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21691 [lbo-talk] RE: Hoods -- rank: 1000

Jon Johanning wrote: >I would like to suggest that Americans are no different from other >people in this respect; in particular, if Australians were involved >in this kind of thing, do you think they would behave in any other >way? There seems to be something characteristically American about the sexual tortures though. It's one weirdly repressed, religion-saturated culture meeting another. Australia stikes me as much more open and secular than the U.S., so their tortures might take ...

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Date:	Wed May 5 09:24:13 PDT 2004

21692 [lbo-talk] Buffett advising Kerry -- rank: 1000

[so it's the value investors vs. the supply siders?] Buffett joins Kerry's economic team World's 2nd wealthiest person and critic of White House tax plan says election is more about Bush. May 3, 2004: 7:09 AM EDT OMAHA, Neb. (Reuters) - Warren Buffett, the world's second wealthiest person, said Sunday he had joined Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry's economic advisory team. Buffett has long been a critic of the tax policies of the Bush administration, which he believes favor the wealt ...

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Date:	Wed May 5 09:08:17 PDT 2004

21693 [lbo-talk] more nonvoters -- rank: 1000

Yet another AAPORite weighs in: >We found no significent difference in >several surveys at the city level where respondents were asked about things >such as city services, infrastructure improvements and tax measures. >However, this was at a local level and about issues where all residents >might well be expected to have similar interests.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 5 08:52:50 PDT 2004

21694 [lbo-talk] [Fwd: no subject] -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Pfaff is hardly a dogmatic marxist. So much for the idiocy that the u.s. >has to stay in Iraq to maintain order. Who exactly holds that position - outside the mainstream, that is? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 5 08:49:43 PDT 2004

21695 [lbo-talk] NYT drops "Arts & Ideas" -- rank: 1000

Scott McLemee says he used to search the section, wondering where the ideas were... <http://www.observer.com/pages/frontpage3.asp>

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 5 06:42:28 PDT 2004

21696 [lbo-talk] PROTESTERS AMBUSH CONSERVATIVE THINK TANK -- rank: 1000

[via nettime] May 5, 2004 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE PROTESTERS AMBUSH CONSERVATIVE THINK TANK Speaker applauded for lambasting Bush At the Heritage Foundation's annual Resource Bank meeting in Chicago last Friday, protesters masquerading as a right-wing think tank took the stage and announced that in light of Bush's shortcomings, they were nominating former Reagan Attorney-General Ed Meese for president. The audience applauded for nearly ten seconds. Meese, eating at a table just feet away from the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 4 21:18:17 PDT 2004

21697 [lbo-talk] Re: Ralph Nader, Suicide Bomber -- rank: 1000

Bill Bartlett wrote: >You don't understand. The purpose isn't to force them to reform >their party, but to reform the electoral system, so that the crucial >votes of those who vote for minor parties can be garnered for the >major parties rater than being wasted. But Nader isn't running with or trying to build a party. He's a lone ranger, out for himself, and it seems out for personal revenge. Doug

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Date:	Tue May 4 21:17:03 PDT 2004

21698 [lbo-talk] Putting Radiotheorie into Practice on the Net -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >The rest of my thoughts are at Oh? Do you have a blog? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 4 20:16:51 PDT 2004

21699 [lbo-talk] more nonvoters -- rank: 1000

Another AAPORite reponds: >See Nonvoters: America's No Shows (Doppelt, Shearer), Sage Publications, >1999? They indicate nonvoters aren't so different - if they would have voted >they wouldn't change outcomes.

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Date:	Tue May 4 19:34:30 PDT 2004

21700 [lbo-talk] pull quote of the month -- rank: 1000

Stephen E Philion wrote: >--'dog farts' (gopi) is the chinese way of saying 'bullshit', and the >sense is usually to mean 'nonsense'. Nothing like a little knowledge to ruin a good joke.

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Date:	Tue May 4 19:32:55 PDT 2004

21701 [lbo-talk] pull quote of the month -- rank: 1000

Been meaning to post this for a few days. This past weekend's Financial Times had a piece on the front page of the Weekend section that was a memoir of a rather star-crossed brewery joint venture in China, written by one of the English partners. The Chinese partner was the municipal government of Beijing, represented by a "Madame Wu." The pull quote reads: "Meetings got worse and worse. There was a huge row about our beer labels. Madame Wu told me that I was 'talking in dog farts. ...

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Date:	Tue May 4 18:19:50 PDT 2004

21702 [lbo-talk] Stalin: now at 2491 and the hits keep coming -- rank: 1000

Dwayne Monroe wrote: >Someone, probably a liberal, mentions the >Mensheviks... cue to commercial for Stolichnaya, I stopped buying it once the label no longer said "Made in the USSR." >featuring a track by Tatu. Now that I can get behind. As I said when I first responded to Luke, I didn't really want to get into this. These exchanges over Joe & the USSR are about the most unproductive ones I know of. So let's drop this and discuss something productive - like the U.S. elect ...

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Date:	Tue May 4 17:32:03 PDT 2004

21703 [lbo-talk] nonvoters -- rank: 1000

I asked the AAPORites what's known about nonvoters. One study <http://www.pewtrusts.com/pdf/pp_paces.pdf> reports: >Differences in Agendas between Most and Least Politically Engaged. > >As in other surveys that have focused on citizen engagement, we have >documented substantial difference between citizens in the degree to >which they are actively involved in politics or other aspects of >their communities. Citizens who are much less active in politics are >similar to t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 4 17:30:55 PDT 2004

21704 [lbo-talk] Pro Kerry bumperstickers -- rank: 1000

R wrote: >depends on what you mean by "civil." if you want boredom, log on to leo >casey's democraticleft list at yahoo. they'll throw you off if you're not >"civil" and if you don't sign your name to all your postings; for having >opinions and for lots of other reasons which appeal to the list managers at >the time. they like conformity, no iconoclasm, and people who know what to >kiss and when. I'm all for vigorous disagreement. I'm not for epithets li ...

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Date:	Tue May 4 17:12:14 PDT 2004

21705 [lbo-talk] Re: Ralph Nader, Suicide Bomber -- rank: 1000

Joseph Wanzala wrote: >what do you base the 5% figure on other than the number of people >who voted for Nader or other Third Party candidates? Something like that. But I'll bet a lot of people who voted for Nader in 2000 thinking there was little or no diff have changed their minds. I did. > What about the 11 million Democrats who voted for Bush in 2000? They thought there was a diff. > What about the majority of people who do not vote at all? Actually we don't know much about them ...

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Date:	Tue May 4 16:27:44 PDT 2004