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20191 [lbo-talk] Gallup: Catholics, politics, the pope -- rank: 1000

John Lacny wrote: >I find this surprising, but there's an easy explanation I think. If you look >only at whites (since blacks are overwhelmingly Protestant), I'm sure >Catholic incomes would still skew significantly lower than Protestant >ones -- even if you don't include Latinos! This is old, but I suspect the rankings haven't changed all that much. Note that there are high-income/high-status Protestant religions, and low-income, low-status ones. Catholics are just above the middle. ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 5 11:46:11 PDT 2005

20192 [lbo-talk] more SSM -- rank: 1000

[also from Newport/Gallup] Same-Sex Marriage Voters in Kansas are at the polls Tuesday deciding whether Kansas will become the 14th state to pass a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage. Gallup doesn't have specific polling data on what Kansas voters think about the amendment, but most observers in that conservative Midwestern state believe the amendment will pass easily. Nationwide, there appears to be growing support for an amendment to the U.S. Constitution defining marriage as o ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 5 09:55:54 PDT 2005

20193 [lbo-talk] Gallup: Catholics, politics, the pope -- rank: 1000

April 05, 2005 The Nation's Pulse by Frank Newport, Editor in Chief The Gallup Poll Pope John Paul II Pope John Paul II was clearly revered among American Catholics, two-thirds of whom say he will go down in history as one of the greatest popes, and 7 in 10 of whom say the Catholic Church will eventually make John Paul II a saint. About one-quarter of American adults are Catholic, a percentage that has really not changed much over time. Thus, Catholicism is by no means the dominant Christian rel ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 5 09:53:04 PDT 2005

20194 [lbo-talk] NYU Students Block CIA Recruiters -- rank: 1000

[Wrigley-Field?] Subject: COUNTER-RECRUITMENT: NYU Students Block CIA Recruiters PRESS ADVISORY April 2, 2005 Student protest prevents CIA recruiting event at New York University Antiwar students hope to halt unique CIA college marketing effort at NYU CONTACT: Sam Pipp, (339) 832-0761, spp230 at nyu.edu Elizabeth Wrigley-Field, (646) 320-6880, wrigleyfield at nyu.edu ATTN: All Media ***FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE*** A planned CIA recruiting event at New York University (NYU) was cancelled after the Ca ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 5 09:23:03 PDT 2005

20195 [lbo-talk] Re: New Imperialism? -- rank: 1000

John Bizwas wrote: >And what is the selling point of 'pre-emptive imperialism' if not to >RE-ASSERT some sort of control that Americans feel they have lost? Yes - but politico-military control. The Bush crowd seems to think the economics of the arrangement will take care of itself, because America is great, good, and market-driven. Doug

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Date:	Tue Apr 5 09:20:56 PDT 2005

20196 [lbo-talk] US capitalism's new markets -- rank: 1000

Marvin Gandall wrote: >The skeptics at Goldman Sachs say "it doesn't matter >who is driving the deficit wider. The end result is still that the world is >awash in dollars and because of that the currency is still prone to sharp -- >and potentially destabilizing -- depreciation." DAILY FINANCIAL MARKET COMMENT 03/28/05 Goldman Sachs Economics *Recently, some have suggested that the contribution of US foreign affiliates (FAs) to recent deterioration in the US current account ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 5 07:29:12 PDT 2005

20197 [lbo-talk] re: New Imperialism? -- rank: 1000

John Bizwas wrote: >Perhaps, though, it is the case that there is no real economic >decline (YET) but that the ruling class perceives that it is >over-seeing a decline and loss of power, or at least the potential >for it, or the imminence of it. Perhaps, but there's little evidence for this in the places you usually look for it - think pieces in the quality press, journal articles, panels at the Council on Foreign Relations. The last CFR economics panel I went to, on the Fed after Gr ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 5 07:24:33 PDT 2005

