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256 [lbo-talk] Krugman Not the New Deal -- rank: 1000

September 16, 2005 Not the New Deal By PAUL KRUGMAN Now it begins: America's biggest relief and recovery program since the New Deal. And the omens aren't good. It's a given that the Bush administration, which tried to turn Iraq into a laboratory for conservative economic policies, will try the same thing on the Gulf Coast. The Heritage Foundation, which has surely been helping Karl Rove develop the administration's recovery plan, has already published a manifesto on post-Katrina policy. It ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Sat Sep 17 10:43:55 PDT 2005

257 [lbo-talk] Bill Maher to George Bush: take a hike -- rank: 1000

I was surprised that the LA Times printed Maher's article. Marta On Sep 12, 2005, at 9:20 AM, Doug Henwood wrote: > quicktime http://movies.crooksandliars.com/Real-Time-George-Must- > Go.mov > other options http://www.crooksandliars.com/2005/09/10.html#a4892 > > Bill Maher's closing--an open message to George Bush: > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <../attachments/20050912/c4f55d00/attachment.htm>

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Mon Sep 12 09:32:32 PDT 2005

258 [lbo-talk] Jerry Lewis as worst-case scenario[wasRe:PrivateHateMail Gang Up] -- rank: 1000

On Sep 10, 2005, at 1:38 PM, John Adams wrote: > One could argue his film work either way (I identified with his > characters because I was a proto-geek) but I find his telethon > downright exploitative--not that I haven't spent time watching it, > and sometimes have seen some exceptional -performances on there. In > fact, when I was given an exceptionally bad case of poison ivy at a > Boy Scout meeting, I ended up in so much pain (if the blister > covers the upper third of ...

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Date:	Sat Sep 10 14:01:07 PDT 2005

259 [lbo-talk] Jerry Lewis as worst-case scenario[wasRe:PrivateHateMail Gang Up] -- rank: 1000

On Sep 10, 2005, at 1:25 PM, Dennis Perrin wrote: > Actually, Lewis himself has never used the term "spastic" to > describe his comedy. In fact, he's been incredibly nasty to those > who have. His main character, The Kid, is an overactive nine-year- > old boy inside a man's body. To say that he's mocking the disabled > is projection of the most political kind. > > Dennis But of course he wouldn't say it. It isn't socially acceptable to say you are being spastic t ...

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Date:	Sat Sep 10 13:44:38 PDT 2005

260 [lbo-talk] this may explain Bush's excessive "vacations" -- rank: 1000

This article is from the September, 2005, LA monthly newspaper "Change Links" for September, 2005. While President George W. Bush travels around the country in a last- ditch effort to sell his Iraq war, White House aides scramble frantically behind the scenes to hide the dark mood of an increasingly angry leader who unleashes obscenity-filled outbursts at anyone who dares disagree with him. "I'm not meeting again with that goddamned bitch," Bush screamed at aides who sugge ...

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Date:	Sat Sep 10 13:24:35 PDT 2005

261 [lbo-talk] Jerry Lewis as worst-case scenario [wasRe:PrivateHateMail Gang Up] -- rank: 1000

On Sep 10, 2005, at 11:38 AM, Dennis Perrin wrote: > > I've no doubt about that. His biographer Shawn Levy shows what an > asshole and prick Lewis was throughout his life and career > (including several nasty personal encounters with Levy). I was > talking about his comedy, his craft. Lots of comics or artists are > utterly depraved individuals. Is that how you judge their work, > whether or not they kick their cat or yell at their father? > > Dennis IMHO his work suck ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Sat Sep 10 13:18:32 PDT 2005

262 [lbo-talk] Jerry Lewis as worst-case scenario [was Re:PrivateHateMail Gang Up] -- rank: 1000

On Sep 10, 2005, at 7:43 AM, Dennis Perrin wrote: >> What's not to dislike? >> > > Well, Carl, if you can't see it, you can't see it. So it goes. > Comedy's subjective, perhaps the most subjective art there is. > Jerry Lewis is an asshole. His father lived in the same building as my pharmacist. The pharmacist told me he would come over and verbally abuse his father -- scream at him, act like the tyrant he is. So Carl is right on this one. Marta

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Date:	Sat Sep 10 11:27:01 PDT 2005

