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13651 [lbo-talk] Susie Bright on Debbie Nathan etc. -- rank: 1000

[and that scumbag Kurt Eichenwald] The Child Porn Journalism Scandal, Susie Bright's Nov. 11 blog http://susiebright.blogs.com/susie_brights_journal_/2006/11/ just_when_you_t.html -- Debbie Nathan

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Date:	Mon Nov 13 15:09:09 PST 2006

13652 [lbo-talk] Borat socked -- rank: 1000

<http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2006520669,00.html> The Sun - November 13, 2006 Borat spanked by angry Yank By EMILY SMITH US Editor BORAT star Sacha Baron Cohen was beaten up by a passer-by after he tried to play a prank as his alter ego. He approached the man and said: I like your clothings. Are nice! Please may I buying? I want have sex with it. But the bystander didn t see the joke. He took one look at Cohen and punched him in the face. The funnyman known for his Borat cat ...

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Date:	Mon Nov 13 15:03:06 PST 2006

13653 [lbo-talk] Re: On Tuesday, economic populism had a good -- rank: 1000

On Nov 12, 2006, at 6:09 PM, Jim Straub wrote: > Ah hah! Finally I have trapped you into expressing support for our > union's strategic project! Oh, I'll be quoting you on this in the > future... ;) > > In the last print LBO however didn't you advance a different > proposition, with respect to the auto industry? Change your mind? > Or just easier to say such things here than in a speech to labor > notes people? What I was trying to say there, perhaps not successfully, ...

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Date:	Mon Nov 13 14:25:06 PST 2006

13654 [lbo-talk] "The Trouble With Class Interest Populism, " by Stephen Rose -- rank: 1000

On Nov 12, 2006, at 4:03 PM, Michael Pugliese wrote: > Same Stephen Rose? > http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww? > section=root&name=ViewPrint&articleId=12002 > >...One strand of this argument contends that, despite rising > insecurity and inequality, most people are doing fine This came up here before. Rose is really cherry-picking - he builds his argument towards the incomes of two-earner, prime-age, married- couple families, who are hardly representative of the p ...

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Date:	Sun Nov 12 19:15:30 PST 2006

13655 [lbo-talk] "The Trouble With Class Interest Populism, " by Stephen Rose -- rank: 1000

On Nov 12, 2006, at 4:03 PM, Michael Pugliese wrote: > Same Stephen Rose? Yes, alas. Doug

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Date:	Sun Nov 12 17:17:01 PST 2006

13656 [lbo-talk] Christian right on the ropes -- rank: 1000

The Jewish Weekly - November 10, 2006 Christian Right Agenda In Shambles After GOP Defeat Moderate Evangelicals seen chafing against narrow priorities like abortion, gay rights. Will some work with Dems? Larry Cohler-Esses - Editor At Large For a man witnessing a debacle in real time, Rev. Louis Sheldon, a leader of the Christian Right political movement, sounded amazingly sanguine Tuesday night even as an early AP exit poll indicated that almost one-third of white Evangelicals chose a Dem ...

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Date:	Sun Nov 12 07:40:39 PST 2006

13657 [lbo-talk] Re: On Tuesday, economic populism had a good night -- rank: 1000

On Nov 12, 2006, at 9:13 AM, Bill Bartlett wrote: > On moral grounds, or because America is getting its arse kicked so > they want to cut and run? And what about war reparations, or do > they just want to run off without paying for what they broke? Reparations? You've got to be kidding. The history of American public opinion on war is pretty simple: when we start taking serious casualties with no hope of victory, the masses turn against the war. If we can kick ass and get out, people ...

