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13891 [lbo-talk] jury duty/Real expertise -- rank: 1000

Jordan Hayes wrote: >>Rules are hard to write and interpret >>and nerver cover all the situations you want to cover. > >Boy, good luck buying a house in places like New York. Or divorced. Even when two parties agree and nothing is in dispute, you need a lawyer - and some bogus reason, like "adultery" or "constructive abandonment." "It's over" doesn't count. Doug

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Date:	Sat May 20 09:58:09 PDT 2006

13892 [lbo-talk] more Churchill/Holocaust -- rank: 1000

Seth Ackerman wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote: > >>Carrol Cox wrote: >> >>>"Go West, Young Man" >> >> >>Uttered to the man who settled Grinnell, Iowa, I think. >> > >It was Horace Greeley, wasn't it? A staunch Whig who opposed both the >Mexican War and the removal of the Civilized Tribes, I think..... <http://www.grinnell.edu/Offices/communityenhance/> Welcome to Grinnell! ...home of Grinnell College, and 9,100 local citizens ...

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Date:	Thu May 18 19:31:32 PDT 2006

13893 [lbo-talk] more Churchill/Holocaust -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >"Go West, Young Man" Uttered to the man who settled Grinnell, Iowa, I think. Doug

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Date:	Thu May 18 19:09:32 PDT 2006

13894 [lbo-talk] jury duty -- rank: 1000

Bill Bartlett wrote: >Plea-bargaining is the most odious ingredient to add to the mix, >making punishment quite arbitrary in practice, in spite of so-called >minimum sentencing. (Following what is often a form of trial by >ordeal.) It is no exaggeration to say that you end up with a pre >Magna Carta justice system, with arbitrary imprisonment at the whim >of executive government. Allow me once again to cite The Sopranos, where Johnny "Sack" Sacramoni takes 15 years in ...

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Date:	Thu May 18 16:34:42 PDT 2006

13895 [lbo-talk] Murtha on civilian deaths -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >>From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> >> >>"They actually went into the houses and killed women and children," >>Mr. Murtha said. "It's a very serious incident unfortunately and it >>shows the tremendous pressure these guys are under every day when >>they're out in combat and the stress and the consequences." > >Medicalization of war, innit? When the Nazis did this stuff, we >called it "reprisa ...

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Date:	Thu May 18 16:16:14 PDT 2006

13896 [lbo-talk] more Churchill/Holocaust -- rank: 1000

Dwayne Monroe wrote: >In his book "Gunfighter Nation" (1998, Univ. of >Oklahoma Press), Richard Slotkin traces the evolution >of American attutudes towards Native Americans; from >vermin that must be exterminated (the 'Indian Wars' >period) to "noble savages" who, sadly, had to be >removed to make way for a great nation's rise. There was also some hope to exploit their labor. According to the committee's report on Churchill (pp. 34, 37): >The pages refere ...

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Date:	Thu May 18 16:12:37 PDT 2006

13897 [lbo-talk] Let Us Be Glad It Is Hard to Amend the Constitution -- rank: 1000

Wendy Lyon wrote: >Well, I really believe it. I don't think it's the left that would >benefit if the constitution were easier to amend. The designers of the constitutional contraption meant it to frustrate popular will. So you're against popular will? Doug

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Date:	Thu May 18 16:05:37 PDT 2006

13898 [lbo-talk] Let Us Be Glad It Is Hard to Amend the Constitution -- rank: 1000

jthorn65 at sbcglobal.net wrote: >I wish it were much easier to amend the constitution. >This would seem a pretty poor "benefit" in exchange for the problems >created by having a constitution that >is nearly impossible to amend. >This is tongue-in-cheek or you really believe this? > >John Thornton > > >On 18 May 2006 at 0:00, BklynMagus wrote: > > > http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Senate-Gay-Marriage.html I suspect it's a classic instance o ...

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Date:	Thu May 18 16:04:29 PDT 2006

13899 [lbo-talk] SF "home" sales hit 5-year low -- rank: 1000

San Francisco area April home sales hit 5-year low Thu May 18, 2006 3:25 PM ET By Jim Christie SAN FRANCISCO, May 18 (Reuters) - Home sales in the San Francisco Bay area fell in April to their lowest in five years on a year-over-year basis, potentially signaling a downturn in one of the most expensive U.S. housing markets, according to a report released on Thursday. Exorbitant home prices paired with rising mortgage interest rates sidelined many of the region's prospective home buyers last month ...

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Date:	Thu May 18 12:45:23 PDT 2006

13900 [lbo-talk] churchill's essay -- rank: 1000

Joel Schalit wrote: >very interesting to read this exchange - i agree. i'm just >fascinated by it because we're having the same discussion on the >editorial list of Bad Subjects, and two or three of the current >editors were actually hired by Churchill to teach at CU Boulder - or >were his thesis students. the contrast in perspectives is >fascinating. Could you expand on that? Doug

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Date:	Thu May 18 11:38:57 PDT 2006

13901 [lbo-talk] Murtha on civilian deaths -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - May 18, 2006 Murtha Discusses Military Findings Of Iraq Incident Pennsylvania Congressman Says Inquiry Into Deaths Shows Higher Civilian Toll By DAVID ROGERS and MICHAEL M. PHILLIPS WASHINGTON -- A top Democratic lawmaker on defense matters said a military inquiry found that more Iraqi civilians were killed than previously reported in a bloody incident last November involving U.S. Marines in Haditha. "It's much worse than reported," said Pennsylvania Rep. John Mur ...

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Date:	Thu May 18 11:34:16 PDT 2006

13902 [lbo-talk] churchill's essay -- rank: 1000

info at pulpculture.org wrote: >Thanks. I was pretty sure that he'd finally acknowledged -- in spite >of the disingenuous press release when the controversy hit the fan >-- that he really did mean that everyone including janitors are >culpable in one way or another. He lays it out in the second piece >and in a footnote says that, yes, he too should would have been just >as guilty as anyone else on one of the planes and, thus, deserving >of the same fate as those on the plane ...

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Date:	Thu May 18 11:16:44 PDT 2006

13903 [lbo-talk] Rupe & Hill - he smells a winner -- rank: 1000

<http://www.forbes.com/home/columnists/2006/05/17/brady-on-media-cx_jb_0518rupert.html> Brady On Media 'Red Rupert,' The Pragmatist James Brady 05.18.06, 6:00 AM ET NEW YORK - Rupert Murdoch arrived in America in 1974 to buy newspapers in San Antonio and to create a national tabloid, and has been here ever since, an increasingly influential political force and media baron (TV, movies, the Internet, etc). Yet to some people, he remains an enigma. "What's in a Murdoch-Clinton Alliance?& ...

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Date:	Thu May 18 09:25:56 PDT 2006

13904 [lbo-talk] churchill's essay -- rank: 1000

info at pulpculture.org wrote: >Where's Churchill's original piece, the one about 'Little >Eichmanns"? I thought I'd read it here, but maybe it was the Marxism >list. <http://www.kersplebedeb.com/mystuff/s11/churchill.html>

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Date:	Thu May 18 09:15:14 PDT 2006

13905 [lbo-talk] more Churchill -- rank: 1000

Chuck wrote: >How do you know this? Take for example the charge that Churchill >wrongly stated that the American governent deliberately infected >natives with smallpox blankets. Obviously, this is a matter of some >contention. What kind of records exist? If this is a subject of >debate between academics, then why is Churchill guilty of stating >his position on the issue? This is dealt with in the full report - which, by the way, reads like no right-wing hatchet job. It repeated ...

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