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15196 [lbo-talk] Some Americans OK With Being Fat -- rank: 1000

Miles Jackson wrote: >Why label healthy people with long lives "overweight"? --A >political question. (And the immensely profitable diet and "health" >industry makes a vulgar Marxist explanation pretty compelling.) More profitable than the junk food biz? Doug

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Date:	Thu Jan 12 13:39:07 PST 2006

15197 [lbo-talk] A Case for a Higher Gasoline Tax -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >So anyone seriously concerned with the plight of working people should start >with that point - that the working people are already stuck with the most >costly and inefficient arrangement possible that sucks them dry while >fattening the pockets of middlemen, speculators, developers oil and car >producers, etc. David Roediger has some good stuff in his latest, Working Towards Whiteness, about how "home" ownership was an important way for Eastern ...

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Date:	Thu Jan 12 10:18:39 PST 2006

15198 [lbo-talk] A Case for a Higher Gasoline Tax -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >Why is it so difficult to understand that the US sprawled life style is >extremely wasteful and unsustainable? Because once understood it would demand all kinds of big changes that people would rather not think about. Therefore, better not to think about it. Doug

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Date:	Thu Jan 12 09:53:52 PST 2006

15199 [lbo-talk] Charlie Cook: three years of drift ahead -- rank: 1000

Michael Perelman wrote: >What kind of drift? The Repug. congress is running full steam ahead. I think Cook's point was that they're not running full steam ahead. They're fighting over who's going to succeed DeLay, and much of their agenda is stalled. Doug

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Date:	Thu Jan 12 07:05:22 PST 2006

15200 [lbo-talk] Re:communism 101 -- rank: 1000

Leigh Meyers wrote: Five posts on Monday. Four on Tuesday. Five so far today. The limit is three. Doug

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Date:	Wed Jan 11 17:12:02 PST 2006

15201 [lbo-talk] communist witches were not spectral -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >In my opinion, nostalgia about the Confederacy and Robert E. Lee is racist. >Of course, I'm Black, so that might impact how I think about it :>). Hey, I'm white & I agree. While it's true that the North & Lincoln weren't anti-racist and anti-slavery except when it was convenient, that doesn't really matter for talking or singing about Dixie today. Doug

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Date:	Wed Jan 11 14:34:26 PST 2006

15202 [lbo-talk] communist witches were not spectral -- rank: 1000

Leigh Meyers wrote: >In case it isn't clear from my postings, I have grave misgivings about >folks who discuss it, intellectualize it, or politic it, but don't DO IT. Since when did you start channelling Nike ads? So the only way to be a commie, by your lights, is to live on $8,000 a year? If I may quote that line from a Brazilian samba that my pal Sean Jacobs like to use: only intellectuals love poverty - poor people love luxury. Doug

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Date:	Wed Jan 11 12:57:47 PST 2006

15203 [lbo-talk] Gallup: heavy support for raising min wage -- rank: 1000

[and most people think it's higher than it is] January 04, 2006 Public Solidly Supports Increase in Minimum Wage More than 8 in 10 favor congressional legislation by Jeffrey M. Jones GALLUP NEWS SERVICE PRINCETON, NJ -- Democratic Party leaders are making increases in the minimum wage a priority in Congress and on state ballot initiatives this year. Congress has not raised the wage since it increased it to $5.15 per hour in 1997, though many states have enacted higher minimum wages since that ti ...

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Date:	Wed Jan 11 11:36:33 PST 2006

15204 [lbo-talk] Charlie Cook: three years of drift ahead -- rank: 1000

<http://www.cookpolitical.com/overview/2006.php> [...] Under that scenario, with neither party in control of Capitol Hill and a president who is either a lame or crippled duck, there is a very strong chance that in terms of national governance, this country is likely to be drifting for the next three years until one party or the other manages to secure some kind of working control over the process through congressional elections or a fresh president comes into office with the honeymoon per ...

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Date:	Wed Jan 11 11:34:34 PST 2006

15205 [lbo-talk] Brit general: impeach Blair -- rank: 1000

Guardian (London) - January 13, 2005 Enough of his excuses: Blair must be impeached over Iraq The only way parliament can regain the trust of disaffected voters is to admit that it was wrong to support the war Michael Rose Wars are won when the people, government and army work together for a common cause in which they genuinely believe. Whereas the people may be initially uncertain about military intervention, politicians will often be the strongest advocates - blinded by the imperatives of thei ...

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Date:	Wed Jan 11 11:06:07 PST 2006

15206 [lbo-talk] communist witches were not spectral -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Leigh Meyers wrote: >> >> >> [Redacted For Brevity] >> >> I'm talking about people who LIVE it, not discuss it, >>intellectualize it, or politic it. >> >> The living of it, despite sociatal 'norms', is the only true >>threat to the ...'dominant paradigm'. >> [DOG, I hate that phrase!] >> >> As I stated, not ONE who calls themself a 'Communist'. >> >> How many even live with roommates ( ...

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Date:	Wed Jan 11 10:43:12 PST 2006

15207 [lbo-talk] communist witches were not spectral -- rank: 1000

Jim Farmelant wrote: >The CPUSA has long been a backer of the DP. In fact they have >been doing this pretty consistently since FDR's second term. >CP people were very much involved in promoting ABB (Anybody >but Bush) back in 2004, in case anybody here doesn't remember. And I gotta say that the CP, for all its faults, has actual workers among its members, lives in the real world, and has done a lot of good political work over the years. Doug

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Date:	Wed Jan 11 09:39:40 PST 2006

15208 [lbo-talk] no friendship among WMT's enemies -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - January 11, 2005 In Wal-Mart's Case, Its Enemies Aren't Terribly Good Friends Union Critics Share Objectives But Snipe at Each Other; Seeking Pay and Benefits By ANN ZIMMERMAN Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL W ASHINGTON -- WakeUpWalMart.com and Wal-Mart Watch have two things in common: They criticize Wal-Mart, and they criticize each other. A few weeks ago, WakeUpWalMart.com, financed by the grocery workers union, launched its latest TV ad campaign questioning whe ...

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Date:	Wed Jan 11 09:34:16 PST 2006

15209 [lbo-talk] A Case for a Higher Gasoline Tax -- rank: 1000

Matt wrote: >On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 11:36:37AM -0500, Doug Henwood wrote: > >> Funny you should pick two countries where gas costs $5/gal. > >And two countries whose geography and population densities support >mass transit already. But our population density is part of the problem, a product of excessively cheap energy. The earth cannot survive American spatial form. > > This "screwing the poor" business sounds like something an oil >> lobbyist woul ...

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Date:	Wed Jan 11 09:26:34 PST 2006

15210 [lbo-talk] Horowitz: so what if my stories aren't true? they're truer than truth! -- rank: 1000

<http://insidehighered.com/news/2006/01/11/retract> Retractions From David Horowitz Many faculty leaders have worried that this week's hearings by a Pennsylvania legislative committee would turn into just the kind of professorial inquisition that they have feared the "Academic Bill of Rights" might set off. But as hearings ended in Philadelphia Tuesday, critics of the Academic Bill of Rights were saying that they had scored key points. David Horowitz, the conservative activist wh ...

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