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10951 [lbo-talk] Islam and Muslims (was Doug and Islam) -- rank: 1000

On Mar 16, 2007, at 1:22 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > What makes you think that understanding other people's faiths and > recognizing that some of them are full of great virtues must lead to > adopting one or many of them as one's own? Unlike you, I've actually spent some time as a believer - in Catholicism, one of the more baroque and demanding forms of Christianity. I appreciate the lovely art that it inspired, and the traditional mass has moments of great beauty, but it's essenti ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 16 10:43:19 PDT 2007

10952 [lbo-talk] right has a crush on Obama -- rank: 1000

<http://www.journalism.org/node/4582> [...] The fact that Hillary Clinton took something of a pounding last week wasn t big news. But an examination of the talk outlets revealed an interesting twist to that pattern. Whatever the motivation, some of those conservative hosts are not only using their microphones to blast away at Clinton. They are also embracing, or at least saying nice things about, Barack Obama, a liberal Democrat whose primary virtue in their eyes may be that he can d ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 16 10:22:02 PDT 2007

10953 [lbo-talk] Hill refines her posish on war -- rank: 1000

On Mar 16, 2007, at 12:32 PM, Colin Brace wrote: > [Juan Cole responds] > > Friday, March 16, 2007 > Clinton Would Keep Troops in Iraq > > Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton said Thursday that she would keep some > US troops in Iraq to fight al-Qaeda, curb Iranian influence, protect > the Kurds and assist the Iraqi military. > > The elements of this plan will not work or are unnecessary. To steal a phrase from Noam Chomsky, that may be true, but it's irrelevant. Hillar ...

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Date:	Fri Mar 16 10:11:38 PDT 2007

10954 [lbo-talk] warmest winter ever -- rank: 1000

This was world's warmest recorded winter Fri Mar 16, 6:16 AM ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - This has been the world's warmest winter since record-keeping began more than a century ago, the U.S. government agency that tracks weather reported on Thursday. ADVERTISEMENT The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said the combined global land and ocean surface temperature from December through February was at its highest since records began in 1880. A record-warm January was responsib ...

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Date:	Fri Mar 16 08:05:50 PDT 2007

10955 [lbo-talk] Hill refines her posish on war -- rank: 1000

New York Post - March 16, 2007 HILL REDRAWING HER BATTLE LINE By IAN BISHOP Post Correspondent WASHINGTON - After recently vowing to quickly end the Iraq war if she becomes president, Hillary Rodham Clinton is now stressing a plan to keep some U.S. forces there indefinitely - a shift that analysts say shows she's feeling heat from both Barack Obama and Rudy Giuliani. Sen. Clinton's new tough stance is an attempt to convince voters she has the gravitas to be the first female commander in chie ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 16 07:57:35 PDT 2007

10956 [lbo-talk] Russia in Brooklyn -- rank: 1000

Speaking of vodka and things Russian, this is from the NYT's attempt to be hip, "UrbanEye": > From Russia With Stoli > ---------------------------------------- > > By MELENA RYZIK > Friday, March 16, 2007 > > Ain't no party like a Ruskie party. Tonight, skip all the > usual club options and head to Coney Island for an > all-night, vodka-fueled dance-a-thon at Rasputin, a sort of > early-Glasnost Moscow on the East River. You can dine on > pelmeni (meat ...

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Date:	Fri Mar 16 04:53:44 PDT 2007

10957 [lbo-talk] Islam and Muslims (was Doug and Islam) -- rank: 1000

On Mar 16, 2007, at 12:28 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > An atheist pox on all three Abrahamic houses only helps Washington, > for Judaism and Christianity are already inoculated against it by the > Higher Power in the White House. I don't really get where you're coming from, or going to, with all these apologetics for religion. Are you about to embrace one of these faiths? All three at once in some trinitarian mystery? Or is it that you don't believe a word of them, but it's ok for t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 16 04:36:49 PDT 2007

10958 [lbo-talk] US upholds medical marijuana ban -- rank: 1000

On Mar 15, 2007, at 1:25 PM, Miles Jackson wrote: > I'm no drug prude, but c'mon, Dennis: marijuana "helps you see through > the bullshit and shows how you're getting fucked"? Based on extensive > personal experience (earlier in my misspent youth I lived with a > guy who > grew sensemilla in his basement), pot gives you the munchies, makes > sex > fun, and makes it hard to concentrate. I still have tapes of my band > jamming when we were stoned out of our mind ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 15 10:43:44 PDT 2007

