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16801 [lbo-talk] Jerry Lewis as worst-case scenario[wasRe:PrivateHateMail Gang Up] -- rank: 1000

I have very fond memories of the days when Dennis Perrin used to live in NYC and we'd hang out together at FAIR parties and/or bars. Now and then, though, the Jerry Lewis question would arise, and I always wondered how the hell Dennis could love him so. Funny to see it popping up again a decade later. Doug

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Date:	Sat Sep 10 14:31:35 PDT 2005

16802 [lbo-talk] Private Hate Mail Gang Up -- rank: 1000

Thomas Seay wrote: >Uh, it was a joke. However, I am inclined to believe >that all the social services that the wwedish state >provides or provided at one time were merely intended >to distract from the fact that they were unable to >come up with a better "rock" group than Abba :) Hey, but now Abba's cool. Hipsters nod their heads along with "Waterloo." They were just ahead of your time. But you bring up an interesting point - why is there Norwegian death meta ...

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Date:	Sat Sep 10 10:27:03 PDT 2005

16803 [lbo-talk] WMT OK -- rank: 1000

Wal-Mart keeps forecast; water sales up Sat Sep 10, 9:22 AM ET CHICAGO (Reuters) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE:WMT - news) on Saturday said demand increased for hurricane-related merchandise including water, canned meat and sleeping bags, and it maintained its September sales forecast. On a recorded message updating sales through Friday, the world's biggest retailer said it still expects a 2 percent to 4 percent increase in September sales at its U.S. stores open for at least a year, and demand f ...

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Date:	Sat Sep 10 10:16:39 PDT 2005

16804 [lbo-talk] News of LBO poster -- rank: 1000

John Adams wrote: >From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> > >>Aren't these alternative cyberpersonalities interesting? > >Aren't they the point? Not exactly. I can think of quite a few people who post to this list and others who are pretty much the same in person as they are on the screen. (I'd include myself among them, but one is always the last to know that sort of thing.) But some people are like night and day. Doug

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Date:	Sat Sep 10 10:03:15 PDT 2005

16805 [lbo-talk] the capitalist response: cashing in & planning urban renewal -- rank: 1000

New York Times - September 10, 2005 In Storm's Ruins, a Rush to Rebuild and Reopen for Business By JOHN M. BRODER BATON ROUGE, La., Sept. 9 - Private contractors, guided by two former directors of the Federal Emergency Management Agency and other well-connected lobbyists and consultants, are rushing to cash in on the unprecedented sums to be spent on Hurricane Katrina relief and reconstruction. From global engineering and construction firms like the Fluor Corporation and Halliburton to local tra ...

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Date:	Sat Sep 10 10:00:44 PDT 2005

16806 [lbo-talk] perfect cure for Katrina: vouchers! -- rank: 1000

[hey, I thought Katrina was the death blow to the right-wing agenda!] New York Times - September 10, 2005 G.O.P. Sees Opportunities Arising From Storm By EDMUND L. ANDREWS HOUSTON, Sept. 9 - Republican leaders in Congress and some White House officials see opportunities in Hurricane Katrina to advance longstanding conservative goals like giving students vouchers to pay for private schools, paying churches to help with temporary housing and scaling back business regulation. "There are about ...

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Date:	Sat Sep 10 09:59:29 PDT 2005

16807 [lbo-talk] Police made misery worse -- rank: 1000

joanna quoted: >Larry Bradshaw and Lorrie Beth Slonsky, two San Francisco paramedics >trapped in New Orleans for five days last week, have a different >story to tell than many of the tales that have come out in the >aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. > >By their account, the cops weren't necessarily the good guys, and it >was crystal clear that most of the city government structure >collapsed along with the levees that left the city at the mercy of >the rising waters. [Ne ...

