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18316 [lbo-talk] SFBG on KPFA -- rank: 1000

<http://www.sfbg.com/39/38/news_kpfa.html> San Francisco Bay Guardian - June 22-28, 2005 Perpetual static New infighting continues KPFA's long march toward meltdown By A.C. Thompson A small pack of protesters - perhaps 20 folks in total - clumped on the sidewalk in front of the headquarters of KPFA-FM, Berkeley's nonprofit lefty radio station, on the afternoon of June 15. A cop approached, and one protester told him, "We're a very law-abiding group, officer." Uh, yeah. No need to ...

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Date:	Sat Jun 25 20:13:47 PDT 2005

18317 [lbo-talk] When is private property NOT? -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >I think our goal should be to *work things out* so that an equitable >arrangement is found between parties. And what if you can't work it out? Who, if anyone, has claim to "legitimate" violence? Doug

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Date:	Sat Jun 25 18:04:06 PDT 2005

18318 [lbo-talk] Sad Songs Say So Much -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >Aw, heh, I'm using that Iron(y) Broom to , "Draw Lines of >Demarcation, " in that charming Leninist phrase. That charming Peruvian Stalinist from the old Spoons Marxism list, Adolfo Oleachea, liked the phrase "iron broom." It sweeps very clean. Doug

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Date:	Sat Jun 25 17:59:39 PDT 2005

18319 [lbo-talk] Sad Songs Say So Much -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >Sample article title, "Existentialism: >Doctrine of Despair, " Substitute "postmodernism," and you could see the same thing in a left journal of the late 1990s.

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Date:	Sat Jun 25 17:57:59 PDT 2005

18320 [lbo-talk] Re: sad songs -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >A proverb in ancient Greece (quoted, or more accurately paraphrased, >from memory): Best is not to have been born; having been born, best is >to go hence quickly. Mama, ooh, I don't want to die I sometimes wish I'd never been born at all - Queen, "Bohemian Rhapsody"

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Date:	Sat Jun 25 17:51:32 PDT 2005

18321 [lbo-talk] When is private property NOT? -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Read the Connecticut Supreme Court decision which details the long >community planning and efforts to revive jobs for community members >in the city. Similar language was used to sell the urban renewal of the 1950s and 1960s. It was mostly a crock. Do you know for a fact that it's any different now? Doug

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Date:	Sat Jun 25 07:31:20 PDT 2005

18322 [lbo-talk] When is private property NOT? -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >And here's something almost no one paid attention to. The land >being taken is not be sold to private developers. "the development >corporation will own the land located within the development area. >The development corporation will enter into ground leases of various >parcels to private developers; those leases will require the >developer to comply with the terms of the development plan." > >So the land is being taken for public ownershi ...

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Date:	Sat Jun 25 07:22:29 PDT 2005

18323 [lbo-talk] Bill Cosby's Speech- Help! -- rank: 1000

Manjur Karim wrote: >I don't remember whether it was on this list where there were some >discussions on Bill Cosby's >speech at Howard University last year. If memory >serves me right, at the risk of rather open-ended >paraphrasing, Cosby preached in that speech that >African Americans should not be concerned with racial >discrimination and rather focus on participating in >the "Great American Dream." A friend of mine needs a >transcript of the speech for a p ...

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Date:	Fri Jun 24 17:41:14 PDT 2005

18324 [lbo-talk] Bill Cosby's Speech- Help! -- rank: 1000

Manjur Karim wrote: >I don't remember whether it was on this list where there were some >discussions on Bill Cosby's >speech at Howard University last year. If memory >serves me right, at the risk of rather open-ended >paraphrasing, Cosby preached in that speech that >African Americans should not be concerned with racial >discrimination and rather focus on participating in >the "Great American Dream." A friend of mine needs a >transcript of the speech for a p ...

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Date:	Fri Jun 24 17:38:29 PDT 2005

18325 [lbo-talk] Noonan blasts Klein -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >Like Morton Halperin, another NSC staffer under Nixon who >objected to the extension of the War into Cambodia, he resigned in >1970. Halperin, due to ties with the left IPS think tank esp. during >the time of the revelation of CIA abuses in '75-'76, was given alot of >grief by rightist Senators during his confirmation process under >Clinton. And now his son Mark puts out the daily dose of political chatter, ABC's The Note. Doug

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Date:	Fri Jun 24 17:20:24 PDT 2005

18326 [lbo-talk] inflating graduation rates -- rank: 1000

Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - June 24, 2005 States Inflate Their High-School Graduation Rates, Report Says By ERIC WILLS Every state that reported a high-school-graduation rate last year came up with an inflated figure, compared with the rates estimated by an independent analysis, according to a report released on Thursday by the Education Trust. In some cases, the reported rates were 20 to 30 percentage points higher than the independent calculation. Many states used definitions f ...

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Date:	Fri Jun 24 13:38:29 PDT 2005

18327 [lbo-talk] Randians: The Tyranny of Eminent Domain -- rank: 1000

Dear Editor, Please consider this Op-Ed submission from the Ayn Rand Institute. The Tyranny of Eminent Domain The government should not be able to seize property from one private party and transfer it to another. By Larry Salzman and Alex Epstein You do not own your property. That is the meaning of the Supreme Court's June 23 ruling in Kelo v. City of New London, which held that local governments may use the power of eminent domain to transfer private property from one private owner to another ...

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Date:	Fri Jun 24 13:18:30 PDT 2005

18328 [lbo-talk] RE: Sad Songs Say So Much -- rank: 1000

...and there's Mahler's Kindertotenlieder, a real festival of cheer!

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Date:	Fri Jun 24 12:57:24 PDT 2005

18329 [lbo-talk] RE: Sad Songs Say So Much -- rank: 1000

paul childs wrote: >On a related note, I defy anyone to get through Lou Reed's album >'Berlin' without the urge to 'swallow a grenade'. It's the story of >a relationship imploding violently. The background sounds on at >least one track include children screaming. <http://www.alwaysontherun.net/lou.htm#28> The Kids They're taking her children away Because they said she was not a good mother They're taking her children away Because she was making it with sisters and brothers And ...

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Date:	Fri Jun 24 12:37:49 PDT 2005

18330 [lbo-talk] porn science -- rank: 1000

<http://www.freespeechcoalition.com/dan_linz.htm> Statement of Daniel Linz, Ph.D., Professor of Communication and Law and Society University of California, Santa Barbara Response to Testimony before the United States Senate, Subcommittee on Science, technology, and Space of the Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation on The Science Behind Pornography Addiction My name is Daniel Linz. I received my Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. I share a joint appoi ...

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Date:	Fri Jun 24 12:10:06 PDT 2005