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12691 [lbo-talk] what was the matter with Kansas? -- rank: 1000

<http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0407/3478.html> GOP Could Face Struggle to Regain Ground, Uproot Democrats in Kansas By: Josh Kraushaar and David Mark April 10, 2007 04:25 PM EST Kansas state Treasurer Lynn Jenkins this week entered the race to challenge freshman Democratic Rep. Nancy Boyda, setting up a potentially divisive Republican primary between Jenkins and former representative Jim Ryun. Jenkins' candidacy comes as Democrats have experienced increasing success in the once ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Apr 14 08:04:47 PDT 2007

12692 [lbo-talk] Obama: proud to be an American... -- rank: 1000

<http://thepoliticker.observer.com/2007/04/obama-to-deliver-major- foreign-policy-address.html> « Bloomberg Outraged at Omnibus Bills | Main | Giuliani's First Quarter » Obama to Deliver Major Foreign Policy Address FILE UNDER: Barack Obama Barack Obama is planning to deliver an important foreign policy speech on Tuesday, aides to Obama just told me. The speech is going to be billed as a comprehensive, substantive proposal for improving American's damaged international standing and for ...

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Date:	Sat Apr 14 07:45:59 PDT 2007

12693 [lbo-talk] saaay what? -- rank: 1000

On Apr 14, 2007, at 10:16 AM, Carrol Cox wrote: > bitch at pulpculture.org wrote: >> >>> that kind of crap, with the junior high mentality charged up with >>> misogyny, >> airs every day and no one gets fired. Instead, they use that kind >> of crap >> to actually promote radio programs. > > Blame it on the decision of so many leftists in the mid '70s to return > to polite politics and the DP. Refreshing to see you poking fun at yourself! Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Apr 14 07:31:05 PDT 2007

12694 [lbo-talk] contingent valuation and undercounting the cost of the surge -- rank: 1000

On Apr 14, 2007, at 8:06 AM, Robert Naiman wrote: > We could look at the gap between the combat pay and what these > soldiers would be earning if they remained in the U.S. Clearly not the > right number, but a number worth knowing. This is the number bourgeois economists would use, no? Why not use it against them? Doug

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Date:	Sat Apr 14 06:38:44 PDT 2007

12695 [lbo-talk] Sea of People in NYC -- rank: 1000

<http://events.stepitup2007.org/events/show/103> ***the BIG one*** Sea of People Mass Rally New York, NY April 14, 2007 12:00PM to 03:00PM Event Description: What is SEA OF PEOPLE? - visit www.seaofpeople.org for more info - New York City's coastal location makes it particularly vulnerable to rising sea levels that will result from unabated warming. A ten-foot change could result from significant melting of the Antarctic and Greenland ice shelves over the course of this century. Such a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Apr 14 05:19:23 PDT 2007

12696 [lbo-talk] a challenge to a stripper -- rank: 1000

Inventing Tom's 'bozo Battle' April 14, 2007 -- THE supermarket tabloids do make up stories about celebrities - but are so clever spinning them that some of the tall tales actually come true. That's the dish from Hal Lifson, a freelancer for the National Enquirer, Star and Globe, who says he's now penning a tell-all titled, "Sources Say: The Ugly Truth Behind America's Tabloid Business." "Many of the stories have a kernel of truth in them, but to present them as soap-opera ma ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Apr 14 05:12:46 PDT 2007

12697 [lbo-talk] be there or be square! -- rank: 1000

National Day of Climate Action - today! <http://stepitup2007.org/>

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Apr 14 05:14:52 PDT 2007

12698 [lbo-talk] plain text please please please -- rank: 1000

On Apr 14, 2007, at 5:18 AM, Sandy Harris wrote: > Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: > >> I keep asking this but to no avail - please post only in plain text. >> HTML coding greatly increases the size of message, and not all >> mailers can format it properly. The list software is supposed to be >> able to strip the codes, but it can't. Please be considerate of your >> readers. > > If it cannot strip, can it just drop such messages or, bet ...

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Date:	Sat Apr 14 05:10:39 PDT 2007

12699 [lbo-talk] Stern -- rank: 1000

On Apr 13, 2007, at 6:58 PM, Dwayne Monroe wrote: > Over the years, I've routinely gotten into trouble > with my liberal friends for declaring my love for > Howard. I'm from Jersey. I'm not above finding lesbian butt bongo funny. Doug

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Date:	Fri Apr 13 20:16:15 PDT 2007

12700 [lbo-talk] Stern -- rank: 1000

Howard, not Nicholas, that is. The WSWS <http://wsws.org/articles/2007/apr2007/imus-a13.shtml> writes of Imus: "He is, moreover, just one in a long line (Howard Stern, Rush Limbaugh, Jerry Springer, etc.) who has been used to drag public discourse to the lowest possible level." Is this fair? I haven't heard a lot of Stern, but though he can be rude and crude, he can also be funny. Am I getting insensitive? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 13 14:32:33 PDT 2007

12701 [lbo-talk] new radio product -- rank: 1000

BEHIND THE NEWS with Doug Henwood "Best Music on an Economics & Politics Radio Show" Village Voice Best of NYC 2005 ******************************************************** * P O D C A S T I N F O * * subscribe to hi-fi version (64kbps): * * <http://shout.lbo-talk.org/lbo/radio-feed.php> * * subscribe to low-fi version (16kbps): * * <http://shout.lbo-talk.org/lbo/radio-feed-16.php> * **************** ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 13 14:24:05 PDT 2007

12702 [lbo-talk] Anti-globalists Reach Out to Islamists -- rank: 1000

On Apr 13, 2007, at 5:00 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote: > Yoshie wrote: > >> Perhaps you don't understand politics in Egypt > > If you say perhaps one more time, I'm going to start to wonder what > exactly you mean by it. It's a signifier of condescension, of course. Doug

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Date:	Fri Apr 13 14:17:35 PDT 2007

12703 [lbo-talk] KV reading -- rank: 1000

Vonnegut reading from Breakfast of Champions: <http://blog.92y.org/index.php/weblog/item/ kurt_vonnegut_breakfast_of_champions_podcast/>

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 13 13:29:57 PDT 2007

12704 [lbo-talk] Anti-globalists Reach Out to Islamists -- rank: 1000

On Apr 13, 2007, at 3:33 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > The larger point -- an incompatibility of materialism in science with > Islam and Islamism -- is contradicted by facts of scientific education > in predominantly Muslim nations That's your idea of the "larger point," not mine. (By the way, many hyper-Orthodox Jews have an odious social philosophy and are intense Zionists, and yet embrace science and technology too. I wouldn't rush to make any political alliances with th ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 13 13:17:23 PDT 2007

12705 [lbo-talk] feminism & hip-hop at Barnard -- rank: 1000

GENDER AMPLIFIED: Women & Technological Innovation in Hip-Hop With a Keynote Lecture by Tricia Rose Visit the Conference Website to Register Online Saturday, April 14 When it comes to the subject of hip-hop, feminists are seldom at a loss of words. Some, like Tipper Gore, have come dangerously close to infringing on First Amendment rights in their zeal to make misogynistic lyrics simply disappear, while others, like Sarah Jones, set out to turn the genre's often troublesome take on women ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 13 12:47:26 PDT 2007