette.com/politics/larry-craig-scandal/exclusive-i-had-sex- with-larry-craig-314897.php>

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 25 13:22:05 PDT 2007

9805 [lbo-talk] Iran poll results -- rank: 1000

Not an overwhelming turnout, but better than a NYC off-year election. > Do you trust the people of Iran? > > yes (23) 70% > > no (1) 3% > > what crimes? (1) 3% > > it's none of my business (8) 24% > > Total Votes: 33 So Yoshie's claim that "leftists [don't] trust the people of Iran to condemn the crimes committed by their own government and deal with them appropriately in due c ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 25 13:07:15 PDT 2007

9806 [lbo-talk] Muslim lady sues Kominas, American Muslim punk band, for "defamation" -- rank: 1000

On Oct 25, 2007, at 11:06 AM, B. wrote: > "Muslims for Bush" (not a joke) Damn. Didn't they get the memo that Islam is the anti-imperialist vehicle of our time?

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 25 12:57:13 PDT 2007

9807 [lbo-talk] UMich Press to continue distributing Pluto -- rank: 1000

<http://insidehighered.com/news/2007/10/25/pluto> Michigan Keeps Link to Controversial Publisher The University of Michigan Press has faced intense criticism in the last two months for distributing a book on behalf of a British publisher whose sales the Michigan press handles in the United States that is highly critical of Israel. And that controversy led to a review of the relationship with the British publisher. But on Wednesday, Michigan announced that it was keeping its ties t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 25 06:27:49 PDT 2007

9808 [lbo-talk] Islamofascism Awareness Week -- rank: 1000

On Oct 25, 2007, at 6:09 AM, Jerry Monaco wrote: > Simply put, the U.S. state is within some compass of your agency and > my agency, and the Iranian state is not. Therefore you bear > responsibility for the actions of the U.S. state. You don't bear > responsibility of the actions of the Iranian state because it is not > in the compass of your agency. Again I have to say, "no shit." I've said at least twenty times that it's up to Iranians to settle the affairs of the Ira ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 25 04:53:46 PDT 2007

9809 [lbo-talk] Web 2.0 enters hyperspace -- rank: 1000

[Microsoft has $21 billion in cash, so this is pocket change to them, but this stake values Facebook at $15 billion!!!!!!!!!] <http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071025/bs_nm/ facebook_dc_7;_ylt=AhY0.LH7cE1cFDMyaSQ2wIwE1vAI> Microsoft beats Google to Facebook stake By Daisuke Wakabayashi SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) beat out Google Inc (GOOG.O) on Wednesday in a battle to invest in socializing Web site Facebook, agreeing to pay $240 million for a 1.6 percent stake in the Web p ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 24 20:12:46 PDT 2007

9810 [lbo-talk] Laura Bush reaches out to Islam -- rank: 1000

Not afraid to reach out to the ritually tented: <http://jezebel.com/gossip/evening-purge/was-it-arson-also-laura-bush- is-not-in-the-country-314798.php>

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 24 18:11:56 PDT 2007