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14851 [lbo-talk] Harpers on the "Happocalypse" -- rank: 1000

On Jul 23, 2006, at 2:47 PM, B. wrote: > Just after midnight on July 18 (12:52 AM CST) I posted > an excerpt to LBO-Talk from the "End Times" chat board > of happily apocalyptic Xtians. > > Harpers Magazine posted this later that same day: > > http://harpers.org/rapture-ready-20060718001.html > > Looks familiar to me! > > I got the excerpts a day or so before from a forum > post made on SG News, from someone there who culled > the quotes selective ...

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Date:	Sun Jul 23 11:59:16 PDT 2006

14852 [lbo-talk] Re: why is tikkun/ david horowitz? PS -- rank: 1000

On Jul 23, 2006, at 2:28 PM, Aaron Shuman wrote: > You > don't object to running the Horowitz piece, and if > Michael Lerner decided to do a running weekly > "Understanding Israel in Gaza and Lebanon" post with > Horowitz as a regular commentator (or someone else) > for re-making the Middle East by taking the war to > Syria and Iran, you'd have no objection to that? I'm not Joel, so I won't answer that, but I am mystified why Lerner would want to run anything by a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jul 23 11:38:49 PDT 2006

14853 [lbo-talk] Re: NYT: Israel speeds up bomb delivery -- rank: 1000

On Jul 22, 2006, at 4:19 PM, Michael J. Smith wrote: > On Saturday 22 July 2006 14:21, Doug Henwood wrote: > >> Reuters reports that "thousands" protested in London and "hundreds" >> in Amsterdam. Hundreds? Wuzzup? Is Israel getting a free pass outside >> the Middle East? > > It's worse than that: Israel seems to be getting a free pass > everywhere > outside of Gaza, the West Bank, and... Iran. If today's NYT is to be believed - and of cour ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jul 23 11:20:05 PDT 2006

14854 [lbo-talk] why is tikkun publishing david horowitz? -- rank: 1000

Horowitz writes: > monsters like Samil Kuntar, a Palestinian terrorist who took a > father and child hostage and smashed the child's head against a rock Hey, he was just following the advice of Psalm 137:9: "Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones."

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jul 23 11:13:29 PDT 2006

14855 [lbo-talk] Capitol Hill Blue -- rank: 1000

[hmm, so much for all those sensational stories that came out of CHB] <http://readerrant.capitolhillblue.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/5071026321/ m/5391029551/r/#> Good night and good luck July 22, 2006 5:35 AM By DOUG THOMPSON In 2004, Amy and I left Washington for good and retired to the mountains of Southwestern Virginia. We needed the break. I've spent some 40 years in journalism and/or politics and 12 years with this web site/mistress called Capitol Hill Blue. The plan two years ago was ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jul 23 10:59:59 PDT 2006

14856 [lbo-talk] Dershowitz: when it's ok to kill civilians -- rank: 1000

Los Angeles Times - July 22, 2006 'Civilian Casualty'? It Depends Those who supports terrorists are not entirely innocent. By Alan Dershowitz ALAN DERSHOWITZ is a professor of law at Harvard. He is the author, most recently, of "Preemption: A Knife that Cuts Both Ways." THE NEWS IS filled these days with reports of civilian casualties, comparative civilian body counts and criticism of Israel, along with Hezbollah, for causing the deaths, injuries and "collective punishment&quo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jul 23 10:54:04 PDT 2006

14857 [lbo-talk] Re: why is tikkun/ david horowitz -- rank: 1000

On Jul 22, 2006, at 10:45 PM, Seth Kulick wrote: > I can't stand Lerner, and I stopped reading Tikkun after > subscribing to it for a few years when it first started. But I've > been > surprised glancing at it on the newstand over the last year or so that > there have been quite a few articles that looked very interesting and > beyond the usual "we must save the soul of Israel" type thing that is > so irritating. Thank Joel for that! Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jul 23 10:49:35 PDT 2006

14858 [lbo-talk] Day 8 of the Siege - chemical weapons? -- rank: 1000

[from an acquaintance in Beirut] I have to confess that writing is becoming increasingly difficult. Writing, putting words together to make sentences to convey meaning, like the small gestures and rituals that make-up the commonplace acts of everyday life, has begun to lose its meaning and its cathartic power. I am consumed with grief, there is another me trapped inside me that cries all the time. And crying over the death of someone is a very particular cry. It has a different sound, a di ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jul 23 10:34:53 PDT 2006

