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22576 [lbo-talk] Committee on the Present Danger -- rank: 1000

Willy Greenfields wrote: >The round-up of the daily papers on NY1 this morning >said something about Lieberman leading a new >incarnation of the Committee on the Present Danger. > >Press release: > ><http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/040720/nytu066_1.html> > >Follow the link at the end to see the sickos lending >their name to this (Solarz, Dicter, Muravchik, etc). Direct access to the cast of ghouls: <http://www.fightingterror.org/members/index.cfm>. I was won ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 20 09:46:24 PDT 2004

22577 [lbo-talk] Gallup on F911 -- rank: 1000

<http://www.gallup.com/content/?ci=12379> July 20, 2004 Majority of Adults Expect to See Fahrenheit 9/11 Democrats, Republicans express sharply divided views by David W. Moore GALLUP NEWS SERVICE PRINCETON, NJ -- According to the most recent Gallup survey, more than half of all American adults (56%) either have seen or expect, at some time, to see Michael Moore's controversial movie, Fahrenheit 9/11, a highly critical look at the Bush administration's decision to fight a war in Iraq. The p ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 20 07:51:41 PDT 2004

22578 [lbo-talk] Cops and the Convention Re: uh oh dept. -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >I wonder what LBO-talk subscribers who line up on the opposite sides >of the police question will say about the conflict between the cops >and the mayor at the Democratic National Convention in Boston: Demonstrators should call for pay increases for the cops. It'd make them much less inclined to uncork the teargas. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 20 07:46:15 PDT 2004

22579 [lbo-talk] a plug for nathan newman -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >Medicare and social welfare? Sure, that might be a good choice for >the next year or two, but how about demolishing capitalism and >ending the need for Medicare? > >Training and employment? Fuck work. So in your utopia there'd be no schools - you don't want better schools, but no schools - and I'm guessing no health care either, since there'd be no financing mechanism and no workers. You expect people to sign up for this agenda? Doug

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Date:	Tue Jul 20 07:41:14 PDT 2004

22580 [lbo-talk] petition: Assassination of Iraqi Intellectuals -- rank: 1000

[To sign, email Andrew Rubin at <anr5 at starpower.net>.] Feel free to forward the statement to those who share the concern below. The statement will be forwarded to media outlets around the world, government representatives, UN Officials, and the investigative arm of the ICC among others once we obtain a significant body of signatures. Please forward this at least five times and we'll quickly have 50,000 signatories in a matters of days. Sincerely, Andrew N Rubin Asst. Professor of Engli ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 20 07:38:49 PDT 2004

22581 [lbo-talk] Anti-Chomsky Reader -- rank: 1000

It's interesting how Chomsky is almost never cited in the big media - print or broadcast - yet he's treated by the ideological border patrol as an omnipresent threat. Readers are assumed to know all about him, even though the pubs that assume that almost never quote him. It's like he's the personification of imperialism's bad conscience. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 20 07:28:01 PDT 2004

22582 [lbo-talk] obesity: a view from abroad -- rank: 1000

[old, but timeless really] Tebbit: buggery to blame for obesity crisis Ben Townley, Gay.com UK Thursday 27 May, 2004 13:46 | http://uk.gay.com/headlines/6320 Lord Tebbit has continued his one-man tirade against gay men, by claiming the country's current "obesity epidemic" can be blamed on the government's support for "buggery". The comments came during BBC Radio 4's Today programme this morning, where the former Conservative cabinet minister was invited to talk about the ongo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 20 07:17:46 PDT 2004

22583 [lbo-talk] Re: uh oh dept. -- rank: 1000

Jordan Hayes wrote: >Well, since it's all out in the open, how about a few more details for >us Playing At Home? What exactly was her deal? Was she in fact >'criminal' in her abuse? Calling at 3 AM and leaving long voicemails and sending over 200 emails after being repeatedly asked to stop is criminal, yes. >Was she arrested or just admonished? One of NY's finest told her to stop, and she did. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 20 07:00:04 PDT 2004

22584 [lbo-talk] Re: uh oh dept. -- rank: 1000

frank scott wrote: >when someone is attacked, robbed, burglarized or suffers any of the even >more numerous and perhaps less dramatic tribulations of life, like >arguments with neighbors that get close to violence, etc., they do not >call 911 to get a teacher, or a professor, or even a social >worker...although, at times, the police action involves all those >qualities and more, at higher personal risk, and much lower salary... A couple of years ago, I was harassed by a loony w ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jul 19 15:24:04 PDT 2004

22585 [lbo-talk] Bohemian Grove -- rank: 1000

[J. Wanzala, you're falling down on the job! How'd you miss this?] <http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/07/18/SFCLUBS.TMP> San Francisco Chronicle - July 18, 2004 Members only S.F.'s exclusive clubs carry on traditions of fellowship, culture -- and discrimination Adair Lara, Chronicle Staff Writer On Saturday, some 2,000 CEOs and politicos and arty types arrived at the cool redwoods and lily-choked lake of the Grove, the famous Russian River playground of the powerful Boh ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jul 19 14:14:56 PDT 2004

22586 [lbo-talk] IPA on Nader and the Reform Party -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >http://www.accuracy.org/new.htm I posted that earlier today. Please, there's enough traffic on this list without duplicating stuff. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jul 19 14:01:08 PDT 2004

22587 [lbo-talk] 2d Amendment/Rule of Law (Was: The curse of literacy) -- rank: 1000

andie nachgeborenen wrote: >However, I am with Rorty, who agrees with Q & D about >meaning (which I do not), and likes Derrida DeMan and >Heidegger -- and thinks that politics and law should >absolutely NOT NOT NOT be based on anything so >contentious and deep as theses in the philosophy of >language. What a weird separation. So meaning is only uncertain in things that don't matter, like literature, but when it comes to law, everything is fixed and crystal-clear? Why do we ...

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Date:	Mon Jul 19 13:52:58 PDT 2004

22588 [lbo-talk] Left Behind: Race and the Second Amendment -- rank: 1000

R wrote: >spike lee in a CNN interview (ostensibly about his new movie) came out >strongly in support of cosby's recent comments -- which he's support since >they were uttered. he applauded on the air and stated (paraphrasing) that >in the past black kids were unable to read due to poor, segregated schools; >now many can't read and write by choice. they identify being able to read >with being "white" and attack their fellow students who want to learn for >acting ...

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Date:	Mon Jul 19 13:19:50 PDT 2004

22589 [lbo-talk] anti-gaydar -- rank: 1000

[on a lighter note, from Gawker] The Straight Sign: The Anti-Gaydar Tom Zoellner comments on the non-mating ritual that takes place when two heterosexual men meet at, say, the Holiday Cocktail Lounge or Hi-Fi: someone must raise a giant flag that says "Don't worry, bro: I don't crave cock." The Straight Sign is flashed in a variety of ways, but they almost always involve the sudden invocation of women. Cocktail servers and bartenders are a common prop. I've heard "Damn, she's hot& ...

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Date:	Mon Jul 19 12:41:23 PDT 2004

22590 [lbo-talk] Re: What the Ruling Class Want to Get: A Green Light -- rank: 1000

lweiger at umich.edu wrote: >This kind of talk drives me batty. The business class fought the >New Deal tooth >and nail. They've been trying to get rid of it for the past 70 or so years. >Earnest reformers like FDR do not cynically try to "save capitalism from >itself." They see problems with the system and try to fix them, simple as >that. Their efforts are nearly always opposed by ardent capitalists who like >the system as it is, thank you very much (i.e. the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jul 19 12:31:40 PDT 2004