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12211 [lbo-talk] did Craig commit a crime? -- rank: 1000

On Aug 30, 2007, at 4:34 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote: > Exactly. The guy's an undercover cop who's done this before. In the > report he uses boilerplate like "I recognized this as a signal used > by persons wishing to engage in lewd conduct." It was his job to > *encourage* Craig by giving signals of his own. Speaking of which, what about that awful Predators show on NBC? The producers, working with an advocacy group (Perverted Justice) and the cops, lure guys via Interne ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Aug 30 15:50:43 PDT 2007

12212 [lbo-talk] Trade union endorses Clinton and Huckabee -- rank: 1000

On Aug 30, 2007, at 4:13 PM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > Those who think that > any candidate left of Hillary Clinton is going to attract sizeable > support, > let alone win an election, need to have their heads examined. I forwarded polling data to the list yesterday showing that Edwards, who is probably to the left of Hillary, is considerably more "electable" than she is. Doug

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Date:	Thu Aug 30 15:35:47 PDT 2007

12213 [lbo-talk] Trade union endorses Clinton and Huckabee -- rank: 1000

On Aug 30, 2007, at 3:46 PM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN3044334620070830? > feedType=RSS&fe > edName=topNews > Huckabee? Clinton? Worthless union.

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Date:	Thu Aug 30 12:57:02 PDT 2007

12214 [lbo-talk] comparing cycles -- rank: 1000

With the income & poverty nums for 2006 out yesterday, I thought I'd compare cycles. Here's what happened to the poverty rate and real median household incomes 5 years after a recession. change in ------------------------------- poverty rate median income 1982-87 -1.6 +9.6% 1991-96 -0.5 +4.4 2001-06 +0.6 +0.2 Poverty rate went from a fairly sharp decline in the 1980s to a *rise* in the 2000s, and median income went from a strong r ...

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Date:	Thu Aug 30 11:50:05 PDT 2007

12215 [lbo-talk] Dante's Sodomites (Re: Michelangelo) -- rank: 1000

On Aug 30, 2007, at 1:25 PM, Chris Doss wrote: His fifth post of the day. Yesterday it was four, and the day before that, five. The limit is three. Listmom

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Date:	Thu Aug 30 10:45:57 PDT 2007

12216 [lbo-talk] one right-wing nut reviews another -- rank: 1000

New York Sun - August 30, 2007 <http://www.nysun.com/article/61637> The Front Lines of Manhattan Books BY IRA STOLL August 30, 2007 The journalistic category of war correspondence evokes images of dashing young men in flak jackets and muddy combat boots, dodging bullets and hitching rides in jeeps. It is a measure of how different the current war is that one of our finest war reporters turns out to be a 77-year-old grandfather who does most of his reporting in Manhattan rather than fr ...

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Date:	Thu Aug 30 10:44:39 PDT 2007

12217 [lbo-talk] web 2.0 marches on -- rank: 1000

<http://gawker.com/news/the-future/reportwitters-to-ravage-newspapers- pillage-cable-nets-294946.php> THE FUTURE ReporTwitters To Ravage Newspapers, Pillage Cable Nets Some time today, ReporTwitters <http://reportwitters.com/>, the newest iteration of the future of journalism, should go live. The idea seems to be: A bunch of journalists will contribute to a centralized website via Twitter, which is a microblogging service it funnels in text snippets sent via IM or SMS. You can tr ...

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Date:	Thu Aug 30 10:35:06 PDT 2007

12218 [lbo-talk] Minsky -- rank: 1000

On Aug 30, 2007, at 3:34 AM, Rakesh Bhandari wrote: > Hi Doug, > couldn't find your reply. See below. > Just can't see how Minsky is not only not > Marxist but methodologically antithetical. Minsky was no Marxist, but I don't see him as antithetical to Marxism either. > A general crisis may > manifest itself first of all in the sphere of bank credits, as a > financial crisis, only later involving commerce and sphere of direct > production. This is indeed how things wil ...

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12219 [lbo-talk] did Craig commit a crime? -- rank: 1000

On Aug 30, 2007, at 12:13 PM, BklynMagus wrote: > Should I have every female who has ever > hit on me arrested for disturbing me? Ha. You're funny. That doesn't count, of course! > There is no crime here, but nobody can say > it since to do so would to be legitimize > same-sex relations. Well, Garance Franke-Ruta said it, I said it, and I've heard many other say it, including some right-wingers. So it's not really nobody. Doug

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Date:	Thu Aug 30 09:23:29 PDT 2007

12220 [lbo-talk] did Craig commit a crime? -- rank: 1000

[as amusing as it is to see Craig de-pantsed, it's ludicrous that what he did is considered a crime, esp since it appears not to be] <http://thegarance.com/archives/670> Is Solicitation a Crime in Minnesota? Posted by Garance () A lot of people are asking, Is solicitation a crime? That is: Was there anything criminal about Sen. Larry Craig s gestures if they suggested a desire for consensual lewd behavior of some kind with the man in the adjacent restroom stall? The answer, as far as ...

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Date:	Wed Aug 29 19:51:40 PDT 2007

12221 [lbo-talk] pollster: Edwards more "electable" than Clinton -- rank: 1000

Obama too: <http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2007/08/ edwards_will_again_push_clinto.php>

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Date:	Wed Aug 29 19:42:37 PDT 2007

12222 [lbo-talk] Tucker Carlson, homophobic thug -- rank: 1000

On Aug 29, 2007, at 3:49 PM, Carl Remick wrote: > Young Master Carlson is surely MSNBC at its worst. Worse than Joe Scarborough?

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Date:	Wed Aug 29 12:58:30 PDT 2007

12223 [lbo-talk] off topic: gray rape? -- rank: 1000

On Aug 29, 2007, at 3:36 PM, ravi wrote: > From the above: > >> when the Zionists first began settling in the holy city I just >> visited they named their newspaper the "Palestine Post", after the >> same group of people who would eventually gain fame for producing >> the deluded group of destructive (and yes, murderous) radicals... > > But also: > >> ... the notion of "shades of gray," which is to say, the nuance >> without ...

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Date:	Wed Aug 29 12:54:58 PDT 2007

12224 [lbo-talk] off topic: gray rape? -- rank: 1000

On Aug 29, 2007, at 3:04 PM, Blackmail wrote: > I guess I just think that the term 'gray rape' makes date rape even > fuzzier, > which is already fuzzy enough. Yeah, but that's her point, no?

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12225 [lbo-talk] Tucker Carlson, homophobic thug -- rank: 1000

<http://gawker.com/news/criminals/tucker-carlson-beats-up-gay-men- with-his-friends-294673.php> criminals Tucker Carlson Beats Up Gay Men With His Friends <video clip> Comedy ensued on MSNBC last night when pundit Tucker Carlson happily admitted that when a guy hit on him in a men's room in Georgetown, he went back with "someone I knew and grabbed him... and hit him against the stall with his head." Then the cops came and arrested the gay dude. But not Tucker! The laugh ...

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Date:	Wed Aug 29 11:36:46 PDT 2007