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21271 [lbo-talk] Ayn Rand Institute: execute Arafat -- rank: 1000

[the maniacs will now have total license to be maniacs...] At 3:15 PM -0600 11/3/04, Yaron Brook, Ayn Rand Institute wrote: >Dear Editor: > >It will be a terrible injustice if Yasser Arafat dies of natural >causes, rather than being brought to justice and executed for his >crimes. > >Among the uncountable atrocities perpetrated by this 'grandfather of >Islamic terrorism' and his minions are: the cold-blooded killing of >U.S. diplomats in Sudan in 1973; the murder of cr ...

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Date:	Wed Nov 3 13:30:53 PST 2004

21272 [lbo-talk] No, actually, I don't believe it. -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >Could you offer some insights as to why Kerry was a bad candidate instead of >20/20 hindsight? Because he came off as a patrician wuss. Because he couldn't enunciate a position without qualifications and emendations and footnotes. Doug

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Date:	Wed Nov 3 12:31:02 PST 2004

21273 [lbo-talk] Not a Referendum on Bush, Notwithstanding the ABB Hype -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >No, many of them couldn't vote for Nader. But according to Ralph himself, about half of all voters could. They stayed away in droves. I know you're no more capable of admitting you're wrong than Bush is, but you're wrong. I didn't buy the Nader defeated Gore argument in 2000; you should own up to the fact that your man was a dismal flop. Doug

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Date:	Wed Nov 3 12:29:15 PST 2004

21274 [lbo-talk] Merrill weighs the election -- rank: 1000

[from Merrill Lynch's economics department - "election results is": apparently they share a subject-verb agreement philosophy with W] A Bush victory is viewed as a near-term positive for the stock market (the opposite for bonds). The bottom line is that the pro-business candidate appears to have won. Perhaps how investors should be looking at the situation is to consider what was likely avoided with a Kerry defeat-basically, a potential return to a more regulated policy environment: * ...

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Date:	Wed Nov 3 11:32:59 PST 2004

21275 [lbo-talk] a vision... -- rank: 1000

Alan Jacobson wrote: >Jews voted 3 to 1 for Kerry. Now whether that is >because of or despite nauseating Zionist politics in >the Jewish community, I'm sure there are quite a few >opinions on that. Nah, it seems that Jews are more "liberal" (a problematic word around here, I know) and less xenophobic than other white people. Of course, if you say "goyim" or "Christians" you're also talking about black people, who voted 9 to 1 for Kerry. Doug

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Date:	Wed Nov 3 11:12:44 PST 2004

21276 [lbo-talk] Not a Referendum on Bush, Notwithstanding the ABB Hype -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >No, it wasn't a referendum on Bush. The stats you posted don't make that case. Kerry voters mostly voted against Bush, and not for Kerry. Bush voters voted for Bush more than they voted against Kerry. That sure looks like a Y/N on Bush to me. > Only the silly AnybodyButBush brigade, who are a minority of the US >population And what are Nader voters, who rang up a seriously impressive 0.3% of the pop vote, a tenth of the 2000 share? The nucleus of a transformati ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 3 10:17:21 PST 2004

21277 [lbo-talk] Not a Referendum on Bush, Notwithstanding the ABB Hype -- rank: 1000

Wilson Barber wrote: >No, Mr. Henwood -- almighty member of the Liberal intelligencia You're funny. First time I've laughed all day! Doug

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Date:	Wed Nov 3 10:31:09 PST 2004

21278 [lbo-talk] a vision... -- rank: 1000

Michael Dawson wrote: >That's a rather weird thing to say in this political situation, when Israel >is so nakedly a huge factor fueling the reactionary goyim. I'm not saying >Israel equals Judaism or that the US elite doesn't hold ultimate power over >Israel, but this isn't just a straight goyim-schtupping here. I thought a lot of Florida Jews voted for Bush, out of love for Sharon. Is that wrong? Doug

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Date:	Wed Nov 3 10:23:00 PST 2004

21279 [lbo-talk] a vision... -- rank: 1000

John Lacny wrote: >If God and gays (less so with guns) were the issue, Bush would have done >substantially better among blacks and non-gusano Latinos than he did. I >don't want Doug or anyone else to take this the wrong way, but I think it's >a sign of unexamined "common sense" on our part when we don't acknowledge >the simple yet overwhelming explanatory power of this very white elephant in >the living room. You're right. I completely agree, so I'm not taking it the ...

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Date:	Wed Nov 3 09:17:30 PST 2004

21280 [lbo-talk] not all white people are bad -- rank: 1000

In New York state, Kerry got the white vote by 9 points - a 20-point difference with the rest of the USA. Man, do I feel alienated from the country to which these islands are legally attached.

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Date:	Wed Nov 3 06:24:25 PST 2004

21281 [lbo-talk] a vision... -- rank: 1000

Jon Johanning wrote: >It seems clear that the Left (both inside and outside the DP) will >be out of commission for quite a few years until it can figure out >how to neutralize the "values" issues (conservative religion, >homophobia (reduced but still active), "pro-life," etc.). Yup. It's not just a delusion or a con job - it's the deeply ingrained common sense of a very large part of the U.S. population. Nonhispanic white men - 36% of the electorate - went for Bus ...

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Date:	Wed Nov 3 06:10:45 PST 2004

21282 [lbo-talk] Pray to Puff Daddy -- rank: 1000

kjkhoo at softhome.net wrote: >the us electorate has spoken, and the rest of the world had better >take note rather than comfort themselves with all manner of >rationalisations. > >gosh, i hope the draft is re-introduced! Maybe the Peoples Bank of China will cut off our allowance. Doug

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Date:	Wed Nov 3 06:02:42 PST 2004

21283 [lbo-talk] more tweaking -- rank: 1000

Brad Mayer wrote: >Especially on the Democrats. Unfortunately, I continue to be >correct in my pessimistic perspective. But however much I may >despise the ignorant backcountry rednecks who would make a moron >their - and the world's - Shogun, I'll save my hate and animosity >for the Nathan Newman types who have totally wasted the time and >energy of the Left and the trade union movement in this dead end. I think the problem may be that you're just brimming over with hate and ...

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Date:	Wed Nov 3 05:45:21 PST 2004

21284 [lbo-talk] Not a Referendum on Bush, Notwithstanding the ABB Hype -- rank: 1000

Wilson Barber wrote: >The Liberal elite who attack Nader and divided the left >have only themselves to blame. But I'm not surprised. >The primary goal of Liberals is to disrupt true democracy >in order to save "society" from "mob rule". This election >especially the 2004 Nader/Camejo campaign expose Liberal >duplicity and hyprocracy. Man, you're deluded. Bob Novak crowed last night, "This is a conservative country." It's not overwhelmingly conser ...

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Date:	Wed Nov 3 05:31:29 PST 2004

21285 [lbo-talk] resolution... -- rank: 1000

Well, no more visions for me. Doug

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Date:	Wed Nov 3 05:18:29 PST 2004