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19081 [lbo-talk] Armstrong as self-syndicator -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Jon Johanning, you are a bloody liar and scoundrel. Find one example of >someone who opposed Kerry and who also attacked Kerry's voters. > >I have never said, nor has any other enemy of the DP on this list ever >said, one word against the voters for Kerry. Only an ignoramus or lying >scoundrel would suggest this. > >What slime! Put a cork in the insults, Cox. I'm really tired of your act. You spew more insults than the rest of the listmembers combined, ...

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Date:	Tue Jan 11 14:29:19 PST 2005

19082 [lbo-talk] Armstrong as self-syndicator -- rank: 1000

Jon Johanning wrote: >Oddly enough, many people are forgetting that nearly half the people >who voted in the recent election voted against Bush (including both >"blue-state" and "red-state" residents). It's doubtful that many of >them have changed their minds and now support him. In addition, one >might expect that the continuing disaster in Iraq and the coming >disaster of Bush's Social Security plan will change the minds of >some Bush voters. He's retak ...

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Date:	Tue Jan 11 13:45:33 PST 2005

19083 [lbo-talk] conclusion to Tigar's defense of Stewart -- rank: 1000

[John Mage passed along this transcript, which appears here for the first time anywhere: it's the conclusion of Michael Tigar's summation in the trial of Lynne Stewart.] 11960 51A5SAT1 1 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 1 SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK 2 -------------------------------------x 2 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 3 3 v. S1 02 Cr. 395 (JGK) 4 4 AHMED ABDEL SATTAR, a/k/a "Abu Omar," 5 a/k/a "Dr. Ahmed," LYNNE STEWART, ...

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19084 [lbo-talk] Armstrong as self-syndicator -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >Joanna: >> I'm impressed and encouraged that there remains "a line to cross." >> >I think it is mere scapegoating to maintain face rather than the existence >of actual standards. The jurnos need to maintain some semblance of >credibility so an occasional purge for a blatant transgression creates an >impression that the rest is credible. American journalists are a pretty debased bunch, but I really don't think they're quite as bad a ...

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Date:	Tue Jan 11 11:32:23 PST 2005

19085 [lbo-talk] Armstrong as self-syndicator -- rank: 1000

Editor & Publisher - January 10, 2005 Several Papers Nix Self-Syndicated Armstrong Williams Column By Dave Astor NEW YORK A spot-check of the newspapers that had been publishing Armstrong Williams' column indicates he may have a tough time self-syndicating, as he told E&P Friday he hopes to do. Tribune Media Services (TMS) Friday terminated its contract with Williams after revelations that he accepted $240,000 from the Bush administration to promote the No Child Left Behind education-ref ...

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Date:	Tue Jan 11 10:02:06 PST 2005

19086 [lbo-talk] Re: stalin worship -- rank: 1000

andie nachgeborenen wrote: >he was credited (mistakenly) with having Won The >War (by the people who did win the war!) Huh? I thought the Nazi's took 75% of their casualties in the USSR. Doug

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19087 [lbo-talk] Re: Epistemic matters relating to science and chairs -- rank: 1000

DSR wrote: >--- Doug wrote: > > The common sense of many Americans: > > >Heh, that's not common sense; that's "conventional wisdom." Same thing, no? Common sense is one of those deeply ideological things that seem as natural as the sunrise but which can be deeply fucked up. If I were at home now, I could quote Gramsci on common sense, but I'm not, so I can't. Doug

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Date:	Mon Jan 10 14:42:47 PST 2005

19088 [lbo-talk] Re: Epistemic matters relating to science and chairs -- rank: 1000

BklynMagus wrote: >Dear List: > >Euliabes asked: > >> And what's so great about common sense anyway? > >Well, it doesn't cost money to have it. You don't have >to take racially biased tests in order to enter institutions >of higher learning in order to acquire it. The common sense of many Americans: 1) Marriage is between a man & a woman, and sex between members of the same sex is at worst a sin, and at best, icky. 2) America is the greatest country in the wo ...

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Date:	Mon Jan 10 13:15:20 PST 2005

19089 [lbo-talk] SK vs. NK -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >In other words, Pat Bond is correct that a nation should first of all >isolate itself from the developed world (i.e. from the imperialist core) >if it ever wants, eventually, to attract industrial investment from the >imperial center. Countries as large as the USSR and China can do this - if they're skilled and luck. Small countries (and in this context, Brazil is probably closer to small than large) can't - they don't have the internal market to do it. They've got ...

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Date:	Mon Jan 10 13:09:18 PST 2005

19090 [lbo-talk] Williams sorry, won't return the money -- rank: 1000

USA Today - January 9, 2004 Media distributor severs ties with commentator By Judy Keen and Jim Drinkard, USA TODAY WASHINGTON - Armstrong Williams, who was paid by the Education Department to promote President Bush's education policies, says the public outcry and his firing by the company that syndicated his newspaper column are "the price you pay" for a mistake. USA TODAY reported on Friday that Williams, a prominent black pundit, was paid $240,000 to promote No Child Left Behind as ...

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Date:	Mon Jan 10 10:32:56 PST 2005

19091 [lbo-talk] Brakes to Benefits, GOP Backing -- rank: 1000

Marta Russell wrote: >>Marta Russell wrote: >> >>>Applying Brakes to Benefits Gets Wide G.O.P. Backing >> >>But Kerry would have been worse, of course. >> >>Doug > >Surely you jest. I do, but others weren't. Doug

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Date:	Mon Jan 10 10:17:58 PST 2005

19092 [lbo-talk] torture is kinda like cheerleading -- rank: 1000

[I've always thought that cheerleading was a form of torture, but not this way.] Lawyer: Iraqi Abuse Was Like Act of 'Cheerleaders' By Adam Tanner FORT HOOD, Texas (Reuters) - A lawyer for Charles Graner, accused ringleader in the Iraq (news - web sites) prisoner abuse scandal, defended piling naked prisoners in pyramids on Monday as valid prisoner control and compared it to shows by cheerleaders. "Don't cheerleaders all over America form pyramids six to eight times a year? Is that torture? ...

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Date:	Mon Jan 10 10:17:17 PST 2005

19093 [lbo-talk] Stalin worship -- rank: 1000

joanna bujes wrote: >The fact that a particular leader is worshipped might not tell us >anything more than the fact he was feared. But didn't Stalin do in the hated kulaks, which made the peasantry very happy? Doug

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Date:	Mon Jan 10 10:13:57 PST 2005

19094 [lbo-talk] SUNDAY (TODAY) NYC MEETING Against Genetic Engineering -- rank: 1000

Thomas Seay wrote: > > mitchelcohen at mindspring.com wrote: >> >> >This is a very important meeting for NYC-Metro area >> activists. It is >> >NOT a forum or workshop, it is an activist meeting >> to plan Area-wide >> >campaigns against Genetic Engineering. > >Are these people actually against genetic engineering >in toto or just against certain uses of genetic >engineering? >I can agree with the latter but not with the for ...

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Date:	Mon Jan 10 09:19:03 PST 2005

19095 [lbo-talk] SK vs. NK -- rank: 1000

uvj at vsnl.com wrote: >55% of Chinese exports are done by the foreign funded enterprises. >Why the US and the EU don't encourage the development of >manufacturing industry in Central and South America in a similar >fashion? Higher wage costs relative to China? That, yes, but for low-wage workers, Chinese are extremely skilled. Nothing like Communism to deliver a first-rate labor force to capital! Doug

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