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17371 [lbo-talk] the source on isolationism -- rank: 1000

>From info at people-press.org Thu Nov 17 14:03:54 2005 Date: 17 Nov 2005 19:02:08 -0000 To: Subject: Pew Research Center Report Reply-To: info at people-press.org From: info at people-press.org Opinion Leaders Turn Cautious, Public Looks Homeward America's Place in the World A quadrennial poll on foreign policy issues finds both the public and U.S. opinion leaders taking a decidedly cautious view of America's place in the world, reflecting concerns about the war abroad and growing problems a ...

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Date:	Thu Nov 17 15:32:37 PST 2005

17372 [lbo-talk] Bush drinkin'? -- rank: 1000

[thanks to Michael Pug: <http://www.blogwashington.com/BushWT.JPG>]

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Date:	Thu Nov 17 13:16:11 PST 2005

17373 [lbo-talk] Re: No cock left behind -- rank: 1000

boddi satva wrote: >I think male is biologically male. Female is biologically female. Never hurts to rerun this... Doug ---- [from the introduction to Judith Butler's Bodies That Matter] What I would propose in place of these conceptions of construction is a return to the notion of matter, not as site or surface, but as a process of materialization that stabilizes over time to produce the effect of boundary, fixity, and surface we call matter. That matter is always materialized has, I think, ...

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Date:	Thu Nov 17 11:58:53 PST 2005

17374 [lbo-talk] Murtha -- rank: 1000

[from the AP story: Vice President Dick Cheney jumped into the fray Wednesday by assailing Democrats who contend the Bush administration manipulated intelligence on Iraq, calling their criticism "one of the most dishonest and reprehensible charges ever aired in this city." Murtha, a Marine intelligence officer in Vietnam, angrily shot back at Cheney: "I like guys who've never been there that criticize us who've been there. I like that. I like guys who got five deferments and never ...

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Date:	Thu Nov 17 11:17:23 PST 2005

17375 [lbo-talk] Illinois incomes back at 1989 levels -- rank: 1000

Chicago Tribune - November 17, 2005 Illinois incomes sinking Paychecks shrink more than $6,000 since 1999 By Barbara Rose Tribune staff reporter Illinois' median family income has dropped dramatically over the last six years, a sharper decline than in every other state except for Michigan, a new report reveals. The result is that household incomes here--adjusted for inflation--have fallen back to about where they were in 1989. These income losses, coming at a time when costs are rising for every ...

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Date:	Thu Nov 17 09:21:58 PST 2005

17376 [lbo-talk] Patrick Bond in DC & NYC -- rank: 1000

[Patrick couldn't get his email to work right, so I'm forwarding this for him. Gotta love the footer that Yahoo! Mail put on this message, given its content.] DISPOSSESSING AFRICA'S WEALTH A discussion with Patrick Bond Professor of Development Studies and Director of the Centre for Civil Society University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban http://www.ukzn.ac.za/ccs * pbond at mail.ngo.za WASHINGTON, DC Thursday, November 17, 2005 2:00-3:30pm Institute for Policy Studies 733 15th St NW, Suite 1020 (cos ...

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Date:	Thu Nov 17 09:19:02 PST 2005

17377 [lbo-talk] women dating down -- rank: 1000

John Adams wrote: >I always find it hard to resist quoting Randy Newman, even though I >realized recently that he's not an ironist or a satirist, but really >means and believes pretty much everything he says. > >This is from "The World Isn't Fair": >http://www.randynewman.com/tocdiscography/disc_bad_love/lyricsbadlove#theworldisntfair > >If Marx were living today >He'd be rolling around in his grave >And if I had him here in my mansion on the hill >I'd ...