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Date:	Sun Nov 12 06:36:30 PST 2006

13658 [lbo-talk] Post-secondary teaching jobs? -- rank: 1000

On Nov 11, 2006, at 10:39 PM, joanna wrote: > Every time I look at an article on job trends, I see predictions > for a growing demand for post secondary teachers. The BLS says <http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2005/11/art5full.pdf> the field will grow by 32% from 2004 to 2014; it's on their list of fastest-growing occupations. They don't say in what fields, or what kind of jobs though. Doug

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Date:	Sun Nov 12 06:12:25 PST 2006

13659 [lbo-talk] Re: On Tuesday, economic populism had a good night -- rank: 1000

On Nov 12, 2006, at 12:39 AM, Jim Straub wrote: > So, a question: are there any conceivable policies we could propose > and possibly win in the short and medium terms that could sustain > and bolster the manufacturing sector? I personally drive a ford > but other than that really have no ideas. Probably a bunch of that Ford was made in Mexico and/or Canada. And I can't think of anything that would "save" manufacturing. I think it's better to focus on raising service secto ...

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Date:	Sun Nov 12 05:58:51 PST 2006

13660 [lbo-talk] Reuters: Bush support down to 31% public backs Dems' goals -- rank: 1000

On Nov 12, 2006, at 7:56 AM, Marvin Gandall wrote: > At best, the election was a very lukewarm referendum on Iraq, Sorry to repeat myself, but as with many things, the American public wants to split the difference on Iraq - withdraw some troops, slowly, but nothing too extreme. Ditto on abortion and a hundred other issues. Let's all compromise, roll up our sleeves, deal with the problems, be pragmatic, give up the partisan bickering. They reject any sense of politics as involving real co ...

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Date:	Sun Nov 12 05:57:20 PST 2006

13661 Liberal agony - how to have my cake and eat it too. Re: [lbo-talk] IsThere Still a Jewish Question? by Ellen Willis -- rank: 1000

On Nov 12, 2006, at 1:35 AM, utopia1 at attglobal.net wrote: > This is a very pomo list. You post something of substance, and Doug > and > others reply to their own personal narrative, at many removes from the > posting that they claim to be replying to. You just love that epithet, "pomo," don't you? Last July, when you circulated your Weather Underground piece, you may remember we had an exchange on your use of the word to describe the revived organization. When I asked ...

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Date:	Sun Nov 12 05:47:46 PST 2006

13662 Liberal agony - how to have my cake and eat it too. Re: [lbo-talk] IsThere Still a Jewish Question? by Ellen Willis -- rank: 1000

On Nov 11, 2006, at 6:49 PM, Jesse Lemisch wrote: > The atmosphere on LBO is unbelievable. Two days after feminist Ellen > Willis's death, much discussed and disputed here, with obits in the > Times, > Nation on-line, and elswhere, Steve Palmer disagrees with her views on > anti-semitism (as I do), calls her "paranoid," and "urge]s] her to > seek > professional psychiatric assistance instead of laying her trip on > the Left." >> From the grave? A ...

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Date:	Sat Nov 11 20:21:39 PST 2006

13663 [lbo-talk] The Illusionist (was Borat) -- rank: 1000

On Nov 11, 2006, at 5:46 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > Nowadays, with reviews, trailers*, stars and directors' promotional > appearances on talk shows, etc. offering everything from excerpts to > outtakes to analyses of the movies' cultural import, as well as ever > shorter intervals between first runs and DVD releases, the only movies > you actually want to pay their full prices for are those whose quality > can be only appreciated on a big screen. Wow. You should start runnin ...

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Date:	Sat Nov 11 14:55:52 PST 2006

13664 [lbo-talk] Re: Borat -- rank: 1000

On Nov 11, 2006, at 1:52 PM, Brian Charles Dauth wrote: > Doug: > >> could we have a moratorium on critiques of movies we haven't > seen and books we haven't read? > > You really want to cut down on message volume don't you? It's a dual-use policy - not only would it reduce quantity, it would improve quality! Doug

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Date:	Sat Nov 11 13:16:28 PST 2006

13665 [lbo-talk] Borat: the Romanian angle -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - November 11, 2006 Borat not so funny for folk mocked in spoof movie By Christopher Condon The residents of Glod, a remote village in south-east Romania that supplies the opening sequence of Sacha Baron Cohen's Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, still don't know what hit them. They are just beginning to understand that cinema audiences around the world are laughing at them. To add insult to injury, the residents of a village ...

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Date:	Sat Nov 11 13:02:02 PST 2006