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15721 [lbo-talk] How to Deconstruct Almost Anything -- rank: 1000

On Dec 21, 2006, at 1:55 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote: > That thread lasted a few days. The pomo-all-is-text-deconstruction > bashing thread has been going on for over ten years. Actually, I'd thought it had, if not died, gone into a deep sleep. I thought the Sokal affair was its last gasp. How wrong I was! Doug

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15722 [lbo-talk] Brenner: Hear interview with Zionist collaborator with Hitler on internet -- rank: 1000

From: BrennerL21 at aol.com Date: December 21, 2006 6:07:13 AM EST To: BrennerL21 at aol.com Subject: Hear interview with Zionist collaborator with Hitler on internet 12 18 06 Sisters and brothers, On Feb. 8, 1981, I interviewed Joachim Prinz, in 1933 an enthusiastic German Zionist collaborator with Hitler's new regime. The audio tape can now be heard via the internet: www.corkpsc.org/db.php?cid=512 It is on standard MP3 files which can be played in any MP3-compatible software application, in ...

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15723 [lbo-talk] DAMN IT WILL PEOPLE USE PLAIN TEXT!!!!!!!!!!!!!! -- rank: 1000

On Dec 21, 2006, at 1:15 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > I hate those posts with indented text and different colors and all the > other fucking bells & whistles which Outlook or something or other > puts > on them > > WHY IN THE FUCK CAN'T PEOPLE USE PLAIN TEXT. > > IF ONE PERSON USES CODED TEXT, THEN APPARENTLY EVERYONE WHO > RESPONDS TO > HIS/HER POST USES CODED TEXT. > > FUCK IT. A little more strongly worded than my past pleas, but yes. Plain text. I don't kn ...

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15724 [lbo-talk] P-9 and meatpacking deunionization (was: The raids against immigrant workers) -- rank: 1000

On Dec 21, 2006, at 11:40 AM, Chuck wrote: > I'm also shocked that a regular list member is spouting off anti- > immigrant bullshit while the rest of the list sits on its > collective hands. Really? I'm a little short of time these days, but I thought Boddi was getting spanked hard enough or I'd donned my moderator's cap. I've got no patience for nativism, even when cloaked in a workerist guise. Doug

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15725 [lbo-talk] How to Deconstruct Almost Anything -- rank: 1000

On Dec 21, 2006, at 11:18 AM, Jerry Monaco wrote: > Well yes, all is text. Left unsaid is what I have been told often: > All those who don't understand that all is text, are simply benighted. It's really interesting how so many people can't just shrug, maybe giggle lightly, and move on; instead, they get all huffy & puffy about something they want to dismiss as trivial or ludicrous. Why is that? All that slipperiness of meaning make you a little nervous? Doug

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15726 [lbo-talk] P-9 and meatpacking deunionization (was: The raids against immigrant workers) -- rank: 1000

On Dec 21, 2006, at 12:03 PM, Eric wrote: >> No, exactly the opposite. That truce was based on labor renouncing >> any intrusion in management; I'm saying that management has proved >> itself hopelessly foolish (even from the POV of the stockholders) >> and the workers need to step in.' > > Gotcha. Is this remotely realistic, though? Not that realism must > dictate how anyone acts, but if we are talking practical solutions, > wouldn't it be better to aim for s ...

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15727 [lbo-talk] in which dd shits on progressives -- rank: 1000

On Dec 20, 2006, at 5:46 PM, bitch wrote: > heh. This essay is freakin' hilarious: > > http://d-squareddigest.blogspot.com/2006/12/i-shit-on-progressives- > of-this-planet.html > > and he doesn't let you down on the scatology either! Enjoy! What's a "progressive"? Doug

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15728 [lbo-talk] Iranian students kicking up a fuss -- rank: 1000

New York Times - December 21, 2006 Iran President Facing Revival of Students' Ire By NAZILA FATHI TEHRAN, Dec. 20 As protests broke out last week at a prestigious university here, cutting short a speech by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Babak Zamanian could only watch from afar. He was on crutches, having been clubbed by supporters of the president and had his foot run over by a motorcycle during a less publicized student demonstration a few days earlier. But the significance of the confr ...

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15729 [lbo-talk] personal mega-income and its disposition -- rank: 1000

<http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news? pid=20601103&sid=a9b9kNFst8uU&refer=us> Minks, Private-Jet Time Get Gift-Wrapped as New Yorkers Splurge By Heather Burke Dec. 20 (Bloomberg) -- One New York wife is getting a $50,000-plus diamond ring thanks to hubby's Wall Street bonus. An executive is giving $1 million in private jet time, or 150 hours, so his family won't have to fly commercial. And plenty of $7,000 mink coats and $20,000 necklaces are being boxed up, too. ``I haven't see ...

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15730 [lbo-talk] Re: lbo-talk Digest, Vol 36, Issue 217 -- rank: 1000

On Dec 20, 2006, at 5:05 PM, Jim Straub wrote: > I have a standing offer out to fistfight bob fitch, loser stops > writing about labor permanently. But I think he might be an old guy Early 60s, though a weightlifter.

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15731 [lbo-talk] Strategy and Organization -- rank: 1000

On Dec 20, 2006, at 4:30 PM, Jerry Monaco wrote: > I appreciate the "sometimes it seems" qualification in this remark > and the ironic flavor of "praxis-minded" but is this really fair? > I also know of the debate around Fitch's "Solidarity for Sale", etc. > > But can't a union catch a break? Are you kidding? I think it's great. Doug

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15732 [lbo-talk] Strategy and Organization -- rank: 1000

On Dec 20, 2006, at 3:47 PM, andie nachgeborenen wrote: > Hard leftists not infrequently end up in high Union > office, heading up locals and such. But what they can > do severely limited, Though I have to say that sometimes it seems like SEIU is an employment scheme for praxis-minded Marxists. Doug

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15733 [lbo-talk] Paradox -- rank: 1000

On Dec 20, 2006, at 3:26 PM, andie nachgeborenen wrote: > Needless to say it would be better for the world > to have the Eurocops do it Not for long. Throw them into the role of global enforcers and they'll start behaving like Uncle Sam in an instant. There's certainly nothing in the history of Europe to make you believe otherwise. Doug

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15734 [lbo-talk] Poland considers making Jesus its official king -- rank: 1000

On Dec 20, 2006, at 12:54 PM, Carl Remick wrote: > Among other benefits, the King of Kings is not known for having > embarrassing public marital problems. You don't buy the rumors about his affair with Mary Magdalene? Doug

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15735 [lbo-talk] P-9 and meatpacking deunionization (was: The raids against immigrant workers) -- rank: 1000

On Dec 20, 2006, at 1:40 PM, Eric wrote: > Stop caring about GM's and Ford's state of fuckedness or > unfuckedness? This tactic of unions strategizing and siding with > capital hasn't worked out real well for the former, has it?.... > This is a very strange turn you are taking here. Sounds like you > are advocating a revival of the postwar capital-labor truce. No, exactly the opposite. That truce was based on labor renouncing any intrusion in management; I'm saying that managemen ...

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