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22486 [lbo-talk] A Message to the Grassroots Greens -- rank: 1000

mitchelcohen at mindspring.com wrote: >a clique within the Greens/Green Party USA Lots of 404's on the GPUSA website now - is this part of the shenanigans? So, Mitch, how many Green Parties are there now? Is someone keeping count? Doug

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Date:	Fri Jul 30 13:57:52 PDT 2004

22487 [lbo-talk] A Message to the Grassroots Greens -- rank: 1000

mitchelcohen at mindspring.com wrote: >Two weeks ago a clique within the Greens/Green Party USA that now >illegitimately controls its administrative bodies (including its >publications) broadcast a horrible and completely inaccurate >diatribe in the form of an e-newsletter. oooh a split! How Trot of you!! C'mon Mitch. Don't we get to see the original attack on your circle? The Sparts reprint their opponents hits on them, you know. Doug

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Date:	Fri Jul 30 13:53:54 PDT 2004

22488 [lbo-talk] "These anarchist kids are not who you think they are -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >Kerry just isn't a candidate that even the party faithful can get >worked up about. Kerry's a tedious cadaver, but did you watch that convention? The party faithful are faithfully behind him. The margins are up for grabs, but the base is pretty solid. Doug

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Date:	Fri Jul 30 13:28:17 PDT 2004

22489 [lbo-talk] "These anarchist kids are not who you think they are -- rank: 1000

B. wrote: >Zogby Poll Shows Democratic Ticket Up 5 Points Gotta be careful with thos Zogby's - he uses undisclosed and presumably unorthodox weighting techniques. Doug

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Date:	Fri Jul 30 13:25:24 PDT 2004

22490 [lbo-talk] Fwd: If you're unemployed, take prozac -- rank: 1000

<http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=615&u=/nm/20040729/pl_nm/campaign_jobs_dc_1&printer=1> Unhappy Workers Should Take Prozac --Bush Campaigner Thu Jul 29, 1:50 PM ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A campaign worker for President Bush (news - web sites) said on Thursday American workers unhappy with low-quality jobs should find new ones -- or pop a Prozac to make themselves feel better. "Why don't they get new jobs if they're unhappy -- or go on Prozac?" said Susan She ...

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Date:	Fri Jul 30 12:22:09 PDT 2004

22491 [lbo-talk] For Carrol, Chip and Kelley...part 1 -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >But everytime that an ABB proponent sings this song of difference >between the _Parties_ he or she utterly discredits the ABB argument and >reveals it for what it is, shamefaced tailing of the DP. <yawn> You can say this as many times as you like, but repetition doesn't make it true.

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Date:	Fri Jul 30 12:02:04 PDT 2004

22492 [lbo-talk] Sexuality Under Seige or So What Else is New? -- rank: 1000

Are other national legal traditions this inbred and scholastic? - Doug andie nachgeborenen wrote: >This is gonna get esoteric, but the commerce clause issue is a red >herring. The 11th Cir case also involves state regulation of sale of >sex toys, and is on all fours with Griswold, which involved state >reg of sales of sex toys. I never said and wouldn't argue for a >narrow reading of the commerce clause, which I think is a broad >grant of Congressional power, and of course I ag ...

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Date:	Fri Jul 30 11:21:09 PDT 2004

22493 [lbo-talk] WFP on Pataki's veto of min wage increase -- rank: 1000

[here's a difference between the two parties - and it's several times more than a dime's worth - from the Working Families Party] We write with an almost overwhelming sense of disgust and anger. Yesterday, Governor Pataki vetoed the minimum-wage bill. To say this caught us by surprise is an understatement. The political class had confidently and uniformly predicted that he would sign the bill. But perhaps we shouldn't be shocked. This is a governor with a history of unbridled hostility to fund ...

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Date:	Fri Jul 30 10:54:40 PDT 2004

22494 [lbo-talk] hello indolence -- rank: 1000

Guardian (London) - July 26, 2004 Hello indolence, goodbye job? Amelia Gentleman in Paris* Thos e who dedicate their professional lives to idleness should do so with discretion if they hope to keep their jobs. This is one useful message in Hello Laziness - The Art and the Importance of Doing the Least Possible at the Workplace, an anarchic anti-business bible published in France. It is advice the author, Corinne Maier, a senior economist at Electricité de France, failed to follow. She faces a di ...

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Date:	Fri Jul 30 10:52:36 PDT 2004

22495 [lbo-talk] "These anarchist kids are not who you think they are -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >I'll bet that the protests at the 2008 DNC convention will be hot >after the Democrats screw up this year and hand re-election to Bush. Huh? I thought you were saying Bush was going to lose. Doug

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Date:	Fri Jul 30 10:48:23 PDT 2004

22496 [lbo-talk] but were they trained to withstand hot air? -- rank: 1000

National Journal - July 29, 2004 Survival of the Scribbling Class? By John Maggs If terrorists attack a political convention, what set of people in the target zone will be the "cockroaches" -- that is, the creatures most likely to survive? Journalists. In the gallons of ink spilled about supertight security at this year's conventions, what's rarely mentioned is that some news organizations prepared their reporting teams as if they were going to war. One company alone, Centurion Risk-As ...

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Date:	Fri Jul 30 09:31:20 PDT 2004

22497 [lbo-talk] strong, stronger, strongest!!!: a party with penisenvy? -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Carl Remick wrote: >> >> >> BOSTON, July 29 - For months, John Kerry and his supporters have told voters >> that he is strong enough to keep the nation safe and caring enough to make >> it comfortable with him as president. On Thursday night his goal was to show >> the biggest audience of his life that both claims were true, and he gave it >> his best shot. > >How large was the audience? > >What proportion of the au ...

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Date:	Fri Jul 30 08:40:39 PDT 2004

22498 [lbo-talk] Fidel on W -- rank: 1000

[via Sam Smith's Progressive Review <http://prorev.com>] FIDEL CASTRO JOINS DISCUSSION OF BUSH'S PSYCHE http://www.cuba.cu/gobierno/discursos/2004/ing/f260704i.html [From a speech delivered in Cuba on July 26, responding to Bush accusations of child prostitution in Cuba] FIDEL CASTRO - There is no doubt that these many friends, all over the world, will be wondering how it is possible that such unspeakable, foul slander is hurled against Cuba. This obliges me to give a most serious and hone ...

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Date:	Fri Jul 30 08:18:26 PDT 2004

22499 [lbo-talk] Barack Obama -- rank: 1000

Gary? wrote: >Once again we have this interminable analysis. "The President has an uncomplicated view of the world, and so do I." - Bill O'Reilly

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Date:	Fri Jul 30 08:04:06 PDT 2004

22500 [lbo-talk] What percent of US households make 200k+ annually? -- rank: 1000

B. wrote: >What percentage of US _households_ make more than >$200,000 per year? appx 2-3% - hard to say more precisely than that

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