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13471 [lbo-talk] top searches -- rank: 1000

On Nov 29, 2006, at 12:47 AM, Alex wrote: > So, how many for the top item? 64. Asslicking, the runner-up, is 54.

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13472 [lbo-talk] Islamophobia -- rank: 1000

On Nov 29, 2006, at 1:54 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > On 11/29/06, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: >> But I could never find any >> kind words to utter about the regime's domestic policies, which are >> profoundly reactionary and pretty much the absolute inversion of my >> utopia. > > Isn't that because of your profound Islamophobia, common among > leftists in the West? No. People can practice any damn religion they want as far as I'm conce ...

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13473 [lbo-talk] Surrealism in Washington -- rank: 1000

On Nov 29, 2006, at 12:38 PM, Michael Pugliese wrote: > On 11/29/06, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: > The other week, Leninology cited a BBC account, based on U.S. DoD > figures, showing the vast majority of attacks in Iraq were on > coalition forces, not civilians. However, Cordesman says of that data > series in this report: > > Yes but, my impression is that the numbers of civilians killed by > the insurgents far outnumbers those killed by the US m ...

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Date:	Wed Nov 29 09:50:04 PST 2006

13474 [lbo-talk] Surrealism in Washington -- rank: 1000

On Nov 29, 2006, at 11:13 AM, Michael Pugliese wrote: > http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/061016_iraq_civil.pdf > Look at the data here. > Given how far the death toll has accelerated and all the leaks > about approaches to the Sunni leadership, how can one be sure that the > "Salvador Option, " of empowering the Shiite death squads has been USG > policy for a while now? The reportage of Peter Maas on this was eons > ago now. The other week, Leninology cited ...

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Date:	Wed Nov 29 08:58:11 PST 2006

13475 [lbo-talk] The Yoshie Syndrome -- rank: 1000

On Nov 29, 2006, at 11:29 AM, Jerry Monaco wrote: > I am stuck defending Iran against the U.S. empire. What does that mean? I think Iran has every right to develop a bomb, which is why I couldn't sign Joanne Landy's petition. I would support - verbally, of course; I'm not about to volunteer for armed struggle - Iran's right to resist a U.S. attack. But I could never find any kind words to utter about the regime's domestic policies, which are profoundly reactionary and pretty much the abs ...

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Date:	Wed Nov 29 08:50:51 PST 2006

13476 [lbo-talk] Glen Ford on Obama's turn to the right -- rank: 1000

[visit the site & contribute!] <http://www.blackagendareport.com/006/006a_gf_obama_winds_of_war.php> Barack Obama and the Winds of War: Turning Right by BAR Executive Editor Glen Ford "Obama's focus on gamesmanship has rendered him virtually useless in the struggle to end the occupation and war in Iraq." Barack Obama is a windblown politician. The junior Illinois senator avoids anchoring himself to any principle, lest his political sails fail to catch the slightest breeze ...

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Date:	Wed Nov 29 08:42:08 PST 2006

13477 [lbo-talk] Webb vs Bush -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - November 29, 2006 In Following His Own Script, Webb May Test Senate's Limits By Michael D. Shear Washington Post Staff Writer At a recent White House reception for freshman members of Congress, Virginia's newest senator tried to avoid President Bush. Democrat James Webb declined to stand in a presidential receiving line or to have his picture taken with the man he had often criticized on the stump this fall. But it wasn't long before Bush found him. "How's your boy?&qu ...

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Date:	Wed Nov 29 08:38:34 PST 2006

13478 [lbo-talk] austerity, Dem-style -- rank: 1000

[oh Rangel, you're so far left!] New York Daily News - November 29, 2006 We must alter Soc Sec, Rangel says Raising retirement age or reducing benefits can't be ruled out if the Social Security system is to be saved from going bust, Rep. Charles Rangel said yesterday. "All of these things are on the table to find some way to make certain that Social Security is solvent," said Rangel, who is poised to take control of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee. Rangel (D-Harlem) dis ...

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Date:	Wed Nov 29 08:35:46 PST 2006

13479 [lbo-talk] The Yoshie Syndrome -- rank: 1000

On Nov 28, 2006, at 11:31 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > The entertainment continues. What exactly do you find so entertaining? That the editor of MRZine is essentially arguing that the Iranian regime was justified in killing Marxists? Doug

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Date:	Tue Nov 28 20:54:45 PST 2006

13480 [lbo-talk] LBO 2008 Dem POTUS poll -- rank: 1000

On Nov 28, 2006, at 10:13 PM, Miles Jackson wrote: > ravi wrote: >> At around 28/11/06 2:45 pm, Doug Henwood wrote: >>> On Nov 28, 2006, at 12:18 PM, ravi wrote: >>> >>> >>>> http://www.demochoice.org/dcgridvballot.php?poll=LBODemPri1 >>>> (vote only once!) >>> >>> You didn't include "I'd rather drill holes in my head" as a choice, >>> >> Done! > > As of 7:11 pm Pacific time, John Edwards ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 28 20:43:02 PST 2006

13481 [lbo-talk] top searches -- rank: 1000

The top search strings in the lbo-talk archive for November (so far): 1 police brutality statistics 2 asslicking 3 lbo-talk 4 assfucking 5 lbo-talk sandy harris 6 loretta nail 7 site:lbo-talk.org bad writing 8 sowell site:mailman.lbo-talk.org 9 greek fate 10 lehman brothers dubai 11 toys r us shanghai 12 toysrus shanghai 13 friedman's cruel legacy 14 let us go then you and i 15 retail workers.com 16 best places to live for lesbians 17 casey johnson 18 joseph weydemeyer 19 lbo 20 sluts a ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 28 19:06:06 PST 2006

13482 [lbo-talk] LBO 2008 Dem POTUS poll -- rank: 1000

On Nov 28, 2006, at 8:49 PM, Jerry Monaco wrote: > Excuse me, but anyone for the ravi fan club? > I'm a charter member, of course.

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Date:	Tue Nov 28 18:16:07 PST 2006

13483 [lbo-talk] Re: A Day When Mahdi Army Showed Its Other Side -- rank: 1000

On Nov 28, 2006, at 5:23 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >> No, not because they were theocrats, but because they were brutal >> authoritarians. > > You can't establish a state by flower power anywhere. You've developed quite a love of power, haven't you? You sound like Henry Kissinger or Michael Ledeen, with some modification of terms of course. Doug

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13484 [lbo-talk] Re: A Day When Mahdi Army Showed Its Other Side -- rank: 1000

On Nov 28, 2006, at 4:49 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > You make it sound like Khomeini & Co. killed because they were > theocrats, and they wouldn't have if they had subscribed to a > different ideology. Given the history of modern revolutions and > national liberations based on diverse ideologies, from bourgeois to > socialist, I very much doubt that. No, not because they were theocrats, but because they were brutal authoritarians. It doesn't excuse much to say, "The o ...

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13485 [lbo-talk] Re: A Day When Mahdi Army Showed Its Other Side -- rank: 1000

On Nov 28, 2006, at 3:18 PM, Jim Straub wrote: > Point is, this offer by Sadr would seem to bolster Yoshie's > assessment of him. To offer such conditional support to a Sunni > leader in that manner is not a tactic from a nutbag bent on > liquidating the sunni community to install a shia theocracy. It's a constructive offer, but it still doesn't change the fact that he & his followers want to install a Khomeini-style theocracy. Speaking of which, Khomeini & Co. were genero ...

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