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16396 [lbo-talk] Canadians not quite as god-besotted as Americans -- rank: 1000

RELIGION ALIVE AND WELL IN CANADA But While Many Christian Beliefs Are Holding Ground In Canada, Some Appear To Have Weakened Slightly In The United States From 10 Years Ago Toronto, ON-Today six in ten Canadians (62%, essentially unchanged from 63% in 1996) believe that "through the life, death and resurrection of Jesus, God provided the way for the forgiveness of sins", according to one of the many findings of a new Ipsos Reid poll conducted in both Canada and the United States in th ...

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Date:	Sat Apr 15 13:57:42 PDT 2006

16397 [lbo-talk] Oil & Russia -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: 6 posts so far today. Twice the legal limit. Doug

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Date:	Sat Apr 15 13:32:33 PDT 2006

16398 [lbo-talk] Oil & Russia -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: >PS. a "doctor" in Russia is not a doctor in the US. It >requires only 5-6 years of schooling. They all know >Latin however, since Russian prescriptions are written >in that language. Or at least a modicum of Latin. My college degree is in Latin, and I can't read a word of it! But how much Latin do they need? Is it any more than NPO or BID? Doug

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Date:	Sat Apr 15 12:59:19 PDT 2006

16399 [lbo-talk] economy tanking? -- rank: 1000

info at pulpculture.org wrote: >Doug and others: Is the economy looking like it's going to tank or >something? We're getting this huge influx of job inquiries to the >Web site. Very strange for people to be so desperate as to try to >get work with a dinky freelancing biz. Few signs of it really. The leading indexes are looking ok, portending pretty much the same thing we have now, which is ok but not spectacular growth. The housing market has almost certainly peaked, and that may be ...

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Date:	Sat Apr 15 09:36:36 PDT 2006

16400 [lbo-talk] Revolution in the Air Archives -- rank: 1000

[Max Elbaum writes...] Friends, I have donated the extensive archives used in researching and writing "Revolution in the Air" to the Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research. The donated material consists of 40 boxes of books, journals, newspapers, pamphlets and internal documents from the late-1960s revolutionary upsurge and then the 1970s-80s "new communist movement." This archive will be added to the Library's existing "Mike Conan Collection" o ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 14 12:42:12 PDT 2006

16401 [lbo-talk] What can be done? [was: Fact-checking Anonymous Sources? -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >I know, that is the standard position of the Left. It is built on the good >Marxist assumption that it is the people who are the producers, elites >merely appropriate what other produce - so the elites are utlimately >dependent of the people and their consent to a particular superstructure. I >am afraid, however, that this assumption - while true in the past - no >longer holds. I think that today, thanks to their command of organization >and tech ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 14 12:35:16 PDT 2006

16402 [lbo-talk] Hitchens bitch slaps the left!!!!! -- rank: 1000

joanna wrote: >If I hear one more drunk Hitchens joke, I don't know what I'm going to do. As much as I like the old Suck motto - "a fish, a barrel, a smoking gun" - it seems way too easy, and well below Carl's talents. Doug

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Date:	Fri Apr 14 12:09:56 PDT 2006

16403 [lbo-talk] Oil at $69 per barrel -- rank: 1000

B. wrote: >This really sucks. It really noticeably eats into your >(my) disposeable income. The Consumer Expenditure Survey data is a little out of date, but if you do some estimates based on gas prices, it looks like people in the bottom quintile, with about $9,500 in after-tax income, are spending 10% of it on gas and oil. At the middle (appx $41,000), it's around 5%; and the top 20% (a-t inc appx $135,000), less than 3%. For the bottom three quintiles, that's an upward shift of about 1. ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 14 12:08:19 PDT 2006

16404 [lbo-talk] Fact-checking Anonymous Sources? -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: >We need some kind of weapon that transforms nukes into >cute little kittens. I'm pro-nuke. I think they make war less likely; they helped the Cold War stay cool. (Ok, there were plenty of hot proxy wars on the sidelines of the US-USSR showdown, but no main event.) Every country should get a nuke in its goodie bag when it joins the UN. Nothing keeps the US from invading like The Bomb. Doug

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Date:	Fri Apr 14 09:26:19 PDT 2006

16405 [lbo-talk] Fact-checking Anonymous Sources? -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >I am not trying to take sides in your debate with Ulhas, but the above >passage caught my attention for a different reason. What is it exactly that >"we" (be it "we on this list," "we the American people" or "we the community >of nations") can do about US nuclear terror policy, other than cursing and >stomping our feet? Stop buying Marlboros and Coca-Cola. It's already happening! Doug

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Date:	Fri Apr 14 07:35:02 PDT 2006

16406 [lbo-talk] the perils of being a black Republican -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - April 14, 2006 Whites Take Flight on Election Day By Richard Morin Bad news for Michael S. Steele, the leading Maryland Republican candidate for Senate in November: The scuttling noise he hears on Election Day could be the sound of tens of thousands of white Republicans crossing over to vote for the Democrat. In fact, white Republicans nationally are 25 percentage points more likely on average to vote for the Democratic senatorial candidate when the GOP hopeful is black, says e ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 14 07:32:36 PDT 2006

16407 [lbo-talk] Americans turn inward -- rank: 1000

USA Today - April 14, 2006 More say U.S. focus should be home By Susan Page and David Jackson, USA TODAY WASHINGTON - Americans, anxious about the costs of the Iraq war and the impact of a global economy, are increasingly wary of engagement in the world. In a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll, nearly half of those surveyed said the United States "should mind its own business internationally and let other countries get along as best they can on their own." Three years ago, just one-third felt that ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 14 07:30:49 PDT 2006

16408 [lbo-talk] support the Black Commentator! -- rank: 1000

[It would be tragic if this excellent publication went under.] At 7:57 AM -0400 4/14/06, BlackCommentator.com wrote: >BC is in Dire Straits >Without more help, we will go under ><http://www.blackcommentator.com/179/179_appeal_pf.html>

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Date:	Fri Apr 14 07:21:16 PDT 2006

16409 [lbo-talk] Fact-checking Anonymous Sources? -- rank: 1000

Michael Hoover wrote: >didn't realize *i* accused hersh of being bush water boy, i didn't even >mention him in either of my posts about leaks to lbo... Whew. Glad to hear that. I was worried. Doug

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Date:	Thu Apr 13 12:26:47 PDT 2006

16410 [lbo-talk] Fact-checking Anonymous Sources? -- rank: 1000

info at pulpculture.org wrote: >doesn't this come from earlier critiques of his Abu Ghraib work, >where people were claiming (on the left) that he was essentially a >tool of the CIA, had a soft spot for them? Probably does, and if it does, it's really sad. The guy talks to people in the CIA who don't like current policy. That doesn't mean he's their stooge. Doug

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Date:	Thu Apr 13 12:11:58 PDT 2006