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16186 [lbo-talk] Has the Left Gone Mad? -- rank: 1000

On Aug 4, 2006, at 2:07 PM, www.leninology. blogspot.com wrote: > Love letters? Can't you take a joke? Nasrallah would turn pink if > he ever had to read those, I'm sure of it. Yes, the poem is a joke; it's crap in almost every sense. > Realistically, however, what other agencies are capable of > defeating Israel and the US? Wasn't that exactly my point? Doug

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16187 [lbo-talk] Has the Left Gone Mad? -- rank: 1000

Seems to me there's a difference between saying that Israel cannot be allowed to win in Lebanon, and the U.S. in Iraq and that Hezbollah and the Iraqi resistance are the only available agents to make that happen, and writing love letters to them. Doug

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16188 [lbo-talk] Fwd: [DEBATE] : Hizbullah's attacks stem from Israeli incursions into Lebanon -- rank: 1000

Christian Science Monitor - August 1, 2006 Hizbullah's attacks stem from Israeli incursions into Lebanon By Anders Strindberg NEW YORK As pundits and policymakers scramble to explain events in Lebanon, their conclusions are virtually unanimous: Hizbullah created this crisis. Israel is defending itself. The underlying problem is Arab extremism. Sadly, this is pure analytical nonsense. Hizbullah's capture of two Israeli soldiers on July 12 was a direct result of Israel's silent but unrelent ...

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16189 [lbo-talk] Ezekiel -- rank: 1000

On Aug 4, 2006, at 12:01 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > It's the poverty of language, which plagues us to this day, that is to > blame: sexualization of decadence. Is that worse than the sexualization of violence? A love poem to Hezbollah is, um, strange. Doug

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16190 [lbo-talk] Ezekiel -- rank: 1000

On Aug 4, 2006, at 11:01 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > Why are secular leftists as literal-minded as fundamentalists are > said to be? > > Ezekiel was talking about Samaria and Jerusalem (cast metaphorically > as women), how they ought to conduct their foreign affairs. Yeah, I know that. But, as any lit crit knows, you also have to take the content of metaphors seriously, and the fear of women and sex in that passage (and the admiration of those horse-cocked guys) is pretty str ...

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16191 [lbo-talk] France playing pivotal role in Lebanese crisis -- rank: 1000

On Aug 4, 2006, at 11:11 AM, Marvin Gandall wrote: > If it prevails, this would be a > major victory for Hezbollah because it would leave its military > capabilities, unprecedented level of political prestige, and > bargaining > power in any subsequent negotiation intact - the best outcome it > can hope > for in the present circumstances. I was more than a little surprised to hear the CFR's Judith Kipper say on my show yesterday that any settlement would have to accept Hez ...

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16192 [lbo-talk] Ezekiel, wacko -- rank: 1000

On Aug 4, 2006, at 10:55 AM, Carrol Cox wrote: > According to Mao, it will only take 1000 years for even Marx & > Lenin to > look silly. It took a lot less time for poor Mao, though. Doug

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16193 [lbo-talk] Ezekiel, wacko -- rank: 1000

On Aug 4, 2006, at 8:45 AM, B. wrote: > So basically this Biblical gal liked big dicks and > lots of come. Maybe those spam emails are right, after > all! But the the LORD did her in.

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16194 [lbo-talk] Ezekiel, wacko -- rank: 1000

Just stumbled on this verse from Ezekiel 23:20 on the Landover Baptist Site <http://www.cafepress.com/landoverbaptist/75582>: "There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses." As a reminder of just how psychotic scripture can be, here's the RSV text of chaps. 23 & 24 <http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=ezekiel% 2023-24;&version=31;>: 23 Two Adulterous Sisters 1 The word of the LOR ...

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16195 [lbo-talk] The Green Party: a wholly owned subsidiary of the GOP -- rank: 1000

On Aug 3, 2006, at 7:16 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > The secret lies in the stupidity of conservatives not to recognize > that > their best friends belong to the Democratic Party. Confusing the DP > with > actual progressive politics, they contribute to the Green candidate in > the hopes that he will spoil it for the DP. > > I say hurrah! Actually conservatives like people like Santorum and want them to win. They know quite well that their best friends are not in the Democra ...

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Date:	Thu Aug 3 16:30:40 PDT 2006

16196 [lbo-talk] why do beautiful women marry ugly men? -- rank: 1000

[man, if this isn't a double helping of pseudo-science: evo psych & econ!] <http://www.freakonomics.com/blog/2006/08/02/why-do-beautiful-women- sometimes-marry-unattractive-men/> Why Do Beautiful Women Sometimes Marry Unattractive Men? It may be that the unattractive man has a lot of money, or some other compelling attribute. But a new study by Satoshi Kanazawa, an evolutionary psychologist at the London School of Economics, suggests it may be a simple supply- and-demand issue: ther ...

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Date:	Thu Aug 3 13:20:11 PDT 2006

16197 [lbo-talk] 1 in 3 Americans untethered from reality -- rank: 1000

On Aug 3, 2006, at 4:00 PM, Carl Remick wrote: > They seem to be too lazy and easily distracted to spend any time > *learning* about how they are indeed getting fucked over. Path of least resistance. Why devote a lot of time to understanding how you're fucked over, when it'll just depress you?

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16198 [lbo-talk] 1 in 3 Americans untethered from reality -- rank: 1000

On Aug 3, 2006, at 3:39 PM, Charles Brown wrote: > Actually, when you consider all the polls posted here on American > opinion on "Middle East" subjects, isn't the percentage out of > touch with > reality a lot higher than that ? Oh yeah. Something like 3/4 of Bush voters thought he supported Kyoto. Doug

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16199 [lbo-talk] 1 in 3 Americans untethered from reality -- rank: 1000

On Aug 3, 2006, at 2:35 PM, www.leninology. blogspot.com wrote: > Hatred for the government is no bad thing, and although I do not > believe that the Bush administration brought about 9/11, there are > a huge number of unanswered questions and discrepancies in the > official account which could lead people to believe this. I'm > surprised you didn't notice when almost fifty per cent of New > Yorker said they believed much the same thing. I did. > I've read a lot of the ma ...

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16200 [lbo-talk] say hi to Ann Coulter! -- rank: 1000

Everyone's favorite skeletal blonde reactionary lives at 300 E 77th St, Apt 10A. See her mortgage doc ($300k) at <http://a836- acris.nyc.gov/Scripts/DocSearch.dll/Detail?Doc_ID=2005052301587001>.

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