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21901 [lbo-talk] Re: Question About Moralistic Judgments -- rank: 1000

/ dave / wrote: >Carrol Cox wrote: > >>they tend to make personal judgments on line, _of the person_ >>rather than of the political positions argued >(...) >>it gives me no information as to what kind of a person >>any of them is > >Carroll, aren't the above somewhat contradictory? You clearly aren't a student of CoxThought. Positions have nothing to do with people, just has history has nothing to do with living agents. Shit just happens, you know? Doug

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Date:	Mon Mar 22 14:56:56 PST 2004

21902 [lbo-talk] Evil Bible! -- rank: 1000

Dwayne Monroe wrote: >I've long believed (and it's probably not my thought >at all but the remembered opinion of some scholar) the >Old Testament is the tribal war chronicle of people >living only a few moments, so to speak, after we >became truly human whereas the New Testament is the >much more complex and cosmopolitan product of >humanity's agriculture and city-state -- regional >empire phase. > > >The two collections of books scarcely belong together. But fun ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 22 14:08:31 PST 2004

21903 [lbo-talk] Re: Orwell -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: > Blurbed by Pete Seeger...and Alan Wald, who Lacny and Doss would >call a, "Trotskyite wrecker." >-- >I wouldn't call him anything. I would call you a dick, however. > Boys, boys. All three of you should either ignore each other or stop the invective. Doug

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Date:	Mon Mar 22 13:33:39 PST 2004

21904 [lbo-talk] re: Chomsky, Nader, and the Green Party -- rank: 1000

uvj at vsnl.com wrote: >Issues like the state of the US economy, global warming, >proliferation of WMDs etc. -don't seem to bother the US Left? The economy does for sure, but most U.S. leftists are blaming "outsourcing." It's you Indians, Ulhas, stealing our jobs! > It's always Iraq, Iraq and Iraq. There are no other issues in the >coming US election? It's a pretty important issue. Not the only one, for sure, but it's really big - and not just in itself, but as a taste of ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 22 13:31:00 PST 2004

21905 [lbo-talk] Fwd: Air America Radio begins soon -- rank: 1000

21 Mar 2004 Subject: LIBERAL TALKRADIO NETWORK TO LAUNCH MARCH 31 YAY! It's about time!!! Now all we'll need is a TV channel to match it!!! LIBERAL TALKRADIO NETWORK TO LAUNCH MARCH 31 Wed Mar 10 2004 Air America Radio, a progressive talk radio network, announced today it will hit the airwaves on March 31st. "Air America Radio is launching in the top U.S. markets with leading talent that will provide compelling and entertaining programming on the radio, on satellite feeds, and on the web,& ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 22 13:12:29 PST 2004

21906 [lbo-talk] Re: naderphobia -- rank: 1000

frank scott wrote: > > "More and more, corporations are raising our kids," [Nader] declares. >Companies now start marketing directly at children as early as age 2. >The average youngster, he points out, watches thirty hours of television >a week, with three pernicious effects: They learn violence is the >preferred solution to life's problems, they are taught to value cheap >sensuality in everything from sex to self-image to food, and they become >addicted to en ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 22 12:27:37 PST 2004

21907 [lbo-talk] polls toll for W? -- rank: 1000

[a little late...] Los Angeles Times - March 18, 2004 At This Point, the Polls Toll for Bush By Frank Newport, Frank Newport is editor in chief of the Gallup Poll. It's too early to rely on polls to predict exactly what will happen in the 2004 presidential election, but the data we do have, set in the context of recent history, provide some patterns worth watching. First, consider job approval. President Bush has a 50% job approval rating at the moment. Gallup Poll archives since 1952, when mode ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 22 12:24:32 PST 2004

21908 [lbo-talk] Evil Bible! -- rank: 1000

[thanks to Kelley] <http://www.evilbible.com/> Welcome to the Evil Bible.com Web Site This web site is designed to spread the vicious truth about the Bible. For far too long priests and preachers have completely ignored the vicious criminal acts that the Bible promotes. The so called "God" of the Bible makes Osama Bin Laden look like a Boy Scout. This "God", according to the Bible, is directly responsible for many mass-murders, rapes, pillage, plunder, slavery, child ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 22 12:19:47 PST 2004

21909 [lbo-talk] activists & Nader -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >As far as Manning Marable is concerned, I believe that there is a >chance that he will come back to Third-Party organizing You have violated the list commandment against claiming that Ralph's candidacy has anything to do with Third Party organizing. He's done nothing to organize a third party, even when he was running under the banner of one, and this time he's rejected their nomination. Doug

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Date:	Mon Mar 22 07:37:36 PST 2004

21910 [lbo-talk] activists & Nader -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Nader is not a Democrat. He is not a Republican. > >Therefore Nader is the candidate to support. > >Comments on Nader (other than these two) are simply irrelevant. You're finally turning into a self-parodist. I view this development as rich with possibility for a healthy transition. But to wax serious for a moment, Tom Metzger is neither a Democrat nor a Republican. Would he be worthy of support too? Doug

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Date:	Mon Mar 22 07:35:30 PST 2004

21911 [lbo-talk] McLemee on Castoriadis -- rank: 1000

Chronicle of Higher Education - March 26, 2004 The Strange Afterlife of Cornelius Castoriadis The story of a revered European thinker, a literary legacy, family squabbles, and Internet bootlegging By SCOTT McLEMEE As a student at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor during the early 1980s, Bill Brown began publishing Not Bored!, a photocopied journal of small circulation inspired by what Mr. Brown calls "the ultra-left milieu": revolutionary thinkers and organizations considered too ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 22 07:31:33 PST 2004

21912 [lbo-talk] organizational progress -- rank: 1000

Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - March 22, 2004 Unions for Graduate Students Advance in California, New York, and Washington By SCOTT SMALLWOOD Graduate-student unions won three separate battles last week, in California, New York, and Washington State, strengthening the movement to organize teaching and research assistants. In the largest victory, the California state labor board verified that the United Automobile Workers union had collected signatures from a majority of the 6,000 te ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 22 07:28:26 PST 2004

21913 [lbo-talk] activists & Nader -- rank: 1000

Art McGee wrote: > > My argument has been a more modest one than the one that >> you appear to attribute to me: it's one thing to say, >> "Vote for Kerry," it's another thing to say, "Don't dare >> to compete with Kerry, or else" > >I'm not aware of anyone on the real Left who has talked >about an "or else." Labor bureaucrats, Democratic Party >hacks and other members of the bourgeoise and ruling classes >might say "or ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 22 07:14:38 PST 2004

21914 [lbo-talk] Car 54 at 1600 -- rank: 1000

[apologies for the length, but this is pretty good] Wall Street Journal - March 22, 2004 Government Accounts of 9/11 Reveal Gaps, Inconsistencies Questions Arise About Who Put Nation on High Alert; A Threat to Air Force One? Panel Assembles Timeline By SCOT J. PALTROW Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL WASHINGTON -- Shortly after a passenger jet crashed into the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001, Air Force Gen. Richard Myers raced back to the military headquarters from a meeting on Capitol Hill. ...

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21915 [lbo-talk] March 20, 2004, Columbus, OH: A Day That Will Live In Infamy -- rank: 1000

SergioL652 at aol.com wrote: >Most progresives dismissed him right away, even though he was the >only one that had left positions. I know, unelectable and all that. >But wouldn't the logical conclusion of anyone observing his campaing >that the left wing of the Democratic party is not more than 1 % of >the electorate, therefore insignificant? It shows that short vegans named Dennis who talk of the goddess of peace have problems getting votes. Doug

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