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18841 [lbo-talk] Bob Bork worries about moral chaos -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - July 5, 2005 Their Will Be Done By ROBERT H. BORK What do the nomination of a replacement for Sandra Day O'Connor, constitutional law, and moral chaos have to do with one another? A good deal more than you may think. In Federalist 2, John Jay wrote of America that "Providence has been pleased to give this one connected country to one united people -- a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking the same language, professing the same religion, attached to the sa ...

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Date:	Tue Jul 5 06:40:26 PDT 2005

18842 [lbo-talk] Saddam lawyers file US writ to move trial outside Iraq -- rank: 1000

Leigh Meyers wrote: >Two more offlist, stop. That's between you & him, not us. Doug

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Date:	Mon Jul 4 12:04:09 PDT 2005

18843 [lbo-talk] dastardly UN/French scheme to screw Americans & subsidize socialists! -- rank: 1000

CONTACT: To schedule an interview with Cliff Kincaid, call: Special Guests/Jerry McGlothlin or Amy Johnson, 630-848-0750. U.N. TRILLION DOLLAR TAX ON U.S. CITIZENS PROPOSED "A Most Unpatriotic Assault on Americans" --Kincaid WASHINGTON, DC (July 4, 2005) - As the Group of Eight most industrialized nations prepares to meet in Gleneagles, Scotland, July 6-8, a leading public policy group concerned with U.N. matters is warning of a foreign plot to impose global taxes on American citizens ...

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Date:	Mon Jul 4 10:04:49 PDT 2005

18844 [lbo-talk] Minutemen -- rank: 1000

[bounced for excessive length - I appreciate the cleaning, noted at the bottom, but html coding raised it from 9k to over 20k - please please please plain text] From: "Steven L. Robinson" <srobin21 at comcast.net> Subject: Minutemen gear up for expanded patrol Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2005 21:59:31 -0400 (We must be alarmed the apparent eagerness of some Texans to use weapons and to attempt to physically arrest immigrants. Previously - most - of the 'Minutemen' would not directly confron ...

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Date:	Mon Jul 4 08:13:12 PDT 2005

18845 [lbo-talk] Jesse Lemisch on The Gates -- rank: 1000

[seems a little cranky to me, but worth reading, as usual] At 6:01 PM -0400 7/3/05, Jesse Lemisch wrote: > Below is a link to my "Art for the People? Christo and Jeanne-Claude's 'The >Gates,'" just coming out in New Politics, Summer > 2005 (vol X, no. 3). It deals with, among other things, The Gates, the >left and art, privatization and union-busting in Central Park, and free >expression in the Park. Comments are welcome. > http://www.wpunj.edu/newpol/issue39/L ...

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Date:	Mon Jul 4 08:09:39 PDT 2005

18846 [lbo-talk] Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's Face -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: > Laura Rozrn's blog. >http://www.warandpiece.com/blogdirs/002212.html >Iran's President-Elect Mahmoud Ahmadinejad linked to the 1989 >assassination of an Iranian Kurdish resistance leader in Vienna? >Austrian authorities are investigating, based on a tip from an Iranian >journalist based in Paris to an Austrian Green Party leader. >Posted by Laura at July 2, 2005 02:37 PM > > Imagine that. Snort. Michael, take a stress pill, relax. Doug

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Date:	Sun Jul 3 16:33:17 PDT 2005

18847 [lbo-talk] 24 years ago today... -- rank: 1000

...the era of AIDS began. <http://www.nytimes.com/1981/07/03/health/03AIDS.html> New York Times - July 3, 1981 Rare Cancer Seen in 41 Homosexuals By Lawrence K. Altman Doctors in New York and California have diagnosed among homosexual men 41 cases of a rare and often rapidly fatal form of cancer. Eight of the victims died less than 24 months after the diagnosis was made. The cause of the outbreak is unknown, and there is as yet no evidence of contagion. But the doctors who have made the di ...

