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18346 [lbo-talk] lbo RSS feed -- rank: 1000

lbo at inkworkswell.com wrote: >At 01:15 AM 6/22/2005, Michael Perelman wrote: > >>Would that be difficult to do for pen-l? > >noper. Just subscribe pen-l here: http://gmane.org/subscribe.php > >If they approve of the list -- and they will -- they'll use a 'bot' >address to subscribe to pen-l. It will automatically archive the >list discussion, turn it into an RSS feed, and all the other nifty >things they have there. > >It's an open source project. > &g ...

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18347 [lbo-talk] [offlist] Pods: Surpassing the Gulag inScalability -- rank: 1000

tfast at yorku.ca wrote: >Including our somewhat shaky liberal rearguard? Two! And the word is that >neither is all that battle ready. Damn, we better shape up. Who volunteers to be the drill sergeant? Doug

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18348 [lbo-talk] censorship -- rank: 1000

[see website for full story] The right of Freedom of Speech is one we have held as immutable in this country for over 200 years. But the new Right, the religious fanatic "right", wants that Right to only apply to those subjects they agree with...sort of like Germany in 1933. So, I have had to pull Bondagezine, temporarily. I will get it up again as soon as I can meet all of the asinine requirements of Ashcroft/Gonzales. The new regulations are masked as "Child Protection laws" ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 21 16:26:14 PDT 2005

18349 [lbo-talk] seal the border! save us from the globalists!! -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Geez. Please do not use double exclamation marks. This is the first post >I ever received with such that wasn't spam, and had I not glanced at my >trash file I wouldn't have received any of the posts with this subject >line. > >Quite a bit of spam has a !! in it. And !! is in my killfile. If it's in your killfile, how would you know if any nonspam posts were murdered along with the unsolicited commercial email? You need a better filter than that! Doug

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Date:	Tue Jun 21 15:57:27 PDT 2005

18350 [lbo-talk] Dolan on Stalin -- rank: 1000

Jim Devine wrote: >BTW, who carried the boom-box in Stalin's entourage? Kalashnikov.

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Date:	Tue Jun 21 15:34:24 PDT 2005

18351 [lbo-talk] seal the border! save us from the globalists!! -- rank: 1000

Michael Perelman wrote: >So much for Cato's libertarianism. Huh? Cato wasn't advocating shutting the border - it was the Georgia Rep. It was interesting to see that Doug Massey was the author of the Cato paper - he's a sociologist who's done a lot on residential segregation, no? Doug

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18352 [lbo-talk] seal the border! save us from the globalists!! -- rank: 1000

[at least the right-wing anti-free-traders are consistent on the human flow] NEWS RELEASE U.S. Representative Charlie Norwood, 9th District, Georgia June 21, 2005 CATO Study Confirms Troops on the Border as the Only Workable Means of Preserving U.S. Sovereignty (Washington, DC) - A CATO Institute-sponsored report intended to discredit efforts to secure the U.S. border has instead bolstered findings that immediate deployment of troops in support of the Border Patrol is the only means of stopping ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 21 14:44:46 PDT 2005

18353 [lbo-talk] Code Pink benefit in NYC -- rank: 1000

Benefit Show for Code Pink New York Arlene's Grocery 95 Stanton Street (betw. Allen & Orchard) [J to Essex St., F to Second Ave., D to Grand St.] [map http://tinyurl.com/7zbqm ] Sunday, July 10 8 -11 PM L.E.S.'s most FORMIDABLE FEMMES join together in a benefit for CODEPINK NEW YORK against Bush's Stinkin' Oil War. (Yeah, there's a war going on, remember?) For seven trite dollars you can not only do your part and help this organization, but you will also have the once-in-a-lifetime experienc ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 21 13:11:12 PDT 2005

18354 [lbo-talk] [offlist] Pods: Surpassing the Gulag inScalability -- rank: 1000

Leigh Meyers wrote: >If we REALLY want to shut it down we have to *insist* that GITMO >*absolutely* equals GULAG, and make the bastards deny it. How many divisions do "we" have? Doug

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Date:	Tue Jun 21 12:42:40 PDT 2005

18355 [lbo-talk] Retail Workers Find Housing Options Severely Limited -- rank: 1000

National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE www.nahb.org RETAIL WORKERS FIND HOUSING OPTIONS SEVERELY LIMITED 92 Percent of Rental Housing in Most Major Metro Areas Out of Reach June 21, 2005-Retail sales workers cannot afford to rent housing in most major metropolitan areas without spending a disproportionate share of their incomes, according to new analysis of Census data of primary wage earners conducted by the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB). NAHB found th ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 21 10:23:46 PDT 2005

18356 [lbo-talk] Toles hits his own paper -- rank: 1000

Editor & Publisher Online - June 21, 2005 Cartoonist Tom Toles Appears to Take Swipe at 'Wash Post' Editorial Page By E&P Staff NEW YORK Widely-honored syndicated cartoonist Tom Toles appeared to take a swipe at his home editorial page--at The Washington Post--today with a cartoon <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/opinion/toles.html?name=Toles&date=20050621> aimed at newspapers that have pooh-poohed the so-called Downing Street memos. Last week, a widely-publicized Post edi ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 21 10:10:34 PDT 2005

18357 [lbo-talk] Re:anti-capitalist films? -- rank: 1000

Jim Devine wrote: > > I feel very sorry for you. You must be one of those leftists who doesn't >> like anything Hollywood produces. >> >> Chuck > >is _ad hominem_ the rule around here? Carrol may well remind us of the proper use of the term, but as for the colloquial one: it's frowned upon, but there's still too much of it. Doug

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Date:	Tue Jun 21 08:14:52 PDT 2005

18358 [lbo-talk] A holy war in D.C. -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >"Like a moth to a flame, Democrats can't help themselves when it comes >to denigrating and demonizing Christians," Hostettler said. He's the loon who said during the 1994 campaign that private citizens should be allowed to have nuclear weapons. Doug

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Date:	Tue Jun 21 08:07:59 PDT 2005

18359 [lbo-talk] personalities -- rank: 1000

[more from Newport's briefing] Personalities in the News Tiger Woods just missed his chance to win the U.S. Open last weekend (and thus is now out of the running for the Grand Slam this year), coming in second behind New Zealander Michael Campbell. Still, Woods remains one of the most popular personalities (of any kind, not just sports figures) in the country. Gallup's weekend poll shows Woods is viewed favorably by 85% of Americans, and unfavorably by only 8%. Movie star Tom Cruise doesn't do q ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 21 08:03:23 PDT 2005

18360 [lbo-talk] Iraq polls: 59% now oppose the war -- rank: 1000

[framing does matter! - from Gallup e-i-c Frank Newport's Tuesday Briefing] Polls About the War in Iraq Recent polling by various organizations shows differing levels of support for the decision to go to war in Iraq. In a recent ABC News/Washington Post poll, 58% of Americans said the war has not been worth fighting, while in a Pew Research Center poll, just 45% said that the United States made the wrong decision in using military force against Iraq. Some of these variations in opinions occur pa ...

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