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16726 [lbo-talk] Re: demonology, death tolls, dementia -- rank: 1000

Leigh Meyers wrote: >The translation presented was stiff, and the vernacular was >*obviously* western. >As I said, it sounds like a reiteration of GWB's "bring it on" brag. I don't get your point. Saddam's regime wasn't murderous and repressive? It's all the invention of Bush & Hitchens? Doug

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Date:	Fri Sep 16 12:01:38 PDT 2005

16727 [lbo-talk] reconstruction scams -- rank: 1000

For Immediate Release, September 14, 2005 9/11 Reconstruction Watchdogs Issue Warning About Hurricane Katrina Rebuilding Plans Gulf Coast Leaders Urged to Consider Equity and Accountability As Recovery Plans are Laid New York - Three watchdog groups, including two in New York that have monitored the post-9/11 reconstruction of Lower Manhattan, today cautioned Gulf Coast members of Congress that they should closely monitor the design of Hurricane Katrina aid packages so that low- and moderate-inc ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 16 11:50:28 PDT 2005

16728 [lbo-talk] the bathroom break backstory -- rank: 1000

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001137788 Editor & Publisher - September 15, 2005 Reuters Says Bush Photo Not 'Malicious,' Reports Wide Interest at Home and Abroad By E&P Staff NEW YORK With confirmation that an accidental photo of President Bush at the United Nations on Wednesday, writing a note to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice about a "bathroom break," was indeed real, newspapers around the U.S. and abroad are now plannin ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 16 11:44:46 PDT 2005

16729 [lbo-talk] "Reparations": 2+2=? -- rank: 1000

Hey, let them eat tax credits!

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Date:	Fri Sep 16 11:35:17 PDT 2005

16730 [lbo-talk] stupid pet tricks, PR league -- rank: 1000

Hi Doug , In the book How to Meditate With Your Dog: An Introduction To Meditation For Dog Lovers (Maui Media, October 2005, $16.95; Hardcover), lifelong mediators and dog lover James Jacobson weaves the charming "tail" of his highly evolved Maltese, Maui, with practical tips on how to bring the benefits of meditation into daily life. "Dogs are natural mediators," Jacobson says. "Your dog may look like he's staring into space, but he's actually 'hound lounging' and livin ...

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Date:	Thu Sep 15 15:18:35 PDT 2005

16731 [lbo-talk] what's different this time -- rank: 1000

[an interesting and occasionally weird collection of points made by The Note today <http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/TheNote/story?id=156238>] As Howard Fineman, Adam Nagourney, Rick Berke, Jeff Greenfield, Elizabeth Wilner, Ron Brownstein, Matt Cooper, Mike Abramowitz, and Ken Mehlman would say, "How is the situation President Bush faces tonight different than on all other nights since 9/11?": He has never seen his poll numbers take this kind of hit among Republicans before. He ha ...

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Date:	Thu Sep 15 15:10:26 PDT 2005

16732 [lbo-talk] the other Times does Hitch v Galloway -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >I was wondering about that. I could have sworn Hitchens was against >the 1991. (Wasn't it that was that occasioned his ringing >denunciation of how the free press as a more efficient Pravda?) But >when Jon Stewart interviewed him a couple of weeks ago, he said the >problem in 1991 was that we didn't go further, that we didn't remove >Saddam -- the standard neocon, Wolfowitz refrain. And he said it >with such a serious mien and complete lack of cogn ...

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Date:	Thu Sep 15 14:03:09 PDT 2005

16733 [lbo-talk] the other Times does Hitch v Galloway -- rank: 1000

C. G. Estabrook wrote: >the Murdochian Times It's not that Murdochian. The editors are structurally insulated from the Rupe. They ran a full-page excerpt from After the New Economy when it came out (better coverage than I got from any US publication of any political stripe), and I got an hour's audience with the editor and several other staffers when I visited London in November 2003. They were all intelligent and civilized people. Doug

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Date:	Thu Sep 15 13:56:53 PDT 2005

16734 [lbo-talk] the other Times does Hitch v Galloway -- rank: 1000

Times (London) - September 15, 2005 Galloway and Hitchens get down and very dirty From James Bone of The Times, in New York George Galloway, the anti-war Respect Party MP from Bethnal Green, is guilty of "sinister piffle". Christopher Hitchens, the pro-intervention polemicist who writes a column for Vanity Fair, practises "Goebbellian tricks". The two rival titans of the raging row over Iraq engaged in an intellectual prize fight in New York last night that quickly degenerate ...

