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13081 [lbo-talk] DeLay's latest -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - September 8, 2006 DELAY BACKS TV DANCE BABE DISGRACED former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay has launched a bizarre new campaign - he's supporting a sexy brunette contestant on "Dancing with the Stars" and trying to smear one of her competitors, Jerry Springer. The ex-Texas congressman, who resigned in June after being charged with money laundering in a campaign-finance probe, sent out a mass e- mail to his supporters urging them to vote for country singe ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Sep 8 13:03:32 PDT 2006

13082 [lbo-talk] the organized working class campaigns -- rank: 1000

<http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/TheNote/story?id=156238&page=3> House of Labor: The AFL-CIO announced on Thursday that union members will begin going door-to-door on Saturday in "more than 80 locations in 21 states." This weekend's walks are part of the AFL-CIO's effort to engage "more than 12.4 million voters in 21 top tier states."

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Sep 8 12:46:06 PDT 2006

13083 [lbo-talk] 9/11 plot denialists are nuttier -- rank: 1000

On Sep 8, 2006, at 10:30 AM, Charles Brown wrote: > CB: Is he mixed up or what ? Presumably Cockburn's alternative to the > "official" story as to what happened with the stone and Jesus > is ...huh ... > a conspiracy by the Gospel writers. Odd example to use in discouraging > conspiracy theories. Hardly. It's not like Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John got together in a smoke-filled room and said, "Let's foist a religion on the world - a three-in-one god who sends his ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 8 10:33:39 PDT 2006

13084 [lbo-talk] 9/11 nuttery -- rank: 1000

I interviewed David Duncan, exec ed of Popular Mechanics, about their new book debunking 9/11 nuttery. Here's an email I got in response. > great show! > > I listened to your show behind the news ? It was great. Finally > someone who got the facts straight. I saw the damage at building 7 > and it is clearly damage that would make a building drop down in > the way it did. It was definitely, at least 25% of the building > that was damaged. It makes so much more sense that be ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 8 10:18:00 PDT 2006

13085 [lbo-talk] 9/11 nuttery -- rank: 1000

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060925/cockburn Beat the devil by Alexander Cockburn The 9/11 Conspiracy Nuts [from the September 25, 2006 issue] You trip over one fundamental idiocy of the 9/11 conspiracy nuts in the first paragraph of the book by one of their high priests, David Ray Griffin, The New Pearl Harbor. "In many respects," Griffin writes, "the strongest evidence provided by critics of the official account involves the events of 9/11 itself.... In light of standard ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 8 06:04:36 PDT 2006

13086 [lbo-talk] Watching Bush on tv lastnigh... -- rank: 1000

On Sep 7, 2006, at 8:19 PM, Dwayne Monroe wrote: > No, no, he protested...they (our intrepid protectors) > know things we don't. Amazingly, the military's top lawyers don't agree with either your co- worker or the Pres: <http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/08/washington/08detain.html? hp&ex=1157774400&en=fa1da1053abb2a24&ei=5094&partner=homepage> > Brig, Gen. James C. Walker, the top uniformed lawyer for the > Marines, said that no civilized country should deny a def ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 8 05:32:47 PDT 2006

13087 [lbo-talk] Watching Bush on tv tonight... -- rank: 1000

On Sep 8, 2006, at 2:44 AM, Chuck Grimes wrote: > All day, I've been thinking about the basic idea that there is no war > on terrorism, because there are no terrorists and no terrorism. Check out my interview with John Mueller <http:// www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#060831>: you're more likely to die by drowning in a bathtub than in a terorist attack. Doug

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Date:	Fri Sep 8 05:28:29 PDT 2006

13088 [lbo-talk] anti-Kinky (Friedman, not sex) -- rank: 1000

On Sep 7, 2006, at 8:19 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > If we could have convinced even a > quarter of the ABBs to work instead in local anti-war groups How do you know they didn't? Doug

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Date:	Fri Sep 8 05:22:05 PDT 2006

13089 [lbo-talk] Re: riffraff -- rank: 1000

On Sep 7, 2006, at 5:01 PM, Daniel Davies wrote: > the group centred round Norman Geras and the "Euston Manifesto" > which departed from (IMO) reality at the point at which someone > convinced them > that the invasion of Iraq was a really good way to promote the > ideas of liberal > democracy. Since I don't read these wankers, I have to ask - do they still believe this? Or do they follow the George Packer* line that the invasion was a good concept badly executed? D ...

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Date:	Thu Sep 7 15:29:59 PDT 2006

13090 [lbo-talk] anti-Kinky (Friedman, not sex) -- rank: 1000

On Sep 7, 2006, at 4:04 PM, B. wrote: > Oh well, Proyect knows best! That's a Dem blog he > suggested as a good resource. I'll probably vote Dem, > actually, if Kinky and Perry are the choices. For > tactical reasons. Not that I expect that to change > anything, really. I've been voting for 34 years now, and except when I was pretty young, never expected it to change anything. Wonder why I keep doing it. Doug

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Date:	Thu Sep 7 13:15:03 PDT 2006

13091 [lbo-talk] the jackassery deepens -- rank: 1000

<http://www.elpasotimes.com/search/ci_4281502b> Border security hot issue in Texas governor race By Brandi Grissom / Austin Bureau AUSTIN -- Kinky Friedman has said that if he was elected governor of Texas, he would make the Mexican government pay for the costs of illegal immigration in Texas or face what he called the "Israeli discount." "We should be as ruthless as they are with the southern border," said the independent gubernatorial candidate, author and musicia ...

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Date:	Thu Sep 7 12:46:04 PDT 2006

13092 [lbo-talk] anti-Kinky (Friedman, not sex) -- rank: 1000

Lou Proyect suggests this as a good anti-Kinky resource: <http:// www.burntorangereport.com/frontPage.do>. Friedman says the US should guard its southern border as ruthlessly as Israel guards its borders. He didn't say whether we should claim bits of Northern Mexico, though we already did that long ago. Doug

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Date:	Thu Sep 7 12:42:19 PDT 2006

13093 [lbo-talk] Oprah does class -- rank: 1000

<http://www.oprah.com/tows/pastshows/200604/tows_past_20060421.jhtml>

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 7 11:08:59 PDT 2006

13094 [lbo-talk] The Master -- rank: 1000

Film clips of Freud: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8axgCuXjGS4>.

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Date:	Thu Sep 7 10:37:18 PDT 2006

13095 [lbo-talk] Kinky Friedman, jackass -- rank: 1000

Houston Chronicle - September 7, 2006 Friedman touts proposals for border security He calls for 10,000 guardsmen and upsets some with evacuee comments By KRISTEN MACK AND GARY SCHARRER Houston Chronicle and San Antonio Express-News Texas should deploy 10,000 state National Guard troops to the border and issue special worker cards for immigrants, gubernatorial candidate Kinky Friedman said Wednesday as part of his "Keep It Simple, Stupid Politician" plan. In a Houston campaign appear ...

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Date:	Thu Sep 7 09:54:00 PDT 2006