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12046 [lbo-talk] Ann Coulter hates Huckabee -- rank: 1000

On Dec 26, 2007, at 9:25 PM, Michael Pollak wrote: > BTW, just out of curiosity, when nutballs like her denounce sodomy, > are > they conscious they're denouncing oral sex? Gawker thinks Coulter is a fag hag.

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Date:	Wed Dec 26 19:58:02 PST 2007

12047 [lbo-talk] Ann Coulter hates Huckabee -- rank: 1000

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=24148 Liberals Sing Huckelujah by Ann Coulter Posted: 12/26/2007 All I want for Christmas is for Christians to listen to what Mike Huckabee says, rather than what the media say about him. The mainstream media keep flogging Huckabee for being a Christian, apparently unaware that this "God" fellow is testing through the roof in focus groups. Huckabee is a "compassionate conservative" only in the sense that calling him a conservati ...

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Date:	Wed Dec 26 17:45:30 PST 2007

12048 [lbo-talk] Rush, big tipper -- rank: 1000

[from the NY Daily News Gatecrasher column] Rush Limbaugh ordered a $3,600 bottle of Margaux at the Kobe Club on W. 58th St. Wednesday night then left an eye-popping $5,000 tip on top of a $4,410 check.

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Date:	Tue Dec 25 12:32:39 PST 2007

12049 [lbo-talk] This "Partner" Crap -- rank: 1000

On Dec 25, 2007, at 12:23 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Making an issue of what pairs call each other marks a new height of > trivial impertinence or impertinent triviality & on this list. > > This is almost as ridiculous as bringing moral principles to bear > on the > choice of rye or whole wheat toast. Yeah, the language that people use has no political content at all. It's just words. You really can't believe this. You just like to issue cranky pronunciamenti. Doug

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12050 [lbo-talk] This "Partner" Crap -- rank: 1000

On Dec 24, 2007, at 6:31 PM, Joseph Catron wrote: > Does anyone know how the term "partner," which obscures marital status > and sexual orientation as if they were something shameful, became > leftist default language? It sounds so loveless and anti-erotic, too. It's appropriate for a business arrangement, not someone you share your life with. Doug

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Date:	Mon Dec 24 18:24:00 PST 2007

12051 [lbo-talk] Ace Cockburn finds his candidate(s) -- rank: 1000

<http://www.counterpunch.com/cockburn12222007.html> December 22 / 23, 2007 Libs Fume Over Taco Bell and Target Vouchers Mike Huckabee's Ascending Chariot By ALEXANDER COCKBURN [...] But Huckabee should not be dismissed as simply the creature of the Christian fundamentalists who play a very significant role in the Republican primaries and who are currently hoisting him in the polls. Of course they like Huckabee for all the obvious reasons, and because the alternatives are the Mormon Rom ...

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Date:	Mon Dec 24 10:54:50 PST 2007

12052 [lbo-talk] Krugman -- rank: 1000

On Dec 24, 2007, at 12:14 PM, Michael Smith wrote: >> It's also a useful way of adjusting the profit rate downwards when >> bourgeois data tell you otherwise. The rate of profit has been >> falling so long it's a miracle that it's not negative. > > I'd be interested to hear more about this idea, if you'd like to > elaborate. Every quarter when the flow of funds accounts come out, I compute a profit rate for nonfinancial corps using the pre- and after-tax profits figu ...

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Date:	Mon Dec 24 09:35:45 PST 2007

12053 [lbo-talk] Krugman -- rank: 1000

On Dec 23, 2007, at 5:01 PM, Michael Perelman wrote: > I have nothing against clarity, but I think you will find a large > number of papers > spinning their wheels in an attempt to define unproductive labor. > Even so, Fred > Moseley has used unproductive labor data to make an interesting > explanation of > downward pressures on profit rates. It's also a useful way of adjusting the profit rate downwards when bourgeois data tell you otherwise. The rate of profit has been fa ...

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Date:	Mon Dec 24 08:59:17 PST 2007

12054 [lbo-talk] European Racism -- rank: 1000

On Dec 24, 2007, at 10:39 AM, Carrol Cox wrote: > There is ethnic conflict all over, which has nothing to do with > racism, > which is the ideology of european (white) supremacy. That's one definition of racism, one very popular with the one- dimensional types around WBAI, but why does it have to be the only one? What's wrong with calling that "white supremacy" and following the Oxford American Dictionary's definition for the word? "The belief that all members of each r ...

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Date:	Mon Dec 24 08:56:59 PST 2007

12055 [lbo-talk] Rush responds -- rank: 1000

[From Mike Allen's Politico Playbook - Rush responds to the Huckabee staffer's comments...] I saw his comments and accept them as honest, sincere and genuine,' Limbaugh wrote in an e-mail. 'What was somewhat stunning about all this is that NO ONE in the GOP field, including advisers and staff, could possibly misread my 19-plus-year career the way Gov. Huckabee's D.C. supporter did. Whoever said those things was essentially repeating the Democrat mantra of all these years: that I am just an ...

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Date:	Mon Dec 24 08:47:03 PST 2007

12056 [lbo-talk] why Rush does not like Huck -- rank: 1000

On Dec 22, 2007, at 5:57 PM, Michael Pollak wrote: > <http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2007/12/ > a_huckabee_ally_on_el_rushbo.php> > >> "Honestly, because Rush doesn't think for himself. That's not >> necessarily a slap because he's not paid to be a thinker -- he's an >> entertainer. I can't remember the last time that he has veered >> from the >> talking points from the DC/Manhattan chattering class. If they were >> praising H ...

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Date:	Sat Dec 22 15:06:38 PST 2007

12057 [lbo-talk] why Rush does not like Huck -- rank: 1000

<http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2007/12/ a_huckabee_ally_on_el_rushbo.php> What's the Huckabee universe's take on why Rush Limbaugh does not like the man from Arkansas? I asked a prominent DC-based Huckabee ally: "Honestly, because Rush doesn t think for himself. That s not necessarily a slap because he s not paid to be a thinker he s an entertainer. I can t remember the last time that he has veered from the talking points from the DC/Manhattan chattering class. If t ...

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Date:	Sat Dec 22 12:32:06 PST 2007

12058 [lbo-talk] Terry Eagleton and the Gospels -- rank: 1000

On Dec 22, 2007, at 2:48 PM, Jeffrey Fisher wrote: > Heh. Say what you want about postmodernists, but we are always quoting > texts. lol. :) Yeah it always cracked me up when people said that pomos hated the canon. Have they ever even looked at a page of Of Grammatology? Doug

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Date:	Sat Dec 22 12:07:49 PST 2007

12059 [lbo-talk] Pure beautiful scorn -- rank: 1000

Lovely to see all this fine poetry...thanks.

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Date:	Sat Dec 22 11:27:19 PST 2007

12060 [lbo-talk] Terry Eagleton and the Gospels -- rank: 1000

On Dec 22, 2007, at 1:58 PM, Jeffrey Fisher wrote: > the straw men he knocked down in that book, > particularly wrt postmodernism Yeah, and there was that whole book on postmodernism in which he - by design! - didn't quote a single text. It was all about an ethos, you see.

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Date:	Sat Dec 22 11:25:30 PST 2007