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19051 [lbo-talk] Dirty Harry -- rank: 1000

Kevin Robert Dean wrote: >Clint Eastwood squinted like Dirty Harry Tuesday night as he took >aim at Michael Moore. This was in the NY Times "gossip" column the other day, which is surely the worst gossip column on earth. New York Times - January 11, 2004 BOLDFACE NAMES Call Us Crazy, but We See a Buddy Movie Here By JOYCE WADLER MICHAEL MOORE did something shocking for the People's Choice Awards show in Los Angeles on Sunday night - he got himself coiffed. We're not saying for su ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jan 14 15:28:56 PST 2005

19052 [lbo-talk] right-wing hit on LF -- rank: 1000

John Lacny wrote: >For more on this, see: > >http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/opinion/letters/s_183883.html Do they use "piffle"? That's long been one of my favorites! Doug

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Date:	Fri Jan 14 15:25:22 PST 2005

19053 [lbo-talk] [Fwd: RE: liza featherstone's wal mart work] -- rank: 1000

Ha - evidently Comrade Steigerwald thinks some people shouldn't be paid a living wage! Doug alex lantsberg wrote: >now this is funny. > >-------- Original Message -------- >Subject: RE: liza featherstone's wal mart work Date: Fri, 14 Jan >2005 15:35:51 -0500 From: bill Steigerwald ><mailto:bsteigerwald at tribweb.com><bsteigerwald at tribweb.com> To: >'alex lantsberg' <mailto:wideye at earthlink.net><wideye at earthlink.net> > > >Sure, send m ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jan 14 14:24:59 PST 2005

19054 [lbo-talk] Stop Flogging the Dead Donkey and Own the Power of a Spoiler -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >It wasn't Chuck0 but you, Tariq Ali, and other utopian >AnybodyButBush intellectuals who made a promise that they would >promote voting for John Kerry until November 3rd and then would >organize huge protests at the inauguration of the next POTUS. For >instance, you wrote that "He [Tariq Ali] also said in a part of the >interview I didn't transcribe that should Kerry win, his >inauguration should be the occasion for the largest antiwar demo in ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 14 12:51:10 PST 2005

19055 [lbo-talk] Stop Flogging the Dead Donkey and Own the Power of aSpoiler -- rank: 1000

I don't know if it's a flame exactly, but it's a bit too ad hominem. Michael Dawson wrote: >Not a flame. > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org [mailto:lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org] >> On Behalf Of Yoshie Furuhashi >> Sent: Friday, January 14, 2005 10:33 AM >> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org; furuhashi.1 at osu.edu >> Subject: [lbo-talk] Stop Flogging the Dead Donkey and Own the Power of >> aSpoiler >&g ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jan 14 12:49:42 PST 2005

19056 [lbo-talk] Dean paid bloggers -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - January 14, 2005 Dean Campaign Made Payments To Two Bloggers By WILLIAM M. BULKELEY and JAMES BANDLER Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL January 14, 2005; Page B2 Howard Dean's presidential campaign hired two Internet political "bloggers" as consultants so that they would say positive things about the former governor's campaign in their online journals, according to a former high-profile Dean aide. Zephyr Teachout, the former head of Internet outreach for ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jan 14 09:38:25 PST 2005

19057 [lbo-talk] looking for prostitutes -- rank: 1000

For the next issue of Stay F---! I'm very much hoping to do a roundtable discussion with some local Brooklyn prostitutes. If anyone knows someone who knows sex workers (or if you know someone who knows someone who knows someone) please forward this along and/or let me know. ::::: Stay Free! -- a Brooklyn based magazine of culture and politics -- is looking for sharp, articulate prostitutes (with a sense of humor) to participate in a roundtable discussion; the conversation will be published in ou ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 14 09:33:37 PST 2005

19058 [lbo-talk] right-wing hit on LF -- rank: 1000

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - December 26, 2004 Smearing Wal-Mart By Bill Steigerwald T he Nation magazine, the gloomy, creaking voice of what's left of the American left, is not known for its humor. But "Down and Out in Discount America," its current cover story on how Wal-Mart's famous low prices damage America's poor, is one of the funniest parodies of dumb union economics you'll ever read. Everyone knows Wal-Mart, which grew to hugeness in Red State America, has lots of political and ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 14 08:14:33 PST 2005