14859 [lbo-talk] Re: NYT: Israel speeds up bomb deliver -- rank: 1000

On Jul 23, 2006, at 3:41 AM, mike larkin wrote: > Juan Cole: "the Israelis tend to launch their wars of > choice in the summer, in part because they know that > European and American universities will be the primary > nodes of popular opposition, and the universities are > out in the summer." > Hmm, how does he know? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jul 23 10:21:58 PDT 2006

14860 [lbo-talk] Fwd: Jesse Lemisch on closing gas stations -- rank: 1000

> From: Chuck <chuck at mutualaid.org> > Date: July 22, 2006 7:39:03 PM EDT > To: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> > Cc: lbo-talk <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org> > Subject: Re: Jesse Lemisch on closing gas stations > > Doug: Please forward this message to your list. > > The exchange that Jesse Lemisch started on the SDS discussion list > has gone from merely insulting to me and my friends to a downright > ignorant crossposting to the LBO list. I' ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jul 22 21:27:21 PDT 2006

14861 [lbo-talk] Jesse Lemisch on closing gas stations -- rank: 1000

[wonder if Chuck0 was involved?] From: "Jesse Lemisch" <utopia1 at attglobal.net> Date: July 22, 2006 5:10:19 PM EDT Subject: foggy day in the new SDS The exchange presented below took place on the new SDS list, where the closing down of gas stations by protesters during rush hour in Kansas City was presented as an anti-war action against "strategic targets related to the war machine." My satiric posting below was followed by exhortations directed to me to "dro ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jul 22 14:30:54 PDT 2006

14862 [lbo-talk] Re: NYT: Israel speeds up bomb delivery -- rank: 1000

On Jul 22, 2006, at 2:01 PM, Seth Kulick wrote: > This is why, unlike the demonstrations of 1982, only 800 men and > women > demonstrated in Tel Aviv on Sunday night against the aggressive > operations in Lebanon and the Israeli policy of might. Reuters reports that "thousands" protested in London and "hundreds" in Amsterdam. Hundreds? Wuzzup? Is Israel getting a free pass outside the Middle East? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jul 22 11:21:25 PDT 2006

14863 [lbo-talk] Bon Jovi strums for Hillary -- rank: 1000

[from Page Six] CASH HAMPTONS SEN. Hillary Clinton is barnstorming the Hamptons this weekend to fill her campaign coffers with the help of her hubby, Bill. Last night, Michael Recanati co-hosted a dinner in East Hampton with Ira Statfeld at $4,200 per head, the max under federal law. Today's brunch thrown by Lisa Perry in Sag Harbor costs $2,000. Tonight, the ex-president joins Hillary at the East Hampton home of Michele and Bill Nuti, where Jon Bon Jovi will perform. Tickets are $300, but ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jul 22 10:24:31 PDT 2006

14864 [lbo-talk] Is this the new left? -- rank: 1000

On Jul 21, 2006, at 7:25 PM, B. wrote: > Well, hell. I'm not an expert in PoMo, though as I've > said often here and elsewhere, I have a weird weakspot > for Foucault. That guy is too cool for words, to me. So much so that you took your email address from him, right? But he's hardly a minor figure among the crowd that people like to call "pomo." Doug

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Date:	Sat Jul 22 10:03:56 PDT 2006

14865 [lbo-talk] religious nut says marriage amendment doesn't go far enough -- rank: 1000

<http://susiebright.blogs.com/susie_brights_journal_/2006/07/ round_up_the_fo.html> Round Up the Fornicators! Meet a Southern Democrat who thinks the anti-gay marriage amendment doesn't go nearly far enough. If you're going to crack open the Constitution, boys, get out your stone tablets and wreck it! Rep. Lincoln Davis of Tennessee wants divorce, of any kind, to be be outlawed, and adultery made into a felony. Fornicators would never be allowed to elected office, naturally. Straight p ...

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Date:	Sat Jul 22 10:00:11 PDT 2006