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23266 [lbo-talk] Kerry Says He Might Support Constitutional Amendment to Ban Gay Marriage -- rank: 1000

Kevin Robert Dean wrote: >I thought we'd been through this before---but I'll ask again---How >is a Justice of the Peace marriage, for example "religious"? > >I'm not a big fan of the whole marriage idea myself, but if we're >gonna have it, why not extend it to all and the benefits that go >with? Saying you're for "civil union" but not "marriage" is an admission that you're going for a second-class institution. Press people on why they make the dist ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 10 13:31:53 PST 2004

23267 [lbo-talk] Judith Miller: "I was misquoted" -- rank: 1000

Women's Wear Daily - February 10, 2004 SHE MADE HER (EM)BED: Judith Miller can't catch a break. Just one week after the New York Times reporter was the subject of a thinly veiled swipe by its public editor, Daniel Okrent, The New York Review of Books has chimed in. In an 8,420-word piece called "Now They Tell Us," written by Michael Massing, Miller, among others, is criticized for being one of the many "U.S. journalists who were far too reliant on sources sympathetic to the admini ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 10 13:09:33 PST 2004

23268 [lbo-talk] Kerry Says He Might Support Constitutional Amendment to Ban Gay Marriage -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >federally guaranteed place in heaven I want one of those! Is anyone running on that promise? Doug

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Date:	Tue Feb 10 12:58:04 PST 2004

23269 [lbo-talk] Iraq, the left and the 'resistance' (Geras blog) -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >The advice of Iranians (1953), Guatemalans (1954), Chileans (1973), >Venezuelans (2002), etc. should be that it's not a good idea to put >too much stock in elections alone. Your man, if he gets elected at >all, may get de-selected shortly afterward. True enough, so what's your recommendation? Just support the "resistance," because they might scare away Uncle Sam? Or do you have something else in mind? Doug

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Date:	Tue Feb 10 11:56:59 PST 2004

23270 [lbo-talk] Kerry Says He Might Support Constitutional Amendment to Ban Gay Marriage -- rank: 1000

Creep.

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Date:	Tue Feb 10 12:07:01 PST 2004

23271 [lbo-talk] Iraq, the left and the 'resistance' (Geras blog) -- rank: 1000

Stephen E Philion wrote: Eight posts today. Five yesterday. The limit is three. Doug

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Date:	Mon Feb 9 15:55:02 PST 2004

23272 [lbo-talk] most docs support single payer -- rank: 1000

PRESS RELEASE EMBARGOED UNTIL 4:01 PM, EST February 9, 2004 Most Physicians Endorse Single-Payer National Health Insurance According to Harvard Study Nearly two-thirds (64%) of physicians favor single-payer national health insurance, far more than support managed care (10%) or fee-for-service care (26%) according to a Harvard Medical School study published today in the Archives of Internal Medicine. National health insurance (NHI) received majority support from physicians of virtually every age, ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 9 15:03:14 PST 2004

23273 [lbo-talk] Pentagon: good news only please -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - Feburary 9, 2004 Media Notes Pentagon Clip Service's Clips Clipped By Howard Kurtz Washington Post Staff Writer Senior Pentagon managers have repeatedly ordered the department's widely read clipping service to exclude articles critical of the military and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, according to officials familiar with the practice. Staffers at the Early Bird, whose service is devoured by Pentagon brass, lawmakers, journalists and military personnel around the world, wer ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 9 14:32:56 PST 2004

23274 [lbo-talk] RE: Activism/Socialism in U.S. -- rank: 1000

uvj at vsnl.com wrote: >Why does the US capitalism, the richest, the most powerful and technological >country in the world, need to base its rule on a primitive ideology as racism? You've never been here, have you? The level and prevalence of crude religiosity would also strike you as incompatibility with wealth and technological sophistication. Doug

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Date:	Mon Feb 9 14:23:18 PST 2004

23275 [lbo-talk] Re: RE: Bush interview -- rank: 1000

Brad Mayer wrote: >As for Bush, his gang has scored a stunning success corralling the Left >back into the two-party scam. Now they are at the racetracks along with >everybody else. Alas, as "activists" were betting on the wrong horse >(Dean), it will be slightly amusing to watch these pathetic creatures >scramble onto the "whatever" (Kerry) bandwagon (it's a horserace with >bandwagons, metaphorically speaking :-) Do tell us what your strategy is, oh nonpat ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 9 13:52:22 PST 2004

23276 [lbo-talk] Re: Working Class was Re: Bachelors, Divorcees.... -- rank: 1000

BklynMagus wrote: >Dear List: > >Carrol wrote: > >> The working class constitutes somewhere between 85% & 90% of the >>population. In so far as there are variations in culture within the >>population there are nearly the same variations of culture within >>the working class. Hence comments on "culture" _or_ on "personal >>experience" are intrinsically counter-productive from a progressive >>viewpoint, since the tendency of ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 9 13:47:53 PST 2004

23277 [lbo-talk] Iraq, the left and the 'resistance' (Geras blog) -- rank: 1000

Seth Ackerman wrote: >Why >should we support people who are trying to take over Iraq by blowing up >civilians? Becuase they're anti-American, and as any simple-minded anti-imperialist could tell you, being anti-American is a good thing deserving of our support. Doug

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Date:	Mon Feb 9 13:41:29 PST 2004

23278 [lbo-talk] Stupid Bowl: did this really happen? -- rank: 1000

D F Cornwell wrote: >2., CBS ostensibly aired a rather offenseive potato chip ad Dunno about that, but according to the Daily Show - my favorite news source - they did run an ad about a farting horse. The gas lighted in a candle flame, singeing two lovers in a carriage. Doug

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Date:	Mon Feb 9 13:34:59 PST 2004

23279 [lbo-talk] e-vote machines screw up again -- rank: 1000

Wired News - 02:00 AM Feb. 09, 2004 PT E-Vote Machines Drop More Ballots By Kim Zetter Story location: http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,62206,00.html Six electronic voting machines used in two North Carolina counties lost 436 absentee ballot votes in the 2002 general election because of a software problem, raising increasing doubts about the accuracy and integrity of voting equipment in a presidential election year. Election Systems & Software said problems with the firmware of its iV ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 9 13:30:50 PST 2004

23280 [lbo-talk] Iraq, the left and the 'resistance' (Geras blog) -- rank: 1000

Liza Featherstone wrote: >On Doug's radio show, >Naomi Klein said that rather than worry about all the different resistance >groups that might be distasteful - my paraphrase, I can't remember her exact >words That interview is on the web, at <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html>. Doug

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Date:	Mon Feb 9 12:00:55 PST 2004