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10591 [lbo-talk] McCain uncorks one -- rank: 1000
<http://www.politico.com/blogs/jonathanmartin/0507/ McCain_unloads_on_Romney_Mitts_camp_punches_back.html> Sen. John McCain used a blogger conference call today to unleash his toughest -- and most personal -- attack yet on former Gov. Mitt Romney. Per a McCain aide, one of the bloggers asked about the immigration issue and Romney's attack on the compromise."Maybe I should wait a couple of weeks and see if it changes because its changed in less than a year from his position before, ...
Document Size: 5405
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon May 21 14:00:04 PDT 2007
10592 [lbo-talk] crime rising in US cities -- rank: 1000
On May 21, 2007, at 3:40 PM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > The war effect theory does not explain > that. However, it is possible to extend this argument to other > factors > legitimizing violence e.g. the hip hop music and gangsta rap in > particular - > which would make the Archer's theory better suited to explaining > this kind > of violence. As I recall, something like half the hip hop records are bought by white suburban kids. They're not killing each other. People wi ...
Document Size: 5186
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon May 21 13:14:14 PDT 2007
10593 [lbo-talk] crime rising in US cities -- rank: 1000
On May 21, 2007, at 2:38 PM, Jim Straub wrote: > Doug mentioned the Iraq war blowblack as maybe contributing, but > I'd be > willing to bet there's very little link this time. I just don't > see it > being vets in north philly, east cleveland and west las vegas > shooting up > blocks. Isn't the people vets mostly do violence to, their spouses > and them > selves? As I recall, that's not the theory - it's not the vets that do the crimes, it's the sight of state-spons ...
Document Size: 5490
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon May 21 12:26:25 PDT 2007
10594 [lbo-talk] crime rising in US cities -- rank: 1000
On May 21, 2007, at 1:49 PM, Blackmail wrote: > it'd be sad to see philly > backslide into the climate of fear that gripped the city in the late > eighties and early nineties. The other night someone recounted to me what Frank Rizzo said the night he was first elected sheriff in Philadelphia. Asked what he intended to do, he replied: "Make Atilla the Hun look like a faggot." Doug
Document Size: 4956
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon May 21 11:15:20 PDT 2007
10595 [lbo-talk] crime rising in US cities -- rank: 1000
[No mention, of course, of the blowback from the Iraq war.] Crime rises as police fight other threats By Jason Szep 2 hours, 4 minutes ago BOSTON (Reuters) - After a night of dancing, Chiara Levin was shot in the head by a stray bullet from a gunfight as she sat in a Cadillac sport utility vehicle. Hours later she was dead. The killing of the 22-year-old Kentucky native, who recently graduated university with honors, in a tough neighborhood in Boston's Dorchester district on March 24 sparked ...
Document Size: 10202
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon May 21 08:22:56 PDT 2007
10596 [lbo-talk] A public square -- rank: 1000
On May 21, 2007, at 3:03 AM, wrobert at uci.edu wrote: > Not only is he not going to get paid > for it, but he is expected to pay for the production of the index. That's pretty standard in book publishing - the author is almost always responsible for the index. That's not been hard on me, since I spent about 10 years as a book indexer. But most authors find doing their own index a crushing chore (and crushing bore) - but contacting out for it costs about $2-3 per book page. Doug
Document Size: 5007
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon May 21 05:42:49 PDT 2007
10597 [lbo-talk] Why Japan's Left Never Wins -- rank: 1000
On May 20, 2007, at 3:52 PM, Jordan Hayes wrote: > Chris asks: > >>> "zainichi" >> >> What's that? > > My next program will be to look for simple questions that get posted > here and refer the poster to Google or Wikipedia. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zainichi_Korean It's a courtesy when a writer defines an obscure term so that people don't have to go looking things up. Doug
Document Size: 5149
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sun May 20 19:17:37 PDT 2007
10598 [lbo-talk] buried in a matchbox -- rank: 1000
Missed this the first time around. Hitchens to Hannity: "If you gave Falwell and enema you could have buried him in a matchbox."
