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13231 [lbo-talk] Cramped apartments -- rank: 1000

On Oct 19, 2006, at 4:20 PM, jthorn65 at sbcglobal.net wrote: > I seem to recall that school shootings, while extremely rare, occur > on a per student basis in the West and South more often in rural > areas while in the East and > Midwest in surban areas Here's a timeline: <http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0777958.html>. And a map: <http://www.keystosaferschools.com/ Map_School_Shootings.htm#lit>.

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Date:	Thu Oct 19 13:39:49 PDT 2006

13232 [lbo-talk] new page scandal? -- rank: 1000

On Oct 19, 2006, at 4:21 PM, ravi wrote: > Please, please, I implore you, fix the broken URLs people! I used to > think MS Outlook was brain-dead for breaking URLs, which have no word > boundaries, but: > >> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) > > Apple Mail is one level worse it seems! It actually breaks the URL and > to mask its heinous act, adds a format-flowed space at the end, so the > link is rendered unbroken, but won't be click-able. Actually, in my Sent mail box ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 19 13:32:19 PDT 2006

13233 [lbo-talk] new page scandal? -- rank: 1000

On Oct 19, 2006, at 4:21 PM, ravi wrote: > Apple Mail is one level worse it seems! It actually breaks the URL and > to mask its heinous act, adds a format-flowed space at the end, so the > link is rendered unbroken, but won't be click-able. Hmm, it is in Apple Mail!

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Date:	Thu Oct 19 13:29:01 PDT 2006

13234 [lbo-talk] new page scandal? -- rank: 1000

[The Note reported that another shoe was about to drop, and this could well be it...] <http://www.wonkette.com/politics/jerry-weller/meet-jerry- weller-208722.php> Meet Jerry Weller The Illinois Republican (at right, with Kitty Harris) is married to the lovely Zury Ríos Montt (aka Zury Ríos Sosa, aka Zury Rios-Montt de Weller), daughter of the former military dictator of Guatemala. He's also scheduled (per various rumor mills) to be outed as the newest subject of our beloved Cocktober ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 19 12:42:51 PDT 2006

13235 [lbo-talk] Dispiriting Suburbs? -- rank: 1000

On Oct 19, 2006, at 3:20 PM, knowknot at mindspring.com wrote: > Often, there are insightful and intelligent communications posted > to this list, but the absence of anything even remotely close in > this thread has been depressing... So say something intelligent and "insightful" then, instead of expecting others to do the work for you. Doug

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Date:	Thu Oct 19 12:28:27 PDT 2006

13236 [lbo-talk] Foley's overfriendly priest -- rank: 1000

<http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/19/washington/20foleycnd.html? hp&ex=1161316800&en=e7d991d1a8c64cdf&ei=5094&partner=homepage> Catholic Priest Claims Relationship With Foley By MATTHEW DOIG and MAURICE TAMMAN Sarasota Herald-Tribune A Catholic priest told The Sarasota Herald-Tribune on Wednesday that he had an intimate two-year relationship with former Representative Mark Foley of south Florida when Mr. Foley was a teenage altar boy. Mr. Foley resigned from Congress last m ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 19 12:22:21 PDT 2006

13237 [lbo-talk] Dispiriting Suburbs? -- rank: 1000

On Oct 19, 2006, at 2:07 PM, Jesse Lemisch wrote: > Ww're caught within a system -- you, too, Doug. Well yeah, of course. There's no outside ideology either. Apropos all this, I was struck by this sentence in Michael Kazin's excellent book, The Populist Persuasion. "While the 1938 slogan 'Communism Is Twentieth-Century Americanism' did not survive the decade, its spirit lived on as the quixotic fantasy of activists who craved acceptance from the same society they wanted to revolutio ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 19 11:30:50 PDT 2006

