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14011 [lbo-talk] Iraq war less popular than Vietnam war -- rank: 1000

<http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=washingtonstory&sid=aO9FvxAJz8Pw> Iraq War Is Drawing Less Support Than Vietnam Did at Same Stage By Heidi Przybyla May 9 (Bloomberg) -- Three years into major combat in Vietnam, 28,500 U.S. service members had perished, millions of families were anxious about the military draft and antiwar protests had spread to dozens of college campuses. Today, at the same juncture in the Iraq war, about 2,400 American soldiers have died, the U.S. military con ...

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Date:	Tue May 9 09:58:49 PDT 2006

14012 [lbo-talk] Urbanization, Industrialization, and Feminism (was incentive to have big families) -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >urbanization and industrialization tend to bring >more energy-intensive lives and push up per capita energy use The alternative being...? Doug

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Date:	Tue May 9 09:36:05 PDT 2006

14013 [lbo-talk] yummy -- rank: 1000

British school food: <http://www.buyersguide.co.uk/document/bernard_matthews/childrens.htm>.

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Date:	Mon May 8 19:32:37 PDT 2006

14014 [lbo-talk] Stalin, democrat -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: >the Brezhnev era The Golden Age of the Soviet working class, as I believe Alexander Cockburn called it. Doug

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Date:	Mon May 8 05:45:30 PDT 2006

14015 [lbo-talk] America's Anti-Muslim Prejudice -- rank: 1000

Marvin Gandall wrote: >I don't see any evidence that there is a problem in the way the left talks >about "Jews and Jewish issues" although it is strongly critical of Israel. Check out Counterpunch on Israel - and my interview with Joel prompted by their book collection <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio_1.html#031127>. Doug

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Date:	Mon May 8 05:43:49 PDT 2006

14016 [lbo-talk] Bulletin of Atomic Scientists -- rank: 1000

Gar Lipow wrote: >But as you know >from Manhattan, a decent public transit system that gets you where you >want to go as quickly as an automobile is as attractive a technology >as an automobile. Yup, but it only works when people live close together, and Americans seem to want to live further & further apart. >Actually some of the train systems I favor look more like dicklike >than cars do.I suppose painting them some shade of flesh color would >be too obvious; but pos ...

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Date:	Mon May 8 05:39:33 PDT 2006

14017 [lbo-talk] Skull & Bones & Geronimo -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - May 8, 2006 Dig Through Archives Reopens the Issue Of Geronimo's Skull A 1918 Letter Points to Theft, But Grave Was Unmarked; Skeleton in Bush Closet? By ROBERT TOMSHO Historians agree that Geronimo died of pneumonia in 1909 and was buried in a prisoner-of-war cemetery at Fort Sill, Okla. But whether the Apache warrior's remains still rest there is a matter of growing dispute. The grave of the famed warrior has long been rumored to have been robbed during World War I by a s ...

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Date:	Mon May 8 05:32:32 PDT 2006

14018 [lbo-talk] Pug The Slug -- rank: 1000

Marvin Gandall wrote: >Big overreaction, and Doug succumbed too easily, IMO, to the necktie >party which had formed. Hey, I didn't throw him off, and I wouldn't have. Doug

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Date:	Sun May 7 17:26:44 PDT 2006

14019 [lbo-talk] America's Anti-Muslim Prejudice -- rank: 1000

Jim Devine wrote: >>When I moved to Oregon at the age of 16, I experienced recurring >>bouts of discrimination that was a lot different than anything I ever >>heard about racism from right-wing Jews. I got turned down for jobs >>during the summer (both in high school, and in college) based on my >>ethnicity, and frequently got ruled out as boyfriend material by the >>parents of folks I would try and date.... > >Alas, in high school in Illinois, I was ru ...

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Date:	Sun May 7 15:41:49 PDT 2006

14020 [lbo-talk] Bulletin of Atomic Scientists -- rank: 1000

Marta Russell wrote: >If the Chinese develop into a middle class country where millions >more people can afford to buy SUVs, that will definitely have an >impact on energy use and emission output. I completely agree that the whole world can't live US-style, and that the world can't survive the US living US style indefinitely. Technology and daily life will have to change a lot, and it's hard to get optimistic about that happening. Doug

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Date:	Sun May 7 15:19:19 PDT 2006

14021 [lbo-talk] What is genocide? -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: His 12th post of the day! That four times the quota, man.

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Date:	Sun May 7 15:12:50 PDT 2006

14022 [lbo-talk] Grappling with Heidegger -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: Six posts on Saturday. Eleven on Sunday. The limit is three. Doug

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Date:	Sun May 7 14:58:48 PDT 2006

14023 [lbo-talk] Pug The Slug -- rank: 1000

Dennis Perrin wrote: >> For Dennis, >>http://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/2006/05/juan_cole_the_f.html >> Smooches from the Pooches > >Laborious, contrived, and right up your alley, asshole. MPug unsub'd. Doug

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Date:	Sun May 7 14:57:30 PDT 2006

14024 [lbo-talk] Stalin, democrat -- rank: 1000

Jim Devine wrote: >this is the "democracy" of scape-goating. It's also a matter of the >Party leadership giving little bits of power to its underlings to >repress and to loot. Didn't the peasants really want to kill the kulaks? Doug

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Date:	Sun May 7 14:43:35 PDT 2006

14025 [lbo-talk] Pug The Slug -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: > For Dennis, >http://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/2006/05/juan_cole_the_f.html > Smooches from the Pooches Man that's stupid. Do you think that's clever, useful, or even amusing in the way a Paul Gigot editorial can be? Why is "leftist cant" objectionable but right-wing wankery quotable? Doug

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Date:	Sun May 7 14:03:23 PDT 2006