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11866 [lbo-talk] Soros responds, then Peretz -- rank: 1000

On Feb 20, 2007, at 9:30 AM, Chris Doss wrote: > I should say that I don't know the situation in > Germany in 1945, but if, say, Khrushchev had only > allowed people to serve in official positions who had > not participated in the Purges, there would have been > no one to serve. > > Sometimes practicality is the better part of valor. I don't think that was the issue - I think rather that the US liked low-level Nazis, because they were reliable anti-Communists. After all, t ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 20 06:52:34 PST 2007

11867 [lbo-talk] Ana Marie Cox & Bad Subjects, a Marxist journal -- rank: 1000

O'Reilly maintained a furious pace of mad outrage tonight. 41 states now have Jessica's Law! But 9 - including evil Colorado, don't, because Dems are soft on child sex abuse! A segment declared that NBC News had adopted a far left agenda. Proof of this was that their Congressional correspondent, on an MSNBC chat show, said that Mitt Romney was a flip-flopper. Giggles came from the other talking head, that of Ana Marie Cox - "who used to edit a Marxist journal." That must be Bad ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 19 20:49:23 PST 2007

11868 [lbo-talk] GOOG makes NYC its second home -- rank: 1000

<http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml? articleID=197006843> New York Gets Googled The Big Apple has become an epicenter of tech talent and innovation -- and Google's second home. By John Foley, InformationWeek Feb. 17, 2007 Step out of New York's 14th Street subway stop, turn up Eighth Avenue, and there, in the heart of Chelsea -- amid the traffic, delis, pizzerias, and restaurants -- is Google's largest software engineering center outside of Mountain View, Calif. Wi ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 19 19:34:55 PST 2007

11869 [lbo-talk] the ongoing crisis of standards -- rank: 1000

<http://gawker.com/news/janice-min/tabloid-editor-concerned-about- dumbing-down-of-media-237909.php> Tabloid Editor Concerned About Dumbing Down of Media Strangely non-evil Us Weekly editor Janice Min is ticked that TV news has gotten all tabloidey: "I wanted to turn on news and watch information about the Scooter Libby trial, and all I could find was wall-to-wall Anna Nicole." That's how we felt last week when we opened Us and all we could find was an analysis of the U.S. Off ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 19 19:32:31 PST 2007

11870 [lbo-talk] PDF of Fed Reserve economists' paper saying Americans save TOO MUCH for retirement -- rank: 1000

On Feb 19, 2007, at 10:05 PM, B. wrote: > Apparently the PDF file of the "recent study conducted > by Paul Smith and Lucy McNair of the Federal Reserve > Board, and David Love, an economist at Williams > College, whofound that 88 percent of all households > with breadwinners over age 51 had accumulated > sufficient resources to finance adequate consumption > in retirement" Must read this stuff, but it's interesting the Fed didn't publish this as a FEDS paper <h ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 19 19:26:32 PST 2007

11871 [lbo-talk] NYPD acts like pigs -- rank: 1000

On Feb 19, 2007, at 9:25 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > My response is, one, her perception doesn't seem to be an accurate > picture of America today, where, (unlike America of the long sixties > or some countries where people are really fed up now), you hardly ever > see big, angry protests or uprisings, and two, even if some did behave > exactly as Liza says they often do, that's still not a crime, unless > in a police state. So what's your argument? That what Liza has seen (a ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 19 19:07:37 PST 2007

11872 [lbo-talk] [Fwd: newbery medal controversy: the power of "scrotum"] -- rank: 1000

On Feb 19, 2007, at 7:33 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > "Because of that one word, I would not be able to read that book > aloud." > - Dana Nilsson of Durango, Colorado. > > http://www.commondreams.org/headlines07/0219-06.htm Says the author: "The word is just so delicious."

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Date:	Mon Feb 19 19:04:49 PST 2007

11873 [lbo-talk] punk site -- rank: 1000

Listmember B., aka Oliver, has a great site devoted to punk etc.: <http://www.cultpunk.com/>. Doug

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Date:	Mon Feb 19 13:23:15 PST 2007

11874 [lbo-talk] most people reject the clash of civilizations argument -- rank: 1000

[even a plurality of USers take the sensible position] <http://www.worldpublicopinion.org/pipa/articles/home_page/317.php? nid=&id=&pnt=317&lb=hmpg1> Global Poll Finds that Religion and Culture are Not to Blame for Tensions between Islam and the West The global public believes that tensions between Islam and the West arise from conflicts over political power and interests and not from differences of religion and culture, according to a BBC World Service poll across 27 count ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 19 11:56:35 PST 2007

11875 [lbo-talk] Fed Reserve economists: Amerians saving TOO much -- rank: 1000

On Feb 19, 2007, at 2:21 PM, Simon Archer wrote: > I posted a query about this topic a few weeks ago but no bites. Has > anyone done some serious (more than google-driven) reading into > this claim and the recent two or three 'studies' that have come > out? I would be quite interested, because it is so contrary to the > accepted wisdom about savings rates and retirement demographics/ > problems. Is it just a debate about what an acceptable (deferred) > wage might be? What's ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 19 11:47:11 PST 2007

11876 [lbo-talk] NYPD acts like pigs -- rank: 1000

<http://www.thenation.com/blogs/notion?bid=15&pid=166939> Free Speech in New York City? Fuhgeddaboutit! Liza Featherstone In summer 2004, citizens who peacefully protested during the Republican National Convention in New York City were subject to mass arrest, lengthy detention under horrible conditions and a wide range of other civil liberties violations. Civil liberties exist, much of the time, to protect minority rights, and that's important. But most of these protesters, in opp ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 19 07:15:30 PST 2007

11877 [lbo-talk] Scaife & Ruddy: Clintons not so bad after all -- rank: 1000

New York Times - February 19, 2007 <http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/19/us/politics/19clinton.html> As Clinton Runs, Some Old Foes Stay on Sideline By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK WASHINGTON, Feb. 16 Back when Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton was first lady, no one better embodied what she once called the "vast right-wing conspiracy" than Richard Mellon Scaife. Mr. Scaife, reclusive heir to the Mellon banking fortune, spent more than $2 million investigating and publicizing accusations ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 19 07:01:20 PST 2007

11878 [lbo-talk] Fwd for quotation if you want -- rank: 1000

On Feb 19, 2007, at 9:44 AM, Chuck Grimes wrote: > Except Islamofascism. No question about whether it exists or not - it > does - or whether it's good or bad - it's bad. Questioning these > conclusions makes you naive or dangerous. Just ask an Open > Democrat. Doug > > ------------- > > (Hope, you're half joking...) That was firmly tongue in cheek. Islamofascism is a bogus concept. Doug

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Date:	Sun Feb 18 17:25:58 PST 2007

11879 [lbo-talk] Fwd: for quotation if you want -- rank: 1000

On Feb 18, 2007, at 12:19 AM, joanna wrote: > that point, we are taught that there are surely, certainly, and > definitely always at least two sides to > every question. Except Islamofascism. No question about whether it exists or not - it does - or whether it's good or bad - it's bad. Questioning these conclusions makes you naive or dangerous. Just ask an Open Democrat. Doug

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Date:	Sun Feb 18 15:01:57 PST 2007

11880 [lbo-talk] Hi tech boomlet in SF -- rank: 1000

On Feb 18, 2007, at 2:30 AM, Chuck wrote: > BTW, I'll be out in S.F. in mid-March and New York City in April. We should have an lbo-talk welcome Chuck0 to NYC fest! Doug

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