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MadProphetMargin Donating Member (756 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-18-04 10:48 PM
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Read 2 books recently that I would reccomend to any liberal:
1. James Carville's newset, "Had Enough"? If you are a militant (metaphorically speaking), or just feel beat up by the neocon hordes, this one is for you. 3.5 stars out of four...though I must say I disagree with him inre: Lieberman.

2. "Fire and Blood; the History of Mexico", Fehrenbach. They're our neighbors, and many are coming here. This book is a vital insight into the history and culture of Mexico. Smashing good read, too.
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Khephra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-18-04 10:53 PM
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1. "Had Enough"?
I've read three of his previous books, and I find this to be his most "dense" book yet. It IS a handbook. If you want facts on specific aspects of Bush policy, you'll have it here.

But as a read-through-until-the-end book...no....it's a book you'll keep at your side for months, but not a book you will read in a week.
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MadProphetMargin Donating Member (756 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-18-04 11:00 PM
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3. Um, I read it in 2 days.
Not because I'm a genius or anything...I just couldn't put the damned thing down.
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Khephra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-18-04 11:08 PM
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8. I've been in a Bush Book Reading Marathon
I think my problem was that this was his heaviest book on economic numbers than before. I've just gotten off of reading "Dude, where's my country?", Rall's "To Afghanisan and Back" and a collection of This Modern World.
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seventhson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-18-04 10:59 PM
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2. If you haven't read "Der Fuehrer" by Konrad Heiden....
then you really do not know what the BFEE is REALLY doing.

My advice is to get it and read it and KNOW what we are up against.

Remember that the Bushes made their fortune off the Shoah as well as the financing of the Nazi military killing U.S. soldiers and trying to conquer America.

It took them a little longer than they planned. But they are in control now.
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Octafish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-18-04 11:11 PM
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10. Interesting connections there: SAVAK and RFK
Robert Morrow, a "former intelligence agent," wrote a compelling study of the assassination of Sen. Robert Kennedy. His thesis in "The Senator Must Die": The people behind the murder of RFK were affiliated with US and Iranian intel.

Who, today, still does business with these assassins? A hint: What did Nixon call Bush, Baker and Mosbacher? "The Texans... They'll do anything for our side."

One of the few books actually banished in the US, Morrow's book was pulled because Morrow implicated a teenage photographer as a trigger man. The kids' family sued and the publisher was ordered to recall all the unsold copies of the book.
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dad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-18-04 11:01 PM
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4. .
So what did he say about Lieberman? Don't leave me hanging, man!
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MadProphetMargin Donating Member (756 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-18-04 11:02 PM
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5. Well, he referred to him as "Saint Joe". Personally, I think Lieberman
is a GOP tool.

Or just a tool.

Or words to that effect.
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Imagine If Donating Member (16 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-18-04 11:04 PM
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6. That mexico book sounds interesting
I will have to check it out! thanks.
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MadProphetMargin Donating Member (756 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-18-04 11:06 PM
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7. It's a LONG read, but more than worth it. EOM
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Imagine If Donating Member (16 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-18-04 11:10 PM
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9. EOM - ??
What does it mean?
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jean Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-18-04 11:17 PM
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12. Hi again ~ "end of message"
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MadProphetMargin Donating Member (756 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-18-04 11:18 PM
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13. It means
End of Message. Saves you clicking on an empty form.
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NMLobo Donating Member (82 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-19-04 12:07 AM
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15. Imagine
Welcome to DU!

:toast:

EOM ;)
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Jane Austin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-19-04 12:53 AM
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16. Thank you
I've been meaning to ask that, myself.
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Disturbed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-18-04 11:17 PM
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11. A great short book.
I recently read "War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning" by Chris Hedges It is a short book yet packed with heavy meaning.

"The myth, which is a lie, of course, built around glory, heroism, heroic self-sacrifice, the nobility of the nation. And it is a kind of intoxication." Chris Hedges

http://www.tompaine.com/feature.cfm/ID/6657
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Kathleen04 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-18-04 11:35 PM
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14. Cool, I own "Had Enough"..haven't read it yet..
Good to know that it's good..it's next on my list of books to read. :)
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