Document Size: 4573
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sun May 20 19:11:27 PDT 2007
10599 [lbo-talk] Japan schools to teach patriotism -- rank: 1000
On May 20, 2007, at 8:45 AM, Michael Smith wrote: > On Sunday 20 May 2007 07:48, uvj at vsnl.com wrote: > >> Opposition members of parliament protested against the bill, >> warning that >> it could spread nationalism. > > Au contraire. The surest way to discourage something is to get the > schools > pushing it. In the early 20th century, our elite decided they could assimilate all the troublesome offspring of the immigrants into the American way through the ...
Document Size: 5400
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sun May 20 06:05:14 PDT 2007
10600 [lbo-talk] counts -- rank: 1000
Jordan wrote up a nice little script that counts posts by the day. Here's today's list of quota violators. I don't mind the occasional overage, but chronics will be kneecapped. 5 Tayssir John Gabbour 5 Wojtek Sokolowski 5 Charles Brown 4 Dennis Claxton
Document Size: 4591
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri May 18 15:00:14 PDT 2007
10601 [lbo-talk] GOP's crisis of faith -- rank: 1000
Washington Post - May 18, 2007 The GOP's Crisis of Faith By E. J. Dionne Jr. It isn't always easy to notice, but this year's Republican presidential campaign has become the occasion for the collapse of conservative orthodoxy. In Tuesday's Republican presidential debate in South Carolina, every leading candidate declared independence from some piece of dogma or another -- even as all of them clung for dear life to the word "conservative." They sounded like religious doubters who co ...
Document Size: 9618
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri May 18 11:04:54 PDT 2007
10602 [lbo-talk] Wolfie out -- rank: 1000
On May 18, 2007, at 12:14 PM, Shane Mage wrote: > Why, throughout this whole soap opera, was W's mistress *never* > referred to as such, but always as his "girlfriend" or "companion?" Because he's not married, right? And unless she has him collared and bound, that would make mistress (or Mistress) inappropriate. Doug
Document Size: 4739
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri May 18 09:52:57 PDT 2007
10603 [lbo-talk] never believe anything until it's been officially denied -- rank: 1000
[weird the Post would give space to all these allegations, which they circulate by denying - and most readers will believe them, no?] New York Post [Page Six] - May 18, 2007 Lies & Smears Aimed At Post JARED Paul Stern - a rogue former freelancer for Page Six who was accused last year of trying to shake down billionaire Ron Burkle - is now threatening to sue the New York Post. The disgraced journalist, who was investigated for alleged extortion by the U.S. Attorney's Office but never cha ...
Document Size: 9393
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri May 18 06:02:07 PDT 2007
10604 [lbo-talk] How To Keep Hostile Jerks From Taking Over Your OnlineCommunity -- rank: 1000
On May 17, 2007, at 5:18 PM, Bob Morris wrote: > Big blogs like crooksandliars have several people that moderate > comments. > There's no other way to do it but moderation that I know of. Gawker invites people to be commenters, or confers commenter status if you submit something witty or interesting. And every week they fire about 4 or 5 commenters - they used to be called ritual executions, and be illustrated with a photo of a guillotine, but after the Va Tech massacre, they rename ...
Document Size: 5551
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu May 17 16:02:02 PDT 2007
10605 [lbo-talk] Wolfie out -- rank: 1000
[so who's going to be his successor? will this weaken the US hold over the office? very interesting...] FT.com - Published: May 17 2007 23:12 | Last updated: May 17 2007 23:12 Wolfowitz bows to pressure and quits World Bank By Krishna Guha and Eoin Callan in Washington Paul Wolfowitz announced his resignation as president of the World Bank shortly after 6pm on Thursday, bringing to an end a turbulent two-year tenure as chief of the world s leading development institution. His decision came af ...
Document Size: 10546
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu May 17 15:52:48 PDT 2007
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