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22291 [lbo-talk] Re: Bush & his God -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Mobilize those who can and will mobilize more -- not merely entertain >the "right-thinking" in their corner. I predicted this post from you but >was really hoping you wouldn't be this banal. I didn't want to disappoint - or did I? Doug

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22292 [lbo-talk] Re: Bush & his God -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Did anybody change their opinions because of Mencken? Did he have any >measurable political effect? Or did he speak only to those whose >opinions were made up Isn't that your basic political strategy - to mobilize the already like-minded and forget about converting anyone to the cause? Doug

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22293 [lbo-talk] crap from the V Crisis dude -- rank: 1000

Prompted by Yoshie's post, I wrote the V-Crisis dude: >I don't get this: > >"London 14 Jun. 04 - The file is here folks, just arrived. With >great anticipation I cracked the envelope open to read the material >sent by the Foreign Agents Registration Unit and the findings, oh >the bliss!! Todd Tucker, Marc Weisbrot, Greg Wilpert, Eva Golinger, >Deborah James, Bill Fletcher, Kim Bartley they are all in there. My >long and deeply held apprehension has just been confirme ...

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Date:	Wed Jun 16 13:09:27 PDT 2004

22294 [lbo-talk] Billionaires For Bush: Widen the Health Gap! -- rank: 1000

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE "BILLIONAIRES FOR BUSH" WALTZ ACROSS BRIDGES NATIONWIDE TO WIDEN THE HEALTHCARE GAP Billionaires on Healthcare: "First, do no harm-to our Bottom Line." Nationwide Day of Action Set for June 19th, 2004 New York, NY, June 16, 2004 - On June 19, Billionaires for Bush (B4B), activists for the upper, upper class, will gather at local bridges in cities nationwide in a call to Widen the Healthcare Gap. "We're defending our pharmaceutical profits from attac ...

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Date:	Wed Jun 16 11:59:54 PDT 2004

22295 [lbo-talk] V Crisis Attacks Greg Wilpert, Etc. -- rank: 1000

I don't your point here. Is what's potentially actionable that the names listed aren't really on the disclosure forms? That they are on the disclosure forms but it's indecent to circulate the info? That you support British libel law, under which people can be held liable for circulating accurate information? Doug Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Those who do not like the Bolivarian Revolution sometimes go to >absurd extremes to attack their opponents. Here is one example. > >Aleksander Boyd ...

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Date:	Wed Jun 16 11:43:03 PDT 2004

22296 [lbo-talk] Drudge: GOP to force gay marriage vote just before Dem convention -- rank: 1000

Drudge Report June 15, 2004 http://drudgereport.com/ GOP Planning July Vote on Gay Marriage Amendment The Senate Republican leadership is aiming for a mid-July vote on a constitutional amendment that would ban gay marriage, forcing Democrats to take a stand on the controversial topic just before the party heads to Boston for its presidential nominating convention. Mark Preston at ROLL CALL reports: Republican Conference Chairman Rick Santorum (Pa.) said the GOP leaders are not yet prepared to ma ...

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Date:	Wed Jun 16 10:57:16 PDT 2004

22297 [lbo-talk] like, wow, DC is like, you know, kinda groovy -- rank: 1000

[from an interview with Ana Marie "Wonkette" Cox] <http://www.wnyc.org/onthemedia/transcripts/transcripts_061104_wonk.html> BOB GARFIELD: We've called what you do gossip, but it's really more than that, because there's a very large element of satire here. You make fun of people for a living, no? ANA MARIE COX: Yes. Finally. You know, it's something that got me in trouble pretty much all my life up until the month that I started doing Wonkette, and now I'm paid to lob spitballs fr ...

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Date:	Wed Jun 16 10:04:24 PDT 2004

22298 [lbo-talk] Nunn? -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - June 16, 2004 NUNN SO BRAVE IN the race among Democrats to become John Kerry's running mate, former Sen. Sam Nunn, 65, is ahead by a nose. Sources say the FBI has started combing through records of his business dealings, reviewing files and relationships. No wonder they started early - Nunn, a native of Georgia, serves on the boards of ChevronTexaco, Coca-Cola, Dell, GE, Internet Security Systems and Scientific-Atlanta, in addition to acting as co-chair and CEO of the ...

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Date:	Wed Jun 16 09:29:46 PDT 2004

22299 [lbo-talk] Re: Bush & his God -- rank: 1000

Jon Johanning wrote: >On philosophical topics, he could be perceptive about Nietzsche, for >example, but on philosophy of religion he was not so hot. If >philosophy were that simple, we wouldn't need professional >philosophers or postgraduate philosophy departments, would we? It >would be like "Home Neurosurgery for Fun and Profit": "Heck, what's >all the fuss about? Just saw the guy's skull open and hack that old >tumor out of there." Sounds like a Jeff ...

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Date:	Wed Jun 16 09:21:45 PDT 2004

22300 [lbo-talk] W's D-Day set cost $100k of public money -- rank: 1000

Daily News (New York) - June 16, 2004 W's D-Day speech on 100G set BY THOMAS M. DeFRANK, DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU CHIEF WASHINGTON - White House aides advancing President Bush (news - web sites)'s Normandy visit ordered the Pentagon (news - web sites) to erect a $100,000 platform for his entry into a U.S. military cemetery, well-placed sources told the Daily News. American taxpayers picked up the six-figure tab for the red carpet, walkway and artificial island hurriedly built over a memorial ...

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Date:	Wed Jun 16 06:48:20 PDT 2004

22301 [lbo-talk] turmoil at Foreign Affairs -- rank: 1000

Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - June 16, 2004 'Foreign Affairs' Loses a Longtime Editor and His Replacement in Row Over Editorial Independence By DAVID GLENN A bitter row at Foreign Affairs magazine over history, power, and the alleged conduct of Henry A. Kissinger led to the departure of a longtime book-review editor in May and now has claimed that editor's replacement. Jeremy I. Adelman, a professor of history at Princeton University who was hired to succeed Kenneth R. Maxwell as ...

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Date:	Wed Jun 16 06:43:46 PDT 2004

22302 [lbo-talk] WWP split -- rank: 1000

I got an email from a rightwinger who reads this list for entertainment and edification who wondered why we aren't discussing an apparent split in the Workers World Party and its implications for ANSWER. Dunno. Any thoughts? Doug

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22303 [lbo-talk] unemployment / inflation -- rank: 1000

C. G. Estabrook wrote: >That broader measure is dramatically higher, at 9.7 percent in May, >compared with the official level of 5.6 percent. That's true, but it's always true (it's usually 1.5-2 times as high as the official rate). But it's come down from the cyclical peak. I've lived through enough bizcycles now to recognize the pattern: when the job market starts improving, lefties say "But the U-6 rate is so high!" (assuming they know they know what the U-6 rate is). Capitali ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 15 17:09:59 PDT 2004

22304 [lbo-talk] doug's performance -- rank: 1000

Stephen E Philion wrote: > although i know you're probably right to laugh at kerry's claim >about the economy It's preposterous! When you have only 45 seconds, there's no time for nuance. I was genuinely stunned that he'd said something so stupid. Doug

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Date:	Tue Jun 15 17:05:21 PDT 2004

22305 [lbo-talk] Michael Moore poll - cast your vote for or against -- rank: 1000

JBrown72073 at cs.com wrote: >That's nothing, I got an ad to buy "Communist" on E-Bay while looking at the >LBO archives the other day. I couldn't determine if I was supposed to buy a >communist or buy all of communism, or what. Also one for Republicans next to >it--capitalism does give us so many choices. While you're at it, please click through some of those ads! Costs you nothing, and I get $. Doug

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