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19186 [lbo-talk] UFPJ Leadership Funks Out -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >The population is more in favor of bringing the troops home than >ever before, according to the Harris poll: So why aren't they joining the antiwar movement? Doug

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Date:	Fri Feb 25 07:06:23 PST 2005

19187 [lbo-talk] The Military, the Church, and the Police -- rank: 1000

snitilicious at tampabay.rr.com wrote: >At 05:23 PM 2/24/2005, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > >>These facts argue against the idea that we must adapt our cultural >>agenda to a conservative sexual belief in order to win over >>working-class born-again or evangelical Christians. > > >I don't think anyone has suggested this. the neocons in the >democratic party, yes. But who here is advocating adapting "our >cultural agenda"? Certainly not me. But it's i ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 25 06:37:26 PST 2005

19188 [lbo-talk] The Rapture Index & "white trash" -- rank: 1000

DSR wrote: >Wow, are you still in Mississippi? Did you read my post? My def of >middle class did not include the poor revivalists, but the very 3 >bedroom 2 car "protestants" you refer to. Perhaps the South (and a >many of the flyover states) have changed from your experience, >because I'm talking about white middle to upper middle class 3, 4, >5, 6 and beyond bedroom home folks driving SUVs, Lexus and BMWs >crowding into the evangelical super-churches in urba ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 24 16:02:56 PST 2005

19189 [lbo-talk] Maxspeak on with Fathead today! -- rank: 1000

Max B. Sawicky wrote: >I got bumped. Something about a Polish dude >taking ill. Hey, I got bumped from The Breakfast Club in Kingston, Jamaica, this morning because there was a shootout in Kingston that took several lives. What's a few dead or an illin' pope next to macroeconomic analysis, anyway?

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Date:	Thu Feb 24 16:01:02 PST 2005

19190 [lbo-talk] UFPJ Leadership Funks Out -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >The following paragraphs from a curren Counterpunch article are the most >depressing news that I have read since 9/11. What they indicate is that >the Anti-War Movement has been dissolved in practice by its ostensible >leadership. I never dreamt that the ABBs could sink so low. I was >enraged by their desertion of their responsiblities during the electoral >campaign, but I assumed that they would wake up after the election. It >seems that their desertion i ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 24 15:46:55 PST 2005

19191 [lbo-talk] Liza on CNBC -- rank: 1000

Sorry for the short notice, but anyone near a TV can see the radiant & brilliant Liza Featherstone on Maria Bartiromo's show on CNBC, sometime between 4 & 5 Eastern US time today. Doug

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Date:	Thu Feb 24 12:42:40 PST 2005

19192 [lbo-talk] The Rapture Index & "white trash" -- rank: 1000

Marta Russell wrote: >>Incidentally -- the sociology of the subject line must be all wrong. >>Probably more believers in the Rapture fit the stereotype "yuppie" than >>the stereotype "white trash"????? >> >>Carrol >> > >That is not my experience. the yuppies go to protestant churches, >like Methodist, Episcopalian, etc., they are not Pentacostal or >evangelicals. >Marta But the working class can't hold bad views - only " ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 24 12:13:32 PST 2005

19193 [lbo-talk] The Military, the Church, and the Police -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote: >> >> Carrol Cox wrote: >> >> >Statements about individual evangelicals etc. based on their supposed >> >beliefs are totally untrustworthy. >> > >> >Everyone on this list must know the gap between theory and practice in >> >most human affairs -- why should it be different among poor whites, >> >evangelicals, etc.? >> >> Right, so forget those 40 million votes for ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 24 09:19:53 PST 2005

19194 [lbo-talk] cops spy on kissers -- rank: 1000

[from the RTS-NYC list - the video quality is pretty crummy] A state-of-the-art NYPD helicopter with infrared camera over the August 27 critical mass ride films a couple making out on a penthouse roof instead of the violent mass arrest of hundreds of bicyclists on the street below. This tape was turned over as part of discorvery material in the upcoming criminal trial of a legal observer. CBS2 has the story on video with this link. http://wcbs.dayport.com/launcher/21950/?tf=video_player.tpl& ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 24 09:15:24 PST 2005

19195 [lbo-talk] Churchill in Hawaii -- rank: 1000

[Did Gingrich really say this?: "No less than Newt Gingrich said, 'We're going to nail this guy and send the dominoes tumbling,'" Mr. Churchill said. "'And everybody who has an opinion out there and entire disciplines like ethnic studies and women's studies and cultural studies and queer studies that we don't like won't be there anymore.'"] Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - February 24, 2005 Ward Churchill Gets a Warm Welcome in Speech at U. of Hawaii By SCOTT SMALL ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 24 07:11:03 PST 2005

19196 [lbo-talk] The Rapture Index & "white trash" -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >You all probably know Maya Keyes was kicked out of the house upon >revelations of her homosexuality. >Fortunately she's got a scholarship to continue with her education. > >http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/2/23/12408/4981 > >Well, she chimed in on the Kos discussion board. ><SNIP> >It turns out, she has a website. A fascinating (not to mention >tough) young woman. > >http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=Xmisled0youthX > > ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 24 06:45:43 PST 2005

19197 [lbo-talk] The Military, the Church, and the Police -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Statements about individual evangelicals etc. based on their supposed >beliefs are totally untrustworthy. > >Everyone on this list must know the gap between theory and practice in >most human affairs -- why should it be different among poor whites, >evangelicals, etc.? Right, so forget those 40 million votes for Bush! Doug

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Date:	Thu Feb 24 06:39:54 PST 2005

19198 [lbo-talk] Fwd: Luntz playbook -- rank: 1000

[thanks to Michael Pug - lots of links at Slate] <http://slate.msn.com/id/2113945/ > GOP Master Plan Revealed! By Bidisha Banerjee Posted Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2005, at 5:12 PM PT The Anarchist Cookbook, GOP edition: Republican spin doctor Frank Luntz examines the lessons learned from last year's GOP victory in a playbook that the "non-partisan research and educational institute" Center for American Progress is dissecting in a series of blog posts. (You can download the entire 160- ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 24 06:32:13 PST 2005

19199 [lbo-talk] Kurt Andersen, you suck -- rank: 1000

New York Press - February 23-March 1, 2005 I SPY A SELLOUT Kurt Andersen, you're old and you suck. By Matt Taibbi Each of us has a Hobbesian choice concerning Iraq; either we hope for the vindication of Bush's risky, very possibly reckless policy, or we are in de facto alliance with the killers of American soldiers and Iraqi civilians... I don't mean to suggest, in the right-wing, proto-fascist rhetorical fashion, that every good American is obliged to support all American wars. But at this mome ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 24 06:24:06 PST 2005

19200 [lbo-talk] Dennis Perrin makes Gawker! -- rank: 1000

<http://www.gawker.com/news/media/commentary/index.php#the-wisdom-of-video-store-clerks-033971> The Wisdom of Video Store Clerks Author and blogger Dennis Perrin offers this bit of video store clerk brilliance in the second of his series of heartfelt Hunter S. Thompson tributes: Went to the local off-campus vid store with the crazy idea that I might rent "Breakfast With Hunter", last year's docu showing some of Thompson's private world, along with archival clips. Certainly The Ki ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 24 06:13:10 PST 2005