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12871 Faulkner, was Re: [lbo-talk] Re: Night Watch -- rank: 1000

On Sep 29, 2006, at 5:20 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > ee or four of his novels to be able to > determine my response, but I've reached only page 75 of _As I Lay > Dying_, and those 75 pages alone are enough to put Faulkner in any > league you care to name. You mean in a good way, right? Doug

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12872 [lbo-talk] Bush loses Bob Woodward -- rank: 1000

On Sep 29, 2006, at 3:48 PM, Michael Pollak wrote: > > On Fri, 29 Sep 2006, Doug Henwood wrote: > >> Copies have been shipped to stores so they can be on the shelves >> in time for the 60 Minutes rollout but they're not supposed to be >> sold yet. So they mystery is - what did Sanger get and how did he >> get it? > > Probably bought it at one the tables on the sidewalk new Zabar's > where they sell new books. Books like that seem to fall off the > tr ...

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12873 [lbo-talk] Evil and Stupidity -- rank: 1000

On Sep 29, 2006, at 3:52 PM, Tayssir John Gabbour wrote: > Doug Henwood wrote: >> Libertarians are often anti-imperialist. And since when is everyone >> on the left a pacifist? > > Libertarians are a very different category of right-winger though. > Many > have a live-and-let-live philosophy and a commitment to rational > discussion. Yup. I don't agree with them, and they often get on my nerves, but it's way over the top to denounce them as stupid or murderous. Dou ...

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12874 [lbo-talk] criminals prefer euros... -- rank: 1000

On Sep 29, 2006, at 4:00 PM, boddi satva wrote: > I think added money supply DOES increase prosperity, We're talking currency, not demand deposits, time deposits, or the rest of the Mn components. Doug

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12875 [lbo-talk] Evil and Stupidity -- rank: 1000

Michael, this is pointless. Calm down, check your meds, or something. Doug On Sep 29, 2006, at 2:49 PM, Michael Pugliese wrote: > Ask Scott Camil. > http://ice.he.net/~freepnet/kerry/staticpages/index.php?page=New2 >> ...Instead, it enthuses over the "gentle-sounding, Jesus-like Scott > Camil" without bothering to mention Camil's repeated efforts to > persuade the VVAW to murder pro-war U.S. Senators. > > >> Libertarians are often anti-imperialist. And s ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 29 12:04:22 PDT 2006

12876 [lbo-talk] Willie sez -- rank: 1000

It's a good thing I had a bag of Marijuana instead of a bag of spinach. I'd be dead by now. -- Willie Nelson.

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Date:	Fri Sep 29 11:40:43 PDT 2006

12877 [lbo-talk] Imputing motive -- rank: 1000

On Sep 29, 2006, at 1:12 PM, Michael Pugliese wrote: > Khalid Abdul Muhammed, spokesman for Louis Farakhan > ``We kill the women. We kill the babies, we kill the blind. We kill > the cripples. We kill them all. We kill the faggot. We kill the > lesbian... When you get through killing them all, go to the goddamn > graveyard and dig up the grave and kill them a-goddamn-gain because > they didn't die hard enough.'' And the point of quoting this (and it's Farrakhan, by the way) was ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 29 11:37:49 PDT 2006

12878 [lbo-talk] Evil and Stupidity -- rank: 1000

On Sep 29, 2006, at 2:06 PM, JBrown72073 at cs.com wrote: > I don't know about decent, though. What does that mean, really? > That they > don't engage in direct thuggery? They are genteel in pursuing > policies that > permit others to kill? Libertarians are often anti-imperialist. And since when is everyone on the left a pacifist? Doug

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12879 [lbo-talk] Sunni? Shiite? they all look the same to me! -- rank: 1000

<http://www.cnn.com/POLITICS/blogs/politicalticker/2006/09/lott-bush- barely-mentioned-iraq-in.html> Lott: Bush barely mentioned Iraq in meeting with Senate Republicans From CNN's Ted Barrett WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Bush barely mentioned the war in Iraq when he met with Republican senators behind closed doors in the Capitol Thursday morning and was not asked about the course of the war, Sen. Trent Lott, R-Mississippi, said. "No, none of that," Lott told reporters after t ...

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12880 [lbo-talk] criminals prefer euros... -- rank: 1000

On Sep 29, 2006, at 2:05 AM, joanna wrote: > Last week, during an interview on CNBC, Dennis Gartman, editor of > the highly regarded Gartman Letter, asserted that the storage > currency of choice among drug traffickers, arms dealers, and the > Russian Mafia had switched from $100 dollar US bills to ¬500 Euro > notes. Gartman proclaimed the development to be bullish for the > U.S. economy and bearish for the Euro zone. Say what? Ha. The loons (Hausmann & Sturzenegger <htt ...

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12881 Evil and Stupidity (RE: [lbo-talk] Imputing motive -- rank: 1000

On Sep 29, 2006, at 11:40 AM, Angelus Novus wrote: > >> Rightwingers are evil or stupid. All the rest is >> commentary. > > > If this is true, then social relationships would be > transparent, and there would be no need for critique. But it's not true. A lot of rightwingers - from Hayek to Fox News - aren't stupid. And quite a few aren't "evil" either. I don't like the politics of the people around Reason magazine, but they're all decent and quite talente ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 29 09:06:55 PDT 2006

12882 [lbo-talk] Bush loses Bob Woodward -- rank: 1000

On Sep 29, 2006, at 11:35 AM, Chuck wrote: > I'm really enjoying that the infamous stenographer to power has > turned against Bush and gotten scooped at the same time. Exactly. Fuck 'em all! Doug

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12883 [lbo-talk] Woodward again -- rank: 1000

On Sep 29, 2006, at 10:37 AM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Control of mideast oil and > world hegemony are inseparable. That's an assertion - could you prove it? Just because Dick Cheney believes it doesn't mean it's true. The US has the military power to deny oil to anyone it wants to, and no power on earth can do anything about that (yet). Why go to the trouble of occupying countries then? Doug

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12884 [lbo-talk] Woodward again -- rank: 1000

On Sep 29, 2006, at 10:24 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > If they vote this down, we'll know that big boys have turned against > the project of unilaterally creating a "new Middle East." Aggressive attitudes towards Iran - at least in the sense that the country is a "problem" that must be "dealt with" somehow - are universal across the spectrum. But it may be that important people don't trust Bush to get it right anymore. Doug

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12885 [lbo-talk] Fwd: Middle Class in Turmoil -- rank: 1000

CENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS America's middle class families are caught in an unprecedented crunch. Despite a growing economy, their incomes have remained stagnant. And because prices for big-ticket items such as housing and health care have gone through the roof, families have had to take on more debt to maintain their basic needs and, as a consequence, have been unable to save. Taken together, these trends have left families increasingly vulnerable to the impact of an economic crisis suc ...

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