20198 [lbo-talk] re: New Imperialism? -- rank: 1000

M. Junaid Alam wrote: >Everything has to be shaped >around Israeli interests. I agree with lots of your analysis, but I think you underestimate the degree to which much of the American ruling class sees Israel as a bulwark of "civilization" against the Arab hordes. Israelis are people like us, struggling to subdue an enemy whose irrationality and violence is almost hardwired into their mysterious heads. Israel is like a besieged outcropping of Europe - only with big balls and hea ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 5 07:17:43 PDT 2005

20199 [lbo-talk] Fidel mourns pope -- rank: 1000

Via NY Transfer News Collective * All the News that Doesn't Fit Late News Update from Radio Havana Cuba <http://www.radiohc.cu> -April 4, 2005 Fidel Castro Delivers Eulogy at Havana Mass for John Paul II Havana, April 4 (RHC)--Cuban President Fidel Castro attended the funeral mass held at Havana's Cathedral on Monday evening on the occasion of the death of Pope John Paul II. The mass was celebrated by Havana's Archbishop, Cardinal Jaime Ortega Alamino, with the attendance of the country's ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 5 07:07:04 PDT 2005

20200 [lbo-talk] For Carl R. & Wojtek -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Dennis Perrin wrote: >> >> >> I worked blue-collar jobs instead of going to college. Served in the >> military. Spent the past five years working at the lowest levels of manual >> labor, so I think I have some idea what "workers" are about. > >I count about 85% of the population as working class. Marx predicted >that capitalist society tended to divide into two sharply separated >classes, and the prediction has come thr ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 5 06:57:34 PDT 2005

20201 [lbo-talk] For Carl R. & Wojtek -- rank: 1000

T Fast wrote: >Yah but sometimes it hard to see what you participate in. I'm not comparing NYC to the rest of the world - I'm comparing NYC to the rest of the USA. Doug

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Date:	Mon Apr 4 13:30:41 PDT 2005

20202 [lbo-talk] For Carl R. & Wojtek -- rank: 1000

Jordan Hayes wrote: >Doug asks: > >> Isn't there something political about Americans >> eating too much when about 2 billion people don't >> have enough to eat? > >Only if you think that those 2B people don't have enough to eat BECAUSE >"Americans eat too much" ... which is kind of a stretch, don't you >think? To me, this sort of sounds like "It rained yesterday when Joey >was wearing blue pants." ... > >That is: if Americans a ...

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Date:	Mon Apr 4 12:51:19 PDT 2005

20203 [lbo-talk] Inconvenient facts -- rank: 1000

Michael Dawson wrote: >Unqualified >support of Churchill drowns that baby in his remarkably shitty bathwater. Where's there "unqualified" support for WC? Not from me - I denounced his crappy essay in October 2001, before O'Reilly had even heard of it. My point is that he must be defended even though he is kind of a creep. Doug

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Date:	Mon Apr 4 12:44:16 PDT 2005

20204 [lbo-talk] For Carl R. & Wojtek -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >I don't live in the South -- but Kelley's post is a pretty accurate >description of my experience in central Illinois. I have roughly 53 >years experience grocery shopping, and I don't off hand remember more >than two or three rude clerks/cashiers and only a sprinkling of rude >customers. That covers shopping in Arlington Virginia, Ann Arbor >Michigan, Marquette Michigan, & Bloomington/Normal Illinois. Ditto NYC, even. Despite our worldwide rep for rudene ...

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Date:	Mon Apr 4 12:42:27 PDT 2005

20205 [lbo-talk] For Carl R. & Wojtek -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >I quote from the article: "... the ...fat Americans ....behind a ... >corpulent woman" > >Which epithets demonstrate that the author is one of the braying >assholes he complains about. > >Note: I have never been overweight in my life, or even close to it, so >it's not personal but political with me. Isn't there something political about Americans eating too much when about 2 billion people don't have enough to eat? Doug

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