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10771 [lbo-talk] wankathon in SF! -- rank: 1000

http://avn.com/index.php? Primary_Navigation=Articles&Action=View_Article&Content_ID=288553 7th Annual Masturbate-A-Thon Comes to SF By: Mike Albo, AVN, 5-3-2007 SAN FRANCISCO - Grab your lube and head west, young men (and women)! The 7th annual Masturbate-a-thon arrives just in time to cap off National Masturbation Month...which, oddly, has more days devoted to it than does Black History Month. And where better to host this stroke-fest than that city by the bay, San Francisco? The e ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 4 10:12:29 PDT 2007

10772 [lbo-talk] market rationality -- rank: 1000

[This is from Briefing.com, reporting on bond market movements this morning after a modest and unsuprising jobs report.] Rumor Mills : The initial fall-off in treasuries on the jobs print has been rumored to have been the result a bad print (188K) seen in foreign exchange land ("London fx types") who had then "sold them til their hands bled," but the actual number quickly reversed things. Take 2: just a straight buy/sell error out of a large fund. Take 3: "the ru ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 4 09:16:58 PDT 2007

10773 [lbo-talk] [resend] [Fwd: The revolution is calling.] -- rank: 1000

On May 3, 2007, at 9:21 PM, Dmytri Kleiner wrote: > looks like the attachment didn't make it through Mailman is doing its work. Attachments streng verboten. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 4 05:22:35 PDT 2007

10774 [lbo-talk] the AFA names it all for you -- rank: 1000

On May 3, 2007, at 11:12 AM, Sean Andrews wrote: > better yet, the Thompson guy from "Law and Order" is leading all the > republicans- He's the right's big hope now. The Xtians don't trust Romney (he's a Mormon!), and some of the movement cons don't trust him because he seems like a latecomer. Now you see why Bruce Bartlett thinks Hillary looks good. Doug

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Date:	Thu May 3 10:34:00 PDT 2007

10775 [lbo-talk] Abortion in the Irish courts again -- rank: 1000

On May 3, 2007, at 12:53 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote: > I have trouble with the idea of jesusland states. Take away Los > Angeles and San Francisco and California is a jesusland state. Not > to mention that TBN, the most watched christian tv station, is > headquartered in southern California. I think the split is more > urban/rural and that goes for the difference between Austin and the > rest of Texas just like it does for the Bay Area and the Central > Valley. Yup, this is ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 3 10:28:59 PDT 2007

10776 [lbo-talk] transition -- rank: 1000

A lot of the black people around WBAI say "transitioned" or "made his transition" to say "died." Is this in wide use? Where's it come from? Doug

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Date:	Wed May 2 21:15:38 PDT 2007

10777 [lbo-talk] Bertell on door policies -- rank: 1000

<http://gawker.com/news/ask-an-intellectual/is-new-socialist-club- socialista-socialist-257166.php> Ask an intellectual Is New Socialist Club 'Socialista' Socialist? As we knew, Armin Amiri, former Bungalow 8 doorman, is opening his own place, called Socialista. In the word of the very voluble Armin, the place will be a "peasant cafe." Now we find out from the Observer's Spencer Morgan that the theme will carry on to the door policy. "What I'd like to be done is a social ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 2 17:23:33 PDT 2007

10778 [lbo-talk] the AFA names it all for you -- rank: 1000

[from a hysterial communication from Donald Wildmon of the American Family Association] This law does not define "sexual orientation," leaving open the definition of the term. To see all the behaviors covered by the term "sexual orientation," please click here <http://www.afa.net/ sexualorientations.asp>. Warning! This listing is offensive.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 2 16:26:08 PDT 2007

10779 [lbo-talk] Americans convinced on climate change; want action now -- rank: 1000

<http://gqrr.com/index.php?ID=1922> Americans Feel New Urgency On Energy Independence and Global Warming Al Quinlan and Michael Bocian Center for American Progress Executive Summary This survey by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner for the Center for American Progress shows a heightened demand among Americans for immediate action to tackle global warming and achieve energy independence. Americans are demanding clean, alternative energy and they want their leadership to act now to change our ener ...

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Date:	Wed May 2 12:32:23 PDT 2007

10780 [lbo-talk] Rudy: he's nuts -- rank: 1000

On May 2, 2007, at 1:54 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Doug Henwood wrote: >> >> The explanation for what makes Rudy so compelling among people who >> know him best including New York reporters who've covered him for a >> generation, and political pros who've worked for him is simpler: he >> is nuts, actually mad. > > If these commentators wish to use the adverby "actually," then they > should not use such empty slang terms as "nuts" and &qu ...

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Date:	Wed May 2 11:05:34 PDT 2007

10781 [lbo-talk] Rudy: he's nuts -- rank: 1000

<http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2007/06/wolff200706> Crazy for Rudy Many New York political pros believe Rudy Giuliani former mayor, hero of 9/11, and now presidential candidate is, quite literally, nuts. The author asks whether Giuliani's lunatic behavior could be the ultimate campaign asset. by Michael Wolff There's no politician more fun to write about than Rudy Giuliani. He's your political show of shows driven to ever greater public outlandishness by a do-anything co ...

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Date:	Wed May 2 10:15:38 PDT 2007

10782 [lbo-talk] Abortion in the Irish courts again -- rank: 1000

On May 2, 2007, at 12:41 PM, Wendy Lyon wrote: > I am convinced this is due to the > Church's influence because I simply never encountered it in the US or > England - *except* among devout, pacifist Catholics, which is a good > example of an exception proving the rule, I think. Yay! I love a good use of that phrase. Doug

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Date:	Wed May 2 10:00:24 PDT 2007

10783 [lbo-talk] discipline -- rank: 1000

On May 2, 2007, at 10:28 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > The Iranians are the Jacobins of the Middle East. Which part? Their opposition to the Church, or their love of terror? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 2 08:30:11 PDT 2007

10784 [lbo-talk] how we celebrate May Day in the US -- rank: 1000

On May 1, 2007, at 7:04 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Some Weather people did blow up the statue once, but I think it has > been rebuilt. You mean the statue of the cop? Here's what Wikipedia says: Haymarket Square in the aftermath In 1889 a commemorative nine-foot bronze statue of a Chicago policeman by sculptor Johannes Gelert was erected in the middle of Haymarket Square with private funds raised by the Union League Club of Chicago. On the 41st anniversary of the riot, May 4, 1927, a stre ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 1 16:13:28 PDT 2007

10785 [lbo-talk] how we celebrate May Day in the US -- rank: 1000

On May 1, 2007, at 6:46 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote: > Funny she doesn't mention Haymarket. As for Haymarket today, looks > like someone thinks there ought to be a law against it. When I visited several years ago, there was no trace of the riot save for a Haymarket Condo down the street.

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Date:	Tue May 1 15:58:00 PDT 2007