19059 [lbo-talk] Powell to Bush: we're losing; Bush to Powell: get lost -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - January 13, 2004 Powell gives bleak assessment of Iraq security problems By Guy Dinmore in Washington Colin Powell, outgoing secretary of state, says he would like to see US troops leave Iraq "as quickly as possible" but that the strength of the insurgency does not allow the Bush administration to set a timeframe for a withdrawal this year. Mr Powell told National Public Radio yesterday the US leadership had been "in almost non-stop meetings for the last couple o ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jan 14 07:38:07 PST 2005

19060 [lbo-talk] coalition of the shrinking, further -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - January 14, 2005 Washington Wire [John Harwood] [...] MORE PARTNERS PEEL OFF from U.S.-led effort in Iraq. With violence surging, new Ukrainian President Yushchenko vows to bring his 1,600 troops home within six months. After agreeing to leave troops through this month's elections, Hungary plans to bring them home by March. Others planning full or partial pullouts include the Netherlands, Czech Republic and Poland, while Portugal and Moldova mull following suit. Though nea ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 14 07:35:55 PST 2005

19061 [lbo-talk] video -- rank: 1000

[I don't think anyone's mentioned this here. Video, complete with musical soundtrack, at <http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article7468.htm>.] A Message From The "Iraq Resistance" Islamic Jihad Army - A message in English "We are simple people who chose principles over fear." Iraqi Resistance speech on videotape December 13 2004 Communiqué Number 6 The media platoon of the Islamic Jihad Army. On the 27th of Shawal 1425h. 10 December 2004 People of the world! The ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 14 07:29:10 PST 2005

19062 [lbo-talk] Stop Flogging the Dead Donkey and Own the Power of aSpoiler -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >Isn't it kind of amazing that after all the rhetoric about Bush and >Co. being evil, not one Democratic or progressive leader issued a >call to take to the streets after Bush won? With what message should people take to the streets? The election was a fraud? Elections in general are a fraud? There was some funny stuff in Ohio, but Bush really won this time. Do you want to protest the American electorate? Or is it just fun to take to the streets, and who needs a message? B ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 14 06:59:46 PST 2005

19063 [lbo-talk] ABK -- rank: 1000

A view from the other side - I'm having Lew Rockwell on the radio this afternoon. <http://www.lewrockwell.com/rockwell/kerry-calamity.html> The Myth of the Kerry Calamity by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. In the weeks before the election, with the usual partisan hysteria becoming ever more intense, public intellectuals are ripping off the mask of principle to come out in favor of one or the other candidate. Typically, many libertarians are throwing their support behind Bush, and on the usual g ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 13 12:03:41 PST 2005

19064 [lbo-talk] Jeb hires plagiarist & porn fan -- rank: 1000

[via Romenesko] >Bush is thankful he could hire journo accused of >plagiarism<http://www.theledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050112/NEWS/501120347/1004> > >Lakeland Ledger >Florida Gov. Jeb Bush claims the plagiarism and sexual harassment >allegations against former Florida Times-Union editorial page editor >Lloyd Brown are "not quite accurate." He says he's "thankful for the >fact that (Brown) is willing to serve here in state government." ...

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Date:	Thu Jan 13 11:08:00 PST 2005

19065 [lbo-talk] E&P: comparing Rathergate and WMDgate -- rank: 1000

Editor & Publisher - January 13, 2004 No WMDs, But Everyone Gets a Mulligan Media failures contributed to both the "60 Minutes" fiasco and going to war on false pretenses. Guess which major announcement this week will get the most ink? By Greg Mitchell (January 12, 2005) -- It's only Thursday, and already it's clear that yesterday's official announcement that really, for sure -- no kidding -- there are no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq will get much less play in the media than ...

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Date:	Thu Jan 13 11:05:34 PST 2005