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Date:	Thu Nov 17 09:15:06 PST 2005

17378 [lbo-talk] further proof that Bob Novak is an evil turd -- rank: 1000

Chicago Sun-Times - November 17, 2005 Senate foils enemy prisoners Robert Novak Sun-Times columnist The troubled Bush administration won a rare victory this week. The Senate voted to close federal courts to Salim Gherebi, an enemy combatant imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay. He is suing the president and the secretary of defense for $100 million in compensatory damages and $1 billion in punitive damages for violation of his rights under the U.S. Constitution. His is one of 174 suits filed on behalf o ...

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Date:	Thu Nov 17 07:38:12 PST 2005

17379 [lbo-talk] George Will on the GOP crackup -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - November 17, 2005 Grand Old Spenders By George F. Will The storm-tossed and rudderless Republican Party should particularly ponder the vote last week in Dover, Pa., where all eight members of the school board seeking reelection were defeated. This expressed the community's wholesome exasperation with the board's campaign to insinuate religion, in the guise of "intelligent design" theory, into high school biology classes, beginning with a required proclamation that evo ...

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Date:	Thu Nov 17 07:35:46 PST 2005

17380 [lbo-talk] No cock left behind -- rank: 1000

boddi satva wrote: >Yoshie, > >Again, GAY. Het guys sure spend a lot of time reinforcing the distinction, don't they? Doug

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Date:	Thu Nov 17 07:20:06 PST 2005

17381 [lbo-talk] Guardian grovels -- rank: 1000

Guardian (London) - November 17, 2005 Corrections and clarifications The Guardian and Noam Chomsky The readers' editor has considered a number of complaints from Noam Chomsky concerning an interview with him by Emma Brockes published in G2, the second section of the Guardian, on October 31. He has found in favour of Professor Chomsky on three significant complaints. Principal among these was a statement by Ms Brockes that in referring to atrocities committed at Srebrenica during the Bosnian war ...

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Date:	Thu Nov 17 07:07:01 PST 2005

17382 [lbo-talk] Sadie Hawkins -- rank: 1000

This is from today's Pridelets (which also notes that today is the birthday of Rock Hudson, Howard Dean, and RuPaul): > On this day in 2004, the annual Spurger, Texas "Sadie Hawkins Day" dance >is cancelled after the Liberty Legal Institute says the event "causes >homosexuality." > With the females not only asking out the boys but both genders attending >the high school Homecoming week dance in drag, one overly protective parent >says, "It might be ...

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Date:	Thu Nov 17 07:04:33 PST 2005

17383 [lbo-talk] women dating down -- rank: 1000

New York Observer - November 21, 2005 <http://www.observer.com/printpage.asp?iid=11901&ic=Featurebox> Should A-List Girls Marry for Love? We're Not Naming Names-But When Oscar Babes Marry Beneath, It's a Heavy Lift Sara Vilkomerson So there's this terrific woman you know living in New York. She's fun, attractive, smart and has a great job ... and is dating a bartender, a waiter or someone altogether unemployed. Some might say she's "settling," to use the favored relationship ...

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Date:	Thu Nov 17 06:59:09 PST 2005

17384 [lbo-talk] Bill the redneck -- rank: 1000

[from today's Page Six] "BECAUSE a lot of the farmers are prejudiced against New Yorkers, Hillary hauls me along as the token redneck, and I milk the cows and stuff" - Bill Clinton at the Israel Bonds lunch honoring developer Harry Macklowe, recalling a recent visit to the New York State Fair . . .

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Date:	Thu Nov 17 06:41:48 PST 2005

17385 [lbo-talk] Marc Cooper, right wing scumbag -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >Looks like Cooper is thinking about joining Hitchens: > >http://www.osm.org/site/articles/editboardmain/editboardmarccooper/ > >He's providing content to this new right wing website started by the >dumbfuck fascist who runs Little Green Fascists. > >I always thought that The Nation magazine had one foot in the right >wing camp, but with Corn and Cooper participating in this project, >they aren't even keeping up a pretense of being different than the & ...

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Date:	Thu Nov 17 06:27:46 PST 2005