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24586 [lbo-talk] Moore on Mumia -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >Is there anyone other than Mumia fan club members who take that >confession seriously? Some piece posted here the other day described Leonard Weinglass as "comatose" during Mumia's trial. Is that true? Is he ga-ga? Doug

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Date:	Mon Oct 20 12:21:28 PDT 2003

24587 [lbo-talk] 'Democrazy' -- rank: 1000

Joseph Wanzala wrote: >(Yes, I have posted this at least three times before - but people >seem to conveniently ignore it) That's beautiful, coming after a week of egregious overposting. Maybe people ignore it because YOU POST TOO MUCH! Doug

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Date:	Mon Oct 20 12:13:50 PDT 2003

24588 [lbo-talk] Posting limit -- rank: 1000

joanna bujes wrote: >Any way to introduce some flexibility in this scheme? Some exchanges >do need to go back and forth for a bit to get through the issues. >Could you change it to an average of 3/day over, say over a week? I've been very flexible, probably too flexible, about it. Wanzala was overposting egregiously and ignored two warnings about it. Doug

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Date:	Mon Oct 20 11:19:20 PDT 2003

24589 [lbo-talk] Dean: transformative? -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - October 20, 2003 Analysis Dean Sparks Debate On His Potential To Remold Party Despite Successes, Some Fear General Election Rout By Thomas B. Edsall Howard Dean's success raising money and mobilizing voters has provoked a growing debate among Democratic and Republican strategists over whether the former Vermont governor has the potential to become a "transformative" political figure, altering, for better or worse, the financial and constituent base of the Democratic P ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 20 11:17:37 PDT 2003

24590 [lbo-talk] Mahathir: Jews rule the world -- rank: 1000

kjkhoo at softhome.net wrote: >Whatever, the reactions of western capitals -- esp in view of the >contemporaneous reports about that US under-secretary's speeches re >the satanic Muslims, and the writings of such as Lewis and Pipes, >etc., not to mention Friedman -- is sanctimonious cant. Of course. But just because Lewis, Pipes & Boykin & the rest are anti-Muslim bigots doesn't make Mahathir any less a serial anti-Semite. Doug

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Date:	Mon Oct 20 11:06:40 PDT 2003

24591 [lbo-talk] Poll: Support for Single Payer at 62% -- rank: 1000

mike larkin wrote: >That support drops significantly, however, if >universal coverage would mean a limited choice of >doctors or longer waits for nonemergency treatment." ...which is what they're getting via managed care. Why is this always presented as a possible drawback of a public system, but its role in the private system is hardly mentioned in public? Silly question; I know the answer. Doug

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Date:	Mon Oct 20 10:47:34 PDT 2003

24592 [lbo-talk] Condi a lesbian? -- rank: 1000

Luke Weiger wrote: >I don't see how anyone could think that the dialogue in this strip implies >that Condi is or might be a lesbian. In the Richard Blow (sic) story, it says: >Let us instead give the Post more credit by assuming that the paper >doesn't want to discuss its real reason for not running "The >Boondocks": This week's strips could be interpreted as suggesting >that Rice is gay. Particularly since there's already scuttlebutt to >this effect in Washington, ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 20 10:34:57 PDT 2003

24593 [lbo-talk] NPR ombud: Gross unfair to O'Reilly -- rank: 1000

[further evidence that NPR sucks] <http://www.npr.org/yourturn/ombudsman/2003/031015.html> Media Matters October 15, 2003 Gross vs. O'Reilly: Culture Clash on NPR By Jeffrey A. Dvorkin Ombudsman National Public Radio On October 9, Terry Gross, longtime host of NPR's Fresh Air aired her interview with populist political talk show host Bill O'Reilly. The e-mails and phone calls of outrage are still arriving. The interview was taped the day before on October 8. The ostensible reason was to ta ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 20 09:29:42 PDT 2003

24594 [lbo-talk] Boondocks link -- rank: 1000

By the way, the first of the Boondocks strips in question is at <http://www.ucomics.com/boondocks/2003/10/14/>. Doug

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Date:	Mon Oct 20 09:22:58 PDT 2003

24595 [lbo-talk] Condi a lesbian? -- rank: 1000

<http://www.tompaine.com/feature2.cfm/ID/9165> Sex And Politics Richard Blow is the former executive editor of George Magazine. He is author of American Son: A Portrait of John F. Kennedy, Jr., and is writing a book about Harvard University. Does Aaron McGruder think that Condoleeza Rice is a lesbian? That's the question I kept pondering as I read this week's "The Boondocks," a comic strip by McGruder that The Washington Post has decided not to publish. The Post's decision raises ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 20 09:22:14 PDT 2003

24596 [lbo-talk] O'Reilly whines -- rank: 1000

New York Daily News - October 20, 2003 I'm feeling the sting of media's lefty bias A recent Gallup poll says nearly half the country believes the media are biased left, and this poll proves one thing: The people who told the pollsters that are smarter than I am. For most of my journalistic career, I did not believe there was institutional bias in the media. I felt there was exclusionary bias. That is, certain opinions and issues simply were ignored. I worked for two network news companies, and t ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 20 09:19:40 PDT 2003

24597 [lbo-talk] RE: literacy -- rank: 1000

Jeffrey Fisher wrote: >it's a relentless downward spiral since the man ate that damned fruit. But it was the woman's idea!

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Date:	Mon Oct 20 08:55:37 PDT 2003

24598 [lbo-talk] RE: literacy -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >I really hate nostalgia. Especially nostalgia based merely on personal >experience extended to a nation of nearly 200 million or so. You're being nostalgic for the fragrant year 1968, the last time the U.S. pop was 200 million! It's now about 291 million. I'm with you on the rest, though. Doug

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Date:	Mon Oct 20 07:02:15 PDT 2003

24599 [lbo-talk] RE: literacy -- rank: 1000

Jon Johanning wrote: >From where I sit, the important question in the general vicinity of >this discussion would be: > >Can the average American -- I stress *average* -- today think more >cogently and intelligently, and understand her/his world and her/his >place in it better, than the average American a century, or two >centuries, ago. > >My answer, without any rigorous studies to back it up, would be: >probably not (that is, Americans today have more formal educat ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 20 05:56:09 PDT 2003

24600 [lbo-talk] 'Democrazy' -- rank: 1000

Joseph Wanzala wrote: >Can you explain how I am supposed to engage people who raise >counterpoints to my posts? What is the point of having a list if >discussion is artificially constrained, I understand that people >have concerns about too many posts in their inboxes etc., but I am >on many lists and most lists are most concerned about maintaining >civil exchange than imposing arbitrary limits to posts. I interpret >your admonitions as thinly veiled 'you are not welcome her ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 20 05:46:34 PDT 2003