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14071 [lbo-talk] AJC: "it does not help American Jews to appear to be stimulators of any action against Iran" -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >It is not fair for Americans to be held responsible for the US >power elite's actions overseas, especially considering that most of >them aren't even aware of what's going on. Hmm, I'm not so sure. We do vote for the fuckers, and only turn on their foreign policy actions when they sour. There was a lot of cheering for the invasion of Iraq until Iraqis started fighting back. I think a lot of that "unawareness" is a studied ignorance - a shading of the e ...

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Date:	Thu May 4 11:41:53 PDT 2006

14072 [lbo-talk] Ohio still can't run a proper election -- rank: 1000

Problems plague new Ohio voting machines May 4, 2006 CLEVELAND (AP) -- Ohio's first election without punch-card ballots was marred by a slew of problems with new voting machines, raising a crucial question: Can the state that decided the last presidential race get it together before November? Election officials had trouble printing ballot receipts, finding lost votes and tabulating election results in Tuesday's primary. Some election workers were late or did not show up at all in Cleveland's Cuy ...

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Date:	Thu May 4 11:32:49 PDT 2006

14073 [lbo-talk] it's inevitable -- rank: 1000

andie nachgeborenen wrote: >Violence needn't >involve physical contact or harm; putting someone in >fear of physical harm or death strikes me as plausibly >a violent crime. Ah, I remember when Rudy Giuliani tried to define "aggressive pandhandling" as bordering on violent assault. Doug

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Date:	Thu May 4 11:25:32 PDT 2006

14074 [lbo-talk] Fwd: Liberal Bad Faith in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina -- rank: 1000

<http://blackcommentator.com/182/182_cover_liberals_katrina.html> Cover Story Liberal Bad Faith in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina by Adolph Reed and Stephen Steinberg So, Barbara Bush was right after all when she said, "So many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this, this is working very well for them." And Rep. Richard Baker, a 10-term Republican from Baton Rouge, was right when he was overheard telling lobbyists: "We finally cleaned ...

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Date:	Thu May 4 09:50:34 PDT 2006

14075 [lbo-talk] Juan Cole whacks Hitch the Snitch -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >conservatives like Kevin Phillips Who still rails against "Harvard, Hollywood, and Manhattan" <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#060420> - from a comfortable corner of Litchfield, Connecticut. Doug

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Date:	Thu May 4 08:49:45 PDT 2006

14076 [lbo-talk] it's inevitable -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >City and county jails are often -- very often -- places of horror, and >the phrase "where people are held awaiting trial" sounds more innocent >than it is. An accurate count of men & women in prison should very >definitely count those in county & city jails. Well, yeah, of course. Thanks for the obligatory leftist clarification. Doug

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Date:	Thu May 4 06:41:10 PDT 2006

14077 [lbo-talk] Roach turns cheery -- rank: 1000

[Left catastrophists are going to have to find a new Wall Street doom-monger!] Financial Times - May 2, 2006 Bank chief revises gloomy outlook By Jennifer Hughes in New York The world economy may be able to unwind its current imbalances without serious disruption, Stephen Roach, Morgan Stanley's famously bearish chief economist, predicted yesterday, in a remarkable revision to several years of gloomy prognosis. Mr Roach had long warned that the US current account deficit and Asian central banks' ...

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Date:	Thu May 4 06:25:08 PDT 2006

14078 [lbo-talk] war critics pardoned -- rank: 1000

Dennis Claxton wrote: >War Critics Pardoned, Nearly 9 Decades Later But not this victim of the state of Mississippi! Doug ---- New York Times - May 4, 2006 Pardon Unlikely for Civil Rights Advocate By ADAM LIPTAK Gov. Haley Barbour of Mississippi acknowledges that Clyde Kennard suffered a grievous wrong at the hands of state officials more than 45 years ago. But he says he will not grant a posthumous pardon to Mr. Kennard, a black man who was falsely imprisoned after trying to desegregate a M ...

