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20701 [lbo-talk] Hunter S. Thompson: Kerry's my man -- rank: 1000

Joseph Wanzala wrote: >but why pay attention to what Hunter Thomspson says He wrote some great books. Doug

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20702 [lbo-talk] coded text -- how it looks to some of us -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >It is difficult to read posts that are filled with such expressions as: > ><?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = >rn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /> I keep asking people, to no avail: please post in plain text only. Doug

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Date:	Sun Oct 24 14:15:16 PDT 2004

20703 [lbo-talk] Win Locally, Lose Nationally: Are the Greens too pure for their own good? -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >Win Locally, Lose Nationally >Are the Greens too pure for their own good? >by Ryan Grim >http://www.thebrooklynrail.org/express/winter03/winlocally.html >Winter 2003 > >There are currently 171 Greens who hold elected office. That number may be a bit out of date, and low, but remember - there are something like 500,000 elected officials in the U.S. Doug

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Date:	Sun Oct 24 14:13:24 PDT 2004

20704 [lbo-talk] Hunter S. Thompson: Kerry's my man -- rank: 1000

Rolling Stone - October 20, 2004 [full text at <<http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/_/id/6562575>http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/_/id/6562575>.] "Four more years of George Bush will be like four more years of syphilis," the famed author said yesterday at a hastily called press conference near his home in Woody Creek, Colorado. "Only a fool or a sucker would vote for a dangerous loser like Bush," Dr. Thompson warned. "He hates everything we ...

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Date:	Sun Oct 24 12:10:43 PDT 2004

20705 [lbo-talk] Poor productivity slows French economy -- rank: 1000

suzume at mx82.tiki.ne.jp wrote: >>workplace. Workers rights are heavily protected by a plethora of complex >>laws, making firing difficult. > >Which is to what to whole article could be summarized... Don't forget speedup and wage cuts, which the firings are meant to help enforce. Doug

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Date:	Sun Oct 24 11:01:47 PDT 2004

20706 [lbo-talk] editorial scoreboard -- rank: 1000

snit snat wrote: >anyone know a site where they're keeping score of newspaper >editorial endorsements? Editor & Publisher (which used to be as dull as dirt but has gotten a lot more interesting in recent years) is going it. Here's a link through Yahoo News: <http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=90&e=1&u=/ep/20041022/en_bpiep/dailyendorsmenttallyonabigdayforbushhesnagsnypostwashtimesandothers>. Doug

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Date:	Sun Oct 24 10:33:57 PDT 2004

20707 [lbo-talk] Virtually all Dems support Card Check Bill -- rank: 1000

Michael Dawson wrote: >you goon. John Lacny wrote: >loutish, pontificating fool; that may be rude, but I >don't really give a shit. I do. Several hundred people are watching the two of you act like 12-year-olds. Aren't you embarrassed? Doug

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Date:	Sun Oct 24 10:22:33 PDT 2004

20708 [lbo-talk] real, self-parody, other-parody...? -- rank: 1000

<http://www.scaryjohnkerry.com/gaymarriage.htm>

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Date:	Sun Oct 24 10:12:30 PDT 2004

20709 [lbo-talk] Bush Supporters Still Believe Iraq Had WMD -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Let's translate this into actuality. Roughly half the adult population >votes. Roughly half of them ar Bush supporters. So what we have above is >roughly 3/4 of 1/4 of the population. Why are you so concerned with >them? This list reads more like the sports pages than a list devoted to >political/cultural analysis. If our left fielder can get his average up >just a few points; if we can fix that weakness at left defensive guard; >if ...., then maybe we can ...

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Date:	Sun Oct 24 10:06:10 PDT 2004

20710 [lbo-talk] JDK runs on FreeBSD!!! -- rank: 1000

ravi wrote: >also, don't knock the command line -- when the sexiness of the apple eye >candy wears off, you will start valuing efficiency again!! It's been 18 years, and it hasn't given any sign of wearing off. I got a CP/M computer in 1981. It was fun to have a real computer, but when the Mac came along I lost all interest in command lines. I love good industrial design. I don't think it's just eye candy - it makes work more pleasant and life more beautiful. There's so much ugly crap arou ...

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Date:	Sun Oct 24 09:55:44 PDT 2004

20711 [lbo-talk] Eminem vs. Bush -- rank: 1000

mike larkin wrote: >As well, Eminem has actively challenged >Moby, a dance track musician who has outspokenly >aligned himself with the more hipped out, peace >loving, vegetarian crowd. The stuff he's said about Moby is awful, but I'd much rather listen to Eminem than Moby. Moby kinda sucks. Doug

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Date:	Sat Oct 23 07:49:58 PDT 2004

20712 [lbo-talk] compare & contrast -- rank: 1000

Bush 10 yrs ago vs. today - pre-senile dementia? <http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/video1/BushTenYrs4MB.mov>

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Date:	Sat Oct 23 07:46:46 PDT 2004

20713 [lbo-talk] JDK runs on FreeBSD!!! -- rank: 1000

John Kozak wrote: >Doug Henwood writes: > > ravi wrote: > > > > >thanks for the detailed note, btw! now if only we could get all the > > >left-leaning LBO members to adopt open source: > > > > Life's too short. > >But having to deal with trojans, viruses and crashes is just one of >life's simple pleasures? Don't have any, so far. OS X almost never crashes, and if an individual program freezes or quits, everything else is undisturbed. An ...

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Date:	Sat Oct 23 07:41:51 PDT 2004

20714 [lbo-talk] JDK runs on FreeBSD!!! -- rank: 1000

ravi wrote: >thanks for the detailed note, btw! now if only we could get all the >left-leaning LBO members to adopt open source: Life's too short. Doug

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Date:	Fri Oct 22 13:46:48 PDT 2004

20715 [lbo-talk] capitalism out of ideas? -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >Joanna: >> Typical crisis of accumulation/over-production, no? >> >Yes, but that crisis has not- and will not do capitalism in. It can be >solved by expansion into new markets - just think China, India, E Europe, >Russia, and in the next round - Africa. So I am not holding my breath. Who said anything about doing capitalism in? Capitalism has been expanding into China, India, EE, and Russia, so those aren't going to turn things around in this ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 22 09:21:37 PDT 2004