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21121 [lbo-talk] LaRouchies -- rank: 1000

The LaRouchies were out in force on the Upper West Side yesterday. Their post-election slogans: * Let Cheney's next term be life. * Is the Republican Party a criminal conspiracy? * Bush isn't a Christian, he's an idiot. As I recall, they really hate the Bush family, because 41 put Lyndon in jail. Doug

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Date:	Fri Nov 12 09:49:17 PST 2004

21122 [lbo-talk] Where we stand today -- rank: 1000

John Lacny wrote: >Christ, can you READ? Why do you have to be so damned nasty? We know how you feel about this. Doug

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Date:	Fri Nov 12 06:48:34 PST 2004

21123 [lbo-talk] Where we stand today -- rank: 1000

John Lacny wrote: >Lance Murdoch proves that he is a pontificating moron: > >> The unions that organize the most workers? Like what >> SEIU "local" 1199? A "local" that spreads from New >> York to Kentucky? How did a "local" become so big > >Thanks for proving my point, you clueless dipshit. You could have just said, "No, you're wrong."

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Date:	Thu Nov 11 21:54:53 PST 2004

21124 [lbo-talk] Agoraphobia -- rank: 1000

Chuck Grimes wrote: >Agoraphobia? I think you're onto something, and not for the first time. Supporting evidence: this is from a Nov 7 NYT profile of the Jungian market researcher Clotaire Rapaille. >It is Dr. Rapaille, best known as the "car shrink," who has >persuaded chief executives from Chrysler to Procter & Gamble that >Americans care more about the aroma of coffee than the taste, want >their cheese refrigerated rather than runny and prefer automobiles >that ...

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Date:	Thu Nov 11 15:33:24 PST 2004

21125 [lbo-talk] Re:rage, alienation...red statism? -- rank: 1000

Frank Scott wrote: >really, the present mood, among some who consider >themselves an intelligentsia facing hordes of know >nothings, is about as reasonable and rational as a lynch >mob... I never felt the urge to sing to you before, fs, but now I do: "The loudmouth in the corner is gettin' to me..." - David Allen Coe, "Longhaired Redneck"

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Date:	Thu Nov 11 15:04:53 PST 2004

21126 [lbo-talk] Re: Structural change and falling wages in the Japaneseworkforce -- rank: 1000

Marvin Gandall wrote: >Others like Doug will have a better handle on this, but I think the US CPI >has risen by between 1%-3% each year over the past decade. There may have >been a month or two in the recent period when the price index actually >declined slightly, triggering concerns about deflation.. There were four negative month-to-month CPIs in 2003 (April, May, October, November, if you're keeping score), and four in 2001 (July, October, November, December) but the year-to-year ...

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Date:	Thu Nov 11 12:39:55 PST 2004

21127 [lbo-talk] Where we stand today -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must prattle endlessly :) I >await a knock on the door from the Overpost Police ... <knock> <knock>

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Date:	Thu Nov 11 12:28:49 PST 2004

21128 [lbo-talk] rant on -- rank: 1000

Marta Russell wrote: >The only thing the Yankees were unfair about was excluding the west >coast as their ally. Not me, or a lot of the people I've been talking with. I'm amazed at how pissed off lots of people are - serious levels of rage and alienation. I don't know where it's going to go, but I don't remember seeing anything like it in the Reagan years. Doug

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Date:	Thu Nov 11 10:14:13 PST 2004

21129 [lbo-talk] Re: was Arafat, um, you know? - poisoned? -- rank: 1000

John Mage wrote: >Doug wrote: > >>[from Popbitch] >> >> >> Arafatwa << >> Is Yasser the new Freddie? >or ><http://www.islam-online.net/English/News/2004-11/11/article06.shtml> > >or both... or neither... The guy was 75 and lived under a lot of stress. I wonder - will Israel come to miss the old codger? Doug

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Date:	Thu Nov 11 10:11:18 PST 2004

21130 [lbo-talk] Possible Bright Side? -- rank: 1000

R quoted a Counterpunch Bush apologist: >For those still caught up in a love affair with Kerry's Democrats, >beware: It was under Bush -- not Clinton -- that the U.S. briefly >challenged the WTO's legitimacy over steel imports. Oh great. The same "fuck the world" mentality that brought us the Iraq war is celebrated as a model for economic policy. Maybe they should do a little less punching and a little more thinking. Doug

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Date:	Thu Nov 11 07:02:58 PST 2004

21131 [lbo-talk] was Arafat, um, you know? -- rank: 1000

[from Popbitch] >> Arafatwa << Is Yasser the new Freddie? Yasser Arafat's mysterious illness and death this morning has started some particularly lurid rumours. The one gaining most currency, and said to be confirmed by a cousin of the PLO chairman, is that he suffered the same quick illness and sudden coma/brain-death as Rock Hudson and Liberace did some years ago.

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Date:	Thu Nov 11 06:47:12 PST 2004

21132 [lbo-talk] faith converter -- rank: 1000

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Date:	Thu Nov 11 05:35:26 PST 2004

21133 [lbo-talk] rant on -- rank: 1000

Marta Russell wrote: >This is pretty straightforward. > ><http://fuckthesouth.com/> Hey Marta, you're a southerner originally, right? Is all this true, or are the Yankees being unfair? Doug

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Date:	Thu Nov 11 05:33:29 PST 2004

21134 [lbo-talk] Re: Everybody Knows... -- rank: 1000

Turbulo at aol.com wrote: >Doug's constant refrain that no one running to Kerry's left could >have beaten Bush, r, is in my view a trivialization of the whole >Democratic Party question. No, neither Nader nor Kucinich could have >beaten Bush. But today's political framework is the cumulative >result of past decisions, including the repeated decision of many >leftists to support the Democrats as the lesser evil. The Democrats, >in turn, have followed the lead of the Republica ...

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Date:	Wed Nov 10 12:47:04 PST 2004

21135 [lbo-talk] Carville picks up the "narrative" idea -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >the classic >film by Roman Polanski "Knife in the water" I saw that years ago and recall liking it a lot. How was it received in Poland? As I remember, there was lots of existential angst - how'd that fit with official ideology? Doug

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Date:	Wed Nov 10 09:42:35 PST 2004