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14326 [lbo-talk] on that "Sharon" quote -- rank: 1000

[My source of the probably bogus Sharon quote, Sara Roy, just forwarded this.] From: Al-Awda-News at yahoogroups.com [mailto:Al-Awda-News at yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Zahi Damuni Sent: Monday, March 13, 2006 3:23 PM To: Al-Awda-News at yahoogroups.com Subject: [AL-AWDA-News] Background and Correction on Quote Attribution On Friday I posted a quote that was attributed to Ariel Sharon which I had extracted from a message I received from a trustworthy colleague on one of the e-lists I subscribe ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 14 07:35:32 PST 2006

14327 [lbo-talk] warner as 2008 dem candidate -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >I can't think of anybody worse on the Dem side, except Joe Lieberman. >He's an empty suit. But he's religious! Have Dem strategists now concluded that the real message of What's The Matter With Kansas is that they need to move right on cultural issues? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 14 07:29:28 PST 2006

14328 [lbo-talk] HUAC comes to Pacifica Radio Again -- rank: 1000

Joseph Wanzala wrote: >The only way to mitigate this ruinous trend is to get more listeners >in all the station areas involved - including running for seats on >the LSB or volunteering for committees etc. If you care, get >involved, otherwise don't be surprised if you hear only more of >these reports. Joe, the problem is that the whole process is like walking into a meat grinder - it drives sane people with interesting lives away. There's a real collective action problem here that ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 14 07:24:09 PST 2006

14329 [lbo-talk] A highly critical take on Fitch -- rank: 1000

Colin Brace wrote: >http://www.counterpunch.org/allen03112006.html > >March 11 / 12, 2006 > >Bob Fitch's Hatchet Job >Smearing Ron Carey and the TDU Here's Fitch's response. Doug ---- Instead of a review of Solidarity for Sale, Joe Allen has expressed what amounts to a howl of anger. Instead of arguments refuting my criticisms of Teamster President Ron Carey's leadership and Teamsters for a Democratic Union's politics he's offered a series of logical fallacies. Allen's argument ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 14 07:18:17 PST 2006

14330 [lbo-talk] Making Friends In Low Places... -- rank: 1000

Dennis Claxton wrote: >Leigh wrote: > > >>(They're really, truly, by definition, faggots.) > > >What is this supposed to mean? Thank you - I missed that particular toxic eruption from our hippie. What the fuck is that supposed to mean? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 14 07:10:07 PST 2006

14331 [lbo-talk] Making Friends In Low Places... -- rank: 1000

Leigh Meyers wrote: >I've been informed by reliable sources on this list that I don't >live in a totalitarian state. Oh, right. I keep forgetting that Bush has been running show trials of dissident Republicans and having them shot or sent off to International Falls, Minnesota, for hard labor. And how they're rounding up all the hippies and sending them to death camps. I shoulda said something when the military visited your blog, but I wasn't a blogger. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 13 16:36:47 PST 2006

14332 [lbo-talk] Making Friends In Low Places... -- rank: 1000

Leigh Meyers wrote: >What? >Me worry? > >I've been informed by reliable sources on this >list that I don't live in a totalitarian state. >(sure!) Somebody visited your site. Big fucking deal. I think I even visited it once. When they haul you away in chains, then I might get worried. But tell the truth - you're not really worried. You're bragging. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 13 15:46:19 PST 2006

14333 [lbo-talk] Henwood spread Sharon hoax (was Sharon, man of peace) -- rank: 1000

Michael Hirsch wrote: >"Force, might, beatings" was attributed to Yitzhak Rabin, not Sharon. Yeah, I know. I was responding to this: >Stuart Elliott wrote: > > >The dissemination of face quotes, often echoing classic anti-Semitic > >them, is quite common on Arab and pseudo-leftist websites. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 13 15:09:13 PST 2006

14334 [lbo-talk] abortion: running away from SD -- rank: 1000

<http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11786788/site/newsweek/> Newsweek - March 20, 2006 The pro-life movement is on a roll. So why are the Republican Party's top guns suddenly so shy on the subject? By Howard Fineman and Evan Thomas When South Dakota approved a law sharply restricting abortion last week, many pro-life Republicans around the country sounded a loud hallelujah. But at least one very senior Republican did not seem at all eager to join in the chorus. As Ken Mehlman, the chairman of the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 13 14:37:39 PST 2006

14335 [lbo-talk] REAL divestiture, or just an Enron style bookkeeping fraud? -- rank: 1000

Marta Russell wrote: >On Mar 11, 2006, at 1:24 PM, Doug Henwood wrote: > >>Marta Russell wrote: >> >> >>>CONGRESS MUST ENFORCE DIVESTITURE OF ALL FOREIGN GOVERNMENT >>>CONTROL AND OWNERSHIP OVER OUR PORTS >>> >> >>Why? >> >>Doug >> > >The arguments have been all over the media. Do you think this >stance is based on hysteria? > >Small businesses and others are in need of sources of income here. >Pe ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 13 14:29:43 PST 2006

14336 [lbo-talk] more Hofstadter -- rank: 1000

[These are some comments, assembled from several emails, by a lurker who wishes to remain anon.] Hi, I'm a lurker and a PhD student in History at ___.... You should check out [Eric Foner]'s "Who owns history?" (Hill and Wang, I think). There's an essay about Hofstadter in there that analyzes why it's unfair to lump him with the other major consensus historians like Commager, Nevins, etc. Unlike those guys, Hofstadter's stuff isn't celebratory at all. A lot of what's been said on the li ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 13 14:27:52 PST 2006

14337 [lbo-talk] CW crystalling around McCain -- rank: 1000

<http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/TheNote/story?id=156238> However, the frontrunner for the 2008 Republican nomination was John McCain when the SRLC began, as it was when it ended. (Note George F. Will's comments during the "This Week" roundtable that the stars are beginning to align for McCain in 2008). Dan Balz's Sunday story in the Washington Post explains how the rest of the field will have to find a path around McCain for the nomination and wonders if the former maverick can b ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 13 14:09:21 PST 2006

14338 [lbo-talk] Somebody reads Zizek -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: > http://crookedtimber.org/2006/03/10/zizek-and-badiou-where-are-you/ Or, more exactly, someone's read MIT Press's promotional copy for Zizek. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 13 13:56:40 PST 2006

14339 [lbo-talk] Fight the taboo on the use of the word "racist" -- rank: 1000

Jim Devine wrote: >The GOPsters are racist, yes, but using that word too much weakens its >meaning. After all, the Demoncrats are also largely racist, no? at >least many of the white ones? But they don't depend anywhere near as much on coded racist appeals, and get 90% of the black vote. Did you notice that reception that Bill Clinton got at the Coretta Scott King funeral despite having ended welfare as we know it, a task that thrived on coded racist appeals? Bartels work shows the sout ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 13 13:55:07 PST 2006

14340 [lbo-talk] Robert Fitch and Derek C. Bok -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >True-- although its just-in-time delivery system and vulnerability to direct >consumer boycott also makes it potentially more vulnerable to a union >campaign. Extremely. Edna Bonacich has done some great stuff on this. But it would be illegal, wouldn't it? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 13 13:52:40 PST 2006