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21211 [lbo-talk] Confused and Desparate Democrats -- rank: 1000

R wrote: >true story or not, remember rupert murdoch owns the london times. He does, but it's insulated from his editorial influence. The editor of the Times actually likes my stuff, they ran a full-page excerpt from After the New Economy, and when I was in London in January, I spent an hour with him and four other staffers. It's not your typical Murdoch sheet. Doug

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Date:	Fri Nov 5 08:55:56 PST 2004

21212 [lbo-talk] POQ article on social attitudes -- rank: 1000

ravi wrote: >might help. or you could use that dreaded command line ;-) (or some >ghostscript GUI) and convert pdf -> text or pdf -> ps -> text. > >http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/macos/manual.htm#ps2ascii >http://linux.about.com/library/cmd/blcmdl1_ps2ascii.htm >http://research.compaq.com/SRC/virtualpaper/pstotext.html >http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/gsview/ >http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/doc/pstotext.htm > >also, i think you may be able to use the text selec ...

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Date:	Fri Nov 5 08:40:12 PST 2004

21213 [lbo-talk] No Stolen Elections! -- rank: 1000

JBrown72073 at cs.com wrote: >The Republican party conspired to steal the election, and succeeded And, also sadly, it's going to look to a broader public like some hybrid of nuttery and sour grapes if we say this without more rigorous proof than we have. The fundamental problem is that we need more people on our side. Doug

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Date:	Fri Nov 5 08:17:38 PST 2004

21214 [lbo-talk] No Stolen Elections! -- rank: 1000

JBrown72073 at cs.com wrote: >The Republican party conspired to steal the election, and succeeded We don't know how extensive that was. The whole American system is set up to suppress votes, esp those of the poor and dark. Sadly, a lot of it is legal. How much illegal stuff went on? We don't know, and we can't say "Kerry won!" with any serious degree of confidence. It sucks that Kerry didn't make a big deal of this, but he's wuss and a wanker. Doug

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Date:	Fri Nov 5 08:12:53 PST 2004

21215 [lbo-talk] No Stolen Elections! -- rank: 1000

Chip Berlet wrote: >Given the racist targeting of Black voters, I am very unhappy with >the Kerry decision to concede before all the Ohio votes are counted. > So say Kerry won Ohio - he still would have lost the pop vote by 3m+. When Bush lost the pop vote by 500k and won the electoral vote, we denounced that as an antidemocratic abomination, which it was. But while 500k is virtual tie, a 3m pop vote lead is serious. Would we want to call a Kerry electoral college victory under those ci ...

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Date:	Fri Nov 5 06:24:43 PST 2004

21216 [lbo-talk] mourn -- rank: 1000

Michael Dawson wrote: >Not a flame, y. You are a self-parody. "The scales fell from their eyes" >in your 20-Children March. Have you ever thought about the topic of >mis-spent energy? and >Stop posting. You're a pollutant. Prolix and pointless is a very bad way >to go through life. That's way excessive. We know you don't think highly of Yoshie. Disagree with her, but the nastiness makes you look bad, not her. Doug

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Date:	Fri Nov 5 06:01:31 PST 2004

21217 [lbo-talk] Flash: Arafat Reported Clinically Dead (Reuters) -- rank: 1000

Luke Weiger wrote: >So Arafat's intransigence has nothing to do with the sorry state of the ME? >Say whatever you want about what was on the table in 2000, but to walk away >without even making a counter offer... He hasn't been doing much walking in recent years, has he? Doug

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Date:	Thu Nov 4 21:12:27 PST 2004

21218 [lbo-talk] some post-US election recommendations............ -- rank: 1000

Shane Mage wrote: >>Patrick Bond wrote: >> >>>----- Original Message ----- >>>From: <uvj at vsnl.com> >>>> Why should there be any trade sanctions against Myanmar? >>> >>>It's called Burma, comrade. >> >>Huh? What are the politics of the name? >> >>Doug > >Some people think that when a gang of thugs takes over >a country they can legitimately change its name against >the expressed will of its p ...

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Date:	Thu Nov 4 21:11:40 PST 2004

21219 [lbo-talk] volume -- rank: 1000

Ok, election passions were high and all, but it's time for a return to normalcy. People have been wildly overposting - I can think of one who's averaged about 8.5 over the last three days. Three a day is the max. Doug

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Date:	Thu Nov 4 21:10:27 PST 2004

21220 [lbo-talk] mourn -- rank: 1000

Luke Weiger wrote: >Eric Alterman got in one of my favorite quips of all time by saying that >Katha Pollit sacrificed a promising career as a poet to write the same >column again and again. Fuck Alterman. He's not fit to shine her shoes. Doug

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Date:	Thu Nov 4 21:06:39 PST 2004

21221 [lbo-talk] some post-US election recommendations............ -- rank: 1000

Patrick Bond wrote: >----- Original Message ----- >From: <uvj at vsnl.com> >> Why should there be any trade sanctions against Myanmar? > >It's called Burma, comrade. Huh? What are the politics of the name? Doug

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Date:	Thu Nov 4 19:37:33 PST 2004

21222 [lbo-talk] Constitutional rape -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Under present conditions, no progress can be made. There are few things that make me feel more hopeful than watching you wax fatalistic. Thanks. Doug

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Date:	Thu Nov 4 19:35:13 PST 2004

21223 [lbo-talk] POQ article on social attitudes -- rank: 1000

John Thornton wrote: >>There was an interesting article in a recent ish of Public Opinion >>Quarterly showing that social attitudes in the U.S. have been >>getting steadily more "liberal" for decades, even during the >>supposedly conformist 1950s. >> >>Doug > >Any chance you could post it? Nope. I could get it as a PDF, but that's hard to translate into text. Doug

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Date:	Thu Nov 4 19:32:40 PST 2004

21224 [lbo-talk] Re: reality check time for hyperventilators? -- rank: 1000

frank scott wrote: >on the other hand, 911 did not happen because of hatred of gays,, but >for hatred of americans...that's a much bigger problem for all of us, >and we ought to consider what role religion plays in that, before we get >all hissy-fitted over only one kind of religious zealot... Man, you're annoying. What's the point of this weighing of bigotries if it isn't to say homophobia doesn't count for much? Doug

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Date:	Thu Nov 4 19:31:59 PST 2004

21225 [lbo-talk] Flash: Arafat Reported Clinically Dead (Reuters) -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >If you are sorry for the horrible circumstances that confront the >Palestinian people and killed Arafat politically long before he fell >ill terminally, you have to do something to change them -- here, in >the United States where we live, in Canada where Travis lives, in >the European Union, etc. We'll get right on it! Doug

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Date:	Thu Nov 4 19:22:19 PST 2004