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19246 [lbo-talk] O'Reilly vs Churchill: treason? sedition? -- rank: 1000

jthorn65 at sbcglobal.net wrote: >I wish this thread would die already. It's about to. I'd like to hear T. Brown's explanation of why he wrote that essay now, and then I've about had it. Doug

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Date:	Thu Feb 17 13:00:53 PST 2005

19247 "Rationality"; "Rational" Part 1 was Re: [lbo-talk] SPIEGEL on Dresden -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >I don't think "rational" is a always synonym for "logical," though it >_can_ be. It can (and often does) simply mean "makes sense" or "is >intelligible within a certain framework" (but need _not_ be a rigorous >formal deduction from that framework, as would be the case if one meant >"logical" by it). You yourself note rationality is internaly conferred >only "to _some_ degree" (emphasis added). > ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 17 11:45:16 PST 2005

19248 [lbo-talk] egads -- rank: 1000

[This guy is a scary monster!] Bush Names Negroponte as New Intelligence Chief By Tabassum Zakaria WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush (news - web sites) on Thursday nominated John Negroponte, the U.S. ambassador to Iraq (news - web sites), to fill the new position of director of national intelligence. "The director's responsibility is straightforward and demanding. John will make sure those whose duty it is to defend America have the information we need to make the right decisions," ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 17 07:39:34 PST 2005

19249 [lbo-talk] Humanize the Enemy (Re: Churchill's complaint) -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Would you be willing to humanize the enemy who actually commits >terrorism, e.g., those who hijacked the airliners and killed nearly >three thousand individuals on September 11, 2001, those who took >hostages and beheaded them in Iraq, etc.? They're human in the biological sense, but they committed barbarous acts - as did the U.S. military in Fallujah. What's your point here? Something quasi-Christian? Something political? As far as I can tell, Sheikh Rahman ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 17 07:31:02 PST 2005

19250 [lbo-talk] Re Seditious Conspiracy -- rank: 1000

andie nachgeborenen wrote: >Juries are not supposed to make legal determination, >only factual ones. The judge calls the shots on the >law. Yeah, but...juries can do what they want, god bless 'em. You're not one of those elitist liberals opposed to jury nullification, are you? Doug

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Date:	Thu Feb 17 07:23:43 PST 2005

19251 [lbo-talk] Camilo Mejia out of jail -- rank: 1000

<http://www.codepinkalert.org/National_Actions_Camilo.shtml> Great news! Camilo Mejia Released from Prison We were delighted to receive a phone call yesterday, February 15, from Camilo Mejia, letting us know that he has just been released from prison. Some of you might remember Camilo, a courageous soldier who spent more than 7 years in the military, 8 months fighting in Iraq, came home for a 2-week furlough, and decided that he could not-in good conscience-return to Iraq. He applied for C ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 17 07:22:34 PST 2005

19252 [lbo-talk] Oil & dollars -- rank: 1000

jeff sommers wrote: >But, I am somewhat unclear on oil pricing in dollars. Do the major >producers ONLY accept US dollars in payment? I know the Saudis cut a deal >with Kissinger regarding this, but how does it work in practice. Must oil >be paid for in dollars and what prevents oil producers from taking other >currencies? Nothing at all. The pricing of oil in dollars is just one of those things that help make up US dollar hegemony in the world system. The US dollar is also the ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 17 06:31:58 PST 2005

19253 [lbo-talk] O'Reilly vs Churchill: treason? sedition? -- rank: 1000

Thomas Brown wrote: >I think the two phenomena are related. Were the left more "nitpicky >about factchecking individual claims", it would be less vulnerable to >such attacks. By the way, since you're here - why did you write that piece? What was the point of fact-checking Churchill at a moment when he's under attack - and when any discrediting of his specific genocide claims will be used by the right to discredit any assertion that Indians were victims of genocide at all? Did ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 17 06:16:16 PST 2005

19254 [lbo-talk] O'Reilly vs Churchill: treason? sedition? -- rank: 1000

Thomas Brown wrote: >I think the two phenomena are related. Were the left more "nitpicky >about factchecking individual claims", it would be less vulnerable to >such attacks. I doubt that. It's much more about power, not about factual accuracy or argumentative skill. I spend much of my life getting the details about capitalism straight and concocting analyses far more thorough and accurate than mainstream pundits, and the effect of all this has been approximately zero. Sure, ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 17 05:56:08 PST 2005

19255 [lbo-talk] O'Reilly vs Churchill: treason? sedition? -- rank: 1000

Thomas Brown wrote: >So you're refusing to allow a discussion of the evidence, because >you already have opinions >about a subject that you don't know much about, and introducing >inconvenient facts might change >your mind. It's okay to invent a genocide that never happened, >because you think other >genocides like it probably did happen. Am I reading you correctly here? >I hope not. > >Meanwhile, you have allowed a number of ad hominem attacks on me. Ad >hominem ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 16 07:55:13 PST 2005

19256 [lbo-talk] Churchill's complaint -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >I think as long as we do not have organizational ties with someone who >affirms the political relevancy and truth of Churchill's text, we ought >to pretty much abide by a point you made in your earlier post: "we >shouldn't have to issue constant disclaimers about whatever aspect of >his ideas we may not like." I'm not going to defend Churchill's >argument, but neither am I going to apologize for it or wring my hands >over how he disgraces the lef ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 16 07:22:46 PST 2005

19257 [lbo-talk] Re: polled while driving? -- rank: 1000

frank scott wrote: >"On balance the road still offers more freedom than frustration." > >sure, if you're on vacation, or never drive for anything but >pleasure...in other words, if you have lots of leisure time, but not >quite enough money to afford a chauffeur... > >but who finds "freedom" commuting every friggin day? > >" Three-quarters of Americans say driving often gives them a sense of > independence, and nearly half say it's often r ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 15 14:54:00 PST 2005

19258 [lbo-talk] Bush approval in New York -- rank: 1000

Bush's approval rating is 27% in NYC, on Quinnipiac's latest reading; 68% disapprove <http://www.quinnipiac.edu/x11370.xml?ReleaseID=640>. Statewide in New York it's 38/58 <http://www.quinnipiac.edu/x11373.xml?ReleaseID=648>. That means his approval in NYS outside NYC is somewhere in the high 40s. On the Iraq war, a poll taken last September shows the following breakdowns on "right thing/wrong thing" New York City 30/62 NYC suburbs 45/51 Upstate 51/44 urban ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 15 14:40:37 PST 2005

19259 [lbo-talk] limits to family values -- rank: 1000

[via Sam Smith's Progressive Review <http://prorev.com>] ALAN KEYES DITCHES LESBIAN DAUGHTER http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20005-2005Feb12.html [Only Alan Keyes could make Dick Cheney look good] MARC FISHER, WASHINGTON POST - Maya Keyes loves her father and mother. She put off college and moved from the family home in Darnestown to Chicago to be with her dad on a grand adventure. Even though she disagrees with him on "almost everything" political, she worked hard ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 15 13:07:48 PST 2005

19260 [lbo-talk] Jonah Goldberg defends chickenhawks -- rank: 1000

<http://www.nationalreview.com/thecorner/05_02_13_corner-archive.asp#056107> CHICKENHAWK REDUX [Jonah Goldberg <JonahNRO at aol.com>] Sorry for reopening what may be for most folks an old and tedious argument. That's not my intention. Unfortunately, my recent spat with Juan Cole has launched a second front of hate mail, spam and blog flames. And since I don't have the time or energy to respond to every email or ever blog post, I figured I could respond here and then I'd at least hav ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 15 12:52:31 PST 2005