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Date:	Thu May 4 06:20:55 PDT 2006

14079 [lbo-talk] thumper takes credit for Ford's problems -- rank: 1000

From: "AFA ActionAlert" <afapetition at afa.net> Subject: Ford Headed Toward Bankruptcy, But Support Of Homosexual Groups Continues Date: Thu, 04 May 2006 00:01:00 -0500 Donald E. Wildmon Founder and Chairman May 4, 2006 Ford Headed Toward Bankruptcy, But Support Of Homosexual Groups Continues Dear dhenwood at panix.com, <https://store.afa.net/productcart/pc/viewPrd.asp?idproduct=109> Ford Motor Company continues to give money to help finance homosexual organizations pushin ...

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Date:	Thu May 4 06:17:28 PDT 2006

14080 [lbo-talk] it's inevitable -- rank: 1000

Jerry Monaco wrote: >So does this include city jails, county jails or only state jails? State prisons. Cities & counties have jails, states and the feds have prisons. Jails are where people are held awaiting trial or on short-term offenses; prisons are where you do real time (though thanks to overcrowding, some prison inmates are farmed out to jails). Doug

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Date:	Thu May 4 06:14:20 PDT 2006

14081 [lbo-talk] MPug Rats Out Yoshie To Cooper -- rank: 1000

www.leninology. blogspot.com wrote: >I would have hoped that the experience of being lied to by the >Clinton administration and Nato would have led the substantial >portion of the American left which passively supported that imperial >outing to be more wary of heeding calls for humanitarian >intervention. Au contraire! The laptop bombardier branch of the American liberal-left would love to find another war they could support. George Packer can't even admit he was wrong about Iraq. ...

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Date:	Thu May 4 06:09:58 PDT 2006

14082 [lbo-talk] MPug Rats Out Yoshie To Cooper -- rank: 1000

Max B. Sawicky wrote: >There is something off-putting about a member of one ethnic group >classifying others according to positive and negative traits. If you want to say, the leaders of social group X are allying with the higher circles of power in the US to promote policy Y, of which you don't approve, do you have to be a member of social group X to make that point, even if you do so without any trace of prejudice? Wouldn't it make it very difficult to do social or political analysis if ...

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Date:	Wed May 3 17:22:13 PDT 2006

14083 [lbo-talk] MPug Rats Out Yoshie To Cooper -- rank: 1000

Marvin Gandall wrote: >But I've come across no one on >this list who has referred to "Establishment Jews" or some variant of that >description who is remotely like a Southern bigot, distinguishing between >so-called good Jews and bad ones, good blacks and bad blacks. And doing so would be a kickable offense! Doug

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Date:	Wed May 3 15:59:47 PDT 2006

14084 [lbo-talk] Re: Colbert, Dafur, and Dems -- rank: 1000

Luke Weiger wrote: >Why does it matter how long I've been away? Actually, I'll be going away >again--my grandfather just died, and I'm returning home for his funeral. >I'll probably just mostly lurk again afterwards. I no longer have the >energy for sustained engagement here, though I'll continue to chime in once >in a great while so long as Doug's willing to have me. Condolences on your grandfather, and I'm not about to boot you. Doug

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Date:	Wed May 3 15:54:27 PDT 2006

14085 [lbo-talk] it's inevitable -- rank: 1000

Jerry Monaco wrote: >This was actually something that my criminal law prof told us. More >than half the people in prison now days are in prison for >non-violent drug crimes. People say that a lot, but it's not true for state prisons, at least according to the BJS <http://www.albany.edu/sourcebook/pdf/t600012002.pdf>. It's 21%. Half are in for violent offenses. Yes for federal prisoners <http://www.albany.edu/sourcebook/pdf/t656.pdf>, but there are like eight times as many s ...

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Date:	Wed May 3 15:34:39 PDT 2006