10959 [lbo-talk] further evidence of why Obama sucks -- rank: 1000

[Is my inner Trotskyist ever running wild. On one hand, Hillary says she'd keep troops in Iraq and can't really say whether homosex is immoral or not. And on the other, this, from The Note] <http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/TheNote/story?id=156238&page=3> A key New York Times correction: "An article yesterday about competition for Jewish support between Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama incorrectly described Mr. Obama's views about the culpability for stalled pea ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 15 09:13:43 PDT 2007

10960 [lbo-talk] Key 9/11 suspect 'admits guilt' -- rank: 1000

On Mar 15, 2007, at 10:57 AM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6452573.stm > > [WS:] What do others think about it? To me, it looks so frigging > lame that > I find it hard to believe that anyone with a half a brain in the US > government would fabricate such crap. No wonder that the BBC put > quotation > marks around the phrase admits guilt. But then, one never knows. The > arrogance cum stupidity is abound in the US ruling elite. Th ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 15 08:17:23 PDT 2007

10961 [lbo-talk] Output Falling in Oil-Rich Mexico, and Politics Get the Blame -- rank: 1000

On Mar 15, 2007, at 9:18 AM, Julio Huato wrote: > David Ruiz wrote: > >> There is not organized political left >> in the USA! >> Blogo-leftists and Cyber Fidels do not >> count .There is a "flesh space" reality >> out there still waiting for a "left". > > Man, you're the master of the self-inflicted irony. If that "flesh > space" reality, entirely divorced from this cyber-fantasy, is what > matters, why in hell are yo ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 15 08:13:29 PDT 2007

10962 [lbo-talk] Nathan responds to Eichenwald -- rank: 1000

[with a comment by Katha Pollitt, who's completely right about Debbie Nathan] http://poynter.org/forum/view_post.asp?id=12381 Topic: Letters Sent to Romenesko Date/Time: 3/14/2007 12:46:28 PM Title: Nathan: I have never said I libeled anyone Posted By: Jim Romenesko From DEBBIE NATHAN: Kurt Eichenwald's recent letter denouncing media coverage of his $2,000 check singled me out for special ire. And it warned the press, generically, that anyone publishing anything I write about Eichenwald ri ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 14 19:47:41 PDT 2007

10963 [lbo-talk] "Ansar al-Zindiqi" (was Iranian underground....) -- rank: 1000

On Mar 14, 2007, at 7:59 PM, Ansar al-Zindiqi wrote: > The Prophet and I used to take a bath from a single pot while we were > Junub. During the menses, he used to order me to put on an Izar > (dress worn below the waist) and used to fondle me. While in > Itikaf, he used to bring his head near me and I would wash it while > I used to be in my periods (menses). > > YF: You keep posting things like that, and soon Doug will be > looking into Islamica searching for steamy par ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 14 19:18:52 PDT 2007

10964 [lbo-talk] lbo-talk Digest, Vol 77, Issue 11 (Eubilides) -- rank: 1000

On Mar 14, 2007, at 9:17 PM, Eubulides wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Ansar al-Zindiqi > > > A. al-Z; And why's that Ian? If you can say something that flippant > at least you > can give a reason. > > ============= > > Heck, I'll give you two. > > 1) You're a misogynist. > > 2) You're an obnoxious overposter. #2 is absolutely true. 22 posts today. I was busy and couldn't keep count. I think I'll put A a-Z on moderation. This internet t ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 14 19:16:15 PDT 2007

10965 [lbo-talk] lbo-talk Digest, Vol 77, Issue 2 (Doug and Islam) -- rank: 1000

On Mar 14, 2007, at 8:44 PM, Ansar al-Zindiqi wrote: > DH: I don't really welcome people going on here about the "evil of > Islam." > > A. al-Z: I really don't give two hoots what you think at this stage > in regards to that. Of course what I think doesn't matter in the scheme of things, but I could boot you out of here if I felt like it, and it's not hard to imagine how I could come to feel that way. I've known Yoshie for 10 years. I don't like her Islamophilic turn, ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 14 19:13:15 PDT 2007