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10786 [lbo-talk] another way of celebrating Mayday -- rank: 1000

[JT's Stockroom, a sextoy store, offers this celebration of May Day] MAY DAY IS HERE! Commemorating the end of spring and the beginning of summer, this pagan holiday celebrates sex and fertility and is represented by the Maypole. To help you get in the May Day mood, we ve applied a 10% discount on select cock rings to help you join in the May Day fun. Symbolizing the male phallus, the Maypole has inspired many a celebratory dance over the centuries. Traditionally decorated with ribbons, wre ...

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Date:	Tue May 1 15:51:09 PDT 2007

10787 [lbo-talk] how we celebrate May 1 in the USA -- rank: 1000

[We don't celebrate May Day in the US; we celebrate Loyalty and Law!] <http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/04/20070428-1.html> For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary April 28, 2007 Law Day, U.S.A., 2007 A Proclamation by the President of the United States of America Our Nation is built upon the rule of law and guided by our founding promise of freedom, equality, and justice for all. Law Day is an opportunity to celebrate the Constitution and the laws that protect o ...

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Date:	Tue May 1 15:16:57 PDT 2007

10788 [lbo-talk] Bruce Bartett in NRO: vote for Hillary -- rank: 1000

<http://article.nationalreview.com/? q=NzgxMjNlMWMzNzQ1NjlhMWI5YzNiYTM5YzdmZDdiNTQ=> May 01, 2007 Get Ready for Hillary Tough choices for the Right. By Bruce Bartlett As each day passes, it becomes increasingly clear that the Democrats will win the White House next year. It s not quite 1932, but it s getting close to a sure thing. All the energy is on their side, they are raising more money from more contributors, and there is little if any enthusiasm for the Republican candidates ev ...

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Date:	Tue May 1 15:11:53 PDT 2007

10789 [lbo-talk] Kerem Kaya and Sinan Ikinci on Turkey -- rank: 1000

On May 1, 2007, at 5:42 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > Surprisingly sensible for WSWS (if you can ignore typical WSWS > formulae at the end). -- Yoshie You mean this part? > The Kemalists represent the corrupt state bureaucracy, army and the > traditional big banks and corporations, while the Islamists represent > newer bourgeois layers who are no less ruthless, but keen to break up > the established structures in order make their own enrichment easier. > There is nothing pr ...

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Date:	Tue May 1 14:54:02 PDT 2007

10790 [lbo-talk] reserve your place today! -- rank: 1000

<http://www.napm-ny.org/index.html> MONTHLY DINNER MEETING May 15, 2007 Pre-Dinner Forum Topic: Utilizing Strategic Employee Recognition through becoming a 24-Carrot Leader

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Date:	Tue May 1 14:42:23 PDT 2007

10791 [lbo-talk] Bonobo you don't -- rank: 1000

On May 1, 2007, at 3:59 PM, tfast wrote: > Yahbut Jerry, Doug never misses a chance to be hostile towards Cox > irrespective of the content of Cox's commentary. In the nine years I've been moderating this list, I've yet to see someone as consistently nasty as Cde Cox. He's the only member of the list who's ever accused another of being a cop - and he's done that twice. Plus all the accusations of incoherence, bad faith, childishness, etc. It gets really tiresome. Doug

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Date:	Tue May 1 13:23:50 PDT 2007

10792 [lbo-talk] Alistair Hulett's Mayday Greeting -- rank: 1000

[Hulett does a tremendous version of The Internationale.] THE GALLOW S RANT ALISTAIR HULETT S SPORADIC NEWSLETTER NO. 29 MAYDAY 2007 Well, comrades and friends, it s the very first day of the merry month of May, and I for one am wishing workers everywhere a swift and thorough victory over the dark forces of capitalist skulduggery and oppression. For far too long those buccaneers of chicanery and deceit have been trousering wealth they never toiled to earn. Time we put their fat, hairy arses ...

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Date:	Tue May 1 13:21:16 PDT 2007

10793 [lbo-talk] Bonobo you don't -- rank: 1000

On May 1, 2007, at 3:22 PM, James Heartfield wrote: > Jerry Monaco writes: > > "this kind of rhetoric is simply unacceptable". > > Then, please, let me withdraw it. Thank you. Make peace, all. It's May Day. Doug

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Date:	Tue May 1 12:38:55 PDT 2007

10794 [lbo-talk] Bonobo you don't -- rank: 1000

On May 1, 2007, at 1:55 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > James's idiotic query > I seldom read the whole of Heartfield's posts, or even the whole of > what > other posters post. His assumptions are too detached from reality to > make his deductions from them of interest. Can you, for even just a couple of days, stop being so hostile? Doug

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Date:	Tue May 1 11:52:56 PDT 2007

10795 [lbo-talk] happy b'day list -- rank: 1000

This list celebrates its 9th birthday today (as does Lou Proyect's Marxmail). Happy birthday to us. Doug

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Date:	Tue May 1 10:21:45 PDT 2007

10796 [lbo-talk] Narmada Dam (was Arundhati Roy etc.) -- rank: 1000

On Mar 31, 2007, at 6:03 PM, Sean Andrews wrote: > There's certainly a lot of ire for people like the Deep Ecology > movement in the latest book on the New Economy that takes basically > this tack. And, though I'm not necessarily drawing a parallel, there > is a passage in Lenin's "Capitalist Development in Russia" I don't mind the parallel at all. I like that side of Lenin. Doug

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Date:	Sat Mar 31 15:16:11 PDT 2007

10797 [lbo-talk] Narmada Dam (was Arundhati Roy etc.) -- rank: 1000

On Mar 31, 2007, at 5:57 PM, James Heartfield wrote: > Why is it necessary for the earth to have more than four million > people on > it? It is not necessary, but it is marvellous. People are > marvellous, and the > more of them, the better. I'm 100% with James on this one. Calls for a smaller population really creep me out - they seem fundamentally misanthropic at the core. It's also wonderful that we can get to know so many of each other; I'm incapable of any nostalgia for th ...

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Date:	Sat Mar 31 15:14:19 PDT 2007

10798 [lbo-talk] Women penalized by high deductible ("Consumer Directed") health plans -- rank: 1000

[ArnieCare and MittCare are high-deductible plans.] For Immediate Release High Deductible Plans Penalize Women, Middle-Aged Adults, Sick Children Harvard Study Finds A study by Harvard Medical School researchers finds that the increasingly popular high deductible health plans are discriminatory against women, leaving them with far higher out-of-pocket health bills than men. The researchers also found that adults 45-64, those with any chronic condition (such as asthma or high blood pressure) ...

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Date:	Sat Mar 31 14:46:44 PDT 2007

10799 [lbo-talk] How to explain things to (right-wing) libertarians -- rank: 1000

On Mar 31, 2007, at 2:18 PM, Carl Remick wrote: > Well, Wikipedia alone reveals many problematic details about > Gompers, e.g.: > > * "Focused on higher wages and job security, he fought against > socialism and the Socialist party." > > * "He enthusiastically supported the war effort in World War I ...." > > * "His philosophy of labor unions centered on economic ends for > workers, such as higher wages, benefits, and job security. His goa ...

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Date:	Sat Mar 31 11:37:35 PDT 2007

10800 [lbo-talk] upsides of global warming -- rank: 1000

[from a story by Fiona Harvey in the March 30 Financial Times] Areas that now have cold climates will experience longer growing seasons and a greater variety of crops, as well as becoming more attractive to tourists. Melting ice may also allow for mineral extraction in areas such as Canada and Russia, and drilling for oil in the Arctic.

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Date:	Sat Mar 31 11:34:00 PDT 2007