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18766 [lbo-talk] seasoning the PM's dinner -- rank: 1000

[via popbitch - who knows if this is true?] >> Cum and get it << Why Royal food tastes so bad Staff at Balmoral Castle tell us that kitchen stewards always masturbate into the Blairs' food when they come to stay with the Queen. Blair: "Where's my dinner?" Steward: "Just coming, Prime Minister!"

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Date:	Wed Jul 13 10:50:19 PDT 2005

18767 [lbo-talk] Re: London - Amnesia Express -- rank: 1000

Joseph Wanzala wrote: >- at the time I posted the article, the neo-nazi angle was as >plausible a scenario as anything else since the report you cite had >not yet hit the papers. I also wonder why many 'leftists' >(especially of the lbo-talk variety) seem eager to latch onto any >official story rather than trying to figure things out for >themselves. A lot of the time, the official story is correct, even if spun in bad ways. Why should a gang of nuts sitting in front of their c ...

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Date:	Wed Jul 13 10:39:15 PDT 2005

18768 [lbo-talk] London - Amnesia Express -- rank: 1000

Joseph Wanzala wrote: >The birth of the London bomb Official Story > >You can practically hear the click at that moment in the life of >every conspiracy when the police investigation turns into the >Official Story. At that point, the investigation is intended to 'fix >the facts' to the Official Story, and the cover-up begins. The story >of the London bombs has made this transformation within the last >twenty-four hours. The authorities thought it was small bombs with > ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jul 13 10:37:16 PDT 2005

18769 [lbo-talk] Godwin's law -- rank: 1000

Dwayne Monroe wrote: >Charles B: > >So what ? What is the political significance of this ? > >===== > > >I don't think it's meant to have any political significance. It would be a >mistake to critique it from any serious POV. > >It's a joke in fancy dress It may be a joke, but it's a pretty good rule of thumb, empirically speaking. Bringing in the Nazis is usually a sign of desperation or debasement or something unpleasant. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jul 13 10:32:58 PDT 2005

18770 [lbo-talk] Who here has been quoting Magazine? -- rank: 1000

B. wrote: >My >fave Magazine song was probably "Song from Under the >Floorboards." One of the few I could find out there in the, um, digital commons. Well, there were 14 others, but not the one about the cadre and hegemony. Doug

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Date:	Wed Jul 13 10:22:31 PDT 2005

18771 [lbo-talk] Chinese shark attack! -- rank: 1000

<http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20050718&s=henwood> COMMENT | posted July 12, 2005 (web only) Chinese Shark Attack! DOUG HENWOOD Turn on the TV, and there's always something new to fear. Not the really scary stuff, necessarily, like bombs in the subway (though the talking heads do their best to maximize those fears) but the daily sensations that are the lifeblood of cable TV: disappearing in Aruba, getting attacked by sharks--or being taken over by the Chinese. The China National ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jul 13 10:10:37 PDT 2005

18772 [lbo-talk] blow the Christian right wide open! -- rank: 1000

Dwayne Monroe wrote: >Doug posted: > ><http://www.insider-magazine.com/ChristianMafia.htm> > > >========== > > >Ah. > > >I browsed to this URL and was about to skim the text when a thought >took hold: don't read, just search for the word, "Nazi" and see what >happens. > >After noting 54 occurrences (and counting!) I gave up. > >I may be wrong, but I don't even think an essay on the SS would >contain that many "Nazis&qu ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 12 14:43:23 PDT 2005

18773 [lbo-talk] blow the Christian right wide open! -- rank: 1000

Joseph Wanzala, what do you think of this conspiracy? Could it blow the Xian right wide open? <http://aoreport.com/200502_news_expose-christianmafia.htm>. Your pal Madsen seems to be in the know (see link at bottom to <http://www.insider-magazine.com/ChristianMafia.htm>). Doug

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Date:	Tue Jul 12 14:01:37 PDT 2005

18774 [lbo-talk] nuts watching nuts (smashing windows) -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: His 9th post of the day. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 12 13:35:49 PDT 2005

18775 [lbo-talk] nuts watching nuts (smashing windows) -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: 8 posts Sunday. 14 posts Monday. 8 posts today. The limit is 3. Doug

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Date:	Tue Jul 12 13:24:36 PDT 2005

18776 [lbo-talk] conspiracy! democrats were trying to takedown administration! -- rank: 1000

snitsnat quoted: >Why would the New York Times stonewall the special prosecutor they >themselves asked for The editorial writers and the publisher are different people, for one. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 12 13:23:33 PDT 2005

18777 [lbo-talk] Fartback, or fightback? -- rank: 1000

snitsnat wrote: >Yesterday, I was reading, belatedly, a story about the history of >Page 6 in Vanity Fair. Apparently, Robert Mitchum offended Janet >Sartin because he was smoking on the plane. When she pointed out >that it was a no smoking section, Mitchum stood up and left a deadly >one to waft her way. This gives new meaning to that now-ubiquitous "You're a Mitchum man" campaign <http://www.mitchumman.com/content_flash.asp>

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 12 12:44:21 PDT 2005

18778 [lbo-talk] nuts watching nuts (smashing windows) -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >Whan farmers burn down a Monsanto office in India, are they a bunch >of spoiled brats? Is that enormously different from smashing the window of a cafe in Adams-Morgan? Doug

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Date:	Tue Jul 12 12:24:03 PDT 2005

18779 [lbo-talk] Fartback -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >I saw a lot of those attitudes among South Africans I met, and that >impressed me quite a bit. I also heard stories of the survivors of the Nazi >concentration camps expressing similar attitudes. It dawned on me that >people who really suffered usually want to forget rather than to fan their >hatred and their desire for a revenge, let alone indiscriminate blowback. >The latter is usually the domain of middle class "identity politics" fucks ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 12 11:56:54 PDT 2005

18780 [lbo-talk] nuts watching nuts (smashing windows) -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >The civil rights movement was somewhat successful because the state >wanted to avoid the growing anger in communities which eventually >erupted in urban inssurections. Placating the nonviolent wing of >that movement was more palatable than having American cities burned >to the groung and a braoder revolution breaking out. The issue of burning cities didn't hit until the mid-60s. The civil rights movement was already well underway. There was no inkling of a "bro ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 12 09:35:48 PDT 2005