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676 AC nails Cooper perfectly -- rank: 1000

http://www.counterpunch.org/cockburn1114.html CounterPunch November 14, 2002 American Journal The Anti-War Movement and Its Critics: Merle Haggard Locates Osama; General Hitchens, Hie Thee to Fort Bragg; Whose Left Is It Anyway? by ALEXANDER COCKBURN Do we have an antiwar movement? We're getting there. We must be, because we're catching flak from the anti-anti war movement, Light Infantry division, staffed by Marc Cooper, Todd Gitlin, David Corn, and Christopher Hitchens. Marc Cooper, like Gitli ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Sun Nov 24 10:11:11 PST 2002

677 Bush = moron? -- rank: 1000

>Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > >>"Moron" is too of a generic term that does not give a justice how modern >>authoritarian states operate. A "Brezhnev" or a "Reagan" would be a >>better term. > >But Clinton ran the U.S. for 8 years, and he was a very smart, >informed, and articulate guy. Had Gore won, he'd have been rather >similar, minus the scampish charm. So are you outlining a general >principle, or just explaining accidents o ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Sat Nov 23 14:35:44 PST 2002

678 DME and Medicare so-called competitive bidding -- rank: 1000

Medicare competitive bidding of durable medical equipment, some orthotics, and supplies (DME) is on the road to becoming a reality. The House has included DME Competitive Bidding in its Medicare bill; the Senate is considering doing the same. I am concerned that this will cast disabled people to the lowest bidder and reduce access to the full range of specialized DME, harm the quality of care and restrict beneficiary choice of provider for Medicare beneficiaries. Under the current Medicare progr ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Tue Nov 19 17:02:54 PST 2002

679 Corn transcript -- rank: 1000

But O'Reilly ran all over him. Corn did not have control of anything. Then he thanked O'Reilly at the end. Well it is hard to be on such a show, better not be put in the position where you will be bulldozed and used as he clearly was. I don't see that his response to you understands that. As I suspected those attending did not know who the WWP was -- as Tim Robbins did not know according to O'Reilly. Now Robbins is going to be put in the position of damning the communists as a whole. The gene ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 19 14:10:11 PST 2002

680 Dems and Disability rights -- rank: 1000

This is CA gov Gray Davis's administration attacking the ADA. Some activists touted his record on disability rights in order to get out the disability vote for his re-election. The old worn out argument that Bill Simon would have been worse drove them. Neither political party truly supports our civil rights. marta "Supreme Court to Hear Case on Disability Limits" November 18, 2002 By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Filed at 10:45 a.m. ET WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court agreed Monday to co ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Tue Nov 19 13:20:04 PST 2002

681 Corn on O'Reilly -- rank: 1000

>[This is from O'Reilly's website, promoting tonight's show. If Corn >says anything like this he should be boiled in oil.] > ><http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,1315,00.html> > >Then, what kind of groups are really behind some of the folks >leading the anti-war movement in this country? The answer might >shock you... The Nation's David Corn will be here to reveal the >results of his recent investigation. Oh great -- Corn is a red baiter now - just for agreeing ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Mon Nov 18 13:33:18 PST 2002

682 Kennedy's impairments/disabilities -- rank: 1000

In Kennedy File, a Portrait of Illness and Pain November 17, 2002 By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN and TODD S. PURDUM WASHINGTON, Nov. 16 - The first thorough examination of President John F. Kennedy's medical records, conducted by an independent presidential historian with a medical consultant, has found that Kennedy suffered from more ailments, was in far greater pain and was taking many more medications than the public knew at the time or biographers have since described. As president, he was famous for ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Sat Nov 16 13:55:12 PST 2002