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Date:	Sun Jul 3 14:18:47 PDT 2005

18848 [lbo-talk] Zogby: no bounce for Bush from speech -- rank: 1000

[Love this - poll shows country divided, but Americans want bipartisan solution. What's wrong with partisanship?] <http://www.zogby.com/news/ReadNews.dbm?ID=1007> Released: June 30, 2005 No Bounce: Bush Job Approval Unchanged by War Speech; Question on Impeachment Shows Polarization of Nation; Americans Tired of Divisiveness in Congress-Want Bi-Partisan Solutions-New Zogby Poll President Bush's televised address to the nation produced no noticeable bounce in his approval numbers, with his ...

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Date:	Sun Jul 3 13:46:03 PDT 2005

18849 twisted underoos Re: [lbo-talk] Ever more opportunities -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote: >> >>> >> So it's not worth arguing with people who have millions of >> listeners/readers? Did you ever read Theories of Surplus Value? Was >> Marx wasting his time arguing with the hacks of his day? > >I had this exact argument with a local SDS leader (I had recruited him >to SDS myself)in the summer of '69. Two months later he switched over to >the Weatherman faction of SDS, and from there he drifted out ...

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Date:	Sun Jul 3 11:38:42 PDT 2005

18850 [lbo-talk] The Bradich 10 Point Plan -- rank: 1000

Todd Archer wrote: >*frenching an actor made up to look like either Ronald Reagan or >Margaret Thatcher without fainting afterwards We were at a dinner party a few months ago at which a gay Jewish left-wing New York intellectual confessed - no, bragged - that he had the hots for George W Bush, and would love to do him. It was the most perverted thing I'd ever heard! Doug

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Date:	Sun Jul 3 10:11:15 PDT 2005

18851 [lbo-talk] generalizations and history -- rank: 1000

snitsnat wrote: >At 01:27 PM 7/2/2005, Doug Henwood wrote: >>snitsnat wrote: >> >>>I don't think there's one active reader of LBO who's unaware of >>>the difference between a paleocon, a Rockefeller republican, a >>>christian rightwinger, a libertarain rightwinger, etc. >> >>Yeah, but we're connoisseurs of this sort of thing. > >Yeah, you know, but the people I'm talking about are too. You snipped the part where I mentioned The Nation a ...

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Date:	Sun Jul 3 09:42:07 PDT 2005

18852 [lbo-talk] Entering a dark age of innovation -- rank: 1000

Joseph Wanzala wrote: >And an activist i know came up >and told me Morgan Reynolds has helped the cause of disinformation by mixing >good stuff with "In Plane Site" with over-the-edge stuff. This reminds me of the ad for the fortune-telling service that claimed they used real psychics, not the poseurs you see on tv! Doug

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Date:	Sun Jul 3 09:27:18 PDT 2005

18853 [lbo-talk] Ever more opportunities -- rank: 1000

Jim Devine wrote: > > Hippies can be very judgmental, can't they? > >are you saying that being judgmental is a bad thing? Not necessarily, but you don't expect such of hippies.

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Date:	Sun Jul 3 09:23:54 PDT 2005

18854 twisted underoos Re: [lbo-talk] Ever more opportunities -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Look. With all the things in the world to talk about, LBO posters who >choose to put on exhibit their moral or intellectual superiority to this >woman, are also lbo posters who can't have much to say that's worth >reading. Moralistic Horseshit. Gladstonian smugness. Perhaps they're >Channeling Addison, Warburton, or Macaulay. Why bother to analyze or >reply to it? You are probably right that it wouldn't even have made the >news were it a man, but what the ...

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Date:	Sun Jul 3 09:23:16 PDT 2005

18855 [lbo-talk] The Afghan War as a "Loss Leader" -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: > Re: Ahmadinejad. > Too busy in '79 beating up leftists and communists according to >news stories past few days. > But, since he's "anti-imperialist" and demogogues the poor, he's >fine and dandy. To whom? Doug

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Date:	Sun Jul 3 09:19:22 PDT 2005