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22531 [lbo-talk] Why isn't Kerry surging past Bush right now? -- rank: 1000

Uh, the convention's just started. It's a little early to draw conclusions. I just saw Peter, Paul, & Mary at the DNC. Egads. The delegates seemed to like it though. Thank god it was on at 6:20, when only the C-SPAN junkies could see it. Doug

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Date:	Tue Jul 27 16:27:14 PDT 2004

22532 [lbo-talk] the Sudan-China connexion -- rank: 1000

Joseph Wanzala wrote: 5 posts today. The limit is 3. Next time you overpost, I'm setting you to moderate. Doug

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Date:	Tue Jul 27 16:25:17 PDT 2004

22533 [lbo-talk] Fwd: Apartheid reparations: a crucial call for support -- rank: 1000

>From pbond at sn.apc.org Fri Jul 23 12:45:12 2004 Reply-To: "Patrick Bond" <pbond at sn.apc.org> From: "Patrick Bond" <pbond at sn.apc.org> To: "Patrick Bond" <pbond at sn.apc.org> Subject: Apartheid reparations: a crucial call for support Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 17:28:49 +0200 Hello from Johannesburg, Should capitalists who profited handsomely from South Africa's racist/sexist apartheid system pay back the victims? Should we, in the process, te ...

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Date:	Tue Jul 27 16:16:53 PDT 2004

22534 [lbo-talk] Prediction... -- rank: 1000

joanna bujes wrote: >OK. I predict that this Google offering will mark the beginning of >the next leg of this secular Bear market. > >Why? No hard facts, it just has a nice dramatic/poetic symmetry. Is >poetic justice in the economic lexicon? >Probably not. Justice, no, but as Wallace Stevens said, money is a kind of poetry. The only problem with your scenario is that trends usually persist longer than anyone expects. So GOOG could be the beginning of an IPO neo-boomlet, and no ...

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Date:	Tue Jul 27 14:43:15 PDT 2004

22535 [lbo-talk] Overposting -- rank: 1000

Dennis Redmond wrote: >A plea: folks, can we please keep our contributions to three per day? (You >chronic overposters know who you are.) Three reasons: first, sorting >through all those messages is a pain on my clunky dialup. Second, many >non-US folks face high fees for web access, but their perspectives are >absolutely essential to the discussion. Third, new voices tend to get >overwhelmed. I've been away for a few days, and not checking in much, so I haven't been able to co ...

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Date:	Mon Jul 26 20:23:11 PDT 2004

22536 [lbo-talk] Prostitutes Join Police Converging on DNC Boston -- rank: 1000

Brad Mayer wrote: >The only real question emerging from an otherwise moribund political >system is, who will have the most hookers, Democrats or Republicans? >I'd say Democrats, because they are not saddled with a large >contingent of Bible thumpers, but OTOH there will probably be more >cops at the Repub convention in NYC. Are you kidding? Prostition & trad vals go together like the proverbial horse & carriage. Dems are more likely to carry on with each other, I bet. Doug

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Date:	Mon Jul 26 14:22:31 PDT 2004

22537 [lbo-talk] North Korea goes online -- rank: 1000

Stop responding to him or I'm going to set you to moderate. Chris Doss wrote: >The knee jerks. > >--- Michael Pugliese <michael098762001 at earthlink.net> >wrote: >> >http://www.guardian.co.uk/korea/article/0,2763,1136483,00.html >> Defectors have smuggled out documents that appear to >> reveal how methodical >> the chemical experiments were. > > > > >__________________________________ >Do you Yahoo!? >New and Improved Yahoo! M ...

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Date:	Mon Jul 26 09:13:41 PDT 2004

22538 [lbo-talk] Voters ingnoring "Fahrenheit 9/11" -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 23:35:08 -0400, <press at bordersunion.org> wrote: > >>Future fodder for someone's thesis on the failure of polling. > > Doug can provide much more data from AAPOR but, I'll just say, as >a former employee of the (Mervin) Field Poll in Ca. founded in '45, >that the Field Poll from 1948 to 2000, was within 1%+or- of the Nov. >Pres. popular vote. I'm away with a very slow connection, but yeah, the polls are still very ...

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Date:	Mon Jul 26 08:56:01 PDT 2004

22539 [lbo-talk] Re: -- rank: 1000

Dano wrote: > >The snake > > >Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name="MP3.com" >Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="MP3.com" > >Attachment converted: Macintosh HD:MP3.com (????/----) (0008E104) I've set this listmember to "moderate," so there should be no more of these. Doug

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Date:	Fri Jul 23 04:31:35 PDT 2004

22540 [lbo-talk] Balkan sobranies -- rank: 1000

>From: Jjinsitu at aol.com >Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 01:30:29 EDT >Subject: Re: The Great Yenidge Varietals >To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org > ><http://www.aspipes.org/faq/faq/orient.html>Click here: Oriental >(Turkish) Tobacco - It was the Yenidje varietals that gave us Balkan >sobranies..unfortunately, these great tobaccos are truly no longer >available. > >Excuse the HMTL > >Jeff

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Date:	Fri Jul 23 04:29:13 PDT 2004

22541 [lbo-talk] Anti-Chomsky Reader -- rank: 1000

press at bordersunion.org wrote: >In any case, indie or corporate, they all bust unions. Has Powell's made peace with its union? Doug

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Date:	Thu Jul 22 16:09:11 PDT 2004

22542 [lbo-talk] viral attachment -- rank: 1000

Dano wrote: > >foto3 and MP3 > >Password: > > >Attachment converted: Macintosh HD:qrltlqrzzd.bmp (BMPp/JVWR) (000C7DAB) >Attachment converted: Macintosh HD:MP3.zip (pZIP/pZIP) (000C7DAC) Egads, that looks like an infected file!! Don't open. Jordan or some other technical whiz - I thought we were blocking attachments. How can we prevent this from happening again? Doug

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Date:	Thu Jul 22 15:35:12 PDT 2004

22543 [lbo-talk] Cho disinvited from Dem chucklefest -- rank: 1000

<http://www.365gay.com/newscon04/07/072204choDems.htm> Cho 'Disinvited' To Gay Dems Bash by Doreen Brandt 365Gay.com Newscenter Washington Bureau Posted: July 22, 2004 11:03 am ET (Washington) Margaret Cho has been pulled as the headliner at a gay event scheduled to coincide with the Democratic National Convention in Boston. Unity 2004 is the biggest gathering of gay organizations and their supporters at any convention in US political history. Sponsored by 10 LGBT civil rights groups, it w ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 22 12:48:04 PDT 2004

22544 [lbo-talk] gay porn star servicing Bohemian Grove -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - July 22, 2004 GAY PORN STAR SERVES MOGULS THE power-moguls and political heavyweights now luxuriating at ultra-exclusive retreat Bohemian Grove are unaware that they're being waited on hand-and-foot by a famous gay porn star. We're told that "Chad Savage," who has appeared in such carnal classics as "How the West Was Hung," is supplementing his sex job by working as a valet at Bohemian Grove, the all-male annual gathering inside a 2,700-acre redwood ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 22 08:14:34 PDT 2004

22545 [lbo-talk] Bohemian Grove -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: >Still no argument. I'm assuming that went out before my request to ignore each other.

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Date:	Thu Jul 22 08:02:24 PDT 2004