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19156 [lbo-talk] Missing the Marx -- rank: 1000

andie nachgeborenen wrote: > Given the hash that capitalism has made >> of the world, I >> don't see why we should give too much credence to >> this position. >> > >Oh come, now you are starting to sound like Charles. >Why can't I say just as well, given the hash that the >Soviets made of their part of the world . . . . I could make a long list of what was wrong with the Soviet Union (though I doubt it'd be as long as Michael Pugliese's). But the Soviet ...

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Date:	Sun Jan 2 09:51:46 PST 2005

19157 [lbo-talk] one day "shopping" boycott -- rank: 1000

John Lacny wrote: >I seem to remember that the last time we had this discussion, SOMEONE >on this list was giving me shit for dumping on the low production values >of the Democracy Now! TV version. You mean you don't like Amy's giant headphones?

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19158 [lbo-talk] Iraqi Rebels Say They're Fighting To Prevent GayMarriage -- rank: 1000

Michael, it's not kosher to forward stuff like that from elsewhere. And Carrol, don't call Michael a troll. Doug Michael Pugliese wrote: >On Sat, 01 Jan 2005 17:36:36 -0600, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote: > >>The moral is, if you want to lighten it up a bit, don't quote trolls in >>the process. >> >>Carrol > > Called a troll, twice in an evening by two of the worst examples >of bitter, snide, rancorous sectarians on the internut left. Heh. ...

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Date:	Sat Jan 1 18:53:19 PST 2005

19159 [lbo-talk] Fwd: [kenslist] FW: [*M*] US: -- rank: 1000

San Francisco Bay View, CA, December 29, 2004 http://www.sfbayview.com/122904/thouartloosed122904.shtml Pastor thou art loosed by Jasmyne Cannick Rev. Gregory Daniels, a Black minister in Chicago, made the statement, "If the KKK opposes gay marriage, then I'd ride with them." Bishop Eddie L. Long of Atlanta's mega church New Birth has called for a march from the King Center to protect the institution of marriage as being between one man and one woman. Earlier this year, over 160 Africa ...

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Date:	Sat Jan 1 14:38:55 PST 2005

19160 [lbo-talk] Missing the Marx -- rank: 1000

andie nachgeborenen wrote: >Well, some here _do_ want to plan everything. Peace be unto them. > And I am >not sure that improvision is a good substitute or >alternative for marketing or planning. It's inevitable in any system. Any work process is full of it - it's one reason why experience and skill are important. Strange stuff happens and workers at all levels have to cope. In fact, that's one reason to give workers a lot more credit than they usually get from the bourgeoisie: spon ...

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Date:	Sat Jan 1 11:36:32 PST 2005

19161 [lbo-talk] Ward Churchill is Neocon Test Case for Academic Purges -- rank: 1000

louis kontos wrote: >One doesn't have to be impressed with Churchill's scholarship to see >the logic of Cox's post. I agree. To me there's really no debate on the issue and I'm appalled anyone thinks otherwise. Doug

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Date:	Mon Feb 28 17:18:17 PST 2005

19162 [lbo-talk] Bush, Berry win Razzies -- rank: 1000

George Bush, Halle Berry share worst film honors Sun Feb 27, 2005 03:18 AM ET By Arthur Spiegelman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - George W. Bush won the "Razzie" worst actor of the year award on Saturday for his performance as president in "Fahrenheit 9/11" but his moment in Hollywood's dubious spotlight was eclipsed by Halle Berry, who actually turned up to receive her embarrassing accolade. Berry was named worst actress of 2004 by the Golden Raspberry Award Foundation for her perf ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 28 12:04:36 PST 2005

19163 [lbo-talk] women on top -- rank: 1000

joanna bujes wrote: >I wonder what's fueling this? Perhaps it's women realizing that >they're much more likely to have to support a family.... That, and men are unraveling. It's tough to adjust when you lose your patriarchal inheritance! Doug

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Date:	Mon Feb 28 10:45:49 PST 2005

19164 [lbo-talk] women on top -- rank: 1000

Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - February 28, 2005 Women Increase Their Lead Over Men in Bevy of Undergraduate Statistics, Report Says Female students have gone from being a minority to a majority of undergraduate enrollments in the United States over the last generation, and have increased their preparedness for college work and their graduation rates, in many cases besting their male counterparts, according to a report released on Friday by the National Center for Education Statist ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 28 05:27:29 PST 2005

19165 [lbo-talk] The realist argument for a w/drawal schedule -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >should the demands of the anti-war movement What antiwar movement? It barely exists anymore. Doug

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Date:	Sun Feb 27 07:10:19 PST 2005

19166 [lbo-talk] Who Set People Up for Disappointment and Demoralization? -- rank: 1000

snitilicious at tampabay.rr.com wrote: >Doug's probably using Eudora's search tool which let's you seach by >sender and by a specific phrase in the body, the subject line, to >To: line, the headers, whatever. It can be case sensitive and it can >search only for Nader, weeding out 'greensfornader' Yes, I was using Eudora's search tool. But weeding out "greensfornader" would eliminate posts that also had Nader in the body of the text - and it would be misleading, because by ...

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Date:	Sat Feb 26 12:38:27 PST 2005

19167 [lbo-talk] Who Set People Up for Disappointment and Demoralization? -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: Her fourth post of the day, after averaging 8.3/day for the previous three days. Doug

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19168 [lbo-talk] Who Set People Up for Disappointment and Demoralization? -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >I hope that, if not you and Doug who appear committed to denying >_any_ responsibility for the lose-lose-lose disaster in 2004, the >rest of Americans on the (broadly defined) left are too >disappointed, disgusted, or outraged by the John Kerry debacle to >give as much support to the Democratic Party presidential candidate >in 2008 as they did in 2004. Bet you're wrong. Take a look at the last couple of Nation covers - John Nichols has found yet another ...

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Date:	Sat Feb 26 09:58:32 PST 2005

19169 [lbo-talk] Who Set People Up for Disappointment and Demoralization? -- rank: 1000

snitilicious at tampabay.rr.com wrote: >I've a feeling that, were we to count up posts, the number of posts >pummeling Nader supporters/Nader would be quite a bit less than the >number of posts pummeling Doug and others for not supporting Nader. >:o Posts to lbo-talk in 2004 containing the word "Nader" from dhenwood at panix.com 251 from furuhashi.1 at osu.edu 491 Doug

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Date:	Sat Feb 26 08:27:59 PST 2005

19170 [lbo-talk] The Military, the Church, and the Police -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com, Fri Feb 25 09:07:21 PST 2005 >>DSR wrote: >> >>>America is choking off the need by Leftists to understand where >>>common ground can be found, e.g., Yoshie's citations regarding >>>similar economic concerns among evangelicals and leftists. >> >>A lot of which may be reflecting the opinions of black evangelicals - > >See "Table 7: Republican Identification By Income and Re ...

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