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2161 [lbo-talk] Ron Paul on same-sexers -- rank: 1000

Ron, like many folks his age, very much supports toleration, but chooses not to be around gays on a personal level. It's a personal choice. - Eric Dondero, long-time assistant/advisor to Ron Paul <http://rightwingnews.com/election-2012/statement-from-fmr-ron-paul-staffer-on-newsletters-anti-semitism/>

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 26 13:04:51 PST 2011

2162 [lbo-talk] Louis Proyect on Party Building -- rank: 1000

On Dec 24, 2011, at 9:42 AM, Angelus Novus wrote: > I've been enjoying Proyect's contributions on this question recently Yeah, good piece. I've been liking Lou's recent stuff a lot. Doug

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Date:	Sat Dec 24 07:25:56 PST 2011

2163 [lbo-talk] why Paul is a fascist -- rank: 1000

On Dec 23, 2011, at 2:30 PM, Wojtek S wrote: > The difference between Dems and Reps is minimal, mainly > the rhetorical style, but voting is a very low transaction cost > activity, so why not. Actually I think a lot of the people active early on in Occupy Wall Street and its spinoffs were young & enthusiastic Obama campaigners in 2008, disillusioned by what a tool of capital he turned out to be. It's not just about voting - people can expend a lot more time and energy than that. In ...

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Date:	Fri Dec 23 11:49:30 PST 2011

2164 [lbo-talk] why Paul is a fascist -- rank: 1000

On Dec 23, 2011, at 12:20 PM, Marv Gandall wrote: > On 2011-12-23, at 11:58 AM, Carrol Cox wrote: > >> "Fascist" becomes a mere excuse for sticking with the fucking DP. > > Another sweeping pronunciamento. > > The Black Panthers, whom you hold up as your exemplar, routinely (and mistakenly) denounced the US as a "fascist" country. > > Were they also just shilling for the DP? In current usage, and not that of 40+ years ago, Carrol is about 90% rig ...

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Date:	Fri Dec 23 09:44:29 PST 2011

2165 [lbo-talk] why Paul is a fascist -- rank: 1000

On Dec 23, 2011, at 11:58 AM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Combined with a historically sloppy understanding of Hitler's coming to > power "Fascist" becomes a mere excuse for sticking with the fucking DP. Yup. Not in every instance, but almost every one. Doug

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Date:	Fri Dec 23 09:15:56 PST 2011

2166 [lbo-talk] Religion: was Re: Christopher Hitchens -- rank: 1000

On Dec 23, 2011, at 9:44 AM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Whoever prepared the Microsoft spell checker didn't know the word > "phatic" existed. Another reason to switch to a Macintosh! Along those lines, the iPhone autocompletes "neoliberalism." Doug

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Date:	Fri Dec 23 09:14:34 PST 2011

2167 [lbo-talk] germany-builds-twice-as-many-cars-as-the-u-s-while-paying-its-auto-workers-twice-as-much/ ? -- rank: 1000

On Dec 23, 2011, at 7:05 AM, Wojtek S wrote: > Doug: "And charging twice as much for their cars?" > > [WS:] What is wrong with that? Nothing necessarily, though in American society it's hard to live without one. But the article overlooked that crucial point. Doug

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Date:	Fri Dec 23 08:43:14 PST 2011

2168 [lbo-talk] merry solstice -- rank: 1000

On Dec 22, 2011, at 10:40 PM, Walker Percy Jr. wrote: > No, I'm not funding your new lifestyle. Talk to your hedge fund friends. Hedge fund? Balk? Heavens no. Doug

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Date:	Fri Dec 23 08:40:42 PST 2011

2169 [lbo-talk] germany-builds-twice-as-many-cars-as-the-u-s-while-paying-its-auto-workers-twice-as-much/ ? -- rank: 1000

On Dec 22, 2011, at 3:30 PM, c b wrote: > How Germany Builds Twice as Many Cars as the U.S. While Paying Its > Workers Twice as Much And charging twice as much for their cars?

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Date:	Thu Dec 22 12:36:31 PST 2011

2170 [lbo-talk] merry solstice -- rank: 1000

http://www.theawl.com/2011/12/the-darkest-day-of-the-year The Darkest Day Of The Year Alex Balk | December 21, 2011 Tomorrow will be the darkest day of the year, but that is just a planetary distinction, as "it's the shortest amount of time between sunrise and sunset. This is caused by the Earth's relation to the sun, as well as the angle of the Earth's tilt." Really, the darkest day of the year is the day you wake up in the morning and realize that life's crushing meaninglessness has ...

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Date:	Thu Dec 22 10:09:57 PST 2011

2171 [lbo-talk] The Planet is Fine -- rank: 1000

On Dec 21, 2011, at 10:22 AM, Jordan Hayes wrote: > It's pretty good, but it's not great. It's not even in the top 10. People drive in NYC because it's (still) more convenient than transit. People who have near-door-to-door transit opportunities don't drive much; everyone else? Even in Manhattan, the whole east side is a wasteland of transit. Look at Queens: it might as well be Kansas City out there. > > You whistled this tune when you lived in Manhattan and worked downtown; now that ...

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Date:	Wed Dec 21 07:31:33 PST 2011

2172 [lbo-talk] The Planet is Fine -- rank: 1000

On Dec 21, 2011, at 1:58 AM, Gar Lipow wrote: > My point is not that carbon taxes do nothing, but that public > investment and regulation are at least as important In NYC, we have a pretty good public transit infrastructure, but people still drive heavily. Bloomberg's congestion pricing scheme, which would have charged people to drive into Manhattan, aroused howls of pseudo-populist outrage, but he had a point: it's not enough to have the infrastructure, you have to price things so that th ...

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Date:	Wed Dec 21 05:27:23 PST 2011

2173 [lbo-talk] move your money campaign -- rank: 1000

On Dec 20, 2011, at 8:41 PM, Maria Gilmore wrote: > On Tue, 20 Dec 2011 17:45:42 -0500, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote: > >> Actually, I don't think the economic argument is relevant to judging the >> Move Your Money action. > > > But the entire rationale for the action *is* economic. And according to most of what I've read here on this list, the propaganda for the action claims it will accomplish things it does not accomplish. Doesn't some level of hones ...

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Date:	Tue Dec 20 17:55:57 PST 2011

2174 [lbo-talk] My Letter To CH -- rank: 1000

On Dec 20, 2011, at 4:28 PM, Jim Farmelant wrote: > As I recall, Perry Anderson is also some sort of lord. Quite. He runs Verso/NLR like an absentee landlord, with the help of a fortune that was worth 10 million pounds, last I heard. Doug

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Date:	Tue Dec 20 13:41:42 PST 2011

2175 [lbo-talk] move your money campaign -- rank: 1000

On Dec 20, 2011, at 3:07 PM, Dennis Redmond wrote: > On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Jordan Hayes <jmhayes at j-o-r-d-a-n.com> wrote: > >> Besides, I didn't see anyone saying "put it in a credit union, keep it >> local!" ... I saw it more as "put it in a credit union, don't reward the >> bastards who almost completely fucked us" ... > > "Move the money" is a perfectly fine short-term goal, and will > hopefully get people think ...

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Date:	Tue Dec 20 12:17:18 PST 2011