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15916 [lbo-talk] bringing God into the newsroom -- rank: 1000

Los Angeles Times - December 3, 2006 December 3, 2006 E-mail story Print Most E-Mailed THE SUNDAY CONVERSATION: DARYN KAGAN Positive stories? It's news to her By Matea Gold, Times Staff Writer "My slippers are definitely getting more wear than they did," said Daryn Kagan, the former CNN anchor who left the cable network this fall to start darynkagan.com, "an inspirational online community" aimed at showcasing "stories that make your heart go ZING!" Recent ...

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Date:	Mon Dec 4 11:17:23 PST 2006

15917 [lbo-talk] Women, Religion, and Secular Leftists (was Rabbi Lerner's address on TV!) -- rank: 1000

On Dec 4, 2006, at 9:58 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > there are few women here any way, far fewer > women than at most places of worship Any idea of the sex ratio of MRZine readers? Doug

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Date:	Mon Dec 4 07:20:05 PST 2006

15918 [lbo-talk] Juan Cole on Rumsfeld's memo -- rank: 1000

Rumsefeld's memo was arrogant and callous, for sure, but it's still at odds with the admin's public stance. And it makes you wonder - who's leaking this stuff to the NYT? First the Hadley memo fucks up the meeting with Maliki, and now this. It has to be someone inside the admin - these things don't circulate that widely, do they? Doug

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Date:	Mon Dec 4 06:56:42 PST 2006

15919 [lbo-talk] Biden wants confrontation with Putin -- rank: 1000

[gotta love these Dems!] Key US Senator wants "confrontation" with Putin Sun Dec 3, 5:45 PM ET WASHINGTON (AFP) - Incoming chairman of the Senate foreign affairs committee, Joe Biden, called for the United States to challenge Russian President Vladimir Putin following the poisoning death of former KGB spy and Kremlin critic Alexandre Litvinenko. "I don't know whether he's involved (in the poisoning), but our relations with Russia have to get straightened out to begin with,&quo ...

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Date:	Sun Dec 3 19:36:40 PST 2006

15920 [lbo-talk] Chavez in landslide -- rank: 1000

Chavez heads for a landslide win in Venezuela By Saul Hudson 40 minutes ago CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) - Anti-U.S. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez claimed victory with a cry of "long live the revolution" as official results showed him heading for a landslide re-election win on Sunday. Chavez won 61 percent, while Manuel Rosales, a governor of an oil- producing province who united the opposition, trailed with 38 percent after 78 percent of the vote had been counted, the National ...

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Date:	Sun Dec 3 19:29:19 PST 2006

15921 [lbo-talk] Rabbi Lerner's address on TV! -- rank: 1000

On Dec 3, 2006, at 9:52 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > It's odd how large a number of response to Yoshie's posts are only > incidentally responses to the posts and most concerned with commenting > on Yoshie personally. And vigorous expression ov views will provoke > _some_ responses focusing on the person, but were Yoshie male the > proportion of responses to subject & to person would undoubtedly be > different. How is pointing to Lerner as a concrete example of the kind of " ...

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Date:	Sun Dec 3 19:09:51 PST 2006

15922 [lbo-talk] Re: Time to Get Religion -- rank: 1000

On Dec 3, 2006, at 6:13 PM, boddi satva wrote: > Look, Yoshie pointed to two religious mullahs as her hope for this > Islamic Revolution. I think this topic has played itself out. All positions vented, and no minds likely to be changed. Doug

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Date:	Sun Dec 3 15:19:59 PST 2006

15923 [lbo-talk] CATO candidate?!!! -- rank: 1000

On Dec 3, 2006, at 5:34 PM, ravi wrote: > Cato just sent me a 10 page letter starting "Dear Ravi" and ending > with > a request for money (no I didn't read through all of the 10 pages). > The > latter I understand and the former I can deal with, but what > troubles me > is the underlying cause -- what is it about me that made something > like > Cato think of me as a friend, especially friend enough to give them > money? Is the junk mail world trying to tel ...

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Date:	Sun Dec 3 14:42:09 PST 2006

15924 [lbo-talk] Re: Not in Search of the "Salt of the Earth" (Re: -- rank: 1000

On Dec 3, 2006, at 5:01 PM, Jim Straub wrote: > I like the religion discussion happening. Many interesting and > useful things being said. Many empty generalizations and baldly > wrong things as well. For instance, Doug cited a study claiming > the declining relevance of religion in US political life. Doug, I > can offer you a very convincing bit of proof to the contrary: US > political history for the past 10 years. More than that, even. I was just recalling to Liza watchi ...

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Date:	Sun Dec 3 14:26:42 PST 2006

15925 [lbo-talk] Time to Get Religion -- rank: 1000

On Dec 3, 2006, at 4:46 PM, Angelus Novus wrote: > in an attempt to compete for each > other's sexual partners Is that what this is all about? To think, all this steaminess & I never knew! Doug

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Date:	Sun Dec 3 14:11:24 PST 2006

15926 [lbo-talk] Time to Get Religion -- rank: 1000

On Dec 3, 2006, at 4:18 PM, Chuck wrote: > And where in this conversation about religion have I cited > anarchism? I've expressed my personal hostility towards religion > here. Angelus is attacking my anarchism instead of dealing with my > personal opinions on religion and left pandering to people who > believe in fairy tales. Are there religious anarchists, with a non-authoritarian G/god? Doug

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Date:	Sun Dec 3 13:22:27 PST 2006

15927 [lbo-talk] Time to Get Religion -- rank: 1000

On Dec 3, 2006, at 3:49 PM, Chuck wrote: > Fuck religion! I hear you, Chuck, but do you think you're going to change anyone's mind this way? While the US is still supersaturated by religion, it's nice to know the share of seculars doubled in the 1990s, and that as Gallup says (and Gallup is supersaturated with Christians), religion is less prominent in American minds now than it was 30 or 40 years ago. Doug

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Date:	Sun Dec 3 13:20:00 PST 2006

15928 [lbo-talk] Loren Goldner query on imperialism -- rank: 1000

On Dec 3, 2006, at 3:19 PM, James Heartfield wrote: > I can remember arguing, with others, that the return of the > recession in the 1980s would lead to a re-conquest of the world on > the Lenin model, but I was wrong. Maybe something of that sentiment > was abroad in the talk of civilising missions and such-like, but > our contemporary elites lack the inner certainty of those British > District Officers from the Colonial Office who lorded it over the > natives without cutti ...

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Date:	Sun Dec 3 12:29:45 PST 2006

15929 [lbo-talk] Rabbi Lerner's address on TV! -- rank: 1000

[Here's something for Yoshie to bone up with on the "progressive" uses of religion - the gaseous pieties of Michael "Rabbi" Lerner.] An important message! Dear Tikkun Ally, I am very excited to announce that Rabbi Lerner's keynote address from our May 2006 Spiritual Activism Conference will be broadcast several times in December on Free Speech TV, a progressive documenary channel available in over 25 million homes on Dish Network, Channel 9415, and on 164 community acces ...

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Date:	Sun Dec 3 12:20:13 PST 2006

15930 [lbo-talk] Mel Gibson does the Mayans -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - December 3, 2006 Orgy Of Blood THE early word on "Apocalypto," Mel Gibson's two-hour-plus epic about the Mayan civilization before the conquistadors arrived? "The most violent movie Disney has ever released, with so much blood spurting out of orifices that even Martin Scorsese would blush," says FoxNews.com's Roger Friedman. "If you've wondered what it would be like to see heads and hearts removed without anesthesia, then this is the movi ...

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Date:	Sun Dec 3 09:52:31 PST 2006