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18391 [lbo-talk] Can Liberal Faiths Compete with Conservative Faiths? (An Appeal to Ignorance) -- rank: 1000

Michael Hoover wrote: >never sure on lbo whether poster questions are asked sincerely given >pervasive 'new smarty' list culture (comment not intentionally >directed to above lister) but... Hmm, maybe we should try out a "new dummy" culture. Works nicely for some other forums. Doug

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Date:	Thu Jun 16 09:16:52 PDT 2005

18392 [lbo-talk] 'bogus' WTC Collapse story -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >CB: Yea, how come the power structure's story of 9/11 gets a special >exception to ruthless criticism of all that exists ? Because ruthless doesn't mean stupid. Doug

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Date:	Thu Jun 16 09:11:59 PDT 2005

18393 [lbo-talk] Misleading ABC release on gobal warming poll -- rank: 1000

[I was about to forward the ABC poll results when I saw this. Kull is director of the PIPA polling project. Forwarded with his permission from AAPORnet.] From: Steven Kull <pipa at his.com> Subject: Misleading ABC release on gobal warming poll The ABC News release of the new ABC/Washington Post poll on global warming presents a highly misleading depiction of public opinion, demonstrating the dangers of ignoring existing polling. The release makes the statement that "like the Bush admi ...

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Date:	Thu Jun 16 06:08:44 PDT 2005

18394 [lbo-talk] 'bogus' WTC Collapse story -- rank: 1000

Dennis Perrin wrote: >Forget the 9-11 "inside job" angle. Who here would label it blowback? It's hard to argue with blowback, isn't it? Doug

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Date:	Thu Jun 16 05:59:31 PDT 2005

18395 [lbo-talk] the Mozart Effect, and other textual extrapolations -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - June 15, 2005 Mozart and management: why companies fall for myths By Michael Skapinker Do babies who are exposed to classical music grow up to be more intelligent? You are in good company if you believe that they do. In 1998, the US state of Georgia began distributing free classical compact discs and tapes to new mothers. Florida required state-funded day-care centres to play classical music. In 2000, the South China Morning Post reported a common variation on the babies-and-cl ...

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Date:	Wed Jun 15 19:46:37 PDT 2005

18396 [lbo-talk] Doug's nose tricked, was A Personal Decision -- rank: 1000

philion at stolaf.edu wrote: >highly paid sociologists Ha! This is fantasy!! There's no such thing!!! Doug

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Date:	Wed Jun 15 19:42:05 PDT 2005

18397 [lbo-talk] Pics of "porn star" Mary Carey at Bush's dinner -- rank: 1000

B. wrote: >But anyway, something about this is pretty disgusting, >for some reason I can't quite express, right now. Porn stars shouldn't be Republicans, though where would Republicans be without porn and sex workers? Doug

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Date:	Wed Jun 15 17:08:13 PDT 2005

18398 [lbo-talk] A Personal Decision -- rank: 1000

Joseph Wanzala wrote: >The three WTC buildings in question weren't all designed the same >way and weren't all hit by airplanes. The only thing they seemed to >have in common were relatively small and manageable fires, as >indicated by the work of firefighters right up to the moment of >collapse. This is demented. I could see & smell the fires from six miles away. Joseph, you're a smart guy. How can you believe this torrent of crap? Doug

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Date:	Wed Jun 15 15:46:58 PDT 2005

18399 [lbo-talk] Re:911 "inside" job -- rank: 1000

frank scott wrote: >>"...the >>inescapable logic that the building's demolition was planned in >>advance of the attack, and was therefore part of an inside job to >>destroy the entire WTC complex." >> >inescapable, indeed...and it was organized by anti-semites , too... The point of that remark is...?

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Date:	Wed Jun 15 15:00:00 PDT 2005

18400 [lbo-talk] SCOTUS image frayed -- rank: 1000

PEW RESEARCH CENTER FOR PEOPLE & THE PRESS Supreme Court's Image Declines as Nomination Battle Looms Court Critics Now on Both Left and Right With an aging Supreme Court possibly facing major changes, the court's public image has eroded significantly. Currently, 57% of Americans have a favorable opinion of the Supreme Court, with 30% expressing an unfavorable view. In the past, favorable views of the court typically have surpassed 70%; even in January 2001, shortly after the Supreme Court's ...

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Date:	Wed Jun 15 13:56:01 PDT 2005

18401 [lbo-talk] Re: China [was: Blowing Up an Assumption] -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese quoted: >With the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia launched itself on >a fitful transition to Western-style democracy. But a decade later, >Boris Yeltsin's handpicked successor, Vladimir Putin, a childhood >hooligan turned KGB officer who rose from nowhere determined to >restore the order of the Soviet past, resolved to bring an end to the >revolution. Do you really believe this drivel? Yeltsin was a hack who presided over one of the great collapses in ...

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Date:	Wed Jun 15 13:34:10 PDT 2005

18402 [lbo-talk] more on the new labor thingy -- rank: 1000

At 3:40 PM -0400 6/15/05, Jonathan Tasini wrote: Colleagues: today, a new labor coalition was unveiled of five unions who may use the new grouping as an umbrella for a new labor federation. I'll be discussing this tonight on The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer on PBS (check local listings for exact time). Also, I've posted a lengthy report from the press conference that took place just a couple of hours ago. Overall, I think people should see this new coalition as distinct from the debate about the fut ...

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Date:	Wed Jun 15 12:55:18 PDT 2005

18403 [lbo-talk] 'bogus' WTC Collapse story -- rank: 1000

Joseph Wanzala wrote: >Doug, > >what you and others are now doing is argument by innuendo and >indulging in one of your favorite pastimes - making fun of >right-wing-libertarian types. Nah, that's too easy. Besides I used to be one. I'd rather make fun of the people - as a friend put it the other day - who stick a finger in their ear and sing "Blowin' in the Wind." >what you cannot avoid despite the heroic efforts I am witnessing >here is that a person from the alb ...

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18404 [lbo-talk] 'bogus' WTC Collapse story -- rank: 1000

Jordan Hayes wrote: >It looks to me like this guy has been at it for some time; I don't think >this is "news" or "breaking ranks" -- he was a Waco "expert" for a long >time before this, too. > >His "solid Republican establishment credentials" are about as solid as >Paul O'Neil's were . . . > >http://www.lewrockwell.com/reynolds/reynolds-arch.html > >That is: he's an outsider. No kidding <http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig4/rey ...

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Date:	Wed Jun 15 10:07:09 PDT 2005

18405 [lbo-talk] Schiavo had half a regulation brain -- rank: 1000

Schiavo had severe brain damage, autopsy finds 47 minutes ago LARGO, Fla. (Reuters) - Terri Schiavo, a Florida woman who died in March after a fierce right-to-die battle that involved the U.S. Congress, was severely brain damaged and had no hope of recovery, said a medical examiner who gave the results of an autopsy on Wednesday. "Her brain was profoundly atrophied," Pinellas County medical examiner Jon Thogmartin told a news conference, adding that her brain weighed about half what a ...

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