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25681 [lbo-talk] Emailer setting request -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >Would it be too much to ask everybody, and Justin in particular, to turn >of the html formatting when emailing to this list? Yes please please please do that. And no attachments. I'm going to study the Mailman manual for a way to block nontext stuff as soon as I have a spare two hours. Doug

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Date:	Tue Jun 10 10:44:59 PDT 2003

25682 [lbo-talk] Chalabi -- rank: 1000

I just got back from a Council on Foreign Relations event starring Ahmad Chalabi, interviewed by Tom Brokaw. Chalabi was in the U.S. to attend his daughter's graduation from Harvard. Several highlights: * Brokaw asked him if he was a leader manufactured by the U.S. He denied this, pointing, among other things, to the fact that he meets 300-600 Iraqis a day at his Baghdad HQ. * He complained several times that Washington no longer seems so fond of him. For example, that compound was "secured ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 10 08:27:49 PDT 2003

25683 [lbo-talk] Soviet Monstors (was: Genocide, Holocaust) -- rank: 1000

Shane Mage wrote: >Didn't it have something to do with Sta.... Oops, sorry Doug. >I should have remembered that that word has no place >on this list. Now now. It's not the word that has no place on the list. It's Pugliese's endless obsessing about the man of steel that's out of place. Doug

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Date:	Mon Jun 9 12:27:53 PDT 2003

25684 [lbo-talk] Economics drivel -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >Exactly. But speaking incomprehensible jargon prevents the riff raff >from criticizing the brahmins. Take away that, and the "utlity >function" becomes a "drop in a bucket" , "opportunity cost" becomes a >"bird in hand is better than two on a bush" and similar all too familiar >common sense cliches. This is a sure way for a Joe Schmoe saying "I do >not need an overpaid brahmin to tell me that." Actu ...

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Date:	Mon Jun 9 12:04:22 PDT 2003

25685 [lbo-talk] RE: Soviet nomenklatura privileges -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: >This is also the first generation who, when asked about Stalin, >neither say "He was a hero!" or "He was a murderous villian!" but >rather "Stalin, whatever." Note to Pugliese: learn from the youth! Doug

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Date:	Mon Jun 9 10:12:49 PDT 2003

25686 [lbo-talk] Hitch does standup -- rank: 1000

andie nachgeborenen wrote: >I told you the Alterboy would drop the ball. He's hopeless. Hitch's >self-demolition is now apparently total. This stand-up comedy >routine is for real? It was in the Financial Times, it must be true! Doug

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Date:	Mon Jun 9 08:34:04 PDT 2003

25687 [lbo-talk] Bartley on the Straussians -- rank: 1000

Dwayne Monroe wrote: >This is the funniest, and the saddest, paragraph I've >read so far today. By the way, someone I know who used to have a desk at the WSJ very near Bartley's said he never laughed or made a joke in the whole time they were neighbors. Doug

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Date:	Mon Jun 9 08:27:01 PDT 2003

25688 [lbo-talk] Martha Stewart, political prisoner -- rank: 1000

andie nachgeborenen wrote: >Securities fraud laws are aimed at real and considerable evils, >unlike the obstruction laws, which are mere bargaining chips for the >US Attorney. Some on the right (Judge Easterbrook of the 7th Cir. >and the U of C comes to mind) have defended legalization of insider >trading as policy, but I disagree with them/him, and at any rate it >is illegal, and indeed a crime. People who peddle fraudulent securities to suckers should be put away, but insider ...

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Date:	Mon Jun 9 08:25:03 PDT 2003

25689 [lbo-talk] Mr Rogers, little wussy -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - June 9, 2003 THERE GOES THE NEIGHBORHOOD THE homophobes who protested at Matthew Shepherd's funeral attempted to pull off a repeat performance at a memorial service for Fred ("Mr. Rogers") Rogers. Followers of Kansas minister Fred Phelps - who gained notorieity for picketing and and shouting anti-gay slurs at the funeral for Shepherd, who was murdered for being homosexual - showed up at Pittsburgh's Heinz Hall to mar Rogers' memorial, reports the Pittsburgh G ...

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Date:	Mon Jun 9 06:43:31 PDT 2003

25690 [lbo-talk] Martha Stewart, political prisoner -- rank: 1000

[I think they have a point, but then I've defended Michael Milken too.] <http://www.mises.org/fullstory.asp?control=1246> Martha Stewart: Political Prisoner by William L. Anderson [Posted June 9, 2003] It has finally come down to this: Martha Stewart must go to prison, or at the very least be forced to step down permanently from her position as CEO of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, a company that she built from scratch. James B. Comey, U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, ...

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Date:	Mon Jun 9 06:32:52 PDT 2003

25691 [lbo-talk] Bartley on the Straussians -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - June 9, 2003 THINKING THINGS OVER By ROBERT L. BARTLEY Joining LaRouche In the Fever Swamps "Just weeks after the LaRouche in 2004 campaign began nationwide circulation of 400,000 copies of the Children of Satan dossier, exposing the role of University of Chicago fascist 'philosopher' Leo Strauss as the godfather of the neo-conservative war party in and around the Bush Administration, two major establishment publications have joined the expose." So brags an articl ...

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Date:	Mon Jun 9 06:18:26 PDT 2003

25692 [lbo-talk] Hitch does standup -- rank: 1000

[Dixie Chicks = "fucking fat slags"] Financial Times - June 6, 2003 The Preacher: Christopher Hitchens By Ludovic Hunter-Tilney Christopher Hitchens arrives on stage at the Hay-on-Wye literary festival in Wales, wearing dark glasses and clutching a glass of wine, cigarettes and an ashtray. It's Late Night Hitch, an event billed as "Lenny Bruce meets P.G. Wodehouse", and a near-packed house is in to catch the combative political journalist in a startling new guise: that of sta ...

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Date:	Sun Jun 8 20:29:03 PDT 2003

25693 [lbo-talk] Zizek: Ideology Reloaded -- rank: 1000

Shane Taylor wrote: >Ideology Reloaded >By Slavoj Zizek > >http://inthesetimes.com/comments.php?id=220_0_4_0_C Wow: >The filmmakers have thus dramatically raised the stakes of the >Matrix series, confronting us with all the complications and >confusions of the politics of liberation. And they have put >themselves in a profoundly difficult spot: They now confront an >almost impossible task. If the forthcoming part three, The Matrix >Revolutions, is to succeed with an ...

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Date:	Sun Jun 8 15:20:31 PDT 2003

25694 [lbo-talk] Re: Gulag -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >It's the (ex?) Catholic in me. Penance. Stalinism was the >self-inflicted set of practices and ideological >crudities/binaries/crimes against the Left by members of our >extended family. I'm an ex-Catholic too. And growing up under the Church's influence encourages some seriously neurotic behavior - guilt, self-reproach, sexual repression, etc. I just don't see any point in carrying it over into the political realm. Stalinism is dead. It's of almost no releva ...

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Date:	Sun Jun 8 11:07:18 PDT 2003

25695 [lbo-talk] Re: Gulag -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: ><URL: http://slate.msn.com/id/2083535/ > > >By Stephen Kotkin, kotkin at princeton.edu >author of, "Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism as a Civilization, " and >more recently, "Armageddon Averted: The Soviet Collapse, 1970-2000, >(2001) > >Varlam Shalamov (1907-1982) > >Samizdat poem to camp "goners," set in what today is a recreational >destination in Russia's Magadan province (translated by Anne >Applebaum an ...

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Date:	Sun Jun 8 09:12:12 PDT 2003