683 Dugger Says Fellow Greens Put Bush in Office-- No to Nader Run in 2004 -- rank: 1000

Ronnie Dugger is way premature to be saying this stuff. He is not using the leverage Nader gave for pushing the Dems to a more progressive agenda. I mean, wasn't that one reason the liberals justified a vote for Nader? He is giving away the store instead of heading to the bargaining table. marta >Ronnie Dugger, who presented Nader to the 1996 and 2000 Green conventions, >has rejected any Nader run in 2004 and agrees that it is absurb for Greens >to continue to deny their role in puttin ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Sat Nov 16 13:37:47 PST 2002

684 Fwd: Two articles on Homeland Security bill -- rank: 1000

> > >The one critic being Safire, starting yesterday. This is becoming like an >annual thing, when a guy who for the other 50 weeks is the war monger in >chief suddenly becomes the US point man in defense of civil liberties. >Last November he was alone among establishment figures in leading the >charge against military tribunals. (Which interestingly seem pretty much >to have gotten scotched, de facto if not de jure.) > >Michael Safire's peers at on Wall Street Jo ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Sat Nov 16 13:31:30 PST 2002

685 The Myths of Military Opportunity Re: Attack Of The Liberals -- rank: 1000

> >WAR > >Above all else, the military is an institution with one overriding >purpose: to prepare for and fight wars. You literally sign your life >over to the military. For some who joined the military before the >Gulf War, they didn't fully realize this until they were faced with >an actual war in Saudi Arabia against Iraq. Don't make the same >mistake they made. If you're going to join the military be prepared >to fight a war, even a war you may not agree with. I ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Mon Nov 11 22:50:03 PST 2002

686 MiCASSA -- rank: 1000

Please support it! marta >***** A COMMUNITY-BASED ALTERNATIVE TO NURSING HOMES AND >INSTITUTIONS FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES > >For decades, people with disabilities, both old and young, have >wanted alternatives to nursing homes and other institutions when >they need long term services. Our long term care system has a heavy >institutional bias. Every state that receives Medicaid MUST provide >nursing home services, but community based services are optional. >Sevent ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Mon Nov 11 17:22:00 PST 2002

687 free ride -- rank: 1000

>Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > >>What the Greens should think about is not what liberal Dems still >>committed to DP feel about them, but how to mobilize the silent >>majority -- especially blacks and Latinos > >You've got to get pwoggie whites and unaffiliated/alienated whites >in this mobilization or the numbers just don't add up. > >Doug Ac says basically the same thing in an op ed in todays LA Times but for some reason they did not post it on the internet s ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Mon Nov 11 17:15:05 PST 2002

688 Rate Cuts Didn't Spur Businesses -- rank: 1000

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-fed6nov06,0,2263684.story?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dbusiness WASHINGTON DISPATCH Rate Cuts Didn't Spur Businesses By Peter G. Gosselin Times Staff Writer November 6 2002 WASHINGTON -- As political Washington spends today picking at the bones of the congressional election to figure out how much will change, economic Washington is poised to do something very similar. If surveys of prominent forecasters are correct, the Federal Reserve will cut its benchmark federa ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Wed Nov 6 17:54:07 PST 2002

689 Hitch -- rank: 1000

from AC -- And Talking of Hitchens This just in from Bill Blum, author of the invaluable "Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower": "I hadn't planned on publicizing the following exchange of emails I had with Christopher Hitchens, but inasmuch as he reneged on his promise and continues to write the same dribble, I am submitting it to the world's judgment. - October 20, 2002 "Dear Mr. Hitchens, I've followed your support for the American Empire's newest bombing hys ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Mon Nov 4 19:59:46 PST 2002

690 Hitch (Qs about Integrity v Politics) -- rank: 1000

>Thomas wrote, > >I would like for you to have him elucidate his >position >on integrity vs. politics. I have not read the Orwell >book, but he has stated in a few articles that I have >read how he now values a person's integrity more than >politics. > >I have a feeling that Clinton's lying, the fact that >some on the left adopt the attitude of "the means >always justify the ends", and dishonesty of a large >portion of the Left is what has in par ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Mon Nov 4 12:53:39 PST 2002