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20206 [lbo-talk] the bloody pope -- rank: 1000

Guardian (London) - April 4, 2005 The Pope has blood on his hands The Pope did great damage to the church, and to countless Catholics Terry Eagleton John Paul II became Pope in 1978, just as the emancipatory 60s were declining into the long political night of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. As the economic downturn of the early 70s began to bite, the western world made a decisive shift to the right, and the transformation of an obscure Polish bishop from Karol Wojtyla to John Paul II was pa ...

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Date:	Mon Apr 4 12:26:33 PDT 2005

20207 [lbo-talk] Fwd: lbo-talk unsubscribe notification -- rank: 1000

He did it, not me. > >From mailman-bounces at lbo-talk.org Sun Apr 3 19:57:06 2005 >Subject: lbo-talk unsubscribe notification >From: mailman-bounces at lbo-talk.org >To: lbo-talk-owner at lbo-talk.org >Date: Sun, 03 Apr 2005 16:56:25 -0700 >List-Id: lbo-talk.lbo-talk.org > >browntf at hal.lamar.edu has been removed from lbo-talk.

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Date:	Sun Apr 3 17:12:31 PDT 2005

20208 [lbo-talk] Personal Attacks vs Ad hominem dishonesty -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Isn't it about time to quit giving this slimeball free space in the >lbo-archives? I've been debating this with myself since he first showed up. As is clear, I don't like Brown one bit. I've actually been restrained in my use of language in dealing with Brown; several times I've typed the word "scumbag," only to delete it in an attempt to stay on the high road. While I encourage a diversity of views on this list, I don't welcome publicists for reactionaries. So ...

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Date:	Sun Apr 3 13:51:41 PDT 2005

20209 [lbo-talk] Inconvenient facts -- rank: 1000

Luke Weiger wrote: >Other people do care. We call them "scholars." Oh please. This isn't about "scholarship" - it's deeply political. It's about what people are allowed to say in public, and what universities are allowed to teach. It's about admitting the murderous history of the U.S. instead of factchecking a hothead's footnotes. If you can't see that, well, maybe you have a bright future with Marty Peretz. Doug

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Date:	Sun Apr 3 13:46:53 PDT 2005

20210 [lbo-talk] Hitch [!] questions Ohio vote count -- rank: 1000

<http://www.makethemaccountable.com/articles/Ohio_s_Odd_Numbers.htm> Vanity Fair - March 2005 OHIO'S ODD NUMBERS Christopher Hitchens No conspiracy theorist, and no fan of John Kerry's, the author nevertheless found the Ohio polling results impossible to swallow: Given what happened in that key state on Election Day 2004, both democracy and common sense cry out for a court-ordered inspection of its new voting machines If it were not for Kenyon College, I might have missed, or skipped, the ...

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Date:	Sun Apr 3 11:10:45 PDT 2005

20211 [lbo-talk] NRA: We need more guns in our schools -- rank: 1000

Jordan Hayes wrote: >Talk about a crackpot theory. You're saying that because 47 MILLION >USers don't have health care, fewer than the number of fingers you have >of them shoot up a school or a church now and again? I don't think Moore's point is that literal - the health ins sitch is shorthand for the greater level of competition, insecurity, and atomization in the U.S. than in Canada. Doug

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Date:	Sun Apr 3 11:02:15 PDT 2005

20212 l[lbo-talk] Churchill Sets Limits on Academic Freedom of Speech -- rank: 1000

Thomas Brown wrote: >Have you got nothing going on but ad hominem, Doug? Check yourself, >my friend. Try to focus, and say something intelligent about the >issues. Let me be clear about this. I think what you're doing stinks. I think you're the very definition of an opportunist. I'm very focused on what I think is the major issue - the defense of academic and intellectual freedom. The right knows very well what it wants to do: to discredit any radical critique of US society. They think ...

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Date:	Sun Apr 3 10:46:18 PDT 2005

20213 [lbo-talk] Re: lbo-talk Digest, Vol 16, Issue 8 -- rank: 1000

Thomas Brown wrote: >And why should I keep quiet about Churchill's research misconduct, >just because right-wingers don't like his insults to the 9/11 dead? Has O'Reilly called yet? Doug

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Date:	Sun Apr 3 10:31:24 PDT 2005

20214 [lbo-talk] wage pressures in China -- rank: 1000

[fascinating stuff - does this mean more inflation pressures globally? more competition for China at the low end? a transition to higher value-added and greater reliance on domestic demand?] New York Times - April 3, 2005 Help Wanted: China Finds Itself With a Labor Shortage By JIM YARDLEY and DAVID BARBOZA INGXIANG, China - The pipeline that pours young, eager workers into China's manufacturing juggernaut begins in the country's interior at vocational schools like Hunan Top Software. So it is h ...

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Date:	Sun Apr 3 10:16:36 PDT 2005

20215 [lbo-talk] Churchill Sets Limits on Academic Freedom of Speech -- rank: 1000

Thomas Brown wrote: >I'm calling on you to return to the land of reason, logic, and evidence. Given the history of the U.S. treatment of Indians, a horror story that keeps getting retold in the present, I think it's really weird that someone would devote so much energy to attempting to prove a particular incident of genocide didn't happen. What's the point, other than to attract attention to yourself and make white people feel better about themselves? Yuck. Doug

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Date:	Sat Apr 2 15:32:38 PST 2005

20216 [lbo-talk] Linux, was New Imperialism? Imperialism has been monopoly -- rank: 1000

joanna bujes wrote: >If I were just using a computer for my own needs, the Mac would win >hands down. But, for work, I'd probably rather have a UNIX box -- >assuming, BIG assumption, that they actually gave me some time to >learn it. Mac OS X is Unix-based, and if you feel like it, you can get as down & dirty with it as you like. I used to go for that sort of thing - I started playing with computers my first semester in college, Fall 1971 - but no longer. I just want the thing to ...

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Date:	Sat Apr 2 12:47:48 PST 2005

20217 [lbo-talk] Linux, was New Imperialism? Imperialism has been monopoly -- rank: 1000

joanna bujes wrote: >Hasn't anyone written books to explain this stuff? If you need a book, the user interface isn't good enough. Doug

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Date:	Sat Apr 2 10:28:25 PST 2005

20218 [lbo-talk] Linux, was New Imperialism? Imperialism has been monopoly -- rank: 1000

T Fast wrote: >Why would the average user spend 6 hours in research and testing to >set up file sharing on their home lan with linux when it takes about >30 minutes to do it with windows? (Yes I know if you already know >linux it takes 10 minutes). 10 minutes? 30 minutes? It takes about 2 minutes to set up filesharing with networked Macs. Doug

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Date:	Sat Apr 2 09:34:04 PST 2005

20219 [lbo-talk] Fwd: Some Thoughts on Where We Are -- rank: 1000

From: "Ted Glick" <indpol at igc.org> Subject: Some Thoughts on Where We Are Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2005 09:51:08 -0500 Future Hope column, April 2, 2005 Some Thoughts on Where We Are By Ted Glick 1) The progressive movement, broadly defined, from socialists/Marxists on the left to reasonably progressive Democrats on the right, has been doing its best over the past several months to counter the various Bush/Republican attacks: the continuation of the Iraq war, maddening appointments to ...

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Date:	Sat Apr 2 09:09:20 PST 2005

20220 [lbo-talk] new Marta piece & review of Liza's Wal-Mart book -- rank: 1000

John Kozak wrote: >Seems pretty clear to me that he's not talking about the cleaning >staff. Guess they were just collateral damage.

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Date:	Sat Apr 2 08:49:38 PST 2005