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19216 [lbo-talk] Lynne Stewart speaks -- rank: 1000

Lance Murdoch wrote: > > 4. Like Churchill, she has nothing to apologize to the left for. >If Ward Churchill ever apologizes to you I hope it involves a >tomahawk somehow. Oh c'mon. Keep tomahawks out of this. Doug

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19217 [lbo-talk] Lynne Stewart speaks -- rank: 1000

andie nachgeborenen wrote: >I'm a not-nice liberal Then you're not a liberal! Doug

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Date:	Mon Feb 21 13:35:34 PST 2005

19218 [lbo-talk] Lynne Stewart speaks -- rank: 1000

Michael Dawson wrote: >4. Like Churchill, she has nothing to apologize to the left for. Not right now, no. Why is this so hard to understand? They're the leading edge of an intensified crackdown, and respectability is no defense. Doug

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19219 [lbo-talk] Lynne Stewart speaks -- rank: 1000

[this bounced for excessive length, helped by lots of extraneous headers and formatting codes, which more than doubled the bulk from 11k to 23k - please, if you're forwarding stuff, edit and convert to plain text, please - less for me to do, and easier on the readers] From: andie nachgeborenen <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com> Subject: Fwd: [NLGchicago] Fwd: Lynne Stewart's Fiery Speech (post-conviction) To: lbo-talk lbo-talk <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org> Great speech by Lynne Stewart. ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 21 10:32:52 PST 2005

19220 [lbo-talk] Al J's obit -- rank: 1000

<http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/67D36E3F-9D1E-4E17-8938-5624B812897C.htm> Author Hunter Thompson found dead Monday 21 February 2005, 11:35 Makka Time, 8:35 GMT Hunter Thompson said Bush made up the Iraqi threat Hunter Thompson, the leading American journalist and author, has has died at his Colorado home, in what police say could have been a suicide. He was 67. Thompson was found shot dead at his home outside the ski resort of Aspen on Sunday night, police said. "We do have co ...

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19221 [lbo-talk] Warren: How illness bankrupts people*with*healthinsurance -- rank: 1000

Jordan Hayes wrote: >The difference between those who live in the capitalist world who thrive >and those who merely survive is capital spending, which, as a matter of >course, must be financed: most of us can barely buy a car with cash, let >alone a house. For most of the last chapter of this story (say, 150 >years?), access to capital (in the form of credit) was limited to >corporations and (some!) white men. That has dramatically changed in >the last decade or two, mostl ...

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19222 [lbo-talk] Warren: How illness bankrupts people *with* healthinsurance -- rank: 1000

Jordan Hayes wrote: > >> To our surprise, half said that illness or medical >>> bills drove them to bankruptcy. > >That can't be right! > >Doug said it was because these people "didn't know what they were >thinking" and that they were "nuts" to be buying houses and running up >huge credit card bills! > >Feh. Really, Jordan. The metaphor that Elizabeth Warren often uses is that debt is like a heavy backpack - ok if you're walking on ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 21 07:50:52 PST 2005

19223 [lbo-talk] Terrain of Struggle was O'Reilly vs Churchill -- rank: 1000

amadeus amadeus wrote: >Because Bush's balance of Social Security is going to >have millions of seniors surviving on cat food. And that's more a political question than it is one of hard verifiable numbers, isn't it? Doug

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19224 [lbo-talk] Amnesty, meet BP; BP, Amnesty... -- rank: 1000

Los Angeles Times - Feburary 20, 2005 From the Streets to the Inner Sanctum By Evelyn Iritani Activists have come a long way since the violent protests of 1999. Now companies and trade policymakers are giving them a place at the table. Unhappy over the World Trade Organization's refusal to discuss contentious labor issues at its 1999 meeting in Seattle, activist Mike Waghorne joined tens of thousands of protesters on the streets. The demonstrations, which turned violent, sparked anti-globalizati ...

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Date:	Sun Feb 20 13:33:55 PST 2005

19225 [lbo-talk] Terrain of Struggle was O'Reilly vs Churchill -- rank: 1000

amadeus amadeus wrote: >What bugs me, to further the example, is when folks >begin to make speculative, subjective, often >pseudo-psychoanalytic claims about Bush to make >arguments against his policies, e.g., he's a dummy who >uses words funny, he puts his faith in the Lord, he's >greedy and doesn't care about people, he's an >alcoholic and therefore fiscally irresponsible, he >wants to "avenge" his father in Iraq, etc. Why are those things "subjective&quo ...

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Date:	Sun Feb 20 11:21:39 PST 2005

19226 [lbo-talk] Terrain of Struggle was O'Reilly vs Churchill -- rank: 1000

ravi wrote: >well good luck to you on this list then, ;-) where people seem to go >to extra trouble to defeat the quoting mechanism of their >mailreader, to leave out the name of the author of the message they >are responding to, and remove any indentation or markers that would >identify/separate their response from the original text! Yeah, why are people so sloppy with formatting? Don't they try to anticipate how to make it easier on their readers? There are hundreds, maybe thous ...

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Date:	Sun Feb 20 08:31:21 PST 2005

19227 [lbo-talk] Happy Birthday Roy Cohn -- rank: 1000

In my continuing effort to keep the list up to date on birthdays, today would be the 78th for the evil Roy Cohn. A figure to remember with a bunch witch-hunting homophobes in power...

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Date:	Sun Feb 20 08:20:40 PST 2005

19228 [lbo-talk] Terrain of Struggle was O'Reilly vs Churchill -- rank: 1000

Michael Dawson wrote: >One wonder if you're a leftist because that's your way of turning your >ignorant farts into perfume... I can feel my moderation finger gettin' twitchy...

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Date:	Sun Feb 20 08:18:43 PST 2005

19229 [lbo-talk] Churchill - the issue is academic freedom -- rank: 1000

andie nachgeborenen wrote: >Some people here may remember the David Abtaham >incident. There's a chapter on him in the Wiener book. Abraham is, as Justin pointed out, now a lawyer, and was frequently in the media around the Elian Gonzalez story, since child/family law is his schtick. Doug

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19230 [lbo-talk] Terrain of Struggle was O'Reilly vs Churchill -- rank: 1000

snit snat wrote: >But don't worry, as far as I remember, Doug is one of those people >who habitually ascribe motives to people, according to Carrol. Yup that's me. It amazes me that a retired professor of literature would be so uninterested in motive; as I recall from when I used to read the stuff, exploring motives played a pretty big role in the texts themselves and in the interpretation of them. What *was* Satan up to in PL, Carrol? Doug

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