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11806 [lbo-talk] me on Fox -- rank: 1000

I'm supposed to be on the Neil Cavuto show on Fox at 4:10. It's about Greenspan, not the stock market's spill. Since I usually interpret calls from mainstream outlets as a sign that a market bottom is near, this decline might have some legs! Doug

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Date:	Wed Feb 28 10:20:19 PST 2007

11807 [lbo-talk] Marxism and Religion -- rank: 1000

On Feb 28, 2007, at 2:11 AM, joanna wrote: > I have been a dues paying member of a Trotskyist party and believe me > that before I would go back to that idiotic mumbo jumbo, I _will_ walk > into a Quaker congregation or check out the Unitarians. This is not a > reflection on Trotsky but on the demented behavior of such political > parties in the U.S. I mean you want to talk about absurd ritual and > misguided beliefs all rendered in the most obsolete formulaic language > im ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 28 08:28:06 PST 2007

11808 [lbo-talk] Marxism and Religion -- rank: 1000

On Feb 28, 2007, at 12:23 AM, andie nachgeborenen wrote: > > Actually I think, and tried to suggest before in an > awkward way, that most religious Americans don't give > a hoot about theology and aren't interested in > believing preposterous things or in blind obedience to > irrational commands. About 3/4 of Americans believe, or profess to believe, in angels, heaven, and hell. Doug

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Date:	Wed Feb 28 08:27:00 PST 2007

11809 [lbo-talk] work at Twin Oaks -- rank: 1000

[I've been on the mailing list of the Federation of Egalitarian Communities for years, starting back in the paper and ink era. I admire these people for what they're trying to do, though I could never live that way myself. Here's a contribution from the venerable Twin Oaks on their labor system from the latest FEC newsletter. More: <http://thefec.org/>.] Working Together: Oakers reflect on our labor system Labor. If there's one thing that ties Oakers together, its the work that we do ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 27 15:09:08 PST 2007

11810 [lbo-talk] oh no! Iranians are gonna blow us up!! -- rank: 1000

[good luck attacking Wall Street - it's an armed camp] Newsweek - March 5, 2007 <http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17312636/site/newsweek> New York: Targeted By Tehran? Increasing tensions between Washington and Tehran have revived New York Police Department concerns that Iranian agents may already have targeted the city for terror attacks. Such attacks could be aimed at bridges and tunnels, Jewish organizations and Wall Street, NYPD briefers told security execs last fall, according to a per ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 27 12:20:13 PST 2007

11811 [lbo-talk] Marxism and Religion -- rank: 1000

On Feb 27, 2007, at 2:10 PM, andie nachgeborenen wrote: > Seculars means what? No religious identification? Self-identification as such. Sum of atheist, agnostic, humanist, secular, no religion: <http://www.gc.cuny.edu/faculty/research_briefs/ aris/key_findings.htm>. It's amazing how small so many of the variety religions are, despite the claims of their adherents. Check out the counts for Muslims, Buddhists, Unitarians, Hindus, etc. Doug

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Date:	Tue Feb 27 12:01:14 PST 2007

11812 [lbo-talk] Marxism and Religion -- rank: 1000

By the way, let's not forget that the proportion of seculars in the U.S. pop has doubled over the last decade, from a rather slight 7% to a not risible 14%, according to the National Survey of Religious Identification. Doug

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Date:	Tue Feb 27 09:32:17 PST 2007

11813 [lbo-talk] Jobs in religion, was Marxism and Religion -- rank: 1000

On Feb 28, 2007, at 12:31 AM, Chuck Grimes wrote: > Not completely true. 95% of Bach's work -- which sets a good part > of the > foundation of western music is religious. joanna > > ---------- > > True. But who was paying him? I'm not sure about the 95% total; there's nothing religious about any of the keyboard music or the concertos. The choral music, yes, and I'd much rather listen to the B Minor Mass (residual Catholicism?) or "Jesu, Meine Freude" than the Co ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 27 09:29:53 PST 2007

11814 [lbo-talk] there's no such thing as a free offset -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - February 27, 2007 Penance For Gas Guzzlers HOLLYWOOD'S wealthy liberals can now avoid any guilt they might feel for consuming so much non-renewable fossil fuel in their private jets, their SUVs, and their multiple air-conditioned mansions. This year's Oscar goodie bag contained gift certificates representing 100,000 pounds of greenhouse gas reductions from TerraPass, which describes itself as a "carbon offset retailer." The 100,000 pounds "are enou ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 27 07:21:20 PST 2007

11815 [lbo-talk] the new metrics -- rank: 1000

[from The Note] The Washington Post's Reliable Source reports that the Arlington- based New Media Strategies set out to gauge the former veep's buzz in the YouTube/MySpace/Facebook universe. "What they found: The number of 'friends' on the official Draft Gore site on MySpace (yes, there is one) surged by 14 percent overnight, 'a healthy jump,' said NMS's Howard Mortman. But the five largest Gore fan groups on Facebook grew just 4.5 percent. And the 10 clips of his appearances posted to ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 27 07:16:40 PST 2007

11816 [lbo-talk] Marxism and Religion -- rank: 1000

On Feb 27, 2007, at 7:37 AM, jrdavis wrote: > PLus, there have been new findings in the field of neuro-psychology > which suggest that religion may be hard wired into out brains > (which is why even atheism takes on forms of religiousity despite > atheists best efforts). > Please. Enough of this hard-wiring stuff. There are plenty of non- and anti-religious people in the world. Are we betraying our genetic inheritance? Yeah, some people who do good things politically are religio ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 27 06:48:54 PST 2007

11817 [lbo-talk] Marxism and Religion -- rank: 1000

On Feb 26, 2007, at 10:24 PM, Angelus Novus wrote: > But the weakness and marginality of the left can't > have anything to do with the lack of an emancipatory > affinity in the population at large, since churches > are able to tap into it. Who said churches are emancipatory? They tell you to believe improbable things, and are full of commandments, rituals, and prohibitions! Doug

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Date:	Mon Feb 26 21:12:01 PST 2007

11818 [lbo-talk] AFP: "In US, record numbers are plunged into poverty: report" -- rank: 1000

On Feb 25, 2007, at 9:53 AM, B. wrote: > "These and other factors have helped push 43 percent of the > nation's 37 > million poor people into deep poverty -- the highest rate since at > least 1975. The share of poor Americans in deep poverty has climbed > slowly but steadily over the last three decades," the report said. This is slightly deceptive. The stats on extreme poverty from the Census Bureau only begin in 1975. And yes, in 2005, 42.9% of the official poverty po ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 26 15:40:31 PST 2007

11819 [lbo-talk] ABC poll: majority of Americans now favor an Iraq deadline -- rank: 1000

[all the more reason to bomb Iran?] ABC NEWS/WASHINGTON POST POLL: IRAQ and POLITICS 2/25/07 EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE AFTER 5 p.m. Monday, Feb. 26, 2007 Disapproval on Iraq Hits a Record; More than Half Favor a Deadline A record number of Americans disapprove of the war in Iraq and a clear majority now favors the eventual withdrawal of U.S. forces even if civil order has not been restored there potentially a tipping point in public attitudes on the war. While solutions remain vexing, for the ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 26 14:17:22 PST 2007

11820 [lbo-talk] Marxism and Religion -- rank: 1000

On Feb 26, 2007, at 2:52 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > In my view, atheism is not politically better for leftists than > religion, and vice versa, if what you want to eventually arrive at is > communist society. In other words, this is all at a highly abstract level. If Carrol Cox didn't reflexively defend everything you say, he'd be all over you for this. Doug

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