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24136 [lbo-talk] more Americans blaming Jews for Christ's death -- rank: 1000

Date: 2 Apr 2004 21:00:47 -0000 From: mailprc at people-press.org Belief that Jews were Responsible for Christ's Death Increases Prevalent Among Young People, Minorities and 'Passion of Christ' Viewers A growing minority of Americans believe that Jews were responsible for Christ's death. Roughly a quarter of the public (26%) now expresses that view. This represents a modest but statistically significant increase in the number holding this opinion when compared with a 1997 survey by ABC News whic ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 2 13:09:55 PST 2004

24137 [lbo-talk] All-air, All-the-time (was: Open Letter to Progressive Democrats) -- rank: 1000

kelley at pulpculture.org wrote: >Doug explained himself clearly then, and yet you've repeatedly >misrepresented him as uncritical of the democrats. You are doing it >even now, in this post, accusing him of being different from Max. >You suggest that Max wants to criticize Dems and Doug doesn't. What >horse shit. Why insist on dividing people like this? It's some weird >debate tactic where you try to marshall others by flattering them, >so they'll shut up and not take sides ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 2 12:40:21 PST 2004

24138 [lbo-talk] Martha juror's ex calls him a woman-hater -- rank: 1000

New York Post - April 2, 2004 EX RIPS MARTHA JUROR By MARIANNE GARVEY and WILLIAM NEUMAN The ex-girlfriend of the Martha Stewart (news - web sites) juror who said her convicti on was "a victory for the little guy" says he's a woman hater who shouldn't be judging anybody. "He used to tell me he thought women were below him," Chappell Hartridge's ex-girlfriend, Gail Outlaw, told The Post. Stewart's lawyers are arguing that the disgraced domestic diva's perjury conviction should ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 2 12:28:26 PST 2004

24139 [lbo-talk] GS: Bush to win -- rank: 1000

Goldman Sachs writes: >President Bush is likely to be reelected. Recently, he has >recovered in the polls. Moreover, he has other advantages, >including record campaign funding and incumbency. > >The election will hinge mainly on the economy. Even after a sharp >payroll increase in March, Bush is vulnerable because payroll >employment growth under his administration has been the weakest >since Herbert Hoover. > >Kerry's burden is his long career in the Senate. T ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 2 12:24:56 PST 2004

24140 [lbo-talk] Paul Felton: Open Letter to Progressive Democrats -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >***** Open Letter to Progressive Democrats >by Paul Felton >March 30, 2004 Gee, a bunch of arguments I'd never heard before. Do you think that if you keep sending these things, they'll evemntually work? As if there were some magic level of kilobytage that will finally do the trick? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 2 11:07:33 PST 2004

24141 [lbo-talk] Kerry's Tax Cut Makes Me Wanna Ralph -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >What's to keep rising oil prices from, eventually, causing another >huge wave of inflation as occurred in the '70s? Depends on whether the Fed accommodates the rise. If it doesn't, rising energy prices will squeeze profits and household budgets, and take a crimp out of other spending. It could recreate the stag without the flation. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 2 10:30:39 PST 2004

24142 [lbo-talk] Kerry's Tax Cut Makes Me Wanna Ralph -- rank: 1000

Shane Mage wrote: > Even in the unconcentrated 18th >century world, Adam Smith could recognize that members of the >same trade rarely if ever met, even for the most innocent purposes, >without the meeting resulting in a conspiracy against the public >aimed at raising prices and reducing wages. Today such meetings >involve far fewer firms and are quite regularized, making >oligopolistic collusion (while laughing at antitrust laws if the >participants even remember that t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 2 09:58:07 PST 2004

24143 [lbo-talk] My thoughts on Tom Frank's article in Harper's -- rank: 1000

Kerry Keane wrote: >The gun thing in 'red states' is about -lifestyle-. It's about manliness too. John Lacny is right to emphasize race, but god and sex matter a lot too. I don't know my populist history well enough, but I suspect that Tom Frank is idealizing a bit. Lots of American populists have resented the "parasites" below as well as the parasites above - both the rich and poor threaten the virtuous producer. There's more continuity between classic populism and today's right-wi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 2 08:54:00 PST 2004

24144 [lbo-talk] strong jobs report -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >I'm not denying it I remember about ten years ago, just as the last jobless recovery was turning jobful, that practically every leftie around denied the evidence of an improving economy. Rifkin and Aronowitz were circulating tales of the end of work. They were wrong. Maybe they were just ten years early, and their analysis has finally come true, but I'm going to keep an open mind, and not dismiss the evidence placed before me. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 2 08:47:37 PST 2004

24145 [lbo-talk] My thoughts on Tom Frank's article in Harper's -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >http://www.usatoday.com/news/vote2000/cbc/map.htm >Red vs. Blue by county. >http://www.usatoday.com/news/vote2000/pres08.htm >http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2001/12/brooks.htm >One Nation, Slightly Divisible > >The electoral map of the 2000 presidential race became famous: big >blocks of red (denoting states that went for Bush) stretched across >the heartland, with brackets of blue (denoting states for Gore) >along the coasts. Our Blue Am ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 2 08:45:12 PST 2004

24146 [lbo-talk] strong jobs report -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >It's worth noting that the jobs report also showed a drop in overall hours >worked, and a drop in the workweek. The economy, despite spreading the jobs >around a bit better this month, is still not producing net new demand for >more hours of labor each month. It did, yes, but it was a strong report. It's too early to say the trend has changed, but there's not much point in denying it was the best payroll performance in four years. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 2 08:22:07 PST 2004

24147 [lbo-talk] strong jobs report -- rank: 1000

John Lacny wrote: >The report says that the gains were mostly in construction, retail >trade, and healthcare and social services, though manufacturing >employment was flat. Does construction usually lead a broader growth >in employment? I know very little about this. Gains were very broad. Manufacturing's 0 was the first non-negative number in 43 months. Construction was probably a rebound from Feb's nasty weather. >Also, the report says that the 308,000 jobs were created, but tha ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 2 07:51:11 PST 2004

24148 [lbo-talk] strong jobs report -- rank: 1000

308,000 jobs added in March, best in four years. Very broad gains - and not at temp firms. Don't know if it can be sustained, but it looks pretty solid. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 2 05:56:13 PST 2004

24149 [lbo-talk] RE: diversity of Gender expression -- rank: 1000

That*&%#*#RogersWoman wrote: >From what I've seen, true "diversity" >has become a joke. Hey, Merrill Lynch has a float in the NYC Gay Pride Parade! Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 1 21:46:17 PST 2004

24150 [lbo-talk] Breaking News -- rank: 1000

Joseph Wanzala wrote: >Breaking News: Ralph Nader to be Attorney General in Kerry Administration Eh?

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 1 16:46:39 PST 2004