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19546 [lbo-talk] Law Again (Was Villion on Executions) -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >I overposted, hence off line comment: Ooops, hit the list instead. You posted 6 times yesterday, 5 times today. The limit, as I keep saying, is 3. Doug

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Date:	Wed Dec 14 13:25:17 PST 2005

19547 [lbo-talk] "It's just a goddamned piece of paper!" -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: 9 posts on both Monday and Tuesday. The limit is 3. I've been very distracted by real world events the last few days and haven't been paying as much attention to the list as I'd like. This sitch will last through the weekend (I'm going up to Toronto for the Socialist Register launch, assuming there's no transit strike in NYC). I'll be back on the case next Monday. Doug

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Date:	Wed Dec 14 11:36:31 PST 2005

19548 [lbo-talk] Pew poll on Iraq -- rank: 1000

Public Unmoved by Washington's Rhetoric on Iraq Modest Election Optimism, Positive Views of Iraqi Troop Training The intensifying political debate over Iraq has not moved public opinion about the war and U.S. policy. The public remains evenly divided over withdrawing U.S. forces as well as the decision to take military action. The latest Pew survey also shows that Americans have a mixed view of conditions on the ground in Iraq: * Fully 61% of the public believes that progress is being made in tr ...

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Date:	Wed Dec 14 11:31:46 PST 2005

19549 [lbo-talk] Iraq poll -- rank: 1000

<http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp/hi/pdfs/12_12_05_iraq_data.pdf> Q32 - Do you strongly support, somewhat support, somewhat oppose or strongly oppose the presence of Coalition Forces in Iraq? Base = All respondents who heard of the Coalition Forces (Q19) Count % Strongly support Somewhat support 330 19.4 Somewhat oppose 355 20.8 Strongly oppose 746 43.7 Difficult to say 58 3.4 Total 1707 100.0 Q33 - How long do you think ...

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Date:	Wed Dec 14 11:20:03 PST 2005

19550 [lbo-talk] contingent foundations -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Rotating Bitch wrote: >> >>> >> Of course, by the horrid, horrid Butler who writes incomprehensibly. > >Every lucid sentence Butler publishes provides further support for those >who have argued that her major works are deliberately unintelligible in >order to conceal the fact that their substance is mere tautology. > >In the early summer of 1999 I spent an enormous amount of time reading >and rereading her _Bodies That Matter_. Tha ...

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Date:	Wed Dec 14 11:11:36 PST 2005

19551 [lbo-talk] [offlist] MaxSpeak, You Listen!: CORY SI, TOOKIE NO -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >"If the white man don't get out of town by sundown, we kill everything >white in South Africa. We kill the women, we kill the children, we >kill the babies. We kill the faggot, we kill the lesbian, we kill them >all. Kill the old ones too Špush them off a cliff in Cape Town. Kill >the blind, kill the crippled, and when you get through killing them >all, go to the graveyard, dig up the grave, and kill them again Š > >"The so-called Jew is ...

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Date:	Wed Dec 14 10:48:14 PST 2005

19552 [lbo-talk] me vs them -- rank: 1000

[from The Nation's Pulse, a weekly column by Gallup ed-in-chief Frank Newport] Personal Happiness Americans' tendency to rate local aspects of various issues more positively than they do national aspects of the same issues has long fascinated social scientists. Local schools are rated more positively than schools across the country, personal healthcare is rated more positively than the nation's healthcare system in general, and congressional representatives from one's local district are rated mo ...

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Date:	Tue Dec 13 14:33:34 PST 2005

19553 [lbo-talk] DHS Admits Air Marshals Lied -- rank: 1000

N P Childs wrote: >>DHS report admits air marshals 'overreacted' in airport shooting >> >>By Doug Thompson Publisher, Capitol Hill Blue Dec 12, 2005, 08:50 >> >>http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_7792.shtml >> >>Although the department claims otherwise publicly, a confidential internal >>report within the Department of Homeland Security admits air marshals >>"overreacted" when they gunned down a Florida man at Mia ...

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Date:	Tue Dec 13 14:07:50 PST 2005

19554 [lbo-talk] FOMC statement -- rank: 1000

[The big news is not that they raised rates for the 13th time, but that they've stopped saying that policy is "accommodative," and that the word "measured" now modifies "firming," not the removal of accommodation. Wall Street thinks this is a hint that they're close to the end of the tightening cycle. Maybe, but the word "firming" and the invocation of increased "resource utilization" as presenting an inflationary threat don't sound all that dovi ...

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Date:	Tue Dec 13 12:22:42 PST 2005

19555 [lbo-talk] Arnold Schwartzenegger - spineless sack of crap -- rank: 1000

Wow, if this doesn't illustrate Ronnie's evil genius for the homey metaphor <http://web.amnesty.org/library/pdf/ACT500011998ENGLISH/$File/ACT5000198.pdf>: >Over the following two decades, the subject occasionally >re-surfaced. In 1973 for example, Ronald Reagan, then governor of >California, raised the idea of execution by lethal injection by >analogy to the killing of wounded animals. > ><blockquote> >Being a former farmer and horse raiser, I know what it's like ...

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Date:	Tue Dec 13 12:05:48 PST 2005

19556 [lbo-talk] Prosecutions in Immigration Doubled in Last Four Years, Surpassing Drugs -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Doug says that America is a decadent empire. I'd call it a prurient >empire -- the reason why I feel right at home here. :-> Yeah, I've been meaning to ask you about this. As critical as you are of the US, rightly so most of the time, you seem to sorta like the culture, at least part of it, or somehow someway. In the 10 years or so I've known you electronically, your politics have evolved from kind of theoretical and Leninist (at least in some sense) to much m ...

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Date:	Sun Dec 11 17:51:59 PST 2005

19557 [lbo-talk] A revolution is not a dinner party.... -- rank: 1000

Max B. Sawicky wrote: >Get Moses, Jesus, Mohammed, and Buddha together Didn't they already do that on South Park? Doug

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Date:	Sun Dec 11 17:43:42 PST 2005

19558 [lbo-talk] "the male gaze" thiingy -- rank: 1000

Tom Walker wrote: >Camille Paglia Hauled in, I presume, as an addition to the quantity of trash, right? Or did you mean it as an antidote? Doug

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Date:	Sun Dec 11 17:33:08 PST 2005

19559 [lbo-talk] Celebrity and false idols -- rank: 1000

Tom Walker wrote: >Doug Henwood asked, > >>So by your own admission you're adding to the quantity of trash? > > >Absolutely. There's not a word in anything I posted to these threads >that I would bother to archive. Well, that happens automatically, so now the whole world can know you're a trash talker. Congrats! Doug

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Date:	Sun Dec 11 17:23:48 PST 2005

19560 [lbo-talk] Celebrity and false idols -- rank: 1000

Tom Walker wrote: >Believe me, ANYTHING I say on this list is purely for the sake of >amusement, primarily my own, because I am perfectly capable of >calculating the ratio of trash to substance here. So by your own admission you're adding to the quantity of trash? Doug

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Date:	Sun Dec 11 05:47:28 PST 2005