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2206 [lbo-talk] occupy the hood -- rank: 1000

On Dec 16, 2011, at 3:34 PM, c b wrote: > The War on Poverty is a good idea. It's fought with benefits, jobs, education. How do you fight a war on "structural racism"?

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2207 [lbo-talk] My Letter To CH -- rank: 1000

On Dec 16, 2011, at 3:19 PM, Wojtek S wrote: > Ravi: "So Islamofascis{m,t} is being civil to one another " > > [WS:] Harsh, certainly, but uncivil? It is like calling a spade a > spade? It's tendentious nonsense. The similarities between a dispersed minority of armed religious lunatics and the industrial machine of Germany in the 1930s and 1940s are hard to notice. Doug

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2208 [lbo-talk] My Letter To CH -- rank: 1000

On Dec 16, 2011, at 2:54 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote: > At 11:38 AM 12/16/2011, // ravi wrote: > >> Surely it is not that you think the rest of the world should celebrate or tolerate Hitchens because he was sweet to you? > > He was a friend of some people here and they deserve our condolences. Aside from taking some personal offense at the hostility, it's also rather one-dimensional. The guy was complicated. He did many good things in his life, and many awful ones too. His death i ...

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2209 [lbo-talk] My Letter To CH -- rank: 1000

On Dec 16, 2011, at 2:38 PM, // ravi wrote: > Would you be pissed at people gleeful about a hypothetical Dick Cheney mortal illness? If so, is it a matter of drawing a line within the Right where such glee turns wrong? Or like Wojtek are you bound by niceties and stylistic concerns related to [all of] the dead? Hitchens once said, dismissing the facile equivalence of Stalin and Hitler, that with Stalin there was the feeling that he was betraying something. I feel the same way about the post-9 ...

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Date:	Fri Dec 16 11:45:55 PST 2011

2210 [lbo-talk] overrated -- rank: 1000

On Dec 16, 2011, at 12:25 PM, shag carpet bomb wrote: > most excellent reflection on the man! > > http://overratedwhitedudes.tumblr.com/post/14311784932/more-lucid-than-the-average-mean-spirited-drunk Fuck that noise. Doug

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2211 [lbo-talk] My Letter To CH -- rank: 1000

On Dec 16, 2011, at 12:03 PM, dperrin at comcast.net wrote: > <http://dennisperrin.blogspot.com/2011/12/letter-to-lost-friend.html> Very nice. I wasn't anywhere near as close to him as you were, but I always liked him. He gave me a great blurb when I started LBO ("a charm against the priests & warlocks of pseudo-science"), and was always friendly when I saw him. His turn to the right made me really sad - and the glee that some people seemed to take in his mortal illness pi ...

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Date:	Fri Dec 16 11:07:19 PST 2011

2212 [lbo-talk] Christopher Hitchens dead -- rank: 1000

On Dec 16, 2011, at 9:56 AM, Catherine Driscoll wrote: > I truly believe the world is just better for the presence of people who want and further intelligent debate and I think Hitchens could be fairly credited with both those things. Most people who get his press manage to get either dumb or clownish. Yes. I'm going to play an excerpt of my 2002 interview with him about Orwell & imperialism on my radio show this week. In it, he tries to explain the phrase "non-imperial occupation,&q ...

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Date:	Fri Dec 16 07:06:04 PST 2011

2213 [lbo-talk] Christopher Hitchens dead -- rank: 1000

On Dec 16, 2011, at 7:17 AM, dperrin at comcast.net wrote: > Weirdly enough, this has left me shaken this morning. So many memories. So many experiences with him. > Doug and I once met in CH's old house in DC I don't remember that, actually. I remember running into you on the street shortly after I'd seen CH. Yeah, I know his politics got really rancid, but I always liked the guy. Warm, friendly, gracious. Doug

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2214 [lbo-talk] FT: The US government did not push hard enough for American companies to invest -- rank: 1000

On Dec 16, 2011, at 2:33 AM, SA wrote: > Carne Ross, a former UK diplomat who heads up the non-profit advisory group Independent Diplomat And the alt.banking group of OWS. Doug

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2215 [lbo-talk] Christopher Hitchens dead -- rank: 1000

On Dec 16, 2011, at 3:17 AM, SA wrote: > I never really stopped liking him. Me either.

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Date:	Fri Dec 16 03:43:47 PST 2011

2216 [lbo-talk] occupy the hood -- rank: 1000

On Dec 15, 2011, at 6:49 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > The main black issue lately, nation wide, was the Troy Davis case. Anyone on > the left who didn't pitch in on that to the extent of her/his/their ability > should do some thinking. Practically the foundational moment of OWS was a Troy Davis memorial. Doug

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Date:	Thu Dec 15 20:18:31 PST 2011

2217 [lbo-talk] Occupy the hood revisit -- rank: 1000

On Dec 15, 2011, at 4:56 PM, petrdann at gmail.com wrote: > My slant was merely that resentment runs deep and that looking at things from the bottom up offers a somewhat different view. Ok, that makes sense. But OWS is about a lot more than courting arrest. But what about Carrol's explanation that black non-participation (which is certainly not true in Oakland, is it?) is a function of Obama's lingering popularity? Doug

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Date:	Thu Dec 15 14:43:26 PST 2011

2218 [lbo-talk] A disgusting pro-Obama Democratic front operation -- rank: 1000

On Dec 15, 2011, at 4:44 PM, Carl G. Estabrook cited: > Carl Davidson Didn't he used to be some sort of commie? You gotta love this - it took Obama 3 years to not really end a war and we're supposed to celebrate? What about all those other wars, including a few he started? Doug

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Date:	Thu Dec 15 13:51:17 PST 2011

2219 [lbo-talk] occupy the hood -- rank: 1000

Ok, since it's so obvious to you too, would you mind sharing? On Dec 15, 2011, at 3:00 PM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote: > Good one. > > J. > > ----- Original Message ----- > I am reminded of the obstructionist techniques documented by feminist > researchers in re: white middle class men's tactics for getting out of > their share of the housework. When their partner asks for help with > the laundry, they insist that they need a list and set of instructions > for how ...

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2220 [lbo-talk] occupy the hood -- rank: 1000

Oh yes, it's all so very obvious. I'm just thick. On Dec 15, 2011, at 1:49 PM, shag carpet bomb wrote: > I am reminded of the obstructionist techniques documented by feminist > researchers in re: white middle class men's tactics for getting out of > their share of the housework. When their partner asks for help with > the laundry, they insist that they need a list and set of instructions > for how to do it. > > Doug Henwood wrote: > <> On Dec 15, 2011, at 10:12 AM, ...

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