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541 [lbo-talk] Reps take lead on ethanol freeze -- rank: 166

[from Mike Allen's Politco Playbook - an SUV tank full of 100% ethanol uses enough corn to feed ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Apr 26 10:41:11 PDT 2008

542 [lbo-talk] McCain reads lbo-talk? -- rank: 166

... is hard to pass and easy to game. The entire SUV plague is some sense literally a truck driven through a ...

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Author:	Michael Pollak
Date:	Tue Apr 15 19:23:19 PDT 2008

543 [lbo-talk] McCain reads lbo-talk? -- rank: 166

On Tue, 15 Apr 2008, Jordan Hayes wrote: >> if I were the one being asked: gasoline taxes would go tomorrow. Jordan, I loved your stuff in the congestion price debate. I thought you were at top form and that in the nobody laid a glove on you, although there might have ...

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Author:	Michael Pollak
Date:	Tue Apr 15 13:48:23 PDT 2008

544 [lbo-talk] Chalabi's got game -- rank: 166

[h/t to Juan Cole] >From a blog entry by ace Iraq McClatchy reporter Hannah Allam: http://washingtonbureau.typepad.com/cairo/2008/04/sadr-city-griev.html <key excerpt> Believe what you will about Chalabi being a has-been (or worse); precious few other Iraqi politicians can sail into Sadr ...

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Author:	Michael Pollak
Date:	Tue Apr 15 05:59:30 PDT 2008

545 [lbo-talk] NYblocks mayor's congestion plan -- rank: 166

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > [WS:] That is rather simple. If they did not like > their cars, they would be demanding alternatives. > AFAIK the opposite is true, most people love cars and > driving, have negative feelings toward public transit, > and do not mind sitting in traffic, as per the > following conversation overheard in ...

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Author:	John Thornton
Date:	Wed Apr 9 16:56:07 PDT 2008

546 [lbo-talk] NY blocks mayor's congestion plan -- rank: 166

On Apr 7, 2008, at 11:30 PM, Joseph Catron wrote: > Fine and good. So why penalize it only in the city's wealthiest > neighborhoods - and more specifically, by "outsiders" in those > neighborhoods? Both you and Doug seem to be going out of your ways to > duck this most obvious of ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 8 05:42:40 PDT 2008

547 [lbo-talk] Earth Hour. Because the World Isn't Worth a Whole Day. -- rank: 166

>From Peter Watts, author of Blindsight and the Rifters trilogy http://www.rifters.com/real/shorts.htm (imho, the best sci-fi writer currently out there). http://rifters.com/real/2008/03/earth-hour-because-world-isnt-worth.html#lin ks Earth Hour. Because the World Isn't Worth a ...

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Author:	Bryan Atinsky
Date:	Wed Apr 2 03:47:26 PDT 2008

548 [lbo-talk] Where are the pragmatists? -- rank: 166

... the freedom of spending two hours a day in my SUV stuck in traffic. [3] The way the whole thing is ...

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Author:	Peter Hart Ward
Date:	Tue Apr 1 22:21:59 PDT 2008

549 [lbo-talk] ayfkm? -- rank: 166

... you might call the diet of most north americans the SUV diet, instead of the 100 mile diet. Fuck. You might ...

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Author:	bitch at pulpculture.org
Date:	Sun Sep 30 10:39:54 PDT 2007

550 [lbo-talk] The Onion: "Song About Heroin Used to Advertise Bank" -- rank: 166

... The Mitsubishi Outback used The Fall song "Blindness" in an SUV commercial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_3eBFjCNIo Lyrics ...

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Author:	B.
Date:	Tue Sep 18 08:34:22 PDT 2007

551 [lbo-talk] wages in I-banking -- rank: 166

... do a house by house? We'll probably need some SUV's to block roads as well. I'll provide however ...

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Author:	John Thornton
Date:	Fri Sep 7 15:39:57 PDT 2007

552 [lbo-talk] Big Green blasts Dingell's carbon tax -- rank: 166

<http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2007/10/15/83513/824> Killing me loudly Big Green savages Dingell's carbon tax Posted by Charles Komanoff at 12:46 PM on 15 Oct 2007 Read more about: John Dingell | politics | climate | energy | legislation Tools: print | email | + digg | + del.icio.us | + reddit | + stumbleupon ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 15 17:50:55 PDT 2007

553 [lbo-talk] Left wing loathing for the working class -- rank: 166

James Heartfield wrote: > John Thornton says I do not understand Marx's argument about wants being > generated socially. I beg to differ. What Marx is saying in the Grundrisse > about wants is most definitely not, what John says 'objecting to the > capitalist imperative to consume'. On the contrary, Marx thinks this ...

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Author:	John Thornton
Date:	Mon Mar 26 11:08:51 PDT 2007

554 [lbo-talk] A Raskolnikov Nursery -- rank: 166

I resemble this remark. pms --- Dwayne Monroe <idoru345 at yahoo.com> wrote: > In the "Dallas could elect..." thread Wojtek wrote > (to > D. Claxton): > > Typical leftist arrogance - knowing better what is > on > someone else's mind. You seem to be pissed that I > do > not share your view of the dregs of ...

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Author:	joyce brothers
Date:	Wed Jun 13 12:29:13 PDT 2007

555 [lbo-talk] This is the End of Tony -- rank: 166

Dennis Claxton wrote: > This started with you asking why people like the Sopranos so > >much. I've been trying to answer that. I think what's important >about the show has little to do with what you're talking about. > I never found anything interesting about the show visually and, with ...

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Author:	joanna
Date:	Wed Jun 13 12:16:28 PDT 2007