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19276 [lbo-talk] Message from Louis Proyect -- rank: 1000

John Lacny wrote: >Why is this topic still alive? Seriously, you people are going to put me >into a coma. A search on my name in the Marxmail archives comes up with something like 550 hits. Let's not return the favor. Better to leave him to his weird obsessions, just as you'd keep your distance from the guy raving to himself in the subway. Doug

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Date:	Fri Feb 11 09:20:28 PST 2005

19277 [lbo-talk] univ presidents rebuke Summers -- rank: 1000

<http://www.insidehighered.com/insider/3_presidents_rebuke_summers> 3 Presidents Rebuke Summers In a highly unusual move, the presidents of three leading universities issued a statement Thursday to challenge the views of Lawrence H. Summers, the president of Harvard University, on women and science. Summers has apologized for his statements, in which he suggested that "innate differences" between men and women may be a reason why there are so few women in science. The statement b ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 11 05:57:03 PST 2005

19278 [lbo-talk] NLG on Stewart -- rank: 1000

National Lawyers Guild <http://www.nlg.org/news/statements/LynneStewart0205.htm> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE--February 10, 2005 Contact: Michael Avery, President, 617-573-8551 NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD CONDEMNS VERDICT IN LYNNE STEWART TRIAL Urges Defense Attorneys to Continue Representing Unpopular Clients New York. In response to todayís guilty verdict in the Lynne Stewart trial, the National Lawyers Guild condemns the message that the government is sending to defense lawyers who choose to repres ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 11 05:42:50 PST 2005

19279 [lbo-talk] Message from Louis Proyect -- rank: 1000

Jordan Hayes wrote: >Doug writes (in response to Chris Doss): > >>>Wow. 45 hours a week. What a lazy fucker. >> >>Yeah, I'd like a workweek that short. And a paid vacation and free >>health insurance. Where do I sign up? > >You'd have to wear a tie. I could live with that; I even kind of enjoy it sometimes. Doug

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Date:	Fri Feb 11 05:39:33 PST 2005

19280 [lbo-talk] Alan "What Me Worry?" G on home equity withdrawal -- rank: 1000

Jordan Hayes wrote: >Greenspan (via Doug) says: > >>The growth of home mortgage debt has been the major contributor, at >>least in an accounting sense, to the decline in the personal saving >>rate in the United States from almost 6 percent in 1993 to its >>current level of 1 percent. > >These kinds of analyses seems to always jump over what seems to me to >be obvious: (a) the majority of 'savings' in the past was built up in >order to -- ta-da -- buy a h ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 10 16:35:25 PST 2005

19281 [lbo-talk] Lynn Stewart convicted of aiding terrorists -- rank: 1000

sean sullivan wrote: >Lawyer Is Convicted of Aiding Terrorists Damn, ever feel like the walls are closing in? Doug

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Date:	Thu Feb 10 15:40:37 PST 2005

19282 [lbo-talk] Churchill, Hypocrite -- rank: 1000

Michael Dawson wrote: >Check out this Rocky Mountain News report on this jerk's rally With O'Reilly pushing treason charges, I'm not going to accept anything this hostile, so you're on moderation again. It's ok to criticize soberly, but not with epithets like jerk, fraud, or hypocrite. Doug

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Date:	Thu Feb 10 12:10:38 PST 2005

19283 [lbo-talk] US imperialism caused 9/11 (was O'Reilly vs Churchill:treason? sedition?) -- rank: 1000

Michael Dawson wrote: >Hence, that's >why Churchill is a traitor. Don't use that word when O'Reilly's throwing it around. It's as bad as "cop." Doug

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Date:	Thu Feb 10 10:08:46 PST 2005

19284 [lbo-talk] Message from Louis Proyect -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: >A hebephrenic idiot wrote: > >Unlike >> >> members of the leisure class like yourself, I have >> to work 45 hours a >> week >> and often don't have time to go over things as >> carefully as I should. > >> Louis Proyect >> >> -- > >Wow. 45 hours a week. What a lazy fucker. Yeah, I'd like a workweek that short. And a paid vacation and free health insurance. Where do I sign up? Doug

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Date:	Thu Feb 10 09:03:40 PST 2005

19285 [lbo-talk] This is a first step towards more elections -- rank: 1000

Brad Mayer wrote: >Gee did they vote out the monarchy and vote in Osama? CondomRoice >couldn't vote cuz she's an ugly Negroid bitch, according to >prevailing global racial/gender standards. And that, folks, is "the >world as it is" according to Doug HenPecked. Accept it as it is. Wow, that's juvenile, even by your standards. Nothing like a little moderation to improve the tone. Doug

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Date:	Thu Feb 10 06:32:54 PST 2005

19286 [lbo-talk] O'Reilly vs Churchill: treason? sedition? -- rank: 1000

Just saw O'Reilly interviewing a former JAG, Somebody Noone. O'Reilly was grilling him on whether it was possible to get Churchill for treason or sedition. The JAG said no, but O'R clearly wanted to hear a yes. Chuck Grimes asked me offlist why I didn't want any discussion of Churchill's footnoting practices. It's a good question, and here's what I said: >I'm afraid it'd be a lot of people talking about what they don't >know much about. Also, I gotta say, it makes me nervous that pissing & ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 9 20:20:22 PST 2005

19287 [lbo-talk] Music recommendation -- rank: 1000

B. wrote: >Those lyrics are from a NoFX song. Yup, I know. I think they're pretty funny. > NoFX also do a >cover of some Fleetwood Mac That's not bad on the face of it. 15 years ago I heard a hardcore cover of The Food Emporium jingle of the time ("Someone made a store just for you/Food Emporium Food Emporium...") on the Pat Duncan show on WFMU, and I loved it. > and have pretty much >sucked for the last 10 years. I don't know if they've entirely sucked for the last 10 ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 9 16:10:21 PST 2005

19288 [lbo-talk] Music recommendation -- rank: 1000

B. wrote: >Get MDC's latest LP "Magnus Dominus Corpus." Belatedly...MDC = Miilions of Dead Cops? As in: >The next time I went to the whiskey, it was DOA with Millions of Dead Cops >The latter band played faster than I could believe >But the songs sounded the same and kinda sucked >'cept John Wayne was a Nazi, and Joey Shithead was a drunk >Then John Macias beat some hippie to a pulp, cuz having long hair >was a mistake > ? Doug

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Date:	Wed Feb 9 15:25:04 PST 2005

19289 [lbo-talk] Message from Louis Proyect -- rank: 1000

Thomas Seay wrote: >I love it when certain middle-class leftists such as >LP like to play "industrial worker". I'm violating my own strictures against talking about L***** P******, but when the SWP ordered him to get a job in a steel mill in the 1970s, Proyect quit at his first lunch break and went back to being a computer programmer. I can't say I blame him, though; I'd hate working in a steel mill. He did disclose the other day that he likes fine wine and has a $3,000 stereo. I ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 9 13:58:01 PST 2005

19290 [lbo-talk] Churchill -- the ugliness deepens -- rank: 1000

This is neither the time nor place to get into a review of Churchill's footnoting prowess.

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Date:	Wed Feb 9 12:35:39 PST 2005