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15481 [lbo-talk] Willie Nelson Releases Gay Cowboy Song -- rank: 1000

andie nachgeborenen wrote: > Willie Nelson Releases Gay Cowboy Song Hey that's pretty good! Lots of stuff about innate bisexuality and androgyny. Freud would have been proud. Doug

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Date:	Wed Feb 15 09:00:04 PST 2006

15482 [lbo-talk] Cheney speaks! -- rank: 1000

...to Fox, at 2.

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Date:	Wed Feb 15 08:50:24 PST 2006

15483 [lbo-talk] VD tough on two-timers -- rank: 1000

[better late than never] Wall Street Journal - February 10, 2006 Relationships One Tough Day for Two-Timers As Cheaters Juggle Valentines, Private Eyes Work Overtime; The Feb. 14 'Business Trip' By NANCY KEATES It was the Valentine's Day card that finally cracked the case for private detective Art League. Mr. League had been trying for weeks to catch a client's husband cheating, but it wasn't until Feb. 14 that the evidence surfaced. After tailing the man to an office parking lot, Mr. League spi ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 15 08:47:18 PST 2006

15484 [lbo-talk] Illinois as model for Democratic agenda -- rank: 1000

John Lacny wrote: >Jim Devine: > >> speaking of which, how come we didn't celebrate Jimmy >> Hoffa's birthday yesterday?? how quickly we forget. > >Unlike Nathan, I am not interested in finding redemptive qualities in Gus >Bevona, but I agree with him that Hoffa was a more complicated story. While >Jackie Presser was more straightforwardly corrupt, Hoffa in his origins was >a genuine unionist, and to some extent never forgot that. All hail the >heroic Teamst ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 15 08:36:31 PST 2006

15485 [lbo-talk] hunters agree: it was Cheney's fault -- rank: 1000

Washington Times - February 15, 2006 Experienced hunters put Cheney at fault in shooting By Joseph Curl Experienced hunters yesterday said Vice President Dick Cheney alone bears the blame for a weekend mishap in which he accidentally shot a hunting companion in the face and chest with a shotgun. Every local hunter interviewed by The Washington Times yesterday said the vice president violated hunting's cardinal rule: Never pull the trigger unless you are 100 percent sure of your target. And, they ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 15 08:17:00 PST 2006

15486 [lbo-talk] Cheney: it's his fault -- rank: 1000

<http://www.nydailynews.com/news/wn_report/story/391468p-332043c.html> [...] Cheney is understandably reported to be sick at heart over the accident. "He feels terrible about it," a source said. Another GOP source told the Daily News that Cheney has been telling friends the average person probably can't comprehend the situation. "He knows most people don't understand how things like this can happen," the source said. "But people who are hunters understand it. This ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 15 08:08:40 PST 2006

15487 [lbo-talk] Bush v Cheney -- rank: 1000

<http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/TheNote/story?id=156238> VPOTUS: Bush staff versus Cheney staff: David Sanger's political memo in the New York Times explores the autonomy with which Vice President Cheney operates within President Bush's White House. LINK "Several White House officials said no one among the White House staff, including the chief of staff, Andrew H. Card Jr., felt empowered to dictate how news of the accident would be handled," writes Sanger. More Sanger: "The ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 15 08:05:33 PST 2006

15488 [lbo-talk] Illinois as model for Democratic agenda -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Gus Bevona was also one of the quiet heroes Wow. And mob control of the Teamsters laid the groundwork for successes in Vegas. Forget Change to Win, and bring back La Cosa Nostra! Doug

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Date:	Wed Feb 15 07:54:18 PST 2006

15489 [lbo-talk] "Hitler 'a Babe in Arms' Compared to Bush" - Hugo Chavez -- rank: 1000

Leigh Meyers wrote: >I suggest everyone take a tip from Hugo and use the 'F' word regularly. >Because you CAN... While you still have the right to use the word... And if you don't care about sounding stupid. Using "fascist" like this is ludicrous. Is the Bush era any more repressive than the era of the Palmer Raids or the Red Scares? The roundup of the Japanese? The Jim Crow south, when the Klan worked in league with the cops? There's more opposition now, elite and popular, than ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 15 07:48:03 PST 2006

15490 [lbo-talk] new radio product -- rank: 1000

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Date:	Tue Feb 14 16:35:43 PST 2006

15491 [lbo-talk] Lies about Union Corruption -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: > >Even the example you give is more complicated. > >-Actually you gave the example, to make the point that the case was >-being mischaracterized as union corruption when it was corporate. In >-fact, it was a joint venture in corruption, a fine example of >-labor-management cooperation in stealing workers' assets. It took >-less than five minutes of Googling to find this out. > >Except you were mixing two different legal investigations and crim ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 14 15:59:10 PST 2006

15492 [lbo-talk] more on Deadeye Dick -- rank: 1000

amadeus amadeus wrote: >How pathetic is it that the "liberal" media is clamoring for early >scoops like this on the Bush administration, when the real goods are >plainly in front of them as they feebly turn the other cheek. >Flailing, they revel in the glow of stories like this. Fuck the New >York Times liberals and their David Sedaris and pesto. Fuck 'em. What's wrong with pesto? Doug

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Date:	Tue Feb 14 15:20:02 PST 2006

15493 [lbo-talk] Illinois as model for Democratic agenda -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >On the demand side, there is an >unprecedented growth of standards of living for the great majority of the >population in every developed and many developing countries. Not only most >people do not feel immiserated anymore, but they do not identify themselves >with the lower social strata and instead aspire to a higher social status. Few people want to identify with those below them (except maybe upper middle class youths). But a very large portion of th ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 14 15:18:18 PST 2006

15494 [lbo-talk] LRA's Economic Notes: Tarpinian moves to Change to Win -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >LRA Executive Director Greg Tarpinian Moves on to Change to Win What an interesting personal arc: from the husband of Gus Hall's personal secretary to Andy Stern's right-hand-man!

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Date:	Tue Feb 14 14:45:42 PST 2006

15495 [lbo-talk] Okrent: media allowed Iraq war to happen -- rank: 1000

<http://www.mediagiraffe.org/artman/publish/article_438.shtml> Blogs will win unless newspapers transfer their brand integrity onto the Internet, says ex-NYTimes ombudsman By Bill Densmore Feb 14, 2006, 06:20 Email this article Printer friendly page DOWNLOAD AUDIO: 63 min. ; 28MB MP3 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass., Feb. 13 - Blogs will overcome mainstream media as a source of news unless traditional media organizations successfully transfer the integrity of their brands onto the Internet, the former ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 14 14:31:56 PST 2006