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19681 [lbo-talk] Navy turns to Carnival Cruise Lines for help -- rank: 1000

[from the WSJ's evening wrap] >U.S. Navy ships were sent to help, and the government asked Carnival >Cruise Lines for extra boats.

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Date:	Wed Aug 31 15:20:49 PDT 2005

19682 [lbo-talk] Re: a poem -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >A poster on the Pound list wants to know how many naturally uenemployed >people does it take to screw in a lightbulb? None. The lumen balance will restore itself in time.

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Date:	Wed Aug 31 15:19:17 PDT 2005

19683 [lbo-talk] Blaming Katrina's victims for not being rich -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >I was watching the coverage earlier today and they showed a young >black woman responding to the camera about the bags of shoes she had >taken from some store. They asked her why she had taken the shoes. >She replied that she needed shows because the fucking streets were >covered with water. They then asked why she needed multiple pairs, >to which she responded that her family back at some hotel needed >something to wear too. What else are they going to do wit ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 31 14:22:58 PDT 2005

19684 [lbo-talk] interview with Matt Taibbi -- rank: 1000

<http://toiletpaperonline.typepad.com/the_blog/2005/08/an_exclusive_in.html> [...] TP: You seem to write from the left, yet your tone so much different than that of, say, The Nation, The Progressive, or Monthly Review. Why do you think so much lefty journalism is unbelievably dull? MT: First of all, I'm really not so sure what the word "left" means and I'm never comfortable when people call me a lefty. If anyone were to ever ask, I'd say I'm probably more of a libertarian than an ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 31 14:06:29 PDT 2005

19685 [lbo-talk] destruction of NO: it's the homos' fault -- rank: 1000

<http://www.365gay.com/newscon05/08/083105nola.htm> Gays 'Responsible' For New Orleans Devastation Group Claims by Fidel Ortega 365Gay.com Miami Bureau Posted: August 31, 2005 3:00 pm ET (New Orleans, Louisiana) An evangelical Christian group that regularly demonstrates at LGBT events is blaming gays for hurricane Katrina. Repent America says that God "destroyed" New Orleans because of Southern Decadence, the gay festival that was to have taken place in the city over the Labor D ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 31 13:55:06 PDT 2005

19686 [lbo-talk] hunky vegan falls off the wagon -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - August 31, 2005 DOOR PEOPLE for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), get your paint cans ready. André Benjamin, a k a André 3000 of OutKast, is sporting a hot new look - "a real gray wolf's tail, wagging from a rear belt loop." The outlandish rapper-cum-thespian, currently starring in "Four Brothers" alongside Mark Wahlberg, tells Elle he picked up the piece on a visit to a Canadian Indian reservation. Though the gray wolf is listed as an endang ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 31 13:42:22 PDT 2005

19687 [lbo-talk] where the disaster funds went -- rank: 1000

Editor & Publisher - August 30, 2005 Bush took New Orleans disaster funds and used them for the Iraq war and for his tax cuts by Allen J. Burton Experts knew this was coming, and all the preparations ground to a halt because Bush stole New Orleans' disaster preparation money so he could use it for his Iraq debacle: New Orleans had long known it was highly vulnerable to flooding and a direct hit from a hurricane. In fact, the federal government has been working with state and local officials ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 31 13:26:26 PDT 2005

19688 [lbo-talk] Re: Rap on the Knuckles -- rank: 1000

Simon Huxtable wrote: >Although possibly with a sense of humour: how else to >explain this lyric: Yeah, I couldn't tell whether that song about the urge to touch the guy's "fabulous muscles," then have him "come on [his] lips," and then be cremated and have the adorer's ashes placed under the muscular dude's workout bench was a joke or not. Doug

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Date:	Wed Aug 31 13:11:23 PDT 2005

19689 [lbo-talk] NO death toll could be in the "thousands" -- rank: 1000

__________________________________ NEWS ALERT from The Wall Street Journal Aug. 31, 2005 The mayor of New Orleans said the city's death toll from Katrina could reach into the thousands, as federal emergency officials scrambled to deal with the crisis. FOR MORE INFORMATION, see: http://wsj.com/article/0,,SB112546519831627644,00.html?mod=djemalert FOR COMPLETE COVERAGE OF KATRINA'S AFTERMATH, see: http://wsj.com/page/0,,2_1178,00.html?mod=djemalert __________________________________

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 31 12:24:58 PDT 2005

19690 [lbo-talk] Pew on creationism -- rank: 1000

Religion A Strength And Weakness For Both Parties Public Divided on Origins of Life [...] The latest national survey by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press and Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, conducted July 7-17 among 2,000 adults, also finds deep religious and political differences over questions relating to evolution and the origins of life. Overall, about half the public (48%) says that humans and other living things have evolved over time, while 42% say that livin ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 31 12:15:54 PDT 2005

19691 [lbo-talk] Turning Rural Youth into Soldiers -- rank: 1000

Mike Ballard wrote: >Yohshie wrote: > >If you want to make your nation the biggest empire that polices the entire >world, >the best way to go is of course to first kick peasants off the land >and then offshore industrial workers' jobs to other countries. >Otherwise, you don't enjoy a big surplus population willing to go to >war at low costs. > >***************** > >Brilliant! Except that Japan and much of Western Europe has a larger "surplus population&qu ...

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Date:	Wed Aug 31 12:03:44 PDT 2005

19692 [lbo-talk] Re: A War to Be Proud Of (when you drunk and deluded) -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: >I have one of my pop psych hunches that Hitchens' >continued plunge into lunacy is part of an unconsious >attempt to destroy himself. I've been speculating - irresponsibly, of course - that his obsession with "Islamofascism" is some kind of externalization of his anxiety over his misogyny and his formerly exuberant homosexuality. Killing the "Islamofascists" is a way of taking it out on his own demons. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 31 11:56:28 PDT 2005

19693 [lbo-talk] Re: lbo, a den of right-wingers? -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >There was nothing whatever "the left" could have done >from 1975 to 2001 to grow Yeah. It's all Their fault, or History's, or something. People don't have agency, can never think of how to do things better, or learn from their mistakes. I think I'll just crack open a brew and watch some TV. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 31 11:49:36 PDT 2005

19694 [lbo-talk] Re: Rap on the Knuckles -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: > Heh, Doug, Xiu Xiu way too harsh, eh! Not too harsh - too morose. Though they/it/he sound(s) better on second listening. Doug

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Date:	Wed Aug 31 07:02:36 PDT 2005

19695 [lbo-talk] Re: Rap on the Knuckles -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: > Xiu Xiu, not rap, but, loud and anguished as fuck. Egads. Just sampled some of their stuff. No fun. Not my kind of anguish! Gimme Lady Sovereign!

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 30 16:28:08 PDT 2005