263 [lbo-talk] News of LBO poster -- rank: 1000

I'll drink to that (and I don't even drink) Toast to Yoshie and Mark! Marta On Sep 9, 2005, at 3:42 PM, Liza Featherstone wrote: > > Oh, how wonderful!! Congratulations, Yoshie! > > xox Liza > > > > on 9/9/05 6:25 PM, Carrol Cox at cbcox at ilstu.edu wrote: > > >> Jan and I have just returned today from attending the marriage on >> September 4 of Yoshie Furuhashi and Mark Stansbery. Both the ceremony >> and the reception were among the most fun I h ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 9 17:20:49 PDT 2005

264 [lbo-talk] Call-in Day To Protect Medicaid -- rank: 1000

National Call-in Day To Protect Medicaid The Arc and United Cerebral Palsy have joined the Coalition on Human Needs and American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) in an effort to have Members of Congress oppose the HHS Medicaid Commissions recommendations and any reform that would have a negative affect on beneficiaries. On September 8 and 9, call 1-800-426-8073 and ask for your U.S. Senators and Representative(s). Urge them to oppose the Commission's recommendations and protect Medicaid for peop ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 9 11:22:37 PDT 2005

265 [lbo-talk] Pew:2 in 3 critical of Bush -- rank: 1000

Sorry if this is a repeat -- marta Two-In-Three Critical Of Bush's Relief Efforts Huge Racial Divide Over Katrina and Its Consequences The American public is highly critical of President Bush s handling of Hurricane Katrina relief efforts. Two-in-three Americans (67%) believe he could have done more to speed up relief efforts, while just 28% think he did all he could to get them going quickly. At the same time, Bush s overall job approval rating has slipped to 40% and his disapproval rating ...

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Date:	Thu Sep 8 19:34:42 PDT 2005

266 [lbo-talk] Landrieu on FEMA & Bush -- rank: 1000

She is trying to get ahead of a GOP blame the Democrats scenario ....... Marta (Senator Mary Landrieu, Democrat- Louisiana, September 3, 2005, press release) http://www.bu.edu/globalbeat/index.html#landrieu LOUISIANA SENATOR MARY LANDRIEU ACCOMPANIED THE PRESIDENT Senator Landrieu later commented: "Yesterday, I was hoping President Bush would come away from his tour of the regional devastation triggered by Hurricane Katrina with a new understanding for the magnitude of the suffering an ...

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Date:	Mon Sep 5 14:18:53 PDT 2005

267 [lbo-talk] deaths due to lack of A/C -- rank: 1000

This was reported by a woman who works for the Center for Independent Living in Jackson, Mississippi. Little thought has been given to the ongoing deaths due to consequences of heat for vulnerable populations. These people need evacuating too. marta Death toll is 169 in Mississippi so far, according to local papers this morning Most of those were killed in the original storm in coastal areas. Of those who have died here in Jackson, most have been because of the heat, and lack of air-condi ...

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Date:	Mon Sep 5 14:10:25 PDT 2005

268 [lbo-talk] Haley Barbour's record on Kyoto -- rank: 1000

>> AMY GOODMAN: Ross Gelbspan, I wanted to get your response to a >> piece that Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. wrote: "For They That Sow the >> Wind Shall Reap the Whirlwind." He says, As Hurricane Katrina >> dismantles Mississippi s Gulf Coast, it's worth recalling the >> central role that Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour played in >> derailing the Kyoto Protocol and kiboshing President Bush s iron- >> clad campaign promise to regulate CO2. In Marc ...

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Date:	Mon Sep 5 13:15:53 PDT 2005

269 [lbo-talk] world stunned by US idiocy, brutality -- rank: 1000

On Sep 3, 2005, at 6:18 PM, mike larkin wrote: >> > The trouble is that over and over again, Bush looks > like he's finally met his match, and then he pulls > through. His base is about 40% of the population and > it doesn't look like they're going to desert him for anything. > I'm not so sure about that. My very conservative Father who voted for Bush twice told me this morning that Bush was through. He said nobody wanted to witness such incompetence and why didn't they ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Sun Sep 4 10:48:25 PDT 2005

270 [lbo-talk] Centers for Independent Living Wiped Out -- rank: 1000

Help the CILs in Hurricane path The Centers for Independent Living in Biloxi, Mississippi and New Orleans have been gravely affected by the hurricane. In fact the Biloxi, MS center was totally destroyed. Here are the suggested options for right now: 1) Send a check or credit card payment to the Red Cross and designate it for people with disabilities in the Biloxi/Hattiesburg or New Orleans areas. 2) If you want to send money for the CILs that are dealing with this disaster directly, here are yo ...

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Date:	Sat Sep 3 10:49:27 PDT 2005