13238 [lbo-talk] Fwd: Israeli slackers -- rank: 1000

[list alum Jeet Heer writes...] > I have some thoughts on the Israeli slackers issue that might be of > interest to people on the list. > > When I was in Israel 2 years ago, I was really struck by the fact > that the Israeli army, being a citizen army made up of almost the > entire (Jewish) population, included many people who were not > soldierly at all and in fact very uncomfortable with being soldiers. > > Three anecdotes: > 1) We talked to an Israeli film direct ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 19 11:19:44 PDT 2006

13239 [lbo-talk] Congressional approval at 16% -- rank: 1000

On Oct 18, 2006, at 10:14 PM, Michael Pollak wrote: > It looks to me like if you move it out one more month, it's now got > two fascinating features. The first is how incredibly close the > two things have tracked for six years. And the second is how, for > the first time, they are suddenly now diverging drastically. > > (Although it would be nice to see how drastic it actually is after > the log function is added.) Bush "should be" at 45%; instead, he's at 37%.

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13240 [lbo-talk] EU Socialists Suspend Slovak Party Over Far-Right Ties -- rank: 1000

On Oct 19, 2006, at 1:09 PM, Chris Doss wrote: > I saw the unveiling of the monument to the SS in > Estonia last night on television. To paraphrase Alex Cockburn, if ever a nation deserved to be captive...

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Date:	Thu Oct 19 10:30:36 PDT 2006

13241 [lbo-talk] Dispiriting Suburbs? -- rank: 1000

On Oct 19, 2006, at 12:49 PM, Carl Remick wrote: >> Yeah, some stations stink of piss, but it's no worse than >> before. It's really a wonderful way to get around town. > > O joy, o rapture! You should have gone into advertising :) > >> I can get a month of unlimited travel for $76 - which brings my >> average cost per ride to about $1.10. > > Outrageous. I can remember when a token costs 35 cents, and it was > overpriced then. Wow, you make me feel ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 19 10:25:10 PDT 2006

13242 Re: [lbo-talk] Schweickart s critique of Parecon, Nonsense on Stilits. -- rank: 1000

On Oct 19, 2006, at 10:28 AM, Michael Pugliese wrote: > http://www.solidarityeconomy.net/2006/10/05/economic-democracy-vs- > parecon-debating-life-after-capitalism/ > What follows is a debate between David Schweickart, author of After > Capitalism and SolidarityEconomy.net editor, and Michael Albert, > author of Parecon and founder of Z Magazine. The debate was sparked by > Schweickart's critique of Parecon, "Nonsense on Stilits." A fine critique. Parecon seems impos ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 19 09:38:06 PDT 2006

13243 [lbo-talk] liberal elite toasting Lee Scott -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - October 19, 2006 Enviro-allies WE never knew Wal-Mart was so eco-friendly, pushing campaigns to reduce packaging and energy consumption (with hybrid trucks, skylights and fluorescent lights) and promoting "sustainability" of forests and fisheries. We just thought of Wal-Mart as the world's biggest retailer. Company CEO Lee Scott rarely ventures from headquarters in Bentonville, Ark. But he's been lured to New York by Harvey and Bob Weinstein and such he ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 19 09:06:27 PDT 2006

13244 [lbo-talk] Fox & Republicans -- rank: 1000

The Note reports today: > Fox News' Sean Hannity campaigns at 6 pm ET for gubernatorial > candidate Ken Blackwell (R-OH) at a rally in Cincinnati, OH. Have Fox people campaigned for Republicans before, or is this a new level of intimacy? Doug

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Date:	Thu Oct 19 09:02:26 PDT 2006

13245 [lbo-talk] Dispiriting Suburbs? -- rank: 1000

On Oct 19, 2006, at 9:41 AM, Carrol Cox wrote: > These attacks on people, on their tastes, their living quarters, their > restaurants, their transportation, are just another version, and a > contemptible one, of blame the victim. How are they victims? They sure don't perceive themselves as such. So you're also stepping aside or above the masses and passing judgment - just of a different sort. Doug

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