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11626 [lbo-talk] Re: Purer Than Thou -- rank: 1000

On Jan 22, 2007, at 10:51 PM, Jordan Hayes wrote: > Yeah, I hear ya. I can't be bothered with how they are made and > sold, I just want my Nike shoes to gleem when I wear them to the > mall. Thank Dog I got that big screen TV (easily fit into my SUV) > in time to see the kewl commercials that break up that stupid > football game this weekend. > >> Does it ever occur to people who take positions like this that >> most computer users have neither the time nor the in ...

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11627 [lbo-talk] Is Sex Fun for Girls? --> Sociobiology, Sex, and History -- rank: 1000

Apologies to Ravi for top-posting, but making up an evolutionary justification for the location of the clitoris is one of them. Or eyebrows evolved to keep sweat from dripping into our eyes. Maybe, but how could we ever fucking know? Of course evolution has happened. But not every feature or change has a purpose behind it. Doug On Jan 22, 2007, at 11:20 PM, Nicholas Ruiz III wrote: > Interesting...care to proffer up one of these evolutionary > 'stories'? Let's > not carelessly make ...

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11628 [lbo-talk] Is Sex Fun for Girls? --> Sociobiology, Sex, and History -- rank: 1000

On Jan 22, 2007, at 10:35 PM, andie nachgeborenen wrote: > Almost all evolutionary explanations are just so > stories -- this is in fact a standard creationist > objection to evolution. But sometimes stuff just happens. A lot of "evolutionary" explanations try to find a justification for everything, rather like intelligent design.

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11629 [lbo-talk] stupid press release of the week -- rank: 1000

[from an AOL address, no less - slick PR operation, this!] From: COY7M at aol.com Date: January 22, 2007 9:38:38 PM EST To: COY7M at aol.com Subject: Excellent Guest for Your Show: Brigitte Gabriel! Media Friends: More than 100,000 copies of Brigitte Gabriel's hard-hitting anti- terrorism book, "Because They Hate," have been sold in a three-month period. Americans are gravitating to Ms. Gabriel's book because of the honest, straight-forward approach she takes in revealing the minds ...

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Date:	Mon Jan 22 19:04:16 PST 2007

11630 [lbo-talk] Hillary, moneybags -- rank: 1000

On Jan 22, 2007, at 9:42 PM, Michael Pollak wrote: > If there's a limit for the general election, that necessarily > implies people can give funds no? Not if they take public financing.

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11631 [lbo-talk] Re: Re: Purer Than Thou -- rank: 1000

On Jan 22, 2007, at 8:30 PM, Jim Straub wrote: > On the topic of the Dem horserace going on now, if I had to bet on > the victor I'd throw my money on Hillary, and a corrollary bet with > that would be on ol' 'Walnuts' McCain as our next president--- and > that. Will. Suck. Shit. Sometimes I think the right has completely shot its wad - the disaster of W wasn't just a petit mort but a grand one. Heck it's been almost 30 years since the right-wing reaction set in and it may be t ...

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11632 [lbo-talk] Re: Purer Than Thou -- rank: 1000

On Jan 22, 2007, at 7:51 PM, Doug Henwood wrote: > On Jan 22, 2007, at 7:12 PM, Tayssir John Gabbour wrote: > >> And incidentally, Stallman writes things like (on his excellent >> political newsfeed): >> >> "Please don't accept the invitation to post your statements of >> Atheism >> (or anything) on YouTube.com. That site is designed so as to require >> proprietary software (the Flash player) in order to view anything. If >> you want to ...

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11633 [lbo-talk] bias in bias studies -- rank: 1000

<http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2007/01/22/bias> Bias Seen in Bias Studies Professors are all Democrats, except those who are communists. Professors all hate Bush. Professors favor like-minded students and love converting those who love God, country and the president. You've read all the claims and more, in right-leaning blogs and columns. Frequently, these claims are based on studies many have been released in the last two years of professors. Party registration is documente ...

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Date:	Mon Jan 22 17:27:42 PST 2007

11634 [lbo-talk] Re: Purer Than Thou -- rank: 1000

On Jan 22, 2007, at 7:12 PM, Tayssir John Gabbour wrote: > And incidentally, Stallman writes things like (on his excellent > political newsfeed): > > "Please don't accept the invitation to post your statements of Atheism > (or anything) on YouTube.com. That site is designed so as to require > proprietary software (the Flash player) in order to view anything. If > you want to post a video, post an Ogg Theora file on your own site." > <http://www.stallman.org/a ...

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Date:	Mon Jan 22 16:51:25 PST 2007

11635 [lbo-talk] Re: Purer Than Thou -- rank: 1000

On Jan 22, 2007, at 6:21 PM, Mark Rickling wrote: > Forgive my ignorance, but do DailyKos and MyDD actually raise money? Oh and just below the Obama ad on MyDD - an ad for Hillary.

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Date:	Mon Jan 22 16:06:39 PST 2007

11636 [lbo-talk] Re: Purer Than Thou -- rank: 1000

On Jan 22, 2007, at 6:21 PM, Mark Rickling wrote: > Forgive my ignorance, but do DailyKos and MyDD actually raise money? Just signed onto MyDD, and "above the fold," to import the newspaper term, there was an ad soliciting "$21 to $2100" for Obama. Doug

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11637 [lbo-talk] Re: Purer Than Thou -- rank: 1000

Ravi, you start with a bogus opposition between purists and netroots, the former largely adherents of the Church of Marx. Max would not score high on any tests of Marxist purity; he's always struck me as a serious yet pragmatic guy who works in DC, fer Chrissake. And netroots - what are they (and you name Kos and MyDD, both of which prominently feature love letters to Nancy Pelosi) but a new constituency for fairly conventional Dem politics, with little in the way of politics or analysis ...

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Date:	Mon Jan 22 14:44:13 PST 2007

11638 [lbo-talk] plump Larry rains on a parade -- rank: 1000

<http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news? pid=20601109&sid=akRtIlTTEx2Q&refer=home> Summers, Trichet Warn Davos Party-Goers They Underestimate Risk By John Fraher Jan. 22 (Bloomberg) -- Lawrence Summers has a message for investors heading to the Swiss mountain resort of Davos this week to toast a year of booming returns and record bonuses. ``It's worth remembering that markets were very upbeat in the early summer of 1914,'' the former U.S. Treasury secretary observes. While Summers i ...

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Date:	Mon Jan 22 12:26:16 PST 2007

11639 [lbo-talk] end of public financing -- rank: 1000

[here's the full LAT story - Hillary's the first, and given her enormous fundraising prowess she has to be considered a major reason why the other big candidates will have to try to match her] <http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na- publicfinance22jan22,0,2363122.story?coll=la-home-headlines.html> Los Angeles Times - January 22, 2007 Just $83.8 million? No thanks Clinton passes on public funds for '08, and other candidates are likely to. They need real money. By Dan Morai ...

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Date:	Mon Jan 22 12:21:16 PST 2007

11640 [lbo-talk] Hillary, moneybags -- rank: 1000

On Jan 22, 2007, at 3:07 PM, Michael Pollak wrote: > And this idea that they are following her lead seems manufactured. > This report is based on an email exchange with a campaign op, not > an official announcement. It's Howard Wolfson, not some low-level hack. > And her website is still soliciting contributions within the > limits, as if that were still an option, and she's still officialy > hedging her bets just like everyone else. Here's what the LAT story says: "On h ...

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