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20326 [lbo-talk] more on the TBN scandal -- rank: 1000

Los Angeles Times - September 22, 2004 Ex-Worker Accusing TBN Pastor Says He Had Sex to Keep His Job Ford believes a 1998 confidentiality deal has been broken. TBN officials deny claims. By William Lobdell Times Staff Writer A former Trinity Broadcas ting Network employee who was paid $425,000 to keep quiet about his claims of a homosexual tryst with televangelist Paul Crouch has disclosed details of his complaint, saying that he had felt forced to engage in the alleged sexual acts to keep his j ...

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Date:	Thu Sep 23 06:07:02 PDT 2004

20327 [lbo-talk] Re: Sex, Kink and Ick -- rank: 1000

joanna bujes wrote: >It could be argued that taking a shit on someone as a sexual act A favorite of the late Danny Thomas, it's said. Receiving, not giving, that is. Doug

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Date:	Wed Sep 22 15:40:19 PDT 2004

20328 [lbo-talk] more on oil suply -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >This piece argues that oil-based transportation has its days numbered. > >http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3675760.stm Of course there are long-term supply issues to be taken seriously, but it's also a fact that after a long run-up in oil prices, you're more likely to see such stories. According to market wisdom, once a market story makes the cover of Time or Newsweek, it's time to go short the commodity in question. Doug

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Date:	Wed Sep 22 15:39:17 PDT 2004

20329 [lbo-talk] State Department Bans Distinguished Muslim Scholar -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >I hope that eventually newly restrictive border controls will have >such negative economic impacts (affecting business travel, tourism, >scientific research and education, etc.) as to compel the abolition >or at least relaxation of the new regulations. The Financial Times has been covering this angle, but I don't see it in the U.S. press at all. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 22 07:07:32 PDT 2004

20330 [lbo-talk] fuck buddy crisis -- rank: 1000

New York Observer - September 27, 2004 Farewell, My Fuck Buddy I hadn't had sex in two years, and it was starting to consume me. So I called up someone I'd hooked up with a few times in the past. "Can you do me a favor?" I asked. He showed up in an hour; I came, I saw and I conquered-and not in that order. That night, two fuck buddies were born. But after we'd been buddies for about four months, one day when I tried to make an appointment for sex I was rewarded with an e-mail-or, rathe ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 22 06:35:59 PDT 2004

20331 [lbo-talk] Anti-Muslim Sentiment Affects PSU Students (US Campaign| Defend Academic Freedom) -- rank: 1000

ravi wrote: >joanna bujes wrote: >>But getting back to your letter to LBO: you drew a connection >>between Michael's unwillingness to sign a petition that begins "In >>the name of God the most merciful..." and overtly anti-muslim >>discrimination at the campus where he teaches. >> >>I don't know, I think there's enough shit going on right now >>without stuff like this added to it. > > > >perhaps you missed the parts where michae ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 21 19:50:57 PDT 2004

20332 [lbo-talk] Anti-Muslim Sentiment Affects PSU Students (USCampaign| Defend Academic Freedom) -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Eubulides wrote: >> >> >> >> Except that he made no such horrible insinuations, > >He wrote, "Muslims have a small problem of intransigent fundamentalism, >as do Christians and Jews." > >I would interpret that as saying _All_ Muslims have that problem. That >is a lie and it is unforgivable bigotry. > >Muslims as such do not have any problem whatsoever, anymore than any >other group does. The essence of bigotry i ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 21 19:39:06 PDT 2004

20333 [lbo-talk] the petro-thusians have their moment -- rank: 1000

Dwayne Monroe wrote: >Well yes, but peak oil theorists don't argue that we're going to run >dry but rather, as I'm sure every schoolchild who subscribes to >"Petroleum Economist" knows (and listen, kids do love that mag - >almost as much as watching Spongebob), that the growing demand will >outstrip the planet's practically reachable supply. > >So, a counter-argument to peak theory which begins with the sentence >"we're not running out anytime soon" is ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 21 14:35:10 PDT 2004

20334 [lbo-talk] Stone behind Fontgate? -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >That would make a lot of sense. The memos did not reveal anything we did >not know before, but they created an impression of Bush being "victimized" >by "liberal" media. It's quite clever - put out "fake" memos whose contents are fundamentally true, and when the docs themselves are revealed to be forgeries, it discredits the true content as well. The focus turns from signified to signifier. Doug

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Date:	Tue Sep 21 14:30:58 PDT 2004

20335 [lbo-talk] the petro-thusians have their moment -- rank: 1000

Dwayne Monroe wrote: >Well yes, but peak oil theorists don't argue that we're going to run >dry but rather, as I'm sure every schoolchild who subscribes to >"Petroleum Economist" knows (and listen, kids do love that mag - >almost as much as watching Spongebob), that the growing demand will >outstrip the planet's practically reachable supply. Yeah, but that's not likely any time soon. If prices rise significantly, energy efficiency will become fashionable again, and it wi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 21 14:29:49 PDT 2004

20336 [lbo-talk] october column -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >Frank, you used 985 copyrighted words to say exactly what? What are we >supposed to do about "the system" other than getting drunk and crying on >someone else's bosom? Frank usually doesn't say much - he just snarls a lot.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 21 14:09:11 PDT 2004

20337 [lbo-talk] Stewart on O'Reilly -- rank: 1000

[via Wonkette] Fox News Network SHOW: THE O'REILLY FACTOR (20:37) September 17, 2004 Friday Transcript # 091705cb.256 SECTION: News: Domestic LENGTH: 1658 words HEADLINE: Personal Story O'Reilly Discusses "The Daily Show" GUESTS: Jon Stewart, "The Daily Show" BYLINE: Bill O'Reilly BODY: O'REILLY: Thanks for staying with us. I'm Bill O'Reilly. In the "Personal Story" segment tonight, he is the darling of the television critics, the host of "The Daily Show" ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 21 14:01:38 PDT 2004

20338 [lbo-talk] Re: just keep driving -- rank: 1000

frank scott wrote: >anybody tell this schmuck that oats grow rather quickly, but petro takes >a few billion years to replenish its stock? The New York Times - September 14, 2004 Petroleum From Decay? Maybe Not, Study Says By NICHOLAS WADE Long-dead plant matter may not be the world's only source of hydrocarbons. Twelve miles or more beneath its surface, in hellish temperatures and under pressures 50,000 times that at sea level, the earth itself may be generating methane, say researchers wh ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 21 13:55:21 PDT 2004

20339 [lbo-talk] Stone behind Fontgate? -- rank: 1000

New York Post - September 21, 2004 [by Fred Dicker] The hot rumor in New York political circles has Roger Stone, the longtime GOP activist, as the source for Dan Rather's dubious Texas Air National Guard "memos." The irony would be delicious, since Rather became famous confronting President Nixon, in whose service a very young Stone became associated with political "dirty tricks." Reached at his Florida home, Stone had no comment.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 21 13:32:47 PDT 2004

20340 [lbo-talk] US Campaign| Defend Academic Freedom -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >I'm amazed that I even have to say this: to the extent that the >left is associated with Christianity or any other religion it isn't >a left at all -- it's magic thinking. Yeah, I'm tempted to say that the dependence of the U.S. left on alliances with the religious is a symptom of our weakness. And if we can't criticize the various superstitions, we're really limiting ourselves. Doug

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Date:	Tue Sep 21 13:21:53 PDT 2004