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17581 [lbo-talk] The Note: Alito is even more in than yesterday -- rank: 1000

<http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/TheNote/story?id=156238> If the pro-choice Republican Senators from Maine (who both happen to be women) decide they want to make it their personal crusade to stop Judge Alito from becoming Justice Alito, then the media's insistence that the President's latest Supreme Court nomination will be a "war," a "clash," "a momentous judicial battle," a "rumble," a "brawl," and "a bruising Senate battle" just ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 1 09:44:27 PST 2005

17582 [lbo-talk] Let's review basic social science (was 'Desertion Rates') -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: > My general skepticism about soundbite claims,from activists on the >Left who don't bother to question the agit-prop of their sides more >hyperbolic advocates. I'm all for that, but The Lancet isn't known for agitprop. It's one of the leading medical journals in the world. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 31 10:37:40 PDT 2005

17583 [lbo-talk] Let's review basic social science (was 'Desertion Rates') -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese quoted: >This "peer reviewed study" is a piece of polemical garbage. Everybody >is supposed to take away the bumper sticker summary, "Coalition kills >100,000 Iraqi civilians, half of them children," without reading the >details. It tries to use crude epidemiological models like those used >to study disease and applies them to the conscious infliction of >violence by human beings. The result is statistical static. I'm usually uncomfortable a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 31 09:56:23 PDT 2005

17584 [lbo-talk] the NYT explains itself on the Downing St memo -- rank: 1000

<http://forums.nytimes.com/top/opinion/readersopinions/forums/thepubliceditor/publiceditorswebjournal/index.html> New Public Editor Looks at 'Downing Street Memo' Coverage (Editors' Note: This post was originally published in Daniel Okrent's Web Journal) The flood of reader e-mail criticizing The Times's coverage of the so-called Downing Street Memo has moved me to post about the issue. Some background: The secret minutes of a July 2002 meeting of top advisers to British Prime Minister Ton ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 31 09:21:31 PDT 2005

17585 [lbo-talk] Tattooed Job Seekers -- rank: 1000

CHALLENGER, GRAY & CHRISTMAS, INC. DATE May 31, 2005 CONTACT John A. Challenger, Chief Executive Officer For Release Upon Receipt 21st Century Fashion Trends And The Workplace TATTOO, BLING* CRAZE RAISES NEW HIRING ISSUE NEW YORK -- Across the nation 1.35 million college graduates have already started receiving their diplomas. While some already have jobs, others will be interviewing through the summer months for their first permanent, full-time job, and the No. 1 question on many of their m ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 31 08:16:55 PDT 2005

17586 [lbo-talk] Re: How to end the war -- rank: 1000

John Bizwas wrote: >If the actual facts of the story are real and not simply another >'why we fight (in order to rule like gods over the rubble we made)' >anti-insurgency propaganda piece (the stuff is churned out by all >the major news peddlers, much of it written or approved at CentCom >or at Occupation HQ), the attack seems well-targetted: a restaurant >packed with quislings. It's funny how most of these are suicide >bombers but they can conveniently drag out guys who sur ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 31 07:31:30 PDT 2005

17587 [lbo-talk] breaking news: greed is good! -- rank: 1000

<http://www.capitalistpig.com> Jonathan Hoenig Managing Member of a private investment partnership Jonathan Hoenig is the Managing Member of a private investment partnership. A former floor trader at the Chicago Board of Trade, Hoenig's first book, Greed is Good: The Capitalist Pig Guide to Investing was published by HarperCollins. He is a frequent commentator in the financial press, and has written for publications including The Wall Street Journal, Wired, Maxim and Smartmoney.com. Hoenig ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 30 22:51:05 PDT 2005

17588 [lbo-talk] crazy frog -- rank: 1000

snitsnat wrote: >At another list I was made aware that this is the number one >ringtone in the u.s. You have to mouse over the flash movie to hear >it: >> > > http://www.sim64.co.uk/ringtones-8.html Don't sign up with jamster! They'll plague you with messages forever. Doug

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Date:	Mon May 30 22:28:36 PDT 2005

17589 [lbo-talk] The French "Non" Vote: Was it Racist? -- rank: 1000

mike larkin wrote: >"....The rise of such sentiments is a stark warning to >ruling elites. That racist language is used to back >the "non" by the left should be an even starker >warning, it says that the tide of illiberalism is >spreading beyond its natural home on the right, and >farther and farther into the general public." > >http://www.bopnews.com/archives/003526.html#3526 These guys are like professional Democrats, no? It feels so good to hate Dem ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 30 22:26:53 PDT 2005

17590 [lbo-talk] Rushdie: Just give me that old-time atheism! -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >Fuck God! Sometimes you're my hero, Chuck. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 30 22:20:14 PDT 2005

17591 [lbo-talk] U.S. Military Desertion Rates -- rank: 1000

If you add up the numbers on the about.com page, they're over 5,000. Doug Adam Souzis wrote: >yeah, that's what you get for trusting the liberal media like CBS: > >"The Pentagon says more than 5,500 servicemen have deserted since the >war started in Iraq" > >http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/12/06/60II/main659336.shtml > >-- adam > >On 5/30/05, Michael Pugliese <michael.098762001 at gmail.com> wrote: >> I keep on hearing 5K have deserted ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 30 22:18:54 PDT 2005

17592 [lbo-talk] triple-header -- rank: 1000

At 3:37 PM -0600 5/30/05, Thomas Allen Heald wrote: >BIRTHGAYS > * 1819 - Poet, author, journalist, essayist Walt Whitman > * 1930 - Manly man Clint Eastwood, who respects us, (and played a gay >experimenting character interested in S&M in "Tightrope") > * 1945 - German enfant terrible director Rainer Werner Fassbinder

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 30 17:35:46 PDT 2005

17593 [lbo-talk] A Bane Amid The Housing Boom: Rising Foreclosures -- rank: 1000

snitsnat quoted: >He said they "witness the >heart-wrenching scenes as families lose their primary means of wealth >building and face eviction." It's not a means of wealth building, it's a place to live! Even the officer prosecuting a foreclosure perpetuates the fantasy that a house can create social wealth, and is something more than fictitious value. But as the late Ed Hart of the late FNN used to say, housing inflation is the American national religion. Doug

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Date:	Mon May 30 08:46:30 PDT 2005

17594 [lbo-talk] Rushdie: Just give me that old-time atheism! -- rank: 1000

Toronto Star - May 23, 2005 Just give me that old-time atheism! By Salman Rushdie "Not believing in God is no excuse for being virulently anti-religious or naïvely pro-science," says Dylan Evans, a professor of robotics at the University of West England in Bristol. Evans has written an article for the Guardian of London deriding the old-fashioned, "19th-century" atheism of such prominent thinkers as Richard Dawkins and Jonathan Miller, instead proposing a new, modern atheism ...

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Date:	Mon May 30 07:51:06 PDT 2005

17595 [lbo-talk] biz group urges ECB to ease -- rank: 1000

[this is interesting...] Sun May 29, 2005 06:29 PM ET PARIS, May 29 (Reuters) - France's rejection of the European Union constitution is a clear signal to the European Central Bank that it should do more to support growth in the euro zone, a European business group said on Sunday. "There is also a message for the ECB here," Christoph Leitl, president of Eurochambres, the association of European chambers of commerce and industry, told Reuters. "The message is that they have to act, ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun May 29 16:33:46 PDT 2005