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22546 [lbo-talk] coq au pee -- rank: 1000

New Scientist - July 21, 2004 Army rations rehydrated by urine Would you eat food cooked in your own urine? Food scientists working for the US military have developed a dried food ration that troops can hydrate by adding the filthiest of muddy swamp water or even peeing on it. The ration comes in a pouch containing a filter that removes 99.9 per cent of bacteria and most toxic chemicals from the water used to rehydrate it, according to the Combat Feeding Directorate, part of the US Army Soldier ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 22 07:56:02 PDT 2004

22547 [lbo-talk] Anti-Chomsky Reader -- rank: 1000

budge wrote: >so you would prefer that the folks that live in this gross >upperclass suburb where i work never see goodman's book at >all? i was pleasantly surprised to see it in the B&N in the >mall here a month or so ago when i was last there. I was at a dinner the other night with the person who buys political books for B&N nationwide. A sophisticated, likeable person with good politics. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jul 22 07:49:33 PDT 2004

22548 [lbo-talk] Bohemian Grove -- rank: 1000

Chris and Michael, be nice. Or at least ignore each other. Thank you. Doug

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Date:	Thu Jul 22 07:44:49 PDT 2004

22549 [lbo-talk] Re: For the left, there are many reasons to be optimistic -- rank: 1000

Chuck Grimes wrote: >Can Doug please explain his fascination with cheesy overpriced >pop cult blondes passed their shelf life? Like who? Well, like Madonna >and Martha for example... I never "liked" Martha - I just thought she got a raw deal. Madonna ain't what she used to be, alas. I'm looking for a successors, but none come to mind. I read on Gawker the other day that redheads are the new blondes - maybe there's a clue there. Doug

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Date:	Thu Jul 22 06:02:54 PDT 2004

22550 [lbo-talk] GAO: war costs underestimated by $12.3b -- rank: 1000

Shane Mage wrote: >Another Kewrryite lie. Ubu called himself a *war* president--and >Kewrry immediately replied that he would be one too, only better at it. >But yesterday Ubu made a speech promising to become a "peace >president." Will Kewrry now imitate him--or will he accuse Ubu of >preparing to "cut and run"--or do both at the same time? I await >with unbated breath. So what's this all about, Shane? <http://www.bolshevik.org/1917/no7/no07geof.html&g ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 22 05:59:26 PDT 2004

22551 [lbo-talk] GAO: war costs underestimated by $12.3b -- rank: 1000

U.S. Underestimated War Costs by $12.3 Billion - GAO Wed Jul 21, 7:21 PM ET By Anna Willard WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon (news - web sites) said on Wednesday it may tap emergency funding for Iraq (news - web sites) and Afghanistan (news - web sites) earlier than requested as a congressional report found that the Bush administration underestimated war costs by $12.3 billion. The report fueled criticism that the wars were badly planned and comes as Congress prepares to approve this week $25 ...

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Date:	Wed Jul 21 20:35:32 PDT 2004

22552 [lbo-talk] Anti-Chomsky Reader -- rank: 1000

mike larkin wrote: >Can I suggest that outside of the big cities, the >value of independent bookstores is vastly over-rated? >Ten years ago, there were no chain bookstores here in >central CT (and no independents of any value). Now I'm >only ten minutes away from at least three bookstores >chock full of Chomsky, served up by kids with nifty >punk rock haircuts. How is this a bad thing? The B&N that replaced indie Shakespeare & Co. on the Upper West Side of Manh (one ...

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Date:	Wed Jul 21 20:25:54 PDT 2004

22553 [lbo-talk] Anti-Chomsky Reader -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >This seques into another thought I had about the current discussions >here. I'm getting more worried that the liberal effort to defeat >Bush is sucking money and resources our of the progressive left that >will take years to overcome. It's one thing to hold your nose and >vote for Kerry, another thing to actually send money to the Kerry >campaign. Of course, it's hard to tell how much of a problem this is >right now. As Yoshie discovered, it's not much of a pr ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jul 21 18:55:02 PDT 2004

22554 [lbo-talk] Kerry leading among Latinos; Nader at 2% -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >So actually this isn't big news. Think like a trader! It's not the level, it's the performance relative to expectations! Doug

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Date:	Wed Jul 21 17:55:31 PDT 2004

22555 [lbo-talk] Kerry leading among Latinos; Nader at 2% -- rank: 1000

<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3368-2004Jul21.html> Poll Shows Kerry Leading Among Registered Latinos Most Reject President's Handling of Economy, War in Iraq By Richard Morin and Dan Balz Washington Post Staff Writers Wednesday, July 21, 2004; 6:46 PM Democratic Sen. John F. Kerry holds a strong lead over President Bush among the nation's Hispanic voters, with a majority rejecting the president's handling of the economy and saying the war in Iraq was a mistake, according ...

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Date:	Wed Jul 21 17:24:20 PDT 2004

22556 [lbo-talk] Fwd: Pew Research Center Report -- rank: 1000

Democratic Party Image Improvement Democrats More Confident, Kerry Faring Better in Battleground States Sen. John Kerry enters the Democratic convention next week bolstered by a number of favorable trends in public opinion, although he remains locked in a statistical tie for voter support with President George W. Bush. His party is at least competitive with the Republicans on every issue except terrorism. Most important, the Democrats have a strong advantage over the GOP as the party that cares ...

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Date:	Wed Jul 21 13:34:00 PDT 2004

22557 [lbo-talk] Officials knew of voter list's race flaw -- rank: 1000

Jon Johanning wrote: >Right on, bro'! The Repubs organized a demonstration in 2000 in >Florida, drawing their employees from DC, etc., but the Demos, for >some strange reason, acted like little ladies and gentlemen. Because Al Gore told them to. He sent a bunch of angry union organizers home, and Jesse Jackson too. Doug

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Date:	Wed Jul 21 11:45:41 PDT 2004

22558 [lbo-talk] Protestant Numbers -- rank: 1000

Kevin Robert Dean wrote: >* A steep rise in the number of people who said they currently have >no religion: 14% in 2002, up from 9% in 1992. It's even higher for >younger people: Among those born in 1980 or later, 27% said they >have no religion. "Each succeeding group is less religious than the >preceding," Smith says. See, Carl - something to be optimistic about!

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Date:	Wed Jul 21 10:50:08 PDT 2004

22559 [lbo-talk] Petrelis gets noticed -- rank: 1000

[A prospective snooping partner for Yoshie?] Baltimore Sun - July 21, 2004 Man with a mission takes on newspapers Media: David Folkenflik Finding journalists' political donations Michael Petrelis has been angry at The New York Times for a long, long time. Since the 1980s, Petrelis, a Green Party volunteer and longtime AIDS activist now based in San Francisco, has felt that The Times is insufficiently attentive to what he believes are the government's shortcomings in fighting the disease. Since M ...

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Date:	Wed Jul 21 09:39:50 PDT 2004

22560 [lbo-talk] Ron Jr on W -- rank: 1000

New York Daily News - July 21, 2004 Daily Dish Lloyd Grove Ron Jr. throws the book at Bush The Democrats' most potent secret weapon? It might very well be MSNBC "Hardball" correspondent Ron Reagan - Son of the Gipper. The 46-year-old Reagan, a trustee of the nominally nonpartisan Creative Coalition, will be speaking out in favor of stem-cell research at next's week's Democratic Convention. And in "If You Had Five Minutes With the President," a soon-to-be published collection ...

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Date:	Wed Jul 21 09:16:51 PDT 2004