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22501 [lbo-talk] the reviews come in... -- rank: 1000

At 5:08 AM -0700 7/30/04, The Nation Magazine wrote: >Dear EmailNation Subscriber, > >The convention finale was a good night for Kerry. He delivered his speech >effectively. He smiled as well as he has ever done in public. He came >across as firm, smart, and serious. But this was also a historical moment >in the political culture. As David Corn wrote after spending the night on >the convention floor, "Vietnam is no longer a test of foreign policy >machismo. John Kerr ...

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Date:	Fri Jul 30 05:41:58 PDT 2004

22502 [lbo-talk] Sexuality Under Seige or So What Else is New? Send tommorrow -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Back in the '60s hip liberals would show how unracist they were by using >racist language; it was supposed to show that they were so far above >such things that racist language from _them_ wasn't racist. I'm confused. "Dick" and "pussy" is racist language? Doug

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Date:	Thu Jul 29 18:39:59 PDT 2004

22503 [lbo-talk] Sexuality Under Seige or So What Else is New? -- rank: 1000

andie nachgeborenen wrote: >I hate to be a one note Johnny, but would you explain to me why >contraceptives are constitutionally protected by the provacy rights >under the due process clause, but vibrators are not? If we had a >blank slate, no Griswold, no Roe, no cases granting praviacy rights >in sexual matters, maybe you would be right, but we don't. The 11th >Cir, flies in the face of clear and long established constitutional >law. Just goes to show you how flimsy it can ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jul 29 13:53:41 PDT 2004

22504 [lbo-talk] Barack Obama -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >So, it is safe to say that Obama wanted to send a not-so-subtle >message that he embodies in his biracial person and background a >longing for race-less America, and it won't be surprising if such a >message is more pleasing and reassuring than those of older >generations of Black politicians. Like who, MLK? >I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out >the true meaning of its creed: We hold these truths to be >self-evident t ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 29 13:18:40 PDT 2004

22505 [lbo-talk] Sherman Austin update -- rank: 1000

http://cryptome.org/sherman-gag.htm More on the Sherman Austin political arrest, prosecution and jailing: http://cryptome.org/usa-v-rtf-swa.htm _________________________________________________________________ http://www.freesherman.org/ http://www.freesherman.org/sa1.htm 7/16/2004 17:47 PM PST Raisethefist's Sherman Austin Released served in prison under The Patriot Act --Various Sources Tucson- Sherman Austin arrived at the Tucson airport this week itching to get home back to LA. Two members f ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 29 12:08:24 PDT 2004

22506 [lbo-talk] Sharpton -- rank: 1000

knowknot at mindspring.com wrote: >In contrast, to ascribe just to his skin color or indeed to his >"rabble rousing" speech style a distrust of Sharpton is >simple-mindedly to mislead, because focus primarily on these >features but without further analysis is to deflect from the guy's >very long history of self-interested hustling, (at best) >questionable financial dealings, willingness in the past to act as >an undercover F.B.I. informant against even his (putativ ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 29 09:55:52 PDT 2004

22507 [lbo-talk] Sharpton -- rank: 1000

Jeffrey Fisher wrote: >"only [sic] half-black"? mind the slippery slope. > >i agree there's a difference in the rhetoric of obama and sharpton, >but i'm not convinced that it's because obama is somehow "less >black" . . . although your explanation may account for the relative >lack of hostility toward obama. That was a joke - sorry if that wasn't apparent. The real difference between the two is the rhetorical style, and to some degree, the politics. Doug

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Date:	Thu Jul 29 09:48:07 PDT 2004

22508 [lbo-talk] strong, stronger, strongest!!!: a party with penis envy? -- rank: 1000

DeborahSRogers wrote: >Heh, no girly-men here! The 2004 Dem platform - a 41-page document called "Strong at Home, Respected in the World" - includes 66 uses of the string "strong" (including "stronger" and "strongest"), and 41 uses of "strength." Doug

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Date:	Thu Jul 29 07:32:43 PDT 2004

22509 [lbo-talk] Purged WWP'ers, "Party for Socialism and Liberation." -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese just wrote: ><URL: http://socialismandliberation.org/mag/ > Traffic is heavy enough without dupes. At 12:09 AM -0400 7/29/04, Doug Henwood wrote: >From: "Greg Yardley" >Subject: As predicted... WWP split = new Marxist-Leninist 'party'. >Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 21:00:57 -0700 > >Second verse, same as the first. ><http://socialismandliberation.org/> Doug

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Date:	Thu Jul 29 07:24:10 PDT 2004

22510 [lbo-talk] Belgian students flock to see F911 in Crawford -- rank: 1000

Thu Jul 29, 1:09 AM ET Hundreds Watch 'Fahrenheit 9/11' in Bush Hometown By David Morgan CRAWFORD, Texas (Reuters) - Hundreds of people gathered in a rural parking lot near President Bush (news - web sites)'s Texas ranch on Wednesday to watch Michael Moore's anti-Bush documentary, "Fahrenheit 9/11," although the filmmaker canceled plans to attend. Sitting before a giant inflatable movie screen, filmgoers from across Texas booed and cheered as Moore's record-setting antiwar film satiric ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 29 07:16:00 PDT 2004

22511 [lbo-talk] Sharpton -- rank: 1000

John Lacny wrote: >Carl Remick writes: > >> I am surprised by the MSNBC crew's undisguised, >> visceral dislike of Sharpton. > >What have I been saying all along? Nothing gets these >people going like race. Nothing. Well, not exactly. They love Obama. But he's moderate and exudes Harvard (and to concede part of your point, only half black). Sharpton's rhetorical style is much more rabble rousing - his appeal is to passion, not wonkery. I think that kind of style make ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 29 07:09:38 PDT 2004

22512 [lbo-talk] Productivity Paralysis in Europe? -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >Doug's comment above also implies that some of Europe is evolving to >socialism, somewhat, in that improved technological efficiency is allowed to >shorten work time, increase leisure, and assuming less difference between >rich and poor, less operation of the absolute general law of capitalist >accumulation there than here. > >In this regard ,we might argue ( without falling into barracks/hairshirt >communism) that fastest growing GDP ( in the US) is ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 29 07:06:33 PDT 2004

22513 [lbo-talk] strong, stronger, strongest!!!: a party with penis envy? -- rank: 1000

The daily themes for the Dem Convention <http://www.dems2004.org/site/pp.asp?c=luI2LaPYG&b=130848>: Tuesday: A Lifetime of Strength & Service Wednesday: A Stronger More Secure America Thursday: Stronger at Home, Respected in the World

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Date:	Thu Jul 29 06:52:38 PDT 2004

22514 [lbo-talk] Choosing our Terrain, was Re: O'Reilly v. Moore - 2 -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Amazon.com's marketing based on customers' habits, if anything, is >evidence for Carrol's argument: preach to the choir first and >foremost. Intellectuals like you and Michael Moore are doing a good >job by providing the choir with good songs. There's a role for preaching to the choir - have to keep it informed & inspired. But it's not good to speak to the choir only in our private language - it has to be open and interesting enough that nonmembers might ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 29 06:34:03 PDT 2004

22515 [lbo-talk] Fwd: As predicted... WWP split = new Marxist-Leninist 'party'. -- rank: 1000

From: "Greg Yardley" Subject: As predicted... WWP split = new Marxist-Leninist 'party'. Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 21:00:57 -0700 Second verse, same as the first. <http://socialismandliberation.org/> - Greg

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Date:	Wed Jul 28 21:09:09 PDT 2004