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Date:	Sat Sep 10 09:51:49 PDT 2005

16808 [lbo-talk] black vote -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Venus Williams remarked the other day that she wasn't really >aware of what was going on in New Orleans. And there are far more of her >than there are of those obsessed with the daily news. <http://people-press.org/reports/display.php3?ReportID=255> Iraq Overshadowed Seven-in-ten Americans say they have paid very close attention to news of the hurricane's impact, somewhat fewer than very closely followed reports on the 9/11 terrorist attacks (74%). But another m ...

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Date:	Sat Sep 10 09:44:39 PDT 2005

16809 [lbo-talk] Chavez to Speak in NYC's Riverside Church on Sep. 16th -- rank: 1000

John Lacny wrote: >a black church who would host Chavez is made up of "useful idiots" Since when is the Riverside Church a black church? I haven't been there in ages, but I'd always thought of it as the essence of liberal Protestantism in its multiethnic incarnation, endowed originally by John D. Rockefeller. Doug

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Date:	Sat Sep 10 09:37:50 PDT 2005

16810 [lbo-talk] Jerry Lewis as worst-case scenario [wasRe:PrivateHateMail Gang Up] -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >Well, like PBS with its eternal fundraising pleas, I'd like to make >a pitch yet again for my man Emerson. I don't think there's any >question that whatever democratic potential the USA had has been >corrupted -- that American individualism has devolved into a >narcissism that has made Americans atomized, selfish and frightened. >I think the only long-term solution to this problem is to abolish >capitalism and whittle away differences in wealth and incom ...

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Date:	Sat Sep 10 09:30:32 PDT 2005

16811 [lbo-talk] News of LBO poster -- rank: 1000

Chuck Grimes wrote: >Congratulations Yoshie and Mike. But, gee, I have to wonder at the >disjunction between the radical hardcore Yoshie---heart of forged >commie steel, take no prisoners---I have long come to enjoy, and the >no doubt sweet looking woman dressed in white, whom her father adores >and husband admires. I met Yoshie last December, and her meatspace personality is nothing like that steel-hearted terror you conjure. She's quite friendly and charming, and likes to laugh. ...

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Date:	Sat Sep 10 08:05:55 PDT 2005

16812 [lbo-talk] Chavez to Speak in NYC's Riverside Church on Sep. 16th -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >Csenior: > > >Could you please tell me what "long-standing assumptions- are being >challenged by gratuitously calling Hugo Chavez a Stalinist and Leninist? > >^^^^^^ >CB: Calling him a Leninist is a compliment. Hopefully he is a Leninist. What does that mean, really? Doug

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Date:	Fri Sep 9 20:09:36 PDT 2005

16813 [lbo-talk] Chavez to Speak in NYC's Riverside Church on Sep. 16th -- rank: 1000

Cseniornyc at aol.com wrote: >By the way, I am not sure there are Venezuelan leftists critical of >Chavez. That'd be interesting, could you please post some of this? There's quite a bit about it in Richard Gott's book. There's a lot of good stuff in there - pick up a copy. Verso needs the money. Doug

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Date:	Fri Sep 9 20:08:11 PDT 2005

16814 [lbo-talk] Private Hate Mail Gang Up -- rank: 1000

Cseniornyc at aol.com wrote: >As a result of posting a simple meeting for Hugo Chavez, I have >received a series of verbally abusing private messages in my e-mail >box by Michael Pugliese, then some one that calls himself >"Autopletic", another one called Kelley and J M Hayes. There is >another one I forget. >Although, obviously, this ganging up private invasion of space has >the purpose of intimidation, I doesn't do it to me one iota. However >it does is annoy ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 9 20:06:29 PDT 2005

16815 [lbo-talk] restrictions on media in NO -- rank: 1000

Lionel Mandrake wrote: >Apart from poseurs like Geraldo, I think the outrage >and incredulity we're seeing in the media is totally >genuine. What's calculated is the extent to which it >gets played out or smacked down by corporate brass and >advertisers. I read somewhere the other day that the bosses were still on vacation...

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Date:	Fri Sep 9 15:43:35 PDT 2005