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10531 [lbo-talk] omigod, Rosie quit! -- rank: 1000

<http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18868354/> Rosie O'Donnell won't return to 'The View' Rosie O'Donnell has fought her last fight at "The View." ABC said Friday she asked for, and received, an early exit from her contract at the daytime chatfest following her angry confrontation with co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck on Wednesday. She was due to leave in mid-June. It ended a colorful eight-month tenure for O'Donnell that lifted the show's ratings but no doubt caused heartburn for show ...

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Date:	Fri May 25 14:45:39 PDT 2007

10532 [lbo-talk] 1/3 of Americans believe Bible is literally true -- rank: 1000

On May 25, 2007, at 3:25 PM, ravi wrote: > I think this sort of thing reflects more than anything else the > [necessarily] narrow 'excluded middle' approach of those collecting > and analysing data. The were given three choices - literal truth, inspired word of God, collection of fables. I'm not sure what's excluded by that trio; it covers all the bases I can think of. > The inverse correlation between education (by which I am sure is > implied formal education) Not implied, exp ...

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Date:	Fri May 25 12:36:33 PDT 2007

10533 [lbo-talk] labor bitchiness -- rank: 1000

On May 25, 2007, at 12:32 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote: >> you can't get much more reactionary than Merle Haggard's "Fightin' >> Side of Me" or "Okie From Muskogee." > > > Okie from Muskogee was a joke song. As Haggard has said about the > "we don't smoke marijuana in Muskogee" line... "Muskogee is the only > place I don't smoke it." Haggard smokes dope all the time. Weren't they high when they wrote the song? Doug

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Date:	Fri May 25 11:44:59 PDT 2007

10534 [lbo-talk] 1/3 of Americans believe Bible is literally true -- rank: 1000

<http://www.galluppoll.com/content/?ci=27682> May 25, 2007 One-Third of Americans Believe the Bible is Literally True High inverse correlation between education and belief in a literal Bible by Frank Newport GALLUP NEWS SERVICE PRINCETON, NJ -- About one-third of the American adult population believes the Bible is the actual word of God and is to be taken literally word for word. This percentage is slightly lower than several decades ago. The majority of those Americans who don't belie ...

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Date:	Fri May 25 11:40:58 PDT 2007

10535 [lbo-talk] Socialista! -- rank: 1000

[from Page Six] Socialista, Armin Amiri's new lounge in the West Village, doesn't have even one 300-pound legbreaker manning the door. Instead, a dwarf named Anthony keeps the riff-raff from storming in to buy $19 drinks . . .

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Date:	Fri May 25 05:51:37 PDT 2007

10536 [lbo-talk] labor bitchiness -- rank: 1000

So the labor geeks and intellectuals don't get it, the working class doesn't get it, the labor misleaders sometimes get it - and only professional organizers really get it? What is the "it" to be gotten? Doug On May 25, 2007, at 5:42 AM, Jim Straub wrote: > Why, in the gritty, hard-bitten rock-solid real world; that is, the > place > where 911 changed the world, we're better off 'fighting the > terrorists over > there than fighting them here', GW Bush is a real down to ...

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Date:	Fri May 25 05:17:01 PDT 2007

10537 [lbo-talk] Regime Change and Paranoid Reaction -- rank: 1000

On May 25, 2007, at 5:06 AM, Russell Grinker wrote: > Mike is sitting in the USA Australia, actually. Doug

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Date:	Fri May 25 04:44:17 PDT 2007

10538 [lbo-talk] A. Cockburn's latest lunacy -- rank: 1000

On May 24, 2007, at 11:12 PM, Gar Lipow wrote: > Did he meet her in Olympia, and then she went back to Russia? Or was > his Olympia girlfriend who moved out of Olympia (we all assumed to be > with Alex) a different woman? Man gets around. Doug

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Date:	Thu May 24 20:20:48 PDT 2007

10539 [lbo-talk] A. Cockburn's latest lunacy -- rank: 1000

On May 24, 2007, at 8:54 PM, Carl Remick wrote: > Wow! Ace reporter Ace, on the scene, "flying thither over the > Arctic and thus able to make a direct review of the ice cap." He's got a Russian girlfriend, whom he was visiting in Moscow. Doug

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Date:	Thu May 24 19:28:48 PDT 2007

10540 [lbo-talk] labor bitchiness -- rank: 1000

On May 24, 2007, at 6:39 PM, Jim Straub wrote: > But labor sensitivity in general probably spring from the fact that > most > union organizers I've ever known have thought that left was on > mars, if they > thought about it at all. I won't dispute the location of much of the left on Mars - except me and many members of this list, of course - but what planet does the American working class live on? Doug

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Date:	Thu May 24 15:55:27 PDT 2007

10541 [lbo-talk] Seitz -- rank: 1000

Cockburn quotes Frederick Seitz as an expert in his latest column. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Seitz> Shortly before his retirement from Rockefeller University in 1979, Seitz began working as a paid permanent consultant for the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, advising their research program. By 1989, the CEO of R.J. Reynolds, William Hobbs, concluded that "Dr. Seitz is quite elderly and not sufficiently rational to offer advice." [2] However, in 1994, Seitz authore ...

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Date:	Thu May 24 15:34:46 PDT 2007

10542 [lbo-talk] A. Cockburn's latest lunacy -- rank: 1000

The Nation - June 11, 2007 <http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070611/cockburn> beat the devil by Alexander Cockburn The Greenhousers Strike Back, and Strike Out I began this series of critiques of the greenhouse fearmongers with an evocation of the papal indulgences of the Middle Ages as precursors of the "carbon credits"--ready relief for carbon sinners burdened, because all humans exhale carbon, with original sin. In the Middle Ages they burned heretics, and after reading thro ...

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Date:	Thu May 24 15:17:06 PDT 2007

10543 [lbo-talk] labor bitchiness -- rank: 1000

On May 24, 2007, at 4:46 PM, Mark Rickling wrote: > I think your findings might be skewed by a small sample size. I find > "laboristas" no more (or no less!) bitchy than the left, broadly > defined, in general. Yeah, that too. I'm getting mellow in my middle age, though maybe some would say I'm less left than I used to be. Doug

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Date:	Thu May 24 14:04:50 PDT 2007

10544 [lbo-talk] damn, some feminists really don't have a sense of humor -- rank: 1000

[I always thought that the subject heading was a cheap shot issuing from the likes of Katie Roiphe, but I might have to reconsider. Jezebel is a smart and amusing new product from Gawker Media.] <http://www.thefword.org.uk/blog/2007/may#000874> What women (don't) want Imagine taking the very worst of those magazine's supposedly aimed at women and distilling it in a big vat of misogynist nonsense and then unloading it onto the web. Welcome to Jezebel, the new "women's" blog f ...

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Date:	Thu May 24 13:17:17 PDT 2007

10545 [lbo-talk] Ron Paul assigns Rudy some reading -- rank: 1000

Candidate Paul assigns reading to Giuliani By Andy Sullivan 1 hour, 44 minutes ago WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Longshot Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul (news, bio, voting record) on Thursday gave front-runner Rudy Giuliani a list of foreign-policy books to back up his contention that attacks by Islamic militants are fueled by the U.S. presence in the Middle East. "I'm giving Mr. Giuliani a reading assignment," the nine-term Texas congressman said as he stood behind a stack o ...

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Date:	Thu May 24 13:10:13 PDT 2007