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18376 [lbo-talk] Straw in the wind: Republican base dividing on Iraq -- rank: 1000

Chip Berlet wrote: >It's not a flameout of right-wing politics, just an internal power struggle. > >But is it good for the Left? > >Yes.

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Date:	Fri Jun 17 08:04:42 PDT 2005

18377 [lbo-talk] Straw in the wind: Republican base dividing on Iraq -- rank: 1000

Marvin Gandall wrote: >Calls from his constituents have been running about 50-50, says the >congressman, who has three military bases in his district, including Camp >Lejeune. Wow, that's pretty amazing. Public opinion really seems to be turning, and with this sort of leadership, it could accelerate. Is Bush promoting the flameout of right-wing politics? Doug

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Date:	Fri Jun 17 07:04:18 PDT 2005

18378 [lbo-talk] Schiavo had half a regulation brain - and Earth calling! -- rank: 1000

Peter Lavelle wrote: >And it appears she suffered and died with less than >25% of the respect and interest given to the Quinlan >passage. Really? I remember jokes about KAQ being the state vegetable of New Jersey. What respect is there in that? > I know many on list hate JPII, but he died >with dignity. Yeah, and he had a functioning brain until the end. He was laid low by Parkinson's but his cognitive functioning was still intact. So there's not much similarity between the two. ...

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Date:	Thu Jun 16 21:05:30 PDT 2005

18379 [lbo-talk] Schiavo had half a regulation brain -- rank: 1000

Wow, Schiavo's brain weighed 615 grams, 25% less than Karen Ann Quinlan's 835g.

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Date:	Thu Jun 16 14:52:17 PDT 2005

18380 [lbo-talk] Schiavo had half a regulation brain -- rank: 1000

C. G. Estabrook wrote: >Forgive the po-faced reply to your ironic reference, Jeffrey. >It was parenthetical; I have no brief for Sen. Frist. > >I did mean to repeat Nader's view of the Schiavo case, which >seems to me correct, even in light of (reports of) the autopsy >evidence. > >He pointed out that "slow death by dehydration is being >imposed upon her under the color of law, in proceedings in >which every benefit of the doubt -- and there are many doubts > ...

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Date:	Thu Jun 16 14:42:02 PDT 2005

18381 [lbo-talk] volume -- rank: 1000

I'm not going to name any names yet, but there's been fairly rampant overposting lately. Remember, the limit is 3. I just counted 12 from one, and 5 from two. Doug

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Date:	Thu Jun 16 14:10:10 PDT 2005

18382 [lbo-talk] 9-11 a composite response/comment -- rank: 1000

This 9/11 thread has worn itself out. No minds will ever be changed, or even enlightened, by continuing it. Doug

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Date:	Thu Jun 16 13:34:59 PDT 2005

18383 [lbo-talk] 9-11 a composite response/comment -- rank: 1000

Joseph Wanzala wrote: >it is another to not take an actual position supporting the official >story, but then still refuse to actually formulate any other >alternative explanation and spend most of ones intellectual energy >disassociating onself from or attacking 'crazy conspiranoid ideas'. I'll go out on a limb: I think the "official" story is mostly correct, so I feel no need to come up with an alternative. Doug

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Date:	Thu Jun 16 11:54:05 PDT 2005

18384 [lbo-talk] the Mozart Effect -- rank: 1000

Tommy Kelly wrote: >I use to walk around >listening to stuff like Lou Reed's "Metal Machine" Wow. I never met anyone who could listen to that thing. I think there was a Creem writer who claimed to love it, but I had my doubts. It makes Einsturzende Neubauten sound like Welk. Doug

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Date:	Thu Jun 16 11:49:10 PDT 2005

18385 [lbo-talk] Pics of "porn star" Mary Carey at Bush's dinner -- rank: 1000

andie nachgeborenen wrote: > > Porn stars shouldn't be Republicans, > >So who should? Executives and major stockholders in Wal-Mart, McDonald's, and ExxonMobil; Christian theocrats; xenophobes and warmongers. Doug

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Date:	Thu Jun 16 10:37:29 PDT 2005

18386 [lbo-talk] exit strategy on SS? -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - June 16, 2005 Exit Strategy on Social Security Is Sought GOP Leaders Cite an Impasse With Democrats on Proposed Private Accounts By Jonathan Weisman and Jim VandeHei Washington Post Staff Writers With the Senate Finance Committee at an impasse on Social Security and House leaders anxious about moving forward, Republican congressional leaders have told the White House in recent days that it is time to look for an escape route. Senate GOP leaders, in discussions with White House ...

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Date:	Thu Jun 16 10:04:39 PDT 2005

18387 [lbo-talk] Misleading ABC release on gobal warming poll -- rank: 1000

Jeffrey Fisher wrote: >i don't suppose there's a link to this somewhere on the web? Here's the text. A URL for all ABC polls is at the end. Doug ---- ABC NEWS/WASHINGTON POST POLL: GLOBAL WARMING - 6/5/05 EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE AFTER 7 a.m. Wednesday, June 15, 2005 Most Think Global Warming has Begun But Differ With Scientists on Urgency Nearly six in 10 Americans think global warming likely is underway and as many accept that human activities play a significant role. But - like the Bush admin ...

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Date:	Thu Jun 16 09:54:58 PDT 2005

18388 [lbo-talk] Can Liberal Faiths Compete with Conservative Faiths? (An Appeal to Ignorance) -- rank: 1000

andie nachgeborenen wrote: >"Radicalism for Dummies" -- your new book project, >Doug. jks Actually, I just finished writing a long (8,000-word) piece for next year's Socialist Register on "the business community." Re-read some of Domhoff's old stuff to prepare for it., and it seems way out of date I think I'm going to turn the essay into a little book on today's Ruling Class. Doug

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Date:	Thu Jun 16 09:46:30 PDT 2005

18389 [lbo-talk] world-historic icepick found! -- rank: 1000

Guardian (London) - June 16, 2005 'Ice-pick that killed Trotsky' found in Mexico Jo Tuckman in Mexico City One of the most notorious murder weapons in modern history, the ice-pick that killed Leon Trotsky, appears to have been found, 65 years after it was apparently stolen from the Mexican police. The daughter of a former secret service agent claims she has the steel mountaineering instrument, which is stained with the blood of the Russian revolutionary. Exiled by Joseph Stalin, Trotsky lived a ...

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Date:	Thu Jun 16 09:44:34 PDT 2005

18390 [lbo-talk] Tariq Ali: letter to a young Muslim -- rank: 1000

<http://www.zmag.org/content/Race/aliletter.cfm> Letter to a Young Muslim by Tariq Ali Remember when you approached me after the big antiwar meeting in November 2001 (I think it was Glasgow) and asked whether I was a believer? I have not forgotten the shock you registered when I replied "no", or the comment of your friend ("our parents warned us against you"), or the angry questions which the pair of you then began to hurl at me like darts. All of that made me think, an ...

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Date:	Thu Jun 16 09:31:26 PDT 2005