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23956 [lbo-talk] in other NYC news... -- rank: 1000

[not only do we dislike war...] New York Post - April 23, 2004 PARK SEX DUO GETS COPS UP TREE By MARK BULLIET and ERIKA MARTINEZ A pre-op transsexual and "her" male lover yesterday stripped off their clothes, climbed up a Central Park tree, then spent four hours engaging in sex acts and pelting would-be rescuers with profanity and branches. It took four hours before police hostage negotiators talked the pair into descending from their three-story-high perch in a larch tree near Wollman ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 23 07:56:01 PDT 2004

23957 [lbo-talk] New Yorkers -- rank: 1000

SergioL652 at aol.com wrote: >In a message dated 4/22/2004 12:41:01 PM Eastern Standard Time, >chuck at mutualaid.org writes: > >Yes, that conversation took place in Kansas. > >Chuck0 > >Chuck0, > >Johnson County is not Kansas. However, I agree with you. I lived >in Overland Park in 1991 and it was pretty progressive >(comparatively speaking of course). Must have been all the KU >graduates. My wife and I could not stand it though, too yuppie. >So, of ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 23 07:49:29 PDT 2004

23958 [lbo-talk] Lockdown NYC -- rank: 1000

New York Post - April 23, 2004 10,000 COPS TO GUARD GARDEN FOR GOP GALA By STEFAN C. FRIEDMAN Nearly 10,000 of New York's Finest will be working to keep this summer's Republican convention safe - the largest force ever assigned to a national political gathering, NYPD sources told The Post. The figure is more than triple the nearly 3,000 police assigned to the Democratic convention in 1992, the last time the city hosted a presidential party gala. "For the first time, there will be an expansi ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 23 07:23:44 PDT 2004

23959 [lbo-talk] more on Sun etc. -- rank: 1000

[this bounced because the appended digest broke the length limit] Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 19:23:32 -0500 From: Michael Catolico <mcatolico at mindspring.com> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Subject: Re: New Business Model As Doug pointed out the "dummy terminal" model has been tried before. In fact pre-PC days that was the prevalent para ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 22 17:27:48 PDT 2004

23960 [lbo-talk] New Business Model -- rank: 1000

joanna bujes wrote: >So here's a snippet that caught my eye from the company-wide mailer >from the CEO of the company which employs me. >"So there is a step-by-step process we are going to get through >-- using reference architectures, systems that connect to Sun >by default, managed services, customer-ready systems and >capacity-on-demand technology -- to reach a time and place in >which every product group has thought about what services are >delivered via the netw ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 22 16:36:25 PDT 2004

23961 [lbo-talk] Re: new yorkers, and the others -- rank: 1000

JW Mason wrote: >(sorry for the crappy formatting. Is there a good way to post tables to the >list?) Turn tabs into spaces (using a monospaced font, which is what the plain text option should use) and make sure they line up. Tabs can behave very unpredictably. Doug

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Date:	Thu Apr 22 15:40:52 PDT 2004

23962 [lbo-talk] trouble for Diebold -- rank: 1000

<http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,63172,00.html> 08:34 AM Apr. 22, 2004 PT SACRAMENTO, California -- Diebold Election Systems President Bob Urosevich was forced to defend his company's business practices Wednesday at a contentious meeting in Sacramento before California's Voting Systems Panel that may result in the company's machines being barred from the state. Faced with tough questions from VSP election officials in the first day of a long-awaited, two-day hearing on an investigat ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 22 14:56:32 PDT 2004

23963 [lbo-talk] more polls -- rank: 1000

<http://www.quinnipiac.edu/x5619.xml> By a 50 -- 44 percent margin, New York City residents support the war in Iraq, but women oppose the war 51 -- 42 percent while men back the war 59 -- 36 percent, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today. A March 25 poll by the independent Quinnipiac (KWIN-uh-pe-ack) University showed opposition to the war at 59 -- 37 percent in the days before the war began, dropping to a 49 -- 47 percent split by day five of the hostilities. In this la ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 22 14:49:27 PDT 2004

23964 [lbo-talk] Re: new yorkers, and the others -- rank: 1000

And there's this... Chicago Tribune - March 28, 2003 WARTIME STREETS NEW YORK CITY: 'No war!' in city that knows war By Dan Mihalopoulos Tribune staff reporter Manohar Kanuri left his home last weekend, not 200 feet from where the World Trade Center once stood, and headed along the Manhattan streets that had been closed for months while workers cleared the rubble from the worst terrorist attack in U.S. history. His destination: A huge anti-war demonstration in Manhattan. "I know how it is t ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 22 14:46:58 PDT 2004

23965 [lbo-talk] Re: new yorkers, and the others -- rank: 1000

frank scott wrote: >i'm a new yorker who's lived on the west coast for the past twenty five >years, and find both coasts have people who think they are the center >of liberal-progressive politics, enlightened, civil, rational thought, >while the rest of the nation has its head stuck up its collective ass... >only partly true, though i once believed it.. Your gift for caricature aside, the immediate issue was measurable opinion on things like war. Here's an April 2003 poll of regi ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 22 14:29:14 PDT 2004

23966 [lbo-talk] "Apache freedom, Apache democracy, and an Apache regime" -- rank: 1000

Stephen E Philion quoted the NYT: >More than anything else, Falluja has become a galvanizing battle, a >symbol around which many Iraqis rally their anticolonial sentiments. >Some say the fighting there exposes the lie of American justice by >showing that the world's sole superpower is ready to avenge the >killings and mutilation of four American security contractors by >sending marines to shell and invade a city of 300,000 people. Financial Times - April 22, 2004 MIDDLE EAST &a ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 22 12:36:41 PDT 2004

23967 [lbo-talk] New Yorkers: Self-Defeating Snobbery -- rank: 1000

JW Mason wrote: >In my mind, it's to support Kerry, but in a way that builds our own >organizations and makes us stronger to oppose him down the road -- i.e., >starting one day after he takes office. Random example: There's a huge >campaign right now to register a million new voters in Florida, focused on >people of color and in conjunction with a ballot initiative to raise the >state minimum wage. That's smart. It will help Kerry win, sure. But more >importantly, it taps in ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 22 11:39:33 PDT 2004

23968 [lbo-talk] How to Support the Iraqi Resistance Loudly & Proudly -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: His fourth post of the day. The limit is three. Doug

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Date:	Thu Apr 22 11:12:48 PDT 2004

23969 [lbo-talk] woman loses job over coffins photo -- rank: 1000

Woman loses job over coffins photo that appeared in paper Seattle Times Tami Silicio, a Kuwait-based cargo worker whose <http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/EnlargePhoto.pl?MediaUseId=2001906490&NewsURL=>photograph of flag-draped coffins of fallen U.S. soldiers ran last Sunday in the Seattle Times, has been fired for violating U.S. government and Maytag Aircraft regulations. Silicio says she hoped publication of the photo would help soldiers' families understand the care and devot ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 22 10:44:09 PDT 2004

23970 [lbo-talk] Bush speaks -- rank: 1000

andie nachgeborenen wrote: > > Makes one almost yearn for the days of propaganda by >> the deed. Where is >> Leon Czolgosz when you need him now? >> >> Chuck0 > > >Don't even think it, Chuck. You want a visit from the >FBI? Nor do I. Doug

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Date:	Thu Apr 22 10:31:43 PDT 2004