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Date:	Thu Sep 15 13:26:31 PDT 2005

16735 [lbo-talk] Hitchens Reviews "Darkness At Noon" -- rank: 1000

andie nachgeborenen wrote: >The >note at the bottom says that H wrote another piece on >the "anticommunist intellectuals" Susan Sontag and >Czecslaw Milocsz -- a kind of reductionist way to >treat Sontag. Or for that matter Milocsz,a great >poet. As George Galloway put it last night, Hitchens has descended from the gutter into the sewer. It's sad to watch him continue to deteriorate. Aside from his usual blather about Iraq, he denounced Galloway for having been rude ...

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Date:	Thu Sep 15 13:07:47 PDT 2005

16736 [lbo-talk] splendid rhetoric -- rank: 1000

[Thanks to Michael Pug for uncovering this gem of Stalnist rhetoric from the ancient Spoons Marxism list <http://www2.cddc.vt.edu/spoon-archives/marxism-international.archive/marxism-international_1997/97-03-04.021>. Adolfo is an upper-class Peruvian who turned Communist and had a price on his head, and went into exile in London. You don't see this kind of prose much anymore.] From owner-marxism-international Sat Mar 1 20:56:17 1997 Date: Sun, 2 Mar 1997 01:57:36 GMT Message-Id: <1997 ...

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Date:	Thu Sep 15 12:11:12 PDT 2005

16737 [lbo-talk] behind the bathroom break photo -- rank: 1000

<http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001137252> Reuters Photog Captures Bush at U.N. With 'Bathroom Break' Note By E&P Staff Published: September 14, 2005 7:35 PM ET updated Thursday 9:30 AM NEW YORK In what seems destined to become one of the most joked about photos of the month, a well-known Reuters photographer on Wednesday captured President George W. Bush scribbling a note to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice during a session at the U ...

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Date:	Thu Sep 15 11:00:38 PDT 2005

16738 [lbo-talk] we never cite a socialist! -- rank: 1000

<http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/media/2005/media0916.html> Washington City Paper - Sept. 16-22, 2005 A Bridge Too Far by Jason Cherkis and Erik Wemple The print media get picky about a story involving police forcing evacuees back into New Orleans. Soon after the floodwaters engulfed New Orleans, reporters chronicled the thousands trapped at the Superdome, trapped at the convention center, and trapped on rooftops. As the days passed, news consumers had to wonder: Why couldn't citizens j ...

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Date:	Thu Sep 15 10:55:45 PDT 2005

16739 [lbo-talk] Re: BREAKING NEWS ALERT: Judge declares Pledge unconstitutional -- rank: 1000

Scissors MacGillicutty wrote: >I don't know the degree or level at which other people posting >on this topic are involved in the official political machinery of >the US. I'm not, but it just seems to me like a fight not worth having. It alienates people massively for little imaginable gain. The pledge, that is. Same-sex marriage alienates people, but it's a matter of serious principle. Doug

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16740 [lbo-talk] get it before it's gone -- rank: 1000

Jordan Hayes wrote: >http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/050914/ids_photos_ts/r2587077477.jpg Oh man that's beautiful. I love the caption! >U.S. President George W. Bush writes a note to Secretary of State >Condoleezza Rice during a Security Council meeting at the 2005 World >Summit and 60th General Assembly of the United Nations in New York >September 14, 2005. World leaders are exploring ways to revitalize >the United Nations at a summit on Wednesday but their bluepr ...

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